Chapter 55: The Price of Firecrackers
The trading area is a bit similar to the exhibitions of later generations, with each person involved in the transaction occupying about 3-5 square meters of space. Some put the things they want to trade, some directly set up a board with the content they want to trade, and some simply sit down and prejudge everything they trade.
Gu Ergou also came to the trading area for the first time, and looked around with excitement on his face. However, he was a little depressed, Liu Yifeng kept pulling him to walk briskly, and he didn't have time to take a closer look at those strange things.
"Brother Feng, don't worry, can you see clearly what you are trading if you go so fast?"
Liu Yifeng ignored him, what he was looking for was naturally the fire gun, the fire gun was so eye-catching, of course he could see it clearly. However, after walking around the trading area, there were no trading guns, but among the big men who obviously maintained order in the trading area, there were one or two handguns with bright and bright waists.
"Don't sell weapons here?"
"Brother Feng, what do you want to do?"
"No, just ask."
"Brother Feng, really don't do anything stupid."
Liu Yifeng rolled his eyes, he really ignored this talk, and he began to persuade himself bitterly to give up his "plan" to go to Piaoxianglou to kidnap Boss Liu or other owners of Piaoxianglou.
Gu Ergou's voice was too loud for several people next to him to maintain order in the black market to hear it, and they collectively looked at Liu Yifeng with some vigilance in their eyes.
Liu Yifeng caught the vigilance, smiled at the big men, and nodded slightly. The other side was completely confused and didn't know how to reply.
They have been guarding the black market for several years, and most of the people who come here are afraid to look at them, especially the people. Just now they heard that the short man was persuading the tall and strong man not to do stupid things to rob others, and they subconsciously looked over.
In fact, I really don't blame Gu Ergou and these people for misunderstanding Liu Yifeng, Liu Yifeng was a head before he crossed over, and it was only about half a year after he crossed over, and his hair didn't grow much at all.
In ancient times, people who did not grow their hair were thieves except monks. And in Dongshan Prefecture, there is another situation, that is, former bandits who choose to come to serve in Dongshan Prefecture.
Liu Yifeng thinks that he is normal, but in the eyes of others, he is tall and has short hair, anyone will see the violent characteristics on his body for the first time, and with the folk clothes on his body, they will suspect that this kid can't figure out which mountain king he is before coming to Dongshan Prefecture.
Throwing down Gu Ergou, Liu Yifeng walked directly towards the big men, they suddenly felt like a big enemy, and several people's hands were pressed on their weapons.
Liu Yifeng turned a blind eye, bowed his hand and said, "Everyone, I have inquired about something on the orders of my shopkeeper. ”
"Say."
"My shopkeeper is going to Jinshan City, and I heard that there are a lot of brown-skinned savages over there, and he is very worried and wants to buy some weapons to defend himself."
"Weapons are bought at the blacksmith's shop, and the Maritime Bureau sells them."
"They don't sell the weapons that my shopkeeper wants to buy."
At this point, the other party understood what Liu Yifeng meant.
"We're just guards here, if you want to trade, you can go to the market and find it yourself."
"So, can you show me the way?"
If Liu Yifeng's unrelenting attitude was other people's husbands, these guards would have been ready to beat people a long time ago, but in the face of Liu Yifeng, who was still calm in the face of Niu Gao and Ma Da and himself and others, they were really not sure of the other party's foundation, and they were very jealous.
"Little Liu, you take him to see Boss Cheng."
The only person sitting in this group of guards looked at Liu Yifeng after giving the order. He was barehead and fat, but the good family could see how terrible the muscles under the fat were, and Liu Yifeng had the feeling of seeing the gangster played by Sammo Hung.
He bowed without being humble or arrogant, the bald man nodded, and Liu Yifeng followed the man named Xiaoliu.
"Boss Cheng, the boss asked me to bring it, you have what he needs."
This Boss Cheng's bunk is the kind of one where there is nothing, only a few people sit on a bench and have a pair and a chat with each other. It's a store that only insiders who know and don't understand and can't explain clearly.
"What do you call a brother?"
This Boss Cheng glanced at Liu Yifeng's cotton clothes on behalf of the people, and did not underestimate Liu Yifeng because of this. The people brought by the boss of the black market trading area and the younger brother can't be too simple. And the other party has no hair, his height of 180 is the tallest person he has ever seen in his life, and he has a body of tendon meat, he will not underestimate the other party at all just because the other party is wearing a civilian clothes.
"Li Hongji."
"What does Brother Li need?"
"Blacksmiths and the Maritime Bureau won't sell weapons."
"Heh, how does Brother Li know about this shop?"
"My shopkeeper asked me to go to Zhang's fish and sheep soup shop for dinner, and sent a letter by the way. After eating, the shopkeeper asked me to come here, saying that I would meet the person my shopkeeper wanted here. ”
Liu Yifeng judged from the conversation between Boss Liu and Zhang Zhan Cabinet that Zhang was definitely not as simple as the shopkeeper of a single restaurant, and it was likely that he was working part-time in the intelligence and network center of Qishan City.
He guessed correctly, after hearing the shopkeeper Zhang who opened the fish and sheep soup restaurant, Boss Cheng's group had only half of Liu Yifeng's suspicions.
"Follow me."
Liu Yifeng was taken out of the trading area by Boss Cheng and entered the women's area, which was full of men's yelling and laughing, and women's flattery and sorrow.
Soon, they entered a room, and the widow and female slave inside were too lazy to wear clothes, sitting on the bed in a daze, waiting for her next benefactor, and also turned a blind eye to Boss Cheng taking Liu Yifeng into a certain cabinet in her room and disappearing.
But if you look closely, you can still see that she is secretly relieved, every time Boss Cheng brings someone into the cabinet, it means that they will not have any benefactors before they come out, and they can have a good rest.
That kind of thing is actually very physically demanding.
Liu Yifeng followed Boss Cheng, who was holding a torch, to turn left and right underground, and after climbing a ladder, he found that he had already arrived outside, which was a courtyard. After Boss Cheng and the person who came to pick him up answered him, he took Liu Yifeng into the room, and then went from the passage of the pit to another room, and when he came out, Liu Yifeng had no idea where he was at all.
He only knew that this was a warehouse, no smaller than the warehouse where his five merchants were imprisoned in Jinzhou Port.
Liu Yifeng looked back at the tunnel he came out of, and sighed very much. He still remembered that the two dark tunnels were not one-way, and there were forks in between. In other words, if you change to an outsider, you will definitely get lost!
"Brother Li, you're here, spread out and say anything."
Liu Yifeng noticed that more than a dozen or twenty men suddenly appeared in the dark of the warehouse, half of whom were equipped with weapons.
"My shopkeeper wanted to go to Jinshan City to look for gold, and he heard that some brown-skinned wildlings had attacked other local merchants and explorers looking for gold, so he decided to buy some weapons to defend himself, the kind that can kill the brown-skinned wildlings before they get close."
This has been said very clearly, Boss Cheng nodded, and then asked, "What is your shopkeeper's surname?" ”
"Liu."
"What's it called?"
"No comment."
"Which firm are you?"
"No comment."
"You have nothing to say, and you still expect me to sell it to you?"
"I believe that more than half of the customers who buy things from you, Boss Cheng, will not tell you his true identity."
The expressions on the faces of the men around Boss Cheng gradually became hideous, and they were very angry that Liu Yifeng was offended by Boss Cheng, but Boss Cheng waved his hand and asked his subordinates to go back and continue to be on guard, leaving only 3 people. These 3 people have the highest martial arts here, and they stayed just to beware of Liu Yifeng, who seems to be very capable of fighting.
The three of them also scooped up the hem of their clothes, revealing the fire gun pinned to their waists. Liu Yifeng's eyes immediately looked over, then looked at Boss Cheng and smiled, pointing to the waists of the three people.
"That's for me, within 20 steps, no matter how powerful a person is, he can't escape the salvo of 3 bird guns."
Liu Yifeng shrugged his shoulders and said noncommittally: "So my shopkeeper also wants to buy some for self-defense." ”
"Sorry, those don't sell."
"Why!? Boss Cheng, aren't you specialized in this business? ”
"No, it's the first time you and I do business, I won't sell you any birds, the three-eyed guns are still in stock, do you want to?"
Liu Yifeng, the three-eyed gun, had heard Boss Liu mention it, and he had seen it in history books, but he was not interested. He didn't come to buy firecrackers, but to test the market price of firecrackers.
Boss Cheng nodded to his subordinates, and the man took out a three-eyed gun and handed it to Liu Yifeng.
Liu Yifeng pretended to fiddle with it and asked, "How much?" ”
"4 taels of silver, and bring gunpowder and ammunition."
Liu Yifeng didn't know if the price of 4 taels had cheated himself, but he just pretended to frown and think, and after a long silence, he pointed to the handcuffs on the waists of the three subordinates and asked, "How much is this short firecracker?" ”
"That's very expensive, 15 taels a handful."
"What about the reed flint?"
"That's the latest, 20 tael."
Liu Yifeng forcibly suppressed the ecstasy in his heart, pretended to think for a while, and said, "Is it the second time we do business, Boss Cheng will be able to sell us Huoji?" ”
Boss Cheng raised his eyebrows, he didn't expect this man to be so good, and nodded with a smile.
"Okay, I'll go back and persuade my boss that I hope that when I come back in a few days, Boss Cheng can prepare 15 three-eyed guns and 15 fire guns."