Chapter 8 Sale
The boss looked in the direction of Mo Xuan's finger, ran into the shop, took the long sword from the wall, and walked with a smile, a little timidly.
"Childe, what you said is this long sword."
Mo Xuan's gaze stayed on the lotus flower on the hilt of the silver-white long sword, looked at it, his heart was full of love, and nodded.
"What a dazzling carving technique, let's make a price!"
The boss trembled and stretched out two fingers.
Mo Xuan smiled indifferently and said.
"Twenty Wen?"
The boss shook his head and hesitated.
"Two silvers and two ......"
Mo Xuan looked stunned and said.
"What...... Two silver taels, is there any mistake, a broken sword, you actually sold me two silver taels, believe it or not, I demolished your broken shop. ”
Mo Xuan didn't take a fancy to this silver-white long sword, but to the lotus flower engraved on the hilt, and the reason why he liked this lotus flower was because he loved the lotus flower most in his life.
Mo Xuan was willing to pay twenty wen to buy this broken sword, but he didn't expect it to cost two silver taels, wouldn't this be the rhythm of Mo Xuan's wandering on the streets in the future.
The boss hurriedly explained.
"This sword is not an ordinary sword."
Mo Xuan glanced at the boss and asked with interest.
"Let's hear what's different."
In Mo Xuan's opinion, this is an ordinary long sword, and the most special thing is the lotus flower that was given to the hilt, otherwise Mo Xuan wouldn't bother to take a look at this broken sword.
The boss tidied up his clothes, straightened his posture, and said happily.
"This sword was forged by one of our famous foundries."
Mo Xuan smiled disdainfully and said.
"After learning a little fur, you dare to think that you are a foundry?"
"He is not an ordinary caster, recently there have been many people in the rivers and lakes, high-ranking officials and wealthy people have come to him as a caster......"
The boss gestured with his hands as he spoke, as if he was the foundry.
Mo Xuan was a little tired when he heard this, took a nap, and said.
"The boss is embarrassed, I'm a little sleepy, so I'll retire first."
After that, before the boss could speak, he stepped away.
The boss sighed helplessly, and had to put the silver-white longsword back in its place.
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Ming Xuan saw that it was getting late, and he wanted to go down the mountain with the cow, but the cow stared at one direction motionless, no matter how Ming Xuan pulled, kicked, and persuaded, the cow was always unwilling to move a step.
The cow suddenly snorted, startling Ming Xuan, who slapped the cow's ass angrily.
The cow didn't care about the slap and was still staring into the distance.
I don't know what it is that can make the cow so persistent, Ming Xuan looked over there out of curiosity, because it was getting late, he couldn't see what was on the lawn in the distance, so he had to walk briskly over there.
What caught her eye was a woman, she was lying on the lawn bloodily, scaring Ming Xuan so much that her legs and feet were weak, and she sat on the ground, looking nervous, cold sweat, and her body was trembling unconsciously.
The cow walked up to Ming Xuan, rubbed his head against Ming Xuan's arm, and motioned for him to go and check it.
Ming Xuan was a little afraid, he didn't dare to come forward to check, and shook his head.
The cow rubbed Mingxuan again and motioned to take a look.
Ming Xuan glanced at the cow, and the cow also looked at Ming Xuan, and glanced at each other, the fear in Ming Xuan's heart suddenly disappeared, and it seemed that there was a cow, and he was not so afraid.
Ming Xuan supported the ground with his hands, slowly stood up, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and walked towards the woman, as if he was still a little timid in his heart, his eyes narrowed into a crescent moon, slowly approached the woman, came to the woman and squatted down, put two fingers on the woman's pulse, seemed to sense the heartbeat, and said excitedly.
"She's not dead, she's still in a heartbeat."
The cow rubbed Ming Xuan again, motioning for him to save the woman in front of him.
Ming Xuan understood what the cow meant, and nodded.
"Since she is not dead, I will naturally save her, and it is not my style to save her when she dies."
Ming Xuan didn't hold the woman on the cow's back, after all, if there was blood on the cow's back, Ming Xuan didn't know how to explain to Xu Zherui's family, and the most important thing was that he didn't want to explain too much.
Ming Xuan picked up the woman on his back and pulled the cow to the foot of another mountain, some distance back to the town.
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Mo Xuan didn't go far, then stopped, staring at a carriage not far in front of him, there was a cage on the carriage, and in the cage was a little girl, covered in blood and scarred, the skirt was not intact, the little girl didn't look big, she looked like she was seven or eight years old.
Mo Xuan felt a little sad in his heart inexplicably, and muttered to himself.
"What kind of crime did you commit to be beaten like this?"
Four tall and burly men jumped out of the carriage, each with a horn, lifted the cage off the carriage, and walked towards the martial field, followed by a blood-red cloaked man, Lin Xuyan also followed behind, with an extremely empty smile on his face.
In an instant, it was full of people.
Mo Xuan couldn't see the situation on the stage anymore, so he had to walk over, squeeze through the crowd, and came to the innermost, where the situation on the stage could be clearly seen.
Mo Xuan was a little curious, so he asked the young man on the side.
"May you ask, what is this doing?"
The young man glanced at Mo Xuan, touched his cheeks, and said thoughtfully.
"You don't even know this, you're not a local, are you?"
Mo Xuan smiled and nodded, and said.
"I've only come here today, so Brother Dao might as well tell me about it."
After scanning Mo Xuan's body, the young man looked around and stretched out his hand, as if he wanted to count the copper coins.
Mo Xuan was enlightened, smiled, took out five cents from his pocket, and said distressedly.
"This is all my belongings, all for you, don't hide anything."
"You can rest assured, there is nothing to hide."
The young man smiled and took the five pennies, put them in his pocket, and whispered.
"This was originally a martial arts arena for competition and trial, but a few years ago because of their arrival, this place became a sales field......
Hearing this, Mo Xuan asked with a puzzled expression.
"What is a sales place, I haven't seen anything for sale!"
The young man smiled bitterly, and his eyes moved to the little girl in the cage, and said meaningfully.
"The little girl in the cage is an object, every night there will be a scarred little girl here for sale, someone takes a fancy to it, you can go on stage to compete with their people, fifteen can challenge once, if you win, you can take the little girl, if you lose, you will lose both people and money."
Mo Xuan also moved his gaze to the little girl, and from her eyes, there was no light anymore, as if the world in her eyes had turned gray and had no color.
Mo Xuan was indignant and said.
"Isn't there anyone who cares about this kind of thing?"
"...... care" The young man laughed inadvertently, and the people around him looked over one after another, and even the blood-red cloaked man standing on the stage moved his gaze to the young man.
"I don't know who you're kidding, Your Excellency?"
The young man hurriedly withdrew his laughter and quickly apologized.
"I'm sorry, I just learned that my sow gave birth, and I couldn't help it, I'm really sorry."
An emaciated man, quipped.
"Seeing you smiling so happily, it shouldn't be your seed!"
There was laughter at the scene, and the young man was a little ashamed of what he said, and he didn't dare to refute anything.
Seeing that the young man was so weak, everyone didn't even dare to refute, and they were not interested, so they didn't look at the young man anymore, and their eyes returned to the martial arts field.
The young man smiled awkwardly.
Mo Xuan patted the young man's shoulder and comforted.
"Ignore these puppets and keep talking to me."
The young man nodded and continued.
"These children who are captured and sold by them are basically orphans or beggars, they are helpless in this world, and no one will offend them for the sake of irrelevant people, and those who can't stand it will only have pity or condemn them, and no one dares to crusade against them."
Mo Xuan asked thoughtfully.
"It shouldn't be! Could it be that there is no one in this town who is his opponent? ”
An old Taoist stood with his hands in his hands, heard the conversation between Mo Xuan and the young man, smiled lightly, and said.
"It's not difficult to kill him, it's the identity that is difficult."
Mo Xuan turned to look at the old Taoist behind him and asked suspiciously.
"What kind of identity does he have?"
The old Taoist doesn't think twice, and he says.
"Liguo, Nine Emperor Princes, Limin, who dares to touch him in this identity."
"Li Guo ......" Mo Xuan was puzzled: "Haven't Li Guo and the Divine Shadow Dynasty always been at odds?" Why did the Nine Emperors of Liguo come here? ”
The old Taoist said meaningfully.
"The abandoned lambs naturally have to be sent to the wolves, otherwise, how can they have a reason to annihilate the wolves in one fell swoop."
Mo Xuan said thoughtfully.
"I see, no wonder there have been frequent wars in recent years, it turns out that I have been stirring up trouble."
The old Taoist touched his beard, which was as white as snow, and shook his head.
"They provoked the incident, not a provocation, but a test, to test whether the Divine Shadow Dynasty would tear its face, if it tore its face, the two countries would definitely fight, and it would be civilians who would suffer, obviously it was easy to see that the Divine Shadow Dynasty had a very high degree of patience."
The young man listened with relish, but did not understand the meaning of the old man's last sentence, and asked.
"Why is the Shadow Dynasty extremely tolerant?"
The old Taoist also explained.
"The city lord of Muyang City, a peak sword cultivator of the Fourteen Realms, was beheaded by the sword of the people of the Li Kingdom, this matter caused a sensation in the world, but the Divine Shadow Dynasty did not dare to avenge it, and also concealed this matter, you say...... The tolerance level of the Divine Shadow Dynasty is not high. ”
The young man was indignant and said.
"That's too cowardly, isn't it? Or the head of a country. ”
The old Taoist sighed and said.
"It's not that the Divine Shadow Dynasty is too cowardly, but the five-year covenant is approaching, and we can't tear our faces now, after all, if we tear our faces, and the two forces attack the Divine Shadow Dynasty at the same time, the Divine Shadow Dynasty can't resist it at all, and it will be us civilians who will suffer at that time, and we will also be the first country to disappear from this vast world."
Mo Xuan seemed to understand the truth, and it was meaningful, and he said.
"The world is vast, when will it be peaceful!"
The old Taoist's expression froze, and he quickly returned to his original state, with a kind smile on his face, and said.
"You're eager to ...... The world is peaceful? ”
"Self-......" Mo Xuan immediately stopped his mouth and said with a smile: "Who doesn't desire world peace." ”
The old Taoist observed very carefully, and saw the erratic in his eyes.
"Lao Dao still has something to do, so he quit."
"See you soon!"
Mo Xuan said goodbye to the old Taoist.
The old Taoist walked through the crowd and left.
A woman leapt onto the stage and threw out a bag of copper coins.
Lin Xuyan took the money bag, opened it and looked at it, with a smile on his face, and turned his head to look at the blood-red cloak man beside him.
The blood-red cloak man, with a mind in his heart, took a step, bent down and bowed, and said.
"Offended."
With that, he pulled out his sword from his waist and stepped out in one step, as fast as lightning.
The woman's expression was indifferent, her eyes were full of contempt, and she didn't seem to put the blood-red cloak man in her eyes, sneered, pulled out her sword, and fought with the blood-red cloaked man.
The crowd in the audience immediately cheered, and some even played with bets.
A masked man, clearing his throat, said.
"Ladies and gentlemen......"
The eyes of the onlookers moved to the masked man, there were good eyes, and there were also bad eyes, after all, it was taboo to disturb them to watch the fight.
The masked man ignored everyone's gaze and said happily.
"Everyone, how boring it is to watch like this, how about you let go of your hands and feet and gamble, I crowdfund ......"
A fat middle-aged man, holding his fertile belly, smiled innocently.
"I'll bet five cents, and Boss Lin wins."
A tall and thin woman, looking at the only five cents in her hand, looked at the situation in the stands, the woman was a little hesitant, if she voted right, it would be fine, if she voted wrong, she would go bankrupt, after thinking for a long time, she finally decided to bet on it.
"I'll bet five cents, and Boss Lin wins."
"It seems that this little girl's swordsmanship is a little more advanced, and I bet five cents on her, hoping not to make me regret it."
Someone retorted.
"This girl has fine skin and tender meat, she doesn't have much actual combat experience at first glance, and she will definitely lose later, I'm still on the safe side, Boss Lin is here."
An old man with a bad airway.
"You know! Does age determine seniority or talent? At a glance, the little girl is indeed better, the old man has never played bets, today I have the honor to play once, five pennies bet on the little girl. ”
The man was not angry and retorted.
"Old thing, if you are about to enter the ground with half of your body, don't come to join in the fun, it's better to raise some money for your son to marry a daughter-in-law!"
The old man ignored him.
Later, many people chose to gamble, and some people just wanted to see the excitement and did not participate in the bet, the bet was obviously offset, accounting for two to eighteen, women accounted for two, and blood red cloak accounted for eighteen.
The masked man took the bet from everyone, put it in his pocket, straightened his clothes, and stood aside silently.
The competition came to the white-hot stage, the woman slowly began to be a little powerless, she was beaten and retreated, even the swordsmanship became messy, it seemed to be disrupted the rhythm, the blood-red cloak man seemed to have hidden his strength at the beginning, maybe he just wanted to play with the woman in front of him for a while, the gap between the two strengths was getting bigger and bigger, and the woman had no power to fight back, so she had to defend.
The blood-red cloaked man seized the opportunity and slapped it out.
The woman had no room to dodge, so she was forced to palm to palm with him, the woman was knocked out, a stream of heat melted into her heart, and a mouthful of blood spit out of her mouth, and then looked at the blood-red cloak man's side, he didn't move half a step, like a Mount Tai intact.
The woman clutched her chest and walked off the stage.
The eighteen people on the side of the blood-red cloak man cheered and danced, and the two people on the woman's side sighed, and there was no loss and distress on their faces, after all, five cents was not much for the two of them.
The fat middle-aged man looked at the position of the masked man, with an extremely bright smile on his face, and found that the masked man was gone, a little stunned, looking around, but he couldn't find the masked man, and everyone seemed to understand that he had been deceived.
"Damn...... Scammed. ”
"Damn it...... This kind of hard-won money is cheated, and I really have no conscience. ”
"If he had a conscience, would he still come out to deceive?"
"I'm unlucky this time, I admit it, next time I meet that rabbit cub, I will make him unable to survive and die."
The old man laughed with a mocking face.
"As long as he doesn't wear a mask, even if he passes by you, can you know it's him?"
The man was successfully angered by the old man's words, and he was furious, and said.
"Old thing, you are still persecuting Lai Lai here, believe it or not, I will cut you today and vent the anger in my heart."
The old man smiled contemptuously, his tone was no longer kind, and said.
"You...... Try it! ”
The man rolled up his sleeves and was about to step forward to beat the old man who didn't know the height of the sky, but fortunately he was stopped by the person next to him and persuaded him.
"Half of his body has stepped into the loess, and you still don't want to go with him, what are you doing!"
Someone chimed in.
"You have to think about it, if you kill him, or if you hurt him, you will have to lose a lot of money, and you will not be able to make it at all."
The man thought back and forth, and after thinking about the heavy consequences of injuring or killing him, he also put away his hand.
Seeing that she had been deceived, the woman was overwhelmed with tears in her eyes, and then passed through the crowd and left in silence.
The masked man stopped in front of the woman, who lowered her head and didn't look at the road, accidentally crashing into the masked man's arms.
The woman hurriedly took a few steps back, nervous, and apologized.
"Sorry...... I didn't mean to. ”
"No problem!"
The masked man calmed down, took out ten cents from his pocket, stuffed it into the woman's hand, and said with deep shame.
"I'm sorry, I was forced to do this kind of thing, I hope you understand."
With that, the masked man turned and left.
The woman looked at the ten cents in her hand, a little overwhelmed, looked up at the back of the masked man who was fading away, and an inexplicable feeling appeared in her heart, wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and smiled away.