Chapter 15 Uprooted
On the next journey, Lei Luo walked very cautiously, for fear that there would be any more chaos and any blindless bandits would come to 'send him to death'!
Rao was so careful, he still encountered the ambush of a few scattered bandits, fortunately, the village was getting closer and closer, and the robbers didn't dare to do too much, and a few times he saw that the person who came was just a teenager, so he let him go after a little interrogation.
Of course, you will still encounter ruthless people, so at this time, you can only rely on strong force to send the other party on the road, for these bandits who are the one side of the disaster, there is no mercy in Lei Luo's dictionary.
After a long day's journey, Lei Luo finally returned to his village, and when he saw his old father looking at the door, he hurriedly called "Dad" affectionately, and then ran over quickly.
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Relo's home.
"Moving, is it really that serious?" Lei Luo asked Lao Lei in surprise.
When Lao Lei saw his baby son come back, he took the other party's hand and hurriedly entered the house, and the first thing he did after entering the door was to tell Lei Luo that they were going to move, which was why he asked.
"Yes, I have communicated with the village chief in the past few days, and I wrote to ask some old friends in the county, and the content of their replies is not very optimistic, rather than staying and waiting for the robbers to come to the door, it is better to leave early" Lao Lei said helplessly.
Leaving his hometown is a helpless move, especially in the village where he has lived for more than ten years, Lei Luo's heart is quite reluctant, but when he heard Lao Lei say that he was going to the county town, the young man's unique curiosity became restless again, which made his heart quite conflicted.
Listening to Lao Lei's explanation, it turned out that in the two days since he left, the bandits near Monkey Mountain have been more rampant than before, and there are people who kill people and slaughter villages without saying a word, and they have made one village after another near Monkey Mountain into a miasma.
And Lao Lei's friend also said in the letter that this matter was acquiesced in by the backstage of these bandits in the county, as if to find a very important person, so the guards of the county city also turned a blind eye, and did not care about the life or death of the nearby villages.
Hearing this, this made Lei Luo very angry, but this world respects martial arts, whoever has the biggest fist is the king, and reasoning with a robber is tantamount to playing the piano to a cow.
Since he can't afford to provoke him, he can only hide, Lao Lei is ready to drag his family to go to his old friends, and by the way, he will find an errand in the county town, so that he can be regarded as temporarily settling down.
The next day, Lao Lei drove an ox cart with luggage, and the family of four said goodbye to the small mountain village and embarked on the road to the county town.
Along the way, Lei Luo saw many beggars dressed as wanderers with village names, all of whom had left their villages with their families in tow, which also made him hate the robbers and the people behind them.
"Displacement others for their own selfish desires, these people deserve to die!" he silently thought to himself.
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Monkey Mountain Town, the whole town is only a few miles in size, because it is close to Qingtian Peak, which is commonly known as Monkey Mountain, and because there is only this large-scale town in the nearby hundred miles, it is also the preferred foothold for merchants.
Since this place is the last town on the outskirts of Qingtian Peak, this also makes this town not big, but it is very lively, and the county town also takes this into account, and specially arranges two hundred guards for this town to manage law and order.
When Lei Luo's family came to Monkey Mountain Town, it was already evening, after Lao Lei arranged the post station, he went to rest early with Lei Mu and his sister, Lei Luo because he had something to deal with, and after talking to Lao Lei in advance, he left the post station and walked towards the largest commercial street in the town.
The size of Monkey Mountain Town is only a few miles, and the central street is only one horizontal and one vertical, and at the intersection of these two streets, which is the real town center, at this time Lei Luo walked to the door of a three-story shop in the center of the town, and looked at the sign of a copper coin hanging at the door, he knew that this was a commercial house.
It was evening, and there was no business in the store, and there was only one young man lying on the counter on the first floor, looking like he was wiping the cabinet, and when Lei Luo walked in, the young man was still doing his own work and didn't notice him.
"Excuse me, do you accept hides here," Lei Luo called out in a low voice.
When the young man heard the shout, he instinctively replied with a "receive", when he saw that Lei Luo was just a teenager, he felt a little disdainful, but he paid attention to doing business and making money, he still asked politely: "What kind of fur is it, and how big is the material?"
But there was not the slightest hint of respect on the young man's face when he asked these questions.
The other party's expression was seen by Lei Luoquan, but he didn't care at all, he untied the animal skin bag behind him, took out the tiger skin, and put it on the counter.
The young man picked up the tiger skin, unfolded it lightly and checked it, and was surprised while looking at it, and after looking at the young man in front of him a little, he trotted all the way up the stairs, and shouted the words "shopkeeper" in his mouth as he ran.
When an old man in a brocade robe with a long beard came down the stairs, Lei Luo knew that the master of the business had arrived.
"Little brother, but you're going to sell tiger skins," the shopkeeper asked Lei Luo suspiciously.
As soon as he came downstairs, he saw only a young man, and the person in front of him was only about ten years old, so it was reasonable to say that there could be no such high-quality fur.
"Yes, it's under you, and I asked the shopkeeper to give me an estimate," Lei Luo admitted without hesitation that he was the one who could decide, and then he handed the tiger skin into the hands of the shopkeeper, and then sat down on his own, waiting for the offer.
After the shopkeeper unfolded the tiger skin, he kneaded and tasted it slightly on the tiger skin with his hands, and after a cup of tea, the tiger skin was put away.
He walked up to Lei Luo and sat down steadily, but when he saw that the other party was looking at him, waiting for good news, the shopkeeper's eyes rolled, and he stretched out three fingers and shouted three hundred pieces of silver.
After hearing the three hundred silver, Lei Luo stretched out his finger and fiddled with it, his family only spent a few taels of silver a year, and three hundred taels of food and frugality was enough for his family for a lifetime.
"Such a tiger skin is so valuable!" Although his face remained unchanged, his heart was already happy.
Seeing what Lei Luo was counting over there, the shopkeeper chuckled, and said after wiping his beard with his hand: "Little brother, my trading house has been open in the town for decades, and the price is indefinite, you can go to the neighborhood to inquire, the price of other trading houses for ordinary tiger skins is almost two hundred taels, that is, your tiger skin is relatively complete, and the coat color is new, so I gave three hundred taels, are you satisfied with the price?"
When Lei Luo heard this, he also wanted to get rid of the tiger skin as soon as possible, after all, he was going to leave tomorrow, so he agreed.
Seeing this, the shopkeeper smiled and told the guy to entertain Lei Luo, and then said that he would go to the treasury to get the money, and he got up and went upstairs.
When the shopkeeper came down, he still had a small wooden box in his hand, and he handed it to Lei Luo as soon as he walked down the stairs.
Lei Luo opened the box and saw a pile of white silver taels, and after counting and confirming that the silver was fine, he said goodbye to the shopkeeper and strode away from this place.
But when Lei Luo left, the shopkeeper glanced at the young man, and the latter naturally understood, and ran out of the house.
When Lei Luo walked out of the trading house, after walking forward for dozens of steps, he passed a corner, he turned into this small alley, and after taking a few steps forward, he stood still, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
He glanced around, and then teased: "Come out, a few people have followed me since I came out of the trading house, although I have just arrived, but I don't know any friends in Monkey Mountain Town, don't you want to talk to Zaixia, and then make a friend?"
As soon as Lei Luo's words fell, a one-eyed man walked out of the alley, and two people also walked out at the entrance of the alley, one of them was a bald man with a scar on his head, and the other was the guy in the store just now. Seeing that it was the young man who led someone to chase after him, Lei Luo sneered, and his heart was already moved with murderous intent!
"Several, if you leave now, I will treat it as if nothing has happened, decades of business, don't be ruined because of a moment of greed," when these people wanted to open their mouths to threaten, Lei Luo took the first step to pinch the words, making several people look shocked.
After reconfirming that the person in front of him was only a ten-year-old boy, the one-eyed man at the mouth of the alley shouted, "Boy, you are looking for death," and killed Lei Luo directly.
Seeing this, the bald man with the scar behind him also came forward with a knife to cut off Lei Luo's back road, and the young man also took out a dagger from his sleeve and followed behind the man with the scar.
Seeing that the movements and moves of the three of them were ordinary, just ordinary ruffians, Lei Luo chuckled, and when the one-eyed man didn't react, he threw out a black hidden weapon in his hand, which instantly pierced the big man's head, and then reached out and made a move to throw something again, and in the frightened look of the bald man with a scar, this hidden weapon pierced his chest.
By the time the guy reacted, his two helpers had already died, and just as he was about to turn around and run for his life, a black light shot through his thigh.
When he was about to prop himself up with his hands and continue to escape, he saw that the young man had already walked in front of him, and at the same time looked at him with a cold expression.
"This matter, it shouldn't be the first time that you shopkeepers have done it, give me an explanation of what I'm interested in, I won't do anything to you when I hear it," looking at the panicked young man in front of him, Lei Luo opened his mouth and threatened.
"Okay, okay, I said, I'll explain," the little guy was scared and summoned everything he knew, Lei Luo stood next to him and listened, his expression turned cold after listening to it for a while, and when the young man explained the shopkeeper's old bottom about the same, Lei Luo raised his foot and stepped on his neck.
"If people don't offend me, I won't offend anyone, if people kill me, I'm better than murder, don't worry, your shopkeeper will go down to accompany you!" he said with a gloomy expression.
The next day, when all the shops in Monkey Mountain Town were opened, the largest trading house in the town was uncharacteristically closed, and the shopkeepers of several familiar shops around were very surprised, and in the afternoon, a few familiar customers could not afford to wait, so they invited the town guards to investigate one or two.
When the guards found that the shopkeeper of the trading house had hanged himself on the second floor, the people around him had strange expressions, and they couldn't understand how this old shopkeeper of the trading house, who had always been kind and wealthy, could suddenly not think of it.
But this is suicide, after a long time, this matter has become a conversation after dinner, and our Lei Luo, who left Monkey Mountain Town with his family early the next morning, is indifferent to the suicide of the shopkeeper of the trading house, but the ox cart that Lao Lei used to rush to the road has an extra big box that looks heavy.
Lao Lei didn't ask him about this, after all, his son also has the ability, and it is his freedom to do anything.