Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Tail Line
Since Zhou Ang is trying to fish under the banner of selling things, of course someone is welcome to come and see.
So he turned and went back, and the shopkeeper sent his men to the backyard to call for someone—similar to the other shops in Sogo, or rather almost every shop at the moment, this old Guo blacksmith shop was also the front shop and the back yard. In fact, standing in the shop, I can already hear the sound of clanging iron from the backyard.
After a while, a tall and sturdy man walked into the shop from the backyard.
"Who's going to sell something?"
Before anyone could enter the door, his words had already been heard.
Listening to this loud voice, Zhou Ang couldn't help but turn his head to look over, but saw that the man who walked in was almost naked, with only a short shirt on his lower body, and only half an arm on his upper body that had already been wet with sweat.
And this guy is a lot taller than Zhou Ang, roughly estimated, at least eight feet five inches tall!
When he, a big man with tendons and flesh, walks towards you quickly, the psychological oppression it brings to people is really not small!
After seeing him, Zhou Ang almost intuitively thought in his heart: "The two masters of the Lu family can be matched!"
However, Lu Chunsheng and Lu Jinye do not have such conspicuous and beautiful muscles as him!
"I'm going to sell something!" Zhou Ang said.
The man glanced at Zhou Ang, raised his hand and grabbed the half arm on his body, wiped it on his face, and then arched his hand, don't look rude, he said it elegantly, "There are many contemptible people in front of the stove, it's really hot, and it's rude, don't blame the guest officer!" After finishing speaking, he didn't wait for Zhou Ang to return the salute, turned his head and asked the shopkeeper, "Where are the things?"
At this time, the shopkeeper smiled and introduced slightly, and said: "This is the master of our shop, and the things in the shop are all made by him with an apprentice." The guest officer's things can be taken out!"
Zhou Ang untied the "Tao Yao" again and handed it over, and asked casually: "The master looks really strong, I'm afraid I can't kill the cow with one punch!"
The master carefully took the "Tao Yao" and replied casually: "The surname is Guo, everyone calls me Guo Da, and the guest officer doesn't dislike it, so he also calls me Guo Da." ”
As he spoke, he had already taken the "Tao Yao" with the sheath for a moment, and then pulled the dagger out, and when he saw it, his eyes immediately lit up, and he looked at it repeatedly, and said: "It's a good piece of iron! The craftsmanship is also good!"
After looking at it for a while, he pulled out the "Tao Yao" completely, and with two fingers, he quickly pulled a small sword flower, and the dexterity of his fingers, with his big man, looked quite disobedient.
However, Zhou Ang still couldn't control it, and sighed slightly disappointed in his heart.
"Taoyao" is certainly a good dagger, but it is also a magic weapon!
The Dharma weapon is something that every cultivator will immediately perceive as soon as they get their hands on it, which is the intuition given by the aura of heaven and earth in the practitioner's body.
The moment he handed out the dagger just now, Zhou Ang deliberately interrupted at the same time, but he was always paying full attention to and observing this Guo Da's expression, but obviously, his expression and movements clearly showed that after "Tao Yao" started, he did not find that it was a magic weapon.
"Does the guest officer really want to sell?" asked Guo Da.
Zhou Ang instantly came back to his senses and nodded, "Sell it!
Guo Da nodded and asked, "How much silver does the guest officer want to sell?"
Zhou Ang said: "How much do you estimate it is worth?"
At this time, before Guo Da could speak, the shopkeeper suddenly smiled and said: "Guest officer, if you want to sell something, naturally there is a price, where is there anyone who asks us to buy something......"
That Guo Da suddenly raised his hand and interrupted the shopkeeper's words, he looked down at the dagger in his hand again, thought about it, and said seriously: "It's a good thing, it's not a secret, for us who strike iron, this material alone, I already want, since the guest officer wants to sell it, let's make a price quickly, as long as it's not too expensive, I want it!"
Zhou Ang stiffened his face when he heard this, stretched out his hand, and Guo Da happily returned the "Tao Yao", Zhou Ang received it in his hand, and said with some displeasure: "I don't understand this, you asked me to bid, don't you want to trick me?"
Speaking of this, he said with indignation: "Then I won't sell it at all! I'll ask other shops!"
"Stay with the guest officer!"
Hearing this, Guo Da hurriedly stopped Zhou Ang, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Don't be annoyed, guest officer! Since you say that you don't understand, then I'll make a price first, and I'll give you sixty taels!"
Speaking of this, he said: "The guest officer doesn't have to rush to agree or refuse, I give this price, you can rest assured, take the things to other shops and ask, and then you decide whether to sell to me or not, is it feasible?"
Zhou Ang was stunned for a moment and did not answer for a while.
At this time, the shopkeeper couldn't help but help on the side, and said with a smile: "The guest officer must know that our Master Guo has always been a person, and he will never cheat people!"
Zhou Ang nodded, "Okay! Then I'll ask around!"
After speaking, he turned around and walked out of Lao Guo's blacksmith shop with a little disappointment.
In fact, by now, his original plan had been completely abandoned, and after walking out of the blacksmith shop, although he subconsciously walked back, he was thinking about the next way in his heart.
The shopkeeper is a good businessman, but as the informant of the county Zhu Yamen, one end is here, the other is there, this temptation failed, and Zhou Ang was also a little embarrassed for a while, and he didn't know how to pry a hole from him - he didn't want to show his official identity, and he didn't want to use any tough means, he just wanted to swim into the circle of underground cultivators quietly like a fish.
But this temptation clearly told him: characters who can swim on the edge of black and white for many years and still be like a fish in water will not be so easily exposed.
At this time, when he walked out aimlessly on the street, he couldn't help but think: Why don't you take a few days off from the county Zhu Yamen, and then find a way to disguise yourself and pretend to be a cultivator from other places, to establish a new identity, and then try to connect with them?
Thinking so in his mind, when he came to an intersection, Zhou Ang was just about to turn around to the west gate of Sogo Fang, but out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly saw something wrong - he seemed to be being followed!
Zhou Ang was slightly stunned in his heart, and then reacted quickly - he had just lost his eyes!
That Guo Da doesn't seem to be as "layman" and simple as he becomes!
At this moment, his mind was racing, and many possibilities came to mind in an instant-
Could it be that someone else is following you?
This could be overturned very quickly – impossible!
For no reason, an ordinary reader who stalks himself does nothing!
Could it be that he simply wanted to send someone to follow and see how much this "Taoyao" was valued in other stores?
Not likely!
If he hadn't sensed that the "Tao Yao" was a magic weapon, and only thought it was a piece of mortal iron, then there could have been a better way to take it on the spot just now!
Sixty taels of silver is not a small amount of money! The finest long sword in their shop was sold for thirty or forty taels of silver, and with his expertise, he shouted out sixty taels of silver for a dagger, which must have been enough to overpower the price that other shops might give!
So, there is only one possibility!
As soon as Guo Da got started, he sensed that "Tao Yao" was a magic weapon!
It's just that he doesn't know who he is, so he doesn't want to expose himself, so he uses two methods - if he is just an ordinary person and picks up a good dagger, then the price of sixty taels of silver is put in his heart, and if he can't sell it at this price elsewhere, of course he will turn back to him, and if he is deliberately tempting, then find a way to trace his identity, and see what he wants!
That's the idea!
In fact, the person who follows himself is still very careful.
First of all, when he was in the store just now, he must not have shown his face, and secondly, he is skilled, and it is estimated that he has a certain amount of experience in doing this work, and he didn't notice it at all just now?
Thinking of this, Zhou Ang's feet turned into another street almost without pause.
Now that the fish has been hooked, you have to do a full set!
So he quickly diverted to the second blacksmith shop in Sogo Place.
In fact, after he had done a full set of acts, and got the answer that no one was interested in at all from the second blacksmith shop, he saw the guy who was following him at the door of a shop opposite the shop.
Zhou Ang smiled imperceptibly, and deliberately walked out for a while, looking for a passerby to inquire a few words, and then walked all the way to ask the land, and finally found the third blacksmith shop in Sogo Fang.
After a while, he came out of the blacksmith shop disappointed.
Standing at the door of this shop and sighing, he hesitated for a while, he turned around and walked towards the old Guo blacksmith shop, but when he had already seen the old Guo blacksmith shop, he stood again, and under a performance, he fully expressed his ambivalence, and finally turned around and left the Sogo Workshop.
He didn't go home directly, not even the old mansion of Banzai Fang, but chose the small courtyard he bought not long ago—along the way, the man followed honestly behind him.
When Zhou Ang arrived at the door of his secret courtyard, he took out the key to open the door and went home, then closed the door, and waited patiently while packing up the things in the house.
Sure enough, more than half an hour later, seeing that it was almost noon, Zhou Ang heard the sound of knocking on the door outside.
He smiled, got up and went to open the door, and saw that Guo Dazheng standing at the door of his house.
Seeing Zhou Ang coming over to open the door, Guo Da arched his hand and said with a smile: "This guest officer, I'm disturbed!"
Zhou Ang looked surprised, and he didn't let the guest or give it up, but asked, "Guo Da, how do you know that I live here?"
That Guo Da was already wearing a robe at this moment, wearing a soap-colored belt, and his head was also wrapped in a cyan cloth scarf, and the sense of oppression brought by the big man on his body was weaker.
At this moment, Zhou Ang's reaction was naturally expected by him, and he immediately said when he heard the words: "Don't blame the guest officer! The contemptible person is definitely not evil!" After a pause, seeing that Zhou Ang's reaction didn't seem to be so excited, he continued to explain: "It's not a secret, after the guest officer left my shop, the contemptible man did arrange a little apprentice to follow him all the way, and then I knew that the guest official's family lived here, but the contemptible person's move was absolutely not malicious." ”
"And what do you mean?"
"The guest officer has also asked a few blacksmith shops in the city, and he must have known that the price I gave is definitely the fairest! If the guest officer really wants to sell, I will not take advantage of you, I am willing to raise the price to a hundred taels of silver! I hope that the guest officer can sell it to me, how about it?"
Zhou Ang was slightly stunned, and then said angrily: "What's the matter? You first followed me to the house, and then came to the door, do you still want to buy and sell by force? What's wrong with you paying 100 taels? I think my thing is worth 1,000 taels!
Guo Da showed a touch of helplessness on his face, sighed, and said: "Don't worry about the guest officer......! My little apprentice said that after the guest officer asked a few shops, he had actually turned back, but for some reason, he hesitated to go outside my shop, and then turned back home. If it is something else, no matter how valuable it is, how can I Guo Da be greedy? If the guest officer does not sell it, he will not sell it, and there is no reason to track him down!"
"But right now, this thing is in the hands of the guest officer...... With all due respect, no matter how the guest got it, it really doesn't fit to stay in your hands right now!"
Speaking of this, he looked sincere, and said: "As far as I am concerned, this thing is indeed worth a lot of money, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a treasure, and I am willing to pay more money for it, and I will never deceive you! But if it is left in your hands as a guest officer, I am afraid that it will cause unnecessary trouble for you, guest officer!"
Zhou Ang was stunned for a moment when he heard this.
This time I was really stunned.
"Huh? Why is that?"
That Guo Da hesitated for a moment, and subconsciously scratched his headscarf, but it was still expecting Ai Ai, and reluctantly said: "This ...... The matter is a secret! You'd better not ask questions, guest officer! Because if you ask, the contemptible person can't explain it at all! If you are forced to tell it, it will hurt you!"
Speaking of this, he looked at Zhou Ang, his attitude was indescribably sincere, and said: "I chased after me, not to force me to buy and sell, but to remind the guest officer, lest you suffer a disaster in the future, I don't know where the disaster will be! As for whether you sell to me or not, it doesn't matter!"
"Of course, I still really want the guest officer's dagger......!
As he spoke, he looked left and right, and saw that no one was passing through this alley, but he took out four ingots of silver directly from his arms, handed them to Zhou Ang, and said: "I don't want to pit you at a low price, but this time, I really only brought this one hundred taels to show my sincerity......!
Hearing this, and looking at the silver he took out again, Rao is Zhou Ang felt that he had no moral cleanliness, and he still felt that if he continued to act, he felt a little awkward in his heart.
This is like, if he was dealing with the great monks of Baoguo Temple, Zhou Ang really didn't hesitate to judge them with the greatest worldly malice, even tricking them a little, blackmailing them a little, or even blackmailing them, he would definitely not have the slightest sense of guilt in his heart.
But if it is when dealing with Jiang Yun, he will definitely be extremely honest, and from the bottom of his heart, he is absolutely unwilling to use any bad means, and even as long as he feels that Jiang Yun is in trouble, he will gladly take the initiative to help, especially unwilling to lose his friend—although regardless of family background, wealth, ability, etc., it is almost impossible for Jiang Yun to provide any help to Zhou Ang, a cultivator. Judging from the eyes of the world, that is, it is completely useless!
Just because the former is dirty and the latter is clean.
So at this time, Zhou Ang sighed, suddenly let go of the door, and said, "You come in first!"
I wrote more than 4,000 words, so it was a little late.
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