Chapter 92: A Good Sword
August 21 is just around the corner.
According to Na Guo Da, the meeting between the two underground cultivators in Lingzhou City that he knew, "Mr. Big" was a gathering at the "Big Lord" place, that is, on the 1st, 11th, and 21st of each month, when everyone met and gathered, while the meeting at the "Old Dao Chief" was gathered every three days, and the two sides were exactly staggered.
These two gatherings, according to Guo Da, have a long history, and the hosts may have changed, but the time and place of the gatherings have not changed over the years.
It's just that Guo Da hadn't been there for two or three months before that, so Zhou Ang, who was difficult to determine the situation, was still a little worried.
Recently, not only the county Zhu Yamen has been sweeping tightly outside the city, in order not to make no achievements in August, everyone is a little desperate Sanlang's posture, and even the Lingzhou County Zhu Yamen, since the Mid-Autumn Festival, has also increased the intensity of investigation and sweeping, and is very hard.
For a while, ordinary people may not feel anything, but Zhou Ang believes that for those underground cultivators and monsters, there should be a bit of a rumor in and around Lingzhou City recently.
On the morning of the 21st, Zhou Ang deliberately went to Lao Guo's blacksmith shop to see the weapons, said a few words to Guo Da, and sent five hundred taels of silver, which was regarded as the money for the purchase of weapons in advance.
That night, after dinner and gossiping with his mother and sister, Zhou Ang returned to the front yard and hid in his study, directly locking on Guo Da's every move by the "vision" of the mirror.
It was very different from the time when she went to the trade fair through the "vision" that night, Guo Da changed into a black robe, covered his face, and took a hat, sneaked all the way to the Guide Fang where he was, and entered the courtyard with his waist card.
Even the person who opened the door to receive him in was the same.
And not long after, when Guo Da entered the room where Zhou Ang already felt a little familiar, Zhou Ang also saw Lu Tao sitting silently in a chair in that room - she still changed her makeup, and her hair was tied in a man's style, but no matter how she covered it up and decorated, for Zhou Ang, who had seen her in this outfit, her body skeleton could still be roughly recognized.
Around the same time as the last time, the "Mr. Big" appeared and announced the start of the trade fair.
There seems to be a lot of change in the personnel of this trade fair - although Guo Da returned, there were only eleven people who came to participate in the trade fair this time. It's just that in addition to Guo Da, who is locked by the mirror's vision and is obviously tall to the point of being conspicuous, Zhou Ang is only familiar with Lu Tao and the "big man", in addition, he can't identify who came and who didn't.
Fortunately, not long after the fair began, the Coral Iron Sword reappeared.
He still asked for seven hundred taels of silver, and there was still no one to answer.
Without waiting for someone to try to bargain to buy it, Guo Da honestly agreed to the price - but the transaction of seven hundred taels of silver was very troublesome. To participate in this kind of underground trade fair, it is obviously impossible for Guo Da to carry hundreds or thousands of taels of silver on his back. Seven hundred taels of silver, but it weighs more than forty catties!
Guo Da took out 300 taels of silver on the spot, and promised to pay another 400 taels of silver to "Mr. Big", as well as 20 taels of interest on the borrowed silver, and took out the waist card on the spot, and bet the waist card on "Mr. Big", so "Mr. Big" ordered someone to take 400 taels of silver on the spot, and Guo Da's 300 taels were remitted together, making up enough 700 taels.
inspected the goods on the spot and gave money on the spot, Guo Da successfully got the coral iron sword in his hands.
This set of processes seems to be very familiar to Guo Da and the "Mr. Big", but Zhou Ang, who saw this scene through the view of the mirror, couldn't help frowning.
He thought of more.
Obviously, this is something that Guo Da has not mentioned before - this underground trade fair organized and convened by "Mr. Big" is actually more organized than he had previously thought!
It actually provides a certain amount of internal capital lending!
Don't think about it, since it has reached this level, it must represent a high degree of trust between the organizer "Mr. Big" and the internal members - it basically means that "Mr. Big" has reached a certain level of understanding and control over every member of this underground trade fair!
At least like this transaction, it shows that he is not afraid that Guo Da will run away later!
Or, in the eyes of "Mr. Big", the value of the waist card he issued to Guo Da and now pledged back is far more than four hundred taels of silver!
Thinking of this, Zhou Ang couldn't help but purse his mouth tightly.
But fortunately, after watching this trade fair from beginning to end again, Guo Da never had any unusual behavior - Zhou Ang's biggest fear that he would whistle and expose his existence did not happen.
Not even the slightest hint of a star.
This at least shows that the condition of providing a demon corpse every month that he promised is still quite tempting to him. He wanted the deal to run smoothly.
And he should also be trustworthy until the greater good is touched.
The one who should sell the pill is still selling the pill, and the one who should be buying the demon corpse is still asking to buy the demon corpse, although there is a deal of up to seven hundred taels of silver, but the transaction volume this time has not exceeded the previous trade fair in general.
Lu Tao made two shots during the period, the first time was to get the ten "Guiyuan Dan" booked at the last trade fair, worth one hundred taels of silver, and the second time was to take down a "Kaiqi Dan".
When this trade fair was coming to an end, the "big man" said with a smile: "The situation has not been very good recently, inside and outside the city, there are people everywhere who are investigating, although those official cultivators are mainly investigating monsters, and then those hidden sects, but you still have to be more careful and cause unnecessary trouble." ”
After receiving everyone's thanks, he said: "Monsters are not easy to kill, first of all, they are extremely deep and difficult to find, this is not only a headache for those official cultivators, but also for us underground cultivators. ”
Speaking of this, he sighed before continuing, "At our trade fair, it has been a long time since anyone has sold the collection of monsters. You must know that killing demons has all the benefits and no harm, and that is the most important thing for every one of our cultivators. ”
"Monsters are all treasures! Whether it's refining weapons, alchemy, or even boiling them directly to eat, they can help our cultivators make rapid progress. So...... I hope that in the future, in addition to paying attention to their own safety, everyone will also pay a little more attention to this kind of news. ”
"At the next trade fair, if there is a demon corpse, it is the best, if not, I hope that at least some colleagues can provide some information about the hidden monsters!"
After a pause, he said solemnly: "I will post a reward here, the next trade fair, if someone can provide accurate hidden information about the monster, the early reward will be fifty taels of silver, and when I organize people to kill the demon successfully, depending on the level of the monster, there will be additional rewards in the later stage." ”
"This bounty is valid for a long time. ”
............
After the bounty was announced, the "Mr. Big" quickly announced the end of this trade fair, and it was still the same as the situation seen when Zhou Ang tracked down Lu Tao last time, and everyone left one by one in the order of arrival.
Zhou Ang used the "vision" of the mirror to track Guo Da, and when he successfully left the mansion, he still kept tracking, until he sneaked over the wall and returned to the backyard of the old Guo blacksmith shop in Sogo Fang, Zhou Ang was just about to retract the "vision", but suddenly found that after Guo Da put down the coral iron sword, he didn't even take off the masked scarf, and began to turn over the silver, and immediately cheered up again and prepared to continue tracking.
Sure enough, Guo Da actually took four hundred and twenty taels of silver, packed it in a small cloth bag, and went out again along the same road, running all the way and grabbing lightly, returning to Guide Fang, the house of "Mr. Big".
The servant opened the door, and before he could say no, he directly suppressed his voice and said, "I'll get the waist card back." ”
So the servant guided him back to the little courtyard where the trade fair had been held, and soon met the "big gentleman"—seeing that he handed him a bag of silver, the "big gentleman" smiled and said, "You still don't stay overnight, what an honest man!"
As he spoke, he took the cloth bag and handed it to the servant next to him to check the number, and then said with a smile: "You haven't been here for a long time, this coral iron sword appeared in the last trade, I am thinking, if you don't come this time, next time, I will buy this sword, and when you come back to participate, I will sell it to you at a higher price!"
Guo Da had been listening silently, and when he heard this, he laughed twice, but still didn't speak.
The servant quickly finished the inspection and said, "It's four hundred and twenty taels!"
So the "big gentleman" nodded and said, "Take his waist card!"
The servant quickly put away the silver and left, and after a while, he took a waist card and came back, "Mr. Big" took it, handed it to Guo Da, and asked, "Will you come next time?"
This time, Guo Da finally spoke, "I'm not sure yet." ”
After a pause, he said, "I have someone over there who wants to participate in our trade fair, and I want to introduce him in." ”
"Mr. Big" seemed a little surprised when he heard this, "You actually want to introduce people to join the club? This is strange! I have been holding this trade fair for so many years, and you are a relatively early group of old people, but this is the second time you have introduced people to join the club in these years, right?"
Guo Da let out an "um" and nodded.
"You vouch?"
"I vouch!"
"That's fine! But, according to the old rules, he didn't have a waist card in the first year, and if he wants to come, you can only bring it! Or let him use your waist card. After a year, depending on his contribution to our trade fair, we will decide whether to give him a waist card or not!"
"Good!"
The "big gentleman" nodded again, but after thinking about it, he suddenly said: "That's right! In the past half a year, there have been more than 20 Enlightenment Pills traded in our trade fair, and about half of them are produced by official cultivators, so there should be about ten more cultivators in the city." ”
He sighed with satisfaction and said, "It's time for a new person to appear!"
Guo Da said "um" again.
In front of this "big gentleman", he seems to have very few words, and he doesn't open his mouth if he can.
And "Mr. Big" sighed casually, and there seemed to be nothing else to say, so he said, "Be careful when you go back, don't be caught by official cultivators." ”
Guo Da nodded again, "um", and then said, "That...... Farewell!"
Mr. Big arched his hand, "Don't send it!"
............
The next morning, after Zhou Ang had breakfast, he took a small cloth bag in the study, and Shi Shiran went out and went straight to the small courtyard he bought.
Sure enough, not long after his front foot reached the yard, Guo Da came to knock on the door.
When he opened the door and let him in, Zhou Ang saw that he was holding something in his hand—the coral iron sword that he wrapped in a piece of torn felt cloth.
When he entered the courtyard and saw Zhou Ang closing the door, he quickly opened the felt cloth, revealing the things inside, looked at Zhou Ang with a complicated expression, and said: "Your luck is really good, someone is selling this sword, made of coral iron, not only the material is extremely precious, but the craftsmanship of the production is also extremely good, but the price is really high." With some handling fees, the total price is seven hundred and twenty taels of silver!"
As he spoke, he handed the thing to Zhou Ang, with a reluctant look in his eyes, and said: "The hardness, toughness, and rarity of this coral iron must be regarded as first-class among so many materials! And it is not easy to make! Anyway, even if I have the ability, even if I have the materials, I can't beat it, let alone play it like this! If I don't have an appointment with you in advance, I will definitely not be willing to give you such a good thing!"
Zhou Ang smiled and took the things, threw away the felt cloth, and held it in his hand.
The first thing he felt was the weight of this thing—it was about less than ten centimeters shorter than the standard standard long sword distributed in the yamen, and the sword body was slightly narrower and thinner, but the weight was obviously about half the weight of the standard iron sword!
The second is coolness.
After throwing away the felt cloth, he held the handle in one hand and the sword in the other, and he clearly felt a chill in his hand, as if he was holding an ice sword.
And then there'...... Pretty.
This sword Zhou Ang is not the first time he has seen it, the first time he followed Lu Tao to participate in the underground trade fair, he had seen it, and he saw it again last night, but it was all in the room of the dark building. At that time, Zhou Ang looked through the "vision" of the mirror, and felt that the color of its sword body was black, and there was a dark red in the black.
At this time, when I looked in the sun, I saw that the whole body of this sword was red and shiny, and there were some irregular and beautiful patterns on the sword body - it really looked like coral!
"No wonder it's called Coral Iron!" Zhou Ang laughed.
As he spoke, he held the sword in one hand, and with the other he untied a small cloth bag from his waist, took out a small lock of what looked like horsehair from it, put it on the blade, and blew it gently.
The horse's mane immediately split in two and fell down.
"Good sword!"
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