Chapter Seventy-One: The Secret of the Smoke and Rain Hall
After Lin Xia and Jiang Qiu heard this, they laughed heartily and said, "Then that group of mysterious people really have to show up to find you?" After joking, Lin Xia looked at Li Chengfeng with a straight face, so he made a grimace and said: "Hey, Li Chengfeng, such a funny thing, why are you keeping a straight face? Be careful of facial paralysis." ”
Li Chengfeng still ignored Lin Xia as always.
Boss Jia looked at the three of them with an embarrassed look on his face and said, "Listen to me!"
After Boss Jia posted a "Seek Protection" notice at the door of his house, the group of mysterious people found him at night. However, this time he collected fifty taels of silver, but in the future, he would still pay ten taels a month, and half of the profits would be paid. If it weren't for the huge profits of the vendors, no one would be willing to continue to pay such a high amount. After paying the money, Boss Jia started to hit the road again, this time not only did he not meet the bandits, but also because of the departure of a large number of traders in Furong City, Boss Jia's business was surprisingly good. Every month, you can make a lot of money by going back and forth between Forget Worry County and Furong City or from Furong City to Dali City. In addition to those paid to the mysterious forces, they can also earn a hundred taels of silver.
And there is no need to worry about your life and being plundered. It was from this time that Boss Jia began to get bigger and bigger. But as he gets bigger and bigger, the mysterious forces continue to ask him for more and more money.
A year ago, Boss Jia used the one-way mark left by the mysterious force a few years ago to let the mysterious force send someone to find him again. This time, Boss Jia proposed to donate half of his family property and asked to join the mysterious forces.
Jiang Qiu interrupted when he heard this: "I'm afraid you are greedy for life and afraid of death, and you want to befriend this group of mysterious people, and then seek a position by donating family wealth, right?"
Boss Jia seemed to be said by Jiang Qiu for a while, and his old face turned red.
Later, the mysterious forces unexpectedly agreed to their request. And gave him the status of an ordinary official of the outer gate, responsible for organizing and controlling the merchants in Furong City, if anyone dares to expose or betray the mysterious forces to report, then he will be tortured tragically.
This mysterious force is the Smoke and Rain Hall. Although no one forced the major merchant houses and merchants to join, they would take away the high amount of offerings if they could not hand them in time or leak the slightest remarks about them. As a result, some traders later rebelled, so they complained to the city lord Sword Twelve, saying that the bandits were all disguised by these mysterious forces, in order to seek their money.
The man said this, at first he just pretended to be a bandit to rob the road, but then it became more and more intense, but he knew that the traders were all gone, and the merchants in other places did not come to and from Furong City, coupled with the encirclement and suppression of the city lord Sword Twelve, the bandits also found that the problem was big, so they turned to collect their high offerings.
This person went to the gate of the City Lord's Mansion during the day to complain, and at night he was found hacked to death with a knife, and his body was abandoned in front of the City Lord's Mansion. You must know that the City Lord's Mansion is guarded day and night, and someone can abandon the body in front of the City Lord's Mansion without realizing it. This is too shocking.
However, the merchants in the city did have doubts about the mysterious forces about the accusations and speculations of this person in the city. But Boss Jia had successfully become the secretary of the mysterious force Yanyutang at this time, and he didn't care about it. Gradually, Boss Jia also gained trust, and Yanyutang also began to convey the news of the cities of all parties through him.
"Everything you want to know, I've told you. But I would like to advise the three of you to know this, otherwise everyone will be in great trouble. Boss Jia said solemnly.
"So you're the outer door officer of the Yanyu Hall, so do you know where the main hall of the Yanyu Hall is?" asked Li Chengfeng.
Boss Jia clearly told everyone this time without hesitation or pause that he didn't know where the main hall of Yanyu Hall was located, and every time he contacted them, he usually waited for them to take the initiative to find them, or left a one-way contact mark for them to find him.
"Then since you are the official of the outer gate, you should have seen the people of Yanyu Hall punish the betrayers, right? Where is the location? Why did you go to Ruyi Fang? Does Ruyi Fang belong to Yanyu Hall?" Jiang Qiu suddenly remembered this clue and asked.
"You heroes don't know, every time I go to that place, Jia is blindfolded, but Jia lives in this Furong City, according to the bumps and distances of the carriage, it should be somewhere in the north of the city. It seems that there is a faint smell in the air, which is very good. As for why he went to Ruyi Fang, Jia Mou has been a gambling problem since his business became bigger, but Shaoxia asked if Ruyi Fang belonged to Yanyutang, which I really don't know!" Boss Jia said truthfully.
Then Boss Jia said: "If you young heroes are finished, then hurry up and return the tips to me, the delivery date of today's agreed time is almost up, if the small ones can't convey the information in time, more than 100 lives up and down the whole house are not guaranteed! ”
Li Chengfeng glanced at Jiang Qiu, Jiang Qiu nodded and asked, "Boss Jia, then let's hurry up This last question is, where is the Valley of the Wicked?"
Hearing this question, Boss Jia breathed a sigh of relief and told the three of them that there is a valley more than 100 miles to the east bypassing the City Lord's Mansion, which is called the Valley of the Wicked because of the steep and harsh terrain.
Jiang Qiu saw that Boss Jia had told everyone about the place so easily, and she knew clearly in her heart that Boss Jia must have only been the contact person in the middle, and he had no right to inspect the news transmitted, otherwise, when she asked about the Valley of the Wicked, why didn't Boss Jia react.
The matter has come to this, and judging from what Boss Jia said and the news in his possession, this matter is really related to Yanyutang.
Li Chengfeng also understood in his heart, so he nodded at Jiang Qiu and said to Boss Jia: "Boss Jia, I have offended a lot, I hope you will forgive me!" After speaking, he handed him the money bag.
Boss Jia hurriedly opened the money bag, looked at the note, and breathed a sigh of relief in his heart: "We have all the authority to pretend not to know about this matter, and you young heroes don't talk to outsiders when they come out of the woods here." ”
The three of them naturally wouldn't leak out such news, so they nodded at him and agreed.
"Qiuqiu, let's go down first, haven't you eaten since you ate the breakfast you brought in the morning? It's already noon. Another morning passed. Lin Xia complained.
"Well, then you can go downstairs to my bedroom. Let's go out to eat. It's a holiday today, and there must be nothing to eat in the cafeteria. Jiang Qiu said.
Li Chengfeng saw that the two of them began to talk about food, so he said, "You guys go to eat first! I'll go and investigate the matter of Yanyutang." ”
Jiang Qiu and Lin Xia nodded and left the rivers and lakes of "Swordsman".
On the way down the mountain from CW Academy, Jiang Qiu asked, "Where are we going to eat?"
Lin Xia said: "I heard from the foodie in my dormitory, Wang Xiaosan'er, that I know that there is a very delicious grilled fish in Xi Street, let's go there to eat? ”
"You have the final say! I don't know the way anyway. If you lose it, you will be compensated. Jiang Qiu said jokingly.
The two of them walked down the mountain from the CW Academy mountainside like a Dao aunt going down the mountain.