Legend of the Knight

Chapter 23

When Gu Yuexuan was running towards Xiaoyao Valley with Weiming on his back, Huang Xiaoshi had just returned to Luoyang City with two disciples.

Shennong Baicaomen bought a large mansion in Luoyang City. Firstly, Shennong Baicaomen had no shortage of money, and secondly, rural people like to live in a spacious house, and a larger yard can be used to dry herbs.

The Luoyang branch of Shennong Baicaomen now has nearly [-] members, and the elixirs made here are mainly cheap Baicao series.

The more expensive Shennong series of medicines involve authentic medicinal materials, such as Chuanbei and Chuanxiong. You can tell from the name that the best ones are produced in Sichuan.

Therefore, half of the nearly one hundred people are transporters, mainly transporting elixir from central Shu to Luoyang, and then transporting some small seasonal shipments from Luoyang back to central Sichuan.

As soon as he entered the door, Huang Xiaoshi smelled the aroma of food. He motioned for the two doormen to take off their baskets and eat first. The bowls and chopsticks filled myself with a large bowl of white rice.

Someone nearby had already made room for Huang Xiaoshi, and he was sitting on a small bench with a rice bowl in his hand. As usual, he scooped out a large spoonful of vegetables and put them on the rice. Pull it up.

Shennong Baicaomen has always maintained the habit of eating big pot meals.

Now that there are so many people, every day when it’s time for meals, the cook will carry several large pots to the yard. The pots are filled with various dishes, mainly stewing.

There are white rice in the big steamers next to it, no matter who it is, they can eat it when they come. There is a bench to sit on the bench, and there is no bench to squat on the eaves.

Come early to eat early, late to eat late, come too late to eat.

Everyone eats in a circle, not only can shorten the distance between each other, but more importantly, it is convenient for Huang Xiaoshi to listen to the doormen to talk about all kinds of things he encountered.

Everyone in the door knew that Huang Xiaoshi liked to listen to news, that is, new things, so every night when eating, everyone talked about what they had seen and heard.

The biggest news today is that the thirteen goose bandits who ran rampant in northern Shaanxi were captured by righteous men in Dukang Village. Now the goose bandits, including their leader Qiu Ba, are being held in prison. It is not yet known what the future sentence will be.

Huang Xiaoshi nodded, he knew about this matter, not only knew, but also personally participated in it.

Killed four bandits and gained some experience points.

In other words, Huang Xiaoshi really wanted to rush out and kill Qiu Ba before Gu Yuexuan appeared, but at the most critical moment, Huang Xiaoshi held back.

After killing Qiu Ba, Gu Yuexuan might not appear again. If he does not appear, the entire world line will be completely changed.

In order to keep the plot line as complete as possible, Huang Xiaoshi endured it.

What are travelers most afraid of?
The plot changed before enough advantages were established.

Didn’t I cross in vain then?
Huang Xiaoshi, who only ate breakfast and didn't drink a drop of water, was very hungry. Where can he eat outside to taste his own food, at least the meat and oil in the dishes are willing to put.

Huang Xiaoshi ate three bowls of rice in one go, and he didn't stop his chopsticks until his stomach was about to explode.

Huang Xiaoshi, who was almost exhausted, put down the rice bowl in his hand, and prepared to walk around a little to digest food.At this time, a doorman rushed in from outside the door, and after seeing Huang Xiaoshi, he shouted loudly from a long distance: "Master Shi, something is wrong! Something is wrong!"

Huang Xiaoshi frowned, this is the big city of Luoyang, what's wrong?What can be wrong?Dare to have any major problems!
Huang Xiaoshi walked towards the panicked doorman in two steps in three steps, and at the same time shouted in a stern tone: "If you have something to say, talk about it, why are you yelling."

The doorman came back to his senses after hearing Huang Xiaoshi's words. After sorting out his words, he quickly said to Huang Xiaoshi: "Master Shi, the batch of goods we shipped from Chengdu was robbed. More than a dozen of the brothers were all detained by the bandits, and they released one of them with a message saying that we should prepare 3000 taels of silver to redeem them, otherwise we will wait for the body to be collected.”

When Huang Xiaoshi heard this, he immediately became angry. This bandit not only stopped the goods, but also dared to kidnap and blackmail them. They really thought that Shennong Baicaomen were not gangsters.

Huang Xiaoshi asked angrily, "Which gang did it?"

The doorman gritted his teeth and said, "It's from Heifengzhai."

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Heifengzhai, this is the name of a classic bandit village, and here is no exception. Heifengzhai is a bandit village, and it is a very powerful one.

When Huang Xiaoshi heard the disciple's answer, he suddenly became suspicious.

Heifengzhai was indeed very noisy near Luoyang, but it was not in the same direction as the commercial road from Chengdu to Luoyang, and the distance was very far away. How could my goods be robbed by Heifengzhai?

So Huang Xiaoshi asked the doorman, "Where is the person who was released?"

The doorman said angrily: "Xiao Li was running and shouting just now, but he was stopped by the police as soon as he entered the city. The street patrol officer took him to the county government office with his deceitful words to confuse the crowd, and beat ten people at first. The big board was then locked in prison, and only then did the news come out, telling us to contact the guarantor and pick him up tomorrow."

Huang Xiaoshi glanced outside the door, it was already completely dark, even from the time the city gate was closed, it had been more than an hour.

Encountering such an urgent matter and being delayed, Huang Xiaoshi stomped his feet angrily. It really wasn't enough to make things happen, but it was more than a failure.

After listening to the doorman's words, Huang Xiaoshi stood there and his mind was spinning rapidly. After a while, Huang Xiaoshi said to the doorman: "Go and get a quilt, and I will pack a bowl of rice and deliver things to the prisoner." go."

After the doorman responded quickly, he ran towards the backyard. Huang Xiaoshi walked to the back basket that the two doormen put down just now, took out a handful of copper coins from a back basket, and put it on his body, then turned into the yard, filled a big bowl of food, and came out .

Although it was dark, it was not yet curfew time, and there were still pedestrians on the road in twos and threes.

Huang Xiaoshi and the doorman walked quickly with their things, and arrived at the county government prison in a short while.The gatekeeper shouted for a long time before an old soldier walked over slowly.

"It turned out to be the master of the Huang family." The old soldier greeted Huang Xiaoshi respectfully, and said politely: "I'm so sorry. It's getting late and the visiting time has passed, please go early tomorrow."

Huang Xiaoshi smiled kindly. He reached out and took out the handful of copper coins from his pocket and handed them in through the fence. After the old pawn accepted it calmly, he said with a smile on his face, "Trouble me, Mr. Brother is accommodating. I just send some food and bedding to my brother."

"Master Huang is really benevolent." The old soldier touched his waist while talking, he untied the key and opened the iron lock, untied the iron chains that were wrapped layer after layer, and said to Huang Xiaoshi: " come in."

Huang Xiaoshi stretched out one hand to take the quilt from the doorman, and stepped into the cell door in two or three steps. As soon as he entered the door, the old soldier closed the cell door with an iron chain and a large lock.

After passing through the large courtyard from which the door came, one enters a small door, and then passes through the small courtyard before arriving at the real door of the cell.

Huang Xiaoshi saw that the cell door was slightly closed, so he pushed the door open and entered.

I don't know if the world has been at peace for too long, or because Jiang Tianxiong and Shi Gang are in charge, Luoyang Prison has not had any strange things for so many years, so that some of the military equipment has been relaxed.The county government prison was originally supposed to have three doors and three locks, but only the outermost door was locked.

As soon as Huang Xiaoshi entered the prison door, he saw a small table with oil lamps on it. There were three sets of bowls and chopsticks, a jug of wine and some side dishes. Two guards were chatting there. Huang Xiaoshi didn't even get up. , nodded as a greeting.

Thanks to Huang Xiaoshi's management in Luoyang City for the past few years, Shennong Baicaomen is well-known in Luoyang. The jailers here may still be taking his family's elixir, otherwise it would be a bit troublesome for him to knock on this door today.

Some doors really cannot be knocked open with a handful of copper coins.

With the only light source on this small table, Huang Xiaoshi saw at a glance the geese bandits chained up in a string in the prison. They occupied more than half of the prison cells, and Qiuba also enjoyed the treatment of a single room, handcuffed and fettered, heavy shackles and iron chains, the same No less.

Qiu Ba's sea of ​​qi was broken by Gu Yuexuan's punch. He was completely useless, and now he is just an ordinary person. With so many good things on him, he sat on the ground against the wall and hummed.

It stands to reason that he would not get such treatment as Qiuba, but this person's reputation is too bad, and even the jailers have the attitude of punishing him as long as he can't die.

It was night and there were people coming. Other petty criminals raised their heads excitedly to see if it was their relatives or friends. The gatekeeper who was locked in the prison saw that it was Huang Xiaoshi who was coming, so excited that he rolled and crawled over. .

The scene of yelling "wrong" as soon as someone comes in only exists in later generations of film and television works or people's imagination.In reality, who would dare to bark like that, haven't you had enough of the killing stick?
After Huang Xiaoshi walked over, he stuffed the quilt and rice bowl through the fence of the cell, and then whispered into the doorman's ear, "When and where were you robbed today? How many people are there? Give me Tell me in detail."

After seeing Huang Xiaoshi, the doorman calmed down, and he also put his mouth to ear, and told Huang Xiaoshi what happened today in detail.

It turned out that today they planned to walk to Luoyang City in the afternoon, but they were surrounded by a group of bandits at Dashibao, more than 20 miles away from Luoyang City, and died in the middle.

Huang Xiaoshi told the disciples many times that when encountering robbers, they should run away if they are three or two thieves.

There were about a dozen people in this robbery, all carrying steel knives, so everyone stopped and caught them without fighting.As a result, the gangsters arrested everyone obediently. They didn't know whether they thought they were cheating or wanted to show their prestige.

After checking, the bandits found nothing unusual, so they released the doorman surnamed Li and asked him to come back to report the news. The bandits robbed the other people and the goods and took them away.

Knowing the cause and effect, Huang Xiaoshi turned to the small table again, called the old pawn who was drinking to excuse me, and followed the old pawn through the three gates and two courtyards.

After leaving the prison, Huang Xiaoshi waved to the doorman standing against the wall, and then the two of them walked towards him without saying a word.

Along the way, Huang Xiaoshi walked fast, but his brain turned even faster.

According to the usual transportation practice, the value of the pills transported by the disciples of Shennong Baicaomen this time is about 400-700 taels of silver, while the bandits in Heifengzhai asked for a ransom of 3000 taels of silver after they kidnapped someone.

1 Taels of silver can be exchanged for 1000 copper coins, and one penny can buy a big meat bun. This is just the autumn harvest, and grain prices are low, and ten pennies can buy a catty of white rice.

According to the comparison of purchasing power, one tael of silver is equivalent to about 2000 yuan in later generations. In fact, because the price of grain in this dynasty is higher than that in later generations, the purchasing power of silver is not low.

The ransom of 3000 taels of silver is equivalent to 600 million yuan.

As a branch that makes money every day, 3000 taels of silver is indeed not too much, you can get it if you pool it, borrow it, but sometimes the account is not calculated like this.

In terms of weight, 3000 taels is 300 catties. According to the fact that one person carries 50 catties when walking on mountain roads, 3000 taels of silver alone would have to be carried by six people.

There is so much cash, and there is no banking system in the future in this era. Even if there are some banks, there are more copper coins and less silver.

So the 3000 taels of silver would not be handed over to any sect, not to mention the Baicao sect, let alone three days, how could it be enough.

If the silver is not enough, it will be even more serious with copper coins.

300 million coins, not to mention whether there are 300 million coins if the entire Luoyang city is emptied, even if there are so many copper coins, how many people do you have to find to carry them?
The style of Heifengzhai has always been vicious. They said it was three days, and after that three days, they would start killing people.

If Heifengzhai kills one today and another tomorrow, and sends someone to send the head back after each killing, then Shennong Baicaomen doesn't want to do business, just close it as soon as possible.

Therefore, Huang Xiaoshi, who is familiar with conspiracy theories, can say with certainty that someone is trying to set up Shennong Baicaomen.

But now Huang Xiaoshi doesn't know who it is, and he doesn't know the reason of the other party.To solve this conspiracy, only by catching these bandits can we find out one or two.

More importantly, Huang Xiaoshi vaguely wondered if it was because he promoted Baicaomen to merge with Shennongmen, which produced a butterfly effect that he did not know about.

Huang Xiaoshi wanted to know now why the Black Wind Village, which was obviously going to emerge in a few years, appeared in Luoyang now.

Before today, Huang Xiaoshi was still worrying about gains and losses, for fear that the plot would end if he was not careful.

After Gu Yuexuan and Dongfang Weiming met as scheduled, everything became calm for Huang Xiaoshi.

As long as Dongfang Weiming enters Xiaoyao Valley, even if the main plot has landed, no matter how it changes in the future, it will always be limited.

It means: Huang Xiaoshi can play as much as he wants.

Huang Xiaoshi quickly calculated in his heart that the bandits from Heifengzhai had robbed people in Dashi, and they must be heading towards Heifengzhai.

The time of robbery is in the afternoon, the mountain road is rugged, and it is usually not possible to walk at night. In this way, they will have to rest after walking not far.

The group of bandits from Heifengzhai dared to bring goods and kidnapped people together, so they must not dare to approach the city and village.

Huang Xiaoshi has carried goods on that line many times, and he knows that there is a ruined temple more than ten miles north of Dashibao where passers-by can rest.

Huang Xiaoshi had a sneer on his face, the bandits in Heifengzhai are very calculating.They figured out the time before letting the person back. Even if the gatekeeper could enter the city before closing the gate, it would be dark after finding the man. When the gate was opened the next day, they would have left long ago. Far.

That being the case, Huang Xiaoshi is going to act tonight, to surprise the bandits in Heifengzhai.

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