Kai Fu Han

Chapter 23 Hijacking and Hijacking
Seeing someone looking for trouble, Liu Xinqi was about to go up to answer the call. Liu Lizhen took his arm from behind, motioned him not to come forward, and then walked towards the young general himself.

"My lord, we were going from Jinan Prefecture to Dengzhou Prefecture to do business. When passing through Weishan ([-] miles west of Zhangqiu), we encountered a robbery. We spent part of our property and all the food to buy peace, so we went to Guizhou. The county is doing some shopping, and all it buys is grain. You can check it at will." Liu Lizhen said, taking out two taels of silver and stuffing it into the young general's hand.

The young general took the silver, looked at the quality and weight, and continued to ask: "Why don't you report it to the official? Does your behavior mean that it is not good for the people of Zhangqiu County?"

"Where do you dare, where do you dare, I only dare to say a few words because you are upright. We travel and sell goods, and it is inevitable that we will encounter such things. Every time we report to the official, this business will not be able to be done. General, please accommodate me." After Liu Lizhen finished speaking, he stuffed two taels of silver in the past.

"Well, you look like good people, so I won't embarrass you, let's go." The young general took the money again, without much embarrassment, and let Liu Xinqi's purchasing team leave the city.

After walking far away, Liu Xinqi asked Liu Lizhen: "It passed so easily? I thought they really knew how to check."

Liu Lizhen replied: "Where will there be inspections? The young general obviously knows that we entered the city empty-handed. We bought everything in the city. There are no contraband. It is just an excuse that we are 'thieves' buying and extorting some money. "

"According to this, if thieves are really here to purchase, they can easily get away with it." Liu Xinqi then asked.

"How is it possible? The thieves don't have food, so they go to the villages to rob it. How can they come to the city to buy it?" Liu Lizhen answered.

"Understood, this dog thief, with four taels of silver, can buy ten shi of grain." Liu Xinqi finally sighed.

Recently, there has been great chaos on the east and west sides of the mountain, and grain prices have soared. In the past, one penny could buy a catty. Today, in Zhangqiu County, Siwen can only buy a catty of grain, which is still coarse grain.

At the end of Shen Shi (17 o'clock), the purchasing team led by Liu Xinqi successfully merged with the migration team in Zhengjiazhai.

Everything went smoothly today. Zhengjiazhai originally did not agree with the migration team entering the village, but after listening to the words and deeds of the villagers of the "Leprosy Village", the village chief went to check the migration team again. It was true that the majority of the migration team was old, weak, women and children, and finally agreed to the migration team. Rest in the village.

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In the next few days, the migration team passed without any danger. On October 700, they were robbed by bandits in Hulu Mountain. After repelling the robbers, Liu Xinqi arranged for the migration team to camp and rest on the spot, and led the soldiers to attack Hulu Mountain again at night. The thieves in the village seized property worth more than [-] taels.

After the prisoners returned to the camp with their belongings, Liu Xinqi took in 23 new tribesmen.Power reached 791, Fame reached 56, and Martial Arts reached 201.

Seeing that the martial arts score reached 201, Liu Xinqi gathered the soldiers together and upgraded the general cards of Liu Xinang and Liu Xingang, who had worked the most hard recently.He also praised everyone for their contribution to exploring roads and protecting tribesmen, which boosted morale.

The warriors saw that their strength could be improved again after being cast on immortal magic, and their motivation increased.

By adding points to Liu Xinang, Liu Xinqi discovered that to upgrade the general card, the martial arts required for each level are the same, 100 points. He just doesn't know if the demand will increase when the level becomes higher in the future.

In the evening, Liu Xinqi went to see Li Cang again. After two days of recovery, Li Cang could already walk on the ground. The wounds on his legs had scabbed and he was recovering well. He was expected to be able to fight immediately.

On the night of October [-]th, we camped outside Fujia Town. Before dark, we did some shopping in the town. There weren't many things we could buy, most of which were grain and meat. I replenished some supplies that had been consumed in the past two days. big car.

On October [-], the migration team passed through Zibo County without stopping, and set up camp in Nanjiao Village, fifteen miles east of Zibo.

On the night of October [-]th, I camped outside Shaozhuang Town. I also went into the town to buy some grain and meat. I got an unexpected bonus and bought five horse-drawn carts. This way, there will be some spare capacity for the migrating team, and some smaller ones can be moved starting tomorrow. Many children and some elderly people sat in the car and drove on their way.

When we arrived at Bianjia Village in the north of Qingzhou Prefecture on October [-]th, the village chief did not agree to the migration team entering the village for rest, and Liu Xinqi did not force entry. The migration team had been walking for almost ten days now, and most of the tribesmen had adapted to this kind of life.

Moreover, Bianjiacun is close to Qingzhou Fucheng, so it is better not to cause trouble.

Liu Xinqi plans to let the team rest here for half a day tomorrow. He will take people to Qingzhou Fucheng for shopping, and by the way, he can cash in the jewelry, antiquities, calligraphy and paintings and other property that cannot be used directly that he seized during the recent attack on the village.

October 6, [-] o'clock ([-] o'clock)
It was just dawn, and Liu Xinqi set out again with the purchasing team. This time the purchasing team was still Liu Lizhen and ten soldiers, thirty tribesmen, and twenty horses.

Bianjia Village is only ten miles away from Qingzhou City, and it only took half an hour for the purchasing team to arrive outside the north gate of Qingzhou City.

When Lin Xinqi and others arrived, there was already a queue of more than 100 meters outside the city gate. They followed the queue and moved forward bit by bit. By the time they paid taxes and entered the city, it was already past half-hour (8 o'clock).

"The city of Qingzhou is too big. It will be a waste of time for us to move together." After Liu Xinqi entered the city, he found an open space and gathered everyone there: "Master Li Zhen, you take five soldiers and twenty tribesmen to buy a cart. Food, etc. Brother Xingang, you take three tribesmen to the south of the city to find a pawnshop, and the dead property will be discounted. Brother Xinhui, you take a warrior and two tribesmen to the west of the city to find a pawnshop; Brother Xinjun, you take a warrior and two tribesmen. Go to the east of the city to find a pawn shop; I will take the remaining three tribesmen and find a pawn shop in the north of the city."

"Okay, let's all split up. We'll still gather here at noon."

They were divided into four teams and took the seized jewelry, antiquities, calligraphy and paintings, etc. to a pawn shop to cash them in, in order not to attract attention and avoid causing unnecessary trouble.

Liu Xinqi led the three of them around the north of the city. After a while, they saw a pawn shop and walked in.After entering the door, there is a row of high counters directly opposite. There are three small windows on the counter. There is a small square table on the right side. A man in smart clothes is sitting at the table, squinting his eyes to relax.

Seeing Liu Xinqi bringing the three of them in, the man opened his eyes and took a look. He immediately regained his energy, reached for the handle of the knife placed under the table, held it, and stopped moving. It was obvious that Liu Xinqi and the others were not good people.

Seeing that the well-dressed man stopped moving, Liu Xinqi ignored him, went to the counter, knocked on the window, saw an old man sitting inside, and asked, "Pawn some unused jewelry, do you want to accept it. "

"Come on, open the door to do business." The old man replied to Liu Xinqi: "Take it out first and take a look."

Liu Xinqi untied the baggage on his back without opening it. He put his hand directly in, took out a jade bracelet, and handed it over.

The old man glanced at the burden Liu Xinqi had untied, took the bracelet and checked it without asking any further questions.

First he weighed it in his hand, then put it in his mouth, bit it, put it in the water glass on the right, looked at the rise in the water level, then took out a small scale, weighed it, and finally put it on the fire. After grilling it, he said: "An ordinary jade bracelet weighs eight qian (40 grams). Is it a dead or a living thing?"

"What if you die? What if you live?" Liu Xinqi asked.

"Dang, this bracelet will give you six silver coins or copper coins of the same value, and this bracelet will have nothing to do with you from now on. Huo Dang, this bracelet will give you four silver coins or copper coins of the same value, and you can spend five coins within a month You need silver to redeem it, but if the time limit expires, this bracelet will have nothing to do with you." The old man answered very carefully.

"Damn it." Liu Xinqi said.

"Okay." The old man responded, and then shouted to the back: "A jade bracelet worth six cents of silver."

Not long after the shouting, a man came out from behind, holding a small piece of cash in his hand and handed it to the old man. The old man weighed it and showed it to Liu Xinqi, and then handed the silver to Liu Xinqi.Liu Xinqi took the silver and felt that the price was severely suppressed. The six coins probably didn't even have [-]% of the original value of the bracelet, but the transaction went smoothly.

After taking the people out, they visited several pawnshops one after another. They probably realized that Liu Xinqi's jewelry came from something shady, so they kept the price down very hard.

Only one Fu Lai pawnshop was considered honest, and the price was only about 130%.After going round and round, Liu Xinqi finally came to the Fulai pawn shop and pawned the remaining jewelry and other belongings to them.A total of [-] taels of silver were obtained from this realization, which was a little worse than previously expected.

After the items were sold out, Liu Xinqi took people to the gathering place to wait.At the end of the day (11 o'clock), Liu Lizhen came back with the purchasing team.

Twenty carts were purchased, and the carts were filled with supplies.

Then Liu Xingang and Liu Xinghui both came back one after another. Because they had given some tips on the road before entering the city today, the pawn results were similar to Liu Xingqi's, with Liu Xingang's being slightly better.

It was past noon, but Liu Xinjun's team from the east had not returned yet.

Just as he was about to arrange for someone to look for him, he saw Liu Xinjun running back alone. Feeling that things had changed, Liu Xinqi hurried up to meet him and asked:
"What's wrong, where are the three of them?"

"When we pawned something at a pawnshop called Liu's Pawnshop, the young owner saw that our things had come from a wrong way, so he pretended to go back to get the money, but he called a dozen people to surround us, saying that we were thieves and that our belongings were all It's stolen goods." Liu Xinjun replied: "Because you and the third master have told us before that you must not cause trouble after entering the city, so we didn't resist. They robbed us of our belongings and locked us in a room. I kept Xinjun behind. (Soldier) Watch the two tribesmen, just in case you can lead them out, I will run out to report to you first."

"Well, the situation is unclear. We should really stabilize it first. Have they reported it to the official? Have they asked you to come back to get money to redeem people?" Liu Lizhen asked.

"There should be no report to the police, otherwise we would have been arrested by the government long ago. And I feel like the guards let me out on purpose. There were many people guarding us, and I found thirteen of them, but considering the fact that I just ran out In such a situation, ordinary people should be able to escape," Liu Xinjun said.

"I probably asked you to come back to report the news on purpose, hoping to catch a big fish in the long run." Liu Lizhen said.

"I'm brave enough to see if his teeth are hard enough." Liu Xinqi said: "Let's go out of the city first and come back at night."

It went smoothly when leaving the city. Thinking about it, for a capital city of a state, this amount of supplies should not be considered a big deal, it is commonplace.

After walking out of the city for a mile, Liu Xinqi left five soldiers behind, including Liu Xingang, Liu Xinhui, and Liu Xinjun, and arranged for Liu Lizhen to bring supplies and relocate to the next campsite to wait.

Liu Xinqi returned to the city with five soldiers.

"It's easy to save people. Once you save people, you can leave the city immediately and won't be trapped in the city." On the way to Liu's pawnshop, Liu Xinqi said to everyone: "But the person in Liu's pawnshop also has the surname Liu." , but they are too unkind in what they do. They deal fairly, treat them as they should, and treat them as inappropriate. Why should they detain people? We must take this tone."

"Yes, let them steal the chicken but lose the rice, lose the wife and lose the army." Liu Xingang responded.

"...What kind of slang are you using..." Liu Xinqi said contemptuously: "I should say that they should spit out everything they eat and compensate us for our losses."

"..., you are more vulgar than what I said." Liu Xingang choked.

"At least in my words, we are not chickens." Liu Xinqi retorted.

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When approaching Liu's pawnshop, Liu Qi divided the people into three groups and first went around Liu's pawnshop to inquire about the nearby houses and road layout.Finally, a man who was out on errands was caught alive at the back door of the pawn shop, found a dead end, and interrogated him.

"Should we confess directly? Or should we torture you and then confess honestly?" Liu Xinqi put a dagger on the pawnbroker's neck and asked.

Surrounded by four burly men (as mentioned above, attack and defense attributes will affect body size), with a knife resting on his neck, and two strong men guarding the alley entrance. Cowardly: "The hero asks if he has something to say, he knows everything, and he just wants to disturb my life."

"Don't worry, we don't kill people casually. We'll just ask you a few questions, answer them honestly, and let you go after you answer them." Liu Xinqi asked, "Who is behind this Liu's pawnshop?"

"This Liu's pawnshop is the property of Liu Xiao, the son of Liu Xing, the prefect of Qingzhou Prefecture. There are Liu's pawnshops in the southeast, north, south, and north of this city," Xiaosi said honestly.

Hearing that the backstage was so tough, Liu Xinqi planned to change his original strategy of attacking and rescuing people.

"I just saw a young man at the front door. He is of medium build, a little fat, wearing a green coat, and has small eyes. Is he your young boss Liu Xiao?" Liu Xinqi asked knowingly. Liu Xinjun had already said this information before.

"That should be true. There is no other person in this yard who looks like what you described." Xiao Si replied.

"Is your young master always here?" Liu Xinqi misled again.

"No, I was patrolling here today. I saw a few thieves selling stolen goods, so I caught them and deliberately let one go back. I waited here and planned to go fishing." Xiao Si replied.

"Oh, what a coincidence, we met our colleagues?" Liu Xinqi pretended to be surprised and said, "How many people are there in the yard now?"

"Just now, the Young Master's family transferred more than a dozen people over. Now there are more than 30 people. It was because of the sudden increase in the number of people that I went out to buy food, and then you..." Xiaosi answered very depressed, thinking about his own experience. Worry.

"I told you we won't kill anyone. You stay here for a while and leave by yourself when you wake up." Liu Qi pinched Xiaosi's neck, causing him to pass out.

Putting down the fainted Xiao Si, Liu Xinqi said to everyone: "The backstage of this pawn shop is too hard, we have to change the hard plan, otherwise if we are wanted, it will affect the migration team, and the government will block it back and forth, and there will definitely be heavy losses."

"Wait until night, rush in, don't rescue people openly, knock down all the thugs, and then kidnap the young boss Liu Xiao, and then take two messengers with you. We will find a way out of the city tonight." Liu Xinqi arranged: "We When robbing people, Brother Xinjun, take advantage of the chaos to rescue Brother Xinjun and others, and then take them out of the city first, and chase the migrating team as planned, without waiting for us. There are five of us doing this thing, and more people will get in the way. .”

"Good" letters are returned.

"Wait until dark before taking action. Now let's buy some equipment separately." Liu Xinqi arranged again: "Brother Xingang, you go buy hooks, ropes and other things to use to climb the city wall, and buy a piece of cloth to make a face covering. Xinqi Brother Hui, take two people to buy some swords and other weapons. Brother Xinjun and I will keep an eye on the front and back doors here to make sure that the young master doesn’t get away."

"Go back quickly."

(End of this chapter)