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Chapter 3 Entering the Big Water Bottle Village, the glass cup attracts wealth

More than half an hour later, Liu Sheng saw the Dashui Ping Village.

This village is worthy of the word "big". The wall made of huge stone walls is more than ten feet high. It is not regular in shape but stretches along the mountains. It is estimated to be seven or eight miles long.

From Liu Sheng's perspective, in the late Ming Dynasty, as long as the stronghold was fully equipped with more than 1000 people, even if the enemy did not have artillery, even tens of thousands of people might not be able to break it.

It is actually a dangerous place where "one man can guard the gate, but ten thousand men cannot open it".

However, there was no one visible on the wall at this time, but there were two soldiers in tattered clothes at the west gate of the village.A tall and thin man was leaning against the wall, leaning on a long gun, slouching; the other, with a fleshy face, simply sat against the base of the wall and dozed off.

Liu Sheng watched for a while, but no one came in or out.

I looked at the time on my phone again, and it was only four in the afternoon.

In late spring, it was still early before dark at this point. Even if someone in the village was working outside, it would still take an hour before they came back.

After thinking for a while, Liu Sheng walked towards the village gate.

"Stop, what are you doing?"

The listless man regained his energy and called Liu Sheng to stop.

The dozing soldier also woke up and stood up holding on to the wall.

Liu Sheng smiled and said: "I went to the south to join my relatives. I ran out of money on the way and wanted to go into the village to exchange for some money. I dare to ask the two military masters, is there a pawn shop in this village?"

When the two guardsmen saw the stranger coming, they wanted to get some oil and water.It can be seen that he is tall, speaks in Mandarin, and has an extraordinary bearing, but he does not dare to be rash.

The dozing soldier said: "There is only one pawn shop in the stockade, which is opened by hundreds of us. But if you want to enter the stockade, you have to pay at least five cents in door tax."

Liu Sheng said: "Master Jun, I really don't have a penny on me. Why don't you let me in first and then pay the tax when I come out?"

"Who knows whether you will go through the west gate or the east gate when you come out?" The soldier was a little unhappy, and then said: "In this case, I will send you to the pawn shop, and you will pay the door tax immediately after you change the money."

After entering the village, Liu Sheng discovered that there were buildings in the middle of the village and along the walls. Most of the area was filled with fields, estimated to be several hundred acres.

There are people working in the fields everywhere, but many of them are naked and skinny.

The houses in the center of the village are obviously better than those on the side of the village wall, and they are all built against a large pond.

When he came to a house with the guise of a "pawn shop," the soldier stopped and said, "This is a pawn shop. Go in."

Liu Shengyi was brave enough to walk in and saw an old man with gray hair dozing off against an L-shaped wooden cabinet.

He woke up when Liu Sheng came in. He raised his eyes and asked, "The guest wants to pawn something?"

"Yes."

Liu Sheng nodded, took out an ordinary transparent glass from the bag, and placed it on the counter.

The old man suddenly became energetic. He carefully looked at the glass and said hesitantly, "Is this the rumored Western glass bottle?"

"The shopkeeper has great insights." Liu Sheng smiled unexpectedly.

He knew that many Western glass products had been introduced in the Ming Dynasty, but he did not expect that even a pawnshop owner in Baihusuo Walled City would recognize them.

The old man stroked his beard and smiled and said: "I used to work in a pawn shop in the county town and heard people talk about this thing. Well, I wonder if the customer wants to pawn this glass bottle with death or alive?"

Liu Sheng pretended to know the market, and said: "This colorless and transparent glass bottle is a rare treasure, but I need money urgently now, so I don't want more. I can just pay it for ten taels of silver."

Although the shopkeeper knew that the glass bottle was a treasure and was worth a lot of money, he was secretly dumbfounded when he heard that Liu Sheng wanted ten taels of silver.

He said with a bitter face: "Guest, this small shop usually only pawns some clothes, rough porcelain and other things for the people around you. It's a small business of less than a hundred cents. I really can't make the decision on this big business of ten taels of silver. Can you please allow me to do so?" Shall I ask my boss?"

Liu Sheng instinctively felt that letting the owner of the pawn shop, that is, the hundreds of households in Dashui Pingzhai, intervene in this matter might cause complications.

But on the one hand, he really needed to change some money, and on the other hand, he also wanted to test the authenticity of this Baihu Office, so he nodded and said: "The shopkeeper, just go there quickly."

"The owner lives nearby, so he won't waste much time on the guests." The shopkeeper said and walked out and said to the soldier who was still outside the door: "Ma Jinshui, come to the store and help me accompany the guests."

After saying that, he winked, saw Ma Jinshui nodded, and then left.

Ma Jinshui entered the store and asked, "Where did the little brother come from?"

No wonder Ma Jinshui called him that, Liu Sheng didn't have a beard, and although his skin color was more bronze, he still looked similar to a young man in his 20s at this time.

Liu Sheng said: "Come from Beizhili."

Ma Jinshui became more energetic and said: "Oh, I heard that the slaves invaded the year before last and invaded again, and they fought all the way to Shandong. Is it true or not?"

Liu Sheng sighed and said, "It's true, otherwise I wouldn't have to go south to join my relatives."

“I don’t know when this stupid slave slave will be eradicated.”

Liu Sheng secretly shook his head after hearing this.

The guardsmen in this small place did not understand the general trend of the world at all, and they still expected the Ming Dynasty to wipe out the slaves, but they did not know that the Ming Dynasty would be gone in a few years.

However, this man looked a bit gossipy, so he could take the opportunity to inquire about something first.

"Does the military master know about Li Zicheng?"

"Of course I know, he is an intruder. He has been to our Henan Province more than once before, but they were always in the northwest, and we have never seen them in Runing Mansion."

Tianmu Mountain in Henan is actually located at the junction of Nanyang Prefecture and Runing Prefecture, but it is administratively under the jurisdiction of Queshan County, Runing Prefecture. "So what's going on with the trespassers now, Master Jun?" Liu Sheng asked following the words.

Ma Jinshui said: "Didn't the government issue a notice a long time ago, saying that the intruders were wiped out in Tongguan Nanyuan the year before last? Didn't you see it?"

Liu Sheng was stunned when he heard this.

He remembered whether Li Zicheng fled into Shangluo Mountain with thirteen or seventeen cavalry in history. Unexpectedly, the Ming court actually issued a notice saying that Li Zicheng was dead after the battle.

But if you think about it carefully, the Ming court could calm people's hearts to some extent by doing this.

After all, Li Zicheng was beaten down to a dozen people. Who would have thought that he would sweep Henan more than a year after he came out, and it would be difficult to control it?

Liu Sheng wanted to ask something more, but there was a sound of footsteps outside. It was obvious that many people were coming.

Immediately, a tall, fat middle-aged man walked into the hall with the shopkeeper and four big men.

The tall, fat middle-aged man only glanced at Liu Sheng, and his eyes were attracted to the glass bottle on the counter, showing obvious greed.

He stepped forward and picked up the glass bottle, rubbed it and looked at it carefully for a while, and then shouted angrily: "What a good thief, you stole the glass bottle from Mr. Huang's house in the county town, and you dared to pawn it here at this hundred households. You really threw yourself into a trap." !”

When he said this, the four big men who came with him had already surrounded Liu Sheng.

Liu Sheng smiled.

He thought that these hundreds of households might be interested in making money, forcefully lower the price, or even rob.But he didn't expect that the other party would be so shameless and would take action at any given excuse.

It's a good thing that Liu Sheng is not an ordinary person, otherwise he would have fallen here.

When these people came in, Liu Sheng was on guard.

Seeing four people surrounding him, he immediately rushed towards the hundred households.

The man closest to him hit him with a straight punch, and he grabbed his wrist. Using a grappling technique, he lost one of his hands with a click and pushed him to the other two.

Then he approached the hundred households, took out the dagger with his right hand, and went straight to their throat.

Everything happened in a flash, and before the hundreds of households could react, they were controlled by Liu Sheng.

"Don't move, my dagger is very sharp." Liu Sheng said when he saw that Baihu was shaking with fear and his body was about to fall down.

Baihu finally came to his senses and said in a trembling voice: "Hero, please spare my life~"

"Whose glass bottle belongs to it?" Liu Sheng asked.

"Of course it belongs to you, the hero." Baihu said with a bitter look on his face, "I was blinded by lard, so I wanted to take this treasure. As long as the hero can spare me, I will give you as much money as you want."

"Get your people out."

"Get out, get out for me!"

The four men who came with hundreds of households, the guardsman Ding Ma Jinshui, and the old shopkeeper who didn't dare to look at Liu Sheng all retreated after hearing this.

After these people left, Liu Sheng punched Baihu so hard that he fell down with his belly hunched over, and then he went to close the store door Shiranly.

Then he pulled out a chair, found a place that was not easily attacked by crossbows outside the store, and sat down calmly.

"I heard that my boss is one of the hundreds of households in this big water bottle village. What do you call it?"

Baihu's belly was full of fat. Although Liu Sheng's punch hurt him, it didn't cause much damage.

He was worried about being beaten again, so he endured the pain and said, "Ma Jinliang."

"It turns out to be Ma Baihu, disrespectful."

The corners of Ma Jinliang's mouth twitched, and he felt that Liu Sheng's word "disrespect" was full of ridicule.

"Does Ma Baihu know the latest news about Li Zicheng?" Liu Sheng asked again.

Hearing this, Ma Jinliang thought to himself, could this gangster be the lost general of the intruder?
He didn't dare to ask, so he only replied: "The imperial palace newspaper said that only seventeen of the bandits' cavalry escaped into Shangluo Mountain, and they were destroyed."

Liu Sheng couldn't help but be a little disappointed when he didn't get more news about Li Zicheng from Ma Jinliang.

After thinking for a while, he asked again: "What is the name of this magistrate of Queshan? How many years has he been in office? What is his conduct like?"

Ma Jinliang said: "The county magistrate's name is Cai Wending. He has been in office for more than three years. He is a man... I don't have much contact with him. I only heard others say that he is a little greedy."

"How many officers and soldiers are there in Runing?"

Hearing this question, Ma Jinliang felt more and more that this person was a bandit general or another rogue general, but he did not dare not answer.

Swallowing his dry throat, Ma Jinliang said: "Except for some guardsmen in Runing, the most important ones are the soldiers recruited by a battalion under General Wang Yingtai of Runing. I heard that there are more than a thousand combat soldiers and two thousand auxiliary soldiers."

"Where is the Runing Battalion usually stationed?"

"Of course it's Ruyang, the capital city."

Liu Sheng nodded, looked at Ma Jinliang and smiled again, and asked, "How much does Ma Baihu think your head is worth?"

After hearing this, Ma Jinliang, who almost believed that Liu Sheng was a rebel general, was so frightened that he fell to his knees on the ground and cried: "Hero, spare your life! I am willing to give you any money, just to survive..."

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