Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 971 Team Price
"This is God's robbery to collect people." An older man actually said, sighing, "I heard that Hebei and Shanxi are in chaos."

"Everyone eat and drink water, rest and hurry!" The speaker was tall and burly, but very young.However, the 24-year-old Mo Yang, with sharp eyebrows and fierce eyes, is a talent.As soon as he said a word, the others stopped talking, obviously the leader of the team.

Immediately, someone ordered the shop assistants who came to prepare food: only some pancakes, hard buns, pickled vegetables, sauces and garlic are served here, and there are no vegetables and of course no meat.In the year of the catastrophe, even the pancakes that local farmers often ate became thick and black, and I don’t know how many grass roots and bark were mixed in.It was black, hard and dry, not to mention the three women, even the other knights grinned so much that they had no choice but to swallow the tea.

The young woman who spoke just now couldn't help frowning while eating, took a few mouthfuls, and simply put it down.

"Hurry up, there is still something to eat here, I don't know if I want to eat human flesh when I go down." The young man in the lead showed his teeth and smiled, indescribably ghastly.

The three words "cannibalism" are like a gust of wind blowing through the shed, making the hairs of all the people in the shed stand on end, without sweating at all.

"You, just kidding..." The young woman forced a smile.

The middle-aged man with a local accent said: "When there was a military disaster in the local area more than ten years ago, such a thing happened, and dead human flesh was used as stuffing for buns. Later, the local grand lord took it. I heard that it was tortured by cutting. "

The young woman showed a disgusted expression, and then looked at the food on the table—it was all vegetarian, and there was no such thing as human flesh.

A group of people stopped talking and buried their heads in eating.The young man in the lead stared outside the shed while eating, as if waiting for someone.

After a meal, another person came in from the outside, but he was dressed like a small business traveler.After looking left and right, he went straight to the two tables where the knights were sitting.

"Excuse me, sorry to bother you." He said with a smile to the middle-aged man with a local accent, "It's so hot, thank you for your hard work, everyone."
The middle-aged man didn't care about it and let him sit down.

The clerk came up to meet him, and the peddler smiled and said, "It's good to have a bowl of water. I don't want anything else."

There is no charge for a bowl of white water tea shed, and of course the buddy will not have a good face.A large bowl with black leather and rough glaze, filled with a bowl of water.The peddler thanked him again and again, took out a piece of corn bread as black as mud from his pocket, and ate it with water.

"Still doing business outside in the hot summer? It's really hard."

"A villain doesn't work every day without food," said the vendor.

"This Yizhou is a dead place now, what kind of business are you doing here?" The middle-aged man sneered.

"A little bit of profit-seeking business, the old men will laugh at it." The vendor smiled, "Eating with my legs." He said and drew a symbol on the table with his chopsticks.

The middle-aged man's eyes moved slightly, and he glanced at the young man in the lead.The young man nodded.The middle-aged man laughed immediately: "It is said that he is eating for a living, and he can't even drink a sip of tea." Immediately picked up the teapot and filled his bowl with a bowl of tea.

"Thank you, master, for your kindness." The vendor smiled, picked up the tea bowl and finished eating the black corn buns with tea in two or three mouthfuls, thanked him and got up to go.

The merchant walked along the official road all the way, walked for two or three miles, turned to the roadside path, sat down in a small forest, and picked up a straw hat to fan the wind.Not long after, the group of knights resting in the tea shed followed suit.

He didn't answer for a couple of times, and the merchant led the way on his own - he walked like flying, and soon led the knights to an ordinary farm yard.The door opened without a call.

The location of the small yard is extremely secluded, with woods on three sides and a small river on one side.Beyond the woods are vast fields.It can't be seen from the main road at all, and it is almost completely buried in the green gauze tent.

The knights entered the yard, which was a very ordinary farm house.There are three low houses with thatched roofs and rammed-earth courtyard walls, and some wheat grass and farm tools are scattered in the yard.A stone mill is in the corner of the yard.It seems that it should be an ordinary middle peasant family, but it is not.

"Everyone, please." The vendor said after knocking on the door of the house a few times.

As soon as I entered the door, I realized that these huts looked like ruins on the outside, but they looked like rich and wealthy houses on the inside.The so-called earthen walls, broken bricks and thatched roofs are nothing but a deceiving trick.

The floor inside the house is lower than the outside, so it doesn't feel oppressive to be in the house.

Not only is the decoration luxurious, but also all kinds of furniture are exquisite.

On the mahogany Eight Immortals table in the middle, two tables of delicacies have been prepared, and several maidservants serve with pots.What was even worse was that there was actually a large piece of ice in the middle of the room, emitting white gas, and a group of people came in under the scorching sun, and immediately felt cool all over.

"Preparing a little thin wine is not a respect." The vendor said with a smile, "Please have a little wine and a meal, and rest for a while. I will come to see you soon." After saying that, he disappeared in a flash.

"Everyone sit down," the young man at the head greeted the crowd, he seemed more master than the master, "Come on, sit down, don't be shy, eat something, the dry pancakes along the way made my teeth break, come on, give it to everyone Pour tea!"

As the group sat down, the girl looked at the meat dishes on the table and couldn't help but hesitate for a while.The young man at the head laughed, and stuffed a piece of meat into his mouth:

"Don't worry, this is the best yellow beef."

The middle-aged man whispered: "Is this how you eat?"

"It's okay," the young man nodded, "don't drink."

They traveled all the way, and the food along the way was rough food, which was only enough to satisfy their hunger.Now there is a table of delicious food in front of us, and everyone eats it with confidence, like wind and clouds.It was cleaned in a moment.

The dishes are delicious, but the host's skills and ability can be seen in such a banquet in this disaster-stricken area.

After the banquet was over, the vendors quietly came to the hall.

"The boss has come and is waiting for sir."

"it is good."

"I only see sir alone..." the vendor said with a smile on his face, "Mr. Haihan please."

"It's easy to say." The young man in the lead nodded, "Lead the way ahead."

The merchant took him to the side door, knocked on it, and pushed the door open.Inside is another elegant room.There are already people waiting in the house.His appearance is not good, about forty years old.There was an unfathomable, profound and eerie look on his face.

Beside him is a girl in red with a long servant girl, carrying a long sword.There are eight big men on each side.It looks like a lot of stars are holding the moon.

"This is the soul-searching sword Min Zhanlian." The vendor reported respectfully.

"Oh," the middle-aged man sized up the visitor, "I've heard his name for a long time."

Min Zhanlian nodded grinningly: "You're welcome." He didn't mean to be polite at all.

"Bold!" The red-clothed girl scolded, "I haven't seen the Venerable yet!"

Min Zhanlian took a seat in the guest seat, and said to the middle-aged man, "This time, what exactly do you want me to do? What kind of god is the other party?"

The girl in red saw that the other party was nothing but herself, and immediately took a step, but was stopped by the middle-aged man's eyes.

"Young man, you have a lot of courage. But there is only a thin line between courage and arrogance." The middle-aged man pretended to be calm and said, "The sect is currently employing people, so I don't care about small things with you."

Min Zhanlian put on an unbearable expression, "Who are you going to kill, old man? It's useless to just talk about it, and it's not easy for the boy to give you an old price, right? In this business, time is money, so we can't chat with you . Please forgive me!"

There was anger in the eyes of the middle-aged man, but he was now in the midst of employing someone—this Min Zhanlian Jianghu was known as the soul-searching sword, and he was a famous killer whose life started at 100 taels.His whereabouts are strange, and there are many jobs on hand, so it is not easy to invite him.

"This is the man." As soon as he signaled, someone sent a picture scroll.

On the painting scroll, the bust of Robber Quanzi was drawn impressively with the line drawing technique.

"It's a priest."

"That's right, this person's lay surname is Zhang, and his dharma name is Robber Spring." The middle-aged man said, "He came from Jiangnan. But his accent is very strange, so I don't know the exact origin."

Min Zhanlian nodded to express his understanding.asked:
"Where is this person?"

The middle-aged man told him the Taoist temple where Robber Spring lived.

"I have sent someone to watch him. You can know the movement every day."

"Okay, let's talk about business now." Min Zhanlian said.

"100 taels for one life. I pay 100 taels."

"Hmph, this is the reserve price. I will only know how much this person's life is worth after seeing it." Min Zhanlian chuckled, "Killing a farmer and killing a master of the rivers and lakes are both 100 taels, don't I Big loss?"

"He's just a Taoist priest, he knows some medical skills..."

"If it's so simple, why invite me? Don't you have many desperadoes who can kill people?" Min Zhanlian sneered. Those who come to him to buy someone's life with money are either powerless. Either he didn't want to come forward, and the target of being assassinated was never a simple person.

Walking in the rivers and lakes, monks and Taoists are generally not easy to provoke.The other party has a lot of influence in Lunan, and he has to be invited from thousands of miles to do it. This so-called Taoist Zhang is definitely not an ordinary kind person.

"Okay, how much silver do you want?"

"As I said, I will wait until my people have seen it." Min Zhanlian said, "However, I will charge from now on."

"What? You have to collect money if you don't do things?" The middle-aged man finally couldn't help asking.

"Of course, my men and horses also need to eat and drink, and they can't do what they want." Min Zhanlian said, "My brothers are all masters with supernatural powers, and I must have their help when I do things. From now on, Seven, two or three denarii a day. Calculated on a daily basis, one day counts as one day."

(End of this chapter)