On the Seven Towers

The next day, Chen Hansheng and Karanda came to the stall again.

When the stall owner saw Chen Hansheng arriving, he greeted him enthusiastically and said: "This guest, is the cup you took yesterday good to use? I knew you would come today. I went to pick out some good products last night." Do you want to take a look?"

Chen Hansheng took a look and saw that there were indeed several new styles of things on the stall, such as cutlery and forks.

"I told my boss yesterday that even the big guys from Montenegro liked our goods, and they were very happy. They quickly took out these kinds of good things."

Chen Hansheng said: "Oh? I'm not very interested in the existing goods. I hope to customize some ironware with special shapes. Can you take me to see your boss?"

Seeing the nervous look on the stall owner's face, Chen Hansheng took out a golden ax from his pocket and said, "Contact them for me. This golden ax is yours. Don't worry, I just want to customize some... parts, and I won't put them here again." I'm trying to steal your business."

"Well..., of course I want to earn this golden axe, but they said they can't just bring people to the door. They don't want to be troubled by waves of merchants, so they selected a few of us to sell their things."

"Are you kidding? There is no one who doesn't want to make money in business. What they hate are small businesses that don't make a lot of money. But my introduction fee here has a golden axe. Will the business be small? Maybe they will thank you. Take me to your door," Chen Hansheng said.

"Okay." The shopkeeper accepted the gold coins and nodded in agreement.

To Chen Hansheng's expectation, the supplier's warehouse was just outside Suero, in a small village on the outskirts. It took them an hour to get there on horseback.

The warehouse is a large yard with a fence outside and a wooden bungalow inside.

When he arrived at the door of the warehouse, Chen Hansheng had a very bad premonition. The huge yard was quiet, except for a few dogs barking in the village outside, there was no movement.

The three of them dismounted and came to the entrance of the courtyard. The stall owner opened the wooden door and looked inside for a long time, but saw no one.

"No, everything was fine when I left last night. There were bullock carts parked here and goods piled there. Why are they all empty all of a sudden?"

Chen Hansheng and Kalanda walked into the yard and looked around. Kalanda squatted on the ground and observed, "This rut ​​is very new. It must have been driven overnight from last night to early this morning. There were about four to five cars. The stuff on it is heavy.”

"I guess the inventory was transported overnight." Chen Hansheng walked to the wooden house, looked inside, and when he saw no one, he opened the door and walked in.

The place in the house where the goods should be stored was empty, with nothing. Only simple wooden shelves stood against the wall.

"So you've been to this warehouse before, right?" Chen Hansheng asked the stall owner.

"I've been here. Last night, half of the place here was still piled with goods. These iron things sold well. Did they meet a big buyer later and sold them all at once?" The stall owner asked puzzledly.

"Let's look around to see if there are any clues left." Chen Hansheng said to Karanda.

"Guest, don't worry, these sellers will always come back, and I will help you contact them then," the stall owner said.

"Don't worry about your commission. As long as you answer a few questions, the golden ax will still be yours." Chen Hansheng said.

"If you want to know anything, just ask."

"What kind of people are those sellers?" Chen Hansheng asked while scanning the room.

The stall owner followed him and answered carefully: "Well, what kind of person it is, it seems to be quite ordinary... There are accents from all over the country. How should I say, a typical business group that comes to Suero to do business, right? Most of them are young and strong guys. Most of them don't talk much. The person I deal with is their steward. He is also very strange and always wears a mask. His name is Hall. It can be seen that other people are quite afraid of him, he must be a powerful guy. "

"Wearing a mask? Do you know the reason?"

"I heard someone said he had injuries on his face and looked scary. Cover up so he doesn't scare the guests."

Chen Hansheng pointed to his face and said, "Is there anyone with black hair like me?"

"No. You guys are so easy to recognize. I won't admit it wrong. Those dozen young men are from all over the place. Some are from the southern city-states, some are from the empire, but there is no one like you."

Chen Hansheng discovered a problem very keenly: "Are you saying that the origin of this caravan is very mixed?"

"It's nothing. Many caravans that use slaves are like this. When buying slaves, they only look to be strong and obedient, and don't care too much about the origin of the slaves." The stall owner explained.

"Are you sure that the people in the caravan are all slaves?"

"I didn't pay much attention to this matter. But I must have seen the slave brand a few times. It seems to be on the chest." The stall owner pointed to the position under his collarbone, "There are more clothes in winter now, and most people have this The location is invisible, but there must be several people who are slaves and I saw them.”

"Did they say where they came from?"

"No, I once asked about this, but Hall didn't answer. I think they were worried about leaking the source of the goods, so they didn't ask more. You know, Suero is full of such cautious and stingy businessmen."

Chen Hansheng didn't find anything in the house, so he asked the stall owner to leave first.

Karanda turned around and came back, holding a piece of paper smaller than a palm in his hand, handed it to Chen Hansheng and said, "Look at this."

It was a small corner torn from an exercise book. There was nothing written on it, but the paper itself was very telling.

"It was clamped on a shelf. It was probably stuck in the wood when moving things."

"Tell me, how did I get into such a mess? It's none of my business, right?" Chen Hansheng held the paper in his hand and turned it over and over.

"That's not you. Although you look careless, I know you have a lot of thoughts. You put a lot of thoughts on those people." Karanda gently took his arm and said.

"I'm afraid that it will ruin some people's good deeds. I'm not in the same circle as them. There are more than one or two people who secretly dislike me. If this matter is involved..., hey, trouble." Chen Hansheng licked his lips, as if he was savoring the impact of this matter.

"Do you think this is your responsibility?"

"I don't know, I just think that it would be good for the whole school to investigate this matter. I am a member of this team, so I should have a responsibility, right?"

"Then do it."

"Hey, yeah, I've been through a hail of bullets, I'm not afraid of him." Chen Hansheng finally put the paper in his pocket, "Let's go, let's go to the village and ask about these people's situation."

Thanks to the book friend Yao Nie Na Lu for the reward.