Swallow Back

"Yes, yes, yes!" The middle-aged boatman with a big beard and black face slapped his thigh, turned to look at Liu Yun: "You have already given 250 Wen, so you still need...that, um..."

This time, the yellow-faced and beardless young boatman finally learned how to behave, and whispered: "One thousand, 670 Wen."

"Yes, yes, yes!" The middle-aged boatman with a beard and dark face said solemnly: "Look, the guest officer has 670 cash left for the boat fare. I will give you a discount, just [-] cash." Baiwen, consistent and half-way, how about it?"

Liu Yun glanced sideways at the other party and said indifferently: "This is not small money, are you sure I can afford it?"

The bearded black face smiled and said slowly: "Two days ago in Tsuruga, you stayed at the hotel, ate, rented a boat, you were so generous, dozens or hundreds of dollars without blinking your eyes, only half of the money, you must be light. It's easy to take out."

Only now did Liu Yun know that he had already been targeted at that time.The owner of the lodging house obviously had a secret relationship with these two bully boatmen.

Didn't it say that Tsuruga Town is an important commercial base in Hokuriku?

The owner of the largest dormitory in an important commercial stronghold is actually a gang of thieves, what a world!

Luckily, Liu Yun possesses the skills and is not afraid of ordinary thieves.

He answered confidently: "Although I can afford it, what if I refuse to give it?"

The black-faced middle-aged boatman with a beard lifted his clothes, revealing the dagger hidden in his waist, and still said with a smile, "There's no other way. If you don't pay for the boat, I can only ask you to disembark now."

Liu Yun looked outside the boat: "This is still a few hundred steps from the shore! Now get off the boat, don't you want to drown?"

The middle-aged boatman with a beard and black face shook his head and said, "This... we can't control it. Either pay the full amount of the boat, or please get off the boat."

At this time, the yellow-faced boy also silently drew out the sharp blade.

Liu Yun asked again, "You guys seem very confident in your martial arts?"

"Haha!" The black-faced, bearded middle-aged boatman laughed proudly, and said proudly: "We are also somewhat famous people on this sea, and there are not too many ghosts who have died under the knife. I also carry a knife, but looking at your outfit, I'm afraid you haven't seen blood much, right? People who often fight and kill are not as clean as you."

"Okay..." Liu Yun breathed a sigh of relief and shook his head: "It seems that I have no choice."

As soon as the voice fell, Liu Yun activated the "power of bewitching", and a strange red light appeared in his eyes.

The two boatmen were immediately hit.

The yellow-faced and beardless young man was completely sluggish and lost his mind in an instant.

But the black-faced and bearded middle-aged man was in a trance for a while, but he broke free from control, and then exclaimed: "It's a sorcery!" At the same time, he turned over and was about to jump into the sea.

The bewitching power of the red hook jade actually failed, and Liu Yun was a little surprised.

It can be seen that the other party really has two strokes, at least his mind is very firm.

However, the black-faced bearded man's movements were really clumsy and slow in his opinion. He didn't need to get up, he sat still in the cabin, waved his hand and threw the wooden teacup, hitting the opponent's calf accurately.

Hearing the sound of "Oops", the black-faced bearded man fell to the stern, covering his red and swollen wound and screaming.

Liu Yun still sat still, ordering the yellow-faced young man under control to arrest his companion.

The black-faced and bearded middle-aged man immediately burst into tears and begged for mercy loudly: "Sir, please forgive me! I only ask for money, and I never thought of killing myself. I am actually..."

Liu Yun disliked him being long-winded, so he pulled a piece of sackcloth and gagged his mouth, so that the guy couldn't make a sound, and then he took a rope and tied it up.

Then, he asked the yellow-faced young man who was under control: "Who are you? How many times have you done such a thing? Come on!"

The yellow-faced young man lost his eyes and said: "We are the navy of the Echigo Uesugi family, that is, the pirates under the commander of Kuroda Goro Zuo. When we don't have a mission, we all run our own business. The fat sheep who seem to be inexperienced take the opportunity. I have been doing this for several years. I don’t know how many customers have robbed them. Most of them have paid for it. We don’t want to make too much trouble. Not many people who paid money were hacked to death and thrown into the sea, only three or five these years..."

Liu Yun knew the identities of the two boatmen, so it was hard not to be surprised, and then asked: "As a navy, if you do this kind of thing, the above doesn't care?"

The yellow-faced young man shook his head dementedly and said: "Everyone is doing this, how can they manage it? The money sent from above is enough to eat white rice at most, and even if you want to find a girl, you can't find a girl... So, as long as It wasn't the Uesugi family's samurai or royal merchants who were robbed. The gentlemen turned a blind eye. After all, they were counting on us to fight to the death.

Liu Yun didn't know what to say for a while, so he paused and asked, "Aren't you afraid of offending high-ranking officials from other families, or wealthy businessmen from other places?"

The young Huanglian was still at a loss: "Those people either have their own boats or have a lot of guards, and we won't provoke them easily when we see them. But there are also daring brothers who dare to do it secretly... Just look for it later. If there is no evidence, nothing will happen. Even if the evidence is found... Anyway, this place is what our Uesugi family said, and a lot of it is a lesson, and it is impossible to make our own pirates lose their lives for outsiders. "

Liu Yun understood the whole story and sighed, feeling quite powerless.

Of course, he could easily clean up these two murderous thieves. Whether it was to punish them personally, or to hand them over to the Uesugi family for disposal, it was very simple.

But... if all the navy in this sea are like this bird, what's the use of killing two?

If this kind of environment suitable for the birth of thieves is not improved, no matter how to punish the traitors and eliminate the evil, it will only be wildfires that will not burn out, and the spring breeze will regenerate.

After so many years, Liu Yun felt for the first time that the unification of the world was necessary.

Even after the reunification, the administration of officials is still not so clear and the people are still oppressed, and it is much stronger than during the war.

Chapter 75 Echigo Zhongkui's Meeting Ceremony

Before disembarking and landing, Liu Yun finally took the lives of the two boatmen.

He first manipulated the controlled yellow-faced boy and killed the black-faced bearded man with one knife, and then personally used the black-faced bearded knife to pierce the heart of the yellow-faced boy.

It was a scene where a fire was simply forged and perished together, and there was no sound during the whole process.

Two sailors who were part-time robbers paid the price for their bloody case.

Liu Yun's mind is actually very simple, it is unrealistic to kill all the wicked people in the world, but at least the ones that hit him can be solved as much as possible.The two boatmen conspired to make money and murdered people, and the crimes they committed were obviously only repaid with their lives.

Then he came to the shore of the former little piggyback, facing the salty sea breeze, and came to Naoetsu Port Town in Echigo.

The boat with two dead people in the cabin was parked by the sea, and it would definitely be discovered sooner or later, but Liu Yun was not worried. Anyway, he was about to meet up with the core members of the Uesugi family, and then go out to carry out the mission together, so he did not worry about being tracked down. .

Moreover, the sheriffs of this era, [-]% do not have such a sufficient sense of responsibility to manage the affairs of the pirates.

……

The pier in Naoetsu Port Town is very wide, at least a lot wider than that of Tsuruga.

And water traffic seems to be frequent.At least thirty or forty ships of different sizes are docked on the shore, and you can continue to see sailing from the east and west, or set off from the east and west.

Hundreds of porters were busy unloading and loading on the beach. They were all men of five or three thick men. They were still sweating profusely in this cold winter season. They were all shirtless or wearing only a short jacket.

There were too many travelers and traders, many of them with entourages and guards.

Liu Yun, who was alone and only led a small workhorse, looked very inconspicuous.

There seems to be a large fishing ground a few hundred steps away, and it is also very busy, carrying large and large frames of seafood to the town center.

Walking in the inland direction, less than a quarter of an hour later, the front is suddenly bright, and it is the most prosperous town that Liu Yun has ever seen since passing through.

A main road with a width of [-] feet, flush with the coastline, can't see the end at a glance, and there are bright and spacious shops on both sides of the road.Then there are countless branch roads that grow from the main road, only a zhang or a few feet wide, which are the sites of some small households with narrow doors or mobile vendors.

On the street, there were patrols in groups of ten, fully armed, holding long spears, and swaggering through the city, their armors shining brightly under the setting sun, looking heroic and domineering.

From time to time, there are ox-drawn vehicles, full of goods passing by.There are all kinds of goods, the most common of which seems to be green hemp for weaving.

Pedestrians can't be considered bustling, but they are quite dense. At least every shop within sight has customers checking the goods or bargaining, and no business is idle.

What is particularly noteworthy is that you can see many pampered women, wearing kimonos and clogs, swinging fans, shopping in high-end clothing stores, guessing that they should be female family members of wealthy merchants or senior samurai families.

Before he came, Liu Yun had heard that there were [-] townspeople (citizens separated from agricultural products) in Naoetsu, and he was a little skeptical, but now he couldn't help but believe it.

It is said that there are [-] to [-] town residents in the temple town of Ishiyama Honganji, and more than [-] towns in the commercial center of Fuso.If you compare it to half of Naoetsu Yukai Town, it must be the largest town in Hokuriku.

There are mountains in the southwest, and looking over there, you can see the city structure built on the mountain, which is divided into several layers from top to bottom, that is the Kasuga Mountain Castle of the Uesugi family.

Uesugi Kenshin, the ruler of Naoetsu, lived and worked in the Honmaru of that city.

However, Liu Yun's destination today was not there.

He asked the address of the "Firefly House" business from enthusiastic pedestrians, and then he led the little pack horse and walked along the street for a while with the flow of people, and then he found his destination.

The two-zhang-wide facade should be not too small in Naojiangjin.On the shelf behind the counter, there are many candles of different sizes and sizes, exuding a strong special smell.

Three shop assistants are working.One is bargaining with the hunched white-bearded old man, which seems to be big business; the other is constantly igniting the sample in his hand repeatedly, showing it to the pockmarked face in front of him.

Liu Yun directly found the third one, took an envelope from his pocket, handed it over and said, "Please give it to the boss of your store, Matsutaro, and tell him that the item has been delivered. In addition, the shipping fee is two, and only half of it is paid in advance, so there is trouble left. get ready."

"Oh... it's Mr. mercenary who escorted valuables!" The clerk scratched his head and muttered to himself, took the envelope and trotted inside the curtain.

Liu Yun waited for a while.

Soon the clerk trotted out again, bowed, and invited in, "Boss Matsutaro, please come in and have a detailed discussion."

Liu Yun nodded, tied the little workhorse to the door, and stepped in.

Followed the clerk, passed through the warehouse, patio, dormitory, and came to the deep room, and then the clerk stopped, and another person led the way.

Then he zigzagged around a few times until he reached the entrance to a basement.

Flowing clouds descended the steps.

Found out that it was a wide and empty basement.

In a radius of several feet, there are no furnishings.

There was a small wooden table on the left with two candles lit on it, and under the dim light sat a stocky middle-aged man in black, holding a pen as if writing something.

On the right is an iron cage. There are a lot of things that look like spells pasted on the outside of the cage. Inside, there is a very burly person-maybe a humanoid creature.

There is nothing more than that.

In particular, there is no ventilation hole that communicates with the outside world.

Dim light, dirty air, deadly silence, and the occasional sound of iron chains vibrating, very strange.

When the middle-aged man in black saw Liu Yun coming in, he didn't say hello. He kept his head down and wrote with a pen. At the same time, he said in an emotionless tone, "The messenger of the Oda family is here? Let me introduce myself. A retainer of the Uesugi family, Saito Asanobu, known as 'Echigo Zhongkui'... Cough! Cough! He has some experience in subduing demons and eliminating ghosts. As for the one in the cage, it is the monster that the old man just caught, and he is planning to give it to him. Your greeting."

Liu Yun took a closer look inside the cage, and found that although the burly monster looked like a human from a distance, it actually had a head like a black bull, with spider-like claws and feet on its back. unclear.

Concentrate and feel it, this bull-headed, spider-legged monster is not weak.

It is estimated that it is only slightly inferior to Jinghe Ashaji.

By the way, speaking of this silly girl, I don't know what happened to her...

This thought flashed by, and Liu Yun instantly took his mind away and said with a smile, "This greeting ceremony is quite unique. The Echigo Uesugi family's hospitality is unique."

At this time, the middle-aged man in black, who claimed to be "Echigo Zhongkui Saito Chaoxin", stopped the pen and paper in his hand, slowly raised his head, revealing a scary, terrifying face, showing his grimness that could scare women and girls from crying. He smiled, coughed a few times, and said again: "We Echigo people are used to only looking at strength, and we don't like things that are illusory. You can handle this monster, it shows that the messenger of the Oda clan still has some skills, let's talk about it. The value of it. If you can't handle it...please go back..."

After speaking, the middle-aged man in black waved his hand, and dozens of spells on the iron cage were scattered all over the place.Then he picked up the brush again, dipped a little ink on the inkstone beside him, and continued to focus on his calligraphy hobby.

Seeing this, Liu Yun laughed and said with his head held high, "If I haven't finished writing a single word, even if I lose."

The middle-aged man in black, who called himself "Echigo Zhongkui Saito Chaoxin", frowned slightly when he heard these confident words, and stopped subconsciously.

At this moment, the burly monster with the head of the bull and the legs of the spider in the iron cage seemed to realize that the spell that restrained him no longer existed, and suddenly let out an excited hissing sound like a beast that had been hungry for a long time.

Chapter 76 Echigo Zhongkui's Meeting Ceremony

A six-foot-long human body, a black bull head, thick and long horns, and spider legs on its back.

A charged dash broke down the iron cage that was no longer protected by the spell.

I saw the loud noise of "Boom", the iron cage was torn apart and burst open.