The second way is to take the waterway on the Chishui. There is no war now, and the defense on the water is not as strict as the pass. Chu Qiao knows that there are many black ships secretly doing this kind of business. People who enter the customs. Therefore, she had to venture into the city again to inquire about such businesses secretly.
After wandering around the black market for two consecutive days, they finally negotiated a time to disembark at the dry ditch thirty miles away at midnight tomorrow night.
It was getting late, Chu Qiao hurriedly walked on the long street, in order to conceal her hiding place, she wore men's clothing, she looked like a boy of sixteen or seventeen, with red lips and white teeth, handsome appearance. Xianyang City is the gateway to Great Xia, covering a vast area. Business travelers from all over the world pass through here. The bustling scene is not inferior to that of Zhenhuang Imperial Capital. It is already late at night, and there are still people coming and going on the streets. In the past, various merchants hawked the street, which was very lively.
From now on, they will have to travel by water. They will take the newly bought horses to the horse market and sell them at a low price. Then they will buy some dry food and are about to leave, but they will be attracted by a group of slave traders. Chu Qiao frowned. Looking over, I saw a huge iron cage placed in the open space, and eighty or ninety young slaves were standing inside, there were men and women, among them a man wearing a Confucian long robe was particularly eye-catching, there were already several A middle-aged lady with a mid-mature age was looking around with a smile, and kept asking the owner for the price.
"Hi!"
Chu Qiao leaned on the cage, holding a handful of melon seeds, called out to the man inside, and then spit out a melon seed skin with a bah, smiling like a prodigal son of a rich family.
The man raised his head to look at her, frowned, his face was full of disgust, he didn't answer, and then he lowered his head listlessly.
"You don't know me so soon? You're lucky. It's only been a few days, and a new employer has accepted you!"
Liang Shaoqing was startled when she heard the sound, raised her head suddenly, looked her up and down, recognized her, and exclaimed in surprise: "Ah! It's you? Why are you dressed like this?"
"It's not like you don't know," the girl said with a chuckle, "I'm a Jiangyang thief."
"Oh, yes." As soon as the words were out of his mouth, Liang Shaoqing changed his words and shook his head, "No, no, how could you be a gangster? The government must have misjudged and wronged a good person."
"Hehe." Chu Qiao laughed out loud, teasing him: "What kind of wind is blowing, our dignified seven-foot man, who is walking upright and walking upright, has become so inappropriate when speaking, why? Something is wrong beg me?"
"Girl, get me out quickly." Liang Shaoqing said with a sullen face, "You can't watch me being insulted as a slave. They don't believe what I say. I don't know the place here. Only you can save me now." me."
"Save you?" The girl threw the melon seeds on the ground with a snap, her eyes widened: "How can I save you?"
"Of course you bought me out?"
"Then how?"
"Why not?"
Chu Qiao quickly shook her head and said: "You are a dignified scholar, but you are sold by a group of pilgrims with money and vulgar goods. It is simply insulting and tarnished your identity. You are my savior. insulting you?"
Liang Shaoqing was dumbfounded, his face flushed, and after thinking for a while, he stammered and said: "Time is running out, the situation is urgent, this, this literati festival, you can let it go for a while."
Chu Qiao burst out laughing when she heard this, and was about to speak, when she suddenly saw a fat woman in her fifties, dressed in silk and satin and covered in rouge and gouache, striding over surrounded by everyone, and grabbed her through the cage. Liang Shaoqing's collar, shouted: "This is it."
The boss was taken aback, and said with a smile: "Ma'am, what about the price I just mentioned?"
"Just do as you say!"
"Okay! You will wait later!"
Liang Shaoqing's face turned ashen when he saw it, and he looked to Chu Qiao for help.
I saw that the woman was followed by more than a dozen servants who nodded and bowed, and more than twenty newly bought slaves, all of them were handsome, handsome and tall.
Chu Qiao whispered secretly, walked forward with a smile, and said slowly: "Madam, you are already old, can you bear to buy so many strong men?"
The woman was immediately unhappy when she heard the words, she gave Chu Qiao a cold look, and said, "Where did you come from, little bastard, go away."
"I'm doing it for your own good. Why don't you give me one?"
"That's a good idea!" The woman shouted angrily, "Don't dare to talk nonsense again, be careful that I will discount your dog legs!"
"Oh, what a murderer!" Chu Qiao stepped aside quickly, and shouted at the boss: "Boss! How much does she pay for this slave? I pay double!"
As soon as these words came out, the boss who was about to pull Liang Shaoqing out of the cage was stunned for a moment, and stared at this side with a pair of shining golden eyes.
"Double?" The woman said in a sharp voice, coldly, "I pay four times, dare to fight with me!"
Chu Qiao leaned against the side of the cage with a smile, and said casually: "I pay ten times."
"I pay twenty times."
Chu Qiao shook her head and said, "I pay forty times."
"I pay a hundred times!"
"I pay two hundred times!"
"I pay a thousand times!"
"Wow! A thousand times!" Chu Qiao smiled and said, "Then let it be you, I can't afford it."
The boss's face was full of joy, and he rushed forward in a hurry: "Madam Qian, the original price was two gold leaves, but now you bid one thousand times, that is, two thousand gold leaves, and the deal is made."
The woman was only showing off for a moment just now, and looking at this little white-faced slave is not worth two thousand gold leaves, she rolled her eyes, and immediately shouted: "Okay! Boss Mu, you have colluded with someone and fucked me!" !"
"Well, how did you say this, I dare to bully anyone and no one dares to bully you!"
"Hmph! I won't buy it, let's wait and see!" The woman shouted loudly, turned around and left with the servants angrily.
Boss Mu stood on the spot, quite puzzled, looked around, and saw Chu Qiao standing beside the cage, trotted forward, and said with a smile: "Young master, The lady has left, and since you have taken a fancy to this slave, I will sell it to you at the price you just said, two hundred times, four hundred gold leaves."
"Boss, are you bullying me when I'm young and ignorant?" Chu Qiao showed a smile: "I was fighting with that fat woman before, so I gave such a price, and now that she's gone, you still ask me for so much money You are not selling slaves, but princes."
Boss Mu was tongue-tied and said with a chuckle, "Then tell me, how much will you give?"
"It's the same as what you agreed before, two gold leaves."
"What?" Boss Mu was taken aback, frowned and said, "Then I might as well sell it to regular customers, why bother to offend someone for you? You have to pay more."
Chu Qiao snorted coldly, and was about to leave: "If you love it, sell it or not, if you don't sell it, then go find your regular customers."
"Hey! Wait, wait," Boss Mu sighed, and said, "Yes, I'll sell it to you."
Liang Shaoqing breathed a sigh of relief immediately, but the smile on his face hadn't dissipated before he heard Chu Qiao say something shocking: "But boss, I didn't bring any money with me today, why don't I give you an IOU, and I'll pay you back later." Return you."
"What?" Everyone present was stunned for a moment, and Boss Mu was so angry that he said angrily: "I said, young master, you are playing with me, right? Yangcheng has lived for more than 20 years, and has never seen a customer like you."
"Hi! Hi!" Liang Shaoqing whispered, "What are you doing? Give me the money!"
"I'm really out of money," Chu Qiao turned her head, and said with a bitter face, "If you don't believe me, come and check, I've run out of money. Who told you to give me what you don't want?"
Liang Shaoqing immediately turned pale, and said pitifully, "Then what should I do?"
"There's no other way, it's the only way."
Liang Shaoqing just wanted to ask her what she wanted? Suddenly, the girl drew out a sharp dagger with a swish, and swept across her body like a whirlwind. She placed the knife on Boss Mu's fat neck, and said with a smile, "I said I'll give you the IOU. Now, I have no choice but to grab it." gone."
Boss Mu's teeth were chattering, and he said tremblingly, "Okay, what a courage!"
"I don't know if I'm brave or not, but you, Boss Mu, are quite brave. With a knife on your neck, you can still speak so fluently."
"Put down our boss!"
There are more and more people watching around, Chu Qiao looked around with a smile, then leaned into Boss Mu's ear, and said slowly: "You have such a wealth, but you died for two gold leaves, do you think it's worth it?" ?"
The dagger gently slashed down Boss Mu's neck, and a thin stream of blood suddenly appeared, and the trafficker who was over 60 years old suddenly screamed heart-piercingly.
"Shut up!" Chu Qiao kicked the man's calf, raised her willow eyebrows, her pretty face was cold, and said coldly, "Don't let him go!"
"Quick! Let him go!" It was just a small wound, but Boss Mu cried so much that his nose was about to fall out.
Chu Qiao caught a glimpse of a group of horses tied to the cage, and they were Boss Mu's horses. It was too late to say it, and then it was too fast, I saw the girl jumped up suddenly, kicked Boss Mu's chest fiercely, pulled Liang Shaoqing up, turned on the horse's back, gave a "drive", and quickly passed away. go!
"Quick! Catch them!"
Boss Mu shouted loudly, but there was no sign of them anywhere. In the long night, the cold moon is like frost, leaving only a bright light.
In a dilapidated Town God's Temple outside the city, Liang Shaoqing was sitting on the hay, Chu Qiao took out the dry food in the bag and handed it to him, said with a smile: "Eat some."
Liang Shusheng didn't take it because he was embarrassed, and Chu Qiao didn't force it. He handed over a few bank notes and said, "I'm leaving tomorrow. We will go on different paths in the future. If something happens to you, I can't save you. The money is worthless." You take it."
Liang Shaoqing frowned: "Aren't you out of money?"
"Who said I have no money?"
"You said that at the market just now."
Chu Qiao raised her eyebrows and said, "I have money, but I don't have much, and this is all that's left. If you give it to him, what will you do?"