After returning from the black market, Ah Xian handed a banknote to the boss in the lobby of the house.
"The porcelain is high-quality porcelain from some kiln. It was sold to the black market Li Laosan. Two hundred and eight pieces of porcelain cost one hundred and eighty taels of silver."
The boss squinted at the numbers on the banknote, "This banknote is one hundred and fifty taels. Are there still thirty taels left?"
"Ask me to run errands, and the bulk of the money you get will go to you, and the small amount will belong to me. Thirty taels is the small amount, so I took it."
There was not only the first master in the hall, but also the second master and several village managers.
Immediately, a steward scowled and said angrily, "How dare you take thirty taels of goods worth one hundred and eighty taels? The goods were snatched back by the brothers in the village. A-Xian, you are just a low-level person in charge of sales in the village. , who gave you the courage to pay so much for running errands!"
A-Xian raised her chin, raised her eyes, and sneered without any fear of the other party's aura, "Below-class people, low-class people, you have to act according to the rules. Since the manager thinks I made the decision without permission and took thirty taels, then Let's just follow the rules seriously, one hundred and eighty taels, the whole number of one hundred taels will be returned to the village, I will take the eighty taels, I will get what I deserve! How about it?"
"You—" the steward slapped the table angrily and stood up, pointing his finger at A-Xian's nose and wanting to scold her again. The shadow of the whip came first, and his finger suddenly felt severe pain, "Ah!!"
Ah Xian used her wrist to pull back the soft whip, looking at the steward as if she were watching a dog, "My aunt doesn't like having her nose pointed at, and everyone in the village knows it. Anyway, I took the money, and you can take it out of my pocket if you can." !”
"Forget it, let's stop this matter." Seeing that the steward was unable to step down, the second master came out to smooth things over, "But A-Xian, every piece of money obtained in the village was taken back by the brothers at the risk of their lives. The entire village There are hundreds of people, and everyone with mouths is waiting to eat, and you have indeed taken too much change. Whether it is friendship or business, you must be sincere to each other to survive for a long time. You also grew up in the stockade since you were a child, so you can't act too much. Overdone.”
"I'll take note of what the second boss said. I'll change it next time and leave." With the money in hand, and she had nothing to do with her, A-Xian responded to the situation, put away her whip and left.
After she left the hall, the beaten steward sat down and gnashed his teeth, saying angrily, "The first boss, the second boss, you have all seen it with your own eyes. A-Xian has become more and more arrogant in the past two years, and her hands are getting darker and darker! Just let it go. If she keeps going like this? Be careful she will climb on top of us sooner or later!"
The headmaster's face was equally ugly. He put away the banknotes and raised his eyes to look out the door with a flash of cruelty in his eyes. "All the brothers who are useful in the village have registered with the Yamen. It is dangerous to enter the city. A-Xian is The only one who can freely enter and leave the city. Besides, she does have some skills. Every time something is given to her, she can safely take it to the black market and sell it at a high price. She is a useful thug, so keep it for now. "
After a pause, he continued, "Those people who were kidnapped in the past few days, let Ya Po come and take them away as soon as possible. It's not peaceful recently. I don't know what happened to the government. There is a lot of noise in secret, and it seems that they are secretly investigating Who... just in case, tell the brothers in the stockade that until the news subsides, only the financial assets will be robbed, and no one will be brought into the stockade."
"Leave this matter to me. I've always been in charge of Yapo's side. I can get a better price."
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A-Xian couldn't control her own legs, so she made a lot of money by doing a job. After that, she had a very leisurely life, and she always wanted to run to the place where the piglets were kept.
The piglets kidnapped from the stockade for sale were kept in the simplest house on the east side of the low-class residential area, a large pigsty made of several wooden boards.
There were no beds in the pigsty, so a bunch of people found a corner to sleep on the floor, eating, drinking and eating in the pigsty.
Before they were sold, the villagers only ensured that no one would starve to death, and that they would not be able to eat enough.
When A-Xian arrived at the pigsty, Yapo was picking people there like picking goods.
"If you can get these few here, they can only be sold to people as servants to do odd jobs without raising the price...and they are all kidnapped. I have to pay them a sum of money first to clear my identity." Money, fifteen taels of silver for thirteen people can’t be more.”
A dozen or so people of the right age, with all their hands and feet intact, were pulled aside by the nanny. His eyes fell on the man in green shirt who kept coughing in the corner of the pig pen, with regret in his eyes, "This guy looks good, but it's a pity that he is a sick man. I don’t know what kind of disease I’ve contracted, and I don’t know how long I can live with the look on my face… Just handle it yourself.”
The manager in charge of the connection refused to give up, "Aren't you just worried that someone would die on the way back after buying it, and you'd lose a lot of money? So, you can take this with you and give me ten taels of silver! Then deliver it to those restaurants. Even if he only lives for a month or two, he can still double your money and earn it back for you, right? Besides, his disease is not contagious. If you don't lock him up for a while, you won't be able to recover after several days. Yeah. Watch carefully, Yama. Good things like this don't always come around. If you don't want it, I'll take the risk and sell him to a restaurant myself. I can earn more than what I get from you. , after all, it’s not me who loses.”
Ya Po was a little moved by what he said, and she looked at the man in green shirt's face several times, and finally gritted her teeth and said cruelly, "Okay, we have been working together for so long, this time I will buy him out as a favor to the sales manager! "
A-Xian squatted beside him, took out a handful of melon seeds from his pocket, chewed them, and watched the show.
After watching Yapo pay and take the piglets away, she stood up, threw the melon seed shells on the ground, clapped her hands and left.
"Cough cough cough... cough cough... cough cough cough..."
As the sun set, Yabozi's donkey cart pulled two carts of people toward the nearest city, Weicheng. The coughing sound coming from the carriage kept stopping, which made people irritated.
The old lady was sitting at the front of the car, scolding with a sullen face, "Ahem, cough, cough, coughing non-stop. Who dares to send it to a restaurant like this? It's not tuberculosis, right? It's in the car, I tell you, it will arrive later." In the restaurant, even if you bite off your tongue, I won’t let me cough out a sound! I’ll still hear the sound of the five taels of silver thrown at you!”
"If you are so worried about losing money, don't take this consumptive ghost with you, lest you get infected with the disease and lose your life instead of earning back the money. Isn't it worth it?" The woman's loud voice sounded in the air, and a voice The figure fell from the sky and landed on the front of the car, squatting face to face with Ya Po.
"My aunt will help you by meddling in other people's business. I'll take care of that consumptive devil!"
Before Yapo could recover from the shock, she was pulled aside by the woman. If she hadn't been quick enough to grab the shaft of the car in time, she would have almost fallen out of the car, "A-Xian! What do you mean? The tribulation is on my head. Do you want to play black and white with me? Do you still want to do the piglet business in your village from now on?"
"My aunt is a bandit, and she is in the business of robbery. To do business, you go to the boss. If you want to do it, you have to ask him." A-Xian lifted the curtain of the car and grabbed the sick man inside who had coughed and turned red. Put it on your shoulders and walk away.
"Hahaha, beauty, my aunt robbed you today, and you will be mine from now on! Remember!"
Huo Ziheng suppressed the itch in his throat and felt the obvious tension in the woman's shoulders during the jolt, as well as the nervousness and stiffness that he wanted to hide behind the laughter, with an indifferent expression.
He looked up at the sky. The setting sun had set, and half of the sky was dyed with red clouds.
In the evening at sunset, there is always a sense of loneliness and sadness.
