"Chamber of Commerce?"
"It seems you still don't understand what it is..." Ma Youyi explained to Zhang Junsheng: "During the time of Emperor Taizu, the Chamber of Commerce was just an organization for related industries to buy and sell with each other. But now, not only related industries, even different businesses can Join the meeting. Businessmen negotiate prices, inquire about information, etc. here, do you understand?"
Zhang Junsheng nodded in understanding, but he didn't understand. This uncle obviously didn't have any goods, so what could he sell them for?
"Uncle Ma, are you really going to sell me anyway?" Zhang Junsheng trembled in fear.
Ma Youyi smiled and took out a small wooden box as big as the palm of his hand from his pocket: "You are not as valuable as this thing. Let me tell you, the things in this box are enough to buy ten of you!"
"What is inside?" Zhang Junsheng reached out to open his hand. Ma Youyi put it in his arms: "I can't open it now, wait for a while to go to the business to let you see it enough."
Zhang Junsheng muttered his mouth dissatisfied, just a small wooden box, why do you have to make it mysterious.
The two came to the chamber of commerce in the city, and I saw the rowing carriage in front of the chamber of commerce, and the businessmen were endless. People are either talking about business or asking about market conditions. This is true outside, not to mention how lively it is inside.
Ma Youyi pushed the door of the Chamber of Commerce, and everyone looked at it. Ma Youyi skillfully took out a piece of silver and shouted loudly: "Head of the Chamber of Commerce! Serve good wine to everyone at every table!"
The principal responded, and Xiao Er hurriedly moved the wine tank, and the atmosphere at the scene was active. Zhang Junsheng looked at everything unbelievably. Why is a chamber of commerce like a tavern?
Seeing his mind, Ma Youyi explained with a smile: "The current chamber of commerce is not just economic exchanges. Some powerful businessmen will organize martial arts people to form a caravan and bear the obligation of the dart bureau."
"What about the darts?" Zhang Junsheng asked.
"The current darts are chaotic, and they have always only collected money and do not work, and the caravan will take advantage of the situation. On the one hand, the goods can be sold on the one hand, and the goods can be exported. Ma Youyi said proudly: "In the past, we had so many caravan masters that we dared to accept even the government's arrest warrants!"
"Now?" Zhang Junsheng asked infatuatedly.
Ma Youyi choked for a moment, and the child made him nothing to say in just three words. But looking at his look at his face, he finally couldn't bear it, and found a secluded place to sit down, ready to explain to him.
"What happens now has nothing to do with me... I am no longer a member of the team..." After Ma Youyi said these words with difficulty, he changed the subject: "I said you, just do two days of work for me. Go home, your father and your mother will worry about you. "
Zhang Junsheng twisted his head and held his left hand nervously in his right hand: "Actually ... actually I ran away from home ... but ..."
"But what?" Ma Youyi became interested and continued to ask.
"Master took me away when I was young. And now I want to see my parents, but even their faces are blurry..." A thin layer of sweat oozed out on his smooth forehead, and two crows appeared. The black eyes were bright and transparent, and the mind was exposed without concealment.
Ma Youyi thought for a while and continued to ask: "Do you remember your parents' names?"
"I only remember the word 'dream' in my father's name, but I always keep my mother's name in mind."
"what is it call?"
"Yao Qiu ..."
Ma Youyi thought for a while and said with a smile: "It's a bit difficult. I don't know how many women in the world have such names. Did you even forget your father's status?"
"I faintly remember ..." Zhang Junsheng put his index finger on his lower lip, looking at the ceiling and replied: "Remember that the place where I lived as a child was a vast grassland, a group of people around me respectfully to my father, and leaving the original land……"
Ma Youyi was excited for a while: "No need to say it! Your father must be the leader of the caravan! Otherwise, who else could be leading a group of people traveling all over the country? In this case, I will take care of your job, Ma Youyi!"
"Really?" Zhang Junsheng's eyes sparkled with stars, and his smile turned into a flower.
"I don't have any other skills. When it comes to the connections of the Chamber of Commerce, I, Ma Youyi, am the second best, and no one dares to be the first!" Ma Youyi patted his chest: "Leave everything to me!"
Zhang Junsheng smiled and rushed into Ma Youyi's arms at once, hugging his body tightly: "Uncle Ma, Uncle Ma, you are the best!"
"Don't make trouble, get down, others are watching ..." Ma Youyi pushed him embarrassedly, and never thought that Zhang Junsheng was holding tighter.
At this time, the group came over at them, took off their hats and greeted them: "Old horse! Come here!"
"Ouch, your kid can be late!" Ma Youyi called on Xiao Er: "Mortship to a altar wine!"
The leader sat on the chair on the side: "Talk about what kind of wine to drink, just come to a pot of tea."
"Yes, yes! This old owl loves to drink tea!" Ma Youyi laughed, and the leader also smiled back and returned: "You horseshoe speaks without a door!" Then the two pointed each other, Laughing loudly.
Zhang Junsheng looked at the people behind him. They were fierce-looking and armed with weapons. He was very scared. Then he continued to snuggle in Ma Youyi's arms, and Bai Qing held his collar tightly.
The leader noticed the child, pointed at it and asked, "Say, Lao Ma, you can make a child after a month? This is too fast!"
Ma Youyi shook his head: "The child couldn't find his father and mother alone. I wanted to do some good things and help to find it." Then he explained the situation of Zhang Junsheng's parents. knew?"
The leader turned around and called the team members: "Look at this child, have you knew it? Are the names that just mentioned?"
A strong man holding a giant hammer approached Zhang Junsheng, looked him up and down, and shook his head helplessly: "I have never seen this child, and I have never heard of his name."
The housekeeper came in: "This child looks a bit handsome, not like an ordinary family."
The leader glanced at Zhang Junsheng with a smile: "I said how you are so beautiful in your child."
"It's not small!" Zhang Junsheng pursed his mouth: "I'm twelve this year!"
"The boy is so good, presumably his mother is also a big beauty, if he can sleep with his mother for one night ..."
"Shut up! Children, listen!" Ma Youyi shouted loudly, and the leader hurriedly covered his mouth: "I'm confused! I'm so bad!"
After some questioning, no one knew anything about the child's parents, so it was impossible to expect them to.
"I said, Lao Ma, have you got the Western goods?" The leader tapped the table with his fingers.
Only then did Ma Youyi remember the business, so he hurriedly took out the small box and opened it gently. At that moment, everyone, including Zhang Junsheng, came closer to get a glimpse of this treasure.
What catches the eye is a lion's head black jade ring. The lion's head is made of pure gold, with luxurious workmanship and sparkling glory. The black jade flashed, and a faint purple light emitted, further showing its rarity and uniqueness.
"This Western goods are indeed differently repercussive. The exquisite workmanship is really a century -old encounter. It is really a superior goods ..." The housekeeper looked at it and appreciated it.
The leader said, "How about this? I'll give you five thousand taels of silver."
Ma Youyi frowned: "This number is too low. According to what I've learned about the market, it starts at 100,000 taels no matter what."
"I said, Lao Ma, you are a bit uninteresting..." The leader smiled and said: "If you think it is too little, twenty thousand taels of silver?"
"No!" Ma Youyi was very straightforward. He knew that the price offered by the leader could not even earn back the capital, so how could there be any profit?
The leader's face instantly changed and he said unhappily: "Say, Lao Ma, I came all the way here to play with you? I can't get out one hundred thousand taels of silver, and even the banks under my name can't get it together at the moment. out."
"In this case..." Ma Youyi put on his bamboo hat and picked up Zhang Junsheng who was clinging to his body: "We don't need to talk. I have something else to do, so I will stay here soon."
The leader sneered: "Please go ahead and leave slowly without seeing me off."
Ma Youyi said nothing, put away the ring box and left the Chamber of Commerce without even looking back.
"Boss, are we here for nothing?" the strong man holding a giant hammer asked the leader. The leader smiled and did not answer, but gave the butler a look. The butler understood and immediately followed him out.
On the other side, Ma Youyi was a little tired, so he put Zhang Junsheng down gently: "Go by yourself, you are not young anymore, why do you always have to be carried by others?" Zhang Junsheng smiled and followed.
"Uncle Ma, why did that guy change his face instantly?"
"It was clearly promised 150,000 silver, but it turned out to be empty words here. It is really heartless. Businessmen are driven by interests. If there is no common interest, their greedy nature will be exposed." Ma Youyi explained helplessly.
For the young Zhang Junsheng, he obviously did not understand the meaning of this passage. Just looking at Ma Youyi's depressed expression, he understood that the matter was ruined.
At this moment, a pair of eyes was watching them quietly...
At night, Ma Youyi found an inn to stay. Zhang Junsheng, who had been tired for a day, fell asleep on the bed before he could take off his clothes. Ma Youyi always felt uneasy. He was afraid that the group of people would try to plot against him, so he sat on a chair nearby and rested for a while.
"Is there a person named Ma here? There is a child with him." Ma Youyi vaguely heard some movement, woke up instantly, and hid behind the door to continue listening.
When the innkeeper informed him that he was upstairs, the group of troops with weapons rushed up menacingly. Ma Youyi was frightened to death and hurriedly slapped Zhang Junsheng awake from his deep sleep: "Run quickly, those guys really came after me during the day!"
"Well..." Zhang Junsheng was woken up drowsily. Before he could react, the door was kicked open with a "dong" sound. Ma Youyi hurriedly grabbed the young man who was angry about getting out of bed and jumped out of the window. Fortunately, there was a pile of horse stuff below. Ma Youyi patted his butt and ran away from the inn quickly.
Under the moonlight, this middle-aged man used all his strength to escape, and the people chasing him were like hungry wolves, as if they were going to skin him alive in the next second.
"Uncle Ma...I can't run anymore..." Zhang Junsheng blushed, sweat hanging on his eyelashes, which looked particularly crystal clear under the moonlight.
Unexpectedly, the housekeeper suddenly came out from the side, grabbed Zhang Junsheng who was alone, and quickly took out a knife and put it on his neck: "Horse hoof! Look who this is?"
Ma Youyi was so anxious that he wanted to take Zhang Junsheng back, but unexpectedly the strong man stood in front of him brandishing a giant hammer.
"Hand over the ring wisely, otherwise this child will have no chance of surviving!" the butler threatened with a smile.
Ma Youyi roared angrily: "Aren't you afraid that the government will arrest you if you are like this?"
"We are a caravan, and we are fully qualified to kill the 'little thieves' who blocked the road. This is a rule established by the late emperor when he was still alive. As a businessman, don't you even know this?"
Ma Youyi's heart thumped, and he knew that he couldn't escape this encounter today. Whenever a caravan kills someone, if it is a petty thief or a big bandit, the government will never investigate. If it is an ordinary person, the caravan only needs to be managed by the court official, and it can turn right and wrong. The caravan helps officials make money, and the officials protect the caravan. This unspoken rule has always been used in the officialdom of the Taiwei Empire.
"Ouch, you bastard!" Zhang Junsheng took advantage of the butler's opportunity to speak and bit his arm tightly, causing the butler to yell and scream in pain.
The housekeeper got angry and strangled Zhang Junsheng's neck, forcing him to let go. Then he said viciously: "You are tired of living, aren't you? Then I will send you to see the King of Hell today!"
"Whoosh!"
A gust of cold wind pierced the sky, just a few inches away from Zhang Junsheng's body. The dart pierced the butler's heart. The butler died before he could even raise his head.
Zhang Junsheng felt a damp heat on his body and face. He touched it with his hand and put it close to his nose. It smelled like blood! He looked at the corpse next to him, screamed in fright, and collapsed to the ground.
The incident happened suddenly, and Ma Youyi couldn't react for a moment. He looked around. At this time, he saw a high platform standing in the middle of the bright moon. A black-clothed hero with a bamboo hat on his head stood here. The sharp sword in his hand looked extremely cold against the moonlight.
Just when a few people were confused, a magnetic mature female voice came along the cold wind:
"Sorry, I'm late. Are you still alive?"
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