Qiu Chongxi nodded and said, "Everyone can tell!"
"Very well, now tell me what you know about these people."
"Yes!" Qiu Chongxi then continued: "These people asked me to give a message to the village owner, saying that they hoped to do a business with the village and wanted to find a place to stay in the village to put some things. For This can give the cottage a thank you gift for renting. How to pay specifically, and what other conditions can be discussed later.
These people are not serious business people. The route I took was through the black market, and there were ruthless people on my hands. Before I came here, I was exposed to the details, and they came directly to my home. When we came all the way, whether by car or boat, these people had connections, and they should have been arranged in advance."
"A ruthless person? The kind that licks blood? Are you from a certain village like us?" Qiu Chongxi was interrupted before he could finish his words.
"They are not the kind of people in the village. They are more probing in their words and more discerning. And they are neatly dressed from the inside out. It can be seen that they are living a good life. I specifically noticed that they were sleeping in the open air. It was obvious that I was not used to it when I was outside. When I was outside, I either couldn't sleep at all, or fell into a deep sleep and snored.
In my opinion, these people should hang out in the city. "
"City? Are you saying these people are from the sword shop? Do you know which city they are from?"
"I don't know. These people have a very tight-knit reputation, and there's nothing on them that can reveal their origins. But judging from their accents, they should be from the Yuzhong area."
In fact, Qiu Chongxi didn't know much, and he didn't hesitate to talk about it. And the "Master Dao" outside didn't ban any words for him at all.
"that's it?"
"Fortress leader, that's all I know."
After a moment of silence, the old man at the head said again: "Did I tell you a time limit for replying?"
"Yes, I said I'd wait for three days."
"Well, Nie Yong, please take Qiu Chongxi down to rest. It's very cold in the mountains. It's a good place to stay. Don't stir up the cold by running around."
"Yes, Village Master!"
After Nie Yong took Qiu Chongxi out of the hall, the top executives inside the cottage started discussing again.
"This Qiu Chongxi is really not a thing. He is so duplicitous that it makes people unhappy. I really want to kill him with a knife!"
"It's really not a thing. But there is also an advantage to this kind of person, that is, he doesn't have to worry about who he is helping to hide something. As long as it is good for himself and not harmful, he will not have any scruples. So most of what he just said is It’s the truth.”
"Hmph, it's the truth but it's not necessarily the truth. I'm afraid the other party deliberately misled Chef Qiu and used his words to confuse us."
"It's really hard to say whether it's true or not. Just what Qiu Chongxi said about the knife hall, it's hard to tell clearly. Which of you has never hung out in the city? Who hasn't come into contact with the people in the knife hall? No matter which city's knife Without exception, all the taverns are lackeys of the city lord's palace in each city. What these people eat and drink depends on the face of the city lord's palace. In addition, in order to prevent the knives knives from getting bigger and losing control, they will also strictly limit the scope of the knives knives. No one is allowed to dig for food in the fields of the knife shop.
Therefore, in my opinion, the identity of the sword shop was just deliberately revealed by those people to Qiu Chongxi in order to mislead us. It just doesn't look very clever. "
"What if it's true?" The speaker was Li Longcheng, the sixth master who had always paid little attention to these twists and turns.
"Huh? Lao Liu, are you willing to use your brain in this regard?"
"Bah! I just think you said things too absolutely. I know Qiu Chongxi fairly well. When I was training Nie Yong, I often scolded him harshly and trained him more, in order to polish off his impetuousness. , and therefore often missed meal times. When he was hungry, he would go to the canteen to steal food.
During that time, Qiu Chongxi would always deliberately leave some food for Nie Yong, and would let me know about it as a casual chat. This thought is not simple.
So don't treat Qiu Chongxi as a fool and think he is easy to fool. Maybe those people didn't intentionally let Qiu Chongxi know his origin, but Qiu Chongxi was keenly aware of it?
What's more, there are no absolutes in the world. There are so many cities in the world and so many swordsmanship halls. It's not unusual for a rebellious swordsmanship hall to appear, right? Moreover, there is suspicion of military disaster outside at this time. Is it any wonder that some people are looking for another way out under pressure and don't want to hang themselves? "
Although Li Longcheng's statement is not convincing, he has to admit that the possibility he said does exist.
"Okay, it doesn't make sense to talk about the virtual and the real for the time being. Qiu Chongxi's other things may be difficult to distinguish between true and false, but what the other party asked him to bring must be true. What do you think the other party wants to store in our Daomen Village? "
"Haha, brother, can you store things in other people's homes? Do you believe this? It's ridiculously perfunctory."
"That's right. It must be impossible to store things, but with this statement, we can then send people to our village in the name of guards.
It seems that our previous guess came true, and the other party is eyeing our copycat. And the purpose should be to avoid military disaster. "
"Then why go to such trouble? To find Qiu Chongxi is to find the location of our copycat. The most direct way is to kill them directly. But there is no test but you use the gold piece to open the way first. What does it mean? Do you think we are easy to cheat?"
"It's not hard to guess. It's probably because we are too weak and don't want to fight head-on, so we put it to the test. After all, our village is in such dire straits, don't outsiders, including Qiu Chongxi, think we are dead fish? Dead fish won't even come forward to fight hard, just It could be that they simply can’t do it hard.”
"Hahaha, so it means that those who came to Qiu Chongxi are a group of externally powerful but internally powerful forces?"
"To be precise, he should be very rich and have many ways to go, but he lacks the power in terms of military force. Otherwise, he would not think of finding a place to take refuge from a military disaster, and it would be impossible to be sure that a military disaster will come.
Brother, this may be our chance! "
The old man at the top also had a glimmer of light in his eyes when he heard this. But still thinking about it, he didn't say anything. It seems that he is still carefully calculating the gains and losses and other things.
But the sixth master Li Long, who was sitting on the wide chair below, said: "Let's be clear, what is our opportunity?"
"Lao Liu, you just said that the chaos outside is the time for fighting and killing? But there are too few people in our village, and they are too poor. Even if they rush out, do you think it can be done? ? What's more, you have seen that the previous copycats were in a state of decline, and new changes are needed to make things happen.
This time may be our opportunity to slaughter the fat sheep and take advantage of the situation! "
After hearing this, Li Longcheng thought for a while and nodded: "Indeed. Military strategists often say that only those who are fickle can take things by surprise. If the cottage wants to start smoothly when chaos breaks out outside, it really cannot let go of this opportunity. It still has to be on guard. , and you need to think more carefully about the price, so that you can not overwhelm the other party, but also continue to reap benefits."
(End of chapter)
