Li Shi followed Lu Wu and others around. Others became happier as they strolled around, while Li Shi became more worried as they wandered around.
He looked around carefully and found something wrong.
In the wine shop to the west, there was a man in gray clothes by the window. He glanced here from time to time and found Li Shi looking towards him, so he quickly looked away.
On the second floor of a pawn shop in the east, a woman opened the window lattice and looked left and right. She seemed to be watching the excitement, but she looked at them the most.
There was also the old man over there who put down his burden and sat on the roadside to rest. While wiping his sweat with a sweat towel, his eyes drifted over.
The more Li Shi observed, the more panicked he became. He didn't care about disturbing his master's family outing. He quickly came to Lu Wu's side and reminded him in a low voice: "My lord, something is wrong with the surrounding situation."
"Yeah, there are so many people staring at us again, it's really annoying." Yulan said.
Even Li Shi could notice it, let alone everyone?
In fact, let alone martial arts that are purely for killing, the real martial arts methods are all centered on self-strengthening, especially "Golden Bones, Chalcedony Marrow, and Iron Cloth Shirt" adapted by Lu Wu from "Golden Liang Jiahai" , it is a magical skill that is enhanced step by step from the inside out.
Lu Wu and others all have much stronger perception than Li Shi.
"There is no murderous intent." Qingzhu said concisely.
"They're just curious people - why are we so tall and so many people together?" Hongmei said with a smile.
"Especially the eldest sister, she is like a black god standing among the donkeys." Jin Ju concluded.
Qiu Tong glared at Jin Ju and shouted in a low voice: "Stop talking, I won't be able to hold you back to death!"
Jin Ju shrank her neck and quietly stepped back.
If the eldest sister is really angry, she will beat someone up.
After glaring at Jin Ju, Qiu Tong turned to look at Lu Wu.
"It's okay, let's continue shopping - I just killed four innate masters on the river, and killed nearly a hundred sharpshooters. Innate masters are not cabbage. It is difficult to mobilize such a group of elites nearby in a short time, at least seven Our place will be safe within eight days." Lu Wu said casually.
The girls suddenly became happy.
Qiu Tong received Lu Wu's assurance and turned around to order: "Don't just play around, pay more attention to your financial resources. We came out in a hurry and only brought more than a thousand taels of gold and more than three hundred taels of silver. We spent a lot of money in just a few days. Nearly three hundred taels of silver - the young master has traveled all over the world, and there are many places to spend money. We can't help but find some financial resources."
"Ah, eldest sister, did we spend so much money?" Hongmei was shocked.
"Yeah, yeah, I feel like we don't need much money." Jinju, Qingzhu and Yulan were also surprised.
Even Lu Wu pricked up his ears.
"You guys, if you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are, we have already spent three hundred and thirty taels of silver in these eight days. If we don't find some sources of income, we will be out of money in three to five months." Qiutong shook his head and said .
(The purity of gold in this era was not very high. Generally, one tael of gold could be exchanged for 10 taels to 11 taels of silver. In some places, it was even higher.)
Even Qiutong himself was surprised by the huge expenses during this period.
At home, eggs, soybean flour, oatmeal flour and salt are fried in oil and then made into dry ingredients for the black god to eat - Wutong Village produces these things for free.
But after coming out, it will cost a lot of money to prepare these things, which is equivalent to the Black God eating one or two and a half silver every day;
The other eleven war horses eat worse food than Black God, but it is not an ordinary forage. It mainly consists of beans and oats, with a little egg and salt added. These add up to three taels of silver a day.
The food of these twelve war horses alone is comparable to that of an ordinary caravan with both men and horses.
This is still a small head.
The supplements used by the sisters such as ginseng, velvet antler, polygonatum, and polygonum multiflorum were obtained from the Lujia Trading Company. Most of them only cost three to five taels of silver. Now that they wanted to buy some supplements, Qiutong looked at the prices in the store and asked directly. The urge to rob.
In an era when transportation is inconvenient, it is not uncommon for the price of local specialties to differ tenfold from the place of origin to the target market. The Lu family has its own caravan fleet, and the transportation cost is low, so it certainly does not feel expensive to buy.
But when you are away from home, everything is really expensive. Even toilet cloths cost twenty cents a piece. Tooth powder and various seasonings are even more expensive, and the price starts at half a tael per unit.
The young master was afraid that he would be tired from waiting for others, so he recruited people from the Li family's team to help - this was another expense.
Although he came out with a lot of money (killing Young Master Jiu, the Queen Mother gave him three carriages and property), and he could still spend some time, but it is always not good to sit back and have nothing.
"But we are not familiar with the place here, and we haven't seen many little beggars with severed hands and feet on the road. How can we find sources of wealth?" Jin Ju looked around, but didn't find the target, and asked worriedly.
"Sister Jinju, what does the little beggar have to do with wealth?" Li He, the girl in blue, was a little confused and asked quietly.
"It's a big deal -" Jin Ju was about to explain the relationship, but Qiu Tong glared at her again, causing her to hold back her words.
"Eldest sister didn't let me tell you." Jin Ju said aggrievedly.
Li He didn't dare to ask again.
Nowadays, her status is a little embarrassing. She is probably a young lady of the Li family. Her second uncle, Li Shidu, calls Lu Wu his master, so he probably no longer has the status of a young lady.
It can be said that he is from the Lu family. The second uncle did not ask him to serve the young master of the Lu family. There was even someone in the Li family's motorcade to serve him. The second uncle also allowed him to get close to Jin Juduoduo.
"I can tell you later, but not now." Jin Ju comforted.
Li He nodded, seeming to understand.
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When they were in Lu Mansion, Lu Wu could sneak out, but they rarely went out to play by themselves - maids were maids after all.
When they went to Wutong Village and the five girls finally got rid of their slave status and had freedom, they were far away from Songjing and it was not convenient to go out there.
The number of times they went out to play in Songjing was not as frequent as the number of times they went out to kill people at night with the young master - the Kidnappers Gang, Paihuamen, Poisonous Hands Club, and Raptor Hall were all sources of money for making weapons, armor, and medicinal materials.
Although the Golden Bone Jade Marrow Iron Cloth Shirt is more important for internal refining, after all, we don’t have the magical cultivation of the young master, so we still need to use the power of many medicinal materials.
This thing happened so often that the saying "walking at night with a long sword, breaking down the family and destroying the sect" gradually spread in the southern suburbs of Songjing. It's because when the young master takes everyone together, he always breaks through the door with a long knife and kills everyone without leaving a trace.
Lu Wu cannot be said to hate evil, but he is still happy to take some expenses from those who have broken through the lower limits of human nature, and make a small contribution to improving the average moral level of mankind.
Every time they took action, they would kill as few as ten people and as many as forty or fifty people - it mainly depends on how many people there are in those gang strongholds.
Moreover, if Lu Wu Qiutong and others did not take action, if they did, except for some abducted children, all gang members who were in the stronghold that night would be killed.
Everyone was tall and wearing large black robes and half-armor. No one thought that it was a group of women who were responsible. So this kind of business has been going on for almost two years, and no one found out who the murderer was. However, Baishi County The county captain and county magistrate changed three times in two years.
Later, they killed so many people that even Uncle Lin's Changshuiying suburban cavalry was alerted. The cavalry went out in all directions and patrolled day and night. Everyone restrained themselves and stopped using this kind of financial resources to supplement the family income.
