Fenghou

Chapter 239 Trading
Tongpu is a place for the lowest-level workers to live. It is in a small courtyard behind the livestock house, and there is no intersection with other guests. The yard is full of deer carts and carts, and all the grain has been moved into the room.

Yang Zaixing entered a low bunk room with dim light. There was only one long wooden bed in the room, which could sleep thirty people.

Yang Zaixing asked his subordinates to take over the bunk next door as well. In this way, they took over the entire yard and could accommodate sixty brothers without worrying about outsiders.

The shopkeeper walked over slowly and asked, "Where did you come from?"

Dutou Xiaoqun is from Zhongnan County, with the same accent as Chang'an. He walked out and said with a smile: "We are from Lantian County. This year's grain harvest is good. Lantian County can't sell at a good price, so come to Jingzhao City to try your luck. .”

"In fact, Jingzhao City has a little more money. There are too many people selling grain these days, and the price of grain has come down. If it can be sold at a good price at the beginning of the year."

"It's finally here, let's try it! Shopkeeper, we want to stay for a few more days, and we also want to find some odd jobs."

"It doesn't matter if you stay for a few days, the key is that you need to find a guarantor. According to the regulations above, if you are not from the city, you have to be a guarantor from the city."

Xiao Qun scratched his head, "Where can we find a guarantee?"

The shopkeeper laughed, "I can help you find guarantees, but you need to charge some money, ten cents per person, I don't make money, it's for the guarantors."

"Isn't this changing tricks to collect money?"

"No way, there are regulations above, so someone will naturally think of a way to make money, it doesn't matter if you want to find it yourself!"

Yang Zaixing came out and said, "Then trouble the shopkeeper."

"Okay, you go and pay, ten yuan per person, and then the food is ready, and I will ask the waiter to bring it."

Yang Zaixing asked his staff to go through the formalities of guarantee payment, and he asked a few people to stand guard outside, and he and the others moved a large cart into the house.

The people had already pulled out their sabers from the rice bags, and dozens of short spears from the cart interlayer, but the weapons were not enough. After all, there were [-] people in the city, and they still had to get some weapons.

Xiao Qun scratched his head and said, "I have an uncle who sells groceries in Jingzhao City. I'll look for him and see if he has a way out?"

"Is your cousin reliable?" Yang Zaixing asked.

"Reliable, uncles and aunts are honest people. They watched me grow up, and I almost adopted them."

"Okay, I'll go with you."

Xiao Qun's uncle is called Xiao Pingfan, and his small grocery store is located in the southwest of Jingzhao City, where the low-level people live together.

Xiao Pingfan was only in his early forties, but the hardships of life made him look very old. He had no son, only one daughter, who was married in his hometown of Zhongnan County, but his daughter, son-in-law and grandson all died in the Jinbing massacre last year.

The old couple were very sad, so they had to open a small shop to live in a daze, and they lived for the rest of their lives.

Xiao Qun's arrival really surprised the couple. Xiao Qun's parents and brothers were all dead, and they thought Xiao Qun was dead too, but they didn't expect him to be alive.

The two uncles and nephews cried together in the room, Xiao Qun introduced Yang Zaixing to his uncle, and Xiao Pingfan hurriedly served tea to his wife.

Just as Yang Zaixing mentioned weapons, Xiao Pingfan's expression changed, and he dragged his nephew into the inner room again.

"Tell third uncle, have you become a bandit?"

Xiao Qun didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he had to take out his bronze medal, "Where is Uncle San thinking? Look at this."

The waist tag reads 'Qinzhou Army's Third Battalion Seventh Head', Xiao Pingfan's eyes lit up, "Are you Song Army?"

"Of course, Jin Bing killed my whole family. I wanted to avenge my family, so I joined the Song Army, and I have already made meritorious service and been promoted to the capital."

"Okay! Our group is promising."

Xiao Pingfan was so excited that he burst into tears, and Xiao Qun repeatedly asked him not to divulge the news, even the third aunt, so as to prevent the third aunt from chatting with the neighbors and revealing her mouth.

Xiao Pingfan nodded repeatedly. He is a businessman and knows the seriousness. If the government knows that his nephew is Song Jun, his life will not be easy.

The two uncles and nephews came out again, Xiao Pingfan sat down and said to Yang Zaixing: "I don't have much contact with what you want, but I know a person who often comes to buy my goods. He may be in this business. I can send I told you his address, but it cannot be said that I told you."

Xiao Pingfan is timid by nature, and if he is caught doing illegal business, he will be executed. He is afraid that he will get into trouble.

Yang Zaixing saw that Xiao Pingfan was a coward, so he smiled and said, "I know, I won't implicate Shopkeeper Xiao!"

Xiao Pingfan wrote them an address, and the two got up to leave. Xiao Qun took out another twenty taels of silver and gave it to his uncle. This was his reward in the battle against Xixia Heijintang. down.

The person introduced by Xiao Pingfan is called Pang Hong, who is a clerk in an armory shop. Through the contacts he met in the armory shop, he started a part-time job in the business of prohibited weapons. These days, he can't make much money by doing business honestly. He wants to make a fortune. Can only do illegal business.

Only ordinary long swords are allowed to be sold in Chang'an City. All other weapons are prohibited. Once caught, they will be chopped off on the spot.

Pang Hong's home is not far from the grocery store. It is a small yard, and his mother, wife and children live together as a family of five.

Pang Hong was very cautious, for fear of being exposed, he listened to a knock on the door, and glanced through the crack of the door. It was two people he didn't know.

"who are you?"

"We're looking for Pang Hong!"

"What's the matter?"

"I was introduced to buy something."

"Who introduced you here?"

"Hard to say!"

Pang Hong immediately shook his head, "Then I'm sorry, I don't have anything to sell."

Yang Zaixing took out ten taels of silver and threw it into the yard.

After a while, the door creaked open.

Pang Hong took a deep look at the two, "Come with me!"

Money touches people's hearts. For the sake of ten taels of silver, Pang Hong decided to take this risk. If the government and the army were to investigate him, they would directly open the door and search, let alone pay.

The three of them sat down in the side room, and Pang Hong asked, "What do you want to buy?"

Yang Zaixing took out a list and handed it to him. Pang Hong glanced at it, and was surprised and delighted at the same time. He wanted so much, maybe he was going to get rich.

"I don't have so many goods!"

"Then how much do you have?" Yang Zaixing asked with a smile.

Pang Hong looked at the list carefully again, thought for a while and said, "It's mainly Qi army armor. I can get a hundred sets at most. Other spears, knives, and crossbows are minor problems."

"One hundred sets is one hundred sets. I want the goods tomorrow. Can you deliver them to me? I will pay in gold or silver."

"Then use gold! A total of [-] taels of gold is equivalent to [-] taels of gold. You give me [-] taels of gold as a deposit first, and at this time tomorrow, use the remaining [-] taels of gold to exchange for goods at the Town God's Temple. If If you want to go out of the city, you need to pay extra, and I will help you transport it out by water."

Pang Hong took out an iron sign and returned it to Yang Zaixing together with ten taels of silver, "We will trade with this iron sign tomorrow!"

Yang Zaixing took back the iron plate and ten taels of silver, took out three ingots of gold and put them on the table, got up and said goodbye, walked to the door and said with a smile: "If you want to leave the city, I will trouble you again."

Pang Hong sent people away, and hurried back to the room, holding three ingots of gold, he was so happy that he was going crazy, he didn't even ask the price, he was really going to get rich.

His wife went into the supplies to pack the teacups, and asked worriedly, "Officer, who are they?"

"How could they let me know who they are, just like I wouldn't let him know where I got the goods from, we just need to know that the other party is willing to pay real money."

"How much money can we make from this business?"

"The thirty taels of gold belong to me, and the remaining fifty taels of gold are handed over to Lao Qiu. After all, the things belong to him."

When the woman heard that the thirty taels of gold belonged to her family, she was so happy that she couldn't close her mouth. This is six hundred taels of gold!
Pang Hong put away the gold, put on his coat, and hurried out.
(End of this chapter)