Martial Arts: Opening Awakening

Chapter 125 girl, don't

This is the first time Jiangnan has heard of this Merchant Fort.

After listening to the explanation of the people next to him, he realized that it was a big local force on Xiliang Road.

Xiliang Road has a special geographical environment, empty and desolate, stretching as far as the eye can see, and it is also a necessary place for trade between the Central Plains and the Western Regions.

The special environment and location created a special "horse bandit" culture.

In order to resist the horse bandits, the local residents had to hold together to survive, and built a special building integrating living and defense in the gathering place. This kind of building was called "fort".

This Merchant Fort is the largest gathering place at the junction of Xiliang Road and Chang'an Road.

There are tens of thousands of residents, caravans, rangers and other people of all kinds sheltering under the Merchant Fort.

The Merchant Fort has always been run by a family surnamed Shang, with nearly a thousand guards proficient in martial arts under its command.

Even if you look at the entire Xiliang Road, it can be regarded as a number one force.

The person recognized was not a horse bandit, but the guards of Merchant Fort. Most of the merchants and travelers who were in the encirclement breathed a sigh of relief.

Unlike the horse bandits who roam around without a fixed place, Merchant Fort has a fixed site.

Therefore, although Merchant Fort occasionally does some domineering businesses that bully others, the general morality and rules must be followed, and they will not kill people for no reason.

If you meet a horse bandit, you will lose money and life if you don't do it well. People who meet merchants will be treated brutally at most.

The point is, the Merchant Fort is rich and powerful, so it is certain that they will not look down on the mere wealth of ordinary merchants or travelers.

"Take out—"

Someone among the knights shouted loudly.

The chattering crowd suddenly fell silent.

With the sound of horseshoes, a big maroon horse came out from among the knights.The knight on the horse turned out to be a woman in a red cloak.

The woman was carrying double knives and her face was covered by a black veil cloak.

But from the figure, it seems that the age is obviously not old.

really.

When the woman opened her mouth, her voice was extremely crisp and pleasant, without the hoarseness of the aboriginal people in the Northwest.

"Dear friends, I take the liberty to bring everyone together because my Merchant Fort lost a very important thing."

"We got a tip that the person who stole has entered the canyon."

"So, I have no choice but to ask everyone to stay in the canyon for a while"

"To express my apologies, my Merchant Fort will send everyone a tael of silver as compensation."

As soon as the woman's voice fell, there was a burst of surprise applause from the crowd.

One tael of silver, for most ordinary people, is almost the income of a month of hard work.

Even for the merchants in the crowd, it can be regarded as a windfall.

"Miss is magnificent!"

"My lady is benevolent!"

"Miss..."

Anyone who knew the woman cheered loudly.

Then, someone inquired about the woman's identity.

The person who was the first to recognize the identity of the cavalry before began to show off his profound knowledge in a low voice.

It turned out that this woman was the prostitute's daughter of the owner of the merchant castle, named Shang Xinyan.

At a young age, he has already made a great reputation in the neighborhood.

"Everyone!"

Shang Xinyan raised her hands, and the cheering crowd fell silent again.

"Now, please line up and come here for inspection."

"After the inspection, not only can you leave immediately, but you can also receive the money immediately."

As Shang Xinyan spoke, she waved her hand lightly.

Immediately, several knights got off their horses, took off various tools, and quickly set up a tent the size of half a house.

There are doors on both sides of the tent, which means that everyone can enter the tent one by one for inspection.

Except for the two inspectors who entered the tent, more than a dozen knights surrounded the tent with swords in hand.

"Don't worry, everyone. With this tent, no one will see the things you carry with you except my two men in charge of inspection."

Shang Xinyan opened her mouth to explain.

Obviously, it was to dispel everyone's concerns.

After all, many people have private or valuable things on them, and if they are taken out in public for inspection, it is inevitable that they will not be seen and missed by interested people.

"Miss is really thoughtful!"

Immediately, someone started flattering Shang Xinyan.

"I'll come first!"

Someone was eager to get the one or two taels of compensation, and immediately rushed to the search passage first.

"Don't squeeze, come one by one...all have money..."

Shang Xinyan reminded loudly.

It was originally a humiliating body search, but under the operation of the businessman's lady, it turned into this strange scene of scrambling for the first place.

How to search in the tent, people outside can't see.

However, every tael of silver distributed to those who walked out of the tent was clearly seen by the trapped people outside.

In order to improve efficiency, Shang Xinyan ordered people to set up two more tents.

The three tents were carried out at the same time, and the speed was immediately much faster.

About half an hour later, only twenty people including Jiangnan were trapped in the canyon.

Among these 20 people, apart from a scholar who kept clamoring about "setting up checkpoints privately and despising the laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty", there were also a few travelers with their wives, and the others were all people in the Jianghu who held swords in their hands and prided themselves on their identities.

Seeing that there are not many people left.

Shang Xinyan asked the people in one of the tents to come out, and said to the female relatives: "Everyone, don't worry, the female relatives will be inspected by me personally, and I guarantee that no man will peep."

The female family members lost their worries and soon left with their family members.

Then, it was the scholar's turn.

"I'm a scholar, you can't search me!"

"What's the difference between you and horse bandits?"

"Be careful, I'll go to the Yamen to sue you..."

Scholars are both reasonable and threatening.

"Snapped--"

One of the guards got impatient with the noise and slapped the scholar to the ground.

The scholar covered his cheek with five finger marks, full of resentment and disbelief:

"I'm a scholar, I have a reputation, and I don't need to kneel in the lobby of the yamen...you...how dare you hit me..."

As the scholar said, he was glared at by the beating guard, and immediately became terrified, and quickly covered the other cheek with his hand.

Loud accusations turned into whispered protests:
"Barbarians... are simply degrading..."

The guard was no longer as knowledgeable as the pedantic scholar, and before the scholar got up, he bent down and searched the scholar.

The scholar's package is not complicated.

In addition to pens, ink, paper and inkstones and a change of clothes, there are only a few pieces of silver and a handful of copper coins.

The guard didn't touch the scholar's money, threw the package on the ground and put his hand into the scholar's arms.

"what?"

A look of joy flashed across the guard's face, and he took out a half-foot-long cylinder from the scholar's arms.

The guard did not dare to open it privately, and hastily handed the cylinder to Shang Xinyan who was beside him.

Shang Xinyan took the cylinder, shook it, and frowned slightly.

Obviously, the weight of the cylinder did not match what she was looking for, but it was similar in appearance.

"Don't open it!"

The scholar stopped in shock.

Originally, Shang Xinyan was about to return the cylinder, but instead she became interested.

He reached out, opened the cylinder, and took out the contents.

It turned out to be a dim picture scroll.

Shang Xinyan unfolded curiously.

Just glanced at it, and immediately his expression changed drastically.

Throwing the scroll on the scholar with all his strength, he spat, "Dirty things that insult gentlemen!"

A corner of the picture scroll unfolded on the scholar.

Everyone looked curiously at the unfolded picture scroll, and found that the pictures on it were men and women with no clothes on.

On the edge of the scroll, two large characters were exposed: In the room...

The following words are not expanded.

However, just looking at the picture, most men already know what it is.

While holding back her laughter, she subconsciously looked at the attractive Shang Xinyan.

Shang Xinyan's face was covered by the cloak, so she couldn't see her expression. However, from her scolding just now, it's not hard to imagine that this young woman has already had Xiafei's cheeks.

"Look at what?"

Shang Xinyan angrily scolded everyone.

Then, he yelled at the scholar who hurriedly put the scroll back into his arms on the ground:

"Why don't you get out?"

The scholar hurriedly got up, covered his face with the package, passed through a tent, and fled.

"Here, your one tael of silver!"

The guard in charge of distributing money outside the tent yelled at the scholar.

The scholar stopped suddenly, turned around, and went to pick up the money.

"Cut! I thought scholars were so noble!"

The guard complained while handing over the money.

The scholar's hand that received the silver paused slightly, but he quickly grabbed the silver into his hand.

Then, he took the package to cover his face and continued to run.

With a weak body, he ran very fast.

"Hahaha……"

Everyone in the audience burst into laughter.

Jiangnan is also smiling.

This is true human nature!It doesn't matter if you are a reader or not.

"You guys, are you going to come in for the inspection yourself, or should I send someone to invite you?"

Shang Xinyan asked coldly towards the remaining ten or so people in the arena who were holding weapons.

If the news is correct, then the thing I'm looking for is in the hands of one of the remaining dozen or so people.

"We are from Liujiabao, our master Liu Dabiao, the master of Liujiabao."

Two swordsmen with long knives took a step forward, cupped their hands and said: "My Liujiabao and Guibao have always been on good terms, so we brothers don't need to do this body search?"

"Oh? So it's Mr. Liu's apprentice. Nice to meet you!"

Shang Xinyan bowed her hand in return.

The two swordsmen thought that their master's name was useful, and they could avoid being searched.

All of them are happy.

Not only are the scholars high-minded, but they feel that being body-searched is "disgraceful to the gentlemen".

As a martial artist, why not have arrogance?
Therefore, these talented people with weapons in their hands will stay until the end.

Who knows.

Shang Xinyan changed the subject: "However, this matter is of great importance. Please also set an example for the rest of my friends and support Xinyan's work."

As she said that, Shang Xinyan made a false gesture of "please" with her right hand.

The two swordsmen were choked upon hearing this.

Their faces changed, they glanced at each other, and then at the nearly hundred guards who belonged to the Merchant Fort.

With a gloomy face, he buried his head and walked into the two nearby tents.

After a while, the two came out from the other side of the tent, ignored the money handed over by the guards, and left angrily.

Shang Xinyan didn't take it seriously, and looked at another person in the rivers and lakes nearby.

The man's expression changed slightly, and he entered the tent without saying a word.

Soon, the remaining people in the arena were also reduced by half.

It was the turn of a thin gray man.

When the man passed by Shang Xinyan's side, he suddenly jumped up and reached out to grab Shang Xinyan's neck, intending to capture Shang Xinyan as a hostage.

Unexpectedly, the double knives on Shang Xinyan's back got into her hands somehow.

One knife cut off the protruding palm of the man, and the other knife cut across the man's throat.

The rest of the Jianghu people were startled.

No one expected that this slender Miss Merchant Castle turned out to be a powerful martial arts master.

After Shang Xinyan retreated with the knife, immediately a guard leaned over and inspected the body of the man in gray on the ground.

In addition to a stack of bank notes of small value, the guards also found a bunch of medicine bottles and medicine bags from the man in gray.

On one of the medicine bottles, the word "Acacia" was impressively written.

The guard was slightly taken aback.

After wiping the dust off the face of the man in gray, after carefully identifying it for a while, he couldn't help exclaiming:
"This is the flower picker Hao Sanchun!"

"Miss, the person you killed is the flower picker Hao Sanchun!"

"Last month, he harmed seven or eight good families in Pingliang City. The government offered a reward of 800 taels of silver, but no one caught it... Unexpectedly, he died at the hands of you, Miss!"

The guard's face was full of surprise, and even his voice trembled a little.

The other guards around also showed admiration and surprise on their faces.

"Yes." Shang Xinyan nodded: "He cut off his head, and after you're done, you go to the government to receive the reward. You get 50 taels of silver, and the rest will be shared equally among the brothers who came out this time."

"Thank you Miss!"

All the guards thanked in unison, with unconcealable joy on their faces.

"All right!"

Shang Xinyan waved her hand and said in a deep voice, "It's just a flower picker."

"If you find the target this time, I will take another 5000 taels as a reward for everyone."

"Cheer up your spirits!" Shang Xinyan shouted.

"Yes!"

All the guards agreed in unison.

Staring at the few remaining people in the arena, including Jiangnan, is like watching a fat sheep.

"You come first."

Shang Xinyan looked at the remaining few people for a while, and suddenly pointed to Jiangnan.

"I?"

Jiang Nan pointed to his nose in surprise.

Including Jiangnan, there are six people left. Why did this woman let herself come first.

"That's right. That's you."

Shang Xinyan said without doubt.

"Why me?" Jiang Nan asked curiously.

"Because you are the most tightly wrapped."

Shang Xinyan's answer obviously exceeded Jiang Nan's expectations.

"Uh……"

Jiang Nan choked.

I can't explain it, but I am just afraid that the wind and sand in Xiliang will ruin my beauty in the prosperous age.

I had no choice but to say:

"Girl, what are you looking for? Why don't you tell me directly, if anyone of us has it, just take it out, it will save trouble. Don't you think so?"

In addition to the gourd lock, Jiangnan has nearly 20 taels of silver notes from the young leader of the Changhe Gang.

Including the recent gains from other dead ghosts, it is a huge amount of 25 taels.

Even if I don't have what these people are looking for, seeing so many banknotes, it's hard to guarantee that these guards won't kill and steal them.

A reward of 800 taels can make these guards so happy!
What's more, it is more than 800 times that of 300 taels?
It's enough to cause cannibalism...

Seeing Jiangnan chattering, Shang Xinyan was a little impatient.

He yelled coldly: "Where are you talking so much nonsense! Do you take the initiative to enter the tent, or let me do it myself..."

"Girl, in broad daylight, under the eyes of everyone, it's better not to..."

Jiang Nan waved his hand and refused, deliberately pretending to be terrified by that.

Shang Xinyan was taken aback when she saw this.

After seeing the ambiguous smiles of the surrounding people, he seemed to understand the meaning of Jiangnan's appearance.

Furious: "You... nasty!"

Swinging the two knives, they fit together and rushed towards Jiangnan.

(End of this chapter)