open sea

Chapter 894
"Trapper? What's that?"

Chen Mu had never heard of such a name for a merchant, until Zou Yuanbiao repeated it before he understood it: "The divination, the divination merchant, sells goods while telling fortunes. They sell hoes and soup pots. Now buy a soup pot for a thousand Tongbao. Credit is also available."

Chen Mu didn't speak, and listened to Zou Yuanbiao's words quietly: "He traveled around the villages, and left a prophecy in the soup pot on credit, and the prophecies left in different villages are also different."

Zou Yuanbiao raised his hand, took the official document from Wu Bian who was following him, and read it to Chen Mu: "Sometimes it is said that the price of grain is cheap now, and a stone of noodles is only forty or ninety tongbao. When a stone of corn is worth forty-nine hundred tonbao, I will come to get money for the pot." , when the time comes, I will give him [-] Tongbao for a pot."

"It is also said that the price of clothes is high now, and you have to wait until you can only get four hundred Tongbao for a Jinghai suit, or when no one is hunting with bows and arrows, and then get the money. Some places say that the price is high, and some places say that low price."

"There is also the most deceitful talk, saying that when there are no people living in thousands of miles of land, when three people eat a sesame seed cake, he comes to ask someone for three handfuls of dry rice and a firewood, which makes people panic."

Zou Yuanbiao paused, and said: "I arrested them, and I haven't had time to interrogate them. What's the matter with the commander looking for me?"

Chen Mu raised his hand and paused, then said, "Don't worry, I told Chang Ji about it, and I'll let him tell you later... You just said that you arrested them, them?"

This kind of thing can be said to be a charlatan by coincidence, but if many people act, I am afraid it is an organized and premeditated rumor to confuse the crowd.

Hearing Zou Yuanbiao say the word "they", Chen Mu's heart suddenly lifted. He didn't know much about this kind of thing, but just looking at these prophecies, they all pointed to natural disasters, famine and war. Chen Mu didn't think that Who in this new continent has better prophecy ability than himself.

Obviously, there is another purpose.

"Yes, there are four people in total, and they are divided into two teams. They are one big and one small, like a master leading an apprentice, fortune-telling, fortune-telling, feng shui, yin house inspection, and some business of soup pots and hoes on credit, by the way. Bewitching people with demonic words."

Chen Mu raised his eyebrows. The two couples had a lot of business. He twirled his left thumb and index finger under the table and asked, "It seems that the four of them can make a lot of money. Have you paid taxes?"

Pay, have you paid your taxes?

Zou Yuanbiao blinked, thinking that Chen Mu didn't realize the seriousness of the problem, and reminded: "Marshal, this is not a matter of handing over a few treasures, they will make people's hearts flutter, if you don't pay attention, who knows that there will be more in the future?" what's going to happen."

Chen Mu tapped his finger on the table, "Which law can make them tell fortunes?"

"In the pure land of the white lotus, anyone can use the law of treason, and the fortune-teller can't escape."

Zou Yuanbiao's words made Chen Mu laugh, what's the difference between what you did and using a bottle of washing powder to frame him?
"It's impossible. Daming has the laws of Ming Dynasty. This matter still needs to be reasonable. You go back and ask them which of the four is the leader, and bring them here for me to see. I'll see if they have any ulterior secrets."

As Chen Mu said, he laughed again: "Don't worry, I have a way to figure out their purpose."

After Zou Yuanbiao walked away, Chen Mu frowned and said to Zhao Shizhen relaxedly: "Actually, I have always wanted to deal with quack warlocks, and I know General Deng who plays geomancy by my side, but I still can't beat him."

To tell the truth, ever since Deng Zilong said that the Haojing Church was on fire, he has always had a psychological shadow on Deng Zilong, for fear that one day the cemetery man would point to his ship and say: This ship must be bombed.

Do you say to sit or not to sit?

The military government office was not far from the county government office. Not long after, Zou Yuanbiao came back with the sound of a scepter hitting the floor. Behind him was an old man. The old man was wearing a Taoist robe without a hairpin. It could be seen that he was not a Taoist priest. With his head held high, he looked no different from others, except that he was holding a blind stick with his eyes closed, which made Chen Mu mutter to himself.

"Is it because folk fortune-tellers are always blind?"

Although his voice was low, it was rude and demeaning after all.

However, he really couldn't understand this matter. In his impression, the fortune tellers were all blind. He was very puzzled by the saying that fortune tellers were punished by God before so they were blind.

Unexpectedly, although his voice was quiet, he was still heard by others, the blind stick paused slightly on the ground, the man tilted his head and ears, leaned the wooden stick on his leg, arched his hands and said: "Xia Yang Gao, I don't know who is your lord? "

He is very imposing. He was arrested by Zou Yuanbiao's inspector before and sent to the county government prison. This will make Chen Mu give a thumbs up, even if he is a pretender, he can pretend to be like this The psychological quality is also very strong.

"I'm Chen Mu from the Dongyang Military Mansion. I heard that you were arrested by the magistrate for spreading rumors in the villages in the county. I'll ask you to come over and see who is so bold."

"Master Jinghai, the grass people are polite."

It is said to be polite, but it is just a slight bow and hand. If it is an ordinary person, it is considered polite, but Yang Gao has been arrested and imprisoned. Then he is not an ordinary person. This action is very arrogant and rude.

Zou Yuanbiao was about to be reprimanded, Chen Mu waved his hand and said, "Let the old man sit down, I'll just ask a few things, I can't be angry about it."

Chen Mu saw that the corner of Yang Gao's mouth hooked up slightly when he said these words, although it was only fleeting, it made him feel a little more confident-knowing that he was trying to calm down, thinking that he was sure of winning, The ignorance about mysticism in my heart dissipated somewhat.

After Yang Gao took his seat with his blind cane, before Chen Mu could ask, he opened his mouth first, and said, "My lord said just now that most of my generation's eyes are crippled, and the grass-roots know what you think What, no, there is no scourge."

"I was a blind person. Firstly, I couldn't take the imperial examination to become an official. Second, I couldn't go to the fields to work as a farmer. It was even more difficult to be a craftsman. Caomin was abandoned by his parents when he was young. Fortunately, he met his teacher and drank half a bowl of cold porridge. Only then did he survive, like Caomin. People who are born to be unfortunate, not to mention that they are not good at finding a Marquis, what else can they do besides singing, playing and singing?"

"It's not that all those who count are blind, but those who are blind can only count."

As he said that, Yang Gao actually laughed very friendly, and said: "If there is such a thing as divine punishment, wouldn't Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang both be paralyzed and unable to move on the couch?"

瞽, reading drum, means blind man.

"Eh!"

Hearing this, Chen Mu turned his head and nodded towards Zhao Shizhen. If the old man came up to play tricks, he wouldn't think it was any strange, but it made him feel something.

Very logical.

"If you are really capable, let me do the math. Even where Chen came from, if you can figure it out, you can continue to talk about it later. If you can't figure it out, count your own fate and how long you can live."

The old man looked at Chen Mu with his ears indifferently, and said, "The first one doesn't count."

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)