NOVEL NEXT Chapter 75
Chapter 75: Get Rid Of
That night, Li An came to look for Gu Jingyun to play chess, Wei Yingjie and the other three accompanied him, Li Baolu left the window in a blink of an eye, and quickly disappeared into the lively night market…
Li An pinched the white chess and stared at the window for a while before falling, and asked, “What are you doing, Miss Li?”
Gu Jingyun said without raising his eyes: “Go and find a way to send us to Beijing.”
Although Li Anxin was curious, he didn’t ask any more.
At this time, Li Baolu came out of a ready-to-wear shop in a change of clothes, carrying a large bag behind her back. She got into the car shop, squatted on the ground and watched for half the night, and then followed the group to an alley in the south of the city.
Although it was late at night, the alley was very lively. The coolies after work went home to take a bath, and they ate supper in better conditions. .
This is a slum in Guangxin Prefecture. The residents here are a mix of different types of people. There are hard workers, farmers, thieves and traffickers. Here, as long as they have money, they can do anything.
Li Baolu is dressed in men’s clothing. She is still small and black, so no one can tell that she is a woman after wearing it.
Li Baolu wandered around the alley for a few times, and after listening to a lot of walls, she walked into a house.
There are eight adult men living in this yard. They came to the city to work in slack farming. They rented this yard temporarily. There are only two rooms, and four people sleep in one room.
At this time, the eight people were snoring and snoring loudly. Li Baolu walked around in the yard and took all the ragged clothes that the eight people had left in the yard.
They all have one set of clothes. Every day when they take a bath, they rub their clothes, and when they get up the next day, they are almost done.
Li Baolu took out the eight new sets of clothes in her bag without hesitation, and changed into tattered clothes that were full of patches.
She took two pairs of poles and two baskets from the yard, stacked everything on a cart in the yard, left a piece of silver and sneaked away.
Li Baolu pushed the car out of the alley and found a place to catch a cat. Before dawn, she wandered into the morning market as soon as there was a sound in the morning market.
There is no need to pay booth fees in the morning market, and there will be no yamen to collect their taxes. Therefore, in addition to selling vegetables and fruits and other foods, there are also other things in the morning market.
They are here to try their luck, and there are also buyers at the morning market who are here to try their luck.
Li Baolu saw the two men sneakily parked a scooter at the entrance of the alley, and kept looking out, she pushed the scooter and walked over and asked in a low voice, “What is it?”
The other party looked at her warily, “What do you want to buy, little brother?”
Li Baolu glanced at his booth and said, “I want raw silk and satin.”
The eyes of the two men lit up, and after looking at her for a while, they stretched out five fingers and said, “We want this price.”
Li Baolu compared the prices she had inquired about from the store today, nodded and said, “No problem, but I want to see the goods.”
The two men breathed a sigh of relief, pulled the scooter back into the alley, and opened a bag to show her the quality of the raw silk.
Where can Li Baolu read, but she has a serious face, tugging raw silk in her hands expressionlessly, before nodding after a while, “Is it all of this quality?”
“Don’t worry, little brother, there’s nothing wrong with selling it here,” the two men whispered: “If you’re worried, just open it all up and read it.”
Li Baolu counted the time, shook her head and said, “I believe you, I want all four bags.”
The two men were excited, but they didn’t expect things to be shot so quickly.
The two men took out their scales and weighed them again in front of Li Baolu.
Raw silk costs five hundred cents a pound. The purchase price they sell to the shops designated by the imperial court is only three or four hundred cents, but when those shops turn around and sell them, they can sell for more than six hundred cents, and they make half of the profit.
If it can be shipped to the North or the Central Plains, the price will be higher.
Raw silk is worthless in the south of the Yangtze River, because every household grows mulberries and raises silkworms. In recent years, the sea trade business has been good, and the export of silk and satin has only increased, but the price of raw silk has not increased.
The price of raw silk was fixed by the imperial court, and silkworm farmers could only sell silk to designated shops, so no matter how expensive the silk was, it had nothing to do with them.
The honest person can only suffer from this loss, but the clever person will sell the silk that should be handed over to the shop and then intercept some to sell privately to passing merchants.
Not only can the pre-tax be removed, but the price is higher.
Those merchants are also happy to receive silk from silkworm farmers, which is not only cheaper but also of better quality.
And like two men who can only push trolleys to the morning market to sell secretly, they have no access to merchants, and they are not willing to buy them cheaply.
Li Baolu threw the raw silk onto the trolley and tied it up.
The two men took turns to bite the silver. After confirming that it was real, they reminded Li Baolu in a low voice, “Little brother, go out of the city early, otherwise the inspection will be strict.”
“Thank you bro for reminding me, but I still want to buy some silk ribbons.”
The two men looked at each other, pointed to the depths of the alley, and said, “If you can trust us, go in there. There are a few families who carry a few silks and satins, but they don’t dare to show their faces, so you can go inside and buy them from them. ”
The price of silk and satin is more than three times higher than that of raw silk, so no one dares to sell silk and satin in large quantities, and they all bring one or two horses to see their luck.
Li Baolu didn’t want too much, he chose six horses with good colors and then checked out and left quickly.
She didn’t go directly back to the inn, but went around the city, bought a lot of fruits and vegetables and piled them in the car and in the basket, covering up the raw silk and satin.
Then I pushed things and went to the bull market to rent a yard.
Throwing things in the yard, she wandered back to the inn.
Gu Jingyun was holding a book while reading, and looked up at the window from time to time. Li An was sleeping on the chair, Peng Yu was lying on the couch, Wei Yingjie and Tao Wu were sitting on the ground and snoring against the bed, almost Li Baolu. The moment they jumped in, they jumped up, and they were in front of Li An in an instant, and they relaxed when they saw that it was Li Baolu.
Gu Jingyun dropped the book in his hand and got up and walked out, saying, “Let’s go.”
Li Baolu whispered to the two of them: “You guys have a good rest today, we’ll leave at night.”
Li Baolu had been busy all night and was very sleepy. Gu Jingyun also didn’t sleep that night. He didn’t ask how Li Baolu was preparing, and went to bed after breakfast.
He patted his body and said, “Go to sleep now, you will be tired at night.”
No one knows where the man in black is hiding, or there are other sources, but they all know that they have not avoided the sight of the man in black.
They don’t do it now, maybe because they have scruples, or maybe they are not ready, no matter what, they must get rid of them completely tonight.
Gu Jingyun’s plan was to go to the capital within 20 days, give Li An five days to prepare, and then quickly send the imperial doctor to Qiongzhou, and he will be able to arrive in Qiongzhou within a month. Yue’s conditioning time is still too tight, but unfortunately they know it too late.
Jiangnan has a developed economy, so the night market is very lively and there are more people than during the day.
Li Baolu took all the money with him, then looked at the rest of the luggage and sighed, “I feel bad.”
Gu Jingyun ignored her, “Let’s go.”
She felt even more distressed when she went downstairs and saw the red dates grazing in the backyard excitedly, but in order to escape smoothly, she could only reluctantly lose the red dates.
Li Baolu lost so many things in vain, and her face was very stinky. Not only Li An and the four, but even Gu Jingyun dared not provoke her, and followed her obediently to the night market.
Li Baolu walked all the way to buy food. It seemed that he really came to the night market. Peng Yu was about to get impatient.
Just as he was about to open his mouth to ask, he saw that the crowd was crowded, and a person walked past and blocked his vision. With such a mistake, the young master disappeared, not only Li An, but also Gu Jingyun and Li Baolu.
Peng Yu’s complexion changed greatly, and just as he was about to shout, Wei Yingjie and Tao Wu had already turned their faces away and looked around.
For a moment, all kinds of guesses flashed through the three people’s minds. The first one was that Gu Jingyun’s identity was fake, and it was all a scam!
Wei Yingjie’s eyes were red with anger, and a voice came to his ears from a distance, “Bull market…”
Wei Yingjie heard that it was Li Baolu’s voice, and his eyes swept away. There were also a few people in the crowd who were just as anxious as they were to squeeze out of the crowd to find someone. , while shouting loudly: “Master, Master!”
Peng Yu clenched his fists and said, “We shouldn’t trust them!”
“Looking like this is not the way to go,” Tao Wu was still relatively calm, “Let’s look for it separately.”
Wei Yingjie nodded, “Zi Qing is seriously injured, I’ll be with him, you can find it from there.”
As soon as he finished speaking, he said to him privately: “Go to the bull market and throw people away.”
Tao Wu was stunned for a moment, then turned around and left quickly with a blank face, shouting loudly for the son as he walked.
Peng Yu wanted to denounce Gu Jingyun, but Wei Yingjie grabbed his arm and said, “Go, it’s important to find the son.”
Wei Yingjie took Peng Yu through the night market. Later, he increased his speed and ran around the market until he was sure that no one was following them. Then he turned towards the bull market.
Peng Yu stopped talking when he noticed that Wei Yingjie was going around in circles, but his face was still ugly.
As soon as they got to the bull market, they saw Tao Wu coming out of a shadow, leading them to a yard.
Seeing Li An and Gu Jingyun and Li Baolu standing in the yard, Peng Yu’s face was even more ugly, and he shook off Wei Yingjie. He felt so wronged. Everyone knew about this, but he kept it from him alone. Doubt his loyalty?
Wei Yingjie was thrown away by him, and his face was not good-looking, but he still explained: “I was also shocked before, I only found out after Miss Li’s voice transmission.”
Li An smiled and said, “Not only did you guys startle, but I was also startled. I didn’t know that the plan had begun until I got there. I’ll let you go. Since we agreed to listen to them at the beginning, then we Just let Young Master Gu and Miss Li arrange it.”
Gu Jingyun glanced at Peng Yu, and did not mean to appease him. He raised his chin slightly and pointed to the clothes on the scooter: “Choose a set and put it on. We don’t have much time, and we will leave the city tonight.”