As October begins, the temperature in Guangdong drops significantly, but it is much warmer than the north. However, it is still a little cooler in the middle of the night. In addition, the strong wind blowing from the river makes the men in black tremble up and down the reeds by the river tremble. The reeds around are already yellow and covered with dew. People hide in it and are stuck to dew from time to time. In addition, the mud flats under their feet are full of mud, which makes people very annoyed.

There are only black clouds in the sky. The moon covered by black clouds only reveals a small part of its body, emitting a bleak moonlight. The reed marsh is dark and there is no sound. Only occasionally, unknown birds make a few "cucking" sounds.

Several men in black have been here for a long time, but no one is impatient because of the long wait. Instead, they squat there and don’t move for a while. When their legs are numb, they just stretch their legs forward slightly, rub them with their hands, but they don’t stand for a while.

"Ah!"

Perhaps the cold air entered his body. A man in black could not help but endured it after a few times. He sneezed out of control, and scared the person next to him so much that he quickly turned around and stared at him.

The man in black who was sneezing blushed because of his companion's eyes, and muttered disapprovingly: "Who will come here in the middle of the night? Don't worry, Fourth Brother, we have been here a few times. Qing Yao didn't guard this area strictly, and no one came to patrol, so there would be no movement."

The man in black named Fourth Brother snorted slightly when he heard this: "It's okay to be careful. If Qing Yao really finds out, we are not going to have a life, but what should we do if thousands of households hand over us? What should we do if thousands of households in the city?"

When the fourth brother heard that he had brought out Qianhu and thousands of households in the city, the man in black sneeze suddenly stopped saying a word and lowered his head with some guilt.

Seeing this, the fourth brother did not criticize the man anymore and made a gesture to the other people. Everyone immediately turned around and continued to stare at the river without moving, as if nothing had happened just now.

There was nothing black on the river. There were bursts of river water slamming the banks from the riverside, and the river breeze had a unique fishy smell on the river.

Another half of the incense stick came over. A man seemed to see something, but he didn't look carefully. He looked at it carefully and shouted in a low voice: "The ship is coming!"

When he heard the boat was coming, several men in black hurriedly looked up the river. Sure enough, something black in his sight was slowly sailing towards the riverside.

The few people stared at the dark thing for a while and confirmed that it was a boat. The man in black who called the fourth brother breathed a sigh of relief. While getting up, he ordered: "Old rules, the two brothers of the Song family stay here, and the others will follow me."

"Why!"

The men in black responded and stood up and followed the fourth brother to the riverside. After touching the riverside, they saw that the boat was about to dock. The fourth brother suddenly stopped, looked around again, then pinched his throat and learned to scream: "Gugu, Gugu"

Others scattered vigilantly around to observe the movements around. After the fourth brother called twice, someone also responded "gugu" on the boat that was rowing.

Hearing the other party's response, the fourth brother was truly relieved and said to his subordinates: "It's them. Let's go!" After that, he stood there waiting for the boat to dock.

.........

Tonight, the wind was strong on the river, and the boat was churning and tumbling on the river. Fortunately, the boat was an old sailor, and he was safely on the shore. There were four people on the boat, and they couldn't see clearly when it was dark. There were a few bags of things piled up in the boat warehouse, covering them with linen, and I don't know what it was.

After seeing the Fourth Brother waiting on the shore, everyone jumped down on the boat and walked closer without saying nonsense. He directly asked the man in black who called Fourth Brother: "Qi Laosi, is the silver ready?"

Qi Laosi nodded slightly and said in a muffled voice: "You are ready, one thousand taels, no more or less." He paused and glanced at the ship warehouse, "Where are you?"

The man got off the boat and pointed at Chuankura: "It's absolutely fine if you're here."

"Do you have to pay the silver and deliver it if you have no problem."

Qi Laosi signaled several subordinates behind him to untie the cloth bag wrapped around his waist and open it in front of the man.

The man took several cloth bags on the ground one by one in his hands, then chuckled: "I can't make a mistake." He turned around and ordered his companions on the boat: "Please carry them five bags."

"Why are there only five bags?" When Qi Laosi heard the quantity was wrong, his face changed drastically and said angrily: "Wang De, what do you mean? It has always been ten bags before!"

"Ten bags?"

The man named Wang De smiled and said with a slight smile: "Qi Laosi, the current market is different. You can only buy five bags of this thousand taels of silver. If you don't want to, brother, I will leave now. We won't do this business in the future!"

After hearing Wang De's words, the men in black couldn't help but curse. Qi Laosi stared at Wang De with a cold face: "Wang De, you will hurt your brotherhood!"

"You are in Cao's camp and I am in Han, what kind of brotherhood do you talk about?"

After saying this, Wang De was a little weak, afraid that Qi Laosi would turn against him, so he changed his mind and said, "Qi Laosi, don't blame me for this matter. It's really the above meaning. You know, it's not okay for brothers to do this business. If you really do this business, it doesn't matter. But if you are someone on your own, that person is going to be cruel. Most of the money will be put into his pocket. In addition, the recent investigation in the naval camp is tight. Brothers can't deal with you with their heads in vain, so you can't put too much into your own pocket. So this price has to be added one plus. Not only is it so much this time, but next time it's still the price. If you want more, you have to double the money! Otherwise, you can go to someone else!"

Hearing this, the man in black who had sneezed before said angrily: "Who else can we find besides you!"

The other men in black were all glaring, wishing to lift their swords and chop off the black-hearted Wang De.

Wang De didn't even look at the men in black, but said disdainfully: "That's your business, I don't care."

Qi Laosi frowned and signaled his subordinates not to move around. He stared at Wang De and said in a deep voice: "Wang De, you don't value brotherhood. You must always talk about the rules on the way."

"I am a soldier, you are a thief. There is no rule between you and me. I said Qi Laosi, you are content. Only Wang De, the only one of me, Wang De, dares to tie his head and belt to do this business with you. If someone else wants to change him, who dares to do it?... If this matter is leaked, the first one will die not Qi Laosi, but I Wang De!"

Having said that, Wang De didn't want to talk anymore and asked directly: "Buy or not sell, please give me a correct word!"

Qi Laosi stood there silently, thinking about the instructions given to him by Qianhu, and then the impact of these bags of silver on thousands of vacant households in the city. After a while, he finally gritted his teeth and said, "Buy!"

"That's right!" Wang De smiled and clapped his hands to instruct the people on the boat: "Please carry it up."

"yes."

The three people on the boat hurriedly moved the pockets in the boat warehouse to the shore. In a blink of an eye, five large bags were placed on the shore. Then the three people turned around and flipped onto the boat again. The movement was very fast, and they were obviously eating for water.

"Next time bring more money, you will have salt if you have money!"

The salt was given and the silver was collected. Wang De didn't dare to delay here any more. If the inspectors saw it, his head would fall off immediately. He was about to open his mouth and say he wanted to leave, but his words suddenly changed when he spoke. Instead, he asked: "Qi Laosi, I said that your Taiping Army has been surrounded in the city for half a year. I'm afraid the food in the city is about to be out of stock?"

"Does we have no food to do with you?" Qi Laosi was in a hurry because of Wang De's price increase, so he didn't have any good things to say to him.

"Hey, although I only recognize money but not people, after all, I have been fed from a pot, and I always have a favor. I will give you a good word. Let me leave quickly while the city is not broken. Can you not run away? If you really have to wait until the city is broken, you will be afraid that there will be no place to run away." Wang De's face was really sincere when he said this, and he really didn't want to see Qi Laosi die in the city.

Qi Laosi said in a muffled voice: "You don't have to worry about my business. If you get the money, just leave. Remember to come back in three days."

"Okay, I can't do anything if you don't leave. However, when the old man thieves siege the city last year, the evil in Xinhui City was quite serious. If you lose food, hehe..."

Wang De did not explain it, but why did Qi Laosi not hear what he wanted to say. He raised his eyebrows and said angrily: "Our Taiping Army is either a Qing demon, or even starved to death, will not do anything to eat people!"

"If people are hungry, what can't they do?"

Wang De shook his head, "But I think you haven't lost food yet, otherwise you wouldn't have to buy salt, but rice. Even so, how long can you last? Xinhui is a dead city, don't expect someone to come to save you. Also, brother has explained your words to you, salt, brother, I can get a few bags of food, but brother really can't get it. Even if you get it, you can't stuff your teeth with these bags of food. You can do it yourself."

Qi Laosi had a dark face and didn't say anything.

Wang De knew that the fourth son of Qi had worked in Li Dingzhong, so he thought about it and said, "For the sake of money, I'll send you another message."

Qi Laosi was a little confused: "What news?"

Wang De opened his mouth and said something that made Qi Laosi confused. He said: "Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang have started fighting."

"Has the king and the Western Palace started fighting?" Qi Laosi was stunned and did not react for a long time.

"I've given the message to you, brother, I'm leaving too. Oh, by the way, go back and give me a head to you. It's the thief scholar who said hello. If he wants to run away, he can find me at that time, the price is, hehe."

After Wang De finished speaking, he ignored Qi Laosi and his men, and turned around and the boat. After a while, the boat was far away from the river and disappeared into the night in a blink of an eye.

"Fourth brother, is the news that the king and the Western Prefecture fought with each other?" The man surnamed Zhu, who had sneezed before, also worked with the Si Si of Qi in the Western Prefecture, so he was very worried that the king and the Western Prefecture would really fight.

"It's probably true. Wang De will not fake this kind of thing. When we were working under Xifu before, we didn't know that the relationship between Xifu and the king was not very good."

Qin Laosi sighed. The king and the Western Prefecture really want to fight. Isn’t the sky of the Ming Dynasty really going to collapse?
Chapter completed!