At this time, Qinghei and Miki ran over. When they saw that Du Fei had provoked another group of people, they were so frightened that they knelt on the ground: "Bodhisattva~ It seems that we can't go back this time!"
"What nonsense! Tie this woman up quickly!" Du Fei avoided the woman's bright eyes as she glared at him.
Seeing Du Fei returning on horseback with the woman in custody, a large group of townspeople suddenly gathered on the street, and they all surrounded him menacingly with sticks in their hands!
"What are you doing?" Du Fei suddenly became happy when he saw their bluffing and lack of confidence.
"This is the subordinate of the pirate Kuki Yoshitaka! Samurai, please don't stop us! We must vent this bad breath!" A middle-aged man who was as tall as a castor pole shouted loudly.
"Haha~ Who are you taking it out on?" Du Fei smiled and asked these strong-willed townspeople: "Are you taking it out on this tied up girl? You are really capable~"
The townspeople blushed and were about to explode, but they were afraid of Du Fei's force and were afraid to move forward. So they froze there.
"Help~~Hurry up and save me~~" A cry for help came. Then the townspeople shouted as if they were waking up from a dream: "Go and save the director!" Then I saw a group of men, women, old and children rushing towards me.
Run to the town center~!
Du Fei and others also followed him curiously, and saw a naked old man tied to a log in the center of the town, being rescued by the townspeople.
As soon as he got up, he yelled: "You are dead! Why don't you put me down first?! Ah Sneeze! Ah Sneeze!"
At this time, the tied-up girl standing behind Du Fei burst into laughter, which aroused the old man's dissatisfaction: "What are these evil thieves doing here?" As he spoke, he wanted to rush over tremblingly.
, but after seeing Du Fei’s terrifying eyes, he was so frightened that he stepped back halfway.
Du Fei sighed: "Old man, put on your clothes first before talking~ Who can tell me what exactly happened here?"
Upon hearing this, the townspeople rushed forward. For a moment, everyone's mouths were opened in confusion, but no one's words could be heard clearly.
"Stop! Stop!" Du Fei yelled: "Say them one by one!"
It turns out that Marugame Town was originally an important hub for the sea route to Kai Town. There were so many merchants here that almost all the famous products of Shikoku Prefecture were gathered here, and then they were transferred to Kai Town and sold to foreign merchant ships and merchants traveling back and forth.
Mainland businesses.
It can be said that this place is richer than many places due to its relatively good geographical location and the local famous product 'Golden Kapok Silk'. But it was the wealth of Marugame Town that attracted the attention of the pirate leader Kuuki Yoshitaka. He
Recently, people have often been sent to search and rob merchant ships on the waterway, causing waterway transportation to completely come to a standstill; all the merchants in Marugame Town have also become dying.
"It's because of them!" the old man who had his clothes stripped off yelled angrily: "No merchant ship dares to dock in Marugame Town, which was originally a paradise! We have been making annual tributes to the pirate Kuuki Yoshiro! Why are they not satisfied yet?
~~" At this point, the old man actually started crying.
Du Fei's expression also became serious. He turned around and asked the captured female pirate: "Is he telling the truth?"
Who knew that the girl raised her slightly dark face, raised her eyes to look at the sky, and ignored him at all?
Kiyobei and Miki were immediately angered: "Damn pirates! What did the master ask you?"
"Take her first! She will be tortured and interrogated later!" Du Fei deliberately pretended to be vicious and secretly watched the woman's reaction. He saw that the female pirate's eyes were already in mid-air waiting for his glance.
The scorching and somewhat fiery eyes immediately forced Du Fei's eyes to look elsewhere.
"This samurai-sama~~" The old man who was called the director of the Chamber of Commerce cried to Du Fei with runny nose and tears: "Please help us~ If this continues, this Shang Town and more than 10,000 people
The townspeople are finished. Now we have a lot of backlog of golden kapok silk~ If we don’t sell it, it will become moldy and become garbage~ Please save us~~”
"Golden kapok silk?" Du Fei asked curiously: "What is that? I have never heard of it~~ Is it different from ordinary kapok silk?"
"Of course!" The old man suddenly showed a proud expression on his face: "This is a unique good thing in the world! Come! I will take you to see it!"
Then the old man said to the townspeople: "Quickly prepare wine and food to entertain the samurai-sama! Don't stand there in a daze!"
I saw that although the old man looked quite old, his steps were very brisk, and he actually left Kiyobei and Miki behind.
"Old man~~" Kiyobei and Miki complained incessantly: "Can you please slow down~ We have been traveling all day and our feet are numb!"
The old man stopped suddenly, rolled his eyes a few times, and then said to a young man next to him: "Jinpachi! Take the two distinguished guests to have a rest and dinner~! You must treat them well! Don't be negligent!"
Seeing the two of them happily being led away by Jinpachi, Du Fei leaned close to the old man's ear and said, "What do you want to say to me alone after you send them away?"
"What a smart man!" The old man combed his rotten grass-like hair with his hands: "People who are related to our agreement don't need to know too much~~Although the old man's eyesight is not good, he is not
Idiots. Those two people have no ability at all, why should I take them to play?"
Du Fei couldn't help but laugh: "It's true that businessmen are not evil~ But it sounds quite reasonable. I haven't asked you for your name yet."
"The name is just a code name. My parents have always called me Notaro since I was a child. Others named me Notaro when I was a child~~ It's really embarrassing to call me that now. You can just call me old man~ Anyway, they are all
That's what you call it~" After saying that, he licked his lips, revealing the few remaining teeth in his mouth.
"Okay~~, now it's just the two of us, can you talk about the so-called agreement now?" Du Fei began to like the old man's open-minded and cunning style.
"First of all," the old man suddenly opened the door of the large warehouse in front of him! A sudden burst of dazzling light made Du Fei unable to open his eyes. Inside was actually full of finished kapok silk with a dark golden color!
"This!" Du Fei couldn't help but took a bunch and held it in his hand. He saw that this kind of kapok silk was not dyed acquiredly, but was born with a golden luster! And the touch of these cotton silk made people feel
It feels good, like touching a baby's face, soft and smooth. You can imagine how gorgeous these kapok silks will be when made into satin and clothes!
Du Fei kept praising while watching: "Yeah! Good stuff! Really good stuff!"
"What a pity~~" the old man interjected at the right time: "No matter how good the goods are, it will be in vain if they can't be shipped out! Only the big businessmen in Kai Town can eat such luxuries in one go. Ordinary merchants can't buy them even if they want to.
Okay~ We breed golden cicadas and grow golden thread noodles to make these kapok silks and it also costs a lot of money~ So, the backlog of these goods can really kill people~"
"So~ you just want me to help you escort the goods to Jieding?" Du Fei interrupted him and looked directly at him with bright eyes.