my weird life

Chapter 843 The Grass of Life and Death (22)

The young man looked around, and the leaders all around looked at him with half-smiles.

He suppressed the anger in his heart, turned to look at the long stone beside the Gabutou, leaned closer to the stone, carefully looked at the cracks all over the stone, and forced a smile while watching: "Gabutou, this piece What is so strange about stones?
When I looked at the crevices of the stones, I didn't see the oily color of jade. "

"This is a jasper stone, can't you see it?

Such a large piece of jasper material, if it is really opened, I don’t know how many cattle and sheep can be exchanged for, how many horses of Shu brocade, I will sell it to you, only [-] horses of Shu brocade, it is a good deal. Gabu stroked his beard, pointed to a crack in the stone, and continued to the young caravan, "From here, you can see the color of jasper." "

Hearing the words, the youths of the caravan had no choice but to lean closer to the crack in the stone to have a look.

Sure enough, I saw a faint touch of green in the crevices of the stone.

The cracks in the stone extend to the depths of the stone, covering the entire stone, but the green color is only a little bit less than a copper coin—there may be some jade in this stone, but the quality of the jade is not high. Well, and the jade material is definitely not as big as what Gabu said, and it is not worth fifty bolts of Shu brocade at all!
It is clear that the next Kapoo wants to forcefully sell this stone to the caravan.

The young people also know the purpose of the Kabu.

He looked at the stone for a while, and with a lost smile, he said to Gabu, "Gabu headman, you have done business with us many times, you should know that we don't often receive these jade materials, and we don't know how to identify them. Good jade material.

If we took this stone from you, wouldn't it be a loss for you if we found a good jade worth as far as fifty bolts of Shu brocade?

You still keep this stone yourself, how about we deliver the goods in the previous way? "

"You are also friends from afar. In business, if you lose or make a profit, you should be responsible for it. I will sell this good material to my friends. If my friend makes a profit, I am also happy. It doesn't matter if you lose something. "Gabu said with a smile.

The young man cursed inwardly, but dared not show it on his face.

Their caravans run merchants outside, and they attach the most importance to making money through harmony.

What's more, now that you are on someone else's territory, naturally you can't use weapons, so try not to use weapons.

With swords and soldiers together, the disaster of war will continue.

"Then I'll go discuss it with Maguotou." The caravan youth forced a smile and agreed with Gabu.

Gabu nodded, "Let's discuss it."

After speaking, he sat back on the serf's back and leaned towards the Tang caravan.

The caravan youth turned around and hurried towards the caravan with a solemn expression.

Dan Zeng saw the expression on the Tang man's face, and turned to Su Wu and asked in a low voice, "What's the matter?"

"Probably the business didn't work out.

no problem. "Su Wu shook his head, and saw the caravan youth walk into the caravan, and whispered a few words to the leader of the caravan riding on the most magnificent horse - Ma Guotou.

Ma Guotou glanced at Gabutou.

The Gabutou looked left and right, and did not look at Ma Guotou.

Zhuang immediately carried a cauldron on his back, and the horse pot head in a patent leather armor smiled. He got off his horse and walked to a carriage behind which was heavily protected by the cavalry.

He bowed slightly, and whispered a few words in front of the carriage window: "Proprietor, they want to blackmail us.

A total of 35 pieces of Shu brocade, he is the leader, and he is about to leave, we still owe him [-] pieces of Shu brocade—just buy a piece of broken stone. "

There was a moment of silence in the carriage.

A somewhat weird voice followed: "No way, the situation is stronger than people...

What happened to us, too many people died.

First take out the token of 'Lord Kanlong' and see if you can bluff him. "

"It's probably Kanlong's donkey's thing. He communicated with these dogs first. His token probably won't scare these people." Ma Guotou said in a low voice.

"If it doesn't work, then give it to me." The person in the carriage sighed.

"I'll discuss it with them." Ma Guotou nodded.

He turned around, stepped out of the cavalry, and went straight to the Gabutou.

Hei Ququ's figure pressed down like an iron tower, and the shadow of the horse pot head covered the shadow of the Gabutou. The Gabutou raised his eyes to look at the big black man, and felt a little trembling for a while, with a smile on his face, he turned backwards Take a step back.

The soldiers beside him immediately came up to him and protected Gabu behind him.

Standing behind many soldiers, Gabu immediately raised his head and chest up, a kind of victorious momentum emerged spontaneously.

"Headman, this is Lord Kanlong's token.

We came from Lord Kanlong, and he promised us that with this token, all his subordinates and leaders should give us convenience. With a smile on his face, Ma Guotou handed a token to Gabu's native soldier. He stared at Gabu and asked gently, "I don't know Lord Kanlong's token. Do you recognize it or not?" Recognize? "

The native soldiers handed the badge to the Gabdo.

The other chieftains in the surrounding area led all the soldiers and surrounded them.

Ma Guotou remained unafraid.

Gabu took the token, looked at it for a while, and ordered the soldiers to return the token to Ma Guotou. He looked at the many leaders who gathered around him, and his smile became wider: "This is Kanlong. The tokens that the lord issued to you last year.

Last year, we also provided you with a lot of convenience. "

When he said this, the meaning behind the words was already obvious.

"This time we came to you, mainly to buy a rare medicinal herb - 'Grass of Life and Death'.

If the headman can find us the grass of life and death, we are willing to give as many brocades as we want. " Ma Guotou said.

"Life and death grass, I have it—but that's another business." Gabu pointed to the stone beside him, and continued, "My stone is fifty bolts of Shu brocade."

"Not that much." Ma Guotou shook his head, "If you really want us to buy this stone from you - I can only give you ten pieces of Shu brocade."

"no!
It must be—" The Gabtou didn't finish his sentence!
A few steps away, Ma Guotou suddenly pulled out the knife from his waist!
The broad-backed broadsword gleaming coldly in the sun!

As the horse pot head suddenly drew the knife, there was a rustling sound of the blade rubbing against the leather sheath all around!
All kinds of weapons are shining brightly!
The members of the caravan scattered, and instead surrounded all the leaders, soldiers, and civilians in the surrounding area!

The Maguotou was surrounded by many soldiers, and he had the appearance of a eagle watching a wolf. He looked around the audience, and finally his eyes fell on the Gabutou with a little timid eyes: "You and I are only five steps apart——

Within five steps, I can die.

You too must die! "

Within a short distance, people are all enemies!
The Gabu headman turned pale with fright at this sentence!

"You and the leader, if you kill me today, although my brothers can't wipe out you and others, they will definitely cause you serious losses. If most of the subordinates you bring are killed or injured, you can still protect your own property, your wives and concubines. Sons and daughters?" Ma Guotou looked around, and spoke again, the sound was like a bell.

The leaders around him all hesitated.

They didn't even want to go to war with the Tang caravan.

All they wanted was to work together to extract dozens of pieces of Shu brocade from the caravan.

But right now, the other party looked like he was going to die, which made them retreat.

However, they were quite unwilling to retreat like this.

Ma Guotou said again: "My friends, our caravan would like to present each of you with a Shu brocade!"

The eyes of the people around suddenly lit up.

He turned to look at the Gabu headman: "Headman, I would like to buy this stone from you with twenty bolts of Sichuan brocade. What do you think?"

Gabu looked at the eyes of the people around him, pretending to be pondering.

After pondering for only a few breaths, he nodded in agreement.

"it is good!"

The horse pot head puts the knife back into its sheath.

All the leaders shouted a few times and restrained their subordinates to put away their weapons.

Guotou turned and walked into the horse team.

Not long after, twenty bolts of Shu brocade were delivered to Gabu.

Seven or eight pieces of Shu brocade were distributed to the rest of the leaders.

Everyone seemed to be happy at the moment, but the eyes of the rest of the leaders suddenly changed slightly when they looked at the Shu brocade piled up beside Gabu and then at a piece of Shu brocade in their hands.

Gabu looked at the goods he got with joy, and with a wave of his hand, several servants moved the long stone, which was as tall as a person, into the caravan.

The caravan immediately opened boxes of goods and traded with many people present.

The members of the caravan stood in front of boxes of goods and yelled loudly in the crappy secret Tibetan language: "High-quality iron, tea, cloth, grain seeds!"

"Whatever you have in your hands, you can exchange everything!"

"We mainly harvest 'Life and Death Grass'. This herb is shaped like ginseng leaves, and its roots are like insects. In winter, the leaves wither and the root system dies, and in summer it will grow again. The seven-leaf life and death grass can be exchanged for a Sichuan brocade!
A leaf of grass of life and death can also be exchanged for many tea leaves, ironware, grain seeds, and cloth!
If you have life and death grass in your hands, you can come and trade with us! "

The civilians and serfs who were scattered and wanted to escape just now gathered around boxes of goods, negotiating with the merchants of the caravan. trade.

Some civilians, serfs or really have rare things hidden in their hands, they communicate with the caravan businessmen with gestures.

The businessman led him to discuss business in a corner where no one was around.

Soon.

There are caravan businessmen turning around the convoy.

It highlights a dried plant.

The herb had two leaves, the lower leaves were a little withered, and the root system of the herb was like a dried meat worm.

It is a 'two-leaf grass of life and death'.

"This is the Grass of Life and Death!
If you have seen this kind of herb, you can dig it out, dry it carefully and store it, and we will trade it with you when we return to this place! "The caravan businessman carefully showed the grass of life and death in his hand, his expression a little excited.

Several chieftains led the soldiers to push through the crowd, and they shouted loudly:

"I have such a medicinal herb in my hand, I can exchange it with Shu Brocade!"

"We want silver!"

The crowd consciously moved away from the leader.

Su Wu squeezed into the crowd with Tenzeng's family and stopped a caravan businessman.

He said: "I want to buy some good weapons."

The caravan businessman was dealing with other people. Hearing what Su Wu said, he was taken aback for a moment, then turned to look at Su Wu, his eyes lit up suddenly: "You can speak Chinese?"

(End of this chapter)