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Chapter 814 The Relationship Between Light and Darkness

Chapter 814 The Relationship Between Light and Darkness

Yin Erhu did a lot of thinking and preparation, and chose an early morning when Yunchu came to the cafeteria for dinner, and confessed his thoughts.

After Yunchu finished eating the buns on the plate, he kicked Yin Erhu out. He felt that his subordinates were all idiots.

When Yin Erhu returned home happily, he saw Xue Changfeng eating the cold noodles that Xiuniang had prepared for him.

The cold noodles in the big dining hall are noodles pulled out by the cooks by hand. They are mixed with garlic vinegar and red pepper, and then poured with a large spoonful of viscous toppings composed of egg flower, gluten, and fried tofu. It is ice cold in the hot summer. It is most beautiful to eat a large plate.

The cold noodles made by Xiuniang are very different from the cold noodles in the Jinchangfang Canteen. The noodles are hand-rolled, then cut into noodles with a knife, rolled twice in the water, rinsed with cold water, mixed with vegetable oil, added vinegar , stir more garlic, more spicy peppers, add a little sesame oil, sesame oil, and finally a spoonful of mustard water, no sticky toppings, just add a little sliced ​​cucumber and fried tofu, the taste is better than Dacanting The cold noodles are more than ten times more delicious.

Yin Erhu once thought about giving this secret recipe to the big canteen, but was scolded by the master chef in the big canteen.

There are tens of thousands of people who want to eat in the big canteen every day. Who has the time to slowly scratch a bowl of noodles. Only the noodles that simplify everything and make everything convenient are suitable for the big canteen. Come to the canteen, and go to the Wannian County Yamen canteen to have a look. Only the master chefs there have the time, and they are not afraid of labor costs.

Seeing Xue Changfeng eating happily, Yin Erhu was not so happy. He sat at the table and peeled garlic for Xue Changfeng, and said, "Is it delicious?"

Xue Changfeng took the time to pick up his thumbs and said, "It's delicious. If you don't get angry, the noodles will taste even better."

"I'm not angry because you ate my noodles. I was angry because I was scolded by him after I made an important suggestion to the Lord."

Xue Changfeng ate the noodles on the plate in twos and twos, and took a look at Yin Erhu's nonsensical proposal document.

He handed the empty plate to Xiu Niang and asked for another plate.

"My lord is going to be dehumanized, can't you see such a simple question? If he doesn't scold you, who else?"

"Detoxification? What do you mean?"

"It means that the lord already has enough strength, and no longer needs those dead men who do dirty work. There are hundreds of harms but no benefits.”

Yin Erhu hesitated after hearing Xue Changfeng's words, "I heard..."

Xue Changfeng nodded without waiting for him to finish speaking: "What you heard is absolutely correct. When many noble people go through this process, they often choose to use another method to eliminate future troubles. What do you like? Poison or a knife ?”

Yin Erhu shook his head and said: "My lord will not do this. The people he ordered to kill all these years all had ways of killing themselves."

Xue Changfeng said with a smile: "It's really beyond my expectation that you can live up to now and give birth to a child."

Yin Erhu said: "In this case, you can continue to be surprised. Since we are no longer suitable to be dead soldiers, I am going to find some people who can be dead soldiers for the Lord."

Xue Changfeng ate a plate of cold noodles again, burped, and said to Yin Erhu: "Hunger is a terrible thing. Although Chang'an is rich, not everyone can eat. You are willing to do anything after a meal, you can find these people, but this kind of person can only be used once, once he is full, it will be useless.”

Yin Erhu looked at Xue Changfeng and said, "In Chang'an, if you ask for money, you will come, but if you beg for food, no matter whether it is good or bad, someone will always give you a bowl of rice. So, the meal you mentioned, Can't buy a dead man."

Xue Changfeng frowned and said, "There are always some death row prisoners in the prison..."

Before Xue Changfeng could finish speaking, Yin Erhu interrupted him and said: "The death row prisoners in the prison must be beheaded, and none of them should be missing. Let these people live, and I'm sorry for the crimes they have committed."

Xue Changfeng said angrily: "Then show me kindness, and then..."

Yin Erhu also didn't wait for him to finish speaking, he pointed to his nose and said: "My lord has treated me with great kindness, it's not impossible to be a dead soldier now."

Xue Changfeng frowned and said, "You still look like you are willing to lay down your life for the Lord."

Yin Erhu looked at the girl who was sitting on a small bench eating cold noodles with a plate in her arms, then glanced at Xiu Niang who was busy in the kitchen, and sighed, "It used to be a trivial matter to give up your life, but now it's okay to give up your life, but I'm a bit reluctant." gone."

Xue Changfeng sighed, "I've been researching the Chang'an Guild in Qujiang recently.

I found a very interesting thing. There are various entrustments in the guild hall. These entrustments include delivery, receiving, escort, and even notices issued by the government to find various magical crops, minerals, and pigments. Those who asked for a map of a certain place, those who asked for special medicinal materials in a certain place, and even those who asked someone to send a letter to a distant place quickly.

It was very lively with people coming and going. "

Yin Erhu said: "The people there have formed their own rules, just like some people who specialize in escorting people's goods to long distances. In fact, they are connected with the Jiangyang thieves and bandits everywhere. The escort fees given by the guests, among them Part of the boss was taken by them to honor those thieves who sit on the ground and distribute the spoils.

However, the past two years have been different. These people have gradually become richer, sold a lot of good equipment, and started plotting against bandits and thieves. I heard that they made a lot of money. "

Xue Changfeng said: "Have you been to the alley behind the guild?"

Yin Erhu shook his head and said, "I never paid attention."

Xue Changfeng said: "After dinner, let's go and have a look."

Yin Erhu didn't know why Xue Changfeng made this request, but seeing that this guy seemed very serious, he nodded and agreed.

Qujiangli is now a new city outside Chang'an City. This city is different from Chang'an City. It does not have tall walls, but there is a huge deep pit around it.

These pits are so deep that even if you put the walls of Chang'an City inside, you can't poke your head out.

This is impossible. Building the Chang'an city wall will cost a lot of money, but digging deep pits in the Qujiang River can produce a lot of bricks and stones.

The city wall of Chang’an consumes money and food, and its natural scale is limited. The deep pits in Qujiang can generate money and food, so the local brick kiln owners can dig the big pit without the government’s urging. The deep pit in it will definitely be more magnificent.

There is water in the pit, and the water is connected to the Bahe River, so that the ships from the canal can get closer to Chang'an.

Compared with Chang'an, Qujiang City has a different appearance. In the past, there were coal-burning brick kilns all over here. Since those brick kilns turned the two earth hills here into flat ground and the flat ground around the city into deep pits, the people here The brick and tile kilns were forced to leave Qujiangli, and handed over the soot-polluted city to Chang'an's huge business.

The current Qujiang City no longer has coal ash falling down. Instead, it is full of fast-growing bamboos and slow-growing pines and cypresses.

Things like pagoda trees and willows are strictly prohibited here. No one likes catkins flying everywhere in spring and pagoda trees that can drop their leaves everywhere before autumn.

The streets of Qujiang City are horizontal and vertical, which is very similar to Chang'an, except that the structure of the houses is different from that of Chang'an, where the eaves are everywhere and the carved beams and painted buildings are everywhere. Most of the houses here are stone houses, and the tallest and most magnificent building is Qujiang Trading. Place.

After Yin Erhu and Xue Changfeng entered Qujiang City on the tall suspension bridge, both of them turned a blind eye to the magnificent Qujiang Exchange that was full of merchants. Today, their goal is the guild hall in Qujiang.

Speaking of the guild hall, this is naturally the place where all kinds of brokers from Chang'an City gather.

Whether it's buying and selling slaves, or buying and selling cattle and sheep, it's as big as a mansion worth a hundred thousand yuan, as small as a small dwelling that can only accommodate one bed, or as valuable as a variety of treasures, as small as the garbage thrown away by the people of Chang'an City every day. , used goods, can be found here.

If you want to buy a ranch with a radius of tens of miles in a remote frontier, here, as long as you have money on hand, you will naturally get it.

Even if you want to buy a small island in the sea, it is not difficult to be the owner of the island yourself.

It can be said that as long as it is what you want, you can find it in the tall stone houses on this long street.

Yin Erhu stood in the war horse auction hall for a while, looking enviously at a huge butt sitting on the back of a superb Dawan horse. That butt complemented the plump butt of the Dawan horse, and the war horse moved , They are all twists and turns that make people think.

A woman with such a plump buttocks is basically impossible to be a woman from the Tang Dynasty. Yin Erhu glanced up and found that she was indeed a tall and strong Huihe woman with chestnut hair.

Xue Changfeng tugged Erhu's arm and said, "Let's go, whether it's the horse or the orchid on the horse, you, a poor ghost with only three hundred coins, can't get your hands on it."

Erhu sighed and said, "I don't know when people with a net worth of three hundred yuan have become poor ghosts."

The two continued to wander in the huge hall of the guild, and soon Erhu found that not only could he not afford the BMW beauty, he could not even afford a carriage, a dark red four-wheeled carriage placed on a huge wooden platform , Erhu doesn't need to look at the label to know that he can't afford it at all, even if he is constantly embezzling in the big cafeteria, he can't afford it.

In the end, Erhu spent [-] pennies to buy a hairpin for Xiuniang. There was a sapphire on it. Although it was only the size of a soybean, the color was very eye-catching blue.

He spent another [-] pennies to buy a shining gold collar for the little girl, and then dragged Xue Changfeng to leave, not even watching the Orchid auction that was being held next to him, just thinking about finishing things and going home early.

After all, this is already the highest level he can spend here.

The stone house of the guild is also tall and majestic, but in the small alley behind this magnificent facade, Erhu immediately felt clearly that this is another world.

If everything in the front can be placed in the sun, the people and things in the back alley can only survive in shadows and darkness.

The first thing that caught Er Hu's eyes were dozens of strong men, not only from the Tang Dynasty, but also from the Hu people.

"Five hundred dollars!"

When Erhu passed by a strong man, he heard the guy's offer. This guy obviously didn't sell himself, but his life.

Erhu whispered to Xue Changfeng: "You can earn five hundred dollars a month as a buddy, right?"

Xue Changfeng said with a smile: "When you get used to being a swordsman, no one is willing to bow their heads and become a buddy that everyone can command."

After measuring the number of these people, Erhu said again: "I don't trust killers with five hundred dollars."

Xue Changfeng said: "Most of these are liars. The world is not good or bad. After all, some people will encounter things that the government can't solve. Often at this time, some people hope to solve the matter through other channels."

Erhu looked in the direction of Xue Changfeng's finger, and sure enough, there was a notice posted on the wall over there. A portrait was drawn on the notice.

"This is the price for buying this person's life. If someone comes here with this person's head, he can exchange fifty pennies."

Yin Erhu looked around, but he didn't see any conspicuous people. Not far away, there was a small stall selling wontons. Behind the stall stood a toothless old woman, who was as old as a ghost.

"If you want to post a notice on the wall here, you have to eat a bowl of wontons at that old woman's wonton stand. If someone completes the commission, you will also go to the old woman's place to eat a bowl of wontons. Oh, by the way, the old woman called Granny Meng, when I started the Tsingyi Building, I planned to start with Granny Meng, I have seen all the people here, and they should be the most organized one."

The two walked past Granny Meng's stall while talking, without looking at Granny Meng who was drowsy.

A scantily clad woman was sitting at the base of the wall with a memorial tablet in her arms. When Er Hu and Xue Changfeng passed by her, the woman said to them, "Kill Liu Jianliang, and I belong to both of you."

Xue Changfeng and Erhu didn't answer, and continued to walk forward. As he walked, Xue Changfeng said, "Her man was killed by this Liu Jianliang. After the investigation, the government said that her man died of illness. She didn't believe it. She sued the officials several times. The official answer is like this, this woman wants to avenge her man in another way, and the family has no money, so this is the only way..."

Erhu frowned and said, "That's not right, the case of the dead has to go through the Dali Temple, and now, the Dali Temple has strict law enforcement, so there should be no scenes of reckless killings, right?

Also, this woman is so blatantly paying for murder, if she succeeds, where will she survive? "

Xue Changfeng said with a smile; "Who can say clearly about kindness and resentment, some people are willing to die with their own lives, we have nothing to do with it.

This area is full of people who want to take revenge no matter what. It seems that the most sad thing about this wine, sex and wealth is the level of anger. "

"What are you going to do with your Tsing Yi Building?"

Xue Changfeng looked at the messy notices in the alley, and said with a smile: "Of course we have to help these people get rid of their anger."

Erhu whispered: "You want to kill innocent people indiscriminately?"

Xue Changfeng smiled and said: "We will investigate... People who are willing to risk their lives to be killed, even if they are innocent, are innocent, and there are very few cases where the government has no way to decide. We will decide.

If Tsing Yi Building wants to develop for a long time, it must set a clear programmatic goal for itself. We are not only killers, but also a part of the law, which can complement the insufficient part of the law..."

Yin Erhu felt that Xue Changfeng was talking nonsense, looking for an excuse for his Tsingyi Building to kill people indiscriminately.

Seeing Xue Changfeng's mouth frothing, Yin Erhu felt that it was necessary for him to inform the master of his current situation, and asked the master to judge whether this guy has gone crazy.

He also understood that because he and Xue Changfeng were brothers, this guy would speak his mind.

With his tenacious temperament, even without the support of the Lord, he can still build his Tsingyi Building...

"In the Chang'an guild, now we often receive some life-threatening rewards. I heard that the market is good. I paid special attention to it today and saw no less than six rewards. These are the rewards in the open. If you count the hidden flowers, there must be more rewards." .

Therefore, based on this, it can be speculated that there should be quite a few people in this industry in Chang'an City. If the Lord does not take these scourges into his own hands as soon as possible, sooner or later the situation will become full of killers. "

Yin Erhu said: "What exactly do you want to do?"

Xue Changfeng said: "Keep these people in your hands."

Yin Erhu hesitated and said, "My lord might not like it."

Xue Changfeng said: "As long as it is easy to use, I will do it while no one knows about me, and it will be regarded as a benefit to Datang. You also know the truth that blocking is worse than sparse."

Yin Erhu said: "You mean these people can replace the dead?"

Xue Changfeng nodded and said: "They don't belong to anyone, but they belong to anyone, so they are the dead soldiers of Qian.

If the Lord needs dead men to do things in the future, you can let these people do it through me, and the effect should be better. "

Yin Erhu didn't answer immediately this time. When he reported the suggestion to the Lord to search for the dead man again in the morning, he couldn't see the real intention of the Lord. Like, this made Yin Erhu very embarrassed.

Under the autumn tiger, Chang'an is still unbearably hot, but there is only this hot wind. When the northwest wind blows, it will be a depression.

Back home, Xiu Niang still cooked cold noodles for the two of them.

Yin Erhu finally ate the cold noodles brought by Xiuniang, added an extra spoonful of chili, and Xili Hulu began to eat.

After eating the cold noodles, he put down his chopsticks and said to Xue Changfeng, "You can't do it alone. According to our organizational structure, one person must work and two people supervise. Besides me, if you want to do this, you need a willing person." The person who guarantees you with his life is also the person who is willing to monitor your behavior."

Xue Changfeng said puzzled: "The Lord should send someone down."

Yin Erhu sneered and said, "Such a disgusting matter must have nothing to do with the master."

Xue Changfeng said: "We form a society by ourselves, it has nothing to do with the Lord?"

Yin Erhu said: "It must be so."

Xue Changfeng said: "Not controlled by the Lord?"

Yin Erhu sneered, "You're dreaming."

Xue Changfeng spread his hands and said, "This is going to be difficult."

Yin Erhu nodded Xue Changfeng with his thick finger and said, "This is your business, the rules have already been set."

Xue Changfeng thought for a long time and said, "Money?"

Yin Erhu said slowly: "My family has about 300 yuan, and you can figure out what to do with the rest.

You need to formulate rules and formulate a set of rules that satisfy the Lord, otherwise there is no need to talk about it. "

Xue Changfeng stood up, shook his shirt, and said to Yin Erhu, "I need to borrow some people from you."

"How much do you want?"

"Ten experienced dead men."

Yin Erhu looked at the huge locust tree outside the yard, nodded and said: "Yes, after they finish this time, the dead soldiers under the Lord's command will become clearer, and it can be regarded as an explanation to them.

After they have cleared the way, many places will be vacated, and I can leave these places to you. "

Xue Changfeng said: "Take me to have a look."

Three days later, the orders posted on the back street of Chang'an Guild were heard to have been completed by some people.

At the same time, aggressive bad guys also entered the dark street and began to vigorously search for the killer.

Bad people also found those who commissioned the murder and put them all in prison.

People who are not desperate to a certain extent will not hire murderers to kill people on the running water brand in an open and honest manner. Now, they have their revenge, even if they are put into prison, sent to prison, or beheaded.

It's just that their wish was fulfilled, but the backstreet of the guild was completely rectified by bad people. From then on, there is no murder street in Chang'an anymore.

Only Granny Meng still cooks and sells wontons day after day. Without those vulgar killers, the back street is such a good place, it is quickly occupied by all kinds of wandering warblers, and no better business has been born.

Of course, Yunchu knew about Xue Changfeng's plan to be the owner of Tsingyi Building. After weighing the pros and cons, he gave Yin Erhu and Xue Changfeng's re-drawn plan to Wenrou. He believed that Wenrou would definitely build a suitable management framework for them. .

This kind of matter cannot be handed over to Di Renjie. Yun Chu was very worried that Di Renjie would take the opportunity to catch those killers after he knew about it.

The first year of Linde was actually September of the fourth year of Longshuo. Emperor Li Zhi confirmed that in February of the first year of Linde, he would go on a tour of the South Road and enshrine Zen on Mount Tai.

It is a very troublesome thing for the emperor to go to inspect places. The roads need to be repaired, and the garrison palace needs to be built every [-] miles. Compared with these small things, the relocation of the army and the recruitment are a bigger trouble. It can be called pulling a hair and moving the whole body.

This time, there were as many as 12 troops following the emperor's east tour, plus the civil and military officials and their families, the overall number would not be less than 15.

Yun Chu is a Marquis and a Marquis, so he must be escorted. Yu Xiurong is the wife of the Empress, so he naturally has to follow. Yun Jin is the eldest son of the Yun family, so he must also participate in this grand ceremony with his mother.

If Yun Chu, Yu Xiurong, and Yun Jin had to go, it would mean that the entire Yun family was mobilized.

(End of this chapter)