Chapter 619 Looking for Someone
Chapter 619 Looking for Someone
"strangeness……"
The duck expert turned back.
It was dark and gloomy, and so quiet that I could hear my own heartbeat.
Return to the deck.
"Oh, it's really cold." The man grabbed the rope, his knuckles red from the cold. He rubbed his hands, put on a dry towel and sat by the fire. "A Ping, what's the matter? I saw you looking suspicious in the water earlier. What were you looking back for?"
Ah Ping shook his head: "I didn't see anything, but I felt like there was someone in the water staring at us."
"Tsk, stop scaring yourself." Another person came and sat down. "The faster your heartbeat, the harder it is to hold your breath. It's easy to choke on water in cold weather. If you choke and get cramps, I can't save you."
"Hey, don't tell me, it's not certain. I heard that there are many monsters in Pingyang Prefecture recently. According to Ah Ping, there might be two of them staring at us just now."
"..."
It was originally a joke.
No one in the room laughed.
"Why are you shaking so hard?"
"cold."
"Didn't the Hebo Station say it was a safe water area?"
"Who knows, but from what I've heard, there are a lot of big monsters, but I haven't heard of anyone getting hurt."
"What do we plant vines for?"
"I don't understand. From what the Chamber of Commerce manager said, it seems that they want to build an island for the mermaids to trade?"
"I learned to swim at the age of three, and caught fish with my bare hands at the age of six. I was known as a white shark in the waves. I have been swimming in the Yangtze and Huaihe Rivers for twenty years, but I have never seen what a mermaid looks like. I wonder if mermaids are pretty?"
The subject changed.
The boatman's fear of water monsters was greatly reduced.
"Pingyang County has become Pingyang Prefecture, and the strange things in it are getting stranger and stranger. There is a giant serving in the Hebo Office, at least seven feet tall, and I heard he is called a dragon man."
"What's a dragon man? In September, I went to Yixing Town, looking for a bighead carp to make a pot of soup. Hey, I saw a river otter on the road. It was carrying an embroidered purse to buy pig's head meat. What a ghost!"
Get off the boat.
The snake, with its skull against the keel, felt the vibrations and heard the conversation of the people on the boat, quietly left.
The water surface is calm, with a few ripples winding around.
Courtyard.
Side hall.
The huge green snake was spitting out its tongue impatiently.
Months. Many months.
With so many monsters coming out of the Jianghuai Marsh, there is not even a single news of the white ape.
It’s so easy to hide!
The thin green snake crawled and kowtowed.
"Lord Lin, there is an old saying in the human race that heart disease must be cured with heart medicine. The person who tied the bell should be the one to untie it. I think that if we want to find the white ape, we still need to start with the official named Liang from the Hebo Office."
"Bribery? Haven't you seen the lesson of Chilin?" The blue snake said disdainfully, "You tricked others into doing things in circles, and you set yourself up for a loop."
The thin green snake spit out its tongue, its eyes flashing with ferocity: "Since bribery doesn't work, let's try another method."
The blue snake vetoed.
"Not good. This boy is of great status. He is favored by the Saint Emperor of the Human Race and is recognized as a disciple by the Martial Saint. If our race acts rashly, it would be good if we succeed, but if we fail..."
"It is not easy for my clan to come forward, but there are still 'people' who can come forward."
The huge green snake swung its tail.
……
Xu family courtyard.
Long Eying sat on the swing under the veranda, gently swinging and turning the pages of a book. Long Yao and Long Li stood on either side, holding apples in their hands. They turned their wrists and coaxed the little river otter to run back and forth in the yard on all fours.
Compare the two phases.
It is indeed much more cheerful than before.
Liang Qu sat in the study, watching silently through the window.
I thought I could relax more easily because we got to know each other better day by day, but what I heard from Master's Wife today was not entirely true.
"Enlightenment?"
Good thing. What's not beautiful about beauty?
Pleasant to the eye.
Liang Qu put down the ink pen and let the writing page dry: "Long Yao, Long Li! Come and copy a book for me!"
evening.
Yang Dongxiong returned home.
The Xu family invited Xu Rongguang, two reliable managers, to conspire for "big things".
Liang Qu handed over the written "plan" and distributed it one by one, asking the master, Old Master Xu and the shopkeepers to review it.
Seeing such a "plan" for the first time, everyone in the venue was talking to each other, their eyes were opened.
for a long time.
Xu Rongguang stroked his beard and asked the two big shopkeepers: "Shopkeeper Li, Shopkeeper Gao, you two are old men in the cloth business, is this method feasible?"
The two shopkeepers looked at each other.
The two had seen the samples before they came. It was an extraordinary idea. They could guarantee with their lives that if it appeared on the market, there would be no trouble selling it.
However, I have never done any business that started with the emperor.
Shopkeeper Gao bowed and said, "Mr. Liang, this method is quite bold. If it can be successful, it will be of great benefit. It may even be difficult for outsiders to imitate and become a unique business.
However, one piece of shark silk can make eighty to ninety socks. If we want to run a unique business, we have to face the needs of the entire Dashun. One hundred taels sounds expensive. From princes and nobles to county lords, there are many people who can afford it.
Can the mermaid tribe that Mr. Liang found afford such a huge amount of mermaid silk? As far as I know, mermaids shed their scales twice a year, and their production is very rare. "
"No." Shopkeeper Li disagreed. "Mermaids are rare, isn't that a natural attraction? Scarcity makes things valuable. Small profits but quick turnover is good, but huge profits but few sales is also a good path.
Our target is the ladies and concubines of various families. We just need to spread some rumors that the imperial concubine was favored by the master... well, that a certain concubine wore our socks, was favored by the master that night, and gave birth to a son.
To win favor, to win favor, to keep one's master, let alone sixty or a hundred taels, even a few hundred taels is something that I personally think one would be willing to spend. After all, if a child is born, all the money spent now can be earned back!"
Good guy.
So dark!
Darker than me!
"That's wrong." Manager Gao shook his head. "It's true that we have a unique business, but it's based on vanity. If the price really rises to several hundred taels, some people will choose ordinary gauze instead of shark silk, and buy others' instead of ours. It's like destroying our own dam!"
That makes sense.
Shopkeeper Gao is great!
"Then please ask the Holy Emperor to issue an order. All those who are pretending to be fake should be arrested and killed. All their earnings should be confiscated!"
cough cough.
Liang Qu said, "What the two shopkeepers said makes sense. It is indeed not enough to rely on the Jiaoxi tribe alone. However, this tribe has not had any trade for decades or even hundreds of years. The Jiaoxi accumulated in the tribe is definitely not small.
And I think that Xu's family must have a lot of good fabrics. Can they mix in some shark silk and weave it with pure shark silk, half shark silk, or one-quarter shark silk to serve as a selling point, or even as a division of grades?"
The two shopkeepers' eyes lit up.
Shopkeeper Li praised: "Mr. Liang is a man of great talent! He is truly a genius who is proficient in both martial arts and business."
Shopkeeper Gao nodded silently: "I think the oil silk and woven gold silk are good, shiny and smooth, mixed with shark silk, the feel... ahem, they will definitely sell very well."
You say something to me.
Details of the "plan" are constantly being added.
The discussion lasted until midnight.
Roughly finalized.
"Master's wife, this boy's reputation is a problem..."
"Didn't you save the Dragon Girl?"
In the past, Liang Qu Wu Gu changed and got in touch with the Dragon Girl. Today, he happened to be in contact with her. In order to save the Dragon Girl, he accidentally invented the method of bandaging the wound with shark silk in a hurry.
That makes sense.
It’s settled.
Xu grinds ink for Xu Rongguang.
Xu Rongguang stood in front of the desk, pondered for a long time, suddenly laughed, and then started to write.
Liang Qu came up and said, "Old Master, who can we send it to? Can we send it to the Imperial Concubine?"
"Don't bother, I'll give them all to Her Majesty the Queen."
hiss!
"It's not appropriate to give this item to other concubines, so we have to give it to the Queen and let her pass it on so that we can earn a favor."
(End of this chapter)