Jianghu I am the only one

Chapter 68 Preliminary Exploration
Xun Chu couldn't help cheering in his heart when he came out of the compound of Shenmu Trading Company.

Since she was sold again half a year ago, this is the first time she has walked outside so "freely".

Before the new owner changed, which time was he not released after learning the rules for a year and a half in the house, and he could only work behind a few "old people"?
Not to mention being able to come out so quickly this time, I have a lot of autonomy in doing things, and each has usual money to spend.

Of course, being protected and supervised is indispensable.

Thinking of this, Xun Chu not only turned his head to look at the two men behind him.

This time they came out to do the task assigned by the gang leader, and they were asked to act separately, but each was protected by two members of the Shenmu gang.

According to Sister Hua, these guys were transferred from Weitang by the gang leader, and they are all experts in the first level. It is not a problem for one person to deal with four or five ordinary people.

Both of them were wearing blue strong clothes, and a blue mop was tied on their foreheads, with a black word "wood" embroidered on it.

Xun Chu knew that this was the uniform of ordinary members of the Shenmu Gang, just like the uniforms of officers and soldiers.

In addition, these two people each have a wooden token, which is the real token to identify their gang members.

It is said that there are now more than 300 brothers in the Shenmu Gang, and not everyone knows each other well. If there is no token as a token, it is easy to be mixed into the gang.

The tokens of the Shenmu Gang brothers are all the same on the surface, but if you look closely, you will find that each token has a unique Arabic numeral.

Arabic numerals is one of the main knowledge that Ouyang Ye taught them in the past half month. They were barely able to read and count before, so they learned Arabic numerals quickly by analogy.

Ouyang Ye told them in class that the numbers on the tokens correspond to the gang members' affiliation, rank, and name.

When entering and exiting the gate of Shenmu Commercial Bank, all the gang members need to show their tokens and report the hall entrance and name. If the hall entrance and name under the corresponding number on the guard's roster do not match, it is very likely that an outsider took the token to confuse them. Come in.

At that time, this class gave them a lot of insight, and they also felt more in awe of Ouyang Ye.

Xun Chu saw that the two men were as expressionless as Ouyang Ye, but they were holding the handle of the knife tightly in their hands. While looking around, their eyes vaguely covered her, so he turned his head and walked forward quickly.

At this time, she was wearing a bamboo hat with a black scarf hanging from the edge, making it difficult for outsiders to see her face.Coupled with the fact that there are two brothers from the Shenmu Gang following behind, basically no one dares to provoke them when walking on the street.

Walking into the market, looking at the shops, street stalls, and merchants around him, and then thinking about the task that the leader asked him to do, Xun Chu couldn't help but think with his willow eyebrows, and his pace was no longer so urgent...
Yu Si was walking on the street market of Jitangguan with a bag of sugar on his shoulders. Seeing the shops lined up and the crowds bustling, he couldn't help sighing in his heart: It's really one of the largest towns in Babei. The street market is even more lively than the county town.

Soon, his eyes fell on one or two men in blue and strong suits who occasionally appeared on the street.

Most of these men have a blue mop forehead on their heads, with the word "wood" embroidered in the middle of the mop forehead, and they basically carry weapons.

"It seems that these people are members of the Shenmu Gang." Yu Sixin said.

When he came to Jitangguan this time, he was ordered by Xiang Yunfeng to investigate the details of the Shenmu Gang, so he naturally paid more attention to the members of the Shenmu Gang.

As an experienced spy, he didn't do anything rashly, but pretended to be a rice candy peddler, and planned to observe at Jitang Pass for two days.

He believes that no one will see that there is something wrong with him, because he was indeed a rice peddler in the past.

Even though he later became a bandit and even entered the Xiang family, he would still stir up sugar pickers from time to time and enter a certain town or village to inquire about news and select fat sheep.

Therefore, in the past few years, he has never been unfamiliar with the business of selling rice.

Seeing the two members of the Shenmu gang walking towards this side, Yu Si immediately looked away, tapped the sugar knife three times with a small hammer, making a crisp ding ding sound, and then shouted in a unique voice: " Selling rice candy~"

Seeing a girl wearing a black gauze hat stop and look at Tang Tiaozi, he immediately asked with a smile, "Miss, do you want to buy rice candy? The craft of making rice candy in my old Yu family has been passed down for more than ten generations. The rice candy is sweet but not greasy, crisp and refreshing, and you will want to eat it again after eating it."

"How much is one tael?" The girl's voice was very clear and sweet, like Yu Siguo's daughter who died many years ago.

Yu Si was stunned.

It wasn't because the girl's voice sounded like his daughter's voice in his memory, but because he realized that the two Shenmu gang members seemed to be the girl's guards at this moment.

Is this girl an important figure in the Shenmu Gang?
Yu Si paid attention to it, came back to his senses, and immediately smiled and said: "It's not expensive, twenty Wen a tael."

Xun Chu vaguely remembered that when she was a child, her mother took her to buy it once, and it seemed that one tael cost ten cash.But she soon remembered that a year ago, two maids chatted in the previous master's house, and when they mentioned rice candy, it was indeed twenty cents.

The price of rice sugar has increased... It seems that some other things are also more expensive than a few years ago.

she thought.

"Give me one or two, and break it into three pieces." Xun Chu said looking at the pretty rice candy.

Sister Hua said that the usual money given to them must be spent within the deadline, that is, within three days.

Since it is necessary to use it, Xun Chu must buy what he likes.

As for breaking into three pieces, it was divided between Wuyue and Xiaokui.

"Okay!" Yu Si replied, and placed the candy pick on the side of the road not blocking the way, and then skillfully hit the candy knife with a small hammer.

Xun Chu took out twenty Wen coins in his hand and asked, "Uncle, how long will you stay in Jitangguan Town?"

"I can't tell. Most of the time, I will leave before noon, but sometimes I will stay in the town for lunch, and then go to other places to sell." Yu Si replied without thinking.

This was his previous life.

"Then how much can uncle sell in a day at Jitang Pass?" Xun Chu asked again.

"It's hard to say. If a candy can be sold in the town, it can be sold for several taels of silver. But most of the time it is good to sell for a few catties, and it can only be sold for about one or two taels of silver. Excluding the cost , that is, earning a hundred dollars."

"This amount of money will be taken by the military lords who set up cards on the road, and by the heroes of the town. If we encounter robbers again, we will not be able to keep any of it. These days, we small traders are having a hard time."

Yu Si sighed as he spoke, as if he had really become that rice candy peddler who was oppressed by others.

"Then uncle, do you want to have your own small shop?" Xun Chu asked again.

"Miss, do you mean to be a merchant? We sell rice candy for a small business. From ancient times to the present, we have never seen anyone who sells rice as a merchant. They all go to the streets and alleys and run to various villages. Oh However, the teahouses and dessert shops in the county sometimes buy some rice candy from us to sell."

While talking, Yu Si had already wrapped the beaten rice candy into three small portions, wrapped them in another piece of oil paper, tied them with straw ropes and handed them over.

After the girl gave twenty Wen and left, Yu Si couldn't help staring at the girl's slender back thoughtfully from the corner of his eye.

It wasn't until the girl and the two Shenmu gang members disappeared in the crowd that Yu Si picked up the sugar picker again, tinkling with the small hammer and sugar knife, and walked in another direction.

It's not easy for him to follow others with his dress.

Therefore, he was going to find a place where he could keep an eye on the only way from the market to the Shenmu Gang, and see if he could gain anything.

Yu Si knew that there were more than a dozen spies who had been ordered by Xiang Yunfeng to come to Jitang Pass to inquire about news.

These people acted alone like him, and some of them joined forces.

There is no one to lead them.

When they returned to Xiangfu in a few days, they also reported to Xiang Yunfeng what they had obtained from their inquiries.

If Xiang Yunfeng is satisfied, there will be rewards, but if Xiang Yunfeng feels useless, it will be dangerous.

And if he was so unlucky that Xiang Yunfeng was in a bad mood, something would be missing from his body, and it would get into the stomachs of those big wolf dogs of the Xiang family.

Thinking of this, Yu Si did not have the slightest fear.

As an experienced old spy, he was confident that he could get news that satisfied Xiang Yunfeng.

[Second update.How many friends have eaten rice candy when they were young?In some places, it is also called sub-sugar.It's white, knotted together like dough, the kind that needs a sugar knife to pry it off. 】

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　　I went back to the country today, sorry for the late update.

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