Chapter 22 Flickering
At the fork in the road three miles away from the village, Gao Yuan handed a bag of 1,150 taels of silver and a bag of dry food to Du Yu. At the same time, he took the rifle and three bullets from Du Yu's hand. After repeated instructions, he stood there and watched the three of them gradually moving towards the border of Nanzhan Kingdom until their backs completely disappeared into the mountains and ridges.
After walking less than Erli Mountain Road, we arrived at a small pavilion for pedestrians to rest.
Du Yu sat down on the stone bench in the pavilion, pointed to the other two stone benches, and smiled at the two servants and said, "Two, I think we have to talk."
The two looked at each other, sat down, and asked in confusion: "What are you talking about?"
Du Yu said: "You should know that it is not low to deal with weapons smuggling gangs?"
The two nodded.
Du Yu said: "In order to cooperate more tacitly in the future, do we have to get to know each other and listen to my careful introduction to the things I need to pay attention to during the gun buying process?"
"It's easy to say, my surname is Gao, and my name is Gao Miao. I am the same clan as Mr. Gao, but I'm seven or eight generations apart. I'm twenty-four years old this year." After briefly introducing myself, the young man who looked slightly mature among the two pointed to his companions and said, "He is Huang Xiang, he is twenty-one, and lives in the east end of the village. Although we haven't seen you much before, we know your father."
"That's good!" Du Yu nodded and smiled, saying, "Brother Gao, Brother Huang, according to the bandit Chen Sangou who was forced to confess, it is best to deal with this smuggling gang that it is best to pretend to be a force that makes the other party feel afraid, otherwise it will be easy to be criticized. The two are a little older and have been working under Mr. Gao. They are knowledgeable and have a lot of knowledge. I wonder if they can think of a suitable person to pretend to be?"
The two of them were praised for their comfort, and the matter was related to their own safety, so they thought hard and thought hard there.
After a while, Gao Miao said in embarrassment: "I know a few of the names of the major forces, but they are all from our Changhe Empire. I am afraid that the other party has never heard of it and will not have any deterrence."
Huang Xiang interrupted: "Also, we have only heard of the names, and we don't know where to start with the impersonation. If, I mean, if the smuggler knows more about the forces we want to impersonate than us, or just trades with the smugglers, it will be completely exposed!"
Obviously, both of them were uneasy about pretending.
Just think about it, if you lose money, it will be a trivial matter if you are wrong, and it will only be a matter of losing your life if you don’t lose your life.
"Two people, this is indeed a problem!" Du Yu gave them a thumbs up, so he acted: "If it really doesn't work, just pretend to be a bandit! Anyway, I heard that the bandits in the northern part of the Nanzhan Kingdom are as numerous as a bull's hair. Otherwise, let's choose a slightly more famous bandit to pretend?"
Gao Miao frowned and said, "Okay, okay, but we two have never stayed in the village. If there is any flaw in it at that time..."
Huang Xiang also nodded.
The ancients said that if you don’t want to do it, you can always find a reason to retreat. Obviously, the two of them’s fear of difficulties has been successfully aroused.
Du Yu seemed to have not seen each other and continued: "According to Chen Sangou, after connecting with the other party, according to the rules, we will be blindfolded and dragged around in a car for a long time before we finally enter the real trading location. There, the three of us will be separated and carefully interrogated. If this level is passed, we will trade; if we cannot pass..."
"How is it?" Huang Xiang asked.
"Kill!" Du Yu's right palm gestured to his neck, and said with a wry smile: "You two may not know much about it. Who are those who are stumbling on the road, but who have not come out of the rain of bullets, will they take a few lives seriously?"
The two of them turned a little pale and their hearts began to give in.
It seems that the risk of this transaction is far above their imagination. They thought that Du Yu took the risk, which was that someone had a lot of money to make, but even if the two of them succeeded in this trip, with Mr. Gao's character, they could give him more than ten or twenty taels, which was considered generous.
That's money to buy life!
Moreover, through the transaction process described by Du Yu just now, they can roughly infer that not to mention mastering the transaction channels explained by Mr. Gao, if Du Yu makes a little move in this process, they will immediately have life worries.
If you count carefully, they must at least pass the three levels of danger before they have a chance to survive.
The first level is to travel back and forth between the chaotic border of the Nanzhan Kingdom, and you must go smoothly along the way and never encounter bandits who robbed the way;
The second level is that their impersonation should not reveal flaws, and the rifle smuggling gangs should be trustworthy and not betray them;
The third level is that Du Yu has good intentions and should not be ill-intentioned to them.
However, it is not easy to encounter bandits in Nanzhan. Smugglers are just jealous of money. When they come to the meat, how many cats will not be greedy? The purpose of Mr. Gao sending them here is to have supervision and calculating. How can Du Yu not be disgusted?
If you have to pass these three levels in a row, it feels slim to think about it.
At this moment, they felt that the whole world was full of malice towards them.
Gao Miao asked in a low voice: "Is there no safer way?"
"When contacting a smuggling gang is just a matter of not having your head on your belt, how can there be a real right way?" Du Yu deliberately pretended to be impatient and said, "It's really not possible. I can just go alone. You two are waiting for me here. Anyway, facing a smuggling gang, there is no big difference between one and three."
"Isn't this good?" Gao Miao glanced at Huang Xiang and hesitated.
It's really difficult.
If you go, you will probably not be able to come back;
If he didn't go, he was afraid that Du Yu would escape with the money, so he couldn't explain to Mr. Gao when he went back.
"This is the best way I can think of." Du Yu stared at them with bright eyes: "Otherwise, what should you do if you say it? The future is dangerous and to be unruly, you may not only not help but also have bad things when you go with him. I know that Mr. Gao might have explained something to you before coming, but don't forget that my Du Yu's parents and brother are still in Shibi Village. As long as I don't die on this trip, I will definitely come back to work with you to Mr. Gao together."
This sentence has come to their hearts.
The Changhe Empire governed the world with filial piety, and filial piety was the obsession that penetrated deep into the bones of the people from the deep palaces and courtyards to the people.
Put your heart in mind, regardless of whether your parents are alive or dead, but that must be a time when life and life are at risk, not for a thousand taels of silver.
Du Yu's parents and younger brothers are still in Shibi Village, which are ready-made hostages. They don't think Du Yu dares to just take the silver and never return it again.
At this point, they felt that rich people like Mr. Gao sometimes value money too much and trustworthiness of poor people too lightly. However, grassroots like Du Yu have a common language with them.
"How long will it take to come back?" Huang Xiang asked.
"It's ten days fast, and it's twenty days slow. As long as nothing happens, I will definitely come back here." Du Yu said firmly and had a sincere face.
The two looked at each other, walked to the side and muttered for a long time, but finally decided to wait in place.
Chapter completed!