Steam Era: The Lord of 'Puluo' Chapter 1132 574: Bloodshed in the Black Market
Previously on Steam Era: The Lord of 'Puluo'...
Cultural Palace, Puluo State Black Market's Store Manager Lin Fojiao, sat in a chair, forcing himself to stay awake, listening to the snack seller talk.
Something big is happening at the black market tonight!
"Mr. Lin, the Birch Tree Gang is here again, asking around about Li Qi."
"Let them ask," Lin Fojiao yawned, "Li Qi hasn't come, has he?"
"When he comes, it'll be too late."
"We previously asked Ah Hui to remind him, he shouldn't come." Lin Fojiao yawned again.
The snack seller was worried: "I just saw Tang Changfa talking with the Birch Tree Gang's people."
"Who is Tang Changfa?" Lin Fojiao rubbed his eyes, about to fall asleep.
"Tang Changfa is the person Li Qi arranged to do business with us, he just ran into the Birch Tree Gang's people on the first floor, they even specially... Mr. Lin, are you listening to me?"
Lin Fojiao started snoring.
The snack seller gently pushed him awake: "Mr. Lin, don't sleep, the situation is urgent!"
"Ah!" Lin Fojiao was startled, and quickly rubbed his eyebrows, "No fire there, you dare to fool me!"
"Mr. Lin, if Tang Changfa clashes with the Birch Tree Gang, Li Qi will definitely come, and then things will get big."
Lin Fojiao waved his hand and said: "We'll deal with it when he comes, if it doesn't work, we'll call Ah Hui again."
"Ah Hui went to Puluo State, she's not in Yuezhou, can't help! Mr. Lin, Mr. Lin?"
Lin Fojiao tried to blink his eyes, but after closing them, he couldn't open them again.
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Tang Changfa and two members of the Birch Tree Secret Cult were negotiating business, it wasn't a coincidence they met, Tang Changfa sought them out actively.
This was at Li Qi's instruction, something big was planned for tonight.
These two members, a man and a woman, the man's name was Luchalev, the woman's name was Goncharova, both were Lavsha People, neither was very fluent in the Huan Country language, making communication somewhat difficult.
Their task today was to gather information about Li Qi in the black market, aside from Goncharova and Luchalev, there were three other members of the Secret Cultivation Conference hiding in the black market.
Goncharova was the student of the leader Miglov and the person in charge of the investigation, as per Du Wenming's previous task arrangement, every three to five days, she would bring people to the black market once, if Li Qi was found, she would contact other members of the Secret Cultivation Conference to immediately come to the black market for a siege, if she received news of Li Qi's movements, she would inform the other high-ups for a collective decision on whether to change the ambush location.
Under unnecessary circumstances, Goncharova did not allow her subordinates to buy things in the black market, especially since the Secret Cultivation Conference's funds were not abundant.
But for some reason, Goncharova felt Tang Changfa was an honest and upright person, whether doing business with him or gathering information, Goncharova felt it was completely reasonable, even if it required paying a certain price.
Tang Changfa invited the two upstairs: "You two tell me directly what you want to buy, if we have stock we can do business immediately, if not, I will arrange for stock immediately, without taking a down payment from you.
What I sell is branded goods from Puluo State, our store is a century-old brand from Puluo State, buying from me, you can relax completely, definitely won't suffer any loss!"
Goncharova roughly understood Tang Changfa's meaning, she gestured and said: "Things from Puluo State, good, we like them, what we want most is, Puluo State's Harmonizing Agent."
"Harmonizing Agent?" Yan Cui'er was stunned, "What harmonizing agent?"
Goncharova used her finger as if it were a straw, made a sucking gesture, and said to everyone: "Like this, drink it, then, full of strength!"
Yan Cui'er was shocked: "Hong'er, what did she just say? Drink it?"
Yan Hong'er was also a little surprised: "She just said, full of strength, that's good stuff, just don't know if the shopkeeper is willing to give it."
Yan Cui'er licked her lips and said: "I'll find a chance to ask, it's just the two of us sisters, how much can we drink, our shopkeeper is not a stingy person."
Tang Changfa frowned and said: "What nonsense are you talking? The shopkeeper has good stuff, do you get to drink it?"
Yan Cui'er snorted: "You want to have it all to yourself?"
"How would I? I'm a proper person! I do proper business... I'm not going to talk nonsense with you," Tang Changfa waved his hand, turned to the two Lavsha People, "You're talking about Puluo State's Harmonizing Agent, aren't you?"
Goncharova nodded and said: "Yes, it's the Harmonizing Agent, that has strength!"
"Not an outsider, are you?" Tang Changfa laughed, "In Puluo, that stuff isn't called Harmonizing Agent, it's called Elixir! It's good for increasing cultivation level!"
Goncharova nodded repeatedly: "You're right, we just want Elixir!"
Luchalev spoke softly in Ravsha Language: "Elixir and Harmonizing Agent are two different things."
"I know they are two different things," Goncharova glanced at Luchalev, "Do your job, I don't need your teaching."
Though Tang Changfa didn't understand Ravsha Language, he could tell from the expressions of the two in front of him that their statuses were different.
Goncharova's status was definitely above Luchalev, if he could pacify her, things would be easy.
Tang Changfa turned and said: "Yan Hong'er, quickly bring the Elixir!"
The Elixir was already hard to procure, and besides, it's not even the day for selling Elixir, where could she get Elixir?
Yan Hong squatted behind the counter, took a piece of leftover Su Ye Ci Ba, kneaded it, rolled it into two pills, and handed them to Tang Changfa.
Tang Changfa looked at the color, and said to the two: "Please behold, this is Green Pill, eating one increases cultivation level by three years, it's a top-grade elixir."