Steam Era: The Lord of 'Puluo' Chapter 1323 618: Profit and Loss (2)

The peddler chuckled: "Young brother, it's easy to talk when you don't have to manage things. I restrained Cui Tiq; don't you think that's appropriate? If I let Cui Tiq act freely, he could slaughter Puluo State by tomorrow!"

I let him decide who should be killed, hoping to keep more capital for De Song Cliff, but now there's nothing left. Business is just like this, I have to accept the loss."

The peddler was about to push his cart and leave when Li Banfeng shouted: "Brother, wait a moment."

"Wait for what?" The peddler said impatiently, "Am I supposed to just chat with you here and not do business?"

"Business must be done, I'll buy a candle."

"Twenty cents."

Li Banfeng handed over a hundred-yuan bill again, and the peddler angrily counted the change.

"Brother, I've already supported your business twice; let's talk about something else!"

The peddler picked up a feather duster: "What else is there to talk about? Speak quickly!"

"I've found a way to crack the boundary."

The peddler put the feather duster back and rolled a cigarette for Li Banfeng: "Sit down and talk slowly, young brother."

The two sat side by side, and the peddler lit a match and a cigarette for Li Banfeng: "Tell me carefully, how did you crack the boundary?"

"I built a bridge over the boundary that people can walk across."

Li Banfeng wanted to seriously explain the principles of the Dark Bridge to the peddler, but the peddler eagerly asked: "How many people can cross your bridge at once?"

"Three to five people should be possible."

The peddler's smile faded: "Oh, I see."

Li Banfeng was displeased: "What? Is that too few? Looking down on me?"

The peddler stood up and tidied up his cart: "It's not that I look down on you. Methods to crack boundaries are rare, but three to five is too few. Besides, you're a Balancer now. Sending three or five people across shouldn't be so troublesome, right?"

Li Banfeng replied: "I'm not sending just three or five people; I want to bring out all the Three-Headed People from Three-Head Fork."

Upon hearing this, the peddler became interested: "This is big business, business with high stakes, and also very difficult. Do you want it?"

"I do! But finding a way is challenging. I know nothing about Three-Head Fork."

The peddler took a Medicine Candy from the cart and handed it to Li Banfeng: "I know quite a bit about Three-Head Fork. We can partner in business, but for the bridge over the boundary, at least two hundred people must cross at once."

Li Banfeng thought for a moment, then nodded: "Give me some more time."

The peddler pushed the cart: "You have time, but the foreigner doesn't have much left. De Song Cliff is in this state because of him; I wonder where he'll find people now."

...

Cui Tiq went to New Land, a very remote New Land.

In this New Land, there were endless farmlands, hardworking farmers, and hunters coming and going.

Upon reaching the village, Cui Tiq asked around and finally found Zhang Wanlong.

"Mr. Zhang, I finally found you!" Cui Tiq was very excited.

Zhang Wanlong carefully looked at Cui Tiq, and with a slight surprise, he smiled: "This foreign friend, have we met before?"

Cui Tiq was stunned: "Of course we have met, I even bought seeds from you."

Zhang Wanlong shook his head: "You must have mistaken me for someone else; I never sell seeds to others."

This attitude was unacceptable to Cui Tiq; he took out a few seeds from his pocket: "These are the seeds you sold me back then, surely you remember?"

Zhang Wanlong carefully examined the seeds for a while: "The appearance of the seeds is somewhat similar to what I cultivated, but I really didn't sell these to you."

"Then who else could have sold them to me?"

"It could be them." Zhang Wanlong called towards the cornfield, and two people who looked identical to Zhang Wanlong came over.

Zhang Wanlong introduced: "These two crops were grown by me, and they might impersonate my identity from time to time, doing some business they shouldn't."

While speaking, Zhang Wanlong frowned and said to the other two Zhang Wanlongs: "Did you sell seeds to others?"

The other two Zhang Wanlongs shook their heads repeatedly: "We never sold seeds; Brother Long has rules that seeds cannot be sold."

These two Zhang Wanlongs did not admit it, so Zhang Wanlong called over more than ten Zhang Wanlongs: "Did any of you sell seeds to him?"

All the Zhang Wanlongs shook their heads to deny: "We haven't sold seeds."

Cui Tiq frowned: "Mr. Zhang, what do you mean by this? Are you demanding a specific price?"

Zhang Wanlong shook his head repeatedly: "I don't sell seeds, so what prices are there to talk about? It's just that I've grown too many crops; inevitably someone broke my rules and sold seeds to you.

This matter needs thorough investigation. You wait in the village for a while, I'll have my wife light a fire to cook, and when all the hunters return, we'll compare each one to thoroughly investigate the matter."

Cui Tiq doesn't have time to investigate this.

Even if found, it wouldn't help Cui Tiq at all.

Helpless, Cui Tiq left the village.

Xiao Genzi came closer and asked Zhang Wanlong, Big Brother Zhang, why are we stopping this business?"

"The business will be done, but we need to see who we're doing business with." Zhang Wanlong took an antenna from the drawer, "I had a friend at the radio station buy this for me; it's a good thing!"

He brought over a pumpkin, found a syringe, and gave the pumpkin an injection.

After the injection, he took a drill and drilled a hole in the pumpkin.

"Mm-hmm~" The pumpkin hummed twice.

Zhang Wanlong quickly reassured: "It doesn't hurt, doesn't hurt; I've injected anesthesia."

The pumpkin settled down a little.

Zhang Wanlong picked up the antenna and spoke to the pumpkin: "This antenna is a bit cold, bear with it."