Shushan: Extinction

Chapter 6 Pawnshop Dispute
Hearing this, Gong Tianwu suddenly felt a strong hope in his heart:

"Oh my god! Where can I get this thing?"

Zhang Caocao laughed and said:

"You should know all about this, so why are you asking me? But I can tell you for sure that money talks. If you prepare enough money, you will definitely get the goods."

"After all, what seems shocking to mortals like us may just be random junk thrown away by immortals."

Zhang Caocao's words immediately woke Gong Tianwu up. Tian Dachun had done a lot of sneaky work, so he must be familiar with selling stolen goods. After a brief recollection, he remembered the corresponding channels:

Isn’t it that the conscientious pawn shop in the west of the city deals in both black and white goods, and claims that there is nothing it can’t get?

Gong Tianwu wrapped the medicine in oil paper, put it away, and then walked towards another street. More than half an hour later, Gong Tianwu got the information he wanted. The medicine was indeed available, but it was very expensive!
It is so expensive that it is a astronomical price for Gong Tianwu.

So Gong Tianwu now went to do his real business, which was to cash in the floating wealth he got from the ice corpse.

At this time, he would not go to a place like the Conscientious Pawn Shop, because the only advantage there is that they accept all kinds of goods, including stolen goods - ahem, the rest are all disadvantages.

Soon, Gong Tianwu arrived at the "Hengchangtai" pawnshop in the county town. There was a couplet written on the door:
Benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness are all equally non-existent; gold, silver, copper, iron and tin can all be pawned.

The interior of the pawn shop was also very neat and exquisite. The clerk did not look at him differently because of his attire, but received him as usual:
"Sir, what do you need? Do you want to see the dead stock we are dealing with, or do you need to make some money?"

Gong Tianwu said:

"We got a good item and want to see how much it's worth. If the price is right, we can exchange it for money."

The guy across the counter handed over a wooden tray:
"Put your stuff on it."

Gong Tianwu handed over the jade hairpin. The guy was a little careless at first, but when his fingers touched the hairpin, he suddenly looked serious. After looking at it carefully for a few times, he walked inside with it.

Gong Tianwu's eyes tightened immediately. What if this bastard took my jade hairpin and switched it with something else? So he called him out loudly:
"Oh my god! Stop right there! Don't you know the rules? Check the goods here and they won't leave the counter."

At this time, an old court official came out and said with a smile:

"My last name is Hu, what's your name?"

Gong Tianwu was no longer so polite at this time:

"You guys don't even follow the rule of not leaving the cabinet to look after the goods! I don't dare to deal with you anymore, goodbye!"

The argument between the two had attracted the attention of the guests around. Hu Chaofeng cursed the waiter Xiao Song in his heart, but said with a smile on his face:
"Brother, this hairpin of yours is not cheap. It is a rare and high-quality product that only wealthy families can own. Xiao Song was afraid that he encountered something that came from a bad source, so he was a little impatient. Please forgive me."

The old man seemed to be speaking politely, but in fact his words were veiled. He said that only wealthy families could own the property and that it came from illegal sources, which clearly implied that Gong Tianwu got the property as stolen goods.

Gong Tianwu sneered and took out the clothes that he had taken off the frozen corpse from the package next to him:
"How did you get it? I risked my life to fish it out of the sea! I chopped the ice corpse's neck seventeen or eighteen times before I cut its head off. Do you want to try it?"

The guy Xiao Song was also a snob. He thought Gong Tianwu's outfit was a pity. He also entered the industry late and didn't know about ice sea corpse fishing. He immediately shouted:

"You're taking a piece of rags and claiming it's legitimate? Your jade hairpin is clearly stolen goods!"

At this time, Gong Tianwu had already noticed footsteps in the back hall. It should be the bodyguards who came after hearing the news. He immediately grabbed the package and strode out. As soon as he reached the street, he shouted at the top of his voice:
"Heng Changtai is shameless and is trying to rob things!!"

It is human nature to watch the fun and meddle in other people's business, not to mention in this age of scarcity of entertainment, Gong Tianwu's voice immediately attracted a lot of people to watch.

All shops that are open for business still value their reputation. When the people from Hengchangtai were driven out, they immediately heard Gong Tianwu's loud voice. The waiter Xiao Song was fine, but the old fox Hu Chaofeng's heart tightened immediately. He immediately stepped forward and smiled apologetically to the people around him:
"Misunderstanding, misunderstanding, this is all a misunderstanding."

Gong Tianwu ignored Hu Chaofeng and told the people around him everything:
The key point is to emphasize that Xiao Song broke the rules and then put the blame on others.

As a result, Xiao Song, who was also young and full of vigor, relied on the fact that he was the brother-in-law of the big shopkeeper, and immediately stood up and sneered:

"Look at your filthy outfit, you look like a poor fellow. How can you wear a jade hairpin? You said you caught it from the sea. It's really laughable."

"Isn't this obviously stolen goods? If you don't get out of here, I'll take you to the authorities and give you twenty beatings with the stick!"

Xiao Song was also very outspoken. The two words "poor guy" directly hurt the fragile self-esteem of most of the onlookers nearby, and immediately turned these passers-by from neutral to negative.

Gong Tianwu was well prepared. He reached out and took out something from the package, then threw it at Xiao Song:
"Oh my god! You are such a blind bastard, look at what this is!"

How could Xiao Song know that Gong Tianwu would start a fight as soon as they disagreed with something?
This weakling had no time to dodge and was hit directly. He immediately saw stars and his nose bled. Of course, the thing that hit him also fell in front of him with a dull "bang".

Xiao Song covered his nose and finally recovered. He was about to curse, but suddenly he felt like something was wrong. Why were they all looking at him?

When he took a closer look, his mouth opened wide, a chill ran down his spine, and he even fell into extreme fear.

"This? This is a human head!!"

"Oh my god!! Is this the thing that hit me before??"

"Oh my god! This head is actually blinking??"

After discovering this series of extremely terrifying things, Xiao Song's legs suddenly softened and he sat down on the ground. The hem of his long gown was instantly wet, and it was obvious that he was frightened to the point of peeing. Not only that, but the people around him also exclaimed:
“Heads!!”

"It's true!"

"Take a closer look. There seems to be something wrong with this head."

"This guy is really brave enough to carry a human head around with him?"

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After hearing these words, people far away on the street could no longer hold back and rushed over.

To describe it in a data-based way: every two or three seconds, a green font with “Quantity +20” will pop up above the crowd of onlookers.

Not to mention the ancient times when entertainment was scarce, isn't it the same even now? When people hear that someone has died on the street, onlookers will surely gather at several times the speed.

And this is exactly what Gong Tianwu wanted to see. After all, the more people there are, the less loss he will suffer in today's incident, and he can also make a name for himself.

Seeing that more and more people were around and talking about it, Gong Tianwu took a big step forward, grabbed the head by the hair and showed it to the surroundings:
"Dear neighbors, I am Tian Dachun from Shimen Village. I risked my life to hunt corpses in the icy sea because I was sick and had no money to treat it. Fortunately, I came back. This is the head of the zombie I chopped off. It is not a living person."

"Please look at the facial features of this head, and the muscles at the neck where it is broken. Do you think these are the muscles of a living person?"

After hearing what Gong Tianwu said, the brave ones came forward to take a closer look and found that the broken muscles were knotted, cold and hard as iron, and tangled together like ropes. When they were knocked with stones, a muffled "shell" sound was heard, just like knocking on wood. They were immediately amazed.

Gong Tianwu pointed at the fangs on the head and said:

"Living people don't have this thing! And more importantly, it's not dead yet, it can still blink."

As Gong Tianwu spoke, he took a straw and poked its eyelids. Sure enough, he found that the head could blink. The people around him were amazed and felt that they had learned a lot. It was natural for them to change from neutral to fan.

After gaining such a large number of passers-by fans, Gong Tianwu went to find trouble with Xiao Song with the Ice Corpse Head in his hand, and directly raised the Ice Corpse Head to face him and opened fire:
"Fuck! The jade hairpin I took out was taken from this monster's hair bun, but you keep saying it's not legitimate. Is this how the famous Heng Changtai does business?"

At this moment, Xiao Song no longer had the courage to argue. He could only retreat back in fear, looking extremely embarrassed.

This kid usually bullies others by relying on his relatives' power, and is also a little arrogant in the shop. Now he has hit a wall head-on. Thinking back to the boss's stern face, he is so flustered that he can't even speak.

The others looked at Xiao Song with disgust and even anger. After all, most of the people present had dealt with pawn shops before and had suffered a lot from them, so they started to yell and curse.

Seeing that this had aroused public anger, the old fox Hu Chaofeng had a bitter face and bravely came over to negotiate, but Gong Tianwu ignored him and instead held on to what Xiao Song had said before and refused to give in. He thought to himself that this was a rare opportunity and he must make a fortune!
As a result, at this moment, a burst of shouting and cursing suddenly came from a distance, the crowd outside was dispersed, and then five or six people came over with a big man on horseback.

The man was about forty years old, with a broad face, big ears, a sturdy body, and high bulging temples. He looked dignified and proud. He was wearing ochre-colored clothes and riding a gray horse. He looked around with sharp eyes and said:

"what happened?"

When this big man came, the people around him fell silent. He looked very prestigious.

Several people nearby came forward to narrate the whole story, talking one after another, chattering non-stop.

Gong Tianwu was also confused when Cheng Yaojin suddenly appeared in the middle of the road, so he asked a person next to him, and the person immediately whispered:

"This is Luo Jiang, Master Luo! You don't even know the famous Luo Lao Hu?"

Gong Tianwu was immediately shocked. How could such a trivial matter of his alarm alarm a martial artist?

***
At this time, the immortals ruled the world, and the relationship between the cultivation world and mortals could be said to be closely connected.

Even the political structure at the national level has undergone subtle changes. The biggest change is that the number of troops has been greatly reduced. Usually, the standing army of a large country does not exceed 10,000 people, while that of a small country is 3,000 people.

Because a large-scale war will lead to a sharp decline in the number of people! This is not what the immortal gate wants to see, and the leeks must not be less!
Most of the time, the enemies that the army faces in battle are beast tides, demonic disasters, rioters, bandits, etc.

As for major disputes between countries, they are settled by the sects of cultivation through national wars.

In administrative units such as counties and prefectures, there are more institutions called martial arts schools, which correspond to the county schools and prefecture schools in civil administration.

An important responsibility of every martial artist is to conduct a cultivation aptitude test on the newborns under their jurisdiction every five years, in order to select the "immortal seedlings" for the world of cultivation.

During the selection process, martial arts schools will also pay attention to some children with good aptitude for martial arts, and then provide targeted training. These children are called martial arts students.

Going further back, there are also promotion channels such as Wu Xiucai, Wu Juren, etc.

The martial arts students and martial arts scholars, together with the militia system in every village, formed a defense structure from the village to the township.

After all, this is a world where one can practice Taoism. Ghosts, monsters, demons, monsters, etc. will still pose a threat to mortals. Bandits and robbers will also inevitably exist. Some areas will even face the invasion of beast tides.

This system can significantly improve the autonomy of the mortal government system, effectively making up for the problem of too few troops. Of course, the most important thing is to greatly reduce the workload of each real person.

(End of this chapter)