"What deal?" Su Lie asked with his eyes wide open. After asking, he turned his head to look at Hanzhe in the car with a look of "as expected".
Hanzhe gave him a look that said "stay calm", then leaned forward slightly, "Where is your master?"
The car behind caught up and drove side by side with the car where Su Lie and Hanzhe were.
The curtain of the carriage was lifted, revealing the figure of a woman wearing a crimson purple robe and a headscarf.
Looking at her in the dim light, her figure seemed almost the same as the woman he had seen in the back alley of Sanghua Inn during the day.
During the day, they thought that the people setting up the stall were a sister and a brother. The sister was a little shy, so it was her brother who had to negotiate.
Unexpectedly, they were not siblings, but master and servant?
The woman in the headscarf bowed slightly and nodded to Su Lie and Han Zhe. The shadow cast by the large headscarf covered most of her face, but the exposed part showed a polite smile.
Hanzhe also nodded twice to indicate.
Then the young man who had asked them to stop the car said, "To be honest, our destination is also Qimeng, but we haven't been there for a while, so we are not familiar with the route."
As he said this, he took out a brocade box from the carriage behind him, held it in both hands and handed it to the driver in Su Lie and Hanzhe's carriage, "My master would like to use this to exchange for a map or a route from you two. Please take a look and see if it is feasible?"
Sanji made a please gesture.
Su Lie took the brocade box from the coachman. Before he opened it, he couldn't help rubbing it a few more times with his fingertips just by touching the cloth wrapped around it.
"What kind of fabric is this? Why is it so smooth?"
As if talking to himself, he opened the lid of the box while muttering. Inside was a piece of cloth that was the same as the one wrapped outside the box, but it was moon white, delicate and silky.
Gently opening the lid, a cup that was even more delicate than the pair of bowls bought at noon appeared before his eyes.
There are exquisite dragon patterns on the cup.
Su Lie's eyes suddenly widened with admiration, "How did you create these patterns? They don't look like paintings, but they are more detailed than paintings!"
As he spoke, he wanted to touch the lifelike dragon pattern, but he was afraid that his fingers were too rough and would leave traces that would destroy the beauty of the exquisite treasure.
"Brother, look!" Su Lie held the brocade box in front of Hanzhe.
If the pair of bowls in the morning were enough to amaze them, then the cup in the brocade box was even more stunning!
Compared to a cup like this, what is a mere road map?
"Let's make this deal." Su Lie lowered his voice and whispered into Hanzhe's ear.
They were not the only ones who possessed the route map. Although the route map in their hands belonged only to the royal family of Qimeng, and was safer and shorter than the routes known by other caravans, it was nothing compared to the exquisite cup in the box.
The routes to remote small countries like Mosan are not secret.
This deal is totally doable!
Seeing that Hanzhe hadn't responded yet, Su Lie was afraid that he would refute his decision, so he hurriedly advised: "It just so happens that the pair of bowls were given to my aunt, and this cup can be given to my uncle. Didn't my aunt and mother say that in their ancestral homeland, the monarch is the true dragon emperor? My uncle is the king, so he is naturally the true dragon emperor. This cup is perfect for him!"
This is a sure-win deal.
But it is precisely because of the "guaranteed profit" that people can't help but have doubts.
Looking at the cup in the brocade box and the cloth wrapped around the cup and the surface of the brocade box, Hanzhe's eyes seemed thoughtful.
The person who took out these treasures and traded them for a map, did he have too many "treasures" in his hands and regarded these treasures as ordinary, or did he take out the treasures deliberately to lure them and have other intentions?
For some reason, Hanzhe felt that he was more like the former than the latter.
"Su Lie, go get a copy of the map we have and trace out the route from Mosan to Qimeng."
"Hey, I'll start drawing now!" Su Lie hurriedly responded. He was afraid that if he was too slow, his brother would change his mind again. He was even more afraid that the "sucker" who exchanged the cup for the map would react and regret not wanting to make such a loss-making deal.
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A cup in exchange for a picture.
Following Wei Yunlan's instructions, the two cars no longer deliberately followed Su Lie and Hanzhe's cars.
The two teams were moving in the same direction, not too far away.
Sang Ji whispered to Chen Yan, who was sitting in the car behind him, "Is this cup very expensive? I think those two brothers looked like they got a great bargain."
"That cup is indeed not an ordinary item." Chen Yan was transferred here from the capital. Earlier, he was in the secret department of Tianshu Pavilion, responsible for some information-gathering matters. He had seen many collections in the mansions of the powerful and wealthy.
With his keen eyesight, he recognized at a glance that the cup was a gift from the emperor.
Most of them were treasures that Miss Wei brought back from the capital some time ago.
A bowl worth thirteen gold coins didn't even get a second glance from the team members. A cup that was exchanged for a map was evaluated as "not an ordinary item". How many thirteen gold coins would it be worth? Sang Ji smacked his lips and asked, "Are we losing money by exchanging it like this?"
Ordinary families in Mosan Country do not use gold coins. Even gold beans are rare. Some caravans may not earn many gold coins on a single business trip.
Isn't it a huge loss to exchange such a valuable treasure for a map?
"Not a loss." The car behind caught up, and when they heard Sang Ji's question, Wei Yunlan's voice came from the car.
Whether something is a loss or not sometimes does not depend on the thing itself, but on its value to oneself at that moment.
The accurate route map and the two brothers in the next convoy.
At this moment, it is far more important to them than a not-so-rare cup.
Even though this cup was a gift from the emperor that she brought out from the storehouse of the Marquis of Jinyang's mansion.
The Marquis of Jinyang's mansion had made military achievements two generations ago, and there were countless imperial gifts like this stored in the warehouse. If Wei Maolin had not pleaded for the Marquis of Jinyang, these things would have been confiscated long ago and would not have been kept.
Now they have all moved from the Marquis’ Mansion warehouse to Wei Yunlan’s space. There are at least ten cups like this in Wei Yunlan’s space!
The night was quiet, and gradually the only sounds on the road were the sound of hooves and wheels turning.
"We definitely won't be able to reach the next city tonight. The ground ahead is flat, so let's stay there for the time being." After consulting Hanzhe's opinion, Su Lie instructed the coachman.
After walking a little further, we arrived at the agreed destination and found that there were already two cars parked there.
These were the two cars that they had separated from and had done business with a few hours ago.
There was a bonfire burning next to the car.
Against the backdrop of the dancing flames, the black hair and black eyes of the people sitting next to them were very eye-catching!
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