Chapter Forty-Seven: Crooked
Narcissus thought about telling Ping'er to go see An Cheng tomorrow, and by the way, inquire about the situation of the two head catchers. If they come back and don't find Uncle Li Ren's niece and matchmaker, then he will start tomorrow night and go to them in person.www.biquge.info
As she walked out, Ping'er asked where she was going, "Doudou hasn't been here for a day, go see her." As soon as Narcissus said this, Ping'er felt that something was wrong, and shouted and waited.
Narcissus looked back at her in surprise, and waited for her to continue, "The landlord Mr. Zhang said that the house is empty, there are no tables, chairs and benches, only a bed and no bedding, how did she sleep last night?" Yesterday she took the key and walked by herself, and she didn't know if she had any silver on her. He stood up as he spoke.
The two of them rushed to the house, this house used to live an embroidery girl, the front room is open to the public, there is a small yard behind, and there is a kitchen and bedroom after the small courtyard.
Seeing that the lock on the outside was gone, Apple's pushed it, and the door was locked from the inside. After a few more knocks, no one opened the door. Narcissus was not at ease, and knocked it several times, but there was still no movement in it. He took two steps back and began to observe the faΓ§ade of the house.
Seeing that he was not at ease, Ping'er dragged him to the back door, saying, "Doudou may have gone out if he is so playful, go to the back door and see if there is a lock."
Just got to the back door, Apple: "Huh? "It's strange, the outer lock that Master Zhang gave me is not like this, he only gave me one set, could it be that he has come again in the past two days." β
When Narcissus heard this, he immediately jumped to the roof and looked into the courtyard, which did not look like anyone was occupying at all. Hearing Ping'er shouting Master Zhang, she hurriedly flew down.
Master Zhang was holding the food box in his hand, and when he saw him flying down, he was so frightened that he took two steps back, and the food box almost fell to the ground. In a panic, he said: "I don't rent this house, you came just in time, and the rent will be refunded to you." As he spoke, he took out a tael of silver, "If you don't need to look for more, it should be regarded as compensation." β
Narcissus and Apple's eyes looked at each other, and Narcissus asked, "Didn't our friends come to stay?" β
"I didn't ...... Nobody came. Master Zhang became nervous, and pinched the hand holding the food box, Narcissus glanced at the food box, and Ping'er interjected: "No one lives, who are you giving this food box to?" β
As soon as the words fell, Master Zhang threw down the food box and turned around and ran, scattering the food all over the ground. Ping'er chased out a few steps and was stopped by Narcissus, "Don't chase it, there may be a lot of people locked up in this amount of food, save people first." β
He flew into the courtyard and shouted to Ping'er to go to the main entrance, and when Ping'er came in, he made a gesture for her to hide and kicked open the bedroom door with one foot.
was shocked instantly, and there were a lot of people. As soon as Ping'er came over, she screamed unconsciously. Near the door, three men were tied to the wall, with rags in their mouths, and they all whined at the sight. Narcissus immediately recognized one of them as a matchmaker.
Glancing in again, "Doudou" ran over shouting, looking at her state, I don't know if she was asleep or unconscious. Narcissus took out the rag from her mouth, patted her face, and began calling her name. She blinked her eyes and suddenly became excited, "Brother Narcissus help."
Narcissus untied the rope and picked her up and walked out, shouting, "Ping'er, it's not appropriate to stay here for a long time, take the three of them to Li Zhutou's house." "I found him and went right away.
Narcissus carried Doudou back to Ping'er's room, covered the quilt and patted her, and said, "If you are sleepy, sleep for a while, there are pastries on the table, and if you are hungry, you can eat yourself, put a hundred hearts here, and there will never be any more danger." β
After speaking, he got up and was dragged by Doudou again, Doudou watched him cry, he wiped Doudou's tears, and muttered: "It's okay, it's okay, let's sleep for a while." I'm going to save people right away, and I'll be back with you later. β
Doudou pursed his lips and nodded. After Narcissus left, she thought about the scene of being hugged by him just now, and the more she thought about it, the happier she became, wiped her tears twice, picked up the quilt and covered her face, and laughed while kicking her legs.
Narcissus found Li Zhutou in the place where he was resting in the south of the city, and the two of them hurried to his house, and on the way they probably told the story of discovering them. When I walked to the gate of the courtyard, there was no one, "Are you sure Miss Ping'er knows here." β
Narcissus covered her mouth and recalled, "It's true that she hasn't been here, but I told her the address, and she should remember it." After speaking, he looked around, and the courtyard door suddenly opened, leaking a crack, "Childe, come in." β
Neither of them reacted, and was stunned for a moment, Ping'er opened the door and showed her face, "It's Shopkeeper Li who opened the door for us in the courtyard." After saying that, the two of them quickly entered the house.
After Narcissus introduced Li Zhutou, he asked them to quickly tell what had happened.
Shopkeeper Li didn't know what was going on. One night he and his niece closed the pharmacy and went home together. Suddenly I was covered with a sack on my upper body, and when the back of my head hurt, I didn't know anything, and I woke up in that house. The strange thing is that the matchmaker is also there, and she doesn't know who caught her.
The matchmaker added next to her, "This one who killed a thousand knives almost killed me with a stick." Everyone glanced at her, and Shopkeeper Li began to continue to describe.
A young man had been guarding them the other day, but yesterday morning an older man came, and when he saw them, he was very surprised and said angrily, "Why are you still here, didn't you say three days?" I've rented out all of this house, and the tenants will move in today, hurry up, get these people out of me. β
The young man said, "Uncle Cousin, if you return the house money, I will accompany you three times." Uncle Cousin was not happy to push him, and muttered: "Let's go, I don't know who you are running errands for, and you are doing such a hurtful thing." β
After saying that, they went to untie their ropes, and the young man ran over and pushed his cousin, and the two of them fought. At this moment there was a sound of surprise at the door, and the young man pushed his cousin away to open the door, and saw a girl standing there with her mouth covered. She was about to turn around and run, when she was caught by the young man.
This morning, the young man ran over and said that it was done, and that the rest of the matter was for my cousin to watch and do, and it didn't matter if he killed them or not.
This cousin didn't look like a bad person, and he brought them a meal at noon, but he never thought clearly about what to do with them.
Hearing this, Narcissus already knew what was going on, and asked the matchmaker if Mrs. Shui had taken the girl's portrait from her, and the portrait included the girl next to her, the matchmaker looked at her niece, glared and nodded.
Shopkeeper Li became excited when he heard this, and seemed to have completely forgotten the suffering of the past few days, and said with a smile to the matchmaker: "Someone has taken a fancy to my niece?" β
The matchmaker nodded, "But it's not the main room, it's the wife of Jingzhao Mansion Yin who is taking concubines for adults." β
"Ah......", Shopkeeper Li hesitated for a while, "That's okay, she's not too young, it's not easy to marry, and the concubines of rich and noble families are also very good." β
The girl shouted "uncle" and said that she would not be a concubine. Shopkeeper Li began to nag, "You have passed the flowery years, you are not a young man, no matter how much you hate this, when you become an old girl, you won't have to be a concubine......"