Chapter 217: Buying Murder
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The spring sun, like a little girl's face, finally emerged from the clouds and shone warmly on this lively long street. The big sisters, little brothers, young grandmothers, and old ladies all took off their padded jackets, put on red and green spring clothes, and basked in the sun on the street to let others see their new clothes.
Shuttlecocks made of three chicken feathers and two copper coins are jumping all over the street, all kinds of colorful kites are flying all over the blue sky, and even the old lady's mouth is secretly holding an osmanthus candy.
The long and cold winter is finally over, and everyone is ready to enjoy the joy of spring.
Hu Tiehua became very happy again, pointing to a small teahouse on the street that sells crab roe soup dumplings, fried steamed buns and various tea snacks and said, "Shall we go there and sit down?" β
"Okay." Chu Liuxiang immediately agreed: "You go." β
"What about you?"
"We're going to go to the shop across the street first."
There is a small shop with a very narrow faΓ§ade opposite, and a white wooden board hanging at the door reads: "Cui Damiang's old shop, specializing in good rouge, palace powder, needlework, and shavings oil." Female guests wring their faces, combing their hair, and piercing their ears will only be charged 20 yuan. β
Hu Tiehua was a little surprised to see the three people really walk into this shop.
"What tricks are the gods playing mysteriously?"
What is even stranger is that not only did they enter the shop, but they also went to a door with a cotton curtain hanging at the back, and did not come out again as soon as they entered.
Hu Tiehua ate two baskets of soup dumplings, twenty fried steamed buns, and drank two pots of tea with a plate of sesame sugar, but he didn't see Chu Liuxiang come out.
But there was a kind and kind white-bearded little old man inside, who walked out with a long cane, and walked all the way to Hu Tiehua, and sat down on a stool next to him honestly and unceremoniously, and ordered a big bowl of dried shredded ham, twenty small crab shell yellow baked cakes, and two plates of crispy fried small twist flowers, and ate happily.
Hu Tiehua was stunned.
Fortunately, he is not a real nerd, and he can still see that this little old man is Chu Liuxiang.
"You old bastard, why did you make yourself look like this? What about Maple Leaf and Old Red? β
Chu Liuxiang ignored him at all, stood up after eating, wiped his mouth and left.
Hu Tiehua also quickly stood up, ready to leave with him, and suddenly found a guy standing in front of him with a big teapot, looking at him with a pair of slanted eyes without smiling, and said in a Yangzhou official dialect: "Old lady, the guests who eat in our area are all paid before leaving, old lady, are you right?" β
Of course, yes, of course you have to pay for what you eat.
The payment of the bill is to be paid in silver, and it is okay to use copper coins if there is no silver, unfortunately our old lady Hu has never had the habit of carrying this kind of thing.
Of course, it's okay to leave without paying the bill, even if there are ten such guys who can't stop him.
It's a pity that this old lady of ours is not so thick-skinned.
So he had to sit down again, and as long as he didn't leave, he didn't have to pay the bill. In this kind of teahouse, guests can sit for as long as they like, from early in the morning until it closes at dark.
The guy couldn't do anything with him, but everywhere he went, those squinted eyes were staring at him.
Hu Tiehua was worried, and suddenly saw someone who would definitely help him pay the bill.
A thin and weak little girl with a Peugeot appearance, wearing a small jacket made of floral cotton cloth, a face of clear water melon seeds without fat powder, and a pair of black and white sheared eyes, as if with an indescribable sense of resentment, looks really moving.
The eyes of the people in the teahouse were straight, and their hearts were a little itchy.
Who knew that such a flower would be inserted into cow dung.
She didn't come looking for anyone else, but the little Lai Pi who had eaten and wanted to slip away without paying the bill.
Of course, Hu Tiehua understood what these people were thinking, because he was also fooled like this last time. It wasn't until she pressed the tip of her knife to his throat that he realized that this weak and quiet little girl was actually more vicious than anyone else.
The little girl had already sat down beside him, looked at him stupidly, her eyes full of resentment and pleading, and said to him in a voice that no one else could hear: "I will pay the bill for you, and you will come with me." β
What she said and her expression were completely different things, and Hu Tiehua couldn't help but laugh.
"If I don't go with you, you'll have to pay for me too." His voice was also low, and his foot was already under the table to stomp on hers: "This time it seems like your turn to listen to me." β
The little girl looked at him stupidly for a long time, and her tears suddenly fell out like a large string of pearls with broken threads.
"Please, come back with me! The mother-in-law and the children are so sick, can't you go back and see them? Do you know how hard I found you? β
This time, her voice was still low, but it was loud enough for everyone nearby to hear it clearly.
Before he finished speaking, dozens of pairs of eyes were already staring at Hu Tiehua's face, each of which was full of contempt, disgust, and anger.
Hu Tiehua suddenly found that she seemed to have turned into a fat, big, dirty and smelly street rat. If you don't hurry up, I'm afraid you'll be beaten flat.
An ingot, enough silver to pay his bill, had been shoved under the table into his hand.
There was already a horse-drawn carriage on the street, parked outside the gate of this teahouse.
Hu Tiehua had no choice but to go with her obediently.
In the distance, Lan Fengtian and a little red stood on the top of the pavilion opposite and saw the situation inside the teahouse clearly.
Lan Feng tilted and glanced at a little red, a few dodges disappeared from sight, and a little red continued to stare at Hu Tiehua, following behind the carriage.
Outside the town, there was a little old man walking on the dirt road, Lan Feng fell on the tree, looking behind the little old man, followed by six or seven people with hats, it seemed that Chu Liuxiang's identity was seen through by others, and he arranged someone to stop him from going to Hu Tiehua, the action was quite well-trained, it seemed that there was a huge organization behind the four little girls.
Lan Fengtian knew that Chu Liuxiang must have known that someone was following him, since this identity was no longer useful, there was no need to waste time, thinking of this, he had already flown down and landed beside Chu Liuxiang.
The moment the little old man saw Lan Feng tilting, his hand shook, and a handsome face was revealed, and his white clothes swayed in the wind.
Lan Feng leaned to look at the six or seven people opposite, and stroked the mask on his face, Chu Liuxiang saw that she had no intention of making a move, so she had to do it herself, her body turned into an afterimage and flew to the opposite side, and the six or seven people only felt a flower in front of them, and they fell to the ground and couldn't move.
Lan Feng saw a few hats in Chu Liuxiang's hand and said, "Let's go!" Although it's a little red, I'm still not worried about the uncertain factor of drunk butterflies."
Chu Liuxiang put the 10,000 taels of silver tickets in his hand back into the arms of one of them.
Chu Liuxiang held the hat in one hand and Lan Feng in the other and walked towards the river.