"You provoked Mrs. Meng just now, if you go to see Lord Meng now, I'm afraid it's not good." Jialan stood aside and didn't forget to mock me coldly.

I glared at her and walked on. "Let's not go to Lord Meng's mansion first, and the visit is too hasty at this time, maybe we have already been taken to the ditch before we can ask anything."

"So what do we do? Just hanging out on the street? Jialan said, raising her head and holding one hand in front of her forehead, looking at the sky, suggesting that it was past noon.

I didn't bother to take a second look at her, I didn't expect her to get impatient so quickly, "Although the insiders in the palace twenty years ago are gone, but in Mucheng, there should be people who lived here twenty years ago, maybe they don't know much, but there is always gossip, go and inquire, twenty years ago, what kind of gossip came out in the palace." ”

"Oh?" As soon as she heard that there might be new clues, Jialan was also interested, and snorted at the corner of her mouth, "At first, I thought you were pretending, but I didn't expect you to really have a way." ”

"Just go there." I pointed to a restaurant in front of me and said,

"There?" Jialan only glanced at it, very uncomfortable.

I ignored her strange reaction, straight into the restaurant, Xiao Er saw that there was a guest to the door, only lazily stood up from the side, walked over unhurriedly, listlessly waved a rag and asked, "What do you two eat?" Inside please. ”

Jialan followed behind me, waving the dust flying in front of her nose with her hand in disgust.

I stood in front of her, noticed the scene, and snickered. Xiao Er was not very happy when he saw Jialan's reaction, so he immediately pulled his face down, and his tone was much stiffer than just now, "How about it, two, do you want to eat it." ”

"Is it really edible here?" Jialan's reaction was normal.

It's really not very clean, and it feels like a person can bring up a layer of dust just by moving, and there are obvious marks of muddy water on the table, and the floor is also a thick layer of dust. The environment here is really bad, and there is only this slightly arrogant little two in front of me in the store.

"This girl's words, how do you say this?" Xiao Er was still unhappy when he heard it, and pinched his waist with a posture of wanting to fight, "Why can you call it edible?" What does it mean to be edible? Why can't we eat our stuff, you tell me what it is. ”

"Of course it's because it's dirty, look at the ......," Jia Lan pointed to the dust that was clearly floating in the air.

"Don't talk about it." I turned my head sideways to stop her from continuing to argue with Xiao Er, and then turned to Xiao Er again, looked up and down, and asked, "Look at your grade, it shouldn't be too big, how many years have you been here?" ”

"Three years, what's wrong?" Xiao Er shook the rag again, and his tone was very unkind.

I pressed Jialan, who wanted to quarrel with him again, and suppressed my anger, "Are you the only one here?" My two sisters came from Hancheng and saw a sign posted outside this restaurant, so we came in to have a look. ”

"Are you going to buy here?" Xiao Er's face changed suddenly, and he invited us in with a smile, pulled out two stools under the table, and wiped them vigorously with a dirty rag for a while, the stools were still dirty, Xiao Er simply bent down to clean the two stools with his sleeves, and then invited us to sit. "This restaurant belongs to my uncle, it's been open for many years, you sit down first, and I'll go and call my uncle-in-law out."

He happily walked towards the back door of the restaurant, "Uncle! Uncle! ”

It wasn't until I watched Xiao Er disappear through the back door that Jialan couldn't help but ask me, "Are you really planning to take down this store?" ”

I laughed, but didn't explain it to her, I already have so many headaches to deal with, why bother to buy another store, just want to get out of the mouth, at least you have to make him feel profitable.

After a while, the little second came back with a middle-aged man who looked old, and that person had to look like he was forty or fifty years old, but when he sat down, Jialan and I looked at each other invariably.

"Hear him say, the two girls are from the cold city?" Although the man's voice was low, it was full of confidence, thick and hard.

"Yes. Haven't asked yet, are you? I asked, pretending not to know.

"Oh, I'm the owner of this restaurant, my name is Wu Wei, you can call me Boss Wu now." He replied with a smile.

"Boss Wu, it seems that your grade is not very high, but why do you look at your appearance......" Jialan couldn't hold back her words.

"Jialan." I called her out and hoped she wouldn't delay our trip.

"It's not in the way, it's not in the way." Boss Wu saw me scolding Jialan, and hurriedly waved his hand to explain, "Don't blame this girl." Don't hide it from the two of you, I'm only thirty-six this year, and I always thought I was covering it up well, who knew that the two girls would come out. ”

Probably because we are more sensitive to perception, "Boss Wu, you are young, why do you want to pretend to be an old man." ”

It's strange that he's at least a dozen or twenty years behind his actual age.

"This ......" Boss Wu looked embarrassed, as if there was something unspeakable, he looked at me and Jialan, looked around, and asked in a low voice, "Do the two girls really want to take down this restaurant?" ”

"That's natural, since we want to take the plate, we must be clear about the past of this restaurant, what kind of person the first owner is, what kind of background, whether he owes debts, whether there is any situation in the restaurant, whether it is not clean, it is always better to investigate clearly." I'll be serious.

Boss Wu sank his breath, as if he had made up his mind, slapped his hand on his thigh, and said, "That's it, since you two girls sincerely want to do business, I won't hide it from the two of you." I don't have the surname Wu, my surname is Jia, the second in line, my father and mother didn't leave a name early, my eldest brother is called Jia Da, so the villagers later called me Jia Er......"

Merchant?! …… Jia Da Jia Er?! I quickly remembered where I had seen this name.

That's right, it's that scroll. I jerked my head up and looked at Jialan, it was the scroll she had brought to show me today, Jia Da, Jia Da Chief...... He is the chief steward of Mrs. Ruyi's palace!

Oh, my God! It really didn't take much effort to get it.

"My father and mother left us a small piece of land, which was barely enough to make ends meet. However, after two years of severe drought, there was no harvest in the field, and life could not go on. My eldest brother said, there is no way, let's enter the palace...... He was only thirteen years old when he entered the palace, and he became a father-in-law. Fortunately, I was given some money every month, and my life was almost able to go on. He said, thinking for a moment, "It was more than ten years ago, no, it should have been twenty years." Yes, twenty-two years ago...... Twenty-two years ago, it was the first time he came back after entering the palace, and the two of us saw each other for the first time in almost five years, because at that time, I was getting married. This is a big deal, no matter what, he is my eldest brother, and the eldest brother is like a father, and he must show up. No, at that time, I just want to marry the dog and his aunt. ”

He said and patted the little two on the shoulder, and I reacted, it turned out that this little two was called a dog.

"In this case, we shouldn't call you Boss Wu, we should call you Boss Jia." Jialan didn't even look at Xiao Er.

Who knew that he repeatedly excused himself, "Don't, you guys, let's call me Boss Wu." Everyone here thinks my surname is Wu, and no one knows my surname Jia, so they all call me Boss Wu. ”

"Why do you say that your surname is Jia even though your surname is Wu?" Jialan was puzzled.

"This has to start from the time my eldest brother came out of the palace twenty-two years ago." Boss Wu continued, "We brothers haven't seen each other for many years, so we must have talked for a long time, and my eldest brother told me that there is a new lady in the palace, who is very favored, and can sing and dance gently and movingly, as if she is called Mrs. Ruyi...... Heck, I can't remember all these years. Anyway, he was sent to Mrs. Ruyi's palace to do things, Mrs. Ruyi was favored but had no shelf, she took care of them very much, and I heard that I was going to get married and let my eldest brother come out to see. The next time I saw him, it would be about two years before I saw him......"

About two years at that time? That is, twenty years ago! So it's before and after Mrs. Ruyi's accident?! "What happened then?"

"He came out of the palace in the middle of the night, and banged on my door, and although we lived on his help, we were relatively wealthy, and bought a three-room house on the edge of the city. He slammed the door, and I got up to look, and he was wearing a very large black cloak, and he seemed very nervous, and I asked him to come into the house and sit down, and he didn't come in. He stood at the door, took out a small bag of things and gave it to me, so that I could do some business, and if he didn't come back to me after two months, he would let me change my name and live again. I didn't take it seriously, but he turned around and left, and when I went back to the room, my God, that little bag was full of silver, and when I opened the door to look for him, I couldn't see him anymore. I just remembered what he said, no, two months have passed, and I have not seen him again, this second-class, I have been waiting for more than a year, and I have asked someone to ask in the middle, but it seems that there is a plague in the palace, and many people have died. But I thought about what he left, and muttered, maybe when he had news again, he changed his name, and with that money, he opened a small restaurant in the city, which is not ......."

I turned around to look at Jialan, and she was puzzled. I asked, "Didn't you look for him after that?" Xu is this sentence is too straightforward, to attract his attention, I added another sentence, "Ah, I'm worried, the money he gave you to open a restaurant won't be some ill-gotten gains, in case someone comes to the door in ...... future."

"Oh no. Isn't it just an overnight affair to lose your head in this palace, maybe it's okay at noon, and you will kill it if you say it's going to be killed. Xu was someone he offended at that time, and he felt it himself. Before leaving, he came to see me and brought all his belongings in the palace all these years. Since he said so, I don't know who he provoked, so let's just live like this, lest I go to find trouble again and lose my life in vain. This Boss Wu is very open, but after talking about the origin of this restaurant, he seems to think of something wrong, "Earlier, there was a war in front, and there were chaotic people everywhere, and there was not even food for at least food and clothing, so my restaurant is only now downtrodden, but it was very good earlier, and there was an endless stream of people coming and going." As soon as we saw that this was the case, we thought about selling the restaurant and leaving some money to go back to our hometown. But two girls, are you from the cold city? There are also guests who have said when I have dinner here before, the cold city is not day by day, two months ago, the second son defeated the cold city and now the life and death are uncertain, now it should be a ghost town, but you look ......"

I was speechless for a moment, and I didn't know how to answer him.

"When Hancheng first started a war with the Yibe people, my father felt that it was inappropriate, so we sold our belongings and came here. So later, we also heard about the cold city, although it is a pity, but we are glad that we came out early. Jialan picked up the conversation at the right time, and at first glance, it was reasonable.

"So, how do the two girls look?" Boss Wu talked for a long time, then stood up and introduced to us, "My restaurant has two floors, and the top is a private room reserved for distinguished guests. Below is the lobby, no, there is the kitchen, and the warehouse is in the back. At the back door of my restaurant, there is also a backyard, which has seven rooms and a spacious courtyard. Our family usually lives in the courtyard behind the restaurant. If you like it, this restaurant has a backyard, you give this number. ”

As he spoke, he stretched out a slap in the face.

I compared it and suddenly realized that he was talking about five, five?

"Five hundred taels of silver." Boss Wu emphasized.

"Five hundred taels?!" Jialan shouted in shock. "Even your restaurant is worth five hundred?!"

"The location of my restaurant is good, when the war in front of me stops and Mucheng returns to peace, then you can see again, it won't take two years, and this money will be earned back." Boss Wu lobbied, "So, if you think it's expensive, I'll reduce it by fifty, at most, it can't be lower." ”

Four hundred and fifty taels?! I smiled faintly, "Let's go back and talk about it." ”

"Four hundred and fifty taels? What else are you discussing? Jialan was so angry that she seemed to be going to open the store to others.

Fortunately, I pulled her out of the restaurant with my quick hands, and I could hear her still chirping, and I couldn't bear it anymore, and I didn't stop until I was far away from the shop. "What else are you bargaining for? Do you really want to buy it?! Don't forget what we're here for. ”

Jialan closed her mouth at this time, but when she turned her head, her expression changed a little.

I looked at her, and I already understood why she looked like this, it was Chengfu in front of me! Cheng Jing's mansion!

"Cheng Jing's house?!" I always felt that something was weird, and I looked at the house of the family, and then turned my head to look at the restaurant at the end of the road.

"Let's go." Jialan said that she was about to leave.

"Wait a minute." I said, "You go back first and see if they find any clues about those people, I have something to do." ”

"You won't be ......," Jialan looked at Chengfu with a puzzled stomach. (To be continued.) )