Chapter 8: Pawning Jade Pendants

As night falls, the lights come on.

Although this Qinghe County is not the capital, the streets are bustling and lively. The wide streets are lined with small carts, some of which are delicious snacks, some are rouge gouache, some are curiosities, and everything is available.

There is an endless stream of young people on the street, hooking their shoulders and discussing with great interest which one has the most fragrant drinks, which one has more beautiful girls, and which gambling house can make the most money!

The work of the poor has just ended, but the rich children's colorful nightlife has just begun.

In the dim candlelight, a thin and slightly petite little brother walked alone on the street, the man looked left and right, walked and stopped, and finally entered a small shop.

A wooden wall cuts the pawnshop in half, with the guest room on the outside and the inner room on the inside, and a window in the middle wooden wall connects the inside and outside.

"Shopkeeper!"

The shopkeeper dozed off with one hand on the table, and the inch-long octagonal mustache on either side of his lips swayed up and down as he breathed. When the shopkeeper heard the voice, he suddenly woke up, and looked at the thin boy in front of him with dim sleepy eyes.

"Shopkeeper, I want to pawn something, how much silver taels do you think this jade can be worth?"

Things are dead, people are alive! Feng Xiaoxiao thought about it for a day, and finally decided to pawn the jade pendant given by Jia Gongyi. Before avoiding accidents, Feng Xiaoxiao used Shen Xingchen's only one or two silvers to buy a set of men's clothes, and chose a small pawnshop with no name. Since Jia Gongyi is a child of a rich family in Tongcheng, if he meets someone who knows his jade pendant, it will only add to the trouble.

Feng Xiaoxiao handed over the jade pendant in her arms, and the shopkeeper took the jade pendant and weighed it in his hand a few times, turned around and approached the dim candlelight, reached out and rubbed his weak eyes, and looked at it carefully for a while.

The jade is smooth, shiny and shiny, the feel is delicate, this jade pendant is put in the hand first cool and then warm, and the Pixiu demeanor is more vivid, in addition to the value of the jade itself, not to mention, on this vivid workmanship, there are few people in the world can carve. It's a valuable goodie!

The person in front of him is just a child who doesn't understand anything, and it seems that he is really going to make a windfall this time!

The shopkeeper's dark face did not change, but he put the jade pendant in his hand on the counter carelessly.

"Although the pattern is exquisite, but in fact, the jade quality is only average, if the little brother really wants to be, open the door to the business at a fixed price!"

The shopkeeper stretched out five fingers towards Feng Xiaoxiao.

"Five hundred taels, deal!"

The price of this jade pendant is definitely more than this amount, but Feng Xiaoxiao doesn't care about these now, these five hundred taels are enough for her to go back to Hongfeng Villa.

"No, no, no, little brother, you will be mistaken, not five hundred taels, but fifty taels, don't look at its size, carved well, in fact, the most important thing depends on the quality of the jade!"

The shopkeeper hurriedly explained, really thinking that he was a three-year-old child! Feng Xiaoxiao knew the businessman's temperament and tricks, so he took the jade pendant and turned around and left. The shopkeeper was a little anxious now, and immediately hurried out of the room and came to Feng Xiaoxiao to stop his way.

"Little brother, don't worry, if you are not satisfied with the price, you can actually discuss it again, if you think the price is low, it is better to die, if you die, the price will increase several times!"

"What is death?"

Feng Xiaoxiao stopped, and when the shopkeeper saw that there was a turnaround, he immediately explained the rules of the pawnshop one by one. The so-called death pawn is a one-time transfer, the thing is owned by someone else, and it is not possible to take it in the future, and the pawn silver will also be paid off at one time. The so-called live pawn is to temporarily store the pawn in the pawnshop to retrieve the emergency money. Things can be retrieved later with the corresponding ransom. This is the reason why the shopkeeper said that death should be high and life should be high.

"If you die, how much is it worth?"

Jia Gongyi gave Feng Xiaoxiao the feeling that he was too ethereal, like a fog. She wanted to avoid it, and she was so desperate to get back to Red Maple Villa to find out what had happened that night. The poison was in the wine, Lin Fengqin also drank it, and he became Shen Xingchen, so what about him? Someone wants to kill them, but who is it? What is the purpose? What happened to Feng Feifei and Feng Longteng now?

There are too many thoughts and too much confusion, and all this is waiting for her to go back to understand.

She always had a bad feeling in her heart that something had happened to the Red Maple Villa! If so, Jia Gongyi is really a good person, even if he owes him.

The shopkeeper over there didn't know the thousands of thoughts in Feng Xiaoxiao's heart, but felt that her expression was getting deeper and more troubled, thinking that this cooked duck could not let her fly, and he also knew that he couldn't fool Feng Xiaoxiao at will.

"One thousand taels, no more than one point!"

Feng Xiaoxiao didn't say anything this time, only asked the shopkeeper to exchange the silver taels for a convenient silver ticket, drew a pressure on the shopkeeper's note and left.

"I'm going to get rich this time! That little fool really thinks I'm smart! I've made a few thousand taels of silver in a blink of an eye!" The shopkeeper rubbed the heavy jade pendant in his hand with one hand, turned his head and glanced at the red and bright fingerprints on the death contract, laughed happily and squeezed out the wrinkles on his face like a ravine, as if the silver taels of white flowers were floating in front of him.

The silver light flashed, and the shopkeeper only felt a pain in his back, and the whole person fell straight to the ground.

A man dressed in a blue suit suddenly appeared in front of him.

"You, you, what do you want to do?"

The man in blue was tall, holding a sword in his right hand and holding his arms in his arms, approaching him upright.

"There is a wicked servant stealing the treasure at home, so I am naturally here to arrest the murderer and find the lost property by the way!"

The man squatted down and took the jade pendant and the death contract back, the shopkeeper was naturally unwilling, this was what he spent a thousand taels of silver in exchange, he couldn't move if he wanted to, just wanted to protest out loud, the man seemed to have an intuition like his fingers moved lightly and landed on his back, his brain was in a trance, and he felt that he had encountered a cactus jump before his consciousness was completely eliminated.

The man in blue jumped and stepped all the way into the Yun family's upper study. In the upper study, the lights are bright, and Jia Gongyi, dressed in white, is sitting at the table reading a book, and the green silk like ink is scattered at will, like a waterfall sloping down, soft and shiny. The window moves slightly, the candle flame flickers, and the green silk flies.

"Childe is like a god, then Shen Xingchen really took the jade pendant!

Sui Feng put the jade pendant and the death contract on the table. After Jia Gongyi listened to Sui Feng's words, he put down the book in his hand leisurely, and his eyes stayed on the death contract.

Sui Feng said that Shen Xingchen borrowed money from Fu Qiaoying, although he didn't know what she wanted the silver for, but this gave him a chance!

Jia Gongyi's expression did not change, and the corners of his lips still had the same arc as always: "What a bold white-eyed wolf!"

"Childe, now that we have this death contract, can we move on to the next step!"

"This play is not brilliant enough, now is not the best time! You keep staring to see what she wants to do? I'm getting more and more curious about this little girl!"

Jia Gongyi continued to pick up the book and flip through it, while Sui Feng turned around and left after listening to Jia Gongyi's words, but he was thinking about when was the best time in his mouth?