Chapter 77: The Dark Room
Ran Qiunian didn't know that Zhang Shaoxian had already become suspicious because of her overly enthusiastic attitude, she stood at the door of the warehouse with her hands behind her back, watching boxes of goods being carried out in a carriage, thinking about Xiao Yin's movements a little bored.
"Since the little young master thinks it's interesting, then you can take a look here first, and I'll go and count the goods in the two warehouses in the back first."
Zhang Shaoxian's eyes rolled, and he tentatively dropped a sentence, wanting to see Ran Qiunian's reaction.
Sure enough, after hearing his plan to go to the back two warehouses again, Ran Qiunian immediately said in a little anxious: "Then I'll go and have a look too." ”
"Little young master, the things in the three warehouses are the same, there is no difference where you look at it, if you are just interested in this scene of transporting goods, it is enough to take a look here, there is no need to go to the other two warehouses."
Ran Qiunian opened her mouth and was about to give up, but when she looked at Zhang Shaoxian's suspicious eyes, she suddenly woke up and swallowed the excuse she had thought of.
Zhang Shaoxian is suspicious of her? Ran Qiunian gritted her back molars, and didn't speak for a long time, when Xiu Gu saw this, she stepped forward to block Ran Qiunian's body, and scolded coldly: "Bold, our young master will go wherever he wants, why do you need your consent?" ”
Ran Qiunian snorted coldly, and looked at Zhang Shaoxian unhappily with his chin up.
Seeing this, Zhang Shaoxian eased his expression a little and explained: "That's not what I mean, if the little master wants to go, let's go and have a look." ”
After his words fell, he turned sideways and motioned for Ran Qiunian to follow him and go to the second warehouse.
Ran Qiunian hesitated, for fear that Mr. Zhang Shao would be suspicious, so he couldn't help but say anything to delay time, and the group went to the second warehouse, and still found no trace of Xiao Yin inside.
Zhang Shaoxian was secretly observing the changes in Ran Qiunian's expression all the way, wondering in his heart what the purpose of this little young master was coming over today.
After he noticed Ran Qiunian's slightly relaxed expression after pushing open the warehouse, he suddenly realized that he might have thought of a different direction in the first place.
"This is the second storeroom, the contents are no different from the first storeroom, do you want to go and see the last storeroom?"
Zhang Shaoxian covered up the suspicion and temptation in his eyes, and pretended to inadvertently mention the matter of the third warehouse.
"No, ......" As soon as Ran Qiunian's words came out of his mouth, he paused, and his mind flashed through the suspicion that Zhang Shaoxian had revealed before, and he changed his words instantly, "Don't worry, haven't you arranged for someone to hand over the goods?" ”
Ran Qiunian seemed to unintentionally lift a box on the ground, looked at Luo Sha inside, coughed lightly, and turned to look at Zhang Shaoxian who was parked there impatiently.
"Why don't you hurry up and make arrangements, didn't you say you were going to the last warehouse to have a look? Hurry up and clear the account books, when will you be able to see these three warehouses? ”
Zhang Shaoxian saw Ran Qiunian with a look of uncertainty, and began to hesitate again, could it be that he was mistaken, this little master really just came here to take a look, not to play a "plan to divert the tiger from the mountain"?
"You guys, reconcile here."
After thinking about it, Zhang Shaoxian was still a little relieved, and while he was looking for someone to reconcile the accounts, he gave a look to a henchman guarding outside.
The henchmen outside the door received the order, immediately reacted and quietly retreated. Ran Qiunian didn't notice the movement outside the door, and when she saw Zhang Shaoxian, who was still a little impatient, she suddenly began to slow down her movements according to her wishes, and couldn't help but feel a little relieved.
"A few of you are guarding outside, the doors and windows are all tightly watched, I will go into the warehouse to take inventory, and the second shopkeeper will come over to clear the goods in a while."
A few men were ordered to go down and guard around the last storehouse, Xu had never done such a thing, and a few of them moved neatly and quietly set up defenses near the doors and windows.
When the henchman saw that the arrangements were in order, he relieved himself, went to the locked door of the third storeroom, and took out a key to unlock the iron lock.
The sound of unlocking alarmed the people inside, Xiao Yin sensed that something was wrong, and before the people outside pushed the door in, he hid behind the wall of a one-person-high box and listened to the movement outside.
The man who walked in from the outside carefully closed the door, and in the light that came in from the window, he walked to the place where Xiao Yin was hiding.
Xiao Yin's eyes froze, and for a moment he almost thought that he had been discovered, but soon realized that the man had not seen him.
He raised his eyes to see the gap in the beam above his head, and took advantage of the dim light in the storeroom to cover it, and with a little step, he jumped up to the beam above his head with a sharp posture and hid in it.
Below, the man also happened to walk to the place where Xiao Yin was hiding, and walked behind the row of box walls without squinting, and stopped at the penultimate row of box walls.
Xiao Yin looked at it intently, the things in the warehouse were really messy, and there were many things, he searched here for a long time, but he couldn't find the forbidden things that were hidden, but it turned out that this thing was hidden so secretly.
The man directly opened a dark compartment behind the wall of the penultimate row, and inside was a thing that looked like a pull ring, just as Xiao Yin secretly guessed what it was, the man pulled up the iron ring and touched a secret room that was extremely hidden.
It turned out that he was hidden here, Xiao Yin's eyes were slightly cold, if it weren't for this person who threw himself into the net, he was only afraid that he would really have to return today.
Zhang Shaoxian didn't know that it was because of his clever actions that he was self-defeating, and opened the secret he had carefully hidden in front of Xiao Yin.
When he saw his henchman return to the door and make a thoughtful gesture to himself, the big stone in his heart fell to the ground, and his suspicion of Ran Qiunian completely disappeared.
Zhang Shaoxian saw that Ran Qiunian was still looking around in the warehouse, and seemed to be uninterested, so he asked, "Does the little young master want to go elsewhere to see?" ”
"I thought you were fooling me before, but it turns out that this place is really no different from other places, and it is extremely boring. Wouldn't that be the same with the rest of the storeroom? ”
Ran Qiunian looked impatient, threw down the Luo Sha in his hand, and walked outside the warehouse to breathe.
"I've already told the little young master, these things are nothing to see, even if you come to ten or eight more warehouses, you won't be able to turn over new tricks."
Zhang Shaoxian saw that Ran Qiunian was bored, so he continued to say it in a good manner, hoping to dispel Ran Qiunian's idea of going to the last warehouse to check.
This coincides with Ran Qiunian's true purpose, neither of the two of them wants the other to go to the last warehouse.
"I heard Shulin say before, I thought that the business life was very interesting, but who knew that it would be so disappointing. You said you wanted to take me to see the goods coming in and out of the shops......"
Ran Qiunian racked her brains to lure Zhang Shaoxian to another place, just when she wanted to recruit, Xiu Gu gently pushed behind her, this is the meaning that Xiao Yin has already succeeded, after realizing this, Ran Qiunian's words immediately changed to something else.
"It's not much different from here, it's not as interesting as going to Tianxianglou to eat dim sum. Since Brother Zhang is so busy today, I won't bother you, let's meet again another day. ”
Zhang Shaoxian wished that Ran Qiunian would disappear from his eyes quickly, and when he heard the words, he didn't even do a fake retention, he personally sent the person to the door, watched the person get into the carriage, disappeared into the corner of the street, and then turned around and went back with a black face.
The look on Ran Qiunian's face was not very good, the two people who looked disgusted with each other just got together, and they had to talk and laugh, I really couldn't tell who tortured whom.
"Master Xiugu, my face is going to stiffen, there is Tianxiang Building in front, let's go in and wait for the eldest brother to come over and meet us, right?"
Xiu Gu nodded in response, drove the carriage into the West Market Street in front, and stopped in front of Tianxiang Building.
Ran Qiunian sat in the carriage and rubbed her cheeks with a bitter face, although she didn't give Zhang Shaoxian any good looks, but it was not easy to pretend to be an arrogant and willful straw bale young master all the time.
"Miss, Tianxianglou has arrived."
Xiu Gu's voice came from outside, Ran Qiu Nian lifted the curtain, and without waiting for Xiu Gu to come to help, she jumped out of the carriage directly, which made Xiu Gu nervous.
"Miss be careful."
Xiu Gu stretched out her hand to pick up Ran Qiunian, who jumped out of the carriage, and saw that no one had anything to do on the ground, so she withdrew her hand and gave the reins on the carriage to the Tianxianglou guys who came up.
Ran Qiunian walked into the building and said to the guy who ran the hall: "Mei Zihao private room, send a pot of good tea, and two plates of dim sum." ”
Dropping this sentence, Ran Qiunian stepped on the stairs leading to the private room on the second floor first, and Xiu Gu stepped forward and threw a silver ingot in the hands of the guy who ran the hall.
The clinker guy held the silver taels in his hand, but he showed a look of embarrassment, and chased two steps in the direction where Ran Qiunian left.
"Wait a minute, it's a coincidence that the private room of the plum brand has been chartered by the guests." The guy took three steps and chased after him in two steps, "Can you change it to a private room with a blue name?" ”
"Someone?" When Ran Qiu heard this, he was not surprised, and waved his hand indifferently, "That's the Lan number." ”
"Okay, I'll arrange it for you." Seeing that Ran Qiunian was so good at talking, the guy took the silver and went to prepare tea and snacks for Ran Qiunian with satisfaction.
The guy hadn't walked a few steps, but the plum-shaped private room behind Ran Qiunian suddenly opened.
"Nian ...... Ran Xiaogongzi? It's a coincidence, I was able to meet in Tianxianglou today, since you have taken a fancy to this plum private room, why don't you have a cup of tea together? ”
Noticing the men's clothes on Ran Qiunian's body, the words blurted out by the man changed his words.
It's really a narrow road, Ran Qiunian never thought that she would see the most unexpected person here, the relaxed smile on her face stiffened slightly, she lowered her look, and said to the man in front of her:
"Little grandpa is so Yaxing, but I have already made an appointment with a friend today, so it's inconvenient to disturb."
Looking at Qi Ruoyun's elegant and harmless face, Ran Qiunian's originally good mood deteriorated again.