Chapter 159: Closer to the Truth
From the outside, it looks like the most ordinary tailor shop, but inside there is a university question, but entering through the door behind the counter is a deep corridor, dim, Yun Jinxi has to follow the shopkeeper in front of him closely so as not to hit the wall headlong.
"Where is this?" Yun Jinxi asked in a trembling voice.
The shopkeeper sneered, "Why do you ask so much, just follow along." ”
After walking in the dark for about ten seconds, I came to the end, and at the end was a small courtyard, with a few trees in the yard, and there was nothing else, and it didn't look like it was inhabited at all.
Yun Jinxi suddenly regretted a little, he had already let Qingfeng come by himself, in case there was any problem, he would be able to do martial arts and get out.
"Is it right here?" Seeing that the shopkeeper in front of him stopped, Yun Jinxi asked tremblingly.
The shopkeeper turned around, his shrewd little eyes kept looking at Yun Jinxi all the time, and finally frowned and spoke, "You are a newcomer?" ”
Yun Jinxi nodded hurriedly, "It's a newcomer, the lady of the Zhang family from the General's Mansion entrusted me here, and she also asked me to hand over this thing to you." ”
After speaking, Yun Jinxi took the paper with a strange five-pointed star from his arms and sent it to the shopkeeper.
The shopkeeper took the piece of paper, frowned and looked at it for a long time, his face was slightly solemn, "What else did she say?" ”
Long before coming here, Yun Jinxi had thought of a pretext, and when the shopkeeper asked, she answered fluently, "She said that she was discovered, and now she has been monitored, and they threaten her with very important things, I hope you will find a way to contact other people, the General's Mansion is about to be purged, and some people have unreliable mouths, and something may happen." ”
The paper in the shopkeeper's hand was crumpled, and he looked at the five-pointed star on the paper as if he wanted to swallow it.
"It was discovered so quickly." The shopkeeper muttered, and walked around the small courtyard with his hands behind his back, as if he was thinking about countermeasures.
Yun Jinxi didn't bother, and stood aside obediently, watching him keep turning in circles.
"What else do you know?" The shopkeeper raised his head suddenly, his eyes staring at Yun Jinxi.
Yun Jinxi's feet were weak, and she sat on the ground, interpreting the image of an untrained timid maid very thoroughly.
"She was taken care of by her wife's personal maid, saying that she was taking care of her, but in fact it was similar to house arrest, no matter what she said to anyone, she would be strictly monitored, she just met an old manager this morning, and then there were a few more people around the old manager."
The shopkeeper narrowed his eyes and walked in the direction of Yun Jinxi step by step, and then stood beside her, looking condescendingly at Yun Jinxi who was still sitting on the ground.
Yun Jinxi's face was full of fear, and he crawled back and moved several steps, his eyes full of fear.
"Don't be afraid, she has given you any good." The shopkeeper squatted down, his face suddenly came to Yun Jinxi's eyes, and when he got closer to Yun Jinxi, he found that on his face, there was also a distorted five-pointed star sign.
Is this a sign that they recognize each other?
But who would be so stupid, wouldn't it be discovered right away?
"She said that after the deed was completed, she would give me a few hundred taels of silver, and I, I needed the money, and said that if I revealed half a cent, I would sell it to the kiln." Yun Jinxi flattened her mouth and tried to suppress her crying.
"You said she's been watched, why do you still know this." The shopkeeper's dry and rough fingers pinched Yun Jinxi's chin and lifted it violently.
There was a pain in the jaw, Yun Jinxi's chin had been removed by him, Yun Jinxi's eyes widened, the severe pain made her forehead ooze beads of sweat, and she wanted to break free from this person's clamp with her hands and feet, and she couldn't speak clearly.
The shopkeeper had a hearty smile on his face, and looked at Yun Jinxi's struggling demeanor and movements with a smile, as if he was watching some interesting picture.
This person is a pervert, Yun Jinxi secretly scolded in his heart, and on the surface he still looked afraid of breaking free frantically.
After a few minutes, the shopkeeper raised his finger and took Yun Jinxi's chin back, Yun Jinxi covered his chin, escaped dozens of steps in an instant, touched his chin, hid in the corner and shivered in the direction of the shopkeeper, his eyes were full of fear.
"I brought her food, the lady of the Zhang family deliberately knocked over the rice bowl, the girl who took care of her went out to find tools, I cleaned up in the house, and in this gap, she found me, I am very short of money, my brother wants to marry a daughter-in-law, my mother is still on the sickbed, I need this silver."
Yun Jinxi's eyes were fluttering and crying, fortunately, she kept an eye when she put on makeup, and she used waterproof things, otherwise her face would definitely be washed away from white to gray now, and she would have exposed herself first.
The shopkeeper glanced at her suspiciously, and Yun Jinxi hurriedly took out another thing from his arms, a jade pendant.
This is when she went to see the lady of the Zhang family, and when she grabbed her sleeve, she touched her indiscriminately, and now it just came in handy.
"This is given to me by the lady of the Zhang family, she said that if you don't believe it, I will show you this thing." Yun Jinxi showed the jade pendant with a crying voice.
I don't know if she got the right thing by mistake, the shopkeeper's face changed, he quickly took the jade pendant and weighed it in his hand, just now he still had a look on his face, and the next second he looked serious.
"In this case, I believe you for the time being, you take this thing to your general's servant, his surname is Chen, his name is Chen Yuqing, he is a down-and-out son, as long as you deliver the things, he will turn around by himself."
After speaking, the shopkeeper stuffed a wooden sign into Yun Jinxi's hand.
Not surprisingly, the wooden plaque also had a twisted five-pointed star on it.
It seems that they are really preventing, not to mention anything else, just look at this symbol to know that they are still relatively professional.
After speaking, the shopkeeper was afraid that Yun Jinxi didn't understand, so he emphasized it again, "It's your old general's little servant, he was just recently admitted to the general's mansion, you may not know him." ”
Hearing this, Yun Jinxi's heart was cold.
She said how to look at that person The more she looked at it, the more wrong it became, and then she remembered that when she was still in the Yun family, she was taken to a poetry meeting, and she seemed to see him at the poetry meeting, but at that time he was still a high-spirited young man.
Unexpectedly, after such a long time, his family path has been ruined, and he even threw himself into the hands of King Xi, willing to be a spy.
"Okay, then I'll go first." Yun Jinxi took the sign into his arms, nodded solemnly at the shopkeeper, and then walked out with firm steps.
I was scared for a while, but fortunately, when I saw the little guy in the afternoon, I didn't say anything specific.