It wasn't until the subdued chanting faded away as Li Qi drifted away that Shang Cheng realized that he seemed to be causing unnecessary trouble. He had been with Li Qi just now, and most of the people in the yamen had seen it, maybe someone would tell the new chief bookkeeper about this, if the chief bookkeeper hated himself because of this, his house purchase would definitely have twists and turns......

But at this point, there was nothing he could do. He sat in the pantry, annoyed that he hadn't turned back to Huojiabao earlier and got into trouble in vain, while staring at the large cloud that was slowly climbing up the roof of the yamen lobby opposite, wondering what to do next.

When Li Qi left, the dark clouds only showed a thin line on the roof of the Yamen Hall, but in the blink of an eye, it covered half of the sky in the north, and the earth became dark. The seven stone beasts squatting on the five ridges of the roof of the county hall have disappeared into a gray haze, and their shapes are becoming more and more blurred. The wind was blowing, and a whirlwind like a whirlwind rolled the pantry shop into a clattering sound. The owner of the shop cleaned up the square tables and stools set up at the door, and shouted loudly to the woman to hurry to the backyard to collect the clothes to dry.

Depending on the situation, a downpour is coming.

Shang Cheng nervously pondered what to do next.

The idea of returning to Huojiabao is obviously unrealistic, not to mention how heavy this rain will be, just thinking that he will have to travel sixty miles in the dark to Zhaojiaji once and for forty miles, which makes him discouraged. It was feasible to bring the money back and deposit it in the pannier, but he was worried that by the time he returned to Yixian, the house would have already been sold. The most important thing now is to find a reliable person to give the money to Liu Laozhu, so that Liu Laozhu can buy the house for himself.

The question is who can he turn to?

He frowned, sifting through the people who could help in his heart.

When it comes to people who can be trusted, Huo Shiqi is of course the first choice, but Uncle Seventeen is not in Yi County at all. He himself knew two people in the county, both of whom were laborers he met when he was a helper, whether it was reliable or unreliable, the key was that he didn't expect that there would be trouble now, and he never inquired about other people's addresses. By the way, I heard that Uncle Seventeen also has an elder brother who is also on an errand in the Yamen, and he is also a person who can entrust things, but he has never seen this sixth uncle of the Huo family, and there is no one to recommend in front of him......

He suddenly remembered the senior junior of Liu Ji Warehouse!

Hey! Why did you forget about the high school junior? On friendship, on contacts, on relatives and distance, Gao Xiaosan is a trustworthy guy; And don't look at this guy is young, but he is very cautious and careful in doing things, and entrusts him with money, even if he has omissions, he will fill in the gaps for himself, at least he can tell Liu Laozhu the details of the matter completely.

He slapped himself on the thigh excitedly because of this good idea.

He stood up excitedly, took out three more coins and threw them on the square table, one by one, he obviously forgot that he had paid for the tea just now, and he hurriedly left the tea shop one by one, and trotted all the way to Liu Ji's warehouse against the wind.

Then what was waiting for him in the warehouse was a basin of cold water poured from head to toe, and after eating one by one, the junior followed the big shopkeeper out to run errands at noon.

He couldn't believe that his fortune would be so bad.

He hurriedly asked, "When will he be back?" ”

The young man who was guarding the door in the backyard of the warehouse shook his head and said he didn't know.

"And where did he go?" Shang Cheng asked unwillingly.

This matter is even more unclear to the young man. Of course, even if he knew the whereabouts of Gao Xiaosan, it was impossible for him to tell the people in front of him. Although this person is very familiar with Gao Xiaosan, the big guy in the warehouse, he knows that this person is not a decent person in the city, let alone the customer of the store.

"Will he be able to come back today?"

"It's hard to say." The young man said impatiently. He thought that this person might be a poor relative of Gao Xiaosan, who came to the city to fight the famine, and he helped Gao Xiaosan send this person away, maybe Gao Xiaosan would give himself some benefits because of this, and he said that he might not hear that Gao Xiaosan was going to be transferred to Quzhou to be the manager of the warehouse transportation, and that was the third shopkeeper of the Quzhou branch......

It seems that his own business can only be done after returning from Beizheng. Shang Cheng thought in frustration, he just didn't know when he would be able to come back; Alas, how can buying a house also have so many tribulations?

At this time, he heard the young man call out to Mr. Yao respectfully and affectionately, and said, "Why did you come back so soon?" I thought you were going to come back after sheltering from the rain outside......" The young man ran up to meet him as he spoke, and took the man down from the mule, and pulled the sweat towel that hung on his shoulder, and shook the dust off the man's body.

The Mr. Yao just said "hmm", and without answering the young man's words, he pointed to the big coat on the mule's back and said, "Carry these two bags of money to the tent." As he spoke, he glanced at Shang Cheng, and then instructed the young man, "Don't move those two account books, I'll take them myself...... Is the second shopkeeper here? The young man led the mule into the door and replied, "The second shopkeeper is here, and he came to ask if you have come back just now." Mr. Yao took the small blanket containing the account book, abacus and other items, and said in a deep voice: "Then you can invite him to the account room by the way...... Forget it, I'll go to him myself in a while, and you can tell him that I'm back. Lifting his legs and about to enter the courtyard, he suddenly seemed to remember something, stopped and turned his face to squint at Shang Cheng up and down, frowning as if he was thinking about something.

"Mr. Yao." Shang Cheng greeted respectfully. When he first came to the warehouse last month to help, it was Mr. Yao who drew the signature.

Mr. Yao didn't recognize him yet, but he felt that his face was a little familiar, and asked suspiciously, "...... are you?"

Shang Cheng didn't know how to introduce himself. Fortunately, the little man who led the mule replied for him: "He is a relative of the tall man." ”

Mr. Yao's brows furrowed suddenly, and Huo Ran stretched out again, and said, "No wonder I feel familiar, it turns out to be a strong businessman." As he spoke, he smiled and asked, "What are you doing?" The pack caravan has returned? ”

"I'm back, and the caravan arrived in the south of the city before noon." Shang Cheng muttered in his heart while replying, why hasn't the steward of the pack team informed the warehouse of the news? Also, why is this Mr. Yao the same as Li Qi he met just now, calling him a "strong businessman"? I felt strange in my heart, but I didn't stop, and then said, "The pack team was requisitioned in Quzhou, and it was going to transport some food and ordnance to Beizheng, and it was now joining the other two pack teams in the south of the city, so I didn't enter the city......

Mr. Yao glanced at the young man who had been stunned beside him, and then asked, "Then you entered the city alone?" Does the steward have something to report to the counter? He turned his face and asked the young man, "Why don't you let the strong man in?" His face was already a little ugly, and his words had a questioning tone.

The young man said aggrievedly: "He didn't say anything about carrying a message for the store." …… He said to find a tall man. ”

Shang Cheng also explained for the young man: "It's not bad for him." I'm really here to do some personal business, and it has nothing to do with the warehouse team. ”

"Private?" After speaking, Mr. Yao touched his face and looked up at the sky. The sky was getting darker and darker, and there were already sparse raindrops, and the soybean-sized raindrops hit the roof and wall, and he said, "You come in first to avoid the rain." As soon as he spoke, he stepped into the courtyard first. Shang Cheng hurriedly followed.

While waiting under the eaves of the barn in the backyard for the upcoming rainstorm, Shang Cheng smiled wryly and briefly told Mr. Yao about his affairs.

After listening to him, Mr. Yao smiled and said, "What is this matter, but it makes you embarrassed like this?" I heard that when you killed the living person Zhang in Quzhou, you didn't even frown, why did you even sigh for a long time on this trivial matter? It's easy, you come with me. Then he led him into the warehouse, asked the man who guarded the warehouse to ask for a pen and inkstone, and said with a smile, "I'll leave a letter for him." The money you brought with you is here, and when he returns, he will give him the money with a letter. You can rest assured, Gao Ting is down-to-earth and clever in his later life, and he will definitely be able to get things done for you. Seeing that Shang Cheng blinked his eyes and was silent, he asked with a smile, "What, do you think this is inappropriate?" Do you not believe me, or can't you trust Gao Ting? ”

How could Shang Cheng not trust Mr. Yao? How can you not trust Gao Xiaosan? He said words of gratitude in his mouth, and when he saw that the man in the library had already set up the pen and paper and was grinding the ink, he put down his coat and hurriedly went over to pick up the teapot, found a clean cup on the table, poured half a cup of water to clean it, and splashed the water in the shallow ditch under the dripping eaves outside the house, and then poured another cup of tea and handed it to Mr. Yao.

Mr. Yao took the teacup and was about to speak, when the young man just now was already standing by the door of the warehouse: "Mr. Yao, the money has been sent to the account, and the second shopkeeper has also been handed over." The second shopkeeper said that the branch of Shangjing Pingyuan Mansion had just sent back the letter from the second owner, and he asked you to come over immediately. ”

It seems that the letter from Beijing is very important, and as soon as Mr. Yao heard about it, he immediately stood up, and said to Shang Cheng while carrying his bag: "Shang Zhuangshi, I'm sorry, I'll go over first." He didn't listen to Shang Cheng's polite words of "If you have something to do, you should be busy first", and instructed the guy who guarded the treasury, "You help him write the letter, and the money will be temporarily placed here for you, and you will hand it over to him when Gao Ting comes back." With that, he walked straight away.

As soon as he left, the guy guarding the library was dumbfounded, and when he saw Shang Cheng still looking at him, he squirmed for a long time before he snorted: "I...... I...... I write...... Can't write. Then he looked at the young man at the door with hopeful eyes, and said, "Wang Si, you can write it." …… Your words are better than mine. ”

The young man waved his hand again and again: "I can't write ...... either" After speaking, he turned around and ran.

Shang Cheng asked the guy who guarded the library strangely: "You can't read?" So how do you manage the storeroom? Although only three or five of the people he knows are literate, but the warehouse guys in the warehouse are illiterate, which is really surprising.

The guy was embarrassed and said, "I can read a few words, but I can't write them...... I don't know how to write it. There's a steward in the storeroom, and I'm ...... I'm just a dude......"

I see. Shang Cheng didn't say anything, he sat down at the table and picked up the brush, pinched off a few hairs on the tip of the pen, skimmed the pen head in the inkstone with polished ink, and dragged the paper to put down the pen before he remembered something, so he raised his face and asked: "Gao Xiaosan's name is Gao Ting?" Which 'pavilion' word? ”

From the moment he sat down at the table, the guy opened his mouth and stared at his every move, and suddenly heard him ask, and it took him several times to wake up, and he shook his head and said he didn't know.

It's a bit of a problem, and the letter can't be left without a letterhead, right? Which is a note, you have to make it clear who receives and who sends it, right? After a moment's hesitation, he wrote the words "third brother" on the paper.

"Third brother, see the letter like a meeting. Yu has been transferred back from Quzhou, and because he can't thank him in person, he hopes that the third brother will forgive me. There is a matter of invitation today, and the third brother Ji assists. If you have 36,300 money left, please hand it over to Uncle Zhuzi, and please inform Uncle Zhu that it is better to buy a house sooner rather than later. I also ask the third brother to declare the joints to Uncle Zhu on my behalf, so that things will be fine. ”

The short cross-cut note is just a matter of a wave, and it was only when it came to the end that Shang Cheng was a little suspicious: how to write the end of this note? Writing his own name "Shang Cheng" is obviously not respectful enough for the other party, and the end of the letter in ancient times is usually his own words, but he has no words......

He hesitated for a moment before writing down the words he had come up with on the fly: Missing.

He put down the pen, picked up the paper and blew softly, looking at the sharp and steep text, even he felt a little surprised, he hadn't touched the pen for more than half a year, and the work on his hand still didn't fall after all. Carefully examining his words, he couldn't help but feel a little proud, the last two words "missing", the two strokes have already crossed the edge of the glyph, thick and steady with two points of publicity, and there is a spirit in the middle of the **, which is in line with the soul and essence of Wei Bei.

Of course, the guy in charge of the treasury didn't know anything about Wei Bei, in fact, he couldn't even read these words, and when he saw Shang Cheng write a good letter, he took it and stuffed it in the pocket of the warehouse, and put it in the corner of the warehouse, and told Shang Cheng that as soon as Gao Xiaosan came back, he would immediately hand over the things to Gao Xiaosan.

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Highly recommend "Demon Graduate", author: Fire Dark Spirit

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