Text 80. Old Forest Town (1)
As soon as the shopkeeper left, Bu Zhuanzi secretly stuffed Jiang Sheng and Yao Guangqi with one pill each, and a voice also reached the ears of the two, "Take the medicine and eat again, just in case, it may be a black shop." ”
As soon as Yao Guangqi and Jiang Sheng heard this, they immediately became nervous, Yao Guangqi was better, and he still had some bottom in his heart, thinking that even if it was a black shop, would it be more difficult to deal with than Jinyiwei? Besides, the master said that the python blood in his body is very domineering, and ordinary poison can't help him with half a point, so he can rest assured and boldly bow his head to eat and wait for the situation to change. But Jiang Sheng was nervous, although he took the pill, his hands kept shaking, and he couldn't hold the dishes when he picked up the dishes, and his hands that didn't hold chopsticks were not idle, holding his stake tightly, where his sword was hidden.
The three of them were eating like this, and suddenly, a large group of people came in from outside the door, and after coming in, they came to the three masters and apprentices violently, and surrounded the three of them. ”
At the same time as being surrounded, Jiang Sheng had already put down his chopsticks, holding his wooden stake with both hands, ready to make a move at any time, but seeing that the fortune operator did not move, he did not act rashly. Bu Operator glanced at Yao Guangqi, Yao Guangqi immediately understood, stood up and said, "What is this?" If you have something to discuss! ”
A middle-aged man stood out of the crowd, white, short and fat, looking to be in his forties, but because his face was very fat, he had no wrinkles at all, and he looked quite kind, this person said: "Someone pointed out that there are Jiang Yang thieves here pretending to be monks, and you guys take out Du Mu and Lu Yin, and they must be verified, otherwise they will arrest you and go to the official mansion." ”
Yao Guangqi scratched his ears and said with a smile, "May I ask who raised it?" Where do you work? ”
As soon as the Humpty Dumpty man heard Yao Guangqi ask himself, he immediately straightened his face, snorted and said, "Tell him"
A person behind the Humpty Dumpty man said: "This is our patriarch Kong Deshan, the chief and grain chief of this town, or a well-known good man in this town, who has been to the capital and met the emperor. ”
Yao Guangqi listened to this person's words, he looked very surprised, his expression looked unusually reverent, just like a dumpling in the countryside who had never seen the world in his life suddenly saw a big man, his eyes were full of admiration and awe, and his movements were particularly respectful, bowing his head and saluting: "It turned out to be a good man, and the little monk is polite here." But good people, we are really monks, not Jiangyang thieves, how can you see Jiangyang thieves of our age? ”
This Humpty Dumpty was very satisfied with Yao Guangqi's performance: "You still know how to abide by the rules, although what you said has some truth, but you still have to pack up your things and come with us, you can't explain the nonsense here." ”
Yao Guangqi's expression looked very embarrassed: "We haven't committed a single royal law." ”
The Humpty Dumpty man was a little impatient, "Don't talk nonsense, you don't have to say anything about the king's law, you can't go, if you don't go, we'll do it." ”
Yao Guangqi turned his head to look at the shopkeeper, stared at the shopkeeper's eyes and said, "We are a monk and two Taoist priests, we don't look like bad people." ”
There was someone next to the shopkeeper who was bold and confident: "Bullshit monks, how can a monk go out and bring so much money?" Or a whole piece of silver, who can give a whole piece of silver? ”
Yao Guangqi smiled and said, "How do you know that we have a whole piece of silver, and we haven't paid the bill yet?" ”
Xiao Er was stunned when asked, of course he was embarrassed to say that he had touched it when he deliberately slipped just now, so he had to forcibly quibble: "It's just a whole piece of silver, I saw it with my own eyes." ”
Yao Guangqi said to Humpty Dumpty, "Look, if we really have a lot of silver, can this Taoist master still wear a torn Dao robe?" ”
Humpty Dumpty sneered, "Maybe you deliberately dressed like this to hide people's eyes. ”
Yao Guangqi looked helpless, "It looks like you won't believe us no matter how you explain it." ”
Humpty Dumpty opened his mouth again: "Don't talk nonsense, if there is any stolen silver, you will know it with a search." ”
Yao Guangqi hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop: "You are not an official of the government, how can you search your body casually?" ”
The shopkeeper looked very proud: "Don't dare to search, there must be ghosts, if you are really innocent, what are you afraid of?" ”
Humpty Dumpty also said, "Yes, there are ghosts."
Yao Guangqi was helpless and sighed: "If you let you search, if you can prove our innocence, it will be fine." ”
Humpty Dumpty said, "Don't talk nonsense, search first." ”
Two people came up behind Humpty Dumpty, and when they came up, they snatched the burden around Yao Guangqi, but when they opened it, they were all books, one by one, and a few monk robes and robes.
The shopkeeper was a little unwilling, so he came up and flipped through it carefully, and even opened the books one by one, but he still found nothing.
Yao Guangqi said on the side: "Start lightly, these books are very expensive, and some of them are rare books, and they will be lost if they are damaged." ”
"That's not right" The shopkeeper was puzzled: "I obviously touched it, it must have been secretly transferred by them." ”
Yao Guangqi was about to laugh, but he heard Humpty Dumpty say: "Search, maybe hide it." ”
Yao Guangqi was about to stop him, but he saw the master shaking his head with a slight smile, Yao Guangqi immediately understood, and said with a smile: "After the search, let us go."
The three masters and apprentices were searched like this, but after the search, they still found nothing, Humpty Dumpty turned around and stared at Xiao Er with questioning eyes, this Xiao Er was really anxious, cold sweat was oozing from his forehead, he had been secretly observing the three of them, confirming that the three of them had always eaten at the table and had never gone out, so the silver must be on these people, could it be in this wood?
The shopkeeper's hand faintly leaned into his arms, fortunately, there was a piece of broken silver in his pocket, thinking of this, he thought about it, took out the piece of silver in his arms, and said to Humpty Dumpty: "This is what he gave me just now, saying that it was food money, and the excess was rewarded to me." ”
Before everyone could see what was going on, Yao Guangqi somehow copied the broken piece of silver in his hand, and said with a smile: "I obviously gave you a piece of fifty taels of silver, why did it become so small so quickly, I'm afraid this piece of silver is not even five taels." ”
The shopkeeper was in a hurry, and hurriedly reached out and jumped to grab this piece of silver, and said in his mouth: "When did you give me fifty taels, even this is my ......"
Yao Guangqi handed the silver to Humpty Dumpty, and interrupted the shopkeeper's words: "If we are really a thief from Jiangyang, then the silver given to him must also be regarded as stolen goods, you can take the stolen silver, as for the other forty taels or so, I don't know." ”