Chapter 22: There are pursuers behind

Liu's pawnshop is one of the four major families of Longcheng, the Liu family, opened in Changle Fang, and the location here is very important compared to the other three, and it is located in the most prosperous area of Changle Fang. At this time, the shopkeeper of the pawnshop carefully looked at the jade jade pendant in his hand, blinked a few times from the corner of his eye, and hurriedly handed the pipe in his hand to the courtier beside him.

"Who took this jade pendant?" The shopkeeper held the jade jade pendant in both hands, and his face was shocked.

"An ordinary young man, I think he must have stolen it from, and he was still dead, so he gave ten taels of silver." The courtier respectfully placed the shopkeeper's pipe on the wooden table beside him, turned his head, and said casually.

"What? An ordinary teenager? The corners of the shopkeeper's mouth wrinkled slightly, and he secretly said in his heart, judging from the veins of this piece of jade, it should be the Shangguan family, how could it be in the hands of an ordinary young man, it is difficult for the Shangguan Mansion to be stolen. He shook his head and whispered to himself, "Impossible. ”

"What can't be?" The courtier, who saw the shopkeeper talking to himself, bowed over a cup of tea, and asked softly.

The shopkeeper put the jade pendant back into the brocade box, carefully covered the brocade box, and instructed, "You have never seen this jade pendant, remember?" ”

"Remember, the little one has never seen any jade pendants," the Chao Feng bowed half a step forward, handed the teacup to the shopkeeper, and chuckled, "Shopkeeper, please drink tea." ”

"No, I still have something to do to get back to the house," the shopkeeper slowly straightened up, his fat belly swaying in front of him, he picked up the brocade box on the table and tucked it under his arm, walked out of the room, and turned back to the courtier to remind, "If anyone comes to ask, know how to answer." ”

"Know... Know... I know," the courtier nodded, and when he saw the pipe beside him, he hurriedly took it in his hand and hurriedly chased it out, and handed the pipe into the hands of the shopkeeper, and the two walked side by side to the wooden ladder and went to the front hall.

The shopkeeper held the brocade box in his left arm, held the pipe in his right hand, turned his head sideways, smiled wickedly, and said in a low voice, "Xiao Sun is doing a good job, and if you have a future in the future, I will recommend you to the young master." ”

"Thank you shopkeeper, Mingli will definitely remember your great kindness." With a smile on his face, the courtier sent the shopkeeper with a belly full of fat out of the main entrance.

"Yo, it's been a long time since I've seen Shopkeeper Qin." Before the shopkeeper walked out of Changle Street, he met Gong Ming, who led people to find Yun Ruowu. Although the four major families have some wrestling in Changle Fang in private, they still have to do things on the table, Gong Ming saw Qin Min of the Liu family from a distance and took the lead in going up to say hello, after all, their pawnshop is very eye-catching on this street, and there is a constant stream of customers, maybe there will be news of the person they are tracking.

Qin Min saw that the person who came was Gong Ming, the commander of the Southern Courtyard of Shangguan Mansion, his face was shocked, thinking that the other party was here to investigate the jade pendant on his body, so he coughed dryly, and said cautiously, "It turned out to be the second commander of the palace, I don't know what to call Qin to someone?" ”

Gong Ming waved his hand, signaling the guards behind him to disperse, he stepped forward a few steps alone, looked at Qin Min who looked a little nervous with a smile on his face, and said in a low voice, "Boss Qin is a busy man, I don't know where to go at this time?" ”

Qin Min subconsciously touched the brocade box sandwiched under his arm, calmed down a little, raised the corners of his mouth, and asked, "Qin Mou is going back to the mansion, and the second palace is the one who leads this Xingshi to move the people, I don't know..." He glanced at the guards of the Shangguan Mansion lurking in the crowd around him, and the corners of his forehead were wrinkled, for fear that Gong Ming and others would find the jade pendant on his body.

Unexpectedly, Gong Ming suddenly arched his hand, and his tone was very sincere, "Shopkeeper Qin is on this Changle Street on weekdays, he must be well-informed, I don't know if I have ever seen this person?" Gong Ming took out a portrait from his arms, and the person in the portrait was made by him from memory, and each guard had a copy in his hands.

Qin Min glanced at the portrait in Gong Ming's hand, shook his head, and sighed lightly, "Qin really hasn't seen it yet, why don't you go to the pawnshop and ask those long-term followers." He was anxious to return to Liufu as soon as possible, and presented the jade pendant on his body to the eldest young master of the Liu family, so he casually pointed to the Liu pawnshop under the archway of the stone building.

He didn't know who the person in the painting was, but he vaguely felt that the person must have something to do with the jade pendant on his body, so in order not to show his stuffing, he had to get rid of Gong Ming and the others as soon as possible, so he sold the other party a favor. Qin Min knew in his heart that even if he didn't mention the Liu family's pawnshop, Gong Ming would send someone there, and at the moment, he only hoped that Sun Mingli could adapt to the situation.

"Since that's the case, I won't bother the shopkeeper Qin below," Gong Ming moved his body to the side and watched Qin Min go away with a smile on his face. Then he waved his hand and motioned for the guards to continue searching along the street, while he took two of his cronies and went straight to Liu's pawnshop.

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Yun Ruowu exchanged nine taels of silver at Liu's pawnshop, and after leaving Changle Street, he ate several bowls of noodles at the noodle stall on the corner of the street. He burped, touched his stomach and looked at the five big empty bowls on the table.

"Shopkeeper, may I ask how to go to the song and dance workshop at four o'clock?" Yun Ruowu drank the coarse tea on the table in one gulp, put a tael of silver on the table, and chuckled, "No need to look for it, you just need to tell me how to go." ”

The shopkeeper of the noodle stall looked at the one or two pieces of silver on the table, and then looked at the huge plaque on the opposite side of the street, and said with a wry smile, "The young man is joking with the old man!" ”

"No... Not... Never! Yun Ruowu hurriedly shook his head, he hadn't eaten for a day and a night, he was a little dizzy from hunger, and when he saw the noodle stall on the street, he went under the tent and didn't look around at all.

The old man on the other side of the table pointed to the opposite side of the street and said loudly, "Isn't that the Four Seasons Song and Dance Workshop?" ”

Yun Ruowu hurriedly turned his head and looked across the street, only to see several flowery girls waving to the street on the second floor of the attic, and the men on the street looked up from time to time, and a trace of saliva flowed from his mouth.

"That?" Yun Ruowu pointed to the attic opposite, and said in disbelief, "Are you sure?" ”

"Yourself, didn't you see that the plaque says four big words of singing and dancing at four o'clock?" The old man put away the silver and put the dishes and chopsticks on the table into the basket behind him.

"It's... This..."Yun Ruowu glanced back at the attic opposite, and then looked at the silver that the old man had just put away in his hand, and he didn't know how to vent a kind of remorse in his heart, he shook his head, left the table, walked into the crowd, and walked quickly towards the Four Seasons Song and Dance Workshop.

He walked several streets along the high wall outside the song and dance shop, and then went back to the main entrance, and all the way he did not find any side or back doors of the song and dance shop, and he could not find the place mentioned by the group of merchants he had met before. With a disappointed face, he came to the noodle stall again, sat down at the table, and sighed, "Shopkeeper, come with a glass of water." ”

"Isn't the little brother going to the Four Seasons Song and Dance Workshop? How did it come back again. The old man handed over a bowl of water and a coarse cloth. Looking at the hot sweat on Yun Ruowu's head, he asked puzzledly.

Yun Ruowu gulped and drank the bowl of water, and then put the empty bowl back on the table, "Shopkeeper, another bowl." ”

"Where have you been, you are so thirsty?" The old man laughed dryly and filled him with another bowl of water.