Chapter 192: The Prefect of Xuzhou
The shopkeeper met his gaze, was obviously stunned for a moment, and then nodded and bent forward: "I heard the movement, does this master have any orders?"
Lu Yuanbai had an ugly look on his face, and hesitated to tell him whether to tell him, but now he was not happy in his heart, so he wanted to find someone who could speak.
Holding the grievances in his heart, his temperament can't do this.
"You come with me. Lu Yuanbai let him into the next room and told him the reason for his quarrel with her, and his tone was gloomy.
"If it weren't for the circumstances, I would have to divorce her, this woman can't listen to any explanation, and if one is unhappy, she will be angry with everyone. ”
"Isn't it always time to give yourself sins with such a woman by your side? So I asked you if there is anything you can do to alleviate my situation?"
The shopkeeper hesitated, and said tentatively: "Why don't I bring you some wine?" ”
Lu Yuanbai shook his head and refused, his face was distressed and embarrassed, and he sighed: "It's useless, the more I drink wine, the more I think of her, we met because of wine, and wine can't help me." ”
"As long as it can relieve my suffering, silver is not a problem......" He seemed to have no intention of lifting it, his fingers tapping the edge of the table regularly, and he glimpsed that the shopkeeper's face was already moved.
"If there is such a good thing, it must be a share of the people who want to see it, I am not afraid of spending silver, I am afraid that there is nowhere to spend silver. ”
The shopkeeper clenched his palms, struggled in his heart for a while, and finally took the initiative to mention: "You came to Xuzhou, have you ever heard of something called poppy pills?"
Lu Yuanbai's eyes fell on his face, and after a while, he asked curiously: "What is that? Could it be better than wine?"
"It's much better than wine, and you can make people flutter when you use some of it, but this kind of good thing is comparable to gold, and ordinary people can't afford to use it......"
"Oh?" Lu Yuanbai hooked the corners of his mouth and looked at him with a smile, "Then how did you use it?"
The shopkeeper felt that there was a moment of indifference in his eyes, and it was fleeting and indistinguishable, and he swallowed his saliva: "Go to Changshengtang to buy it." ”
"I also accidentally learned about this thing, but my wife's father and brother gave me some, and it became an indispensable thing for me. When he said this, his eyes were weak, and he was obviously dodging.
Lu Yuanbai saw his strange appearance, chuckled and asked, "Then where are your wife and children now?"
"At home, I work here, and I send back my monthly money. The shopkeeper looked around, made sure that there was no one, closed the door first and then closed the window.
With a mysterious and mysterious style, Lu Yuanbai snorted contemptuously: "What are you doing here?"
The shopkeeper took out a bag of red balls from his sleeve, similar to the shape of a small ball, and then took out a cigarette stick and lit it with a candle.
"I'll give you some tonight, and you'll pay me back twice as much when you buy it in the future." ”
Lu Yuanbai's gaze was completely cold: "Isn't Changshengtang selling medicine, why do you still sell this?"
"Why don't you sell it if you can make money? But you have to ask in private, selling medicine on the surface is actually a pretense......
"If only the prefect knew about it......
The shopkeeper glanced at him impatiently, and said without thinking about it: "The prefect has known about it for a long time, and the prefect also smokes this, but the identity of the person is special, so it doesn't cost money to use it." ”
"In this way, Changshengtang has long colluded with the prefect of Xuzhou?" The dark tide in his eyes was surging, and the shopkeeper heard that his tone was wrong, so he hurriedly packed his things and wanted to run.
But now it's too late to leave, Zhou Gu and Chi Yingchu broke into the door and surrounded the place where they could go out, and Lu Yuanbai swept over with cold eyes.
The shopkeeper suddenly panicked, and there was a sense of anger that he was deceived and fooled: "What are you doing, be careful that I will arrest you by reporting to the official!"
Zhou Gu smiled disapprerovingly: "Then it depends on whether you have the ability to go out." ”
"But when I was a child, I went to Shangjing, so I directly heard that we had a Shangjing accent? Do you really want to pretend to be again?" Lu Yuanbai destroyed all the poppy pills.
The shopkeeper started to beat him, but he was pressed to the ground with a backhand, and he couldn't breathe for a long time in pain, and begged for mercy again and again: "I said, I said, you let me go......"
Lu Yuanbai let him go, Zhou Gu stuck a knife on the ground, the tip of the knife was three points into the wood, and he looked like an uncle: "Don't think about running, since I let you go once, I will definitely be able to catch you again." ”
The shopkeeper's desire to run away was extinguished, so he had to confess honestly: "Actually, I haven't been to Shangjing, and I can't hear your accent, but someone told me in advance." ”
"Who's that guy?"
"He was wearing a black hat, I didn't see the true face, I only heard someone call him a little boy, these poppy pills were given to me by him, if I can feed you, I won't have to spend money to go again." ”
Listening to this description, it is similar to the man with a hat encountered in a restaurant outside Xuzhou, as for whether it is the same person, it remains to be verified.
Lu Yuanbai smiled coldly, the other party tried to control him with this, and did not hurt Chi Yingchu, he was probably an acquaintance, or an acquaintance who had a deep hatred with him.
"What about your wife and children?"
The shopkeeper was hesitant, and when he caught a glimpse of the bright knife, he didn't dare to hesitate any longer, and said directly: "My wife was sold by me to the prefect as a concubine, and my son is gone." ”
"You're such a brute!" Chi Yingchu couldn't help but curse and kicked him hard.
The shopkeeper quickly got up, crying and begging: "I have said everything I know, you will let me go." ”
Lu Yuanbai nodded, he tentatively walked out, Zhou Gu didn't stop him, but he didn't take a few steps, and a burst of flying knives and hidden weapons shot in, which frightened him and was pulled back to the house by Zhou Gu.
"Please save me!" the shopkeeper kowtowed, and he didn't know who was going to kill him.
Lu Yuanbai just expected that he wouldn't be able to get out of here alive, so he agreed so easily.
"Find someone to watch, don't let him die easily. ”
"Thank you, master!" The shopkeeper's legs were weak and he couldn't get up, so Zhou Gu stepped forward and kicked his foot gently.
"Let's go. "He pulled people up from the ground and acted rudely.
When she walked past Chi Yingchu, she smelled a strange smell, and then she saw that the shopkeeper's clothes were wet, and Zhou Gu also pinched her nose in disgust.
"Foolish, you have such a small guts. ”
After Zhou Gu and the two were settled, several people discussed exploring the prefect of Xuzhou at night, and Lu Yuanbai suddenly said: "This king has always been reluctant to people, if you don't want to, you can stay, at most you will lose your life." ”
The last few words were deliberately accented by him.
Even if he doesn't need to say it, Chi Yingchu understands in his heart that it is safest to follow them.
"I'll go with you. "Jumping over the wall is her stunt, and it shouldn't be a hindrance.
Lu Yuanbai leaned close to his handsome face and asked again, "Do you know how to work lightly?"
Chi Yingchu shook her head honestly, now that they are in the open and the enemy is in the dark, she doesn't want to stay and be targeted by the messy people.