Chen Xiaodonkey is a do-it-do character, after making a decision, he no longer flinched, found Cao Hou at noon that day, made a brief explanation of the matter, and asked him to bring a message to Zhang Hu, and then rushed to the train station overnight to inquire about the ticket from Shanghai to Beiping.

It doesn't matter if you don't check, this check scared him.

There is no direct train from Shanghai to Beiping, you have to take a train to Nanjing, then take a boat to Pukou, and then take a train from Pukou to Tianjin, and then transfer from Tianjin to get to Beiping.

The whole process takes about four days and four nights, and this is still under the condition that nothing happens on the road, and once there is a delay at any stage, the time may have to run for five or six days.

As for the ticket price, you can buy a ticket for the whole journey at Shanghai Railway Station, and even the intermediate ferry ticket is included, and the whole calculation requires more than 400 yuan of the ocean.

The high ticket price made Chen Xiaodonkey stunned.

But then again, these days, most of the people who can afford to sit on the train are also wealthy people, as for the bitter haha, it is already a good way to travel by being able to have a donkey cart on the road.

After buying a ticket to leave at noon the next day, Chen Xiaodonkey went to the telegraph office to take a telegram to Zhou Xiaohai to inform him of the approximate time of arrival, and then returned to Dongsheng Restaurant to start packing his things.

In fact, there was nothing to pack, just bring two changes of clothes, a compass, and a dagger for self-defense, and as for the rest, after thinking about it, he stuffed the bronze bell into his backpack.

This time he went to Beiping, in addition to going to the library of Peking University to check the materials related to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he also planned to take a look at a store surnamed Pan in Longtan, which was in Xiaofoling and Pei Luo said at that time.

At that time, Pei Luo said that in the shop surnamed Pan, he had seen that kind of weird mural, and what he saw should be the one in the mountain palace of the God of Wealth.

I don't know why, the fairy tomb in Xiaofoling, and the similar and weird murals in the underground palace of the God of Wealth Mountain, gave Chen Xiaodonkey an intuition that there was probably some clue hidden in it.

Anyway, no matter what, there is nothing wrong with playing two shots with and without dates.

Knock knock!

Just when Chen Xiaodonkey's things were halfway packed, there was a sudden knock on the door downstairs.

He opened the window and looked down, and saw that it was five men, and after frowning slightly, he went downstairs and opened the door.

"Boss, you closed so early, you don't do business?"

As soon as the door opened, the thin man who knocked on the door just now asked in a Beijing piece.

Chen Xiaodonkey looked at the five people quickly without a trace, among the five people, four of them were dressed in Tsing Yi shorts, looking very marketable, but one of them was about forty years old, a slightly fat man, although the dress was also very low-key, but the material on his body was a serious satin, and the existence of some of the small accessories made his dress look exquisite.

And judging from the position where these five people are standing, the slightly chubby man is obviously the one who is protected in the center.

Looks like a lot of identity.

In a blink of an eye, Chen Xiaodonkey had already made a judgment, and learned the tone of a restaurant owner and said, "I'm sorry, a few guest officers, the shop closes relatively early today, so you better come back another day." ”

"Don't!"

It's still the lean man.

Just when Chen Xiaodonkey finished speaking and was about to close the door, he quickly stepped forward to support the door panel, "Open the door to do business, how can there be a reason to turn away guests?" Little boss, you can't do this! ”

The style of acting is still very domineering, which is not something that ordinary people can do at all.

Chen Xiaodonkey's eyes flickered, and he continued to refuse: "Guest officer, you have nothing to eat when you come in, the chef and the guys have finished work, to be honest, I don't know how to cook myself, so let's go to another house to eat." ”

"Boss, you ----"

"Ahem, little brother, the chef is out of work, but your pots and pans here haven't been worked, right? In this way, the kitchen is borrowed for us, and we cook our own food, and the money is not much for yours, is this feasible? ”

Just as the lean man was about to speak again, the slightly chubby man coughed twice and interrupted him with a laugh, while another person next to him took it out of his arms and threw over a few pieces of broken silver, which were full of weight.

"There are pots and pans, but the dishes are empty, what do you do with them?" Holding the broken silver in his hand, Chen Xiaodonkey asked.

In the restaurant left by Uncle Jia, the kitchen is very complete, and I don't know if it was given by the original owner of the restaurant when he bought this place at that time.

The chubby man tapped his palm with the handle of the fan, "It's not a problem, the vegetable market is right next to it." ”

Having said that, Chen Xiaodonkey knew that there would be a problem if he refused again, and those who opened the door to do business, as long as there was no big event when the sky fell, would never refuse such a guest.

At that moment, he turned to one side and let the five people in.

took a few people to the back kitchen and went around, Chen Xiaodonkey said: "In this case, those guest officers are at will, and I am still packing up some things upstairs, so I won't greet you first." ”

"It's time to get busy, the little boss will go and get busy first." The chubby man nodded.

Chen Xiaodonkey didn't want to talk to these people, nodded and went upstairs to continue to clean up, just as he walked to the entrance of the stairs, his ears moved, and he suddenly heard a word that made his heart tighten slightly.

Among the five people, one of them whispered in the ear of the chubby man: "Master, I'm afraid there is a problem with this shop, and the back kitchen has not been used for a long time." ”

And the chubby man just said softly 'um' and said 'it's okay'.

is full of Beijing films, and you still call that man the master?

Are these deflated calves members of the royal family of the previous dynasty?

The chubby man's eyes turned to this side, and the two of them met and nodded to each other again.

Chen Xiaodonkey hurriedly went up to the third floor, and his heart was already turbulent.

A few days ago, there were people from Prince Gong's Mansion blocking themselves in the alley, and now there are people from the royal family of the previous dynasty who have found here, could it be that they came to find themselves on a special trip?

He couldn't help but think about it.

Sitting on the bed and pinning the dagger to his waist, Chen Xiaodonkey began to listen carefully to the movements downstairs, at this distance, as long as he listened attentively, the sound of people could not be hidden from his ears.

But after listening for a while, he heard someone say that he went to buy vegetables and left in a hurry, and the conversation of the remaining four people was basically related to the current situation, and he didn't hear anyone talking about himself, so he calmed down a little, and said in his heart whether he was too suspicious.

"Meow."

At this moment, the cat brother who was nesting in the bed suddenly stared at the door and barked softly, and almost at the same time, the bedroom door was knocked softly from the outside.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The voice sounded muffled and slow.

Chen Xiaodonkey was slightly stunned for a moment, he didn't hear the footsteps of someone going upstairs, but with a big master of Fang Gu's level in front, it was not once or twice that his ears were hidden, so after being stunned for a second, he got up and went over to open the door.

The lights in the aisle outside were not turned on, and it was dark in the aisle.

The light in the room shines through the door, illuminating a small area in the doorway.

There stood the old lady she had seen two days before, still carrying a basket and staring at Chen Xiaodonkey with eyes like dead fish.

No way!

Chen Xiaodonkey was suddenly startled, and Brother Cat jumped over for the first time, but the old lady took half a step back at this time.

Just like in the early hours of that morning, Chen Xiaodonkey felt that the Taiping Order hanging around his neck began to heat up.

"Little boss, don't come out, go back!"

At this time, a very fast footstep rushed up to the third floor, and one of the five people stood at the top of the stairs, staring at Chen Xiaodonkey's side and reminding loudly.

Chen Xiaodonkey breathed lightly and slowly retreated into the house, while the old lady outside the door, attracted by the man, turned her head to that side.

"Beast, go back to your lair!" The man who rushed up let out a violent roar.

Chen Xiaodonkey couldn't see the situation outside, and he didn't know what the man had done, but in a flash, he seemed to see something smashed on the old lady, and then the door slammed to the ground, and a big fire suddenly appeared.

The light was dazzling, and it disappeared in an instant, and the figure of the old lady also disappeared with the firelight.

Was that thing driven away?

Chen Xiaodonkey stared at the door, squinted his eyes, and followed the movement of his ears.

When the man who rushed up ran over and appeared in front of the door, Chen Xiaodonkey's face was already pale, and even his lips trembled slightly.