"Who?" Autumn quickly pulled out a dagger from under the pillow and asked.

No one answered outside the door, only the sound of footsteps came from near and far, gradually disappearing to the point where it was inaudible, and Qiu Se asked again, "Who's outside?" Still no one answered.

Autumn got out of bed with the courage to move to the door step by step with the dagger in hand, and listened carefully, but there was still no sound outside the door, only the sound of snoring from the unknown room. Could it be that you are dreaming? Autumn lowered her head in confusion, only to find that a white object on the ground reflected the faint moonlight.

Rubbing his eyes vigorously, he looked at the autumn color, wasn't this the dish he put on the stool at the door? Looking at the stool again, the original dishes were really gone, and the door latch had been opened by a sharp weapon, and the door was pushed open a crack, it seemed that someone had really come, not a dream.

It's just that the thief didn't expect that there were still these mechanisms in the door, and the sudden sound startled him away. Autumn Color's heart beat hard, bolted the door latch again, and leaned the stool against the door again, although it was still early in the morning, but Autumn Color couldn't sleep, and only sat at the end of the bed with a dagger in his hand for half the night.

When Xiao Er came to deliver breakfast, Qiu Color's legs were numb, and when his legs felt numb, Qiu Color's clothes went to open the door first.

"Ah, what's going on?" Xiao Er stood at the door with a food box and looked at the mess in the room in surprise, with a painful expression on his face, "This broke the dishes, but I have to pay double compensation." ”

The autumn color suddenly got up, and sneered at him: "Ask me what's wrong?" Shall I ask you? Say what your inn is big, safe and comfortable! What did the thief who came in the middle of the night say? Who will pay for my moral damages? ”

Xiao Er was startled, "What nonsense is the girl talking about?" How can there be thieves in my store? ”

"Isn't it a thief, or am I deliberately throwing a bowl to play?" Autumn snorted and kicked the broken porcelain piece on the ground.

"This ...... Could it be that the girl put the dishes on the side, and then the mouse touched the table leg and fell off. Xiao Er vigorously denied that there was a thief in the store, "How can a thief deliberately drop the bowl at the door?" Besides, I was on duty last night, and I didn't hear any movement at all! ”

Qiu Se glared at Xiao Er, stepped forward and closed the door.

"What are you going to do?" Xiao Er took two steps back in surprise.

Qiu Se ignored him, piled the stool at the door like last night, and looked back at him, "Then I put the confiscated bowl on the stool, that's why it broke at the door, understand?" ”

Xiao Er nodded, "That makes sense." Puzzled, he asked, "Then why did you put the stool at the door?" ”

"Hmph, if I hadn't been careful to put the stool and bowl at the door, I'm afraid I'd be the one lying in this room like splinters now, see for yourself!" Qiu Shi threw the latch that fell to the side to Xiao Er, "Rats don't need to use knives to cut the latch, if you don't understand, let's go find other people in the hotel to see, is it a mouse or a thief?" ”

"Don't, don't." Xiao Er stopped Qiu Color, who was about to open the door, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, girl, it's a little clumsy, I'll go to the shopkeeper for you, if you have any problems, you can talk to him, so you eat first." With that, he stuffed the food box to Qiushi, and carefully closed the door and ran downstairs to find the shopkeeper.

The fat shopkeeper came quickly, after all, no one wanted the news of a thief in his store to spread.

"Girl, are you alright?" The fat shopkeeper confirmed that the door latch was indeed slashed with a sharp weapon, and then asked Qiu Se carefully.

Autumn Color's eyes widened, "What's the matter, you're disappointed that I didn't have an accident, aren't you?" ”

"No, no, of course not." The fat shopkeeper waved his hand hurriedly, his already fat face was squeezed into a flower, and his mung bean eyes narrowed into a slit, "I mean, since you're okay, girl, don't mention it?" After all, this matter has a bad impact on the girl's reputation, so I don't have to pay for this bowl, what do you think? ”

This shopkeeper is too shrewd, and he wants to cover up the matter with a few pennies, Qiu Se was angry, "Don't mind, you can't let the shopkeeper lose, I will pay for the bowl money, but if there is a thief in this house, I have to ask the county master to take a look." ”

"Well, I said girl." The shopkeeper saw that Qiu Se was so difficult to speak, and his face also stiffened, "What happened in your house to ask the county master to come over?" Was there a human death or an adultery? ”

"You ......"

"Don't talk about thieves or anything, did you catch someone or lose something? What does a pile of broken porcelain and a latch mean? What if I want me to say that you deliberately made it yourself? The fat shopkeeper stopped Qiushi's words and said, and at the end he changed his tone, "So don't be annoyed, girl, let's quietly solve this matter for everyone." ”

Although Qiu Shi knew that the shopkeeper was shirking his responsibility, he also understood that what he said was also the truth, but he was unwilling to let him go like this, after all, it was he who was almost killed yesterday! bargained with him, and finally reached an agreement: Qiushi's accommodation fee last night was calculated according to the single room, and everything else was free; Autumn Colors is evasive about last night's events.

After taking the recovered fifty cents from the hand of the shopkeeper with a painful face, the porridge with rice grains and pickles that had been put for a long time could be seen in the autumn color, and he decided to go out to eat.

I asked for a bowl of bean curd in a steamed bun shop, and it cost me eight cents to eat two steamed buns.

"Why are you so expensive?" Qiu Se complained while taking out the money, "Didn't you say that the bun is only a penny?" ”

It was the proprietress who collected the money, and she smiled and said crisply: "Ouch girl, can you eat that penny bun?" I'm made of white flour, and there's so much meat in it, and I can't get back to Ben for three dollars! Besides, the bean curd, but I got up in the middle of the night and grinded it myself. ”

Autumn color is too lazy to bother to talk about it, who doesn't let yourself eat before asking about the price bridge! Lined up the eight cents on the table and went out with the baggage.

Autumn color pondered while walking, didn't it say that in ancient times, a few pennies was enough for a family to eat for a day? Why did you eat a meal yourself? Could it be that everything I heard before was fake? However, if the consumption outside is so high, then the remaining more than 500 yuan is not enough to spend for a long time, and the 50 taels of silver tickets are used by female households, and they are absolutely unusable unless they have to.

It seems that I have to change some money first, and then find a way to make money as soon as possible. Qiu Se, who wanted to understand, inquired about the location of the pawnshop in the town to passers-by, then hugged his baggage and went straight to the pawnshop, and took the remaining two beaded hairpins, a silver bracelet, a few pairs of earrings and two clothes with better materials.

"All dead?" The pawnshop's courtier asked.

"Yes." Autumn color nodded, and stopped him again, "Hey, wait a minute, I don't have these things." As she spoke, Qiu Se picked out two pairs of chic silver studs and the cyan dress she made herself, which she designed or made by herself, which was of great significance, and the material was not so eye-catching, so it should be regarded as a souvenir.

Chaofeng was not annoyed by the autumn color, and quickly calculated the price of the remaining jewelry and clothes. A silver bracelet is one or two or two hundred wen, and other bead hairpin earrings or something are a total of eight hundred wen, and several clothes are given two taels of silver because of the good material, a total of four taels. Autumn color asked for three taels of silver, one tael of broken silver and copper plates.

Out of the pawnshop, the autumn color saw that the sky had reached the middle of the morning, so he packed the silver and went straight to the dock.