When he came out of the mansion where Jiang Qiqi was temporarily staying, it was already dark outside, the continuous rain made the clouds very low, the sky was gray, and it was very late when it was still early on weekdays.

The rain has stopped.

Wei Shaoguang was holding an oil-paper umbrella in his hand, swaying as he walked, not at all the quiet appearance that a reader should have.

Xiahou Ming followed closely behind Wei Shaoguang without saying a word.

He is one of the most silent executors.

When passing by a gold shop, Wei Shaoguang suddenly stopped, she stood on the bluestone road and looked curiously into the shop, Xia Houming had to stop as well.

"Childe?"

"Shh

Shaking Light turned her head to silence him, and she stood earnestly as if she had discovered a secret, looking at the gold shop on the side of the street.

The shop is very depressed, if it weren't for the sign of "Sansheng Gold Shop", I really wouldn't have seen that this was a gold shop.

There was only an old counter in the shop, which had been wiped clean, and there were abacus, bookkeepers, pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and nothing else.

Shaguang reached out and touched the surface of the counter, there was no dust on his fingers, but the warmth of the human body after repeated polishing.

She smiled in satisfaction, looked around, and opened her mouth to shout, "Shopkeeper? Shopkeeper!? Is there anybody? There's business coming to your door!"

Behind the counter is a dark red Bogu shelf, and in each boxy compartment there are old booklets, and the whole shelf is full of them, so that people can't guess what exactly is placed on it, but they feel very strange, and then they are attracted.

After a while, there was a rustling sound behind the Bogu frame, and then the sound of wood hitting the ground, and the sound came and went, and finally gradually approached the place.

A vague black shadow faintly emerged from the side of Bogu Shelf, and the black shadow gradually merged into a human form.

It was an old man who walked step by step with a wooden cane.

"Grandpa! Good evening! I want to see the gold in the store, I wonder if it's okay? ”

Wei Shaoguang's smile is very affinity, when she shows respect and patience to a person, almost no one will feel uncomfortable, and no one will refuse Wei Shaoguang in this state.

When the old man heard Wei Shaoguang's words, he lifted his eyelids full of wrinkles, and there were a lot of bloodshots on his cloudy eyeballs, but his gaze was very sharp, and he stabbed straight at Wei Shaoguang.

Wei Shaoguang was not afraid at all, he still had a gentle smile, his eyebrows were crooked, and his eyes were bright.

"Is that okay? Grandpa, I don't mean anything, I just want to find a gift for a friend. ”

Wei Shaoguang smiled and explained again, the old man didn't even blink his eyes, he stared straight at Shaoguang for a while, and then finally looked away, lowered his head and stretched out his hand tremblingly to press the yellowed booklet on the counter.

As if he was fighting against something, the old man opened his mouth with great difficulty, but he could not make a sound, and after waiting for a while, he heard a few words.

"Don't sell gold, come with me."

She smiled and responded, "Not for sale?" Then I'll go with my grandfather, maybe you have something else here. ”

Turning around and glancing at Xia Houming, she comforted him not to be nervous, she knew it in her heart. Then he went around the counter, stretched out his hand, carefully supported the old man, and walked with him out of front and into the backyard.

The backyard was unexpectedly spacious, and there were a lot of unintelligible utensils neatly stacked inside, and I could barely recognize a few things after sweeping through them, and the others were completely unrecognizable.

There was also a teenager in the courtyard, wearing a black short clothes, beads of sweat on the young man's face in the cool autumn evening, and he saw that he had an item in his hand that had not yet taken shape.

So far, Wei Shaoguang is still very satisfied.

This small shop that she accidentally walked into looks unimpressive, but it has a lot of things inside, and she may be able to make something that satisfies her.

The young man stood up, straightened his back, raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his face with the back of his hand, and saw the old man who came back, as well as the uninvited Wei Shaoguang master and servant, the young man was obviously displeased, and even the next words had a little smell of gunpowder.

"Grandpa! Why did you bring in some people you don't know? What if it's something to do? We can't open the door here? ”

The old man hadn't spoken yet, so Wei Shaoguang didn't speak first, but just good-naturedly helped people find a place to sit down.

"Don't be angry, little brother, I know it's a little rude to come suddenly, I apologize to you for this, I'm sorry to disturb my little brother's business." Wei Shaoguang bowed slightly towards the man, hugged each other, and continued to talk to the person with a smile, "However, I am not the kind of person who is looking for trouble as you say, but I came to buy gold jewelry, but the person who had been calling in the store for a long time appeared at the old man's house, and after explaining his intention, the old man took me to the backyard." ”

The young man understood Wei Shaoguang's words, his unhappy expression was slightly retracted, and he explained to Shaoguang a little stiffly, "There is no gold for sale here, and I will take off the signboard outside tomorrow!" Childe, you'd better find another stable place to sell your gold. ”

"Safe?" Shaoguang repeated these two words suspiciously, looked around for a while, and said, "I take the liberty of asking, I just heard the little brother say that he was looking for trouble or something, doesn't that mean that someone here has come to find trouble?" ”

"Humph! What is this doing to you? ”

The little boy turned his head disdainfully, and a sad expression appeared on his face for a moment, and he was pressed down anxiously, "I said that this is no longer a gold shop, and I ask you to find another place." ”

Wei Shaoguang looked at him and smiled, then pulled up the hem of his clothes and squatted down, looking at the old man sitting on the chair at eye level, Shaoguang showed a more kind smile and asked softly, "Grandpa, I want to find an experienced old craftsman to create something, the gold I need can be provided by me, and also provide the drawings, I can pay a part of the deposit first, and I will make up the rest of the money when I am done, old man, do you think you are willing to help me?" ”

"I don't want to! Let's go!"

The boy replied loudly, very upset that the light had passed him directly to consult with his elderly grandfather, and began to choke again as he spoke.

Wei Shaoguang ignored him, just smiled and waited for the old man to answer.

Wei Shaoguang saw a lot of calluses and scars from the old man's hands, presumably an experienced craftsman, and such a folk craftsman pays the most attention to craftsmanship and signboards.

It's not that Wei Shaoguang is ruthless and ruthless, and he only has personal interests in his heart, but there are some things that she encounters and needs to make a detour if she wants to solve them.

The old man's wrinkled eyelids were lifted, and the bloodshot eyes in them moved slightly, and he looked at the smiling Shaoguang who was squatting in front of him, nodded after fixing the focus, and said, "Okay." ”

"Grandpa!"

The little boy was surprised and helpless, and glared at Wei Shaoguang angrily, "Look at the good things you did!" If something happens to my grandfather because he took over your business, I won't let you go!"

Wei Shaoguang squatted on the ground and looked at the visitor, and said with a smile, "Thank you, old man." ”

Then he stood up and approached the young man, and spoke to him across a table, "Since I have a business in this shop, I can't leave this shop until I get something." ”

The young man only understood what Wei Shaoguang had at this moment, it was a little incredible, and he became even more angry after reacting.

Shaoguang really doubted that this child was so irritable, how could he learn to polish jewelry and tools, and so delicate?

"I see that you are wearing silk and satin, you should be a son who does not worry about eating and drinking, and you really have a bad brain, you can say anything, you protect this shop? What do you know? You dare to talk nonsense? ”

"I'm not talking nonsense, who said that I want to protect your store, I just said that this store can't be gone."

Wei Shaoguang looked at him suspiciously, the young man was immediately extremely anxious, how to describe it? It's the kind of awkward, with a little embarrassment and anger, it's really a lot of emotion.

Wei Shaoguang sighed secretly, turned to look at Xiahou Ming and said, "Xiahou Ming, pay the deposit." ”

"Yes, Childe."

Xiahou Ming said very little, well, very little.

He walked over, took out a money bag and handed it to Wei Shaoguang.

Wei Shaoguang took it and then turned around and asked the young man, "How much do you charge for the deposit?" ”

"Five taels of silver!"

This is the young man's nonsense, in fact, he can't use so much money at all, and this money is half a year's expenses for an ordinary person.

Wei Shaoguang curled the corners of his lips to reveal an inexplicable smile, then opened the bag and reached out for a while, took out a piece of silver worth five taels and put it on the table.

"It's very expensive, but fortunately, I am stupid and have a lot of money, and I can still take out these five taels of silver, you have to take it away."

"You!" The young man didn't expect that Shaoguang would really come up with money, after all, this shop is really desolate, where is it worth five taels of silver.

"You can't add any more money! I'm running out of money!"

"Nope! I won't add it! You take back your eyes for me!"

The young man shouted angrily at Shaoguang, and took the five taels of silver and stuffed it into his clothes.

"What about the drawings you are talking about? Let me see if I don't have to pay the rest of the money, that's enough. ”

Looking at this awkward child, Wei Shaoguang sighed invisibly, and continued to talk to him with a smile on his face, "Don't be in a hurry to settle this matter first, wait until you read my drawings before deciding." ”

"Cut! What can be so difficult? My grandfather has made things all his life, and he has no more experience than him, whether it is large or small, gold or iron, we can make it. ”

"Really? That would be great. Shaking Light happily pulled out two pieces of paper from his cuff and handed them to the boy.

"The drawings are here, you can take a look."

The young man took the paper and was about to look at it carefully, but suddenly came out of nowhere.

The so-called troublemaker appeared in the front yard.