Tang Qianlin said that he wanted to sneak back to the city to see the burned pawnshop, which made Tang Yushi feel very puzzled.

Tang Qianlin led Tang Yushi into the city, lurking in the dark, waiting.

Tang Yushi asked, "Dad, what are you waiting for?" ”

Tang Qianlin asked in a low voice: "When it rains, you are sharper than me, you look around, is there anyone following us?" ”

Tang Yushi stepped on the wall and jumped on the roof next to him, lying there like a leopard, and after carefully observing the surroundings, he made sure that no one was following, and then he fell back to Tang Qianlin: "No one is following." ”

Tang Qianlin said: "When it rains, from now on, Dad will start to teach you some things other than fist and foot kung fu, some things need to be pondered by yourself, want to understand why Dad did this, and then what purpose he wants to achieve, do you understand?" ”

Tang Yushi nodded silently.

Tang Qianlin walked out of the darkness and led Tang Yushi towards a very shabby-looking pawnshop across the street.

Before walking into the pawnshop, Tang Yushi raised his eyes and looked at the plaque with the words "three points of profit".

After walking into the pawnshop, Tang Qianlin put on an angry face and walked to the window: "Pawn." ”

The courtier in the window half-squinted and pretended to ask, "What should it be?" Live or die? ”

"Lack of money to spend, die!" Tang Qianlin looked impatient, and Tang Yushi stood aside and watched.

Chao Feng asked, "What should you be?" ”

Tang Qianlin hesitated for a long time, and finally took out a piece of Bohai Kingdom gold coin from his pocket, pinched it in his hand, and made a gesture to hand it in.

When the courtier saw the gold coin in Tang Qianlin's hand, his eyes lit up, but he immediately withdrew his eyes and asked deliberately carelessly, "What are you?" ”

Tang Qianlin said: "Gold coins!" People gave it, and they said it was worth it. ”

Chao Feng smiled: "I'll take a look." ”

Tang Qianlin handed the gold coin to the court, and said at the same time: "How much money can it be?" ”

Chao Feng looked at it carefully, and knew the value of this thing very well in his heart, but he said: "Ancient coins, well, a little valuable, alas, but it depends on where it is, if this thing is in the pass, it is quite valuable, but it is estimated that it will ...... here."

Tang Qianlin instantly reached in and snatched the gold coin back: "Then I won't sell it!" ”

Chao Feng was a little anxious, after all, he knew very well that it was a good thing: "You say, how much money do you want?" ”

Tang Qianlin deliberately didn't look at Chaofeng: "This thing, I was entrusted by someone to come here to find another pawnshop owner, who knows that I didn't find it after looking for a day, my friend told me, talk about the origin of this thing, at least five hundred Manchurian yuan!" ”

Five hundred Manchurian yuan? When Chao Feng heard this, he secretly laughed in his heart, he knew the value of this thing too well, not to mention 500 Manchurian yuan, more than 100,000 Manchurian yuan, not to mention that in their eyes, Manchurian yuan was equivalent to waste paper.

Chao Feng opened the door, walked out, and came to Tang Qianlin, who looked distressed: "You can't find the origin of the chat, that place has already burned, not to mention that even if it is not burned, the boss of the origin of the chat is also cheating on you." ”

Tang Qianlin pretended to be stunned: "Burned?" Pit me? What do you mean? ”

Chao Feng brought the topic to the gold coins again: "In this way, you treat this thing as me, if you live, I will count you 800 yuan, one cent a day, if you die, I will count you 1,500 yuan, this is the highest price I can afford." ”

"One...... Fifteen hundred? Tang Yushi showed a surprised expression at the right time.

Tang Qianlin also pretended to be surprised, but secretly praised Tang Yushi's cooperation in his heart, and felt that this kid reacted really quickly.

Tang Qianlin was puzzled: "But, this thing is not mine?" I'm entrusted by someone, I have to find the origin of the conversation, you say, why did you burn it if it was good? What's going on? ”

Chao Feng said: "Who knows what's going on? That place is mysterious and secretive, and it is different from us businessmen. ”

Tang Yushi asked beside him: "The shopkeeper, where is the origin of the chat?" ”

"Just walk down this street, go to the end, and look south, and you'll be burned to the ground." After Chao Feng finished speaking, he raised his hands and asked, "If you think the price is not good, we will discuss it again, in this way, I will make tea, let's have a good chat, rest assured, I will not cheat you." ”

Chao Feng turned around and went into the house to pour tea, thinking in his heart how to get this gold coin, and when he went out again with tea, Tang Qianlin and Tang Yushi had already disappeared.

Tang Qianlin led Tang Yushi from the back street towards the ruins of Liaofayuan, Tang Yushi asked: "Dad, you deliberately found such a pawnshop to ask, right?" ”

Tang Qianlin said: "If you want to find out the news of the pawnshop, either find a pawnshop, or go to the smoke house." Because these two places are easy to find, pawnshops are peers, and smokers in tobacco houses usually pawn things when they don't have money after they become addicted. ”

Tang Yushi asked, "Then why are you looking for that pawnshop?" Aren't there two more next to them? ”

Tang Qianlin explained: "The other two stores are big, the layout is also big, and the business is definitely big, and people who can generally make the business bigger are very cautious in what they do and talk, and they are not easy to be tempted by certain things." And this store is small, the store is simple, the name is also called 'three points of profit', generally called this kind of name is very stingy, but whenever you see something good, you want to stay in every possible way, as long as you use a little strategy, you can ask for the news you want. ”

Tang Yushi nodded silently, recalling what Tang Qianlin said just now in his heart.

Tang Qianlin said again: "Of course, this kind of person generally doesn't talk too much about the real situation of the origin pawnshop, after all, he wants the things in my hand, how can he say that his peers are good?" Although we only learned the address of the Liaofa pawnshop directly from him, we also learned from the side that Liaofayuan does not belong to the real pawnshop, and the name should have been changed. ”

Tang Yushi asked, "How do you say this?" ”

Tang Qianlin continued to explain: "If it is a real pawnshop and it has always been called the name of Liaofayuan, we ask passers-by when we come, it is impossible not to know, and besides, there are too many floating people here in Mohe, once the name is changed, it will be quickly forgotten, so this pawnshop is not so simple." ”

When Tang Qianlin said this, he suddenly stopped and looked at Tang Yushi with a smile: "Yushi, although you didn't understand a lot of things just now, Dad knows that you have been analyzing and learning, and you are also cooperating with me, you are doing a good job, Dad didn't misunderstand you." ”

Tang Yushi finally smiled, for a long time, what he wanted to get was Tang Qianlin's affirmation.

The two found the address of the pawnshop in Liaofa according to the court, and sure enough, what they saw was a burned ruin.

Tang Qianlin said: "Look at it, there are firewalls on both sides of this shop, which proves that this house originally had a fireproof design, and it is rare to have this kind of design in a place like Mohe." ”

Tang Yushi said: "Dad, did you think that one day you would burn and bury the traces when you explained the design?" ”

Tang Qianlin said: "Yes, now let's go into the ruins and find out the cause of the fire." ”

After walking around the ruins, Tang Qianlin asked, "What do you think when it rains?" ”

Tang Yushi said: "The ground is snow-white, and the surrounding stigmas and other things are almost burned into carbon, indicating that the fire is very large. ”

Tang Qianlin said: "Well, generally speaking, the source of the fire is the most fierce place, and it is usually burned white, and all the white here is the ground, indicating that the fire is coming from the bottom up." ”

Tang Yushi suddenly realized: "Dad, you mean that there is a tunnel or basement below?" ”

Tang Qianlin said: "That's right, look carefully, there must be a basement entrance, and it can't be in the outhouse, it must be somewhere in the inner room." ”

The two searched around the back room, and finally found the entrance to the basement, although it was pressed by the abandoned things, Tang Qianlin still found the corner of the exposed iron plate.

After the father and son worked together to remove the things above, they lifted the iron plate, and as soon as they lifted it, a pungent smell came to their faces from below.

Tang Qianlin immediately dragged Tang Yushi aside and handed him a phoenix noodle: "Put this on, let the smell inside go for a while, and then we will go down." ”

After about half an hour, Tang Qianlin felt that the smell inside was not so pungent, so he and Tang Yushi walked slowly down the stone steps below.

The temperature in the basement was extremely high, and the two of them immediately broke out in a hot sweat when they went down, and they could see clearly without a flashlight, because a lot of things in the basement were still burning.

"Carbon." Tang Qianlin looked at the burning thing and said, "It's all carbon down there." ”

Tang Yushi smelled the strange smell, and used a wooden stick to flick it in the ruins next to him: "Dad, there are still corpses." ”

Tang Qianlin took a closer look, then looked at the basement that was almost full of carbon and said, "We're going to have to make some effort here tonight." ”

Tang Qianlin asked Tang Yushi to stay there, turned around and went out, followed two shovels in the surrounding shops selling carbon, returned to the basement, and began to dig with Tang Yushi.

For several hours, when it was close to dawn, Tang Qianlin stopped, looked at the partially intact and partially mutilated corpses under the charcoal ash and carbon slag that had been dug up, and said, "No need to dig anymore, I basically understand." ”

Tang Yushi asked, "Why are there so many people in the basement?" ”

Tang Qianlin said: "Although I don't know the cause of death of these people, one thing is for sure is that these people were burned after death. ”

Tang Yushi said: "Because the person who is burned to death will not be in this posture." ”

Tang Qianlin said: "That's right, you don't understand the others, but they weren't burned to death, you can see them at a glance." ”

Indeed, because Tang Yushi once killed people with his hair, causing people's internal organs to burn and die, he knew this better than anyone else.

Tang Yushi looked around: "Why?" Who are these people? ”

Tang Qianlin said: "I don't know, this basement is so big, there are so many corpses, and the rough estimate of incomplete and complete is at least close to forty people." ”

Tang Yushi squatted down and looked at the other things in the ruins: "There are still some bowls and jars here, it seems that these people have lived here for a long time, are these people who know the secrets of the Yan family, and in the end they can't use them, so they just kill them?" ”

Tang Qianlin said: "There is this possibility, maybe it is to poison the food first, and then use carbon to burn the corpse to extinguish the traces." ”

Tang Yushi said: "This method is too cruel, right? And it's easy to spot, huh? ”

Tang Qianlin said: "Murder should cover up the traces, usually to cover up the traces of the murderer, or something else, to avoid the pursuer to find the murderer himself, even if you find the body, you may not know who the murderer is, so it doesn't matter whether the body will be found or not." ”