Chapter 223: Eavesdropping

Gu Jing's back pain has been done again in the past few days, and he went to the store in the morning to read the account books for a long time, and after sorting out some trivial things, he saw that there was nothing to do, so he said to Jia Hei, and then went home early to rest for half a day.

It's just that he had just finished lunch in his hall and was about to go back to the house to take a nap, but Xiaoshi suddenly came in and said, "Dad, Sister Mo is here." ”

Gu Jing was stunned for a moment, then stood up, and saw Mo Li, who was wearing a cloak with dark patterns in Ai Qing, walking in behind the small stone, and Hongdou also followed him.

"What's wrong with the big girl? But what's going on in the store? Gu Jing hurriedly asked Mo Li to sit down, and asked Xiao Shi to bring hot tea.

Mo Li smiled, untied the cloak and handed it to the red bean, and after sitting down, he first cared: "It's okay in the store, I heard that Uncle Gu has been bad these days, but I have invited the doctor to take a good look, how can I cure this problem at the root, otherwise the older I get, the more I will suffer." ”

"It's an old problem, there is no cure, anyway, it's not hard work, and it's okay to pay attention to it on weekdays." Gu Jing gently slapped his waist, and then asked, "The eldest girl came here on purpose?" ”

Gu Jing's house is behind the Mo Mansion, only separated by an alley, very close, just a few steps away. On weekdays, if Mo Li wants to have something, he only needs to ask a maid to come over and shout, and basically he will not come to the door in person. Therefore, when I suddenly saw Mo Li coming to the door today, and seeing that she was still dressed as an official outing, I couldn't help but wonder a little, if it was a door-to-door visit, it would not be enough, he was all an old problem, and everyone knew it.

"Sort of." Mo Li was really in no mood to be more polite at this time, and after sighing lightly, he said directly, "I just came back from the third old lady, and I suddenly remembered something, so I wanted to come over and ask Uncle Gu." ”

Knowing that Mo Li has been busy for the Mo family's side these days, and a girl's family is running around like this, Gu Jing's eyes couldn't help showing a little pity, so he asked, "The big girl wants to ask?" ”

"I remember that last year, my father sent people to the south to buy goods, and the silk merchant who was trading in the south at that time seemed to be surnamed Wang, and people used to call him Wang Mazi?"

Gu Jing was stunned for a moment, and didn't understand why Mo Li suddenly mentioned this, but he still nodded and said, "The eldest girl remembers correctly, it's this person, but why did she suddenly ask about this?" ”

As soon as he talked about this, he would inevitably think of the deceased Mo Liujin, and Gu Jing opened his mouth, and his face showed a little regret and sorrow.

Mo Li didn't explain, and then asked: "On the day of my father's accident, I greeted Uncle Gu when I went out, and Uncle Gu still remembers that my father said it at the time, and there was an expression on his face?" ”

"The master only said that he would go out and find some acquaintances to inquire, and he looked in a hurry." Because the events of that day were also very sudden and unexpected for Gu Jing, he was still very impressed.

"Did Dad say who to ask?"

Seeing that Mo Li asked cautiously, Gu Jing thought seriously for a moment, and still shook his head: "This is not true, at that time, the old man knew that there might be an accident on the ship carrying the cargo, so he walked around early in the morning, but everyone who knew him would go to find out the news, and he didn't say anything about people." ”

Mo Li frowned slightly: "That Wang Mazi is here in Yongzhou, and there is no one who has a joint, or a businessman who is used to dealing with?" ”

Gu Jing was about to say that he didn't know, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he suddenly thought of it, and couldn't help but hesitate, and then said: "The people who connected haven't heard of it, but when the master planned to go to the south to buy the goods himself, he mentioned it, saying that the horses from the Ji family in Jiangnan are very good, and if you can get in some middle and lower grade yarn materials from the Ji family, then it will be shipped back and sold." It's just that the materials from the Ji family are basically much more expensive than similar materials, and after the master settled the account, he dispelled this idea. But later, when the guy was about to go out, the old man seemed to have heard about Wang Mazi from Steward Han, saying that this person was in the south, specializing in making materials similar to the Ji family. ”

Ji family? Han Sidao suddenly mentioned these two, Mo Li was stunned, at that time, Mo Liujin didn't let her take care of the things in the store at all, and he didn't tell her, so she didn't know about these things. Later, Mo Liujin's funeral consumed most of her mind, and she had to think about how to deal with the pressing of the clansmen, so she ignored those things. At this time, she suddenly heard that the matter at that time was still faintly involved in these two parties, and her heart couldn't help jumping suddenly, and she hurriedly asked, "Later, after the guy sent out by my father arrived in Jiangnan, he went specifically to Wang Mazi?" ”

"That's how it should be." Gu Jing said uncertainly, at that time, the cargo ship had not come back, and Mo Liujin had already had an accident, so let's not talk about how the horses in the south entered, that is, no one knew exactly what the horses entered. Later, if it weren't for Mo Li's design, those materials would have almost been swallowed by Wang Dahu, but in the end, he got back several times the number of materials from Wang Dahu, but they were not the original goods imported from the south.

Mo Lilian chased and asked: "Since I heard about Wang Mazi from Han Sidao's mouth, then after my father knew that there might be an accident on the ship carrying the cargo, did my father look for Han Sidao?" ”

"I found it, on the day I heard that there might be an accident on the cargo ship, the master asked Steward Han to inquire about the news, but the matter on the river, Steward Han didn't know about it."

"That ......" Mo Li opened her mouth, and at that moment, her mind flashed suddenly, but because it was too fast, she couldn't catch it for a while

Wang Mazi specializes in imitating the Ji family's horses, and his father directly purchased the horses from Wang Mazi, and Wang Mazi was introduced by Han Sidao. The cargo ship was rumored to have an accident, and his father was anxious to ask Han Sidao for news, and within two days, his father died unexpectedly, and the accident was in the teahouse at the time. It's just that according to the guy in the teahouse, my father was alone in the teahouse at the time, and it seemed that he was the invitee in the future, so after waiting for a while, he hurried downstairs, and then accidentally rolled down the stairs

Dad's death, if it was really not an accident, was it related to Han Sidao? Or is it related to the Ji family? But why? Daddy was in their way at the time? At that time, even my grandfather's codex had not yet come out......

After Gu Jing's farewell and leaving, Mo Li led the red bean to walk in the alley, thinking a little confused in his mind, but he couldn't figure out one of the seemingly unrelated, but faintly related things for a while.

"Where else is the girl going?" Hongdou has been following Mo Li all the time, but seeing that Mo Li has walked to Yunshang Pavilion, but she doesn't go in, and keeps walking forward, she asked puzzledly.

"I'll go again, you go back and do your work." Mo Li said a little absent-mindedly, with a contemplative expression on his face.

In this place of commerce, although it is not uncommon for women to go on the street, Mo Li's appearance is still very eye-catching when walking alone on the street. Now that there is no shadow-like Ah Sheng, Hongdou let the girl wander the street alone because she was not at ease, so she also followed step by step. These days, although Mo Li has not talked to her about everything, she is always by Mo Li's side, and Mo Li basically does not avoid her when talking to others, so she probably knows that Mo Li is busy and distressed now. Although she wanted to share Mo Li's worries about these things, she just couldn't do it with her strength, so she couldn't think of a better way except to stay by Mo Li's side all the time and do everything Mo Li commanded.

Unconsciously, he walked to the teahouse where Mo Liujin had an accident at that time. At this time, the business in the teahouse looks good, there are many guests in and out, looking from the outside in, you can see the guy leading the big teapot between the tables and guests constantly shuttling. However, this is not the best time for business, because there are not many customers on the second floor, and most of the guests who go in just stop and chat on the first floor, and then check out and leave.

"The girl is going in for tea?" Seeing that Mo Li came here, he stopped moving, and Hongdou asked.

Mo Li squinted suddenly, and then walked into the teahouse and went directly to the second floor. Sure enough, there weren't many people on the second floor, and nearly half of the tables were empty, so she glanced at it and sat down in a corner tower, which happened to be leaning against a large rosewood interstitial.

After the two sat down, she asked Mo Li what she meant, so she asked the guy to make tea with a pot of golden oranges, and ordered two snacks that Mo Li liked to eat.

"Girl, his rose cake is no worse than Li Ji's, you can taste it" After a while, tea and snacks were delivered, and Hongdou hurriedly pushed Mo Li forward. Mo Li quietly made a silent gesture to her, Hongdou was stunned, and when she was a little dazed, she suddenly heard a dispute behind the interstitial, but immediately, the voice was lowered again.

Hongdou realized that the interstitial screen turned out to be a partition. It may be that in order to save space, the owner of this teahouse used some ingenuity to separate several tables on the second floor from an interstitial screen to create a semi-independent space, so as to facilitate guests who like to be alone or occasionally need to talk about some private matters.

"Ji Gongzi went back to Jiangnan for this last month, and now he hasn't come back, I'm afraid that he only came over when he had a silk exhibition, Ding Xiangnan's matter, should we inform Gongzi?"

"Nading Xiangnan knows that he is powerful, it is not good for you and me to be involved too much in this matter, it is better to watch from the wall."

“…… That's what I said, but the Mo family has found out, do you have a bottom in your heart? ”

"It's hard to say, the Mo family is looking downhill, but in the end, it has been entrenched in this place for decades, and further up, the relationship is even longer...... Otherwise, there are so many things to do with our Ji family. ”

"Speaking of this, I think of a strange incident last year, which happened in this teahouse."

"Oh, strange things?"

"I heard that last year, a member of the Mo clan accidentally stepped on the empty stairs in this teahouse, and as a result, he fell to his death."

"It can only be regarded as bad luck, and it can't be said to be a miracle."

"It's not surprising if this is the case, mainly because I heard that the unlucky ghost happened to receive a batch of materials from Wang Mazi, but before the materials arrived, the people were gone."

As soon as these words came out, there was silence for a while, and then someone spoke: "...... Do you doubt? ”

The person who spoke smiled: "I don't doubt it, I just think it's KitKat." ”

The person who answered the call also changed his head in a witty manner: "You said that Wang Mazi was still in a hurry to do it at this time, it's really not enough to add to the chaos." ”

"He's afraid that he won't be able to receive the money, after all, he's only paid half of the money, can he be relieved if he doesn't come with him?"

"This is going to be heard by the Mo family, but it's another troublesome matter."

"Don't worry, I let people follow him, after all, he didn't even contact Ding Xiangnan, even if he was found by the Mo family, what if he came over, the silk is on display, and merchants from all over the world are gathering in Yongzhou, which is the most normal thing."

"It's better to be careful."

After saying this vaguely, the two of them turned the topic around and talked about the customs and customs of Yongzhou and some **** rhymes in the nineteen-hole bridge area, and it didn't take long for the two to call the guys to come over to settle the bill, and then got up and left the table. Hongdou looked at the two people going downstairs through the interstitial hollow, and then looked at Mo Li and said, "Girl, are we going back too?" "No mistakes, no skipping words.

After eavesdropping on Mo Li for a while, she was also faintly aware of it, so her voice involuntarily lowered.

Thanks to the ten years of her last life, she has seen more of the world and knows more people than she does now. As soon as she walked to the door of the teahouse, she found that these two people were quite familiar, one of them was also from the silk line, and the other was a cousin of the Ji family, a cousin of Ji Yufeng. The reason why she recognized it was because in the previous life, Han Sidao had a good relationship with the other party.

The friendship is not shallow, after these four words surfaced in her heart, Mo Li's mind seemed to boom, why did she only think of this now

If Han Sidao got close to Ji Yufeng's cousin, according to his mind, there was no reason why he would not not have a friendship with Ji Yufeng. However, because he had never mentioned Ji Yufeng in front of her in his previous life, she ignored it. Now that she thinks about it, she doesn't know how Master Mo San talked about the list of thousands of flowers from Ji Yufeng, and it was too easy and coincidental for her to snatch the business from Master Mo San.

Master Mo San's workshop was closed because of the thousands of flowers, if it weren't for Ah Sheng's keen sense of smell, Second Master Mo, even with her, would have been unlucky because of this......

There was no doubt about these things at that time. But now that she thinks about it, she feels that there are doubts everywhere, and after she slowly brushed it over, she suddenly realized that behind these things all point to an answer.

Han Sidao and Ji Yufeng, most likely, knew each other and hid it from everyone.

And her father's accident, most likely, was not an accident. As for the reason, she didn't know, but she must determine this suspicion and find out who the murderer was

It seems that because of this connection, along the way, her slightly frowning brows finally stretched at this moment, but her expression was a little colder than just now.

After drinking the tea in the cup little by little, she opened her mouth to let the red bean settle the bill.

……

After coming out of the teahouse, she went to the third old lady again, but this time it was empty, the third old lady went out, Mo Li had no choice but to leave a word, and then went back to her own shop.

"There is a businessman named Wang Mazi from the south, you go and inquire in the past two days." As soon as he returned to the store, Mo Li asked Jia Hei to explain.

Jia Hei** asked inertly: "Wang Mazi?" The owner is looking for something for him? Have a deal to talk about? ”

"The third old lady inquired about him and found out that he was probably the real supplier of the 500,000 taels of materials, but there was no solid evidence at the moment." After Mo Li sat down in the front hall, he said slowly.

"Evidence?" Jia Hei was stunned, and he didn't know what Mo Li meant for a while, so he asked, "Do you want this evidence to do?" ”

Mo Li glanced at Jia Hei: "You guessed right at the beginning, that batch of materials, Silk Bank plans to sell it under the name of the Ji family." ”

Seeing that Mo Li's expression at this time had a kind of coldness before predation, to be precise, calmness before calculation, Jia Hei subconsciously straightened his face, followed him to think about the news, and then his face changed slightly, that is, he said in disbelief: "Is it possible, the Ji family plans to smash the signboard by itself."

Mo Li shook his head expressionlessly: "Since there are silk lines to come forward, they are not smashing their own signboards, but attacking and retreating." ”

Jia Hei was speechless for a while, pursed his lips and walked two steps in the hall before standing in front of Mo Li and asking, "Is the owner planning to uncover this matter?" ”

Mo Li shook his head: "No, you immediately stop everything about inquiring about that batch of materials now, and then find a few people with a raw face to approach Wang Mazi, get acquainted with him, and take him to eat, drink and have fun." ”

Jia Hei became more and more puzzled: "And then? ”

Mo Li's low voice, sentence after sentence: "After you get acquainted with him, take him to Changchun Courtyard, these days for Mo Xing's business, Ding Xiangnan will definitely go to Changchun Courtyard to find Li Yue'er, and then the people you arrange will see the opportunity to avoid it, and then let the two of them meet inside." ”

"Why is that?"

"Ji Yufeng asked Ding Xiangnan to come forward in the name of the silk line to sell those horses that were not from the Ji family, but played the name of the Ji family, just in case something happened, to use Ding Xiangnan as a shield, so he must have prevented Ding Xiangnan from contacting Wang Mazi privately behind his back. And most of the three of them also have some kind of agreement, but how can the people's hearts be appeased by an agreement, as long as Ji Yufeng mistakenly thinks that the other two are acting behind his back, then both Wang Mazi and Ding Xiangnan will come to an end. ”

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