Chapter Seventy-Seven: Exploring the Truth and the False
Five days later.
Dragon Gate Inn.
The shopkeeper trotted in all the way from outside, rushed to Li Yang, and opened his mouth to say, "Boss." ”
Jin Zhuyu picked up the teacup on the table and smashed it, "What are you calling?" ”
The shopkeeper was so frightened that he squatted on the ground with his head in his hands, crying out in his heart for grievances.
Who in this store now doesn't know that Li Yang and the proprietress Jin Zhuyu are old friends?
He just called it so casually, thinking that the proprietress would be very happy, but he didn't expect to eat a suffocation.
Li Yang didn't think it was a big deal to see the excitement, and coaxed: "It's okay, just call me boss." ”
"Dream about you."
Jin Zhuyu glared at Li Yang angrily, "This is the shop that the old lady has worked so hard to open, as soon as you come, you don't do any work, you will become the boss, how can there be such a reason in the world." ”
"Don't forget, I funded this store for you." Li Yang said with a smile.
From his smiling face, who would have thought that he was facing a great danger of a Zhang Wan'er, a child, and a Hongmen banquet?
It's been five days, and even the pillow person with gold and jade hasn't seen Li Yang's abnormality, so that he is still in the mood to laugh and scold Li Yang.
"Yes, I got your money when I left, but so what? I didn't force you, you were willing to give it to me, besides, I've been serving you like a big man these days, what are you not satisfied with. ”
Li Yang smiled at the shopkeeper, "See, the position of this boss will be mine sooner or later." ”
Because of the obscenity of gold and jade, the shopkeeper didn't dare to speak out, but he agreed with 10,000 in his heart.
"You yourself are beautiful here." Jin Jianyu glanced at Li Yang and left.
Li Yang looked at the shopkeeper, "Let's talk about it, what have you found out." ”
The shopkeeper said respectfully: "As you said, Dongpo Restaurant is indeed different from usual, there are people guarding all sides of the courtyard wall, that posture, are about to catch up with the yamen, and the business is not done, but the door is not closed, it is still open every day, and someone will come from time to time, it doesn't look like a local, all of them are sabers and swords, they must be from the rivers and lakes, and they are the kind of people who have seen blood, that look, I don't dare to look directly at it across the street......"
The shopkeeper said a bunch of things, so that Li Yang came to a conclusion.
Zhang Wan'er is preparing for the war.
No wonder five days later, the invitation to the Hongmen banquet has not arrived, it turns out that it has not been prepared yet.
Li Yang couldn't help but recall that five days ago, when Zhang Wan'er was leaving, the tone of the Hongmen banquet made it seem as if everything had been prepared and waiting for him to die, it turned out that he was just bluffing.
What a Zhang Wan'er!
Li Yang actually smiled.
It's not a sneer, it's not a mockery, it's just a normal laugh.
Obviously, Li Yang was not angry about this.
Fighting with people is endlessly fun.
It's not pretending, it's a fact.
Because Li Yang once fought with ghosts, he knows the difficulties and hardships of fighting with ghosts, in comparison, fighting with people is really a pleasure.
Now the only thing he has to worry about is the child.
Where is the child?
Li Yang is not a fool who can be completely believed by Zhang Wan'er as soon as he flips through his words, before he sees the child with his own eyes, he even suspects that there is no child at all, it is just a trumped-up bait that Zhang Wan'er lures into his trap.
After Zhang Wan'er left, Li Yang carefully recalled every word Zhang Wan'er had said, and did not find any loopholes.
But this does not prove that Zhang Wan'er is telling the truth.
After all, Zhang Wan'er has disappeared for two years, and what has happened in the past two years, Li Yang has no idea at all, and she can't say whatever she wants.
Child!
You have to prove your child's problem first!
So, Li Yang sent the gold-inlaid jade shop guy to find out the truth.
Unfortunately, I didn't get any news from the child.
"That's all you know? Nothing else? Li Yang asked unwillingly.
"Is that less? I followed your instructions, staring at the Dongpo Restaurant all day long, and I didn't dare to get too close, so I could only hide in the alley across the street and star, you want to know who the people in and out of the restaurant are now? At first glance, they are all people who kill people without blinking, and the little one who has been a shopkeeper for so many years, and other skills, these eyes that look at people are absolutely not wrong...... Oh, yes. ”
After the shopkeeper poured over the bitter water, he seemed to remember something.
"In the past two days, there have obviously been a lot of maids in Dongpo Restaurant, in and out, and I don't know what big people have come, so many maids are needed, and those maids look good, tsk, all of them are better looking than the girls in the brothel, the water is smart, it looks like the kind of carefully raised, it must be very expensive, it can't be wrong, when they go out to buy things, I still pretend to pass by, and vaguely hear what seems to be saying something like Miss."
Miss?
It should refer to Zhang Wan'er.
Li Yang immediately thought of Zhang Wan'er.
As the behind-the-scenes master of Mingyue Pavilion, it is normal to have more maids serving her, from the fact that Zhang Wan'er wants to be the crown princess, it can also be seen that this is a woman who is greedy for a powerful position, and in her daily life, she will definitely not do it herself like a wanderer like herself.
This information doesn't seem to be useful.
Li Yang frowned, "Didn't you see the child?" ”
"Nope." The shopkeeper affirmed.
Li Yang did not assume that he had no children because of this.
After all, this is ancient times, and you can't expect a mother to push a stroller and take her child out on the street in broad daylight.
And now is an extraordinary period, the child is a killer for Zhang Wan'er, and naturally it will not be easily exposed.
Li Yang asked again: "Did you hear a child crying or something like that?" ”
"Not either."
The shopkeeper scratched his head, "What you asked, even if there is, I can't hear it from so far away, boss, the little one has a question, I don't know if I should ask it or not." ”
"Ask." Li Yang was really curious about what questions this guy from the shop could ask.
"You said that you are so capable, even our proprietress has been subdued by you, a small restaurant, why don't you go and find out yourself? Look at me in the past few days, the eyes of the two can't wait to rest for a moment, they are all congested, and they haven't found anything, and in the end they didn't do your errand, and they delayed your time, and you complained about it just now......"
The more Li Yang listened, the more wrong he became.
Is this a question?
This is clearly asking for a reward.
"And then." Li Yang casually threw out a silver ingot.
The shopkeeper hurriedly caught it, looked down and saw that there were five taels, and immediately kowtowed happily to thank him.
"Boss, you"
"Alright, alright, let's go down."
"Well, you can call me again if you have something."
Sending away the shopkeeper, Li Yang muttered for a while, but decided to go by himself.
The reason why Li Yang sent the shop guy in the past five days was because it was expected that Zhang Wan'er would definitely be guarding him, and maybe there would be Zhang Wan'er's eyeliner in the Dragon Gate Inn now.
Since he can send a shop guy to keep an eye on Dongpo Restaurant, Zhang Wan'er can naturally send someone to keep an eye on him.
It's nothing.
"Kid...... I'll meet you. Li Yang said in his heart, the look of class struggle was like going to see a child, but like going to see an enemy.
Get up and walk out the door.
As soon as I walked out of the door, I was confronted by gold and jade.
"What are you?" Li Yang asked suspiciously.
Jin Jianyu looked at Li Yang's eyes full of disdain, but there was a little sour in his tone, "What?" Got the girl's belly bigger? ”
“…… No. ”
"No, I heard it."
Jin Zhuyu turned his head and waved his hand as if he didn't care, "If it's big, it's big, if it's big, if it's a big deal, if it's a big deal, it's time to marry it, a prodigal like you should have a woman to take care of it." ”
Marry?
Who to marry?
Zhang Wan'er?
Li Yang fantasized for a moment, and couldn't help but hit a spirit.
"Do you want me to help? Although in the capital, I am nothing, but in this territory, I still have some face, no matter which girl she is, with my gold and jade as a matchmaker, I will ensure success. Jin Zhuyu continued.
Li Yang shook his head, didn't speak, and left speechlessly.
Looking at Li Yang's departing back, Jin Jiaoyu's hand subconsciously stroked his abdomen, and muttered depressedly: "Evil door, if you want to talk about the number of times, the old lady doesn't fall every night, why don't I see movement in my stomach......"