"Sister Xu is a proper person!" , Du Shi, the proprietress of Zhu's pawnshop, a neighbor of the Zhu family, said while knocking melon seeds.

"She doesn't go out of the door all day long, and she doesn't step out of the second door, but she goes to the Guanyin Temple every Saturday every month to burn incense, asking for a child, in order to show sincerity, even the maid doesn't take one, just walk by herself, this god doesn't open her eyes, such a good person doesn't give her a son and a half daughter, for this matter Sister Xu and the two of them are not less bickering!"

"Every Saturday every month?" , Nie Xiaohu frowned slightly.

"It's the sixth, sixteenth, and twenty-sixth days of the first month of the month, sometimes I feel bored, so I go to her house to chat with her, and every time I can't talk for an hour, Sister Xu is a person who abides by women's morals! I don't know which grandson who has been missing virtue for eight lifetimes is spreading rumors outside, saying that Sister Xu has someone outside, don't let me know who it is, if you know that I have to tear up his stinky mouth! ”

Du Shi spoke, his face full of resentment, but Nie Xiaohu smiled slightly and did not say anything.

In the living room of the Zhu family, Nie Xiaohu met the owner of the Zhu family's pharmacy, Zhu Weiye, a middle-aged man of medium stature and slightly chubby.

"Boss Zhu, where were you from yesterday afternoon to evening?" , Nie Xiaohu went straight to the topic as soon as he came up.

"Nie Zhutou, are you suspicious of me?" , Zhu Weiye looked at Nie Xiaohu with doubts in his sad eyes.

"I wish the boss don't be weird, I'm just doing it routinely", Nie Xiaohu smiled slightly.

"Oh", Zhu Weiye nodded, and said in a slightly old voice, "Yesterday afternoon, I went to the temple outside the city to worship the Buddha and burn incense, and stayed in the temple until the night. ”

"Oh? Did you go burn incense? ”

"Yes, it's Guanyin, I'm in my forties, I don't even have a son and a half daughter, it's really amazing...", Zhu Weiye shook his head gently.

"Then why did your wife go out yesterday?"

"I don't know about this, I went out at noon, and she was still at home when I left."

Zhu Weiye's face seemed to be a little embarrassed, and after holding it for a long time, he finally said: "I have long heard that the inner man and that Cui Junsen are a little unclear, I have never believed it, it turns out that this is really the case!" ”

"Oh?" , Nie Xiaohu smiled and asked, "How can you see it?" ”

"Isn't this clear? What good thing could it be for the two of them to go to that kind of place so late? Zhu Weiye snorted coldly.

Nie Xiaohu frowned and thought about it, and then asked, "Is that lady's personal maid available?" ”

"Oh, Dongmei, something happened to her inside-in-law, so I sent her to my father-in-law's house to report the funeral."

"Where did you go?"

"Bamboo Spring Village outside the city."

As soon as he got out of the gate of Zhu's house, Nie Xiaohu immediately said: "Xiao Maozi, Xiao Liuzi, you go to Zhuquan Village now, find Xu Yurong's personal maid Dongmei, and bring her back to the fast catching room, be fast!" Especially pay attention to the road, don't miss it! ”，

"Tiger Head, why are you in such a hurry?" , Mao Guangjian saw that Nie Xiaohu's face was a little wrong, and asked suspiciously.

"Send someone to my father-in-law's house, and go to Zhuquan Village, which is not close to the distance, do you send a maid or a man?"

"Of course it's a man's subordinate, won't the little girl delay things?" , Mao Guangjian said casually.

"Oh! I see! ”

Mao Guangjian and Liu Zhenxiao's eyes widened almost at the same time, and they patted their heads as if they had suddenly realized, "Let's go immediately!" After saying that, the two turned around and left quickly.

"Let's go to where Choi Junsen lives!" , Nie Xiaohu waved his hand.

This is a small room, one street away from the Zhujia Pharmacy, and after directly breaking the door lock, Nie Xiaohu and the three of them entered the house. The furnishings of the house were rather rudimentary, with a bed, a table, two chairs, and a wardrobe, and the three of them searched the house without finding any valuable clues.

Nie Xiaohu couldn't help but be a little depressed, standing in the center of the room, pouting and looking around aimlessly, looking at it, Nie Xiaohu's eyes fell on a landscape painting hanging on the wall in the southeast corner of the room.

There is nothing surprising about the painting itself, but there is something unusual about where it hangs, usually the painting is hung about two meters above the ground, but this painting is hung in the corner of the wall, and the whole painting is stretched down just to the ground.

Nie Xiaohu couldn't help but feel curious, frowned and walked to the painting, slowly squatted down, reached out and grabbed a corner of the painting, Tang Yibin and Shi Yuning also came over, staring at the painting nervously. Nie Xiaohu's hand was raised suddenly, the painting was lifted, and the three pairs of eyes immediately focused on the back of the painting.

Behind was a bare brick wall, and Tang Yibin and Shi Yuning immediately wilted like deflated balls.

Nie Xiaohu stared at the brick wall for a while, then buckled the gap on both sides of one of the green bricks with his hand, clamped the green brick with his thumb and index finger, and moved the green brick with a slight force.

"There's a door!" , Tang Yibin and Shi Yuning's faces suddenly became happy.

Nie Xiaohu clamped the green brick hard and slowly pulled it out, it was just a half-cut green brick, a rectangular hole appeared in the wall, Nie Xiaohu reached into his hand and took out a wooden box from the hole.

"A tiger head is a tiger head! Another day, you must ask where to hide the private money for the safest time! Shi Yuning gave a thumbs up.

Nie Xiaohu gave him a blank look, stood up and came to the table, and placed the wooden box on the table. There was no lock on the box, and Nie Xiaohu gently opened the lid of the box, and inside was a folded booklet, as well as a piece of paper folded into squares.

Nie Xiaohu picked up the piece of paper first, unfolded it and looked at it, it turned out to be an IOU, which read, "I borrowed three hundred taels of silver from Cui Junsen today, and I will return it in one year, with a monthly interest of two yuan, and I will pay it off with interest when it expires." Shao Changqing, July 23, Year of the Emperor".

After reading this IOU, Nie Xiaohu frowned and thought about it: "July 23 of the year of Guiyou, it is now September 27 of the year of Jiaxu, and it has been one year and two months since the IOU is still in Cui Junsen's hands, which means that this Shao Changqing has not repaid the money, three hundred taels plus one year of interest, this is not a small amount!" ”

Nie Xiaohu put down the IOU, picked up the booklet again, flipped through the pages one by one, and looked at it, the corners of Nie Xiaohu's mouth slowly curled.

"Let's go, go to Zhujia Pharmacy!"