Chapter 263: Small Talk

Fu Siyu and Lu Tong muttered for a while, Lu Tong shook his head in opposition to thoughtfulness and then hesitation, and when he was ordered to invite the two to the main courtyard for dinner, he had reached a consensus with Fu Siyu.

Unknowingly, poor Lord Shen was sold clean by him, and he also told Fu Siyu everything that happened to Jiang Han.

As for whether Fu Siyu's plan could succeed and how to act, although he was very curious, given that the experience of being bitten back in the morning was still fresh in his memory, he forced his mind to hold back and didn't askβ€”it was inevitable that Shen Shen would be implicated after the incident, so he would just be an honest spectator.

When the sunset and twilight on the horizon became more and more intense, the Lilai Teahouse entered the evening peak season, while the Million Restaurant was gradually deserted and half-closed.

Seeing that there were only two or three customers left in the store, the shopkeeper Zeng left two cronies and a cook, and let the others go home in advance.

After a careful explanation, he walked towards an inconspicuous room in the corner of the backyard, which the guys in the restaurant knew was the quiet place where he usually hid. After locking the door, he walked over to the chestnut floor-to-ceiling bookcase, and turned around the half-human-tall thin porcelain vase ornament placed in the center of the cabinet......

The shopkeeper carefully avoided the porcelain vase and got into the doorway.

Behind the doorway is a narrow passage about three feet long, at the end of which is a wooden staircase less than two feet wide. The shopkeeper went up the stairs sideways, stood in front of a wooden door with no frame and no handle, and was about to push the door, when the door was pulled open from the inside, and the people inside turned their heads to look at him.

The room is not large, with a low couch on the wall, a wooden table of unknown material in the middle, and four round stools and two stools.

This room is very familiar, especially the low couch against the wallβ€”isn't it the place where the shopkeeper had a private meeting with his lover?

In addition to the tall man who had come to open the door for him, there were two more sturdy men sitting at the table, and one of them, a young man with a scarf, stood up with joy and anxiety when he saw him, and said, "You can count on coming, if you don't come, we will have to go." What can I hear? "There was anticipation in my eyes.

Shopkeeper Zeng shook his head, met the other party's dim eyes, and said, "He doesn't know as much as I know." ”

The man was stunned, he didn't expect this result, and muttered in disbelief: "How come? Isn't Shen Heimian the life-saving benefactor of this Jiang Xiaoer? Moreover, I did inquire that during these days, Jiang Xiaoer sent things to the inspection department every morning, and last night, Shen Hei also led that Young Master Lu to Jiang's house for dinner, and he didn't return until the second watch......"

Another older man with thick eyebrows and a square face, who looked like the eldest of the three, patted his arm and comforted: "What we want to ask about is the big thing in the inspection department, with Shen Hei's personality, I will definitely not easily say it to unrelated people." After speaking, he sighed, although he knew that this was the result, he was still a little disappointed in his heart.

If Jiang Han was here, he would have screamed in surprise.

These three were the third of the friends she knew on the day of the auction, and the thick-eyed and square-faced man was one of her top guests at the Lilai Teahouse.

The shopkeeper Zeng picked up a round stool and sat down, and said in a good time: "What the fourth cousin said is right. Jiang Xiaoer's line must not be used to explore Shen Shen's decision-making, besides, we didn't have much hope for him in the first place. ”

"Could he have been told to hide it from you?" The man asked unrelentingly.

"No, he's a sincere man, and I think he has some eyesight for people - he's a little quick but not very mindful." Thinking of the scene of chatting with Jiang Han before, the shopkeeper Zeng couldn't help but smile lightly, "Heh, I just cared about her, she actually poured out her heart and lungs for me, and also sent me two secret recipes of the Jiang family." ”

He glanced at the scarf man's furrowed brows, and said: "Da Zhu, I don't think we should inquire, then He Leopard Tou swallowed two cottages, and Shen Shen began to recruit archers, which must have been a temporary change in the decision." Besides, even if they are very strong now, but our Hutou Village is not something they can easily swallow, not to mention, the development is too fast, for a while, where can they find enough money to support people to buy weapons? ”

The fourth cousin said: "Everyone understands this, the big boss and the third boss are not worried at all." But let's follow the second master, and the second master asked us to try to inquire about the deployment of the inspection department, and there must be his intentions. And we still have that business to cover up......" Speaking of this, he paused and reminded, "It's better for you to be careful here, the county government has been very strict recently, and even that Fang Gao has been confined." ”

The shopkeeper was straight, and for a moment, several people were silent.

The tall man who opened the door for the shopkeeper before suddenly opened his mouth and returned to the original topic: "Alas, originally we thought that if we sent a few kids with bundled hair who looked honest and loyal to select new archers, we would definitely be selected......

Dazhu slammed the table angrily and said, "It's not! There are so many flowery intestines with a dark face! Last time he was selected, he picked an honest and honest young boy, but this time he wanted an adult man with strong legs and feet, and finally two seventeen or eighteen Han boys were selected, but he had to check the background...... Their kind of investigation method almost dug up the eight generations of ancestors, how can we stand up to the investigation? He looked shriveled and said, "It seems that we didn't send people in last time, and this time we are going to be in the soup again, and I feel breathless when I think about it." ”

When the shopkeeper Zeng and the fourth cousin heard this, they all sighed.

The fourth cousin sighed: "Yes, originally we were placed in the inspection department to be the nails of the next person, but he also cleared them all, and now the people around him, even the rough mother-in-law, can only be accepted into the inspection department after careful inspection...... We don't even have the slightest chance to start. ”

This Lord Shen is cautious, suspicious and smart, the situation in Luoxia Town is so complicated, they have a dark line in the town, presumably other villages also have it, plus the grudge he secretly formed with the three gangs in rectifying the dock, if he is not careful, the inspection department does not know how many nails will be buried.

The tall man slapped his head suddenly, and said to the shopkeeper Zeng with a sparkling gaze: "You say, can we send nails to Shen Shen's side through this Jiang Xiaoer?" ”

When Dazhu heard this, he thought about it for a while, then he high-fived him with his fist and echoed: "Yes, this method is good!" Shopkeeper Zeng, it's better for you to put someone next to Jiang Xiaoer, even if you can't plug it into the inspection department, it's good to inquire about the news in the backyard of the inspection department every day while you are sending things!"

The shopkeeper looked at them and then at his cousin, apparently even his cousin thought it worked.

He opened his mouth, not knowing what to say, but his chest gradually became blocked.

He sneered: "I put someone next to Jiang Xiaoer? Although Jiang Xiaoer's gratitude to me is flourishing, he only rejected my silver today, and tomorrow I will give it away inexplicably - even if he is not suspicious, will it be strange for Shen Shen to see it? Shen Shen asked, can I still keep it? Thinking of Lord Shen's cold black face, the shopkeeper Zeng trembled in his heart, and his face was cold.

He lifted his robe and stood up, and said angrily: "I, Zeng Qi, although it was funded by the second master to open this million-dollar restaurant, I asked myself that in the past two or three years, I have done a lot of work for the mountain!" It's good for you to push me out of the way at a little bit. Aren't you afraid that when the time comes, pull out the radish and bring out the mud, and everything will happen? ”

The sudden change of color of the shopkeeper made the three of them a little stunned, and then afraid.

Seeing him kick off the stool to leave, the fourth cousin hurriedly stood up, stopped him and said, "Why are you still angry, aren't we discussing?" If you don't think it works, let's just think of another way. ”