When I was hesitating, the wife's voice sounded again: "I like this purple sand jar." Bian threw down the gold again: "Sell it to me!"

This wife must be the family of the man who spent a lot of money.

I stuffed the gold back again: "Madam, I don't have the money to find it for you, and the jar is not worth a few dollars, if you like it, then give it to you!"

After saying that, I walked home, and looked back at the carriage, and the spring onion seemed to be waving to me, presumably I didn't see it clearly just now, how could there be no one! Probably not a monster, if it was an account book monster, it would have eaten me a long time ago, right?

When I was about to get home, I suddenly saw Li Qitang standing in the alley not far from my shop, looking into the darkness and not knowing what to look at.

I said a blessing, and he bowed back: "Where did Miss Mei go?" It's not too peaceful at night, so it's better to be careful. ”

I replied: "It's okay, I'm used to walking at night, I usually have melon slices to accompany me, the dragon god said that there is no demon spirit in the Yanyu Pavilion today, and I asked the melon slices to accompany the dragon god to play."

"The demonic spirit is thick now." Li Qitang said.

"Dare to ask why Gongzi Li came late at night?" I asked.

"There have been several murders in the capital in the past few days, some of them are strange, and my uncle asked me to investigate at night to see what is going on."

His uncle is Liu Junshou, so he thinks he is in charge of law and order? But I still couldn't control my curiosity, and couldn't help but want to ask what was going on, so I opened my mouth to invite: "If Meng Li Gongzi doesn't give up, our house is at the mouth of this alley, this cold winter wax moon, dripping water into ice, you might as well go to my house to sit and eat a few snacks to relieve fatigue."

Li Qitang smiled: "Visiting late at night, how can you be embarrassed?"

"Li Gongzi aims to eliminate harm for the people, and I am willing to thank Li Gongzi on behalf of the people." I smiled mischievously.

Li Qitang hesitated, I saw that his cheeks were red and red, he must be very cold, and reached out to pull him to the house.

My grandfather is living in my house, he is old, and he has no work in the cold, so my father and mother take my grandfather to the house for the winter, and my grandmother stays at home to take care of my uncle's two cousins.

Grandpa saw that it was Li Qitang who I pulled in the door, and his eyes widened: "This is Li Gongzi?"

"He's my friend, he's here to do business, it's very a cold day, look at his face is cold and red, Dad, we have to give Li Gongzi a bowl of taro balls and a few pieces of lily glutinous rice cakes to warm up."

Father and mother hurriedly gave up their seats and put down the snacks, Li Qitang smiled shyly and said, "Then it is better to be respectful than to obey your fate."

Are scholars so elegant? Finally, when he finished his snack, I hurriedly asked, "What happened to the strange thing you said before?"

Li Qitang said: "I shouldn't have said it, my uncle is afraid of causing panic, but you are the messenger of the Dragon God, and you may have to rely on the Dragon God in the future, and it doesn't hurt to say that it is okay with you." He cleared his throat and said, "For a while, several people have disappeared near the Yanyu Pavilion."

I hurriedly asked, "Who are they?"

Li Qitang said: "There are those who sell soju, those who sell pig's head meat, and those who sell singing, as well as a few maids in Yanyu Pavilion, all of whom went out in the middle of the night and never came back." I didn't find the body, so I disappeared out of thin air. ”

Disappear into thin air...... "Has no one seen it?"

Li Qitang shook his head: "No, if someone commits a crime, how can they leave clues, but Qi Benqi can't find anyone who has seen them at all."

I hurriedly asked, "Do they have anything in common?"

"Common ground...... Li Qitang pondered: "Little traders, maids......"

My heart suddenly moved: "It's all ...... that needs to be traded or rewarded."

Does this matter have anything to do with the couple who spent a lot of money?

The next morning I ran to the Smoke and Rain Pavilion and asked the little maid who was cleaning during the day about the situation.

Just as Qiu'er came out to splash the residual water, I hurriedly asked her, "I heard that how many young ladies are missing?"

Qiu'er nodded: "Yes!" You don't know yet? It is the month season of serving Miss Hua Wei and serving Miss Xiliu. ”

I hurriedly asked, "What day is it?"

Qiu'er tilted her head and thought about it: "Hmm...... Six or seven days ago, a particularly rich guest came to the Yanyu Pavilion that day, and the rewards were all made of broken gold, and everyone worshiped him as the God of Wealth. ”

Sure enough, it had something to do with the man.

"Does that have anything to do with him?"

"Let's go private......" Qiu'er leaned into my ear: "I heard that Lamei and Yueji secretly ran away with the rich guest!"

"What?" The rules of the Yanyu Pavilion are strict, the maidservants flee, the punishment must be very heavy, and as long as this kind of place is given enough benefits on it, it is simply an independent small court, the officials are not careful, they can't think about being wronged, and they are unwilling to sell themselves as prostitutes, it is said that there are no fewer dead people, no wonder Gua Pian said that there are deep grievances here, and it is simply a dinner party for monsters.

"I just happened to change Miss Ruixia into a long coat wet with wine, and looking down from upstairs, it looks like Lamei and Yueji were waiting for the guest to get into a green oil carriage."

That's right! The culprit is that man! I have to tell Long Jing quickly, just say that where did that man get so much money, he must have been conjured by witchcraft, and the officials of the Beijing division are not so generous, unless their house is built on a mountain of gold, and they can throw gold around as clods.

As soon as I walked to the corridor, I saw a young woman crying at the front door, and who was wronged, I walked over to take a look, but found that she was twenty-five or sixteen years old, not the sister here, wearing a half-new and old lake green jacket, black hair tied in a loose bun, only two goose xanthin silk flowers pinned to it, she saw me, but greeted first: "Little sister, have you ever seen this person?" I took out a portrait and I took a closer look. It turned out to be the man who spent a lot of money! I hurriedly asked, "Dare to ask if this is Madame?"

The woman cried and fell to the ground: "This is my husband, I have been away from home for ten days, and I have not returned, and now my life and death are uncertain, leaving me and my two children, I am frightened, I don't know where he went, I heard that he came here seven days ago, so I took the portrait to look for it, but no one knows in the end, I am afraid that I am mistaken!" Our family is surrounded by walls, where is the money here! ”

I took a closer look, the portrait was expressive, it was clearly that man, and their house was surrounded by walls? So where did the gold he squandered come from? Is he missing now, like those people?

"Ma'am," I picked up the woman and led her to the sheltered verandah and sat down, "Your Excellency, is there anything out of the ordinary?"

The woman wiped her tears with the hem of her clothes and said: "Here's the thing, my father-in-law has been poor since he was a child, but he has few talents, his father-in-law and mother-in-law are calloused, I just hope that he can one day be named on the gold list, glorify the ancestors, and the husband is also determined to become famous, so that the whole family can live a good life, and the name of Sun Shan is lost in every exam, and now even a fame has not been tested, and my father-in-law and mother-in-law have been poor and sick for many years, and they have passed away one after another. He hated himself for being a scholar for being useless, powerless to tie chickens, and had no ability to support his family, so he had to set up a stall at the corner of the street, write letters of faith to illiterate people, his income was meager, and his family had no overnight food, and the little woman would be able to wash some needles and women's red, or wash a few clothes for others, but it was faster than him to make money, and occasionally someone made fun of him, his life was a good life, and there was always someone to support, how could he not be angry in his heart, partial, the second young master of the little woman's laundry was lustful and immoral, and he looked at the little woman's beard and color, and sent someone to say to the father-in-law, Let the lady and him, you can hire him to be the bookkeeper, provide him with three meals a day and not teach him to starve to death, and he is also a person who can live if he has food. He was angry for a while, and he wanted to fight with the messenger, but the husband was weak, how could he withstand the fist of the jackal's family, and he could only walk around after lying for half a month, and sued the official, but the official family said that he was doing it himself, but asked him to pay the family two taels of silver, and the prince said that he was black and white, but he committed the roaring court, and was locked in prison, the little woman tried her best to run in many ways, and it took a lot of effort to go, and he was released, and the husband went home and sighed all day long, and his heart and mind were all money, and the little woman advised him not to be obsessed, who knew that he would pay for it that day, When he came back in the evening, he brought with him a large chest of gold, and the amount was so great that the little woman was frightened not to know what to do, but fearing that if she had come in the wrong way, what calamity would be incurred, and when she asked him whether he was alive or dead, she would not tell him, and she would put down the money and go out again, and she would not see anyone, and she would not know where she would go. He whimpered and cried again.

Where does the gold come from? Is the woman in the green oil carriage the scholar's new lover, or the monster who provided him with gold? But even if it's a monster, where does it get so many human things?

I advised the woman to go home first and wait, so it was not a way to find it, after all, he was the head of the family, and he would not abandon his wife and children, and he would not be tripped up by something, and he would not be able to find time to go home.

The woman staggered home, looking at her dress, but afraid that the gold had not been used, not moved by the gold, and she was devoted to her husband, which was really a rare good lady.

The way of the gold, teach Li Qitang to see, I don't know if there is any result.

I ran to the flower field to dig up the gold, and inquired all the way about the Li family, a big cultivator.

The Li family is not in the downtown area, but is located in the suburbs between the mountains and rivers, the bluestone is built, it is a large quadrangle with several entrances and exits, the eaves are carved with stone beasts, the stone beasts each contain a big copper bell in their mouths, next to the blue lacquer gate are two unknown long-horned stone beasts, there is more than one person tall, and it looks so majestic. Outside the courtyard, you can see a big pine and cypress tree in the courtyard, lush and lush, with a thick layer of snow, and the branches stretch straight out to the outside of the courtyard wall.

When I got to the door, I hesitated, will the family pass it on to my little girl? You'll probably think I'm playing a prank and get rid of me, right?

I was wandering at the door, and I saw a person wearing a big red fur cloak coming out from a distance, and when I got closer, it turned out to be Li Qitang, and I cheered: "I finally found here, I'm worried about how to find someone to report, why are you here?"

Li Qitang said with a smile: "I made a divination today, I know that there are distinguished guests in the south, come out and take a look, isn't it Miss Mei here!" It's cold outside, please inside, last time I ate your house dim sum, so delicious, today I am the host to return the table, Miss Mei must appreciate the light! ”