Chapter Thirty-Nine: Demons Are Demons
In the spacious and tall hall of Juxian Tower, even if there are hundreds of people, it does not seem crowded. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info From the heights, there is only a small group of people gathered in the inner hall, and the more open front hall is very empty.
The night outside had fallen silent, and the front of the hall was even more silent, and the figures of the people were elongated and deformed under the light of torches and candles, and reflected on the shiny gray-black stone bricks, except for the crackling sound of the torches, the hall was unusually quiet.
Everyone is waiting for the defense of the shopkeeper. Giving the shopkeeper enough time to defend himself is a kind of respect, and it is the proprietor's tolerant treatment of the old man who has served for more than 20 years.
But this is only justified treatment.
With a cold and angry gaze, Shopkeeper Wen swept over and over again all the stewards present, and his head quickly pieced together the words to save the situation.
Although Xu Feng lowered his head and drank tea, he already felt that countless eyes fell on him. This is also to see the changes brought about by the light of the apocalypse, and to be able to keenly feel the attention of others to themselves.
After decades of ups and downs in the business world, the shopkeeper Wen, who had experienced countless ups and downs, calmed down in anger and carefully pondered the twelve stewards in front of him.
Most of the old people support themselves, and although a few stewards do not support themselves very much, they will never play a conspiracy to frame themselves, and the remaining two, who have clearly expressed their opposition to their stewards, are cowardly people with a weak temperament, and they have no courage to do anything to frame the shopkeeper.
Only this new teenager, Xu Feng. seems to have been against himself everywhere from the beginning, he is so talented, but his scheming is so vicious, he really underestimates him!
In the silent and depressing atmosphere, Shopkeeper Wen never made any excuses, and at this time his eyes were firmly locked on Xu Feng. Everyone immediately saw the direction of development of things and looked at Xu Feng together.
Feeling everyone's gaze, Xu Feng put down the tea cup in his hand for a long time, and a relaxed smile suddenly bloomed on his face.
In such a heavily depressing atmosphere, this casual smile suddenly appeared, making everyone looking at Xu Feng not know what to do for a while.
There was a moment of silence.
Xu Feng smiled at the shopkeeper who was staring at him, "Do you have flowers on my face?"
In the silent hall, Wang Mingming, who was sitting on a high place, was watching the play, but he didn't expect Xu Feng to hold back such a sentence and almost laugh out loud.
The shopkeeper of Wen was obviously stunned for a moment, and immediately said righteously: "I don't know the height of the sky, the boy is a good means! The old man is planted today, but the cycle of heavenly reason, the retribution is not happy, and there will be a day when you regret it." ”
Wang Sihai, who was sitting on a high place, shook his head slightly.
Shopkeeper Wen is absolutely calm at the moment, in such a moment of crisis, only by saying to death, muddying the water, and insisting that Xu Feng did something in the silver treasury can he keep his reputation. Even if it wasn't Xu Feng's hands and feet, it would be difficult for him to justify, and if it was Xu Feng's hands and feet, it would be even more difficult for him to defend himself and he couldn't come up with credentials.
After listening to Shopkeeper Wen's nonsense, Xu Feng suddenly smiled and said seriously: "You are indeed planted!"
Then he turned to the crowd and said, "Yes, I know the money is there!"
As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar in the audience.
Wang Sihai's face showed an expression of "Don't talk nonsense!" The faces of the shopkeepers and stewards were even more wonderful, some exclaimed, some were disdainful, some inquired, some were looking forward to! Apprentices, and the street runners couldn't help but start talking directly.
The commotion took place only for a moment, and the hall immediately returned to silence. Everyone held their breath, waiting carefully for Xu Feng to tell the reason for the incident.
Xu Feng looked at it and said, "Shopkeeper Wen, you are old, let me help you recall your memories and tell you a story of three taels of silver." ”
"There used to be a young apprentice in Bufeng, named Gao Tianyi, who just left ...... not long ago"
Before Xu Feng finished talking about the matter, Shopkeeper Wen had already thought of what happened, and suddenly looked defeated, squatted on the chair, and could no longer stand up.
Looking at this scene, Xu Feng suddenly thought of a sentence: the heart demon is the demon, and the heart Buddha is the Buddha.
When your heart is full of suspicion and suspicion of others, there is no room to examine yourself, and all you get is doubt.
The loss of silver stems from suspicion. Suspicion of apprentices, suspicion of high heavenly righteousness. It is precisely because of deception that we deceive ourselves, and this is called self-deception.
The three taels of silver used to test Gao Tianyi were taken from the general counter by Shopkeeper Wen before the blockade of the silver vault.
For just three taels of silver, the shopkeeper did not take it to heart at all, Gao Tianyi was tested the day, and left the Bufeng Money Village the next day, the shopkeeper Wen was sincerely proud of his wise decision, and before the big calculation began, he put all his attention on the account settlement, where he would think of the lack of three taels of silver in the treasury.
Midnight has passed, and there is no figure of the shopkeeper Wen at the celebration banquet of Dasuan. After all these twists and turns, Xu Feng was also in a mood. Although Wang Mingming said a lot during the banquet, Xu Feng didn't remember a word.
After hastily eating the banquet, Xu Feng returned to his residence. The first thing was to use a brush to cross out nine of those fifty circles.
Wang Sihai was really righteous, in addition to rewarding Xu Feng with 30,000 taels of silver, he even gave him the first place in the silver courtyard.
This courtyard was worth 900,000 taels of silver at its normal value. When Xu Feng lived, he only occupied a wing room, but in fact, this courtyard was a real villa, and there was even a small lake behind the courtyard. With such a good location in Sendai Castle, there are only a handful of houses of this level.
Xu Feng rubbed the three 10,000 taels of silver tickets in his hand, and a smirk appeared on his face from time to time.
It feels good to be rich!
At this time, Jiang Liao was probably still living in a world where he was calculating for three or five taels of silver. When Jiang Liao comes, he must exchange all the 30,000 taels of silver tickets for big silver ingots with white flowers, and then use trays to pile them up one by one, scaring him to death!
Xu Feng looked at the three large silver tickets over and over again, with the quaint seal characters on them, the neatly marked year number, and the words of the ticket number.
"Chunhua five years, Zhongzhou Mansion" is particularly conspicuous in bold characters. The more I look at it, the more I like it, and I can't help but pick it up and put it under my nose to smell it, and sure enough, there is a good smell of money!
I also felt that the paper of this silver ticket was so soft and light, as if it was not enough to buy half a street in Hengshui Town when it was smashed, and this paper was almost the same as the rough paper used for my practice notes.
"This workmanship is too irresponsible!" Xu Feng thought to himself. Carefully fold the silver ticket, wrap it in a layer of paper, and stuff it in the innermost part of the package.
Finally, I still don't feel at ease, paper is a kind of thing, it is light in my hand, and it is inconvenient to keep it, in case the mouse gnaws, in case the wind blows away, who is looking for to go!
No! It's too unreliable. Tomorrow, I will go to the treasury of the money bank, and exchange it for heavy silver, so that my heart can be sure.
The package also contained a thick stack of insoles. With red needle and thread, the stitches are densely embroidered, each pair is the same, the left sole of the foot is embroidered with a green "rich", and the right foot is embroidered with a yellow word "expensive".
"Rich. It is the best blessing for ordinary people. Great wealth and wealth are also the aspirations of all ordinary people. Looking at Xiaoying's carefully embroidered insole, Xu Feng couldn't help but feel a trance in his heart, as if he had returned to the morning in the distant mountains and autumn forests, and the two of them walked quietly on the fallen leaves.
Although he has been in this world for a long time, occasionally looking up at the unfamiliar starry sky above his head will still give birth to a kind of bone-eating loneliness, which will quickly occupy Xu Feng's whole body. In the whole world, only he does not belong here, and he who does not belong here, but he carries the secrets of a whole world in his heart.
Xu Feng felt that only Xiaoying's eyes could resolve this bone-eating loneliness, because in Xiaoying's eyes, he also saw a complete world, and he was the whole world in Xiaoying's eyes. So others will be curious about his strange sayings and practices, but Xiaoying will not. Because that's trust from the bone marrow.
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The cold winter of Chunhua for five years has finally come to an end. The breath of spring quietly descended on the vast territory of the northern part of the dynasty.
In the green season, a little girl wearing a square scarf and carrying a bamboo basket on her back said goodbye to her brother and embarked on a journey to Sendai.
With curiosity about all things spring on her immature face, a thin cotton jacket sets off her petite body, like a cheerful spring breeze, she heads north, like a breeze to be shocked by the grand Sendai landscape, crossing the flying high bridge and entering the bustling city.
As soon as I entered the tooth market on Luoying Street, I was greeted by a lot of people and traffic. Ah Cai was fascinated by the bustle and prosperity in front of him, the square that could not be seen at a glance, all kinds of people, strange business, there was Mr. Xu who he was looking for!