The shopkeeper shook his hands and screamed, closing his eyes and waving the big knife in his hand as he screamed.

Seeing this, Wang Duo quickly crossed the crowd and came behind him around the yellow shopkeeper, instantly grabbed his hand and slapped it on his wrist.

"Bang." With a loud bang, the big knife landed on the ground and made a loud noise.

"Shopkeeper Huang, it's us." Xu Xiaoxiao grabbed the shoulder of the shopkeeper Huang and forcibly stabilized his body.

After the shopkeeper heard Xu Xiaoxiao's voice, he gasped and slowly opened his eyes, and when he saw everyone's faces appear in front of him, he instantly sat down on the stairs.

At this time, several little boys and girls behind everyone rushed through the crowd, and they came to the side of the Huang shopkeeper and looked at the Huang shopkeeper worriedly.

"Shopkeeper Huang, are you okay?"

"yes, yes, are you okay?"

The children chattered and pulled the yellow shopkeeper's body, and the yellow shopkeeper waved his hand weakly.

"It's okay, I'm fine, but didn't you say don't come out at night?"

Xu Xiaoxiao came to the shopkeeper Huang and helped him up, "Shopkeeper Huang is sorry, I scared you." ”

Then, she helped the shopkeeper Huang to walk downstairs, and the door was crowded with a crowd of people watching the excitement, and the spectators watched everything that happened in the tavern excitedly.

Chu Qing gestured to Wang Duo with his eyes, and Wang Duo hurriedly came to the gate to push the crowd out, and then closed the wooden door.

Xu Xiaoxiao sat on the stool and checked the pulse of the shopkeeper Huang, "Shopkeeper Huang, do you occasionally feel chest tightness and dizziness?" ”

Shopkeeper Huang took the tea handed over by Liu Qiao'er and looked up in surprise, "How do you know?" ”

"Qiao'er help me with that ink." Xu Xiaoxiao took Liu Qiaoer's pen and ink, and quickly wrote a medicine list on rice paper, "You are blocked by blood and blocked blood vessels, you need to soften before you can slowly get better. ”

Shopkeeper Huang looked at the medicine list handed to him by Xu Xiaoxiao, and took it in confusion, "Who are you?" ”

Xu Xiaoxiao smiled and said nothing, she thought that the shopkeeper Huang was behind the whole thing, until she saw this group of poor children, and learned from the children's mouth that it was the shopkeeper Huang who had been taking them in.

They are all refugees displaced from outside the city, and their parents have died of illness on the way to escape the famine.

Fearing that the children would be driven out as refugees, the shopkeeper arranged for the children to live in this tavern, brought them food during the day, and told them that they were not allowed to come out if they were fine.

Recently, Xu Xiaoxiao took over this tavern, and the child knew that the place he was staying in was almost impossible to keep, so he wanted to hit the ghost and scare people, and wanted to use the method of scaring people to make the shopkeeper who bought this tavern automatically retreat.

Originally, they climbed out of the attic tonight as planned to continue to be scary, but who knew that they met Xu Xiaoxiao and them.

Xu Xiaoxiao knew what happened beforehand, thought about it for a while, and came to the conclusion that the Huang shopkeeper, who could adopt these children privately regardless of his own safety, could be the person who did not compromise the means for the sake of the end.

At most, he is a middle-aged uncle with a poisonous mouth and a good heart.

Shopkeeper Huang looked at Xu Xiaoxiao's friendly expression, and could roughly guess that they already knew the whole truth, he suddenly felt relaxed and laughed self-deprecatingly.

Liu Qiao'er sat beside him and asked puzzledly, "Shopkeeper Huang, why are you stopping us from operating in this tavern?" ”

"And the affairs of the Cheng family, with you...."

She thought about it a lot and couldn't help but ask the doubts in her heart, since his secret was discovered, then this secret about the Cheng family must also be excavated.

Otherwise, the people of Chang'an Street always believe that there has been a murder in this tavern.

Chu Qing came to the table from behind everyone with his hands behind his back, and he threw off his robe and sat down.

When the shopkeeper Huang saw Chu Qing, he hurriedly wanted to salute, but was stopped by Wang Duo when he got up.

"Shopkeeper Huang, you don't need to salute, you can tell me what you knew ten years ago." Chu Qing waved his hand and said lightly.

Cheng Qing, who had been hiding in the dark corner, couldn't bear it anymore, she strode forward and mustered up the courage to face the shopkeeper Huang, "Uncle Huang, do you remember me?" I am Cheng An's daughter, Cheng Qing. ”

After hearing this, the shopkeeper Huang got up from his seat in shock, and looked at the person in front of him in surprise.

No wonder when he saw Cheng Qing for the first time, he thought she was very familiar, but he knew that there was a traitor in Cheng Qing's troupe, and if the troupe was taken back to the tavern, the traitor would definitely reveal the prototype to poison Cheng Qing, so he deliberately provoked Cheng Qing and asked her to find another place.

The purpose is to make the traitor retreat, and he still doesn't know who the traitor is, but he learned from friends in the Chamber of Commerce that someone in the new troupe contacted the Chamber of Commerce, saying that he was selling the troupe at a low price.

Shopkeeper Huang took pity on the girl who was working hard, so he wanted to help Cheng Qing, but who wanted to cause a misunderstanding.

Until now, he has not figured out who wants to sell the troupe at a low price.

"Kid, how are you...."He looked at Cheng Qing's thin cheeks and felt ashamed in his heart.

Cheng Qing fluttered and knelt on the ground, his eyes filled with tears, "Uncle Huang, please tell me the murderer, inform the prince, let the prince arrest the murderer, and let my parents' souls in heaven also rest in peace." ”

"Your parents are gone?" Shopkeeper Huang asked in surprise.

Cheng Qing's face was full of tears, he nodded again and again, and said with difficulty from his throat with tears, "Yes, I was gone eight years ago." ”

Shopkeeper Huang instantly sat on the stool weakly, "Lao Cheng, why are you doing this, look at the stupid things you did, which hurt your wife and daughter." ”

"Shopkeeper Huang, what was the truth back then?" Chu Qing's thick eyebrows frowned slightly and asked anxiously.

The shopkeeper Huang sighed and began to elaborate, "When Lao Cheng came to tell me that his tavern could not hold on to the perennial losses, and wanted to sell it, but he couldn't sell it after waiting for a long time, and seeing that the cooperative supplier was going to come to collect debts, he thought of a way to fake his death, and he found me to drink that day and told me about this idea, I tried my best to stop it, and the two of us talked for a long time, I thought I had convinced him."

But who knew that the next day I received bad news, Lao Cheng's tavern was surrounded by fire, burned for three days and three nights, after the fire, the supplier who originally wanted to collect the debt also gave up the plan to get the payment back, I wanted to help Lao Cheng repay the payment, but I don't know how much he owes, since then I have no contact with Lao Cheng. ”

"Liar, I don't believe it." Cheng Qing stared at him and shook his head.

Wang Duo looked at Cheng Qing distressedly, and said with difficulty, "Cheng Qing, it's true, I checked the files of the year, and this tavern did owe a lot of debts that had not been paid off, and the supplier at that time also sued the yamen, because the fire burned everything, and the Cheng family also died in the fire, this case will not be resolved." ”

After Cheng Qing listened to Wang Duo's words, the whole person sat on the ground, hanging his head in a daze, crying silently.

Shopkeeper Huang squatted down distressed and helped her up, "Child, I have a good relationship with your father, and when I was about to hold on, it was your father who helped me, so I have dealt with part of your father's debts privately, and the rest has not yet found a supplier due to the war, so you don't have to worry too much." ”

"Uncle Huang, why, why did my father do this, I thought he was killed, I am still complaining about God's injustice, why the people who harmed our family are still at large, why our family has to be displaced." Cheng Qing cried weakly, muttering to himself with an empty expression.

Xu Xiaoxiao came to her side wistfully, held her hand and said, "Your father's approach is really wrong, but from his father's point of view, maybe he just wants to protect you and let you live well." ”

"Now that the truth has been revealed, you should cheer up, atone for your father's sins, and pay back all the remaining money, so that you can appear in front of everyone openly and tell everyone that the people of the Cheng family are still alive and no longer need to hide."

Cheng Qing looked at Xu Xiaoxiao blankly, and then leaned on her shoulder weakly, crying silently.