Early in the morning of the second day, the shopkeeper Qin saw the young man Xie who came to the pearl that night. In the strange eyes of the shopkeeper Qin, Gongzi Xie directly took out a pawn ticket and four hundred taels of silver.

"Shopkeeper, I'll redeem it." Gongzi Xie said directly. Shopkeeper Qin was a little stunned, and he didn't react at the first time. Then Gongzi Xie thought that the shopkeeper couldn't take out the night pearl, after all, yesterday someone redeemed the fake night pearl in the Lu family's pawnshop, and the matter was already known all over the city.

Gongzi Xie thought he had a plan, and said: "If the shopkeeper can't take out my night pearl, according to the rules of the pawnshop, the things that are alive must be compensated three times the amount of the duty." That is, nine hundred taels of silver. The old store of the Lu family will not be unable to take out nine hundred taels. ”

Shopkeeper Qin came back to his senses and hurriedly said, "Son, sit down, I'll go to the treasury immediately to fetch Childe." ”

"It's okay, I can wait. I'm afraid that the shopkeeper won't be able to take it. Gongzi Xie sat down calmly, he thought that this was just a delaying plan that the shopkeeper was thinking.

Shopkeeper Qin hurriedly trotted to the backyard to get the fake night pearl from Lu Buti. On the way, I happened to meet Li Mingyi.

Li Mingyi said: "Shopkeeper Qin, I was about to look for you, there is news about the jade pendant." ”

"Childe Dacai, please accept my worship." Shopkeeper Qin gave a big gift and said, "The person who sold the fake night pearl came to redeem it today, I need to go to the young shopkeeper to get the beads, so as not to regret it." ”

Without waiting for Li Mingyi to reply, Shopkeeper Qin hurriedly walked away.

Looking at the shopkeeper Qin who left in a hurry, Li Mingyi thought to himself, "The person who was the pearl of the night must be a very greedy person, otherwise he wouldn't have been fooled." You might find out something with him. So Li Mingyi quietly came to the front lobby.

Above the lobby, the son of the Xie family was leisurely drinking tea, not noticing that he had fallen into a trap. Li Mingyi, pretending to be a pawnshop customer, quietly observed, and found that this person seemed to bear some resemblance to the drunk man he met yesterday. Although Li Mingyi's disguise technique is ordinary, he can see that there are imperceptible traces of disguise on this person's face. So, he quietly withdrew.

After a cup of tea, the shopkeeper Qin hurriedly came to the counter with the night pearl. When the son of the Xie family saw him coming, he said leisurely: "How is the shopkeeper?" But you can also take what you deserve. ”

Shopkeeper Qin handed out the fake night pearl and said, "This is what Gongzi deserves, and I ask Gongzi to check it." ”

The son of the Xie family was obviously stunned, and looked at the night pearl over and over again, very puzzled, why the Lu family pawnshop could still take out the night pearl he kept.

Shopkeeper Qin looked at the son of the Xie family coldly on the side, and said, "What questions does the son have?" ”

The son of the Xie family really couldn't say it, he came to deceive with a fake night pearl, and he originally earned three hundred taels of silver. But he was not greedy enough, thinking that someone had picked up the pawn ticket and took his fake night pearl back. He forged the pawn ticket again, and wanted to use the Lu family's pawnshop to work as nothing, and make nine hundred taels of compensation three times the rules of the pawn money.

Now that the pawnshop has taken out the night pearl that he has been, not only can he not get the nine hundred taels, but the three hundred taels he got at the beginning have also been lost, and he has to compensate one hundred taels. At this time, the son of the Xie family wanted to say that this was a fake night pearl, but he knew that what he was doing was fake. Now even pawn tickets are fake. The matter of the Lu family's pawnshop receiving the fake night pearl has been known all over the city, and if he sues the government, he will probably lose.

Under the thoughts, the son of the Xie family could only knock out his teeth and swallow it in his stomach, and said: "The Lu family's pawnshop is really a good means, and I will admit it below." Without waiting for the shopkeeper Qin to say anything, the son of the Xie family picked up the night pearl and turned around and left the pawnshop.

Outside the pawnshop, Li Mingyi, who had been waiting for a long time, quietly followed. This son of the Xie family went around and came to an alley where no one was around. The alley was very narrow, and there was a high wall at one end blocking the way.

When the son of the Xie family came to the alley, he stopped moving, turned around and said to the mouth of the alley: "Your Excellency followed me, what is the matter?" ”

Li Mingyi knew that he had been discovered, so he appeared and said, "Your Excellency has good eyesight. Spotted me so quickly. ”

The son of the Xie family leaned against the wall of the alley, looked at Li Mingyi vigilantly and asked, "I don't know Your Excellency, I don't know what Your Excellency is doing with me?" ”

Li Mingyi smiled faintly and said, "I don't know you, but you stole my friend's things, but I can't ignore it." ”

A cold light flashed from the eyes of the Xie family's son, and he replied, "I don't know what Your Excellency is talking about. ”

Li Mingyi pretended to be indifferent, one hand had quietly grasped the hilt of the sword, and said: "Actually, Lao Tzu doesn't want to care about any treasure, but Your Excellency stole my friend's wallet, and Lao Tzu can't ignore it. In this way, you return the wallet to Lao Tzu, and I will no longer pursue yesterday's affairs. ”

"I don't understand what your Excellency is talking about." The son of the Xie family continued to pretend to be confused.

Li Mingyi seemed to have known this, so he said: "Although this disguise technique is a small way, it is also full of a lot of knowledge. I'm not very good at it, but I know that if I use it as well as your Excellency, there will never be more than three people in the world. Should I call you a thief, or should I call you Gongzi Xie? ”

Hearing Li Mingyi's words, the son of the Xie family on the opposite side smiled and admitted: "Sure enough, he is worthy of being the apprentice of the ghost of the Ming Dynasty, and this insight is indeed rare." ”

Li Mingyi saw that he admitted it so generously, and he also revealed his mentorship, so he took a step back and said: "I don't embarrass you, you keep the money in your wallet, and you give me a piece of jade pendant inside, how about it?" ”

"Little one, you don't know who I am a saint thief. I never return what I stole from. As he said this, he suddenly waved his hand and spilled a large cloud of lime from his sleeve.

Li Mingyi scolded "damn it" and was about to rush forward. It's just that there is lime in front of him, and he can only cover it with his sleeves, while waving his sword and dancing around, guarding the mouth of the alley. Just as Li Mingyi waved his sleeves to drive away the lime, the voice of the thief sounded in his ears: "The jade pendant will be auctioned in Beigu Building, if you want to take it back, you can go to Beigu Building to buy it." ”

By the time Li Mingyi could see the situation in the alley, there was no trace of the thief in the alley, leaving Li Mingyi messy there. Li Mingyi could only yell into the air: "His grandmother, the thief of the dog's day, don't let Lao Tzu catch you, after catching you, he will definitely strip you naked and parade the streets." ”

After venting, Li Mingyi calmed down again. Although he failed to catch the thief saint on this trip, it was not all without gain, at least Li Mingyi knew that most of the thief saint was inseparable from Beigulou. After thinking about it carefully in his heart, Li Mingyi decided to go back to the old store of the Lu family first, and find a way to get into Beigulou with Lu's tireless relationship.