"Mr. Chen, Mr. Chen! I've heard the news, I've got the news! ”

As soon as he met Chen Muwu at the gate of the Ma family, Xiangzi informed him excitedly, and the matter had an eyebrow.

Chen Muwu thought that someone would come to find him, he glanced at the old ladies of the neighborhood who were basking in the sun in the corner, and pulled Xiangzi to a corner outside the alley where no one was around.

"What's the matter?"

"When I went back, I asked a few brothers from the depot about this, hey, guess what?"

Chen Muwu knew that he was doing this to ask for some reward, so he took out a handful of copper from the pocket of his clothes and put it in Xiangzi's hand: "You go on." ”

Xiangzi was also not polite, took Chen Muwu's money, reached out and inserted it into the placket of his chest, and put the money in the inner pocket of his arms: "Everyone said that in the recent past, they have all pulled Westerners, or Orientals, and occasionally Chinese, and they have been to the area of the Black Kiln Factory and Pond, and they have all touched Hei'er before dawn.

"Later, we were chatting, and suddenly another guy came over, saying that he once pulled a father-in-law who came out of the palace, at the same time and in the same place, and the key was that this father-in-law was also carrying a large suitcase.

"Then we all got together again and counted the time, as if every Sunday, there was this kind of ghost market on the side of the black kiln factory.

"As soon as I heard the news, didn't I rush to find you!

"Mr. Chen, how about it, tomorrow is Sunday, are you interested in going to the black kiln factory?" Why don't I come and pick you up tomorrow? ”

"Eh, this ......" Chen Muwu was speechless, pretending to be very sorry, "Xiangzi, that's really unfortunate, I'm going to hold a lecture in the university hall tomorrow, I'm afraid I won't be able to make it." ”

He took out a few more silver quills and continued to put them in Xiangzi's hand: "But thank you for telling me such a useful piece of news, you accept these few cents Xiaoyang, the right should be the reward for a trip to me, if there is any news in the future, pay more attention and help me find out again." ”

He, Chen Muwu, is not a fool, and he will not obediently jump into the circle specially designed for him by others.

The day after arriving in Shaojing, Chen Muwu, who was sitting in a foreign car, vaguely revealed too much personal information in his conversation with Xiangzi.

If nothing else is said, just that he shows interest in buying the treasures flowing out of the palace can let people know that he has a rich master.

After all, the treasures in the palace were collected from all over the country and even overseas during the Ming and Qing dynasties, and any one of them was worth a lot of money.

If you can have an idea about this kind of thing, then this person is still short of money?

Knowing people and knowing faces but not hearts, this Xiangzi in front of him seems to be honest, who knows what he thinks in his heart?

It was three o'clock at night, the darkest time of the day.

As the saying goes, "when the moon is dark and the night kills, when the wind is high and the fire is set on fire", who would run to the black kiln factory in the wilderness in the middle of the night with a foreign coachman who has only seen two sides?

Is this Xiangzi setting up a bureau with others, making a few Xibei goods to pretend to be the treasures in the palace, and defrauding himself from himself?

Or did he simply bother to make a fake, and directly used himself as a meat ticket, and asked for ransom from his family after being tied up?

The gentleman does not stand under the dangerous wall, Chen Muwu thinks that the black kiln factory is not impossible to go, but he must not go with the honest and honest coachman Xiangzi in front of him.

"This ...... Okay, Mr. Chen, then I'll go back first, and I'll look for you here when I get some other information. ”

"Wait for the good news. By the way, Shoko......"

"What's wrong with Mr. Chen?"

Chen Muwu asked the question that he had been hiding in his heart: "Let me ask more, do you raise camels?" ”

"Camel ...... I've only seen that thing a few times in the camel team from outside Fuchengmen, not to mention raising it, and I've never touched it! ”

Yes, it seems that this Xiangzi is not another Xiangzi, or this Xiangzi has not been captured by the warlord, and he has not "exchanged" a few camels with his newly bought car.

Chen Muwu used a few cents to send Xiangzi who sent the information away.

If he doesn't go to the black kiln factory with Xiangzi, it doesn't mean that he won't go to the black kiln factory himself.

Chen Muwu kept another thought: What if he was too careful, Xiangzi didn't lie to him, and the black kiln factory was really a place where the palace people guarded and traded stolen goods?

It's better to go there and see it in person, and he can only rest assured that seeing is believing.

Chen Muwu, who returned to the horse house, immediately borrowed a telephone, called Fushun Taxi Company to order a taxi, and agreed to pick him up at Dongbanqiao at four o'clock the next morning.

This is the result of his thoughts, the first three dollars an hour taxi is a little more expensive, but it is better than safety.

After arriving at the black kiln factory, he can hide in the car, and if he encounters danger, he can ask the driver to speed away, and no one can help him.

Chen Muwu, who was crackling with wishful thinking in his heart, returned to his house and counted his belongings.

There are about twenty or thirty pieces in Xian Dayang, five small yellow croakers in his close-fitting clothes, and there is also the second brother Chen Muping, who had a cold face before leaving home, while muttering "the poor family is rich", and at the same time stuffed the younger brother with 20 10 yuan national currency exchange coupons issued by the Jiang Industrial Bank.

Because of the credit bankruptcy of the Chinese government due to years of war, the banknotes issued by the Bank of China and the Bank of Communications, headquartered in Shaojing, were not as strong as those issued by banks in the southern Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions.

Although the "medium bills" and "handed over bills" issued by these two banks are printed on the face of the silver yuan and are exchanged for one to one, it is not easy to exchange them for a price of one to 0.6 in the market.

As for the Jiang Industrial Bank, because there is a building in the Tianyu Concession as the northern headquarters, the banknotes issued are exquisite and not easy to imitate, so the currency value in the north is quite strong, even if it cannot be fully exchanged, but at least it can be exchanged for more than ninety percent.

Chen Muwu's property is added together, a total of less than 500 silver yuan, I don't know if this money can be found in the black kiln factory tonight to find good things.

He kept only a dozen oceans outside, to pay for the night's fare, and to act cheaply in case he needed it, and then he rolled up all the rest of his possessions and placed them close to him.

Chen Muwu picked up the pen again and left a note for the Ma family, which stated that he would take the No. E car of Fushun Company to the black kiln factory tonight.

The reason he did this was that if he didn't come back tomorrow morning, someone would come into the house and find the note, and they would naturally call the police for help and find him.

Although there will only be extortion in this era, it is still unknown whether the police who have harmed one side will not do justice for him.

After all this, Chen Muwu hurried to lie down on the bed, tightened the horseshoe watch at the head of the bed, and set an alarm clock for half past three.

He has to race against time to recuperate, and there is a big job waiting for him to do in the middle of the night.