Chapter 14: Xiao Qin Tower
Xiao Qianye followed Yun Xiao all the way, and finally found a hidden corner where no one was around, changed into civilian clothes, and put on a mask again, and the two hid the sword spirit under their coats and walked towards Xiao Qinlou.
Both the Celestial Bird and the Blue Bird circled and patrolled the sky, while the bustling crowd seemed to be completely unaffected, and from time to time there were groups of people holding wine jugs and drunkenly singing in the streets.
It's North Shore's annual carnival – Mirage.
Except for the main venue on the back of the sea giant after nightfall, the entire North Shore City will also fall into madness, and Xiao Qinlou is undoubtedly the center of the outfield.
This luxurious building is nine storeys high, and as a foothold for the powerful, it has exhausted all the luxury, not only with green and gold, but also with the best night pearls.
A high platform was set up outside Xiao Qinlou, and the stunning dancing girls invited from all over the country were dancing on it, and the crowd cheered from time to time, and in the windows upstairs, the businessmen and rich people who spent a lot of money grabbed a handful of silver and threw it out of the window like rice.
"It's so noisy early in the morning, and it doesn't make people have a good rest...... Yun Xiao frowned and complained, but Xiao Qianye was already surprised.
Behind Xiao Qinlou is the Mirror Pavilion, and behind the Mirror Pavilion is the Gongsun family, which is a relationship that no one can afford to offend.
The two walked in side by side, only to see the colorful glass lamps hanging in the building, the tables and chairs were uniformly moved to the periphery, vacant in the middle, and also set up a stage, the stage was slightly concave, paved with a layer of water, and the water was sprinkled with extravagant gold dust, reflecting the colorful glass lamps, which was particularly amazing.
A red-clad dancer dances barefoot in the center of the stage with her sleeves flicked up, she wears thick and weird makeup, and is carrying an object on a long bamboo pole to the guests one by one to watch.
The dancing girl was extremely skillful, and every half a minute, she would change her dance posture and pick things out for the next guest, and there was a guy under the high stage, blindfolded, shaking his head, holding a big rattle in his hand, and chanting words in his mouth.
Most of the guests wore various masks, whispered to each other, and pointed to things on the bamboo poles.
Xiao Qianye pulled Yun Xiao and carefully walked through the back of the crowd, and at this moment, the dancing girl changed her movements again, and suddenly picked up the bamboo pole in front of the two.
At the same time, the guy who was still closing his eyes shook the big rattle in his hand and jumped up, shouting: "Stop-"
The crowd suddenly became noisy, applause and shouts rose and fell, and some people knocked on the table in frustration.
Knowing that the dancing girl must have done it on purpose, Xiao Qianye didn't dare to be careless at all.
Looking closely at what was hanging on the bamboo pole, it turned out to be a glass ball filled with water, and a mermaid swimming in the middle!
"Childe is interested in playing?" Mai Ji put away the bamboo pole, smiled with her eyebrows, and looked straight over, her eyes were very seductive.
Xiao Qianye didn't answer, and quietly looked around, and the eyes of the entire Xiao Qinlou were focused on him.
"Don't sweep everyone's ......," the dancing girl reminded meaningfully, and the guy next to her had already brought a gold-inlaid jade plate, took the glass ball off the bamboo pole, carefully placed it in the center of the plate, and then brought it to Xiao Qianye.
"Ah...... It's true!" Yun Xiao quickly pulled his sleeve and pointed to the mermaid inside the glass ball, "She's trapped inside!"
"Let's have a hand, Childe is not someone who can't afford to play this rattle!" Maihime urged seemingly casually, and gave another fellow a look.
The guy who came out of nowhere jumped up in front of him and handed him a delicate booklet.
Xiao Qianye reluctantly took the booklet, only to feel that it was heavy and had a lot of weight, and turned a few pages casually, and it turned out to be some strange treasures, not only gold, silver and jade, rare treasures, but also many aliens who were arrested and sold.
He frowned slightly, flipped it again, and sure enough, he saw the glass ball just now.
Mai Ji stepped forward again and whispered: "Childe might as well guess, there are three prices in the rattle book, if you guess correctly, the baby will be taken away and given to you, if you guess wrong...... Hehe, then you can only buy it three times, just look at what Childe's eyesight is......"
"But I don't want it. Xiao Qianye understood as soon as she heard it, and directly picked out the words of the dancing girl, who was not afraid at all, seemed to be very experienced, and pointed to the price on the booklet: "Those who can come to Xiao Qinlou are not ordinary people, and most of them are not bad for money if they can come here to play rattle, and everyone will have a happy and exciting life, not to mention...... With the identity of Childe, it is not difficult to triple the price, but it will be more troublesome if the identity is exposed, right?"
"Hmph. He snorted coldly, knowing that the other party was deliberately making things difficult, not only was there something strange in this little Qin Building, but the other party also knew his actions well, and he could even set up a situation here one step in advance to wait for him!
"Guess, guess!" shouted from the crowd, who was distributed among the guests, and began to stir up the atmosphere.
"Then ...... The first one. He casually pointed to a price, and the guests picked up the booklet in their hands, shook their heads in unison, and sighed in unison.
"Isn't this the first time this boy is playing?" A man wearing a wolf's head mask on the left finally couldn't help but stand up, walked to the crowd, pointed to the glass ball, and kindly reminded, "Childe, look carefully, the mermaid in this is real! This is not an ordinary toy, it was sealed in this ball by a spell, the mermaid is a rare treasure, you guess according to the most expensive, you are right!"
"So valuable?" Xiao Qianye asked rhetorically, "The mermaid clan is widely distributed, and it can be found in the four seas of Feiyuan, why is it so expensive?"
"You really don't know the market?" the man made a surprised voice and looked at him incredulously, "Although there are many mermaids, they live in the sea! They swim fast and dive deep, it is difficult to catch, not to mention that the mermaid in this glass ball is still a beauty billet, buy it back and raise it in the fish tank, how beautiful!"
"Can't you give a hint...... "Dancing girl Yingying stepped forward, hooked the guest's neck, blew a breath, and said delicately, "If this guest officer wants to play, just wait for the next one, it's illegal to give a hint, if the landlord sees it......"
"No, no, no, I didn't prompt, I just saw that he was too illiterate, angry, angry!" the guest in the wolf-headed mask quickly denied it, and returned to his seat stupidly.
"Show me......" Yun Xiao took the booklet from his hand, this page was painted with the glass ball, and there were three prices marked below, and the lowest one was also ten thousand taels of gold!
"You guys are a black shop!" she muttered in a low voice, only to see Mai Ji cover her mouth and chuckle, leaned over to hook her chin, and said flirtatiously, "Yes, it's a black shop......
"The black shop is still so reasonable?" Yun Xiao looked at her strangely, the other party was not afraid, his eyes rolled, and he seemed to be smiling, "What about the black shop, there are so many people patrolling the military pavilion outside, and even the military pavilion master is too lazy to care, right, son?"
Xiao Qianye coughed lightly - although the three pavilions of the military mirror and ink stand side by side and complement each other, the mirror pavilion has always been black and white, and even the royal family turns a blind eye to it, let alone the military pavilion.
Seeing that he didn't speak, Mai Ji smiled and said, "Childe guessed wrong, then ...... money"
Yun Xiao stared at this group of people in surprise, if according to what they just said, if they wanted to buy this glass ball, they would have to ask for at least 90,000 taels of gold!
The little mermaid inside the glass ball kept tapping with her hands, and her mouth seemed to be saying something, but her voice was also cut off by the spell, and she couldn't come out at all.
What should I do? She clenched her hands anxiously, I don't know how many people are hidden inside and outside this black store, even if I rob it hard, I am afraid that it will not be able to defeat it, and it will reveal its identity, but this little mermaid is really pitiful, can't it really be ignored?
But...... Even if they wanted to, they wouldn't be able to scrape together that much money!
The guests were also chattering, looking strange, pointing at the two of them from time to time, and those who could come to Xiao Qinlou to play the rattle game did not temporarily regret not paying, after all, everyone knew that Xiao Qinlou was actually a person from the Mirror Pavilion.
Most people are probably not short of this amount of money, but every year there are always a few people who drink too much and they don't reappear, and they don't know where or when, they disappear quietly.
Although everyone knew what was going on, no one dared to really investigate.
"Yo...... Childe shouldn't have gotten away too, right?" Mai Ji suddenly changed her tone, returned to the center of the stage, and waved her hand upstairs.
Xiao Qianye's hand couldn't help but hold down on the Likong Sword, and the other party made it clear that he was deliberately trapping him, just to force him to take the initiative to leave Xiao Qinlou!
"Wait!" Yun Xiao hurriedly pressed Xiao Qianye and stepped forward, "Can you use things to offset them?"
"Offset by things?" Wu Ji looked her up and down a few times with cold eyes, and snorted, "The girl is not like a person from a rich family, what can be worth 90,000 taels of gold?" Xiao Qinlou doesn't recognize money but doesn't recognize people, don't you want to sell it for yourself, right?"
"What nonsense are you talking about?" she glanced at Maihime unhappily and mocked, "I'm not like some people, I'm obviously a handyman, and I look down on people everywhere like the boss." ”
With that, she reached behind her neck and removed the chain from her neck.
"A silver chain?" Mai Ji rolled her eyes with a look of disgust, "girl, what the hell are you doing?"
"You see it clearly. Yun Xiao put the chain on the gold-inlaid jade plate, and the guy hurriedly brought it to the dancing girl on the high platform.
There is a piece of red jade hanging on the silver chain, there seems to be a crescent moon in the center of the jade, although Yun Xiao has no bottom in his heart, but he still holds his head high, and said with a high spirit: "This piece of jade is, it is the treasure of Kunlun Mountain, and the legend is that it is worn by Bai Ze, the mythical beast of Kunlun, Bai Ze was rescued by my mother many years ago, and gave this piece of jade to show gratitude, the trade between Feiyuan and the Central Plains was originally difficult, isn't this thing more than a mermaid baby that can be seen everywhere?"
Xiao Qianye's brows tightened, what is this Yun Xiao making up? This piece of jade was given by Mrs. Qiushui, but Mrs. never said what kind of gift Bai Ze gave it!
Mai Ji was also suspicious, she carefully picked it up and measured it carefully.
Just as the crowd was talking, a gentle voice suddenly came from upstairs-
"Miya, go down. ”
"Landlord!" Mai Ji was startled, her hand trembled, and the silver chain fell off her hand and fell into the water.
"Hey, be careful!" Yun Xiao hurriedly jumped up, the piece of red jade was soaked in water, and the entire stage turned bright red, and the crescent moon in the center was also reflected in the water!
"Miya. The man who walked down the stairs on the second floor called Mai Ji again, and although he smiled, it made Mi Ya Mi Ji tremble in fright.
"You've lost your temper, go down and get punished. He waved his hand casually, and said, "Let Ning Yao take over her shift, and in addition, invite the two guests to the private room on the third floor, prepare good tea, and don't slack off." ”
"Yes. ”
As soon as he spoke, the guys who were still showing off their might just now instantly changed their faces, approached Xiao Qianye with a smile, and made a gesture of please: "Childe, girl, please upstairs...... It was a rude little one just now, don't take it to heart!"
Xiao Qianye looked at him vigilantly, the man had a kind face, he looked like he was in his early thirties, dressed in simple clothes, and he couldn't tell that he was the owner of this Xiao Qin Building!
Knowing that the other party must have other purposes, Xiao Qianye was also interested, he called back Yunxiao and followed the guy upstairs.