The jade plate in Chaofeng's hand is the jade plate that Hou Tao depicts and condenses the formation, and it is a mutton fat white jade without a single flaw, with a circumference of more than one and a half feet, and two fingers thick.

Not only does the jade plate not have any of the unbearable problems that the court said, but according to the current market price, this jade plate can be sold for more than 1,000 taels of silver casually.

"Are you inappropriate or not?" Chao Feng didn't seem to hear the sarcasm in Hou Tao's words.

"When, when, when!" Hou Tao said with the anger in his heart.

Hearing this, Chao Feng and the ticket counter secretly looked at each other and smiled.

Chao Feng's eyes rolled and said: "Little brother, you are the first business of our store today, in this way, you treat the jade plate death as our store, and I will give an auspicious number, how about this number?"

Hou Tao glanced at Chao Feng's gesture and said, "Eight hundred taels?"

Chao Feng's face was suffocated, and it took a while to ease up: "Little brother, I really know how to laugh, this kind of jade plate with no carving, no carving, no words and no paintings can be worth fifty or sixty taels of silver at most, and I will now give my little brother eighty taels of silver, purely to ask for good luck!"

"I have to thank you for that!"

"Thank you no!" This courtier doesn't seem to be sophisticated at all, and he can't hear other people's sarcasm at all, "Little brother, I'll give you eighty taels of silver, right?"

"No!

Seeing that Hou Tao didn't go in with oil and salt, Chao Feng couldn't do it, so he had to say: "Eight points of monthly profit, how long do you want to be in office?"

"Eight points?" Hou Tao sneered.

"There is no profit in dying!" Chao Feng was still a little unwilling.

"Live, a year!" Hou Tao said forbearantly.

Chao Feng sighed secretly and glanced at the "ticket counter". The ticket counter hurriedly began to write the pawn ticket, and the "folded goods" took a piece of silk cloth and carefully wrapped the jade plate, and handed the wrapped jade plate to the "chasing thin cat", and the chasing thin cat took the wrapped jade plate and a bamboo stick and ran away.

"What's the matter with the 'stone jade plate' written on your pawn ticket? I obviously have a jade plate!" Hou Tao pretended to be surprised.

"Oh, that's what it says on the ticket, it's just convention!" said the ticket counter lightly.

Without waiting for Hou Tao to open his mouth again, Chao Feng weighed Hou Tao a handful of broken silver with a nickname: "Guest officer, this is your silver money, a full ten taels!"

Looking at the pieces of red, yellow, and good-looking silver in the weighing pan, Hou Tao's already big eyes were a little bigger: "I'm afraid the quality of your silver is less than thirty percent, right?"

Chao Feng's face did not change and said: "Little brother, you are rare and strange! All shops are like this, it is not easy to find good silver now, when you want to redeem the jade plate, we will not also accept such silver!"

"Do you really accept such fine silver?" Hou Tao said distrustfully.

"Really accept it, little brother, just rest assured, our Qian pawn is the largest pawnshop in Guiling City, how can it be possible to pit this little money of little brother?"

……

When Hou Tao and his party first came out of the inn in the morning, they were all in high spirits, and their whole bodies were full of excitement that could not be concealed, but when they returned to the inn in the evening, they were all depressed, like a defeated rooster.

Of course, the depression of these five people has the credit of the Qian pawn on Anshun Street, but it is not all, and the fact that they have worked hard all day and found nothing is also a trigger.

"Let's talk about what they found today. Hou Tao's smile in the past is no longer a few.

Hou Tao's upset had nothing to do with the news, he was purely angry about the humiliation of the jade plate he was proud of, and he didn't recover from morning to now.

"There is no trace of the Demon Sect at all, let alone the Demon Sect, even the immortal cultivators have not seen a few. On this day, I went around the East City seven or eight times and met two monks, the highest cultivation was only at the fourth level of the Qi refining period, and they were all well-founded cultivators, and they had nothing to do with the Demon Sect!"

Although he was also angry with the Qian family's pawn, he was far inferior to Hou Tao, because what he was doing was far inferior to the latter, he was only a small jade bottle containing pills, and his expectations were naturally far less high than the latter.

Most of his frustration stems from the fact that he has not learned anything today, and he has high expectations for the first time on a mission to find out the news of the Demon Cult.

In his mind, as long as he investigates seriously and hard, he will definitely be able to find some clues, but the reality is very cruel.

Feng Wuchen said worriedly: "Could the information obtained by Bixian Yuan be fake?"

"It's possible, but it's relatively small!" Bai Shu's expression was quite normal, "I checked in Nancheng for a day and found nothing!"

"I have a discovery. Ouyang Gao said expressionlessly, making everyone happy.

"What discovery?" said Feng Wuchen, who couldn't wait.

"The wealth of Qian Wangcai is not coming from the right ......"

"Huh?" Feng Wuchen sighed and sat down again.

"Go on!" Hou Tao heard this, but his interest was even higher.

Ouyang Gao said calmly: "It is rumored that this Qian Wangcai, formerly known as Qian Donkey, used to be just a miscellaneous apprentice in the 'Zhao Pawn', and it took five years to get on the ticket table. ”

"It's only been less than three years since Qian Donkey was on the ticket desk, and Zhao Jiangming, the young owner of Zhao's pawn, was suddenly killed by Yu Datie, a guy in the store, saying that Yu Datie fell in love with Zhao Jiangming's wife Jiang Hongying and wanted to take it for himself. And Qian Donkey became the old club, and Zhao Desheng's adopted son changed to his current name, Qian Wangcai. ”

In less than half a year, Zhao Desheng, who had always been healthy, suddenly fell ill and died, and Qian Wangcai rightfully became the new owner and manager of Zhao's pawn. ”

"A year later, Qian Wangcai changed 'Zhao's Pawn' to 'Qian's Pawn', and then later, Qian Wangcai's business has been smooth, and in less than five years, Qian's pawn has more than a dozen semicolons. Until now, Qian Wangcai has the title of Qian Bancheng. ”

"In this way, this Qian Wangcai really has a way of doing business!" Hou Tao said with a few taps of his finger on the table.

"You think so. Ouyang Gao stared at Hou Tao directly.

"Isn't it?" sighed, "We've all seen how they do business this morning!"

"Those are all despicable small means, there is no benevolence and righteousness at all, relying on these means you can get rich a little but you can't get rich!" Bai Shu said thoughtfully.

"Makes sense, makes sense! Mouse you are so smart, you have been nurtured by me for a long time, but you are not ......."

"Cut!" the other four rolled their eyes in unison, interrupting Hou Tao's boasting disdainfully.

"You ......," Hou Tao sighed, "If the tiger is not powerful, do you really think I am a sick cat?"

"To tell you the truth, I have already thought of a way to verify it!" Hou Tao sold Guan Zi and waited for a few people to ask.

However, before he finished speaking, he heard Ouyang Gao say lightly: "You want to visit the pawnshop at night." ”

"Little lamb, you're just so boring!"

……

In the middle of the night, five black shadows fell lightly in front of Qian's pawnshop on Anshun Street, and then jumped into the courtyard.

"Let's go!" Hou Tao casually knocked out a few nursing homes.

With that, the men walked towards the number room, the storeroom where the pawns were kept.

Entering this high-walled, heavily guarded pawnshop was like no one for these five people.

Hou Tao took a thin piece of iron and fiddled with the iron general hanging on the door of the room, and then the door opened with a bang.

It was dark and dark, and there was no light in the room. Bai Shu took out a night pearl the size of an egg, and the room was instantly as bright as day.

"Hey, look, why are they offering a mouse?" Hou Tao stared at the golden phase in the shrine on the right, curious.

Feng Wuchen looked curiously at the three shrines in front of him, the one on the left was a majestic fire god, the middle one was a smiling God of Wealth, and the one on the right was a golden mouse: "It's true!"

"You don't know. Ouyang Gao glanced at a few people and frowned slightly, "The pawnshop will offer the God of Wealth, the God of Fire and the Mouse, and they call the Rat God, the God of Rats." On the second and sixteenth days of the first lunar month, they would kowtow and burn incense, praying for the blessing of the gods, 'Do not damage my house or destroy my clothes'. ”

He added: "Not only that, but you can't keep cats in pawnshops, and you can't catch and drive away mice. ”

"Tsk, no wonder there are so many rats in this room, you know how many lambs!" Hou Tao praised sincerely.

"It's just that I read more books than you do. Ouyang Gao said without modesty.

"Sure enough, it's a genius!" Hou Tao seemed to say to himself.

……

The five of them almost turned upside down in room No. 1.

"Did you find the gold bracelet of Lan Sudan?"

"No, not only didn't we find the gold bracelet, but we didn't even see what we took this morning!"

"yes! I don't think there's anything of value here!"