Chapter Twenty-Three: The Journey to the West 10 The Old Shop in the Old City

"There is one more thing for my husband to help!" Ren Tianbai came out of this secret room, looked at the old man behind him who was a little stunned, and said quickly: "I don't know if the old man is willing to agree?"

"Ren Gongzi said!" "Ren Gongzi said!" Lao Zhu's body shook suddenly, and he almost dropped the silver ball in his hand to the ground, Ren Tianbai just smiled faintly and said: "Now you and I both know where this secret room is, if the door of Tao Zhutou's house is always open, I will see it for a long time, and others will naturally be able to find it, and please ask the old man to ask for a seal from the county government tomorrow to close Tao Zhutou's house?"

"This matter is easy, this matter is easy!" The old catcher hurriedly agreed, Ren Tianbai nodded and smiled, seeing that it was still early, he went out to the west, leaving the old catcher standing alone in front of Tao Zhong's house, still a little unbelievable!

Out of Huayin City, Ren Tianbai simply bought a horse, slowly put the reins, while thinking in his heart, while thinking about it, he came to Huazhou City, and outside Huazhou City, he saw a group of people crowded there at the gate of the city, and several catchers were pasting what notices on the city wall, some of them were literate, and they wanted to show their skills in front of people, and they had already read it out, but Ren Tianbai was shocked when he heard it, this notice said nothing else, but a rich man outside Huazhou City, who was killed all over the house for some reason last night, and the valuable things in the house were looted!

"Could it be that the surname Wei has arrived in Huazhou?" Ren Tianbai couldn't help but think of what the two catchers in the capital said, the Heluo area was also rich and the property was robbed, just because some of them were poisoned by sea snakes, so Ren Tianbai was very suspicious that it was done by Wei Qinghuan and others, and now Huazhou also had this incident, although I don't know if it was poisoned and died, but this method is very similar to the pirates of Xi Qinghuan!

"Boss, come to the pot of wine!" This entered Huazhou City, Ren Tianbai believed in the reins, and somehow arrived in front of the Weishui Wu Ge shop, looking at the powerful signboard, he didn't slow down for a while, and only turned over and dismounted after a while, and entered the store, the little second brother greeted him with a smile on his face, and listened to Ren Tianbai's instructions: "A few more specialty dishes!"

"Wait!" The little second brother first tied Ren Tianbai's horse outside, trotted in, took a pot of good wine from the cabinet, and then greeted the back kitchen, and after a while, a few side dishes came up, packed them in a tray, and sent them to Ren Tianbai's table and said: "Guest officer, please use it slowly, if you want anything, just give orders!"

It is said that this little second brother and Ren Tianbai are also familiar people, but Ren Tianbai has been away for the past few years, rarely comes back, and has gone to sea several times, his face is a little blackened by the sea breeze and sun, and his internal force runs through the meridians, and even his physique and temperament have changed.

"Go ahead!" Ren Tianbai waved his hand, picked up the chopsticks but was stunned, these plates of small dishes, are the store's specialty, one of the plates of chicken shredded fungus, with a smell of sesame oil, is a taste that Ren Tianbai often ate back then, I don't want to see it today, my heart is a little sour, think about the last time I ate this dish, Ren Qiuzhi is still alive, or the chief arrest of the Nanjing Criminal Department, I am still a carefree little boy in Huazhou City, I can't think of a few years, it seems to be turned upside down, it is really a little dream!

"Second Master Ha is here!" Although the little second brother said that he couldn't recognize Ren Tianbai now, he was somewhat familiar, and he couldn't help but look at this side a little more, seeing Ren Tianbai's face full of vicissitudes of life, it was also a little strange, and suddenly saw a person flash in outside the restaurant, and hurriedly greeted him, greeting, and was slapped on the face!

"Do you still need to ask when you come?" Ha Er glared at the little second brother with an aggrieved face, and said with his chin crossed: "Lao Tzu still doesn't know that Lao Tzu is coming?

The little second brother is really a little helpless, this Ha Er is a tyrant on this street, how can he be offended? I had to swallow my anger, the shopkeeper stood behind the cabinet, and I didn't dare to speak, Ha Er swaggered in, and occupied a large table and chair in the middle alone, with his feet crossed, humming and not knowing the tune he heard there, squinting his eyes just to look at Ren Tianbai!

"It's not good to live these days!" The little second brother sent wine and food up, and poured a cup for Ha Er himself, Ha Er drank it all and said: "You have to be careful in everything, there are some Jiangyang thieves, all the way to commit crimes, from the Heluo area, until we came to Guanzhong, last night Xu Dahu was dug out, you who open a restaurant, you must pay attention to those people from other places!"

"In our store, all the people who come are the people!" The little second brother's heart sank slightly, Ha Er often came to the store, so most of the past regular customers recognized it, but today Ren Tianbai is a fresh face, I am afraid that I want to find the right and wrong of this guest, it is said that Ha Er should also be able to recognize Ren Tianbai, but the Ren Tianbai in his heart now is still the poor and destitute descendant who was chased everywhere, how can he want to be a person with the man in front of him who is sitting like a condensing mountain and does not move!

Ha Er actually didn't want to do anything to others, but since there was a guest coming, it happened that he was unhappy today, so he wanted to find someone to make a bad fortune, and by the way, he cheated a few taels of silver out, and even if he didn't come out in vain today, he heard the little second brother say that the store was full of people, squinted his eyes and smiled: "Do you have a duty or not, have you asked? Do you know the roots? Do you dare to guarantee that you did not do the murderer of the Xu Dahu case in your store?"

"Second Master Ha said it was a joke, it was a joke!" The shopkeeper felt a chill in his heart when he heard it, this is obviously to get the case of Xu Dahu's family to his own store, if this is known by the yamen, those catchers will take it seriously, and this business will not need to be opened, so he hurriedly took a silver ingot from the counter, came over and offered it with both hands: "In our store, there are regular customers, and there will never be that kind of person who does evil!"

"Who are you to me?" Ha Er stretched out his hand and pushed, and said with a righteous face: "Is this going to plug my mouth with silver? So you really have something in this store that can't be done?" The shopkeeper was also stunned by him, this Ha Er has always seen silver, just like a mosquito seeing blood, why did he shirk it today? Looking at his face again, he suddenly understood in his heart, Ha Er's face was really upright, but this look was full of greed, looking at the burden on Ren Tianbai's table, this burden was exposed for some reason, and a few ingots of silver were crowded there, as if they were about to roll out!

The shopkeeper's heart understood, and he could only sigh, it seemed that Ha Er was staring at the silver in this guest's baggage, so he had to look at Ren Tianbai's back, shook his head, and said that this guest was also a little too careless, as the saying goes, wealth is not white, the silver in this burden is so dazzling, how can Ha Er and others not move their minds?

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