Chapter 21: Blood and Tears Lost
Luo Simiao looked in the direction of Tan Yang's finger, and saw that more than a dozen steps away in front of him, there was an antique silk village on the street, with five block letters on the plaque: "Liuhua Silk Village".
The storefront of Liuhua Silk Village is not large, on the left is a magnificent teahouse, on the right is a pharmacy full of customers, and Liuhua Silk Village looks very inconspicuous in the middle.
"Liuhua, Liuhua Village! Shen Mazi is indeed extremely smart, except for me, I'm afraid no one will think of this. β
Tan Yang tried his best to suppress his excitement and excitement, and walked towards Liuhua Silk Village with Luo Simiao.
As soon as the two of them walked into the store, a faint fragrance came to their faces, and the counters around them were dazzling with colorful brocade satins.
There weren't too many customers in the shop, all of them were uncultivated mortals, and they were mainly women of all colors. There are a few young men with unfamiliar faces behind the counter, some are introducing goods to customers, some are tailoring clothes for customers, and there are no suspicious people.
"Huh, I don't know anyone, am I looking for the wrong place? Probably not, if this silk village was not opened by Shen Mazi, how could it be so coincidentally named after Liuhua?"
While he was in doubt, one of the shop guys had already freed his hand and beckoned to the two: "Two guest officers, welcome, I wonder if you are here to buy materials or plan to make ready-to-wear clothes?"
Tan Yang coughed and said: "Our business is relatively big, you can't be the master, please ask Brother Tai to find your shopkeeper or boss." β
Before the store guy could answer, a middle-aged man in his fifties walked over from the corner, and said with a smile on his face: "No, the surname is Bai." It's the boss and shopkeeper here, I wonder if the two of you need help from here?"
The boss, surnamed Bai, was obese. Smiling, talking and behaving. There is no place without the shrewdness and slickness of a businessman.
Luo Simiao bowed his head and said, "Boss Bai, it's inconvenient to speak here, can you take a step to speak?"
"No problem, no problem, please come with me. Seeing that the old man and the young man in front of him were extraordinary, Boss Bai didn't dare to slack off and agreed, leading the two of them up the stairs to the second floor and into a room with simple and generous furnishings.
After the three of them sat down separately, Boss Bai said, "Two." I don't know what to teach? β
Tan Yang got straight to the point and said: "We can't talk about teaching, we just want to ask Boss Bai about something, I don't know why your silk village is named after the word Liuhua?
Boss Bai was stunned for a moment, and asked suspiciously: "It seems that the two of you didn't come to the store to talk about business, right?
Tan Yang smiled noncommittally, took out a silver ingot weighing five taels, gently pushed it in front of Boss Bai, and said, "It's a little meaning, I hope Boss Bai will smile." β
Boss Bai was overjoyed, and he worked hard for a month to run this silk village. After removing the labor and other expenses, you can earn twenty or thirty taels of silver, but I didn't expect the young man in front of me to be so arrogant, and a big ingot with five taels of white flowers is a big ingot!
"No merit is not worthless. This...... What's so embarrassing about this?" Boss Bai said excitedly, "Don't hide it from the two of you, this flowing flower silk village was brought over by me from someone else half a year ago. I called this name before I came over, and I thought it was a good name after I took over. It hasn't been changed again. β
And so it was!
Tan Yang's heart moved, but on the surface, he said quietly: "Oh." So Boss Bai should know the original boss? I wonder where he is now?"
Boss Bai had a look of surprise on his face, and said, "It seems that the two of you are not from Jiuhua City, right?
"Sensational?"
Tan Yang and Luo Simiao glanced at each other, and they both became a little curious.
Boss Bai continued: "The original boss of this Liuhua Silk Village is surnamed Shen ......."
Shen Feifei! Sure enough, it's Shen Feifei!
Tan Yang felt a burst of ecstasy in his heart, he really didn't come to the wrong place!
"This Boss Shen doesn't seem to be a local, so although I know him, I don't know his details, I only know that his character is quite good, his family background is also very solid, and he is quite popular in the area of Wuyi Lane. Boss Bai said, "Boss Shen has a son and a daughter, the family lives and works in peace and harmony, who knows that there are unforeseen circumstances, just about a year ago, Boss Shen and his wife died of a violent illness and died." β
Tan Yang was taken aback, and there was a faint sense of foreboding in his heart, he had already guessed that the Boss Shen in Boss Bai's mouth should not be Shen Mazi, but should refer to Shen Mazi's father.
I only heard Boss Bai continue: "The most inexplicable thing is that just a few days after the burial of Boss Shen and his wife, his daughters also died of violent illness one after another, in less than half a month, the same family had four big funerals, this strange incident soon caused a storm in the city, some people said that the feng shui of the Shen Mansion was not good, his family was ruined, some people said that Boss Shen suffered from a deadly infectious disease, and some people said that the Shen family was killed by someone for money...... There were all kinds of rumors, and in the end, even the official yamen was alarmed, but after checking and checking, they didn't find out why, and the matter was finally closed. β
Dead? Shen Mazi is dead? How is this possible!
Now that Shen Mazi has suffered an accident, what happens to his parents now?
Tan Yang's face was pale, his heart was like numbness, and a piercing chill instantly spread around his body, and for a while, he was like falling into an ice cave, his brain was blank, and the whole person seemed to have turned into a clay stone statue.
Luo Simiao watched Qing and said, "Boss Bai, since Boss Shen's family of four has suffered an accident, who did you get this flowing silk village from?"
Boss Bai said: "The Shen family is dead, but in the end there is a deaf and dumb old man, in order to bury the last dead young master Shen, he began to sell his property with the help of some well-wishers, at that time the Shen family's gold and silver were soft and valuable, as early as when the other three people of the Shen family were buried, they were sold out, leaving only a Shen Mansion with four walls and this flowing flower silk village. However, since the accident of the Shen family, the Shen Mansion has become a well-known murderous mansion, and this shop pΓΉ has also become an extremely bad thing, although the price is very low, few people buy it, and then I pity the Shen family, and the other is greedy for cheap, so I bought this shop pΓΉ, and the Shen Mansion also fell into the hands of others at a symbolic price of cabbage. β
Luo Simiao sighed: "The world is impermanent, sad and lamentable, what happened to that old man?"
Boss Bai shook his head and said: "I don't know about this, after the funeral, no one has seen him again, and I heard that he seems to have passed away." β
Luo Simiao glanced at Tan Yang, who was still not composed, and asked some more details, and then said, "Boss Bai, I don't know where the Shen family's cemetery is now?"
Boss Bai seemed to have guessed a few clues from Tan Yang's demeanor at this time, and said, "Why are you asking about this? Could it be that the two of you knew Boss Shen before?"
Luo Simiao said: "I don't know, it's just that this matter is too strange, so I just asked casually." β
Boss Bai smiled suspiciously: "Your Excellency, don't hide it from me, in fact, from the beginning when you came to inquire about who the previous boss was, you guessed one or two below." β
Luo Simiao was secretly startled, and said quietly: "Oh? β
Boss Bai said proudly: "Since the two of you came from afar, if you guess correctly, you should have done business with Boss Shen before, and he still owes you a sum of money, and the two of you are here to ask for the debt, right? To be honest, since I took over this shop, I have received three or four groups of people like you, but I advise you two to take a look, as the saying goes, as soon as people die, their accounts are rotten, so you should be considered to be ruined and avoid disasters!"
Luo Simiao laughed and laughed, this white boss is really full of business experience, three sentences are inseparable from the old bank, he smiled noncommittally: "Boss Bai is really discerning! Money is something outside the body, and I hope that Boss Bai will not reveal it to outsiders, especially his peers, about our visit today." β
"Don't worry, this matter has nothing to do with me, what am I doing with it?" Boss Bai agreed repeatedly, "If the two of you want to go to pay tribute to Boss Shen, go out of the east gate of Jiuhua City, and walk along the sea to the north for seventy or eighty miles, there is a Cuibai Mountain, I heard that the Shen family bought a cemetery there, but the specific location is not very clear." β
While the two were talking, Tan Yang also recovered from the shock slightly, he tried his best to suppress his worries, and said with a glimmer of hope: "Boss Bai, doesn't the Shen family have relatives and friends in Jiuhua City?
Boss Bai shook his head without thinking about it, and said, "There shouldn't be, but I don't have a deep relationship with Boss Shen, and I've never been to Shen's mansion, so the details are unknown." β
The three of them talked for a while, but after asking and asking, Boss Bai didn't provide any other useful information, and in desperation, Tan Yang and Luo Simiao had to get up and say goodbye.
Leaving the Silk Village, Tan Yang and Luo Simiao carefully patrolled two or three times along the street in Wuyi Alley, but they did not find the slightest useful clue.
In just over an hour, under the double torture of hesitation, pain and worry, Tan Yang's mouth has two or three blisters.
"Uncle Shi, don't worry. Luo Simiao comforted, "Uncle Shi is exhausted all the way today, why don't we find an inn to live in first and visit slowly?"
Tan Yang shook his head in distraction, and said gloomily: "I am now six gods and no master, Senior Nephew Luo, you tell me the truth, do you think the matter of the Shen family is flying into trouble or being murdered?"
(To be continued......)