novel bin Chapter 18 Jade
Chapter 18 Jade
"Two Qing?"
After wiping the medicine, Gu Zhen took out a square handkerchief from his pocket and wiped his hands slowly, his phoenix eyes reflected a slightly flickering candle on the low table, and a slight smile appeared on his thin lips.After wiping his hands, he threw the square handkerchief in his hand onto the table next to him, turned his gaze to Qin Qingrong and raised his eyebrows and asked, "How can Master Qin settle with me?
I want to come to Gu Mou to keep Master Qin's innocence, and to help Master Qin get out of danger and rescue his family. When Master Qin fell ill, Gu Mou was always by his side to take care of him.When ordinary people meet someone who has done so many things for them, they are probably so moved that they want to agree with each other, but Mr. Qin wants to settle with Gu? "
Bending down to approach Qin Qingrong's face, Gu Zhen's slender fingers pinched the lower Han of the person in front of him. He looked into Qin Qingrong's peach blossom eyes and said slowly: "Master Qin, you can't be heartless. Gu Mou I advise you, think about making a promise with your body in the future."
Turning her head away from Gu Zhen's hand, Qin Qingrong looked indifferently at the corner of Gu Zhen's mouth with a smile as usual, "Qin said to Mr. Gu before that we are not even strangers except for cooperation. It seems that Mr. Gu didn't listen carefully at the time, and now he has forgotten."
Standing up straight, Gu Zhen rubbed the slippery fingertips with his hands on his back, looked at Qin Qingrong with lowered eyebrows, and smiled disapprovingly, "What is Mr. Qin doing to refuse in such a hurry, we still have a long way to go."
"Please, Mr. Gu, don't always make fun of your feelings in the future." Qin Qingrong raised his eyes seriously, "Not everyone in this world is as indifferent as Mr. Gu."
Hearing this, Gu Zhen suppressed his smile and said, "What if Gu wasn't joking?"
Looking into Gu Zhen's eyes, Qin Qingrong was stunned for a moment when he heard the words, his heart was beating so hard that he didn't know how to answer.
"Master Qin, guess if Gu is joking?"
Then the corners of his mouth curled up in a hint of narrowness. Seeing that Qin Qingrong looked at him sullenly after being teased, Gu Zhen was in a good mood. He yawned as he walked out the door, only saying that he was sleepy, and he waved his hand to take care of Qin Qingrong when the door closed. Go to bed early.
After turning off the lights, Qin Qingrong lay on the bed and closed her eyes, but she kept thinking of Gu Zhen, and the more she thought about it, the more confused she became.In the end, he even dreamed about this person in his dreams.
For some reason, in the dream, when Qin Qingrong heard Gu Zhen asking him if he wanted to give her body, he looked into Gu Zhen's eyes and smiled and said "yes".
The next morning, Qin Qingrong, Gu Zhen, and Hua Yan were studying a map of the location of salt and iron households in the city in the courtyard of the Governor's Mansion.
The three of them were talking, Hua Yan suddenly thought of something, with a pair of Danfeng eyes thinking a little, he pondered for a while and said: "Yesterday, I heard that the servants in the government office talked about Yu Duocheng, and the content of the talk was probably that Yu Duocheng passed every seven days. They will go to one place. And those guards imply that that place can make money.
Since we have already got the words out of Yu Duocheng's mouth last night, Yu Duocheng also admitted that he has benefited from it.From such an association, the place Yu Duocheng frequented should also be related to the Yantie case.
Why don't we find a servant from the yamen to come in and ask questions. "
Then the guard came to the door with a guard of medium stature. The guard stood at the door and stretched his neck and looked into the door. When he saw Gu Zhen and others standing inside the room, he immediately bowed his head and bowed his hands in salute.
Hearing the sound, Hua Yan walked up to the guard and asked, "Yesterday, the place you said Yu Duocheng would go to every seven days, does anyone in the yamen know where it is?"
"Returning to my lord, no one else knows except him. We only saw that he would leave the governor's mansion early in the evening every seven days in recent years, and it took a long time to notice some clues." The guard frowned and thought for a while. After a pause, he replied: "I think it was exactly a week ago in the evening, and the former governor seemed to have been there."
After answering the words, the officer retreated, Qin Qingrong carefully analyzed what the officer said in his heart, and then came up with a countermeasure, "Why don't we release Yu Duocheng tonight, and we want to come to that place to deal with him It is extremely important, and it is estimated that he will go to it again."
After finishing speaking, the three of them felt that this strategy was reasonable, so after reaching a consensus, Gu Zhen ordered his guards to let them deliberately drop a key in front of Yu Duocheng's cell door during their rounds in the dungeon in the afternoon, and reduce the number of prison cells during dinner. Manpower, to create a chance for Yu Duocheng to slip out smoothly.
Sure enough, when it was getting dark, they saw Yu Duocheng sneaking out from the back door of the Governor's Mansion.
After Yu Duocheng escaped from the dungeon, he was very eye-catching because he was running on the street like a madman in white clothes with disheveled hair.
For this reason, he also climbed over the wall and went back to his house that had been sealed off, and then washed up and changed into casual clothes before leaving the house over the wall.
After leaving the mansion, Yu Duocheng walked all the way to the center of the city. When he reached a pawnshop in a mahogany building in the middle of the street, he stopped and looked around at the door before walking in.
Seeing this, Gu Zhen and Qin Qingrong, who had been following Yu Duocheng not far behind, also quickly followed the pawn shop.Hua Yan, on the other hand, stayed outside the pawnshop with a group of guards hiding in the crowd and waiting for further instructions.
Gu Zhenqin and Qingrong entered the pawnshop, but Yu Duocheng was nowhere to be seen.
Seeing the shopkeeper standing in front of a cloth curtain door, the shopkeeper of the pawnshop saw that the two were new faces in luxurious clothes and extraordinary appearance, he hesitated for a moment and finally stepped forward and asked with a smile: "You two, do you want Pawn something."
After finishing speaking, he saw the two people in front of him nodded slightly, and motioned for them to follow him and lead them behind the curtain.
There was originally a wooden wall behind the curtain, but the shopkeeper in front of him tapped the wooden door three times with his knuckles, and the wooden door moved away by itself.After the three of them stepped through the door, the wooden door behind them closed again by itself.
After walking straight in for a while, the noisy noise in my ears gradually became clearer.If you distinguish carefully in your mind, you can hear that the noise is mixed with Chinese, nonsense, and dialects of some ethnic minorities.
The shopkeeper in front of him took Gu Zhen and the two to a doorless entrance, bowed and bowed, and then returned on their own way.
Looking around, Gu Zhen and Qin Qingrong guessed that they were probably in the ground at the moment.
Looking intently into the entrance, I felt that the scene in my eyes was dimly lit like a Kyoto workshop.
There are all kinds of merchants coming and going in this workshop, and the only difference is that in the usual workshop, they sell goods, talents, and food.
But here are mixed with casinos, evil businessmen who bundle up women and children for sale, and even blatantly sell weapons such as bows, arrows, long halberds, etc. Of course, these weapons are not as simple as selling them by piece. Sold for unit plus.
After a while, Gu Zhen and Qin Qingrong spotted Yu Duocheng in the crowd.
Not far away, Yu Duocheng was standing upright in front of a merchant's booth with a box of iron and a box of salt in front of him, talking something.
Gu Zhen and Qin Qingrong looked at each other silently. In order not to startle the snake, they secretly approached the booth, and finally hid themselves in the crowd of gambling tables not far from Yu Duocheng, always paying attention to Yu Duocheng's movements.
On the gambling table in front of him, the croupier threw dice to compare the size, and here the croupier shouted "Start" and Gu Zhen followed the others to take out money to bet.The dice in the dealer's hand were shaken in the cylinder, and there was a "pop" when the dice were covered on the table and stood still. The dealer opened the cover and looked at the points on the dice and raised his voice: "Hey! Leave it alone, little one!"
As soon as the count on the table came out, everyone around the table booed, and there was a saying that "some families are happy and others are sad".But Qin Qingrong didn't expect that Gu Zhen would hit it with a random press. The dealer saw that Qin Qingrong and Gu Zhen were together, and Gu Zhen was looking absent-mindedly at this moment, so he directly handed the reward to Qin Qingrong.
One round is over, and the second round of gambling begins again.Seeing that Qin Qingrong got a jade pendant, Gu Zhen felt that it was quite suitable for Qin Qingrong, and seeing Qin Qingrong's novel look, he has been carefully watching how everyone plays since he came here.
Taking out another ingot of silver from his sleeve, Gu Zhen casually pressed it aside, then turned his head to observe the movements of Yu Duocheng.
In front of the booth, Yu Duocheng carefully took out a contract from his arms, his eyes as big as mung beans narrowed to look at the merchant in front of him, then he spread the contract and handed it to the merchant, saying: "Boss You see, this is the contract you signed with me at the beginning, you said that as long as I acquiesce in opening an underground black market here and don't report you, you will give me so much at that time."
Pointing to the word 1 taels of gold written on the contract, Yu Duocheng stared straight at the businessman in front of him and said in a low voice, "Now I'm in trouble, and I have to go to Fanbang to avoid it for a while." , just need the money.”
The businessman took the contract and glanced at it, then shook his head slightly. He refused with a serious expression, "Your Excellency, you signed a three-year contract with us, and now it has only expired for one year, so we can't give it to you." your money."
"No money?!" Hearing this, Yu Duocheng's eyes widened, suppressing the anger in his heart, he gritted his teeth and threatened in a deep voice: "Boss! You must know that the people in the imperial court have sent officials to investigate you now. If you now If you don't hand over the 1 taels of gold, then don't blame me for not giving you any sympathy, just shake off all the black market locations!"
Hearing this, the merchant couldn't help frowning, he stared at Yu Duo in front of him for a long while, and finally thought of a sly smile in his eyes, and softened his attitude a little, "If that's the case, please go to the inner room to get the money, Mr. Yu .”
Then, from the dark place on the right side of the merchant, a strong man of five big and three thick came out, followed Yu Duocheng, and walked to the dark place behind his booth together.
And on the gambling table not far from the merchant, since Gu Zhen and Qin Qingrong stayed away, four or five rounds have been restarted, and Gu Zhen is extremely lucky to be able to make a bet every time he makes a bet, winning several times. lottery.
From the corner of his eye, he noticed that Yu Duocheng was being taken away. Gu Zhen and Qin Qingrong looked at each other and planned to leave to chase after him, but they were stopped by the dealer behind the gambling table.
The banker sized up Gu Zhen, Qin, and Qingrong, then smiled and pushed the colored heads of the two towards the table. He reminded the two in front of him: "You two guests, you won't leave after winning the lottery." Late."
Seeing this, Gu Zhen's eyes fell on the jade pendant hidden among a pile of colorful heads on the table.Smiling politely at the banker, Gu Zhen went to the table with his hands behind his back and picked up the jade pendant, holding it in his hand. When he looked up, he saw the banker's smiling face persuading him, saying: "The luck of the two guests is so good. So good, why not play two more rounds?"
"The banker deliberately let us win, so why can't we win?"
Although these prizes on the table are not rare treasures, they are also of great value, except for the jade pendant, Gu Zhen returned all the rest of the prizes.He fixed his eyes on the dealer with a surprised expression on his face, and said calmly, "I'm sorry, I just took the jade pendant away. The purpose of our coming here is not to gamble, and there are other things to deal with right now. Don't continue to entangle with the dealer."
When he turned around, he saw Qin Qingrong standing quietly waiting for him not far away, the immediate priority was to find Yu Duocheng, after Gu Zhen and Qin Qingrong looked at each other, they turned their eyes to the merchant just now.
The merchant was very strange. There was a box of salt and a box of iron in front of him, and he sat behind the booth all night.Don't look at the merchant's calm expression on his face, but he is always paying attention to the movements in all directions.