Beloved at the Door - Chapter 1

【Chapter One】

On the counter of the Bora pawnshop, a young man was wiping things. The man was named Cui Lang. He was a pawnbroker. He was handsome and graceful, but he was actually very skilled.

The curtain of the pawnshop was suddenly opened, and two men walked in, one tall and one short, tall and sturdy like a cow, while the short one was so thin and wretched. These two people had deer-headed eyes, and there was no need to write “bad guys” on their faces. Words can be guessed out of shame.

Cui Lang raised his head and showed a bright smile for welcoming customers. This smile is the sign of the Bora pawnshop. Whether you are a bull-headed horse or black and white impermanence, as long as you enter the Bora pawnshop to make a deal, you will be a distinguished customer.

“Does the guest officer want to **** or watch the goods?”

There are two kinds of people who come to pawnshops. One is eager to use money to **** things, and the other is to dig treasures and want to buy other people’s pawns at prices lower than those on the market.

“Pawn.” When the thin man spoke, the tall man beside him put a long wooden box on the desk.

Cui Lang stretched out his hand to unlock the lock of the wooden box and opened the lid. What was placed inside was a fine sapphire flute.

This flute is clear and translucent, has a warm color and fine workmanship, and you can see that it was made by your own master at first glance.

When Cui Lang was looking at the jade flute, the thin man said, “Boy, look carefully, it’s top quality.”

Cui Lang smiled and said, “Wait, I invite our shopkeeper to oversee the reward.” As he said, he turned and raised the curtain and entered the inner room.

After a while, the curtain of the inner room was lifted, and a shopkeeper dressed up outside came out. He was slightly shorter than Cui Lang, and Cui Lang was not as handsome as Cui Lang. He had a double-handed beard on his face, but his appearance was also worthy of being called. Refined.

“The shopkeeper, it is these two masters who want to **** this flute, sapphire, please supervise it.”

The shopkeeper walked up with a smile, stretched out his hand to pick up the sapphire flute and looked at it carefully. His piercing eyes lit up and he said in praise: “This is the finest sapphire, flawless, and the workmanship of the flute is very good. Meticulousness comes from one’s own hands.”

The thin man was very satisfied. “Treasurer, you have a vision.”

The shopkeeper also smiled and asked, “Is you planning to live or die?”

If you need to put a handprint to write an IOU, if you want to calculate the interest, you will pay back the money in the future, and then redeem the flute with the stick; while the death is to directly **** things for money, not redeem them, the price is free Higher than living.

“Death.” The thin man replied without hesitation.

The shopkeeper nodded, took out the abacus and showed him the number.

“How about this price?”

One thousand two hundred taels? When the two men saw the price tag, their eyes lit up. They knew that this jade flute was not cheap, at least it was worth more than 1,500 taels, but this flute could not be sold clearly, and they urgently needed to run around. Time to go to the black market to get rid of, so finding a **** in a pawnshop is the fastest way.

“It’s too cheap, let’s add a little bit more. If I go to other places to sell, uncle, it won’t stop at this price.” The strong man couldn’t help but bargain.

The shopkeeper groaned for a while, touched the mustache on his face, as if thinking, and then dialed a number on the abacus.

“Add a hundred taels, no matter how much I can do.”

The two men are very happy right now, one hundred tael more is not a lot, and the treasurer’s generosity, they also need to be familiar with each other.

“Okay, deal!”

The shopkeeper smiled and said, “Tell the two masters to go to the guest room to have a cup of tea and sit for a while, I’ll get the cash ticket.”

The two nodded. It was indeed very hot in this hot day. They followed Cui Lang to the guest room, waiting to count the cash.

As soon as Cui Lang left, the tall and strong man immediately said to the thin man in a low voice: “This Baolai pawnshop is really refreshing. After asking for a long time, we heard that this pawnshop is easy to pawn. We never ask the source of the goods. The prices of other pawnshops are high.”

The thin man nodded, and then said with some pity: “If it’s not for fear of the Dongchuang incident and the inability to take it off, otherwise the flute can be sold for more than 1,500 taels.”

This jade flute was stolen from a town in the south, only because it was on the official list. The wind was too tight and no one dared to accept it, so they fled north, entangled and exhausted all the way, eager to spend money. I heard that this Bora pawnshop never asks about the source of the goods. As long as the shopkeeper’s eye catches the goods, and the price is higher than other pawnshops, they came here, and it was a worthwhile trip.

At this time, a young man brought tea and snacks to ask them to use it slowly. After the young man left, the strong man was about to pick up the teacup, but the thin man stopped him.

“slow!”

“what’s happenin?”

“Is the priori toxic?”

“No, this pawnshop has a good reputation.”

“It’s always right to be careful, so as not to be hacked.”

The thin man first tested the poison with a silver needle, then inspected the plate and the cup inside and out, and finally found a little yellow dog on the side with his mouth open and his tongue wagging his tail expectantly, hoping that they could share a bite. Give it to eat.

The thin man was still worried about using a silver needle to test the drug. He peeled a small piece of cake and gave it to the dog, and then poured water for it to drink.

The little yellow dog ate up the cakes and drank the water. He raised his head again and looked at them eagerly, with an expression of unfulfilled expression on his face.

After waiting for a while, seeing that the little yellow dog was okay, the two men finally felt relieved, so they ate up the remaining cakes and drank a drop of tea. The shopkeeper came and followed Cui Lang next to him.

“Here is a total of 1,300 taels, please check the two masters.”

When the two men saw the banknotes, they both spent their hearts. On it was the ticket number of the Kangding Bank. After the thin man checked it out, he divided it into half and gave it to the strong man to collect it, and said, “Okay, let’s say goodbye.”

“Don’t worry, wait a minute.”

The two men looked at the shopkeeper in wonder. “Waiting for?”

“I’ll send someone to send you two off in a minute.”

The thin man was about to answer, “No, what’s the gift?” Who knew it was too late to speak, and the two of them suddenly fell to the ground with their legs weakened, and they couldn’t help being shocked.

“You, you poisoned the tea?”

“Yes.” The shopkeeper smiled.

“How is it possible? I’ve tested it to be non-toxic, and your dog will be fine if he eats it.”

“Because the poison is only half-poisoned, it’s okay if you eat it,” the shopkeeper easily took out the silver ticket from them and continued. “But if you touch the other half of the poison again, it will work.”

The thin man was initially puzzled, and then he realized. “You poisoned the bank note?”

The shopkeeper nodded. “The guest officer’s response is good.”

“You—” The thin man became angry, but then closed his eyes and fainted, as did the tall man on the side.

Seeing that they were all fainted, the shopkeeper ordered Cui Lang. “Tie them up and send them to the secret room for torture. They must have committed a lot of crimes.”

Cui Langgong took the lead. “Yes.” The one who saw the shopkeeper was holding the jade flute and asked, “This jade flute…”

“Keep it.”

Cui Lang was quite disapproving. “Miss, this jade flute should be stolen goods. It is not good to send people to the yamen without handing in the stolen goods.”

The young lady in Cui Lang’s mouth is the pawnshop shopkeeper—this shopkeeper is not a man, but a Shangguan Yan, and her demeanor, if it weren’t for her, she wouldn’t be able to see it.

Shangguan Yan touched the fake beard on his mouth, and said carefully: “These two people are habitual offenders at first sight. They have stolen more than once. This jade flute should be the property of a large family. Maybe it will offer a reward for the lost property. Now it will be handed over. Wouldn’t it be cheaper? Also, find their thief’s den, dig up other stolen goods, and use one of them to hand it over to the Yamen. Also, check the accounts before handing in to see if there are any private rewards, remember. Go get it.”

She said that the reconciliation refers to the fact that all the big households have lost their treasures over the years. The public bounty is different from the official reward. Shangguan Yan is not only a businessman, but also an undercover arrest. She lists the bounty offered by each family. Make a book and make an account.

In fact, she opened this Bora **** shop with ulterior motives. According to her thoughts, this **** shop also has the function of catching thieves. It is usually a **** shop to make a living, but it is also a channel for some thieves to get rid of the stolen goods. Once they receive suspicious stolen goods, they are Shangguan. This is the moment when the wild goose catches the net and fishes.

Cui Lang shook his head, knowing that it is difficult to change what the young lady decided. “Subordinates obey orders.”

Then, with one hand and one hand, he dragged the two men back, splashed them up with water, and soon after they were tortured, he reported the contents to the official Yan.

After the person is handed over to the government, the reward is credited to the account, and Shangguan Yan draws a sum on the account.

She likes to do business, and being an undercover business is also a business, and she is probably the easiest undercover arrest in the Daxing Dynasty. She opened a **** shop, catching prey when it enters the net, and doing **** shop business if there is no prey, but Baolai pawnshop is only her. It’s just one of many shops.

She changed into the shopkeeper’s clothes, tore off the fake beard, put on the commoner skirts, restored the women’s clothing, went out from the back door of the pawnshop, came to the street, separated a few alleys, and walked into a lively market street.

There are silk shops, cloth shops, tea shops, book shops, jade shops, etc. on both sides of this street. They are the most expensive shops in the capital, and Shangguan Yan’s powder shop is here.

Different from the people who come to **** shops need face, so open in low-key streets with few people, this powder shop is the favorite of girls, and it must be opened in crowded places.

Shangguan Yan came to the door of Xinlanzhi Powder Shop, and saw that his own powder shop was crowded, and the corners of his lips were lightly raised. The business of your own shop is booming, how can you be unhappy? Her favorite thing to do every day is not to look at the books, or to visit shops around the world.