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Chapter 481 Inquiry (5K+)

They all put out the waist card, and asked him if he could do something?The shopkeeper grimaced and smiled dryly: "I don't know what you want to talk about? I don't know much either!"

"Just talk about what we asked earlier, why should this good medicine store be changed into a clothing store?" Ji Chongyan said, pointing to the empty stool in front of him, and said, "Sit down and talk!"

Treating him, the shopkeeper, so anti-customer... The shopkeeper slandered a few words, sat down with a dry smile, and said, "I am not the shopkeeper of a tailor shop..."

"I know." The woman who picked up another piece of peach blossom cake after eating the lotus seed cake opened her mouth and glanced at him casually, and said, "Seven out of ten pieces of ready-made clothes hanging up in your tailor-made shop are women's clothes, like yours. Most of the shopkeepers of the ready-to-wear shops that sell more women's gowns are women, but you are men."

Some people may buy ready-to-wear clothes and pick them up immediately, but most people still want to try them.A woman who comes to buy ready-made clothes, and still needs to try on the ready-made clothes, must prefer that the shopkeeper in this store is a woman rather than a man.

Of course, there are also women who help in this store, but for women who want to change clothes in the store, they trust women more. Therefore, most of the shopkeepers in many clothing stores are women, and men are rare.

With the financial resources of the Wang family, it is easy to find a female shopkeeper, but there is a reason for using the shopkeeper in front of him to come from.Either the shopkeeper's means of selling ready-made clothes is particularly outstanding, or the shopkeeper is an old man trusted by the family.

It can be seen that this ready-made clothing store is not a lively business with the backing of the Wang family, and it is probably the latter.In addition, this ready-made clothing store was converted from a medicine shop, and the shopkeeper probably stayed in the Wang family for a long time and was deeply trusted by the Wang family.

Looking at the shopkeeper who was smiling dryly in front of him, Jiang Shaoyan took a bite of the sweet and soft peach blossom cake, looked at him for a while, and then turned to look around.

The storekeeper who saw this action with a dry smile didn't know why, and felt a little uneasy for no reason. Just as he was about to say something, he saw the girl suddenly sniffed and closed her eyes. After a while, she opened them again. The eyes with a bit of a smile looked at him steadily at this moment.

The "Tianqing Cloth" on the side also followed the girl's gaze and looked towards him. The two looked at him together, with exactly the same expressions, giving people an inexplicable sense of nowhere to hide.

Even though he was sitting on the stool, the shopkeeper didn't know why, but his legs and feet felt a little weak. He took a deep breath, and was about to speak, but the girl suddenly said, "You were the shopkeeper of this pharmacy, right?"

Amidst the slight change in the face of the shopkeeper, the girl smiled, and her eyes fell on his waist: "You are the shopkeeper of the ready-made garment shop, and you have daily contact with customers who come to buy ready-made clothes. Most of these customers are very particular, so you ordered a sachet for yourself , It is really beneficial to pay attention to oneself in this way in the daily clothing business."

"It's just that the sachet you have here is not the sachet from the spice shop outside. I smelled it, and in addition to the commonly used spices, I also added a few herbs with calming and soothing effects. Although the taste of this preparation is still It's okay, but if the spice shop sells it, the taste connection between the herbs and the spices won't be so blunt, it should be too much, but yours is not, so, it's not made by the perfumer, but you made it yourself?"

After the girl finished speaking, without waiting for the shopkeeper to answer, she glanced at the tea and snacks in front of her again and said, "The shopkeeper is hospitable and enthusiastic, and he is very good at doing business. Even the prepared dried fruit snack tray has ginger brown sugar and medicinal herbs. Some women eat more of these things when they get abdominal pain every month, the shopkeeper is really considerate, not many ordinary men understand this."

"What you know and what you have learned is integrated into your bones. You can't see it at a glance, but you can deeply understand it." The girl paused and smiled, "The shopkeeper seems to have some knowledge about medical herbs. Extremely favored."

Having said that, facing the two faces with the same expression in front of him, the shopkeeper quickly waved his hands with a dry smile: "Where... how can there be..."

"Yes." The girl shook her head and interrupted him, pointing to his raised hand, and said, "Although the shopkeeper's hand is not pretty, it is also very clean, but the pad of your right index finger that is biased towards the thumb is a little yellow, That piece of cocoon has condensed into dead skin, which is caused by long-term friction." The girl made a movement of combing her thumb and fingers lightly, and then said, "It seems that she has helped sort long hair for a long time. The friction cocoon left by a dried herb..."

The dry smile on the shopkeeper's face still didn't stop, it was out of the "hospitality" instinctively shown to everyone, but the expression at the moment is really inappropriate, and it looks very stiff.

"What kind of long plants did the shopkeeper help sort at that time?" the girl asked coldly.

At this moment, the shopkeeper whose mood and expression had been separated could no longer react as quickly as before, and instinctively said: "Yes..."

The shopkeeper opened his mouth to face the two faces that seemed to be smiling but not smiling, and he completely dispelled his original intention to hide it, so he had no choice but to say: "This lady said Yes, I was indeed the shopkeeper of this pharmacy."

"Because the drug store was doing well in the past, when the shopkeeper changed the drug store into a clothing store, he directly let me try it on top. Later, because he did a good job, he opened it one by one." The shopkeeper looked at the two people in front of him and said with a wry smile, "Any old man in Luoyang city would know about the things you two noble people asked me about, so why bother to come to the shop to ask me?"

Ji Chongyan rolled his eyelids, looked at him and said, "Of course I want to ask you something that others don't know, such as why the good medicinal materials business is not done."

"How would I know this?" the shopkeeper said helplessly, "I'm just a shopkeeper working for the boss. If the boss gives an order, can I still resist? It's not that I don't want to do it!"

Hearing this, Ji Chongyan couldn't help frowning. Seeing him frowning, the shopkeeper who is good at observing words and expressions would naturally not know that he was dissatisfied, so he quickly explained with a wry smile: "My boss gave up the good medicinal materials for some reason. I don't understand, after all, I'm used to the business of medicinal materials. You know, I'm far better at being the shopkeeper of a medicinal shop than a shopkeeper of a garment shop, but the reason here is that the shopkeeper came here to tell me that he didn't have any problems. of……"

Before he finished speaking, the girl's voice suddenly rang out: "What kind of herb is the long herb you picked?"

As soon as these words came out, the face of the shopkeeper who was complaining and smiling suddenly froze, and a trace of hesitation flashed across his face.

Ji Chongyan turned his head to look at the thoughtful girl, pushed the waist card slapped on the table forward, and said to the startled shopkeeper, "Think seriously, I can't wait." urgent!"

The shopkeeper who was talking in a few words couldn't help but wince again, but before he could react, the girl's voice followed closely behind: "The long herb that can be asked to be picked by the shopkeeper is definitely not an ordinary herb. Shopkeeper think slowly, don't think wrong!"

The shopkeeper flinched even more when he heard the sentence "Think slowly, don't think wrongly".

The two men and women with the same expression in front of them sang together like this, if it is said that these two people have no clue about the herbs he picked, how can they say so?

Tormented in his heart, he hesitated for a while on whether to sell his old boss or not, before the shopkeeper gulped his saliva, and stammered, "The herb is actually nothing special, it's just for healing. trauma……"

"Ma Mengcao?" The girl looked at him and raised her eyebrows.

The shopkeeper said "Sure enough" in his heart, and before he finished speaking, he reported the name of the medicinal herb, as expected, he had a clue in his heart, after all, there are so many medicinal herbs in the world, who can immediately guess that it is Ma Meng Grass?
That being the case, then don't blame him for the old boss, and besides, it is not against the law to sell Mamengcao in medicinal materials shops.

After all, he is also a person, and it’s all like this. Instead of offending the two people in front of him and paying for himself, it’s better to do it straightforwardly, so after a moment of hesitation, the shopkeeper said straightforwardly: "What did the lady say? That’s right, it’s Mamengcao!”

It's just a recruiting move, but my heart is still towards the old club.So the shopkeeper couldn't help but explain again: "However, there is not much Mamengcao in the pharmacy, and I handle it all by myself. You two know that I have a good mouth and a lot of work with my hands. But it’s not considered agile, I handle it all by myself, and I can’t usually handle much..."

"You're not fast, and you don't deal with much every day, but your fingers are already callused." The girl interrupted him again at this time, her eyes paused on his callused fingertips, Cai said, "I think it has been dealt with for several years!"

The shopkeeper's eyelids twitched at the other party's gaze, and he had no choice but to say "yes", and then continued: "Not long after I became the shopkeeper, my boss asked me to do these things, I don't know if someone else was asked to deal with the Mamengcao before."

Although he doesn't know the inside story, the person in charge of the medicinal material shop like the shopkeeper can faintly sense something is wrong: for example, the owner of the Mamengcao is not allowed to be known by others, and the Mamengcao that was processed has never been recorded in the account, and he doesn't know where he went Where are these weird things and so on, but if the boss doesn't say anything, he shouldn't know.

The saints have said that knowing too much is not necessarily a good thing sometimes.Coupled with the fact that the boss stopped doing the medicinal material business for no reason, he could also vaguely guess what the boss was doing, but he didn't know exactly what it did.

The shopkeeper cleaned up everything he knew, then looked at the two people in front of him, wiped off the sweat that had fallen out of his forehead at an unknown time, and said, "Both of you, this...that's all I know. There are so many, what else do you two want to know, why not go directly to our boss..."

"Your boss, Mrs. Wang, Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Wang, Mrs. Wang left the city overnight." Ji Chongyan heard the words, but looked at him indifferently, "So, we still have something to ask."

The shopkeeper twitched the corner of his mouth. Hearing Ji Chong's words, "The master is out", he couldn't help but touch his forehead: The master must have done something back then to cause trouble, so he avoided it so much.

If so...

"You two, do you want to ask where my boss's family has gone?" The shopkeeper waved his hands again and again in fright, and without hesitation sold out the steward of the Wang family, who was considered friendly on weekdays, "I am in charge of this shop. I live in my own shop, if I really want to ask about my master's whereabouts, I might as well go to my master's house and ask the steward!"

"That's not necessary." Ji Chongyan shook his head when he heard the words, looked at the shopkeeper, and said, "We are not asking about something that only the manager knows, but something that shopkeepers like you know."

ah?What is that?The shopkeeper opened his mouth wide, a little puzzled.

The girl said: "Please trouble the shopkeeper to bring the four treasures of the study."

The shopkeeper who didn't know why said "Oh", got up and went to the cabinet, took the Four Treasures of the Study, pushed the dried fruit snack aside, and placed it in front of the girl.

Then I saw the girl pick up the pen, and the "Tianqing cloth" on the side was rubbing the ink very naturally, and it seemed that there was a bit of blue sleeves adding fragrance in it.

It seems that these two people not only sing and cooperate with each other tacitly, but also work together.The shopkeeper looked at the two people in front of him in surprise, and suddenly wondered what kind of relationship these two had. If it was just an ordinary cooperation, would there be such a tacit understanding?
The one holding the pen and the one grinding the ink did not give him a chance to be dazed. The one who held the pen began to ask him before writing: "I heard that there are two children, a boy and a girl, in the family of your boss. These two sisters and brothers One is eight years old and the other is six years old. The shopkeeper is such a dainty person, you must have seen the person who takes care of these siblings on weekdays!"

The shopkeeper was startled when he heard this, and just about to say something, the girl pouted at the boy's and girls' ready-made clothes hanging behind his cabinet, and said, "You can't find the best washed silk in this tailor's shop except The clothes made of washed silk other than these two pieces are ready. The clothes made of the best materials should be placed in the most conspicuous position for customers to see. After all, this is the face of the shop! But you put it behind your cabinet In the lower corner, it is convenient for you to take it at any time, so I guess the shopkeeper of these two ready-made clothes must have other arrangements. Thinking of the young master and young lady in your boss's house, the figure of this age is just right for this kind of ready-made clothes , it seems that it is probably prepared for the young master and young lady of your boss's family."

There is really nothing to hide... The corner of the shopkeeper's mouth couldn't help twitching when he heard this, and he said with a dry smile: "Although I rely on my ability to make money, I can make my boss happy, and I have to do things like getting along with my boss."

He couldn't hide anything from these two people in front of him... Because he was bothered to please his boss, he naturally paid attention to the people around the two little bosses.

The two never asked him a question he couldn't answer.

The shopkeeper sighed, understood the girl's meaning, and said helplessly: "The two of you who want to ask are not those old servants who took care of the young master and young lady since childhood. If you have faces, at the end of the year, the boss A few new servants have been added to the family, the young master has a servant named Shouchun, and the young miss has a maid named Lingsheng. I heard that these two people have some skills," said the shopkeeper again. Sighing, he said, "You two also know what happened to our young lady, so the master can't find anything wrong with adding two kung fu boys and maidservants to the young master and young lady at home."

He didn't think there was any problem with this matter, but after these two asked, and the fact that the master went out of the city overnight but did not take away the most beloved young master and young lady on weekdays, he already vaguely understood It's hard to say whether these two young servants and maids who know kung fu are protecting the two little bosses, maybe they are threats!
The girl gave a "hmm", looked up at him, and said, "Then tell me about Shouchun's appearance as a soulmate!"

These words once again made the shopkeeper secretly sigh "Sure enough", but before he opened his mouth, he couldn't help but ask the girl: "Looking at your kind face, you probably won't attack our little boss!"

Jiang Shaoyan with a "friendly face" smiled when he heard the words, looked up at him, and said, "How can someone as smart as the shopkeeper fail to guess? It's not us who will attack your little boss, you should worry about it." These two are the ones I drew!"

The shopkeeper heaved a sigh of relief after hearing the words, but before he spoke, he did not forget to defend himself: "I just told you the looks of Shouchun and Lingsheng, but didn't tell you the looks of the little boss, so it's not considered betraying our boss. !"

Ji Chongyan, who was grinding ink beside him, gave a faint "hmm", and urged him: "Hurry up! It's hard to say whether your little boss will be taken away later."

He and Miss Jiang Si have been in this shop for nearly an hour, and with the other party's "cautious" to "suspicious" temperament, it is very likely that they will take the two children out first, so that they can handle the members of the Wang family at any time.

Ji Chongyan's eyes fell on the face of the girl who was just starting to draw a portrait: he never felt that facing such a suspicious enemy, blindly avoiding and obeying would be of any use.Even if they didn't find anyone from the Wang family at this time, for those people, it might be regarded as a signal of "leaking secrets" if the Wang family sneezed one more time while speaking.

For this kind of person, blindly avoiding is of no use.

Listening to the shopkeeper's description, the appearances of Shouchun and Lingsheng had already appeared on the paper, and the last stroke was made, the girl put down the pen, picked up the portraits of Shouchun and Lingsheng for the shopkeeper to see: "Is it these two people? "

The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, and then said pleasantly: "Yes! Yes! It's these two!"

"Keep your voice down!" Jiang Shaoyan said "Yes", handed the portrait to Ji Chongyan, and glanced at him, "Why are you so excited?"

For a master counterfeiter, the level of imitation painting and tracing must not be low.

The shopkeeper laughed dryly: "Miss has superb drawing skills, it's too similar!"

It's not how good the lady's drawing is, but that the two faces on the paper were just based on his narration, and he drew them without even a stroke of modification. These two paintings are only in the time of two cups of tea, so fast and similar!The shopkeeper thought to himself: If the person who drew the wanted suspects for the yamen had the skills of the one in front of him, there would be no mistakes or failure to recognize them.

The portraits of some wanted suspects really look like "suspects" all over the street.

Ji Chongyan, who had finished reading the portraits of the two, got up, and said to the shopkeeper, "Shopkeeper, I want to pay my respects, where is the hut?"

Huh?How can you be so polite and respectful?Did you drink too much water?The shopkeeper subconsciously glanced at the teacups on the table, only this "Tianqingbu" drank the least, not as much as him!

Just as he was in a daze, someone kicked his feet. Seeing the girl painting glanced at the bustling street outside, the shopkeeper came to his senses and subconsciously wanted to look outside. The girl on the opposite side But the child seemed to have guessed his reaction early in the morning, and then kicked again, and the shopkeeper grinning in pain finally understood, lowered his voice, and said to Ji Chong: "The middle of the back that separates the male and female latrines is a utility room. There is a small door in the room that can lead to the alley outside, that alley is a dead corner, and no one can see it when you go out."

(End of this chapter)