Exquisite ingenuity

Chapter 64 The Xiao family entered the thief
Not far from Qingque Street is the famous Zhuque Street.

The Zhuque Street was bustling with activity, but after turning a corner into Qingque Street, it became much quieter immediately.

Qingque Street is a deep street, with several dense alleys with high walls running through it, and only a few verdant and crumbling branches stick out from the top of the high walls.

All the people living in this neighborhood are rich or expensive.The fence is deep and high, and those people will not go out to check if it has nothing to do with their own family.

There is a medical clinic nearby, and the medical workers there have been seeing Xiao's mother for many years. Xiao Yang must have come to pick up medicine for Xiao's mother.

There were only a few dim wind lamps at the entrance of the alley. Song Jingxing walked into an alley at random, and the cat who came out for a stroll in the night purred a few times. Seeing that the person was not frightened at all, he raised his tail angrily and exited the alley. .

Song Jingxing stood quietly.

The cold night wind blew over the special smell accumulated in the alley.

He frowned, watching a carriage gradually approaching, slowly stopped, and then a drunken man got out of the car, walked into the alley familiarly, and after a while, there was a rattling sound. up.

Song Jingxing remained silent.

After the man finished his urination, he stood there for a while before he staggered back into the car.

Before the carriage left, another carriage drove over, and another drunken man climbed out of the carriage and walked into the alley as usual.

Song Jingxing stood there for a quarter of an hour, then seven or eight carriages passed by, and eight or nine men got off and walked into the alley.

Alley, not the scene of the first crime.

The men were drunk, but if someone was beaten, they would probably be sober immediately.What if it's their turn next?
Song Jing walked to Zhuque Street, bought a lantern from a shop, carried the lantern, and walked into Qingque Street.

A drunken man passed by him halfway, and he was really taken aback.

Song Jingxing found the alley where Changchun rescued Xiao Yang.

The alley is paved with bluestone slabs, and there are some dark blood stains on the bluestone slabs.

A little debris had accumulated near the bloodstain, but there were no signs of a fight.

Song Jingxing's eyes darkened slightly.Those guys are veterans at the job.Only when Xiao Yang wakes up can the incident be saved.

When he walked out of the alley slowly with the lantern in his hand, he suddenly saw a faint light flashing across the alleyway.

He kept his composure, carried the lantern and quickly chased into the opposite alleyway, only to find that there was a person in the alleyway with his back on his back, rustlingly undoing his clothes.The man was short in stature, with some gray hair, and the short brown clothes on his body had a few conspicuous patches.Xu is a street vendor who runs a small business nearby.

Song Jingxing was a little disappointed and turned out of the alleyway.

Finding nothing, he went back to Xiao's house in Kanghuifang as usual.

Qingque Street is still bustling with activity.

But there was an inconspicuous old man who came out of the alleyway.

He was gray-haired and short in stature, with conspicuous patches on his short brown body.The old man came out of the alleyway, walked straight towards the lively Zhuque Street, turned into Yanque Street, and skillfully entered a small restaurant.

Although the area of ​​this small restaurant is not big, it also imitated other big restaurants, separated by two private seats.

The old man walked into one of the elegant seats, without even looking at the people inside, picked up the wine bowl on the table, took a bite first, then took a mouthful of jerky in his mouth, then squinted his eyes and looked at the person opposite : "I do things, don't worry. No one will notice."

The person on the opposite side also had gray hair and was wearing a half-new green robe. Hearing that a pair of old eyes were hooked on the old man, he smiled for a while and said, "It's very good. But just to be cautious, you have to help me make another trip." .” As he spoke, he pushed a bulging cloth bag towards the old man.

The old man suddenly showed a greedy smile, and stretched out his hand to grab the cloth bag.

The green-robed old man lightly held down the bag, his eyes burning: "Don't be greedy, lest something bad happen."

The short-brown old man swore: "How many years have we known you, and when have I ever done something bad."

Only then did the green-robed old man let go of his hand, watching the cloth bag being stuffed into the man's sleeve.

Saying that he was not greedy for drinking, the old man in short brown clothes only ate another bowl of wine, and then slipped out of the private room without a sound.

After a long while, the green-robed old man left the small restaurant, turned left and right into an alley.An unassuming carriage was waiting there.

The old man in green robe returned to Kanghuifang's home in a carriage.

The old wife at home has not rested yet, waiting for him with disheveled hair.Although the old wife was five or six years younger than him, her hair turned gray earlier than him, her face was wrinkled, and her teeth had all fallen out.A trace of impatience flashed in the old man's heart, but he smiled on his face: "Why don't you rest?"

While changing his clothes, the old wife complained: "You have been out for a whole day, I have something to tell you, but I can't find anyone."

If there is anything wrong, it is not the son-in-law Zhong's mess.

Sure enough, the old wife said: "Manman's marriage is coming soon, what do you think of her dowry..."

The green-robed old man was a little unhappy: "Isn't it all agreed? Let's add one thousand taels of silver. One thousand taels of silver is already a lot."

The old wife was a little angry: "Back then, my daughter lost her eldest son because of you. Now she only has Manman as an only daughter. If you give more dowry and Manman, it will not be a loss."

Talking about the events back then, the green-robed old man was a little embarrassing: "Didn't my son-in-law also rise to the top all these years? Although he didn't have a son, his life was pretty good..."

The old wife's face sank, and she didn't change her clothes for him.

The old wife avoided most of the shameful things back then, and the daughter did indeed lose her six-month-old boy for herself.It was declared to the public that it was difficult for the couple to find a child. After all these years, the couple only had one daughter, Zhong Man, and it was right to love her a little bit.

The green-robed old man had no choice but to give up his love: "Then give Manman all the shops in Kanghuifang."

The old wife smiled with satisfaction.The several shops in Kanghuifang are very profitable.

The old wife was still babbling: "Tomorrow, we will go to Baoxiang Temple together and hand over the deed of this shop to Manman."

The old man in green robe agreed absently.

When Song Jingxing returned to Xiao's house, Medical Worker Wu was packing the medicine box.

Seeing Song Jingxing come back, he said: "I haven't come back after going out for a long time, I'm afraid my family will miss it, so I have to go home and let them know."

Song Jingxing was grateful, and took out the consultation money from his sleeve to pass to Medical Worker Wu.

But Medical Worker Wu evaded: "I have a rule, if the patient is not cured, I will not charge the consultation fee."

After finishing speaking, he carried the medicine box on his back in a cool and unrestrained manner, and quickly stepped across the threshold.

There are all kinds of strange people in this world, Song Jingxing smiled slightly, and went with Medical Worker Wu.

The aunt next door only came to help during the day, and she still had to go home at night.

Xiao Yang was still in a deep sleep, and Youshi had been quietly guarding beside his son. Seeing that Song Jingxing was the only one left in the room, he suddenly said, "My dear nephew, in the early hours of this morning, a thief came in."

Song Jingxing's eyes froze.

"Yang'er has been in a coma, and my aunt was so worried that she couldn't fall asleep, but after all she was tired, so she closed her eyes and closed her eyes to rest, but she heard a thief fall from the wall."

"My aunt originally thought that the man had heard that Yang'er hadn't died, so he chased after him and killed him again, but saw the thief take out a roll of things from his arms without any scruples."

(End of this chapter)