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Chapter 165 4. The Pawn Shop of Talented People and Strangers

Zheng Yun nodded and walked into the pawn shop, looking around the pawn shop, it was still the same as before, Zhang Ergou was very diligent, and everything was tidy and tidy.

The reason for saying this is.

As soon as he entered the door, Zhang Ergou followed in, picked up a rag and began to wipe everywhere, making the shop that was clean enough to be even more spotless.

It's really not a show, it can be seen that this is his daily life, the movements are very skilled, and the clothes are also very professional.

Zhang Ergou is in his forties. Today he wore a well-fitting Chinese dress to meet Zheng Yun. His long hair was neatly tied into a bun. He was well-dressed like a Taoist, but at this moment he was wearing an apron and gloves. busy before and after.

The size is also a capable man.

But he looks like a house husband.

However, if you look closely, you can still see the clues. The ghost pattern copper bell earrings on his ears have a strange texture.

The earrings exposed him inadvertently. Even if you don't guess about ghosts and metaphysics, it is easy to give people the impression that this old boy was definitely not a fuel-efficient lamp when he was young...

The corners of Zheng Yun's eyes twitched slightly.

He turned his head to look at Li Huawan behind him.

This one is even more wrong. She is wearing a pink and white dress that looks like a lotus petal, but her skin is whiter than the dress. Her waist-length hair is arranged in an extremely complicated and delicate ancient way. Two jade hairpins are interspersed horizontally and vertically.

But at this moment, she was holding a mobile phone, looking down at the screen seriously, sliding and tapping on the screen with her orchid finger, probably making a small report with Jiang Meng.

After feeling Zheng Yun's gaze.

Li Huawan immediately raised her head, stared at Zheng Yun with her clear eyes, and waited for him to speak with a slight smile.

Zheng Yun sat silently on the chair behind the door cabinet, and Li Huawan also followed, stroking the hem of her skirt and sitting on the rattan chair next to her, her demeanor had the feeling of an ancient woman.

Looking back at Zhang Ergou again, he boiled water and poured tea in one go, and came with a tea tray and placed it beside the two of them.

I don't know who he is serving.

Anyway, Li Huawan, the 'Fairy Demon Empress', was quite at ease, she put down her phone calmly, raised her wrist slightly, picked up the teapot, and poured a cup for Zheng Yun and herself.

Cars come and go in front of the door.

The shop is very peaceful.

"..."

Zheng Yun was a little speechless.

He went to W-08 for more than a month, and he was always worried about these people in the pawn shop, afraid that they would make a mess, and often wondered what they would do when he was away.

Now look down.

He couldn't tell whether it was good or bad.

Zhang Ergou and Li Huawan are not normal people at first glance. The former is diligent in serving others but has an evil smell, while the latter plays with a mobile phone but looks like a woman in an ancient painting.

If this is a customer.

Don't know how it will feel.

Do you think this pawn shop is very 'old-fashioned'?It feels like a pawn shop, and you want to pawn your own things even more?
But they are not all, there are other more important figures in daily life in this shop.

Ji Road.

Fat Taoist priests lived up to their name. After coming out of the Heavenly Palace, they ate and drank a lot. Originally, their stomachs were made bigger by rice noodles, but now their faces are round, and their words and deeds are full of taste.

He looked like a Taoist, and he usually sat at the door of the pawn shop, holding a museum album, or holding some weird ancient books of Tiangong to study.

Ghost general.

Although it doesn't appear often, the tall and straight figure is paired with a black sweater and slippers that can't be changed no matter how hot the weather is, as well as ghost tattoos looming on the neck, wrists and ankles, plus a weird smile under the brim of the hat.

On weekdays, he doesn't say a word and never speaks. Even if he doesn't lift a knife, he can make the atmosphere of the shop a few degrees colder when he comes out.

This group of people sits in a pawn shop.

It was hard for Zheng Yun to imagine how it would be viewed from an outsider's perspective, and even he himself couldn't explain that feeling clearly.

They are all characters that can be called "capable people and strangers" in Oriental Stranger. They all come from the land of ghosts and ghosts. There is no exception, and there is no normal person...

Bad evaluation.

The only advantage should be that no one dares to come to find trouble. There are also some loafers in this old neighborhood, young and old, but compared to these people in the shop, they are obviously not social or even idle enough.

It's a bit of a modern folk tale.

In the pawn shop in the old street, the seemingly normal and abnormal clerks are all capable people, strangers, gods, ghosts and immortals...

'After all, the pawn shop cannot be saved. '

'Don't even think about making money from pawn shops. '

Zheng Yun sighed and realized the reality, took a long sip from his teacup, looked sideways at Li Huawan and asked, "Are you very familiar with Jiang Meng now? Do you often chat online?"

"Yeah." Li Huawan nodded, put down her phone and smiled, "We're all busy and have nothing to do."

"Very good, then go to the hospital with me." Zheng Yun put down his teacup and got up. Every time he came back, the first thing he did was to go to the hospital to see Jiang Meng, and this time he couldn't make an exception.

Li Huawan followed immediately.

The two walked to the door and took a taxi to the hospital. They saw Jiang Meng in the ward, lying quietly on the bed playing with his mobile phone. When they saw Zheng Yun, their eyes turned red and they complained in a low voice:

"Brother, you've been so busy recently, you haven't come to see me for a long time, only Sister Yang often comes to watch TV dramas with me."

Zheng Yun was so complained that he was speechless, but with the dark clouds of the ancient red mist city surrounding him, he didn't dare to promise anything to Jiang Meng, so he could only quietly walk to the hospital bed and hold her hand.

At the same time, he also glanced at Li Huawan.

What is Sister Yang?Which yang is it?Where does this name come from?Is it the real name she concealed?

Li Huawan's clear eyes were bright, but the corners of her lips turned down at the speed of light, making a look of aggrieved, and wanted to gag someone's mouth.

Zheng Yun ignored her affairs for the time being, and concentrated on accompanying Jiang Meng, chatting about the recent daily life, and then asked: "Before Dad passed away, did he tell you anything about your illness? Or something similar if?"

"Ah? Brother, didn't you ask, no, I was fine when Dad passed away." Jiang Meng's eyes were foggy and she wanted to cry when she mentioned her father's death and her illness.

"Don't cry, think again."

Zheng Yun endured the distress and continued to ask.

"Ah."

Jiang Meng wiped away tears and nodded.

Zheng Yun had indeed asked before, but every time he asked, the brothers and sisters began to fight each other. One felt that he was incapable of curing his sister's illness, and the other felt that he was a drag, burdening her brother and delaying her brother's marriage. .

Things are better for the siblings now.

Zheng Yun was more or less capable, and after seeing Li Huawan, Jiang Meng was able to relieve the blame she felt towards herself.

No matter what Li Huawan's status is, her brother has beautiful sisters by his side. As long as she acts sensible, her brother still has a good chance of getting a girlfriend.

It's a pity that although Li Huawan is very beautiful, she is a deaf sister, and her behavior is a bit weird. She doesn't understand many things, as if she just came into contact with society.

This sister is very smart.

But it felt like she was only a teenager.

Jiang Meng never said anything, and she didn't dare to dislike others in her heart, but she still blamed herself. If she wasn't sick, her brother might be able to talk about a healthy...

"Brother, I really couldn't think of it." Jiang Meng shook his head.

"Then when was the last time you had contact with Dad, what did Dad tell you?" Zheng Yun asked again.

"The last time we went for a walk by the lake together, brother, you were there too. Dad said a lot at that time, and that was his last words. He didn't say anything about my body."

Jiang Meng still shook his head.

"..."

Zheng Yun sighed silently.

What Jiang Meng said was the truth. He didn't have any relevant content in his memory. He had to admit that his adoptive father's behavior was ruthless and extreme. If he said he didn't leave clues, he really didn't.

But there is another possibility.

The adoptive father had not anticipated the date of his death, or had misanticipated it, leaving no time to leave a clue.

when he died.

Jiang Meng hadn't gotten sick yet.

This is also an important reason. If he saw Jiang Meng's illness with his own eyes, he should have left something to do.

But no matter what, Zheng Yun has no clue or solution to the current situation. He can only follow the road map left by his adoptive father and continue to trace the footprints of his adoptive father before his death.

According to the chronological order, from the back to the front, the road map left by the adoptive father, the first page is the dojo in Qianfu City near the sea, and the second page is the W-08 sacrifice cave.

The third page is the earth.

The boat ticket is from W-01 to the earth, and the route map is a city map with two circles and crosses drawn on it.

The fourth page is E-07.

The ferry ticket goes from E-04 to E-07, and the route map is a local map, which is located deep in the virgin rainforest.

inferred from time.

The time when the adoptive father arrived at Qianfu City near the sea and W-08 occurred after the adoptive father confirmed that he was sick, and before the adoptive father passed away, which is strongly related to the infection of Jiangmeng.

Zheng Yun had suspected before that Jiang Meng's illness was probably caused by Jiang Meng's illness after his adoptive father went to a certain place.

But after going there by myself.

You can only doubt the ancient city of Hongwu.

Other places should not have similar abilities. The abilities of Qianxian Dojo and Jixian Cave will not make people sick, at least not Jiang Meng's current weird symptom.

The time when the adoptive father arrived on the earth and E-07 happened around the time when the adoptive father fell ill, which was related to the cause of the adoptive father.

Here is a question, whether the adoptive father's disease and Jiang Meng's disease are the same disease, the symptoms of the two are not compatible, and the time of onset is also relatively long, but Zheng Yun can't rule out this guess now .

If so.

Then these two places are related to the height of his adoptive father Jiang Meng's illness. Just go and have a look to find the answer.

Among them, the earth is marked with a cross, which should mean that the matter has been resolved, and E-07 is still an ordinary red circle.

From another perspective.

The latter has a higher priority.

These pictures left by the adoptive father are all the urgent problems that Triton needs to solve. If you want to go, you should go to the earth on the way to E-07.

There are still many problems in this, and I will not be able to start for a while, so I can only let it go for the time being.

But the next stop should be E-07.

……

After accompanying Jiang Meng all morning, we had a meal together in the hospital, and briefly chatted with the adoptive mother about the recent "business" situation, Zheng Yun left Li Huawan alone to leave the hospital.

After three o'clock in the afternoon.

Zheng Yun got out of the car under the scorching sun and walked towards the cultural relics bureau across the street, planning to meet that old Xu early.

The other party said that if he had time to sit and sit, Zheng Yun had to go after all. He just came back today and could rest for a day or two. Why not just go there today and see what happened to Xu Yu.

The last time I met Xu Yu was because there was a case involving metaphysics in Fuen City, and this time it might be another case.

Step into the gate of the Cultural Relics Bureau.

Zheng Yun sent Xu Yu a text message.

Not long after, Xu Yu came down from upstairs in person like last time, still full of white hair but full of energy, and waved to Zheng Yun with a smile on his face.

Zheng Yun followed him upstairs.

The two of them didn't say a word along the way, Zheng Yun wanted to be polite, but Xu Yu didn't turn his head, just walked upstairs vigorously, Zheng Yun didn't have a chance.

After a while.

They go into the office.

"Sit casually. It's really not easy for you to come. I heard that you didn't go when they celebrated in the small restaurant privately?" Xu Yu led Zheng Yun to sit on the reception sofa and laughed.

"Something happened recently."

After Zheng Yun sat down, he immediately entered a state of high concentration, and Xu Yu thought about every sentence before answering.

I had contact with Xu Yu last time.

This old Xu is definitely an old fox who has matured into a mature person, and has a very high status in the cultural relics bureau. If a young man like himself is not careful, he will be hooked in a few words.

"You are the same as your father. You can't find the tail of the dragon. You can't find it at all. Where have you been busy these two days?"

Xu Yu narrowed his eyes and asked.

Zheng Yun paused for a moment.

This sentence is a big pit.

The bloody incident at the Sanguan Dojo in Fuen City is considered a big deal in Fuen City. I asked Ji Dao and Zhang Ergou to assist in the investigation, but they didn't even reveal it from the beginning to the end.

The shelf is actually pretty big.

As if it wasn't worth mentioning.

Reasoning from this point of view, it is easy to draw a conclusion that during this period of time, I have done more urgent things, which is more important than the appearance of blood in Faun City.

On this basis, it is difficult for me to answer his question. If I just find a trivial matter to be perfunctory, I will have the feeling of underestimating the murder incident, the mission of the Cultural Relics Bureau, and even the safety of ordinary people in Fuen City.

That would be really putting on airs.

This is obviously inappropriate.

But it was impossible for me to answer truthfully, saying that I would go to W-08 to deal with the Immortal Sacrifice Cave and Westerners left by Daming Haiwei.

"Going around the field."

After Zheng Yun gave the final answer, he still pushed the question back. Xu Yu probably knew that he had been to W-08, and let him figure out what happened specifically.

Actually both of them.

There is something in my heart.

Xu Yu has dealt with his adoptive father for half his life, and even claimed to be in a 'hostile relationship' with his adoptive father, so it is impossible for him to know everything, and more or less know the identity of his adoptive father.

They just don't know how much they know and what kind of relationship is between their adoptive father and them.

"Is it troublesome over there?"

Xu Yu nodded, his tone was low and concerned, and unexpectedly, he asked such a sentence directly.

"..."

Zheng Yun looked up at Xu Yu.

This old Mr. Xu really didn't follow the routine. This question sounds reasonable, and his tone and expression are very natural, as if the elders in the family are concerned about the career of the younger generation.

But this is the biggest irrationality.

The two of them have only met twice in total. When did the relationship reach this point?Does this mean that people don't speak secretly?There is no routine at all, the main one is to ask directly?

"is acceptable."

Zheng Yun still answered simply, and Xu Yu was caught off guard by such a question, it was hard not to arouse other suspicions.

"If you have any difficult problems, you can also ask the Cultural Relics Bureau for help. We help each other, and human relations can move around. Your father actually did the same way back then."

Xu Yu picked up his teacup and smiled.

"Thank you senior, I will trouble senior if I have something to do."

Zheng Yun took his words, this old man Xu has always been very good at making a fuss about favors, and he handed over a lot of similar olive branches last time, Zheng Yun took all the ones that should be received.

Whether to use it or not is one thing.

But this way is to be accepted.

(End of this chapter)