Judgement

Chapter 220 Four

Chapter 220 Four

Shopkeeper Hong swallowed dryly, staring at the black-clothed woman who appeared out of nowhere in front of him and asked timidly, "Who... are you? What do you want?" The black-clothed woman stood motionless. , the woman's face could not be seen clearly under the oil-paper black umbrella.

Shopkeeper Hong pretended that she didn't hear, and said with a heavy tone: "It's midnight, what on earth do you want to do? If you don't say anything, be careful and I will drag you to the government office to meet the officials!"

The woman in black said two words coldly: "Buy rice." The woman's voice was hoarse and stiff, as if an actor was imitating the words of the evil spirits in the underworld.Hong Chendong was dazed by the strange woman in black, and the cold sweat on his forehead was dripping down his shiny head.

The woman in black ignored Hong Chendong and walked into the Longwang rice shop, the shopkeeper Hong was secretly surprised, it seemed that today he met a strong man Bai Chuang.He ran up the steps in three steps and shouted: "Hey, you woman is so rude! Trick me into opening the door to plot against you, stop me." The woman in black was really intimidated by Hong Chendong, and she stood at the counter forward.

Hong Chendong took out a fire pocket from his pocket, and after blowing on it, he was about to light the oil lamp on the accounting table. "Pfft..." Hong Chendong felt a sinister wind blowing over his hand, and the fire was suddenly extinguished.Hong Chendong shook the Huozhezi again, but the Huozhezi couldn't emit any sparks, Hong Chendong cursed secretly and threw the Huozhezi out of the door.

The woman in black still said coldly: "Buy rice!" Hong Chendong touched his body again and found that there was no fire left. In desperation, he groped in the dark and took out the key, opened the cabinet lock, opened the cabinet door and entered. behind the counter.

"Hey, I said girl, what kind of rice do you want to buy? How much do you want to buy?" Shopkeeper Hong asked five or six bamboo baskets behind the cabinet.

"One catty," the woman in black said hoarsely and coldly.

"One catty!?" Hong Chendong was completely speechless to the woman in black who spoke like gold. How many people can eat a catty of rice?Hong Chendong also lazily chattered with the woman in black, squatted down with difficulty, picked up the rice bucket and filled the bamboo basket with more than half a bucket of rice from the rice bamboo basket sent by Shanghao to the Huzhou government, and poured it into the cloth bag. He got up and put the rice bag into the rice trough of the counter.

Hong Chendong said in a deep voice: "Girl, I think it's not easy for you alone. There are three or four catties of rice here. Take it."

The woman in black took out some scattered copper coins and lined them up on the counter. The price of a bucket of rice was at least two hundred cash, as if the rice shipped from Huzhou Prefecture cost one tael of silver per bucket.To be honest, Hong Chendong didn't want to spend too much time with that black-clothed woman, and it was serious to send her away. It didn't matter if he gave her money or not.

The woman in black bent down to take the rice from the rice grains, and finally said something nonsensical: "Thank you, you are a good person." After finishing speaking, she left.

Hong Chendong casually threw the copper coins on the counter into the bamboo tube behind him, and by the time he opened the cabinet and walked to the door, the woman in black had already disappeared.Hong Chendong was surprised, but he didn't take it to heart. After closing the door, he went back to sleep in the back hall...

It wasn't until the next morning when the two guys came to open the shop for business and asked Hong Chendong to open the can to get the change that they realized something was wrong.According to the old system, the little guy had to go to the store to make tea and sweep the floor to check the goods before dawn at five o'clock. He could only open the door to start the day's business after he was done.When a buyer comes to buy things, the clerk is not allowed to bring money with him. This is a big taboo for the clerk. You can only wake up the shopkeeper and open the cash drawer to ask for money.

The two guys in the Longwang rice shop have been with Hong Chendong for many years. The older one is 20 years old and his name is Zheng Baocai, and the younger one is only 17 years old and his name is Xu Husan.The two boys are both natives of Jiangzhou Prefecture, Zheng Baocai is simple and honest, and Xu Hu and the three of them often make some tricks.But Hong Chendong just likes Xu Husan, and will let him do everything.When a buyer came to the shop, Xu Husan asked Hong Chendong to open a cash drawer for business.Hong Chendong took out the personal key on his waist and opened the cash drawer, and Xu Husan went to find someone for money.

Xu Husan reached into the cash drawer to touch some copper coins, and suddenly yelled: "Shopkeeper, what do you think this is?"

In Xu Husan's hand, besides the copper plate, there were also two or three Mingqian fire papers, Hong Chendong roared angrily: "Who did this? Do you two little bastards think life is too easy?"

Zheng Baocai didn't know what happened, he was holding a rice bag filled with rice and was looking at the shopkeeper losing his temper.He asked softly: "Shopkeeper, what happened?" Hong Chendong suppressed his anger, and gave the buyer two taels of change.

Hong Chendong looked at the two shopkeepers and shouted: "Before closing last night, I wasted the bamboo tubes for nothing. But early this morning, there was money for the dead in the cash drawer, and no one came to the shop except you." .Say! Who did it?"

Zheng Baocai and Xu Husan's faces turned pale with fright, and they knelt down in front of Hong Chendong.Zheng Baocai said: "Master Hong, Baocai, I have always behaved in a well-behaved manner. This... I don't know anything about this money!"

Xu Husan also said anxiously: "Shopkeeper's investigation, today it's my turn to sweep the floor and stock up. I haven't even been to the cash drawer since morning!"

Hong Chendong thought to himself slightly: Zheng Baocai has always been honest, so he would not dare to do such a thing.That kid Xu Husan is quick-witted, but he won't be so stupid as to bury a dead person in the snow.It seems that someone wants to clean up the Longwang Rice Shop, but who could it be?Could it be the woman who came to buy rice last night?Maybe her copper coins were collected by herself, and it was dark and late at night, but she obviously touched her own copper coins...

Hong Chendong asked himself that he hadn't offended anyone on the ground in Jiangzhou, but the official court uncle really couldn't figure out who would come to harm him, so he wanted to curse me to death by sending Ming Qian.Hong Chendong thought about it and couldn't come up with a result, so he said to the two guys on the ground: "Get up for me, and from today onwards, you all put your tricks on the spot. If you encounter anything, report it to me immediately, I still don't believe it." Who in Jiangzhou Prefecture ate the gall of a leopard!"

After three days in a row, nothing happened in the rice shop except for those who came to buy rice seeds and grain.Hong Chendong also slowly began to forget about Mingzhihuoqian, and after the Shenshi passed, shopkeeper Hong ordered his staff to close the rice shop and go back to rest.After dark, a dozen or so members of Hong Chendong's family were eating and drinking around the hot pot.From the front hall came the sound of "cracking" copper buttons again, Hong Chendong was not happy, who is so annoying?Feeling uneasy after a meal, she waved her hand at the servant girl and told her to go and have a look...

When the maid went to have a cup of tea, the copper buttons in the front hall suddenly squeaked again.Hong Chendong put down the chopsticks in his hand and cursed: "I can eat dry food, and I can't do small things!" After cursing, Hong Chendong went to the front hall with a lamp. Patting the servant girl on the shoulder, the servant girl jumped out screaming as if she had been bitten by a snake.Hong Chendong was also taken aback by the servant girl's appearance and shouted: "You... what are you doing?"

Seeing that it was Hong Chendong, the servant girl cried loudly: "Master... outside... there is only a knock on the door but no one is there! Could it be... Could it be that there is a ghost?"

Hong Chendong thumped for a moment, pretending to be calm and said: "Go, go, go. If you don't do bad things, you won't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door. You have done something bad!"

The maid hurriedly argued, and the copper button outside the door rang again.The servant girl fled back to the back hall with frightened face, Hong Chendong shook his head and opened the door.There was indeed no one outside the door, Hong Chendong didn't go out to see it this time, he just lit the oil lamp with a torch.Under the brilliance of the oil lamp, an icy breath quickly diffused from Hong Chendong's back.

Just as Hong Chendong turned around, there was still a woman in black clothes and pants with a black umbrella standing behind her.With the help of the flickering light of the oil lamp, Hong Chendong could see clearly that the woman's two hands were white and almost transparent, and he could clearly see the veins on the back of the hands.The half of the face exposed under the umbrella was also pale, except that there was a beauty mole under the corner of the mouth.The lower abdomen of the woman in black bulged slightly, and she exuded a cold air...

"Hehe, the girl is here to buy rice again?" Hong Chendong said boldly.

"Buy rice, one catty!" The woman in black said expressionlessly.Hong Chendong didn't respond, he opened the cabinet and went in, took a rice bucket and filled more than half of the bucket of rice and put it in the rice trough.

The woman in black seemed to be very afraid of the oil lamps in the hall, dropped a few copper coins, grabbed the rice bag and left.Hong Chendong looked at the copper plate on the counter clearly, deliberately kept an eye out, put the copper plate on the counter, closed the door, and went back to the back hall...

Unexpectedly, it was just after the fifth watch, and Hong Chendong was woken up in the original room by his assistant Xu Hu knocking on the door three times.Hong Chendong shouted angrily: "It's dark, what door are you shooting?"

"Shopkeeper, get up and go take a look! It's not good, something serious has happened!"

Hearing Xu Husan's panicked screams, Hong Chendong hurriedly got up and opened the door and asked, "What's the matter? Look at you, you're so useless, you're about to die, you're just bluffing!" Xu Husan pulled Hong Chendong He hurriedly arrived at the front hall, pointed at the Mingqian paper on the counter and was so scared that he couldn't say a word.Only then did Hong Chendong realize that the woman in black who came to buy rice last night was a female ghost, and the cold sweat on her body soaked through her clothes.Why did that female ghost come to find her?I have never heard of a female ghost who bought rice to cook, just when Hong Chendong was thinking wildly.The copper buckle of the rice shop squeaked again...

The clerk Zheng Baocai went out and opened the door, and there was a big man standing outside holding a basket of fresh fish.There are icicles hanging all over his clothes, and he is talking to Zheng Baocai with his head down.Hong Chen Dong followed the prestige and slapped his hands and shouted: "Mu Shiguang, Mr. Mu, you came just in time. I have something to discuss with you."

Seeing Hong Chendong, Mu Shiguang hurriedly saluted and said cautiously: "Morning Uncle Hong, it's so cold today that my mother's illness has fallen again. I'm worried, I went to catch some fresh fish yesterday and I'm going to borrow the treasure of Uncle Hong to give the fish to me." I sold it to my mother to buy medicine."

"Oh, don't sell fish anymore. Huzi, hurry up and go to grandma to get ten taels of silver for Mr. Mu." Xu Husan responded and went into the back hall to find grandma to get the silver.Just as Mu Shiguang wanted to stop him, he was persuaded by Hong Chendong. Hong Chendong invited Mu Shiguang into the front hall and sat down to make tea for him.

Holding the fish, Mu Shiguang fidgeted and cupped his hands: "Uncle Hong, this fish is not worth ten taels of silver. If Uncle Hong wants to eat fish, I'll catch some bigger ones for you."

Hong Chendong waved his hand and said: "I don't eat fish, you can keep those fish for your mother to nourish your body, nephew of the Mu family, I have something to ask for your help."

"Help? How can I help? Is Uncle Hong going to break furniture?" Mu Shiguang looked at Hong Chendong in confusion.

Hong Chendong said in a low voice: "Nephew of the Mu family, only you can help with this matter. I know you are old. Uncle Hong, I... I met a ghost..."