The foolish king's contract princess

Chapter 5 The Thief
In the next three days, Nan Mengjie purchased the stores connected to Yancui Building, and after discussing with Sister Qin, they confirmed the new decoration of the two stores and wrote a detailed personnel training plan.Sister Qin is personally responsible for recruiting newcomers. She has been in this industry for so long, so she naturally has her channel for the source of newcomers.

Nan Mengjie has been very busy in Yancui Building, and has not paid much attention to the outside affairs.Three wealthy businessmen in the capital were robbed overnight. The thieves did not leave any useful clues, but only left a strange origami at each stolen scene. This origami was the thousand paper cranes left by Nan Mengjie.This theft case became the hottest topic in Beijing for a while.

After dealing with the matter of Yancui Building and giving some instructions to Sister Qin, Nan Mengjie took the newly forged weapons and stolen jewelry and left the capital.She needs a lot of money now, in order to prevent accidents, it is safer to run around and commit crimes.

In the next ten days, two neighboring cities around the capital were visited by mysterious thieves. A total of eight rich merchants received thousands of paper cranes. To everyone's surprise, five houses in Jingyuan City were stolen for two consecutive days. .Because of the thousand paper cranes, everyone called Nan Mengjie the paper bird thief.

Nan Mengjie's theft mainly involved silver notes and gold, small items were mainly jewelry, and large items were never moved.Every time she succeeds in a place, she will take the stolen jewels to other places and exchange them for bank notes.

During the time when the paper bird thief became a legend, Sister Qin was not idle. She hired people to redecorate the two stores, recruited newcomers, and hired luthiers, dancers, and private school teachers at high prices to provide more comprehensive training for everyone.

Half a month later, Nan Mengjie returned to Yancui Building.

"Lanying, you're finally back, and now you're in need of taels everywhere, if you don't come back, I really can't hold on," Sister Qin began to complain as soon as she entered the door.

"Aren't you back now? By the way, Sister Qin, let someone inquire about the latest news about the Prime Minister's Mansion." Nan Mengjie had disappeared for almost a month, thinking that there must be some movement in the palace.

"Why inquire about the Prime Minister's Mansion?" Sister Qin asked Nan Mengjie with some doubts.

"One of my relatives works in the Prime Minister's Mansion, and I haven't been able to contact him for a long time. I just want to know if something important has happened in the Prime Minister's Mansion recently," Nan Mengjie explained vaguely.

"It's a big deal. One thing is that the eldest lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion is missing," Sister Qin told the big deal she knew.

"Send someone to find out if anything else happened,"

"Understood, I'll let people look at it later," Sister Qin didn't know why Nan Mengjie investigated the prime minister's mansion, but as long as Nan Mengjie wanted to know, she would let people do so.

"I want to rest, don't let anyone disturb me," Nan Mengjie took out more than 80 silver notes and 10,000+ gold from her bag and handed them all to Sister Qin.

"So much?" Sister Qin was a little shocked to see so much money.

"I don't feel much. I paid back the money in arrears and bought some new things. There is not much left,"

"Don't worry about handing over all these to me. I'm not afraid that I'll run away with your money." Sister Qin was a little moved by Nan Mengjie's trust. her.

"Then you have to run quickly," Nan Mengjie said while pushing Sister Qin out of the door, "I want to sleep, Sister Qin, you can go to work first, and I will talk about other things when I catch up. "After speaking, he smiled exaggeratedly and closed the door.

Sister Qin looked at the baggage in her hand and couldn't calm down for a long time, not because of the money, but because of Nan Mengjie's trust.In a place like a brothel, elder sister Qin has long been used to deception and transactions.I haven't experienced such unconditional trust in a long time.

With these silver taels, Sister Qin could finally breathe a sigh of relief, and turned around to pay off all the silver taels owed to others.After putting away the remaining banknotes, she began to think about the source of Nan Mengjie's money. The two times amount was simply astronomical for this little girl.Suddenly, she thought of a possibility, that is the paper bird thief.No matter what she thought of, she would never question Nan Mengjie, nor would she betray Nan Mengjie.

It was dinner time before Sister Qin entered Nan Mengjie's room with the food.

"Sister Qin, how is the newcomer's training going?" After speaking, Nan Mengjie took off her veil and put it aside, ready to eat.

Seeing Nan Mengjie's actions, Sister Qin was stunned for a moment and said with a smile, "I didn't expect you to be a beauty."

"I'm a beauty with a veil on," Nan Mengjie boasted without the slightest blush.

"I'm not ashamed,"

"How's the newcomer training going?"

"They are very obedient and study hard,"

"Okay, I'll go take a look after dinner,"

After dinner, Nan Mengjie chatted with Sister Qin for a while before going to watch the girls' training.As Sister Qin said, everyone studied very seriously. She learned about all the newcomers from Sister Qin, and selected two of them as key trainers.

Back in the room, Nan Mengjie couldn't fall asleep, so she awkwardly took a brush and began to write and draw.

The next day, Nan Mengjie went out after breakfast. When she thought of the pain of using a brush, she couldn't wait to find someone to make a simple pen.A ten-centimeter-long hollow bamboo tube, which can be stuffed with chicken feathers in the front, and spare chicken feathers will be placed in the next year. Chrysanthemums are painted on the outside of the bamboo tube, which looks like a small pendant as a whole.Looking at the beautiful 'pen', Nan Mengjie made a mask for herself on a whim. The pattern is a blue chrysanthemum, which can only cover the right eye.

"Lan Ying, I've found out what you want to know," Nan Mengjie was dragged into the room by Sister Qin as soon as she returned to Yancui Building.

"Say it"

"Three days later, the prime minister's mansion will hold a funeral for the eldest lady. The engagement between the eldest lady and the prince has also been cancelled, and the second lady has become the prince's side concubine,"

"Funeral?" Nan Mengjie was a little surprised. It stands to reason that if no body was found, it would be impossible to handle the funeral so quickly.

"Yes, I heard that someone saw the young miss jumping into the river with his own eyes. This young lady is really pitiful." Sister Qin sympathized with the young lady of the prime minister's mansion.

"Yeah, she's really pitiful," Nan Mengjie said while laughing and playing with the newly made mask in her hand.

"What are you holding in your hand?" Sister Qin noticed what was in Nan Mengjie's hand.

"Does it look good?" Said Nan Mengjie put on the mask.

"It's pretty, you plan to wear this in the future," Sister Qin knew that there must be a reason for Nan Mengjie's reluctance to show her true face.

"Yeah, it's inconvenient to wear a veil, and besides, it's not as beautiful as this mask," Nan Mengjie still liked this mask very much.

Three days later, the Prime Minister's Mansion held a funeral for Nan Mengjie.Nan Mengxi cried and fainted several times because of her sister, and became a loving and righteous woman in everyone's mouth.

(End of this chapter)