People are coming and going on the street, but most of them are working in the field and industry, and there are not many hawkers on the roadside.
Su Yumei searched for a while and finally found the vendor selling candied haws.
There were at least twenty candied haws on a whole pillar. Shi Guoxin used the money given by Xia Zhaoyi to buy the pillars together, then carried it and followed Su Yumei.
There were more and more people on the street. As they approached Zifengfang, there was a sudden shouting from the front, followed by a woman shouting: "There are dead people! There are dead people!"
Su Yumei didn't like the excitement, but pedestrians from all directions crowded around her.
"It's so miserable."
"It's two dead people!"
"Next to here is the government office, what an arrogant gangster!"
"I recognize them. Isn't this a guy from Sihai Teahouse?"
"Yes, this is the guy from Sihai Teahouse!"
…
Shi Guoxin paused, looked back, and said to Su Yumei in a deep voice: "Miss Su, this is the Sihai Tea House."
Su Yumei also immediately remembered: "Miss Ah Li came to the Sihai Tea House in Xucheng?"
"Um."
"Then go and have a look!"
"This... I can't go," Shi Guoxin nodded, "Second Miss wants me to protect you, and I must stay with Miss Su every step of the way."
Su Yumei looked forward. She would definitely not be able to squeeze through at this moment.
"Then let's go back home first." Su Yumei said.
But not only in the front, there are also many people in the back who want to watch the fun.
Shi Guoxin led the way, and Su Yumei followed behind.
The newcomer from the State of Shi was tall and tall, and the candied haws in his hand were conspicuous. Suddenly, he was pulled by a little girl and asked how much a candied haws was.
"Not for sale," Shi Guoxin said.
Seeing how cute the little girl was, Su Yumei stood on tiptoes and tried to pull one off, but Shi Guoxin hid behind the candied haws pillar.
"Miss Su, the second young lady did not agree." Shi Guoxin looked at her.
Su Yumei paused and laughed: "It's okay, Miss Ali won't disagree."
"I only listened to the second lady's instructions. The second lady only wanted me to buy candied haws, and she didn't tell me to give it to me personally."
Su Yumei had no choice but to look at the little girl and smiled awkwardly.
At this moment, another candied haws was handed over.
The little girl was overjoyed, raised her head and looked at the visitor, her eyebrows suddenly brightened: "Brother, you look good."
Ji Xiahe raised his hand and patted her shoulder gently: "Go farther away before eating. There are many people here. When the time comes to leave, your arms and legs are so small that you will be stepped on easily."
"Yeah, thank you, big brother, thank you, big brother!"
Ji Xiahe looked away, looked at Su Yumei and Shi Guoxin, and curved his lips with a smile: "Miss Su, do you still recognize me?"
Su Yumei looked at his delicate and delicate facial features and remembered: "You are the 'branch master'."
"I've met Mr. Zhi." Shi Guoxin said respectfully.
Dai Yu was the only one beside Ji Xiahe. Seeing the candied haws in his hands, Dai Yu was curious: "What are you doing carrying this candied haws on your back?"
"The second lady asked me to buy it."
"It's Ah Li," Dai Yu laughed, "Ah Li is so cute."
Su Yumei pursed her lips and smiled.
"But it's too eye-catching. We saw you at a glance." Dai Yu said.
"There was a murder earlier, related to the Sihai Tea House. I am planning to go back home and tell you where are you two going?" Su Yumei said.
"Sihai Tea House?" Dai Yu looked forward, "Here, I'll go take a look!"
"I'm going too!" Ji Xiahe said. After walking a few steps, he turned back to look at Su Yumei, "We were going to find Miss Ali. I'm leaving now. I plan to say goodbye to Miss Ali."
After saying that, he continued to follow Dai Yu.
Su Yumei and Shi Guoxin left the crowd and came out. Within a few steps, they were met by people from the government.
The crowd was jammed, and the officials became furious and started pushing and shoving.
A little boy was pushed to the ground, crying loudly, and a follower stepped on his back. Seeing this, Su Yumei hurriedly ran over to help him.
As people came and went, Su Yumei was also knocked down, and several small objects fell out of her arms.
After she helped the little boy up, she hurried to pick it up, but someone stepped on her finger and passed him by.
Su Yumei reluctantly picked up the things and didn't have time to dust them off. She first checked whether the little boy was injured.
A dagger was quietly unsheathed five steps behind her right.
After Su Yumei checked the little boy and confirmed that he was not injured, she prepared to pick him up and take him away from the crowd.
The unsheathed dagger suddenly stabbed her at this moment.
"Thieves!" Shi Guoxin shouted angrily, and before he could catch up in time, he stretched out his candied haws stick.
The dagger stabbed firmly into the candied haws pillar.
He ran so fast that several passers-by got tripped up.
The assassin was shocked and quickly pulled out Su Yumei. He didn't care to stab Su Yumei again and stabbed someone else.
"Looking for death!" Shi Guoxin scolded again and quickly chased after him.
Pedestrians who were unlucky enough to pass by were stabbed several times.
The gangster ran all the way, swinging the knife randomly.
There were bursts of screams from the crowd.
Shi Guoxin didn't chase her very far and stopped when he was about ten steps away from Su Yumei.
Su Yumei looked at the direction where the gangster left with a pale face.
All my ears were filled with the screams of pain from the injured.
As the gangsters ran away, several more people were injured, and the worst one was stabbed in the face.
Finally, with the help of the chaotic crowd and the knife in his hand, the gangster quickly disappeared into a civilian alley.
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There was really no room for people in the government office, so the bodies of the two clerks who died tragically were casually covered with white cloths and carried back to Sihai Teahouse.
Ji Xiahe and Dai Yu followed them back, and people from the yamen were asking shopkeeper Li for a "moving fee."
Shopkeeper Li couldn't recover from the time he got the news and saw the body. He muddleheadedly gave him a full five taels of silver before sending him away.
But the three inner and outer floors surrounding the front yard gave Shopkeeper Li a headache.
"Eggs were thrown at me just in the morning, and now people are dead."
"How tragic it would be to die on the street!"
"It's so pitiful. These two guys are very nice."
"These days, anything can happen to you."
"By the way, which two are dead?"
…
Dai Yu heard that his fists were clenched and he wanted to go out and hit someone. In order not to cause trouble to Sihai Tea House, he had to endure it.
Shopkeeper Li sat tremblingly next to the corpse, his hands and feet weak and weak.
"No," Shopkeeper Li suddenly thought of a serious question, "If they were killed, wouldn't that dirty guy have escaped?"
Almost at the same time, Zhili also got up from the stone bench: "They were actually killed? That dirty man had his wrist broken by Brother Shen, and he could still kill two people?!"
"Maybe it's a companion." Shen Lie said.
"It's all my fault, it's all my fault!" Zhili's eyes turned red, "I shouldn't be so arrogant. I should have delivered it to them personally! Senior sister, I'm going to the teahouse to have a look!"
After saying that, he turned around and ran outside.
Xia Zhaoyi watched him run away, then looked back at Su Yumei: "That gangster, killed you for no reason?"
Su Yumei pursed her lips, paused, took out a few things and placed them on the stone table.
