When A-Lan arrived at the antique shop, it seemed that the antique shop had already closed. He slipped in through the back door, and Uncle Ren was already waiting for him inside.
"Uncle Ren, I kept you waiting for a long time." A Lan said.
"It's okay, I just closed the shop, walked around the street and had something to eat, and then came in through the back door." Uncle Ren said.
"Did anything happen in the tea garden?" Alan asked.
The last time something happened in the tea garden, it was Wu Zun who took action. These days, he was worried about the elders taking action in the tea garden, so he asked Uncle Ren to send people to keep an eye on the tea garden.
The tea plantation is relatively far from the capital. If something goes wrong, it would take too long to come and go, and it is particularly difficult to catch someone. In addition, almost all tea plantations are large, and if something goes wrong, the compensation will be huge.
"Nothing has happened at this location yet. Our people are in charge, so you don't have to worry. The workers are what you're most worried about right now. However, business in other shops has recovered a lot recently, and here are the accounts. By the way, I
I was worried that the elders would take action, so the money had long been exchanged for banknotes," Uncle Ren said.
A Lan took a cursory look and saw that business has been quite good recently. The antique shops have not opened recently, because antique shops generally do not open, but as long as they open, it will be a large amount of money.
Uncle Ren pushed a box in front of A-Lan. When A-Lan opened it, there was a large box of banknotes.
"Uncle Ren, doesn't the shopkeeper find it strange?" A Lan said.
"That's not true. Anyway, you had planned to renovate the shop before. I also used this excuse. The shopkeeper naturally believed it." Uncle Ren said.
"You will keep all the banknotes, and don't report them to the clan for the time being." A Lan said.
"Yes, Master." Uncle Ren said.
"We will go to the tea garden in a while. There is a batch of tea leaves to be sent away in the tea garden. I will have someone pack them up in advance and set off tonight."
"Are you worried that they will tamper with the tea?" Uncle Ren said.
"They don't dare to do this, but I just want to help them." A Lan said with a smile.
"I understand, rather than being led by them, it's better for us to create trouble ourselves." Uncle Ren said.
"Yes, they will definitely not be idle, and they will definitely cause trouble. But I know that they dare not touch the tea garden business, and will only target some small shops. If you want to lure them into taking the bait, you must let them see the tea garden
Something happened." Alan said.
"I understand, I'll pack up and we'll set off right now," Uncle Ren said.
The two of them were not idle. After cleaning up briefly, they drove a carriage to the tea garden under the moonlight. When they arrived at the door of the tea garden, they knocked on the door. The manager was startled by A Lan. He thought someone was causing trouble in the middle of the night, but he didn't expect it.
It's A Lan and Uncle Ren.
After listening to A-Lan's words, he arranged for manpower to secretly load the tea, and delivered all the tea in the early morning.
Ah Lan asked the steward to go to the elder early the next morning and tell him about the lost tea.
The two were busy all night and returned to Leng Mansion just after dawn.
The two of them returned to the side courtyard together. Ayu knew that the two of them should have stayed up all night, so she asked someone to bring the food quickly.
"Have you looked at the account books all night?" Ayu asked.
"We went to the tea garden." Alan said.
"You guys eat something quickly and go to sleep for a while. When you wake up, we'll talk about other things." Ayu said.
Ayu knew that A-Lan must have a reason for his actions last night, so he didn't ask in detail. He would tell him after A-Lan woke up.
A-Lan nodded, and after having a simple meal with Uncle Ren, Uncle Ren went back to his room to rest. A-Lan also entered the room, and fell asleep as soon as he lay down.
To their surprise, the elder came again early in the morning. But A-Lan had just gone to bed, and the elder refused to leave after hearing that he could not see A-Lan. He insisted on sitting in the front hall and waiting for A-Lan to come.
Ayu felt sorry for Alan and naturally refused to wake him up right now, so she came to the front hall alone.
"Elder." Ayu said.
"Is it you? Where's Ah Lan? Why don't you come out to see us?" the great elder asked.
"It's not that A-Lan hasn't seen you, it's just that he hasn't woken up yet. After A-Lan gets up, he will naturally come over to see you," Ayu said.
"It's really abominable that he can sleep so peacefully," the elder continued.
"What happened? Why did the elder say this?" Ayu asked.
"You are the person next to me, but you don't even know what happened. I can't believe what he has hidden from you." The great elder said angrily.
"Great Elder, please calm down first. It's useless to be angry now. Why don't you first tell me what happened?" Ayu said gently.
"The Leng family's business has been affected, how can I not be anxious? After Ah Lan came back, he only went to the store once or twice. What was he doing?" said the elder.
Ayu originally tried to persuade him a few words, but when the elder was incessant, he simply stood aside and said nothing.
Seeing that Ayu was silent, the great elder glanced at Ayu and said, "Why are you standing here if you don't call him over?"
Ayu smiled and said: "Great Elder, I don't understand what you are planning to do, but it is true that Alan has not woken up. We have to wait until he wakes up to talk about anything."
"Can't you hear me? I asked you to wake him up." The great elder said.
Ayu didn't say anything, smiled and left the front hall. The elder thought that Ayu had gone to inform Alan, but after waiting for a quarter of an hour, Ayu didn't come back. So, the elder got up and went out for a walk. Unexpectedly, Ayu was sitting in the courtyard.
inside.
"Is the Great Elder leaving?" Ayu asked when she saw the Great Elder coming out.
"You, just wait for me." The great elder snorted and rushed in.
He left the front hall and walked towards A-Lan's yard. A-Yu did not stop him and followed him to watch the fun. Because A-Yu knew that A-Lan was resting in the side courtyard and his courtyard might not come back for a long time.
However, the other two elders were quiet today. Not only did they not speak, they also did not go looking for Alan with the first elder. Did they do this on purpose?
The great elder here had already arrived outside the courtyard gate of A Lan. When he saw that the courtyard door was open, he walked in. The servants were tidying up the courtyard step by step, but the door of the house was also tightly closed.
The Great Elder was very impulsive. Just as he was about to push the door open, the servant asked: "Great Elder, what are you doing?"
"Your young master hasn't woken up yet, I'll wake him up now." The great elder shouted.
"Great Elder, even if you go in, you may not be able to wake up the young master. The young master is not sleeping here at all." The servant whispered.
The elder thought that the servant was lying to him and didn't want to pay any attention to it. He opened the door and entered the house.
After searching inside and outside for a long time, there was no one on the bed. The house was very clean, and it was so clean that it didn't look like anyone was living here.
The great elder turned around and went out and asked, "Where is your young master?"
The servant did not reply directly to the elder. He just looked at Ayu and asked Ayu to make the decision.
"Since the great elders have already come in, why not go inside and sit down. Maybe A-Lan will be back soon," Ayu said.
"Where is he? Didn't he say he was resting? There is no one in the room. What on earth do you want to do?" the great elder said.
Just as Ayu was about to reply, she heard Alan's voice coming in: "Who was I at that time? I went to Leng Mansion to cause trouble early in the morning. It turned out to be the Great Elder. I wonder what happened to you coming here so early?"
"Morning? What time is it now, do you have the nerve to say morning?" the great elder said when he saw A Lan was so angry.
"Great Elder, are you very busy every day in the clan? If you have nothing to do, you come to me and stare at me when I get up? You have something to say, what happened?" A-Lan shrugged and said.
Ah Lan was too lazy to talk nonsense to the Great Elder. He had already known that the elders would come to make trouble today. What was strange was that the Great Elder was the only one there?
"Alan, after all, we are also your elders. If you don't go out to see us, even if you come, you still want to fool us and say that you are asleep. I think you are very energetic. The house is so clean. It seems that you have been there early in the morning.
You got up. Is it because you feel guilty that you don't want to see us?" the great elder said.
"What are you talking about? I'm sorry, Great Elder, since I returned to the Leng family, I haven't rested in my own yard. I shouldn't need to tell my clan members about this, right?" A-Lan said.
"You, the main courtyard is your father's residence, and you cannot live in the main courtyard." The great elder said.
A-Lan, who was walking towards the house, stopped, looked at the Great Elder, smiled and said, "The Great Elder is really strange. Did I say that I will be living in the main courtyard during this time?"
"You placed the second lady in the backyard, didn't you just want to live in the main courtyard? Otherwise, why hasn't your father come back after so long?" The elder has no brains and talks in random sentences.
"You are really thinking of something, and you can't explain it clearly in one sentence. Last time, didn't you say that I placed the second wife in the backyard to facilitate lynching? My father didn't come back with me, didn't you mean to say
Did I imprison my father? Do I need to do this in order to live in the main courtyard?" A-Lan burst into laughter.
The great elder couldn't talk to Ah Lan, so he glared at Ah Lan angrily and said, "I won't talk nonsense to you, but you should talk about business matters."
"What happened to the business?" Alan asked.
"Something happened in the tea garden, and you're still asking, how do you take care of the business?" the elder asked.
"What happened in the tea garden? Why didn't the steward tell me?" Alan asked again.
It seems that as soon as the steward told them about the tea garden, they couldn't bear it and immediately came over to investigate.
A Lan knew that if something happened to the tea garden, the elders would definitely come over in a hurry, but she didn't expect to come so early.
The tea was packed in advance and sent away in the middle of the night. Therefore, even if the elder wanted to find out the information, there was no way to find out. Because by the time the steward reported the accident to the elder's tea garden, the goods had already been delivered.
Out.
It stands to reason that the city gate would have been locked in the middle of the night. I just bribed an official in advance and calculated the exact time in advance to open the door and let them leave, so the incident went unnoticed.
"Something happened in the tea garden, but as the head of the family, you didn't know anything about it. The manager of the tea garden was worried that you wouldn't take it seriously, so he reported the matter to me," the elder said.
"What happened in the tea garden?" Alan continued to ask.
The Great Elder didn't say anything just now, thinking that A-Lan really didn't know, so he said: "A batch of goods in the tea garden has just been loaded. Early this morning, the steward discovered that several boxes of goods were missing." The Great Elder said.
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"All gone? Overnight?" A Lan asked pretending to be surprised.
"That's right, several boxes are missing." The great elder said.
"Why is this happening? There are always people guarding the tea garden, so why are they all gone?" A Lan said.
"The tea garden steward said those boxes of goods suddenly disappeared," the elder said impatiently.
