When Zhou Shi tried to return to Fengde Building from the backyard, he found that the back door was tightly closed.
"The back door is only for entry and exit, to prevent thieves... Oh, it is indeed my order." Zhou Shi sighed helplessly, looked at the flow of people next to him, and thought of the broken porcelain pieces placed on the wall, so he gave up the idea of climbing over the wall to enter.
Ideas.
At this time, the store was busy, and it was impossible for the waiters to come out. The plan of asking the waiters to give me clothes or open the back door was also in vain.
With no choice but to bite the bullet, Zhou Shi strode into the clothes that were soaked in water, soaked with monster slime and then dried in the sun, torn apart by water as sharp as a knife, and had the entire sleeve torn off in order to check the cancer on his left arm.
Enter Fengde Building.
As soon as he appeared, he was stopped by a waiter: "Hey, if you are begging, go to Yueqing Building, where three big men are in charge... The shopkeeper, the shopkeeper?"
Zhou Shi quickly covered his mouth, but it was too late. This exclamation just drowned out the noise in the store. For a moment, all the guests and waiters stopped and looked at Zhou Shi dumbfounded.
Zhou Shi smiled slightly, raised his hand and pushed back his dirty hair, straightened out the pieces of clothing on his body - or rather, the strips of cloth, and successfully pulled off a large piece of fabric.
He cupped his fists and said: "Everyone, eat slowly, drink slowly, remember to pay the bill and say goodbye."
Then, dive into the backyard.
There was an explosion in the front hall, and the guests were scrambling to guess what happened to Shopkeeper Zhou.
"Shopkeeper, did you meet a thief?"
"Look at how many government officials and thieves have turned to selling sweet potatoes on the streets now!"
"That means, fell into the river?"
"How could you tear your clothes like this after falling into the river? Look, tsk, tsk, I'm afraid I was beaten by a woman!"
"Go, go, shopkeeper Zhou is a serious person, not like you!"
"Hey, don't believe it, I just saw him coming out of Yichun Garden two days ago..."
Agui was busy appeasing the guests, quelling the rumors, and asked Xiaosi to go see the shopkeeper.
"The shopkeeper's, the shopkeeper's?"
Xiaosi knocked on the shopkeeper's door and heard a weak voice coming from inside:
"Your shopkeeper is gone. From now on, I am the leader of the Jiangdu Beggar Clan..."
"Shopkeeper, calm down! I'll get you some clothes."
"No, bring me a dustpan. My face fell to the ground and shattered. I'll sweep it up..."
"Shopkeeper, don't let your imagination run wild!"
"Leave me alone."
It took Zhou Shi a while to send Xiao Si away, and he sat on the bed for a while, dazed, before taking out new clothes from the cabinet and changing into them.
In fact, he was not considered dirty, because the monster mucus in the catfish monster's stomach was washed away when he was spit into the river and washed into the shallows.
However, his whole life was extremely dirty.
He held Xu's inner elixir in his hand, thought about it, and called softly: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty?"
The beads were slightly hot, and a stream of smoke spread out from them, and the figure of Lady Xu appeared in the smoke.
"What's the matter?"
"We are here, would you like to come out and take a look?"
Lady Xu turned her head slightly and looked in the direction of the lobby.
After a long time, she turned her head and softly uttered two words: "Very good."
Zhou Shi breathed a sigh of relief and said: "As long as you like it, I will make a memorial tablet for you tomorrow, light the incense, and then..."
"Why did you hide it from them?"
Zhou Shi was stunned.
"Uh, what do you mean?"
"You didn't want them to know that it was you who saved me, so you deliberately changed the subject and used a joke to fool me." Lady Xu said calmly, "Why?"
Under her gaze, Zhou Shi suddenly recalled his childhood. Whenever he did something bad and wanted to hide it from his mother, his mother would look at him with this look, making him involuntarily shy away. p>
Yes, when Lady Xu was talking about her experience in the belly of the catfish monster, Zhou Shi quickly interrupted her and turned the topic to how to settle Lady Xu, in order to cover up the fact that she entered the belly of the catfish monster and successfully escaped.
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Of course, this kind of handling method can easily arouse suspicion, but Zhou Shi had predicted before that he would not be able to stop Lady Xu from talking about her experience of being rescued, and would have to interrupt the topic arbitrarily, so she used a very rude
He used homophonic jokes to interrupt Xu Niangniang, and then kept making jokes, giving others a glib impression and ignoring this sudden turn.
As for the reason...
He couldn't lie in front of Lady Xu, not only because of her majestic and tolerant gaze, but also because of her spiritual consciousness crushing mortals, which was more powerful than any torture!
"Because I don't want to reveal my own methods."
"Why?"
Zhou Shi felt that it was a bit difficult. Although Xu Niangniang had been practicing for thousands of years, she didn't understand people's hearts, so it was difficult to explain clearly to her.
"If that village could hide your existence, maybe the war wouldn't break out."
Under the pressure of his spiritual consciousness, Zhou Shi could only answer like this.
Whether Empress Xu understands or not is not something he can guess.
"But some of them noticed it."
"I know." Zhou Shi sighed.
Fu Yujiang and Ruan Hunxiong are relatively rough and should not notice it. However, Zhang Huanming, who is highly educated, must be very interested in how Xu Niangniang escaped from the predicament, and getting along with Yu Heng made him discover that this corpse buryer was not the person he used to be.
It's as out of place as you think.
"Your companion was captured."
"Whether he is my companion remains to be discussed," Zhou Shi said.
When Yu Heng's sword was applied, Zhou Shi and others did not react at all. They could only watch helplessly as his burial shovel was taken away by the government officials on the corpse boat.
At that time, Zhao Xuan, disguised as a follower, said to him: "Shopkeeper Zhou is really efficient at work. He was lured out so easily. On behalf of the government, I would like to thank you."
She had said so, what else could Zhou Shi do? Not to mention that Zhao Xuan, as a gold medal agent of the Ministry of Justice, must be very powerful, and the government was behind her. Even if they could save Yu Heng, they would not be able to escape the government's pursuit. It sounds a bit unkind, but Zhou Shi has no intention of fighting for Yu Heng, and I'm afraid the same is true for others.
Moreover, Yu Heng, who had been captured, looked calm and even winked at Zhou Shi to signal him not to be impulsive.
It seems that Yu Heng has his own way to escape.
"He'll be fine, I hope."
Empress Xu finally looked away, showing her longsightedness.
"You guys really like to lie to people."
Zhou Shi knew that this "you" should refer to all human beings.
"Even among 'us', I am the one who likes to lie the most." He said with a wry smile.
Lady Xu pointed at his back and said, "Did you lie to others to hide that thing?"
Zhou Shi was shocked and quickly removed the iron abacus from his back.
"You...can you see the abnormality in this thing?" He was a little excited. Madam Xu has a high level of cultivation, maybe she can see the origin of the iron abacus!
"I can see that there are many different breaths in this thing...and many different memories, and..."
"What?"
"I think I've seen this thing before."
Zhou Shi's heart beat faster.
"Can you tell me more about it?"
"I... think it's very familiar, but I can't remember where I've seen it before." Lady Xu raised her hand to press her temples, her eyes wandering, showing a rare hesitation, "I have to recall it, after all, my memory is very long...
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As she said that, Lady Xu's figure slowly faded away, turned into smoke and dust again, and got into the inner alchemy.
Zhou Shi was stunned for a while, and suddenly felt that one of the iron abacus beads moved by itself, and a memory poured into his mind.
The reward of the iron abacus? Whose dead account did I calculate?
He didn't know why, so he stretched out his hand to a bead and flicked it gently.
……
Inside Jiangdu Yamen.
Zhao Xuan and Yu Heng sat on both sides of the table, each with a cup of tea in front of them.
Yu Heng carelessly picked up the tea cup and drank it all in one gulp, saying: "This good tea was left by Wu Zhaokun?"
Zhao Xuan did not answer, but lowered his head to study a token in his hand.
Not getting a response did not make Yu Heng's mouth idle. He played with the tea cup and said: "The better the tea in the yamen, the slower the case handling speed. Do you know why?"
Zhao Xuan finally put down the things in her hands and raised her head.
"Are you really from the imperial court?" she pressed.
"As you can see." Yu Heng pointed to the token she just put down.
"Fuyin Division? I've never even heard of it."
"Normally, three months ago, this was still a name that was still in the memorial. But it was quickly established after the emperor approved it."
"Oh, the guards of the Second East and West Factory are not enough, but there is another secret service agency? What are you doing? Is it because Cha Shangshu's mother is blind in that eye, or is the prefect drinking tea in the Yamen?"
"None of them."
Yu Heng put down the tea cup, crossed his fingers across the table, and landed in the middle of the black iron token.
"This is what we are checking."
His finger happened to fall on the word "Yin" in "FuYin Division".