Zhao Rang ordered the deputy shopkeeper and two assistants to take the "hunchback" to a secluded room and keep him under careful supervision.
Ximen Dazhuang felt that the last words of the "hunchback" were a bit too strange, and he couldn't help but feel a chill in his back. After Zhao Rang saw his discomfort, he said:
"What are you afraid of? You can scare him enough to wet his pants just by raising your hand."
After hearing what Zhao Rang said, Ximen Dazhuang regained some of his magnanimity and even volunteered to guard the hunchback.
After everyone left, Zhao Rang stood in the courtyard, looking up to the sky and sighing. He ordered to a waiter who was still nearby:
"Get paper and pen and bring them to my room."
The waiter complied with the instructions. Although he felt in his heart that Zhao Rang was definitely not a person who could read or write, since he wanted to do it, he would do it. Offending him was the most unwise thing to do in Chagan Tologeri right now.
"Come on, let's go back to the house and talk."
Then he called Ye Sanniang and Yuan Kexin to come into the house together.
As soon as the door closed, Yuan Kexin couldn't hold it any longer. She sat at the table and murmured to herself with tears in her eyes:
"Is my brother already dead..."
It's been several days since they came to check Gan Tuoluo Gai's efforts, and they haven't even seen the shadow of Yuan Mingkong. Moreover, the feather arrows that have been traced from the Western Region Merchant Alliance have also disappeared. Yuan Kexin does not know what the significance of their being here is.
He couldn't see anyone, he couldn't catch the arrow, and he didn't even know whether he was alive or dead.
Zhong Jiaban, Shen Liushu, Tuozi, Xiaolan, and the deputy shopkeeper who is all about kung fu, who are these people? What is their relationship to each other?
In the past few days, Kexin has not intervened in specific matters. Thinking that bystanders will know better, standing aside and watching, he should be able to grasp the overall situation more accurately.
I didn't expect to see what I saw now, but the more I looked at it, the more confused I became, and I almost forgot my original purpose.
Under such chaos, Yuan Kexin began to doubt everyone, even Zhao Rang.
Especially when she saw that the hunchback had a layer of "shame" on his face, she was even more frightened...
After shedding tears, she turned her gaze to Zhao Rang, staring straight at his face, to be precise, the side of his cheek and the position of his jawline, and said:
"You are Zhao Rang, right? Do you promise that you are Zhao Rang?"
Zhao Rang was sorting out the messy people and clues in his mind, but he couldn't react immediately to Yuan Kexin's sudden question.
After such a short pause, Yuan Kexin went completely crazy, picked up the teapot on the table, and threw it at Zhao Rang's head.
At the critical moment, Ye Sanniang reached out and stopped, not only stopping the teapot flying in the air, but also Yuan Kexin's body, and then said softly:
"He is Zhao Rang, good sister, listen to my sister and stop making trouble!"
These simple sentences seemed to contain magic. Yuan Kexin was slightly startled after hearing this, then nodded and sat back at the table again. Apart from looking a little dull, he actually calmed down completely.
As for the teapot, Zhao Rang caught it steadily and put it back on the table.
"I've long heard that there are illusionists in the world, but I didn't expect that the boss lady can do it!"
Ye Sanniang waved her hands and said:
"I don't know any illusions... It's just that my martial arts cultivation is too many levels ahead of you, so I used my strength to temporarily force the cognition into her mind."
Zhao Rang asked worriedly:
"Is this going to be okay?"
Ye Sanniang replied:
"Nothing will happen, don't worry! This is just to let her calm down temporarily. After the madness just now, she will still be fine!"
Zhao Rang nodded. Ye Sanniang would not lie to him, and she had no reason or need to hurt Yuan Kexin.
However, Yuan Kexin’s suspicion just now was really interesting. Zhao Rang couldn’t help but ask:
"You never doubted me?"
Ye Sanniang asked back:
"What do I suspect of you?"
Zhao Rang said:
"I doubt that Yuan Kexin is suspicious, am I Zhao Rang?"
Ye Sanniang pursed her lips. She had always thought Zhao Rang was very smart, but now she felt that he was not as smart as she thought!
But this is also true. After all, it is difficult for people's cognition and understanding to transcend their own knowledge. The reason why Zhao Rang makes Ye Sanniang feel smart is because he was born in the Zhao family and is well-informed. Now I feel that he is not smart enough because after all, he only has a fifth-grade martial arts cultivation level and is still a long way from the true face of this world.
But when he asked this question, Ye Sanniang still had to answer.
In this case, speaking directly can easily hurt someone's self-esteem. Zhao Rang is not as shameless as Ximen Dahuang's group, but he actually thinks of himself as an immortal.
After thinking about it, the most straightforward thing came to mind:
"Because sister, I am a third-grade martial arts master!"
As soon as he said this, Zhao Rang immediately shut up.
The gap in realm can change everything without any specific explanation. As long as Zhao Rang didn't reach Ye Sanniang's rank in one day, he wouldn't even be qualified to ask further questions.
So he honestly kept his mouth shut.
At the right moment of embarrassment, the man brought pen and paper.
Zhao Rang took away the teapot on the table, made room, and spread the paper flatly on the table.
Ye Sanniang crossed her hands and walked aside, opened the inkstone, dripped some water into it, and began to submerge it.
The setting sun shines in through the window lattice, casting a little warmth, and it looks like the years are peaceful. Looking at Ye Sanniang's slender hands that were constantly rotating and grinding, Zhao Rang's mind moved for no reason.
"Think of what you want to write quickly, random thoughts will delay the business!"
Zhao Rang wanted to ask Ye Sanniang how he knew that he was in a state of confusion just now, but the answer he got was probably "I am a third-level martial arts master", so he thought it would be better not to humiliate himself.
Soon, Ye Sanniang finished grinding the ink and gently pushed the inkstone to press the upper right corner of the paper. In this way, the inkstone can also be used as a paperweight, killing two birds with one stone.
Zhao Rang picked up his pen, dipped it in thick ink, and then wrote two strange words on the paper.
The first character is three 'small' characters falling together, "四". The second character is three 'heart' characters in the same way, "惢".
After writing these two words, Zhao Rang put down his pen and waved his hand in front of Yuan Kexin, but she grabbed his wrist.
"You said it, I'm listening!"
Yuan Kexin was completely attracted by the two words on the paper. She immediately thought that these two words must be related to the note with three "cautions" written at the beginning.
Although she didn't recognize the notes on the note, somehow Yuan Kexin always believed that this note must have a lot to do with his brother Yuan Mingkong!
Now I see these two strange words written by Zhao Rang on the paper, and if I take them apart, don't they exactly turn out to be three "cautions"?
Seeing that Yuan Kexin had regained consciousness, Zhao Rang pointed to these two words and asked:
"Do you know these two words?"
Yuan Kexin shook his head and said he didn't know.
Zhao Rang explained:
"Let me talk about the second word first. The three hearts are falling, which means doubt. It is said that if there is fear inside, there is something wrong below."
"What do you mean by this guilt?"
Yuan Kexin frowned and recalled:
"We received the warning note not long after we entered the bank. We had not seen Shen Liushu at that time."
"If this word means doubt, there is doubt inside and there is something going on below. This word refers to the semicolon of Tongbao Bank?!"
Zhao Rang said with a smile:
"Yes, this word refers to the suspicious things in Tongbao Bank's semi-colon."
Considering what happened in the past few days, Yuan Kexin showed a look of surprise, but soon frowned and asked:
"What about the first word? Is it talking about Shen Liushu? Or is it the little lady he named?"
Zhao Rang shook his head and explained:
"The first word does not have any special meaning. Three little ones placed together are still small. But one small is small enough. Are three small ones placed together smaller, or even the smallest?"
Yuan Kexin took a breath and said:
"It means that there are many doubts in Tongbao Bank's semi-colon, so we must be careful and cautious. It is best to be like a grate, screening carefully to make sure nothing is missed!"
Zhao Rang said:
"Yes, that's the truth! The person who threw the bullets already knew that there were unusual problems in Tongbao Bank. But he didn't know the specifics, so he could only remind us in this way."
Yuan Kexin hesitated again and again, and finally asked:
"Is this person my brother? And Brother Zhao, how did you detect the ingenuity in this?"
Zhao Rang did not answer the first question, but picked up the pen again and wrote down three precautions on the paper.
The three words written carefully are much larger than those on the original note, but the positions and fonts are exactly the same.
After finishing writing, Zhao asked the person to tear off the piece of paper with three cautions written on it, cut it into the same shape as the note, and said to Yuan Kexin:
"Do you think the note is enlarged now?"
Yuan Kexin nodded.
She wanted to urge Zhao Rang to hurry up, but she was afraid that she would be distracted by talking and miss some important information.
Zhao Rang folded the two ends of the enlarged version of the note, held it in his hand, and compared it with the sunset shining through the window. After adjusting the angle, the shadows of the two strange characters were projected on the table!
"When I first opened the note, I was a little confused...Three cautions. Although the note is small, the space is large enough to write down, but why is it written in a crooked and unseemly way? It turns out it was meant to be like this!"
The reason why Zhao Rang didn't say how he came up with the idea was because he felt it would be too disgusting to say it...
This method came to him when he saw the hunchback peed his pants and the color of his gray cloth pants turned darker!
Light-colored trousers will completely change their appearance when they get wet, just like Yuan Mingkong has been using the fine iron box made by Boss Zhu to store maps. They have to borrow external forces to present the reality they want to express.
Thinking about the misalignment and arrangement of the six words in total on the note, Zhao Rang immediately understood it, so he quickly asked the clerk to bring paper and pen for verification.
"Think about it, besides you brothers and sisters, how many people can get something made by Boss Zhu himself?"
"Only those who have seen those two iron-box maps can understand how to understand that note! In the entire Chagan Tologer, I guess you and I are the only ones."
