After hearing what the old man said, Hong Nianke's anxious heart calmed down a little, but then Hong Nianke asked again: "But...why did you help the Zhen family build such a house back then?" ?Who designed this house?”
The old man seemed to be waiting for Hong Nianke to ask what he had just said. After listening, he nodded slightly and said, "Girl Pianzi, these two sentences of yours are the answer to the question."
Hong Nian didn't speak, she just looked at the old man.
The old man rubbed his teeth a little, and his expression seemed to be thinking about what to say next. After a while, the old man said: "Why did we old guys build such a shabby house back then? You will know this later." I found it myself...due to time, I can only tell you here that the person who designed this place is named Hu..."
"Another surname is Hu?" Hong Nianke was stunned for a moment. He quickly looked at the piece of wood he had been holding in his hand and asked, "Who is this person..."
The old man didn't wait for Hong Nianke to finish her words, then interrupted her and said, "That's right! They are the same person."
After the old man said this, he stopped talking and looked straight at Hong Nianke.
Hong Nianke was a little paralyzed by the old man's knife-like eyes. It took him a while to squeeze out a few words through his teeth, "I...I understand! Uncle Master, let's leave this place first!"
The old man nodded and said: "Well! Come here... we are not far from the outside!"
After saying that, the old man turned around and walked forward again, with Hong Nianke following closely behind him.
Without saying much, the two people walked one after another for less than ten minutes. As soon as they arrived at the Zhuqi Gate, they appeared in front of them.
The old man stood still in front of the gate and said calmly: "Girl Pianzi, please give me a mark. After you go out from this gate, walk forward for about a mile. You can pass a small bridge. After crossing the bridge, you will see On a road with three forks, you have to take the leftmost road. After about 2 to 3 miles, you can see the main road... Do you understand?"
Hong Nianke silently repeated the old man's words in her heart. After making sure that she had really remembered it, she nodded and said, "I remember it!"
The old man said: "No matter what happens in the middle, don't stop, no matter what happens, don't look back, and no matter what happens, don't speak... Can you remember these three points?"
Hong Nianke was stunned when he heard this and said, "This is... what is the reason for this?"
The old man stared and said, "I tell you what to do, and you do it... Where is there so much nonsense?"
Hong Nian could see that the old man was anxious, so he immediately said nothing more, clasped his hands into fists, bowed to the old man, and said: "Young disciple Hong Nian can just say goodbye. I will do my best to comply with your blessing, but... …But……"
The old man said: "But what?"
Hong Nianke said: "But... after I found that person and killed him according to your request, how did I inform you?"
The old man looked at Hong Nianke and said word by word: "Don't worry about this! As long as you do what I said, I will naturally go back to find you!"
Hearing this, Hong Nianke nodded and said, "In that case, I will resign now."
After saying that, Hong Nianke turned around and was about to push the door out, but at this moment, the old man stopped her and said, "Wait a minute!"
Hong Nianke stopped when he heard this, turned to look at the old man and asked, "Do you have anything else?"
The old man smiled slightly, then took out a red cloth bag from the pocket of his coat, handed it to Hong Nianke, and said: "This man is old and his memory is not very good! I guess you have stayed here for so long. I must not have a penny in my hand... As the saying goes, a penny stumps a heroic man. You are here to do something for me, the old man. No matter what, I can't make it too difficult for you... Take it, this is for you... …”
With that said, the old man stuffed the red cloth bag into Hong Nianke's hand.
Hong Nianke took the cloth bag, opened it, and found that there were five solid gold bars inside.
This gold bar is half as long as the back of your hand, four to five centimeters wide, and no less than three centimeters thick. The gold bar is a trapezoid with a wide top and a narrow bottom. It should have been engraved with something on the surface, but it has been deliberately carved at this time. worn away.
Hong Nianke weighed it with his hands and found that each gold bar weighed at least three to four hundred grams.
"According to the current gold price of 234 per gram... the price of this gold bar is more than 90,000 yuan..." Hong Nianke secretly thought: "Rounding up, if each gold bar is calculated as 100,000 yuan, these five gold bars That’s five hundred thousand…”
Thinking of this, Hong Nian couldn't help but look up at the old man in front of him, and thought to himself: "How could he have so much money after staying in a place like a ghost market for so long?"
Hong Nianke was thinking secretly in her mind, and the old man on the other end suddenly said, "What? Do you still dislike this little girl?"
Hong Nianke heard this and hurriedly raised his hands and said, "How can I dislike Shao... It's just..."
"Just what?" the old man asked impatiently.
Hong Nianke thought for a while and said, "It's just... I just feel that the money is a bit too much. I don't dare... nor can I accept it..."
The old man snorted coldly when he heard this, and cursed: "You damn girl, you talk so much nonsense! Old man, I'm not giving you money for nothing, I want you to use the money to do things for me! You're all fucking talking about me. We don’t have much time, why are you here with me because of this thing? Do you think I won’t be able to close my eyes until I die?”
Hong Nian could see that the old man was really angry, so he didn't dare to say anything more. He quickly cupped his fists and said, "Disciple is wrong!"
"That's wrong, just get the fuck out of this place!" As he said that, the old man quickly stepped forward and pushed Hong Nianke out of the door, and then pushed the red-lacquered door of Zhen's house with a "bang" sound. Locked up.
Let's not talk about the surprised and helpless Hong Nian outside the door. Let's just talk about the old man in the Zhen family's old house. After pushing Hong Nianke out of the house, he couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.
At this moment, a person slowly walked out from the steps on the second floor, "What? Did she notice something strange?"
The old man standing in front of the door didn't panic at all when he heard the sound. He seemed to have known about this person's existence for a long time. The old man sighed, looked back at the man on the second floor, and said, "I don't think she noticed anything strange. …”
The person on the second floor is none other than the owner of this old house, Zhen Junyi.
