The store of Maohe Chamber of Commerce is covered with a thick layer of dust.
The spider happily spun its web to catch mosquitoes. There was only a dusty-looking aisle in the middle of the house leading to the back door. After hesitating for a long time, Bai Bai finally walked into the store that looked like a dusty ancient tomb. The thermal sensor found that there was an infrared heat source in the backyard. , there are only two big living people.
Squeak~
Opening the back door, Bai Yu found that he seemed to be back in the mountains and forests of Nanhuang.
The weeds in the backyard are taller than people. Maybe they are flowering trees such as bonsais. Now their canopy covers the patio or even bears fruit. Only a stone path in the middle of the yard is not submerged, and a young man is struggling to pound rice.
"..."
Bai Yu was a little speechless. The door was blocked to the point where he was able to grind rice to support himself. He had been under guard for at least a year, right? If there is a pond in the backyard, rice will probably be planted for spring plowing and autumn harvest.
He took off his straw hat and put it behind his back, coughing to remind the man to say hello.
"Hmm, who is the person in charge of the Maohe Chamber of Commerce gathering in Gushan? I want to find out something."
The rice man paused, looked at Bai Yu indifferently, and opened his mouth to say something out of reflex. He probably thought that those people outside were looking for trouble and wanted to curse. Unexpectedly, it was a good-looking girl, and he stopped cursing immediately. Her thoughts were boring, and she was so short. In a flash of mental activity, he turned around and continued pounding rice.
"The fat man is in the living room, and I am the long-term worker in the store."
"Thank you..."
Walking around the weeds and fruit trees towards the living room, the courtyard, where cars and horses can usually be parked, is full of life. There is a well in the corner. Many clean clothes are dried by the well, and two chickens are pulling bugs in the grass. What a pity. If a store in a good location is in Bai Yu's hands, the oil-paper umbrellas will be much better.
The sun was shining brightly, and the living room with the door open was dim. Dust could be seen floating in the light that shone into the room.
Crossing the high threshold, Bai Yu squinted his eyes to adapt to the dim light in the hall, and saw a person sleeping soundly in a house full of firewood and chairs. The table and chairs were gone. They might have been sold to exchange for money to buy rice. A skinny man was lying on the mat, sleeping soundly. The quilt mat was like walnuts that had been in the hands of an antique connoisseur for ten years. It was as shiny as a beggar.
Where is the fat man? Is there any special talent that can evade induction?
"I'm looking for Fatty, the person in charge of the Gushan gathering of the Maohe Chamber of Commerce. May I ask where he is."
The man on the shabby mat was a little impatient when he was woken up, or he was often asked about his ability to break jars and smashed them, and he yelled and cursed in a daze.
"I'm just a fat man! Fat man, I've been so starved by you bastards that my front and back are so thin! I've already told you that I'm just a shabby shopkeeper who doesn't know anything. Don't you bother asking me every day?"
Turning around, the thin man was stunned.
"..."
"..."
Bai Yu didn't expect that this man who looked like dry wood would actually be called a fat man. It was so cruel to starve a person from a fat man to a thin man. As expected, people should not be weighed by their appearance.
The fat man didn't expect that the person who came to inquire today would be a good-looking girl. When he thought that he had not gone to Gushan Jiliu Lane for a long time to have fun, he immediately became energetic. He quickly spat a few mouthfuls to fix his hair and wiped it with his greasy and shiny sleeves that had not been washed for a long time. The face and the clean clothes beside the emotional well all belong to the long-term worker.
Carp stood up straight and put on a playful smile.
"I've met the girl. I'm so polite. I don't know what the girl wants to ask. I must have nothing to hide. It's just that... I need to pay a certain price in exchange for my information. Hehe, there is no one here who is worse than us going to the cloud together." Wushan?"
Uh-huh!
Click~ The sword flashed, and a hole was cut in the stone tiles on the ground!
"Speak well and be reasonable."
A certain dragon had a cold expression, the straight horizontal knife in his hand shone with cold light, the fat man's back was covered in cold sweat, his calves were trembling, he was trembling, and his speech was unclear and speechless.
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"I... I see that the heroine is full of heaven and earth, she must be... a hero of the rivers and lakes... The adults do not remember the faults of the villain..."
The corner of Bai Yu's mouth twitched, and he resisted the urge to kill this smooth-talking man with a knife.
"Do you have any records of the entry and exit of cargo caravans here? I want to find someone. He probably went to Jiuli for trade the year before last and brought back a lot of property."
"The caravan trade book contains all the entry and exit records of the Maohe Chamber of Commerce in the past few years. The book is in the accounting room..."
"Which one? Has it not been taken away?"
Bai Yu is worried that the Maohe Chamber of Commerce will be rectified and the materials will be taken away.
"Those guys have no interest in the books. They just want to rectify the boss. They spend all their money and stuff and block the door every day. The heroine can rest assured that all the books are there."
Ugh~ Heng Dao returned to its sheath, and his face looked much better.
"Here is the heroine, please~"
"Be careful of the steps~slow down~"
The fat man led the way diligently and swept away the cobwebs while nodding and bending down like a real shopkeeper. The long-term rice grinder in the yard curled his lips and mocked the fat man for being shameless. This pair of superiors and subordinates was really a treasure.
When he came to a door, the fat man pushed it open, and then, without letting Bai Yu in or making any move, he stood blankly at the door with cold sweat breaking out on his back. The clothes on his back were soon wet, and his legs and legs were shaking even more.
Slowly turning his head, his smile was uglier than crying, and he looked at the rice grinder.
"Aniu! Where are the books in the accounting room?"
The long-term worker who asked A Niu stopped what he was doing to wipe the sweat from his forehead and cursed coldly.
"You are a plagued shopkeeper! The book was moved away by Mr. Lan last month! When did you take care of things when you were sleeping all day long! Who is the shopkeeper among us! No one can make money by working under you. Be free! Turtle son!"
The fat man smiled awkwardly and looked at the heroine in fear, fearing that the evil god would draw his sword again.
Bai Yu frowned.
"Who is Mr. Lan and where is he?"
"Mr. Lan is the manager of the Shen family in Gushanji who is in charge of Jiuli's business. He is called Mr. because he once won the imperial examination. He lives in the Shen family's chamber of commerce in the north of Gushanji. The heroine must be careful. That's all. These vicious people!"
Without looking back and waving his hands, he walked straight through the messy garden back to the shop, stepped on the face of an unconscious strong man and left.
There are a lot of influencers in Gushan Jinai, a major trade town between the Central Plains and Jiuli. This fat guy is not a good guy. He probably thinks that he will take advantage of a dog biting a dog. Little does he know that one of them is Jiao, but the book is definitely not in the Shen Family Chamber of Commerce. Wrong, the so-called Mr. Lan should not be interested in these records. I hope he won't burn the album.
When he came to the street, he put down his straw hat and bowed his head to leave.
Passing by a shop selling women's skirts, I went in and slipped in silently. Yingying Yanyan changed into a common skirt in Gushanji, changed her hair accessories into a gauze scarf to cover her face, and left holding the sword she had trophied many years ago.
After walking around, I found the location of the Shen Family Chamber of Commerce. Seeing that it was still early, I simply ran to the market for a stroll.
At night.
A man in black sneaked into the Shen Family Chamber of Commerce without a trace. He evaded the martial arts masters who were watching the night and went straight to the accounting room. After searching for a long time, he found the account book of the Maohe Chamber of Commerce. It took nearly an hour to find the records of the previous year and find something suspicious.
The desk and chair were too high and the chair was too short. I had to put Mr. Lan's body under my feet to feel the right height.
"On the sixth day of March, a caravan entered the Southern Wilderness carrying 500 kilograms of salt and earned twenty pack horses. The details are unknown..."
"The person in charge, Pan Xiong..."
Tear off the pages, close the book, and put it back in place to erase the traces.
"It's interesting. Five hundred kilograms of salt can be exchanged for twenty packhorses of gold and silver. There is a salt mine in Jiuli Heibu. The taste is a bit bitter but it's not particularly lacking in salt. Haha, it's quite valuable."
