"Mr. Chen, Mr. Chen! I've heard the news, I've heard the news!"
As soon as he met Chen Muwu at the gate of Ma's house, Xiangzi told him with excitement that the matter had come to light.
Chen Muwu thought someone was coming to find him. He glanced at the old ladies from the neighborhood who were basking in the sun in the corner, and took Xiangzi to a deserted corner outside the alley.
"What did you find out?"
"After I went back, I asked some brothers at the car factory like this, hey, guess what?"
Chen Muwu knew that he was showing off his merits like this just to get some reward money, so he took out a handful of copper coins from his pocket and put it in Xiangzi's hand: "You continue."
Xiangzi was not polite. He took Chen Muwu's money, put his hand into the front of his chest, and put the money into his inner pocket: "Everyone said that in recent times, they have had sex with either Westerners or foreigners. He is an Oriental, and occasionally Chinese, and has been to the Heiyaochangtan area, and he always went there in the dark before dawn.
"Later, we were chatting, and suddenly a guy came over and said that he once took a father-in-law who came out of the palace at the same time and to the same place. The key is that this father-in-law also carried a large one with him. box.
"Then we all got together again and calculated the time. It seems that every Sunday, there is this kind of ghost market in Heiyaochangtan.
"As soon as I heard the news, didn't I rush over to find you?
"Mr. Chen, what do you think? Tomorrow is Sunday. Are you interested in going to Heiyao Changtan? How about I come to pick you up at Yinshi tomorrow?"
"Hey, this..." Chen Muwu gasped and pretended to be very sorry, "Xiangzi, that's really unfortunate. I have a lecture tomorrow at the university hall, and I'm afraid I won't be able to make it."
He took out a few more silver coins and continued to put them in Xiangzi's hand: "But thank you for telling me such a useful piece of news. If you accept these few cents Xiaoyang, you can treat it as a trip to my place." As a reward, if there is any news in the future, please pay more attention and help me find out more."
He, Chen Muwu, is not a fool and will not obediently jump into a circle specially designed for him by others.
The day after arriving in Beijing, Chen Muwu, who was sitting in a foreign car, vaguely revealed too much personal information during his conversation with Xiangzi.
Not to mention anything else, just the fact that he showed interest in buying the treasures leaked from the palace can let interested people know that he has a wealthy master.
After all, the rare treasures in the palace were collected from all over the country and even overseas during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Any piece you choose is worth a lot of money.
If someone can have ideas about this kind of thing, is he still short of money?
He knows people but not their hearts. The Xiangzi in front of him seems to be honest and kind, but who knows what he is thinking in his heart?
Yinshi is three o'clock in the night, which is the darkest time of the day.
As the saying goes, "When the moon is dark and the night kills people, when the wind is high and fires are set off," who would go to the dark kiln pond in the middle of the night with a rickshaw driver whom he has only met twice?
Did Xiangzi set up a trap with others to get some Xibei goods to pretend to be palace treasures and defraud himself?
Or should he simply not even bother to make a fake, just use himself as a meat ticket, kidnap him and demand a ransom from his house?
A gentleman does not stand under dangerous walls. Chen Muwu believed that it was not impossible to go to Heiyaochangtan, but he must not go with the honest and honest coachman Xiangzi in front of him.
"That's... okay, Mr. Chen, I'll go back first. I'll come here to find you when I get some other information."
"Waiting for good news. By the way, Xiangzi..."
"What's wrong with Mr. Chen?"
Chen Muwu asked the question he had been hiding in his heart: "Let me ask one more question, do you know how to raise camels?"
"Camel... I have only seen that thing a few times in the camel team from outside Fuchengmen. Let alone raising it, I have never even touched it!"
Well, it seems that this Xiangzi is not the other Xiangzi, or that this Xiangzi has not been captured by the warlord and has not yet "exchanged" a few camels with his newly bought car.
Chen Muwu sent Xiangzi away who sent the information with a few cents.
Not going to Heiyaochangtan with Xiangzi does not mean that he will not go to Heiyaochangtan himself.
Chen Muwu kept an eye out again: What if he was over-attentive and Xiangzi didn't lie to him, and Heiyaochangtan was really a place where palace people guarded and traded stolen goods?
It would be better for him to go there and see it in person, he would be reassured after seeing it with his own eyes.
When Chen Muwu returned to Ma's house, he immediately borrowed a phone and called Fushun Taxi Company to order a taxi. He agreed to pick him up at Dongbanqiao at four o'clock the next morning.
This was the result he came to after much thought. A taxi costing three yuan an hour was a bit expensive these days, but it was better than safety.
After arriving at Heiyaochangtan, he could hide in the car and ask the driver to speed away if he encountered danger, and no one could do anything to him.
Chen Muwu, with his wishful thinking crackling in his heart, returned to his house and counted his belongings.
Xian Dayang still had about twenty or thirty coins, and there were five small yellow croakers in his clothes. In addition, his second brother Chen Muping, who had a cold face before leaving home, was muttering about "a poor family can get rich" while stuffing twenty coins into his younger brother. A ten-yuan national currency exchange note issued by Zhangjiang Industrial Bank.
Because of the credit bankruptcy of the Nationalist government caused by successive wars, the banknotes issued by the Bank of China and the Bank of Communications, headquartered in Beijing, were not as strong as those issued by banks in the southern Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas.
Although the "medium notes" and "delivery notes" issued by these two banks have a one-to-one exchange rate for silver dollars printed on the notes, it is already quite difficult to exchange them for one-to-0.6 in the market.
As for Jiang Industrial Bank, there is a building in the Tianyi concession as the northern headquarters. The banknotes it issues are exquisite and difficult to copy, so the currency value is still strong in the north. Even if it cannot be exchanged in full, at least it can be exchanged. More than 90%.
The total of Chen Muwu's property is less than 500 silver coins. I wonder if this money can be used to search for pearls in Heiyao Changtan tonight and find something good.
He only left a dozen or so coins outside to pay for tonight's fare and to prepare for emergencies. Then he rolled up all the rest of his property and placed it close to his body.
Chen Muwu picked up his pen again and left a note for the Ma family, stating that he would take Fushun Company's No. E train to Heiyao Changtan tonight.
The reason he did this was that if he didn't come back tomorrow morning, someone who entered the house and found this note would naturally call the police to find him.
Although in this era, the policemen who only do extortion and harm are still unknown whether they will seek justice for them.
After finishing all this, Chen Muwu took the time to lie down on the bed, wind up the horseshoe watch on the bedside, and set the alarm clock for 3:30.
He had to race against time to recharge his batteries, as there was a big job waiting for him in the middle of the night.
