Volume 2: A sudden change in the prison, a red-clothed man goes out to find a thief Chapter 212: This Mingzhou City has a big problem
When Li Si walked out of the teahouse, he was still holding the red paper umbrella. The rain curtain hanging from the edge of the umbrella half-covered his face, making it difficult for people around him to see his appearance clearly.
He used his jade pendant as collateral and exchanged it for two hundred taels of gold notes from the servant in Fengyu Tower.
This is not him trying to cheat Fengyu Tower. The jade pendant he used was not made of ordinary jade. Even if he really sold it, it would probably fetch two or three hundred taels of gold.
However, the jade pendant is of no use to him now. It would be better to exchange it for money to save a person and consider it as a good deed.
Holding an umbrella, I walked towards the street. The raindrops hit the umbrella, making bursts of light sounds, just like the beautiful scenery of the south of the Yangtze River, which is often gentle and soft.
"Heh." As if suddenly thinking of something, Li Si under the umbrella shook his head and chuckled for a while.
I never thought that my reputation as a thief in this life could be exchanged for two hundred taels of gold. It's not a loss at all.
Thinking of this, he curled the corners of his mouth, casually placed the red umbrella on his shoulder, and walked away slowly.
Only after watching the red umbrella disappear into the gray and black street did the waiter in the teahouse look down at the jade pendant in his hand with a complicated expression, then turned around and walked into the store.
He wanted to write a letter to Xiao Muchu.
…
The first rain of spring lasted for three days in a row, making people feel a little gloomy.
On this day in Wanhua Tower, Yan Ziqing sat alone in the pavilion in his backyard, silent.
If nothing unexpected happens, her mother will send someone to pick her up in the afternoon and take her to the rich businessman's house.
The courtyard of Wanhua Tower is much larger and quieter than Qianjia Tower. Surrounded by towering buildings and walls, people cannot see the outside, but only a small piece of blue sky. Today, even this piece of blue sky is covered with dark clouds.
Various flowers and plants are planted in the courtyard , with rockery and flowing water between the plants, and countless fish swimming in the water.
No matter how you look at it, this is a well-decorated courtyard. Spring is approaching, and the courtyard is full of green grass and flowers, which is a beautiful sight.
Unfortunately, people sitting in the yard now have no intention of enjoying the scenery.
She sat alone by the railing of the pavilion, looking at the trickling water beneath the pavilion. There was no spirit in her eyes. She just pursed her lips lightly and was in a daze.
Suddenly, her eyes turned red, she raised her hand and gently wiped away the tears in her eyes, but she held back and did not cry out loud.
It was very quiet all around, and the woman sitting in the pavilion repeated this several times.
Finally, she couldn't hold it in anymore and burst into tears. A tear fell to the ground and shattered.
The woman's shoulders trembled and she covered her cheeks with her hands.
She seemed to be crying uncontrollably, but still no sound came out.
"Why are you crying?" At this moment, a plain voice abruptly broke the silence of the courtyard.
Yan Ziqing, who was sitting in the pavilion, was startled, raised his head, quickly wiped the tears from his face, and asked in a cold voice with an unnatural blush.
"Who?"
"Guest." The voice continued to answer calmly.
Yan Ziqing glanced in the direction of the voice and saw two figures, one big and one small, sitting on the wall beside the courtyard. They were wearing black clothes, black face scarves, and holding a red umbrella, and they looked at her silently.
The drizzle was rustling, and everything in the yard was wet, with a thin layer of reflective light.
Under the red umbrella, the big figure looked a little lazy, his thin body slightly hunched , one foot on the wall, his arms supported on his knees. He held the red umbrella diagonally, just enough to cover the bodies of the two people under it.
The three of them stared at each other for a while. After a while, Yan Ziqing calmly withdrew his gaze and said slightly coldly.
"You are the first person to visit a brothel with a child."
Li Si, sitting on the courtyard wall, seemed a little embarrassed. He actually didn't want to be like this, but when he said in the store that he wanted to come to help Yan Ziqing, Ning Caihe insisted on coming along no matter what. He couldn't persuade her, so he had to bring this kid along as well.
Ning Caihe, who was sitting next to him, was also blushing. He had originally just wanted to follow his brother Si to rob the rich and help the poor, but who knew that he would see a group of beautiful women with rouge and powder, which made his heart beat fast. Fortunately, he brought a face scarf, otherwise he would be too embarrassed to see anyone.
There was silence in the yard for a while until Yan Ziqing continued to ask.
"How did you get in?"
Yan Ziqing was very calm at this time, even though she could see that these two people were obviously not legitimate guests, and might even be robbers or flower thieves.
But right now, her situation couldn't get any worse, so she was not upset.
Anyway, in her opinion, being bought by a rich businessman and being robbed by robbers are the same.
"I walked in." Li Si answered softly without hiding anything.
"Really?" Yan Ziqing responded indifferently.
Then, the atmosphere between the three of them dropped to freezing point again, and the silence was so frightening.
So Li Si asked the first question again.
"Why did you cry just now?"
"I didn't cry." Yan Ziqing directly denied Li Si's statement.
"I saw it all." Li Si calmly narrated what he saw.
"That has nothing to do with you." Yan Ziqing's tone became even colder.
"But you are a prostitute." Li Si said while holding an umbrella, "Isn't it your duty to sell your smiles?"
After saying that, he took out a ball of paper from his arms and threw it to Yan Ziqing.
"I paid for you, so smile for me."
"Heh." Yan Ziqing sneered, turned around and looked at the paper ball that fell beside her and said.
"I have been..."
But before she could finish her words, she was already frozen in place.
Because she found that the paper ball was actually two gold notes, two gold notes worth one hundred taels, with a one tael silver coin sandwiched in between.
"One hundred taels to redeem you. One hundred taels to let you go back and live a good life. And one tael of silver is my reward to you."
Under the red umbrella, Li Si said this.
In the rain, his figure seemed very blurry.
"This..." Yan Ziqing hadn't come back to her senses yet. She just stared blankly at the ball of paper on the ground for a long time before she slowly reached out and picked it up.
"you……"
But at this moment, footsteps were heard outside the courtyard.
Li Si looked in the direction of the voice, then pulled Xiao He beside him and stood up and said.
"It seems that I can't wait for you to smile today. You owe me. We're leaving first. Don't forget to pay me back next time we meet."
After saying that, he jumped off the wall with Ning Caihe.
"Wait a minute!" Only then did Yan Ziqing react and ran out of the pavilion to chase after them, but she could not catch up with the two people. She could only see a red umbrella floating away in the rain.
"Who on earth are you..."
Staring blankly in the direction where the red umbrella went, Yan Ziqing asked the last question that she didn't have time to ask, but she no longer got an answer.
The drizzle continued to fall, but in a trance, Yan Ziqing smelled a faint scent of medicine beside the wall where the two people had just been.
Was it from that person just now? She thought so as she tightly grasped the ball of paper in her hand.
…
Outside Yan Ziqing's courtyard, Li Si and Ning Caihe were about to leave Wanhua Tower, but suddenly, he heard a sound of breaking air behind him.
He immediately pulled Ning Caihe behind him, let go of the red umbrella, turned around and struck out with a palm.
"Bang!"
A muffled sound was heard, and the red umbrella was swept up into the air by the strong energy. A figure came into contact with Li Si and separated, and took several steps back.
Li Si leaped up, caught the red umbrella, and landed on the ground with Ning Caihe.
Only then did he see clearly the figure who had attacked him, and to his surprise, the person was none other than Wanhua Tower's mother, Madam Liu.
The woman was obese and short, but she was now slowly standing up and looking at Li Si seriously, speaking with some helplessness.
"You shouldn't be involved in this matter. Everyone has her own destiny. Why do you have to interfere?"
Li Si was stunned for a moment, then he chuckled and answered, "Then I am in charge now, isn't that her fate?"
Hearing Li Si's words, Mother Liu was stunned for a moment, then she narrowed her eyes.
"Two hundred taels of gold, you are really generous."
"A beautiful woman's smile is worth a thousand gold. I only spent two hundred taels. It's worth it." Li Si replied with a smile. The next moment, he used his lightness skills and took Ning Caihe away on the wind.
In the rain, the red shadow disappeared in the Wanhua Tower in a flash, leaving only scattered raindrops.
Mother Liu knew that she couldn't stop Li Si, so she stood there and groaned.
Then, she turned her head with a complicated expression and glanced at Yan Ziqing's yard. After a while, she seemed to have made a decision and stopped caring about it. She laughed again, twisted her fat body, and walked back to Wanhua Tower.
