flstandardbreds Chapter 107 Yuzhu
Chapter 107 Yuzhu
Gang Leader Yu rolled his eyes and replied, "That's a lot! Chenyi City has been very busy recently. Besides you, Prince Yue Liang has also been here. Oh, and the young lady from the Fangfeng family is currently in Chenrong Mansion. I wonder which one you want to ask about?"
Tu Shanjing was about to speak, but I saw his expression change, and his eyes passed over the gang leader and looked at the altar in front of the statue.
In addition to the tribute fruits, there were two vases on each side of the altar, filled with flowers and bamboo. When I first entered the temple, my eyes were not used to the dimness and I didn't see anything unusual. Now that I have adjusted for a while, I can see that the flowers are gorgeous but ordinary, and the bamboo is unusually green, as if it were carved from jade.
Gang Leader Yu followed his gaze and said with a smile, "Oh, young master, you like this bamboo? It's really elegant! This bamboo was found by a gang member on the street a few days ago... He took it from a bag and put it in a vase because it looked pretty. If you like it, you can take it."
Tu Shanjing hesitated for a moment and said, "Thank you for your kindness, Boss. But I don't know... who got this bamboo from?"
Gang Leader Yu looked at the lean man beside him and asked, "Is it you? Tell me, where did you get it from?"
The man stood up and bowed, then said in a muffled voice, "To answer the leader and young master, I saw a group of people in dark green suits transporting some things in front of a beef noodle shop in the city a few days ago. When they were counting the carriages after dinner, they didn't notice the carriages they had counted, so they just picked up a bundle. This bamboo and some other small things were wrapped in that bundle."
Gang Leader Yu looked at Tu Shanjing and asked, "Sir, is there something wrong?"
Tu Shanjing smiled slightly and said, "It's nothing, not a big deal. I just don't know if this big brother saw where this group of people went in the end?"
The man shook his head and replied, "I left after I succeeded. I didn't see where they went."
My mind suddenly turned and I blurted out, "Chen Rong Mansion! They went to Chen Rong Mansion!"
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone in the room looked at me, but the expressions in their eyes were different.
Tu Shanjing was confused, Gang Leader Yu was shocked, and the man who answered showed fear.
The man hurriedly clasped his fists and said to the leader: "I was careless! I saw that their clothes were not the color of the servants of Chen Rong Mansion, so I thought they were some ordinary rich family transporting some things, but I never thought..."
It was a very cold day but sweat was oozing out of his forehead.
Gang Leader Yu glared at him and remained silent.
Tu Shanjing asked me, "Did you see it in the mansion?"
I replied, "Sir, that's right. But those servants are not from Chenrong Mansion. They are from Fangfeng Mansion helping Miss Fangfeng carry her luggage."
Now, Gang Leader Yu also broke out in a sweat. He wiped his forehead with his torn sleeve and said awkwardly, "This... we really don't know! This... Lao Wang, quickly lead them to the back room and return everything they took that day!"
The man responded, stood up, and said to me, "Miss, please follow me."
Tu Shanjing looked at Ruiyang and said, "Ruiyang, go with her and take a look."
Ruiyang stood up and followed the man into the back room with me.
Things were piled up in a small room at the back. The room was dusty and dirty, and the air was not very good.
Those broken things that had been piled up for who knows how long were piled up on the ground in a haphazard manner, with a smell of dust mixed with sweat.
The man took out a black cloth bundle, handed it to Ruiyang, and said, "Here, it's all here."
Ruiyang opened the bag and looked inside, then exclaimed, "Huh?!"
Upon hearing the sound, I leaned over to take a look, and saw two large cakes, a purse embroidered with brown satin and banana leaves and trimmed with gold, a fire starter, and nothing else in the bundle.
Maybe it was because I was too close, I could smell the odor in the bundle, my chest felt churning, and I couldn't help but cover my mouth.
Ruiyang hurriedly took the bag away and said to me, "We have got the food. It doesn't smell good here. Let's get out quickly."
I couldn't wait to get out and lead the way.
Maybe I was walking too fast and was bumpy. As soon as I got back to the front hall, I felt my chest churning up to my throat and I vomited.
Thinking that I couldn't spit out in front of everyone, it would be too rude, I covered my mouth and forced myself to suppress the words.
When Boss Yu and his men saw me like this, they looked at each other. Boss Yu raised his hand, and the middle-aged woman came over and helped me back to the chair.
The woman helped me sit down, glanced at my belly, and whispered, "Your body is precious, so don't go to those dirty places. Drink some tea to calm it down."
I took the tea she handed me, squeezed out a "thank you", then looked at Tu Shanjing and smiled weakly to show that I was fine.
When he saw that I was fine, he relaxed his frown.
At this time, Ruiyang asked, "Brother Wang, did you see who was carrying this bag?"
The man surnamed Wang rolled his eyes and thought for a while, then slapped his head and said, "I remember now! Although the bag was thrown on the carriage when it came out, it was carried by a short young man before it entered the store. He had a square face, a big black mole by his mouth, and a hair on the mole."
Tu Shanjing and Ruiyang looked at each other, and Ruiyang said, "This thing belongs to someone I know. If the gang leader has no other use for it, we'll take it back now."
Gang leader Yu waved his hands repeatedly: "Take it, take it! We hope that the young man will say a few good words for us when he returns it. We really didn't know and didn't mean to offend you."
Ruiyang smiled and said, "Okay, okay! There's nothing valuable here, so don't worry too much."
Gang leader Yu bowed repeatedly and said, "Thank you, young master, thank you, little brother. If you need to know anything in the future, just send someone to ask us, and we will tell you everything we know. If there is anyone who needs to be monitored, just tell us. We don't have any other spies in our gang."
Tu Shanjing smiled and said, "Thank you, Boss. If we need anything in the future, please give us more advice." After that, he drank the tea in the cup and stood up to say goodbye.
Boss Yu and his gang were already terrified, so they didn't try to keep us. They pulled out the jade bamboo and put it in there, and sent us straight out the gate.
After we had ridden the carriage for a while, I dared to lean forward and lift the carriage curtain to ask Ruiyang: "Ruiyang, you said that thing belonged to someone you know, who is it?"
Ruiyang drove the carriage while answering, "It's Guanglin, also from our Tushan Prefecture. He and I bought this purse together when we were at the temple fair. The seller said she embroidered it herself, and the pattern is unique, so I recognized it at the first sight."