Chapter 15 Hanged at the Door of a Pawnshop

Taking advantage of the gap when the two guys were dodging, Liang Jinyu ran straight upstairs.

The shopkeeper saw this and shouted, "Stop her!"

Liang Jinyu rushed up the stairs in a few steps. Just as she was about to go to the second floor, a man suddenly walked out from the side and blocked the staircase.

Seeing that he was dressed in gorgeous clothes and looked young, Liang Jinyu said anxiously, "Master Xie, I have something to pawn for you!"

The man raised his eyebrows slightly when he heard this, and looked at Liang Jinyu with a hint of teasing in his eyes: "Oh?"

"Really, that was the hairpin my father left me, but your shopkeeper slandered me and said I stole it. Master Xie, you will understand once you see the hairpin."

"You little bastard, where are you going?"

As they were talking, the waiter caught up with them and started to drag Liang Jinyu downstairs without saying a word.

Liang Jinyu tightly grasped the handrail of the stairs and said anxiously: "Master Xie, you are from a wealthy family, do you still want to bully a weak woman like me? That hairpin is really mine, please ask the shopkeeper to return it to me! Master Xie, Master Xie, please say something!"

"Don't waste your energy. This guy is not our boss!" The guy sneered and increased his strength.

Liang Jinyu was in pain from being pulled, and after hearing this, he rushed upstairs and threatened: "Master Xie, if you don't come out, I will hang myself at the door of your pawnshop tomorrow! After I die, I will turn into a wronged ghost and come to settle accounts with you!"

“Ahem…”

There was a burst of rapid coughing, and then someone upstairs said weakly: "Let her come up."

After hearing this, the clerk let go of Liang Jinyu and said unhappily, "Why don't you go up quickly?"

Liang Jinyu rubbed his arms, glared at the man watching the excitement at the stairs, and then went inside.

There is a spacious hall upstairs. Facing the staircase is a landscape screen, through which several figures can be vaguely seen.

"Is Mr. Xie in there?" Liang Jinyu asked tentatively.

"I'm here," someone answered, the voice was hoarse but gentle.

He didn't seem to be a difficult person to get along with, so Liang Jinyu relaxed a little.

"The items I want to pawn are in the hands of the shopkeeper. Please take another look at them, sir." Liang Jinyu tried hard to make his tone sound sincere.

A stern-looking young man walked out, and went downstairs without looking around. The sound of him talking to the shopkeeper could be heard from the bottom of the stairs.

After a while, the young man came back with Liang Jinyu's silver hairpin in his hand.

The young man walked around the screen with the hairpin in his hand, but there was no movement for a long time. Liang Jinyu couldn't help but become nervous. She didn't know whether the same thing happened when Wang came to pawn the item in her previous life.

"Excuse me, what is your name, young lady?" the other party asked, his voice as gentle as before, without any change.

Liang Jinyu hesitated for a moment and said vaguely, "I am married and my husband's surname is Chen."

"I see. Sorry for the inconvenience." The other party coughed a few times, paused, and then said, "How much does Mrs. Chen plan to pawn?"

Liang Jinyu was unsure of what the other party meant, so she offered a conservative price: "Five taels for the live thing."

"make a deal."

...

Liang Jinyu left the pawnshop with five taels of silver, but she could never understand why the situation was so different from her previous life.

What went wrong?

Could it be that Mr. Xie had a grudge against her because she threatened to hang herself at the door of the pawnshop?

But when he spoke, he sounded calm and gentle, and he didn't seem like a narrow-minded person.

"What's going on?" Liang Jinyu frowned, looking a little worried.

Five taels of silver is too little and can't buy much food.

At the same time, on the second floor of the pawnshop.

Yan Xing leaned lazily against the door frame with his arms folded, his eyes following the slender figure until the other person disappeared in the crowd.

"Do you know him?" Yan Xing asked, turning to look at the young man sitting in the wheelchair behind him.

The man was in his early twenties, with unusually fair skin, a tall and thin figure, and handsome facial features that looked as if they were carefully drawn by an artist, with almost no flaws.

This person is none other than the eldest son of the Xie family - Xie Qingyu!

"Why do you say that?" Young Master Xie took a sip of tea slowly and asked with a smile. The two teardrop moles at the corners of his eyes were particularly eye-catching.

Yan Xing pretended to cough lightly and tapped the corner of his eye: "I recently developed a miraculous medicine that is specially used to remove acne and scars. The effect is very good. Do you want to try it?"

"I don't want to." Xie Qingyu did not hesitate and even smiled at him.

Yan Xing was helpless, so he walked to the table and poured himself a cup of tea: "Tsk, I didn't believe this before, but you have been really unlucky in the past two years--"

"How do you know I know her?" Xie Qingyu interrupted.

Yan Xing clicked his tongue twice and picked up the silver hairpin on the table. "When you saw this just now, your eyes changed obviously. Then you asked her what her name was, and I could tell that she was deliberately hiding her identity. How could you, the number one son of Suizhou, not know that? But you still made this transaction. What does that mean? It means that you already know her details."

"Tell me, who is she?" Yan Xing threw down the silver hairpin and asked, hugging his arms.

Xie Qingyu pointed at the black stone on the hairpin and said, "You should have seen this before."

Yan Xing picked up the hairpin again suspiciously, and after looking at it for a moment, he was still confused: "What do you mean, isn't this just an ordinary black star stone? This thing is not worth much, Chang Sui has plenty of it."

"But this is Shaozhou, 180,000 miles away from Changsui." Xie Qingyu reminded again.

Yan Xing habitually rubbed his thin lips with his fingertips, and suddenly realized: "I know, the hairpin must have been stolen by her!"

Xie Qingyu shook his head helplessly, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

"Black Star Stone is a specialty of Changsui. Although it is not valuable, it has special significance. The woman just now said that this hairpin was left to her by her father, which means that her father must have been to Changsui." After Xie Qingyu finished speaking, he pointed to the back of the hairpin for Yan Xing to see.

In the thirty-fourth year of Yuanqi, Mu.

Yan Xing's expression suddenly became serious: "At this time, if I remember correctly, Chang Sui was still fighting."

Xie Qingyu nodded and finally smiled with satisfaction.

"This 'Mu' should be her father's name, right?" Yan Xing said, and suddenly his expression changed as if he remembered something, "Could she be?"

Xie Qingyu nodded: "It's most likely her."

"My goodness, didn't they say that everyone was dead? She was so bold that she dared to pawn such a thing. Fortunately, you are here, otherwise she would have been sent to the government by the shopkeeper and her head would have fallen off by now."

Xie Qingyu fiddled with the silver hairpin, his eyes unclear: "Maybe he's in trouble."

"Judging from the way she's dressed, she's certainly not living well. Alas, a phoenix that has fallen to the ground is no better than a chicken. But since you knew it was her, why didn't you give her a little more money just now?" Yan Xing asked in confusion.

Although money cannot solve all problems, it can solve most of them.

Xie Qingyu handed the hairpin to the boy behind her and turned her wheelchair to the window.

The sky was gloomy and there was a strong wind. It seemed like it was going to snow again.

"The hairpin is only worth five taels." Xie Qingyu said in a businesslike manner.

Yan Xing raised his eyebrows: "But didn't her family do a favor to your family?"

Xie Qingyu lowered his eyes and said seriously: "I helped her conceal her identity, which was to repay the Liang family's kindness."

Yan Xing sighed, waved his hand and said, "Is it necessary to calculate it so clearly? You really don't want to suffer even the slightest loss!"