These days, running a silver shop isn't easy either. They've all been taken over by the city lord's mansion. There's only one shopkeeper and one assistant left in the shop. The shopkeeper is idly leaning against the counter, dozing off, while the assistant is yawning and sweeping dust with a feather duster.
Seeing Qi Qi in her flowing white dress, with a hazy veil over her head, he could tell she was a wealthy young lady. The waiter immediately woke up the shopkeeper.
"Miss, you've come to the right place! Right now, in this entire Sifang City, only Fuyuelou has the best selection of goods..."
Qi Qi raised his hand to stop him, his voice urgent yet measured: "Shopkeeper, how about you do me a favor?"
The shopkeeper hesitated and said, "Miss, this is a legitimate business..."
Having served as a grand eunuch for so many years, Qi Qi had no problem manipulating an ordinary person. He arrogantly declared, "This young lady is from the City Lord's Mansion."
The display case's expression changed.
After giving him the letter, Qi Qi went out and breathed a sigh of relief as he wandered into a side alley. The letter didn't say anything else, just that Qi Qi had been taken away by Gu Siyan. Chen Da Niang was illiterate, so she would definitely take the letter out to read it, which would probably buy him some time.
There were beggars in Sifang City, and Qi Qi didn't dare to go too far. Even so, a beggar who was squatting in the corner stared at him with wide eyes.
I didn't dare move because I was starving and had no strength.
Qi Qi walked over, holding a tael of silver in his hand and waving it in front of people's eyes: "Do you want it?"
The beggar nodded frantically.
Qi Qi: "Very good. Go to the back gate of the city lord's mansion and find the gatekeeper. Tell him a few words for me... After it's done, you'll get double the money."
The beggar has gone.
Qi Qi crouched quietly in a dark corner, waiting for someone. Afraid of being discovered by passersby, he moved further behind a tree with its bark peeled off in the alley. During this time, he encountered three ordinary people passing by together. Their eyes met, and the three grinned and pounced on Qi Qi, only to be met with Qi Qi's fist, which was as big as a sandbag.
The three men were beaten black and blue, and huddled in a corner, trembling with fear.
Qi Qi cursed, "Are you kidding me? You can't even walk without crutches and you still want women? Go to hell!"
"Shameless! Bastards! Scum! It's a disgrace to have people like you in Sifang City! Are you even men? Do your elderly mothers, wives, and daughters know what kind of people you are?!"
"Miss, it's just the three of us brothers left in our family..."
Qi Qi: "...So that means you can do this kind of thing? Where is your morality? Where is your bottom line? Where is your conscience? Won't you feel guilty when you think about this later?"
Bad people will definitely not feel guilty. Qi Qi said this mainly because he wanted to stand on the moral high ground and beat them up again. They were really too infuriating. If he let them go like this, who knows what they would do in the future!
"We...we're planning to hang ourselves tonight..."
Qi Qi crossed his arms and asked, "Hanging? Why?"
"The rice in our rice jar is almost empty, and we really can't go on like this..."
Upon hearing this, Qi Qi couldn't help but show a hint of sympathy in his eyes.
Seeing this, the three immediately pressed on, saying, "Since Father passed away half a year ago, Mother also fell ill and passed away. The merchants in the city have all left, and we can't find any work. All our money has been spent on food and drink, and we don't have a single copper coin left. There is work at the docks, but it's for an old man who only gives us a bowl of bean porridge a day..."
"I can't go on living, I can't go on living, Miss..."
When the conversation turned to something heartbreaking, the three brothers embraced and wept bitterly.
Qi Qi murmured, "They're so pitiful..."
The three brothers glanced at the purse at Qi Qi's waist and howled even louder.
Then, Qi Qi raised his fist and asked, "But what does this have to do with you wanting to do bad things?"
After saying that, he walked forward with a cold laugh and started hitting them repeatedly.
The three retreated in terror: "No, no, don't... Ah!"
Qi Qi sneered: "Serves you right for not learning good things, for bullying innocent women passing by! You think being poor makes you right?"
"..."
After stretching his muscles, Qi Qi looked at the three people in front of him and asked in confusion, "Aren't you going to leave?"
Qi Qi shuddered. Had he really gotten his fill of beating them up...?
The three men pointed to the door behind Qi Qi and stammered, "You, you're blocking our door..."
Qi Qi: "..."
"Why didn't you say so earlier! Don't you have any sense? Didn't you see my legs are sore from beating you? Where's the stool?"
The three looked at each other in bewilderment, then quickly pushed and shoved each other, and hurriedly ran into the house.
Qi Qi sat behind the tree and waited, glancing at the time every now and then, thinking to himself that this couldn't go on; Huangfu Yi must be having some kind of fuss...
They wanted to escape, but were afraid of being stopped at the city gate.
After waiting for an hour, as dusk approached, just as Qi Qi was about to figure out how to escape, a head popped out from the alley entrance. Qi Qi's eyes lit up immediately: "Here! Come over here!"
It was the same little beggar from this morning, but he was all alone. Qi Qi frowned, his voice unreadable: "Did you deliver the message?"
The beggar looked frightened and said with difficulty, "Miss, it's not that I don't want to take it, it's that I can't..."
Qi Qi: "Stop stammering, just say it!"
The beggar said, "I went to the back gate of the city lord's mansion as you instructed, and I was about to knock on the door when suddenly a shout came from inside. The gate was opened from the inside, and four or five horses came out, followed by a group of soldiers with torches. It looked like they were chasing someone!"
Qi Qi was startled. Could it be that Gu Siyan's city defense map had been discovered?
"Did you get a good look at what those people looked like?"
The beggar said, "How could I dare to look, miss? Those people almost didn't notice me. I was so scared that I squatted there for ages. People were coming and going at the door, and I didn't dare to go..."
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