Chapter 51: Smiling like a devil
When Su Luo glanced around, Mo Jin's fingers holding the bead curtain loosened slightly, and when the curtain dropped, it covered his face tightly.
There was a constant flow of carriages in Pingmingfang, and Su Luo didn't even pay attention to the luxurious carriage parked across the street.
Su Luo stood in the pastry shop next to the blacksmith shop and hesitated for a moment.
"What do you want to buy?" The waiter looked at the girl in front of him with a sly look.
He even glanced at the owner of the pastry shop several times.
Su Luo felt something was wrong when she was being stared at so frequently. She suddenly realized that the shopkeeper looked familiar. She then looked at the shopkeeper who was counting on the abacus at the counter. She was surprised to find that the two men had similar eyebrows and eyes, and they must be brothers.
So--
This pastry shop is also a black shop.
Su Luo pretended not to notice their scrutiny of her, calmed herself down and said, "Give me three pieces of basil cake and one piece of yellow peach and red date cake, and I want them sweet."
"Okay, take it!" The waiter handed it over attentively.
Seeing that she was really just buying something, the shopkeeper withdrew his hawk-like sharp gaze, and the waiter also withdrew his scrutiny.
After Su Luo left the pastry shop with the pastries, she found that the back door of this pastry shop and the silver shop were the same, that is, the courtyard was integrated.
There must be something fishy going on in the silver shop. There were a lot of people patrolling back and forth in front, left, right and back, about ten of them, all in plain clothes pretending to be shopping, but their activities never left the shop more than thirty steps away, and the pastry shop seemed like a place for surveillance.
It would be more reliable to sneak into the pastry shop and then sneak into the yard to rescue Aunt Dan.
Just as she was about to step into the shop again——
"Crown Princess?" A voice as gentle as the spring breeze sounded.
Su Luo turned around and saw that it was Wen Zixi.
"Master, why are you here?" Su Luo looked at him blankly and asked.
"I'm here to do something." Wen Zixi's smile was gentle, like a jade stone soaked in water, making people feel refreshed.
Su Luo didn't know that he was now temporarily acting as the Chief Justice of the Dali Temple.
"Just now I saw you buying cakes on the street."
Wen Zixi is a gentle and taciturn person. He rarely spoke in the Hanlin Academy before, and today he is one of the few people who took the initiative to talk to her.
"Yes, I bought some cakes." Su Luo's earlobes turned slightly red, and her bright eyes sparkled, as if shining with stars.
Wen Zixi's voice was gentle and clear, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth: "Is it delicious?"
"It's okay." Su Luo lowered her head, not daring to look at him.
Wen Zixi asked, "Can I try it?"
"Ah?" Su Luo was confused for a moment, then she unwrapped the oilcloth, took out a piece of cake and handed it over. "Perilla flavor."
Wen Zixi took a bite, and even the way she ate the pastry looked beautiful, elegant, and ethereal.
Su Luo was stunned for a moment, thinking back to the important matter. She didn't know what kind of suffering Aunt Dan had endured, so she hurriedly said, "Husband, father and son, I have something else to do, I'll leave first..."
"What's the matter?" Wen Zixi asked softly as he looked at the little girl who turned and left in a hurry.
"Ah?" Su Luo hadn't thought that Wen Zixi would talk so much today, but it wasn't the time to start a conversation, so she had to say, "I'm leaving now. I have something to do. Master, please do as you please—"
Wen Zixi looked at her hurriedly leaving back and smiled helplessly.
His smile gave people a feeling of revival and the warmth of spring. It was very healing and gentle. Su Luo didn't dare to look at him any longer and quickly looked away and ran away.
She had observed that there was a tavern next to the pastry shop. She could step on the tiles of the tavern, jump into the yard of the pastry shop, and go directly to the silver shop to rescue people.
Su Luo secretly covered her face with her sleeves, leaving only a pair of almond-shaped eyes exposed. She pulled out the green hairpin in her hair, stepped over the wall like a dragonfly skimming the water, and flew onto the rubble.
This scene happened to be seen by Mo Jin who was spying in the carriage.
There was three parts of ridicule and seven parts of sneer in Mo Jin's eyes.
Chen Song lowered the brim of his straw hat and exclaimed, "Miss Su's martial arts skills are quite good."
Mo Jin folded his arms, crossed his legs, and sat with his legs spread out, looking arrogant and presumptuous. Thinking of the way the young woman tried to please him, he suddenly found it amusing.
A hedgehog disguised as a kitten.
Oh.
It’s Wen Zixi again.
Su Luo, how dare you play tricks on me?
…
Su Luo had no idea Mo Jin was nearby.
She jumped down from the rubble several feet high like a nimble wild cat, supporting herself on the ground with her palms, bending her left knee and half-crouching, with her right leg spread out, looking neat and skilled.
He brushed the dust off his palms, looked at the footprints on the ground, and walked towards the back garden.
only……
The footprints disappeared in the back garden, where there were three osmanthus trees, several clumps of laurel and gardenia. In the middle stood a stone table and four stools. The footprints disappeared here, but no one was seen.
Where did that person go?
There is a wall behind the osmanthus tree, but it is just a wall.
There is a semicircular moving track on the ground in front of the wall. Su Luo, who has studied the art of mechanical expansion, believes that this should be caused by the rotation of the wall.
Su Luo took out a handkerchief and covered her palm, looking for the mechanisms one by one.
Just as she was frowning in search, the sound of footsteps came from the shop.
"Is the buyer's two kilograms of phantom cigarettes ready?"
"Don't worry, shopkeeper. It's ready and waiting for you to pick it up."
Su Luo quickly flew up to the bushes and hid.
The next moment, the shopkeeper and the waiter walked to the rockery and pressed a button, and half of the wall of the back garden slowly moved.
This confirmed Su Luo's guess.
"The lady who just followed the buyer was knocked unconscious by us and put in the tunnel. What do you think we should do with her?" the waiter asked again.
The shopkeeper said, "You dared to follow me into my Forbidden Opium Pavilion? You are really asking for your life. You even dared to eavesdrop on the secret code. Now that the secret code has been discovered, I will tattoo the word 'slave' on your face and sell you into the slave market."
When the wall was tightly closed, Su Luo came out from behind the tree. "Buyer? Non-smoking?"
This is actually a no-smoking place?
The hairpin spun around her fingertips a few times, and then she pressed the mechanism, and the wall slowly moved again.
There was a one-way tunnel inside. If the shopkeeper and the waiter turned around, they would definitely see her.
Su Luo had a serious expression on her face. When she reached the end of the path, she actually saw a basement covering half an acre of land.
The basement was divided into ten small rooms, and a strong sense of disgust emanated from the cracks of some of the doors.
At this time, a servant came over with tea. Su Luo knocked him out and changed into his clothes. Half an incense stick later, she lowered her head and mingled with the servant, holding the tea.
There are many addicts who buy non-smoking products here.
She spotted it with her sharp eyes... Li Jiaojiao?!
The third room was half-open, and through the crack in the door, Dongyan could be seen lighting a cigarette for Li Jiaojiao.
In front of Li Jiaojiao was kneeling Shaoyao, crying bitterly.
Shaoyao cried and begged, "Please give me another chance, young lady. I will never do it again!"
Li Jiaojiao took a deep puff of her cigarette, then gave Shaoyao a fierce kick with her embroidered shoe, cursing, "Once unfaithful, I'll never use you again. I'll sell you off. You can give me money or buy cigarettes. It's all fine."
The shopkeeper showed a perverted smile, squatted down and clamped Shaoyao's chin: "This look can be sold first without green
After the building is worn out, it can be sold as a fire-making maid. If the fire-making maid is no longer useful, it can be sold as a
Human flesh."
Li Jiaojiao smoked a cigarette and smiled like a devil: "So what do you think, with this look, how much cigarettes can I get in exchange? Half a pound is okay?"
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