Chapter 271 No, I won’t do it!
After careful inspection, there was no problem with the banknote.
There was nothing wrong with what the servants in Zhou’s mansion said before.
Now Jin Zhi observed with his own eyes that the waiter and the manager of the tea shop looked normal and did not seem to be hiding anything.
But if you think about it carefully, everything is fine, which actually seems a little abnormal.
It was not only unreasonable but also extremely suspicious to let a servant come out to buy tea during this sensitive period of search.
Jin Zhi thought for a moment, then ordered someone to bring a new silver note with the same amount as the one he had in his hand and handed it to the shopkeeper.
He then took the silver note that Zhou's servant had paid for tea and left the tea shop.
He stood on the street, staring at the banknote in his hand with a frown on his face.
What exactly is the problem?
"General, are we going back?" a soldier beside him asked cautiously.
Jin Zhi raised his head and his eyes fell on the soldier's face.
At this moment, his eyes suddenly paused and he turned his head sharply to scan the surrounding environment.
This is a market town in the capital city, where all kinds of things are sold.
There are various shops near the tea house.
This kind of place is the most crowded and full of eyes.
Maybe everything is fine, but the servants' behavior of coming out to buy tea is problematic!
Is it possible that the message the servant really wanted to convey was never written on paper, but was conveyed to others through his action of coming out to buy tea?
As long as he appears here to buy tea, this action has already conveyed some kind of specific message invisibly.
The person receiving the message only needs to be somewhere nearby to ensure that he sees the servants from the Zhou Mansion appear.
The more Jin Zhi thought about it, the more he felt it made sense. He quickly stuffed the banknote into his arms and said, "From the beginning, I was wrong."
The soldier next to him looked confused, "General, what are you thinking?"
"It's okay. Go gather a team to blockade and search this area. Remember, no one is allowed to leave!"
The search operation in the capital is in full swing. Even when night falls, Daxing Street is still brightly lit.
The soldiers held torches high and searched carefully in each minister's mansion, leaving no corner untouched.
But there was silence in the palace, as if it had been forgotten by the noise of the outside world.
Xiao Luzi was busy doing his work as usual.
After delivering the goods this time, he can go back to the house to rest.
He walked to a corner and a hand suddenly reached out from the side and quickly pulled him into an empty corner.
Xiao Luzi was startled and looked carefully. It was indeed the palace maid who had come to see him that day.
He patted his chest and said, "Oh, why are you here again, sister? What's the matter this time?"
The maid looked around furtively, and after making sure that no one was around, she lowered her voice and asked, "What have you thought about the matter I told you before? Have you thought it through?"
"This... I don't even know what you want me to do, and you asked for five hundred taels of silver right away. I'm nervous to give you so much money. What if you ask me to do something extremely bad? Then I will lose my life without knowing why, and I won't even know how I died."
"Don't worry, it's not a big deal."
Xiao Luzi insisted on his own opinion, and said, "Sister, you have to explain it clearly. I need to know what it is before I can decide whether to do it. Five hundred taels is not a small amount. If you don't explain it clearly, I will always feel uneasy."
"Okay." The maid leaned close to his ear and whispered, "If the emperor orders you to go to the imperial prison to deliver medicine, you just need to put one thing in there. It's that simple. You don't have to do anything else."
Xiao Luzi jumped three steps away in fear, "Oh, you said it's not a big deal? Sister, you really know how to scare people! Do you know what the Imperial Prison is? If I dare to do anything there today, I'll have my head moved tomorrow!"
The maid smiled faintly, but held onto Xiao Luzi's clothes tightly, refusing to let go. "Brother, don't be afraid. Think about the five hundred taels of silver!"
"No, I won't do it." Xiao Luzi refused without thinking, "Sister, you should find someone else. It's still unknown whether the emperor will ask me to deliver the medicine."
After saying this, he shook off the maid's hand and turned to leave.
"Wait, don't go. How about this, I'll give you another 200 taels, 700 taels! This is more money than others can earn in their entire lives! You serve the master in this palace every day, how much money can you earn in a month? With these 700 taels, what can't you do?"
"Sister, I'm just a eunuch. You give me so much money, but I have no place to spend it in this palace." Xiao Luzi pretended to be moved, but still didn't want to agree easily.
The maid pulled him over again and said, "What if I promise you that I will send you out of the palace as soon as I get the job done? Right now there is an epidemic and the control in the palace is not so strict. I know a secret passage that will definitely get you out. With these seven hundred taels, you can marry a few concubines outside the palace!"
Xiao Luzi was silent and said nothing more.
Seeing that he was wavering, the maid kept tempting him in his ear, "Do you still want to stay in this palace for the rest of your life? If you're lucky, you might be able to work there until you're old like your godfather, but what if you're unlucky? You might get beaten to death one day and no one would care. As for me, I've wanted to leave a long time ago. If it weren't for my master, I wouldn't stay in this palace!"
"Didn't you enter the palace to earn some monthly wages? Now that you have money, why don't you hurry out and let others serve you?"
Xiao Luzi gritted his teeth and suddenly pulled the palace maid closer, pretending to listen to her. In fact, he quietly took out the algae powder given to him by Wang Decai from behind him and sprinkled it on her back when the palace maid was not paying attention.
"Sister, tell me again, what exactly should I do? Also, I need to see part of the money first, otherwise I will still feel uneasy..."
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