Quick Wear: I am the shopkeeper at the Merit Pawn Shop

"I'm not in a hurry here. I need a great talent like you around me."

"I'm going to settle down in the capital in the future. If you need anything there..."

"Sir, I have a need. The capital is also my main development direction in the future." After saying that, Sun Youtai ordered someone to hand over five hundred taels of gold.

Shen Mo didn't take the five hundred taels of gold seriously, but it was definitely a generous sum.

Shen Mo finally chose to accept the gold. The Sun family was developing in the capital, and he could make use of the Sun family's identity.

"I can promise you, but I need absolute freedom. It's up to me whether to help you or not. And one more thing, I will only listen to you."

"Okay, I agree." Even if Shen Mo didn't say it, he would ask Shen Mo to only obey his orders.

Manager Sun talked about Shen Mo's strength. He killed dozens of bandits without blinking an eye. It is not easy to recruit such a master.

Shen Mo got his new ID and said goodbye to Sun Youtai.

Looking at Shen Mo's leaving back, Manager Sun said: "Fourth Master, if we give him the gold, what if he doesn't come? Should we send someone to follow him?"

Sun Youtai looked far-sighted: "Even if a master like him wants to leave, do you think our people can stop him?"

The original intention of giving gold was to make friends. It would be best if Shen Mo could be recruited and accept the favor. If he didn't buy it, he wouldn't lose anything. If he met the same person again one day, he would still have the friendship of giving gold.

"Remember, you can only make friends with people like this, and never offend them."

After Shen Mo left the Sun family, he found someone following him on the road, and he shook off the person in a few moves.

By the way, let Fat Cat keep an eye on who the person who is tracking will report to.

"Is there any need to explain this, boss? It must be your new employer. He gave you five hundred taels of gold."

Shen Mo smiled without saying anything. If Sun Youtai was a smart man, he wouldn't have hired someone to follow him.

It turned out that Shen Mo's guess was correct.

Half an hour later, the gang couldn't find Shen Mo, so they went back to report.

"You really guessed the shopkeeper right. It's not Sun Youtai, but Sun Youde from the second branch. He is furious now! It seems that he was the one who leaked the whereabouts of the caravan to the bandits. Now the surviving kidnappers want to settle the score with him. This dog-eat-dog drama is really exciting." The fat cat watched with relish. It couldn't get off the stage, but it was good to just watch it like this, just as a show.

Shen Mo touched his chin: "I said that the robbers on the road seemed to have eyes, it turns out there is a traitor."

"The Sun family is a bit treacherous. Don't you understand the principle that when one prospers, all rise and fall together?" The rabbit was confused.

"The royal family is fighting to the death for the imperial power, let alone the merchant families." Shen Mo sighed.

Qingyuan Town, Shen's family.

After the news that the second master of the Shen family had won the second place in the imperial examination reached the Shen family, a buffet was held for three days, and the entire Shen family was proud of it.

Old Mrs. Shen's status in the family also rose rapidly.

From a widow who struggled to make ends meet with two sons, she suddenly became the wife of an official. Who wouldn't be envious?

At the same time, in the most inconspicuous west room in the yard, a young woman was crying while holding her two young daughters.

The older daughter followed her mother and cried heart-wrenchingly, while the three-year-old son looked at a loss.

Her little mouth was pouting, and she looked like she was about to cry.

At this moment, the door was opened, and an old woman with a mean face and holding a fire stick stood in front of the mother and her two children.

The red-hot iron rod, which had not yet cooled down, was used to hit the young woman.

"You, a jinx, are crying. My family's good life has been ruined by your crying."

Fortunately, the eight-year-old girl pushed the woman in time, otherwise she would have been burned with blisters on her body.

"Grandma, my father just passed away and you couldn't wait to beat my mother to death. You're leaving no chance for us two siblings to survive. Children without mothers are like grass. Xiao Yuer, we two siblings are going to be orphans in the future, wuwuwu!" The eight-year-old girl cried out of breath.

The three-year-old brother also started howling when he saw his sister crying more and more sadly.

"Shut up, your father is just missing, he's not really dead. Why are you crying? If something happened to my son, it would be because of you, a stinky woman." The old lady pointed at the woman she pushed down ferociously.

The little girl pointed at the old woman with her hands and shouted, "Grandma, so you killed your husband? You killed my grandfather when you were young, and now you have killed my father."

The old woman waved her large hand like a palm-leaf fan towards the little girl.

"What did you say, you little bastard? Go to hell and stop talking nonsense!"

The slap did not land on the little girl's face. She looked up and saw her mother standing in front of her.

The imagined pain did not subside, and the old woman's hand was grabbed by someone.

The old woman looked up and saw the face of an unfamiliar middle-aged man.

"You, who are you? Are you the mistress that this cheap woman found?"

The old woman's words were extremely vicious in this era. Shen Mo couldn't help but chuckle in his heart when he saw the old woman's attitude.

"Bunny, Fat Cat, ask the client, is this how her mother raised her two children?"

Because according to the client's description, Shen Mo said that his mother had worked very hard to raise a pair of children, so he was very conflicted about whether or not to take revenge on his mother.

Shen Mo was not interested in the client's reply, because most people have a natural filter for their mothers.

"Madam, please be careful with your words. I am a friend of Brother Shen and I admire his literary talent. He is currently serving in the capital and asked me to come and take his wife and children back to the capital."

"You, you are talking nonsense." The old woman's eyes were erratic, and she was even a little panicked. Her youngest son had sent someone to tell her that the eldest son had fallen off a cliff. Now the youngest son had replaced the eldest son as an official in the capital, and the youngest son had been favored by the Marquis's Mansion and was about to become the Marquis's son-in-law. How could she let the eldest son's wife go to the capital at this time? Even the eldest son's wife could not survive.

Shen Mo said this mostly to test the old lady. Now looking at the old lady's reaction, Shen Mo realized that the old lady really knew that the younger son would replace the eldest son.

Shen Mo also told Fat Cat the result.

"Fat Cat, go ask the client what he thinks."

Fat Cat almost rolled his eyes.

"I looked through the laws of this era. Filial piety is above all else. Parents can sell or kill their children. Otherwise, it is considered treason. Oh, I also found a very interesting story. A couple gave birth to a child, but the mother could only support one of the child, so they buried the child to support the mother in her old age. Haha, this is really ridiculous. If he can't support the child, then what's the point of giving birth to the child? What's the point of getting married?"

Shen Mo's head started to throb with pain after hearing this. What the hell was going on?

When Shen Mo came to his senses, he saw that the woman and her two children on the ground looked visibly relieved, and some of them were crying with joy.

"Sir, is it true that my husband is not dead?"