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The two walked around the city for a while, and after getting a general understanding of the local situation, Fang went to visit the city lord.

Bai Chan has some old entanglements with his grandfather's family, and the relationship is not good.She didn't want to reveal her identity, so she picked out a lacquer mask and put it on, calling herself Fu Wan's guard.Fortunately, there were a lot of people surnamed Bai in Nanjiang, so the guards let her in without any doubt.

The residence of the city lord is located in the tallest tower in Baiyujing. The sunny side of the tower overlooks the entire bustling city, while the dark side is the bottomless black water river, faintly heard the sound of roaring waves that never stop.

The city tower is ingeniously designed, most of the rooms are connected with yin and yang, and you can see the scenery on both sides.

Fu Wan knelt down in such a living room and waited quietly.Bai Chan knelt not far behind her like a shadow.

The wooden-floored interior smelled of faint spices. In the center of the room was a large and delicate embroidered carpet with two lions and beads. Seats were placed around it, and a tulle-masked maid leaned over to offer tea utensils.

Fu Wan glanced over, and saw exquisite silver vessels inlaid with various gemstones, pigeon blood, emeralds, amber... It almost dazzled the eyes at a glance.

The aroma of tea and milk rose densely, and she vaguely felt a little restless, not because of the hot tea in front of her, but because of the gaze cast by the people behind her.

Bai Chan looked at her quietly, her eyes were calm and focused, as if she couldn't see anyone else except her.

Thinking of this person's nonsense for several days in a row, Fu Wan felt his ears warm up, and his whole body felt a little dry.

She moved her crossed legs slightly.Bai Chan noticed immediately, she whispered: "Your Highness is not feeling well?"

Fu Wan shook his head.

Bai Chan frowned and looked at the maid, and said coldly: "Is this how you treat guests?"

The maid was startled, and hurriedly fell down on the ground, her forehead trembling against her upward palm.

"Forget it," Fu Wan said, "I'm sorry to bother you to invite your master again."

The maid responded.At this moment, the wooden sliding door painted with colorful patterns slowly opened.

Fu Wan followed the sound and saw that the person who came was a tall and slender woman in complicated clothes, about half a head taller than Bai Chan, holding a folding fan lazily in her hand.

Her dress is made of gauze, and the style is very different from that of the Central Plains. Through the sleeves, she can see her forearm covered with bright red patterns. In addition, she also wears a lot of silver decorations, which make a pleasant clatter when walking Extremely.

Fu Wan just glanced at her and was attracted by her eyes.

The lower half of the woman's face is hidden behind the folding fan, only revealing a pair of bright eyes, the shape of the eyes is like a fish, and the tail of the upper eye is painted with orange-red goldfish tail pattern with cinnabar.

At a glance, the swimming fish seemed to come to life, extremely beautiful and weird.

The wooden door closed behind her, and the woman lazily looked at the two of them with an arrogant tone: "My father is ill, and I will temporarily act as the city lord for the time being, Your Highness forgive me."

After she finished speaking, she didn't wait for Fu Wan to answer, and went up to the table on her own.

Fuwan didn't expect the city lord of Bai Yujing to be such a maverick woman, he was stunned for a moment, then Fang smiled and said, "Gu Jiu heard about 'Bai Yujing in the sky', and seeing the city lord's beauty today, the rumors are indeed true."

The woman was making tea when she heard this and giggled: "Your Highness is boasting that my concubine looks like a fairy?"

Fu Wan immediately noticed the sharp gaze from behind.She didn't dare to talk anymore, she just raised her glass as a gesture, and then drank it all in one gulp.

The woman covered her lips and smiled again: "Your Highness, you don't have to be so polite, just call me Mrs. Baidie."

The two flattered each other, and Madam Baidie cut to the chase and asked her why she came to southern Xinjiang this time.Fu Wan didn't mention the epidemic, but only said that he came for disaster relief in southern Xinjiang.

Mrs. Baidie thanked her, and said: "Your Highness should have seen along the way, Baiyujing has not been affected by the drought, and several cities further south have received our help, and the situation is improving. You can take a good rest in the city Day, and then set off for Beijing."

Fu Wan scolded the old fox from the bottom of his heart, without revealing anything on his face, and agreed with a smile.

Mrs. Baidie left the two of them for lunch, and she ordered someone to take them out.

Leaving the City Lord's Mansion, Fu Wan said to Bai Chan: "Something is not quite right."

Bai Chan glanced at her coolly, but said nothing.How clever Fu Wan was, he immediately knew that this man had turned over the jealousy, and smiled and touched her hand.

Bai Chan waved her hand symbolically, but without breaking free, she half pushed and half pulled.

Fu Wan thought to himself that this man could kick Helan's little prince around for three and a half weeks with just one kick, and he couldn't get it out with a single hand?Just pretend.She understood it, and clasped her ten fingers: "Go to the jade shop?"

Bai Chan frowned and wanted to refuse, but the source of the infectious disease in the city has not been found yet, so it is very dangerous to rashly go to crowded places.In the end, he couldn't hold back her, so he went along with him.

Fu Wan said he was visiting the market, but he really did.

She squatted down and looked through a few white jade bracelets. They were of average quality, but white was white, but there was not enough water.She even looked at a few of them like this, she weighed the jade pendant, raised her eyebrows and said: "Are you looking at me to deceive me? Do you dare to take out this kind of thing?"

Although she has changed into ordinary clothes, she is still imposing and majestic, so the shopkeeper dared to neglect her, and hurriedly greeted her: "Oh my little aunt, it's not that I don't want to sell you, it's that there are really no good products left these days..."

"There are no new products recently, so what about the old ones? Will they all be sold out?"

The shopkeeper showed hesitation.

Bai Chan skillfully touched the silver and came out.

Then the boss lowered his voice and said: "Ham, you two don't know something, just half a month ago, a group of big businessmen suddenly came and collected all the good things in our whole street. Now there are still The rest are either newly opened jade or treasures at the bottom of the box."

Fuwan murmured, "Businessman?"

"Hiss, it's strange to say that I have opened this store for more than ten years, and I have never seen those merchants." The boss scratched his head, "From the accent, they seem to be from the north."

Fu Wan: "Where is the north?"

The boss said, don't embarrass me. I have never been out of southern Xinjiang in my life. How can I know the difference between northerners?He thought for a while, and suddenly remembered something, so he told Fu Wan and the others to wait, and went to the shop by himself.

After a while, he sneakily touched a piece of silver: "I can't say anything else, but the silver they gave... seems to have a special shape."

Fu Wan's face changed when he saw it.She took the ingot of silver into her hand, with a solemn expression: "Is this silver used by those people to buy jade?"

The boss nodded and said nervously, "Yeah, what's the matter? Hey, remember to return it to me after reading it."

Fu Wan pursed her lips and remained silent.Baichan immediately gave the boss two ingots of silver, and said, "We have other uses for your silver."

The boss was a little puzzled, thinking that these two people are a bit stupid, how can there be such a good thing as two for one?

At this time, Fu Wan had restrained his expression, put the cash in his arms, and said casually: "The epidemic in the city is so severe, don't you worry about opening the door to do business?"

"Worried? I'm only worried if I can't eat!" The boss shook his head and sighed, "Since the strange disease became popular, the production of jade has decreased a lot, and we can't get the goods. Look at this street, why is the business so sluggish? Sample!"

He sighed frowningly: "I don't know when Lao Wang will recover from his illness. It's a pity that there are so many jade pickers, but he is the one with the best skills."

Fu Wan: "Does the jade picker get sick?"

"That's right," the boss said, "Don't you know? It seems that the disease first became popular in the shacks in the west of the city. Most of the people living there are jade pickers."

When leaving Yuqishikou and walking towards the west of the city, Baichan couldn't help asking Fuwan: "What's so special about silver?"

Fuwan's face was gloomy, and she turned over the silver to show her, only to see that the bottom was roughly worn, but the official seal could still be vaguely seen.

Fu Wan said: "This is the official bank." The corners of her lips twitched, "I think I found the 'disaster relief funds' from those cars that were robbed. If you want to be greedy for life-saving money, aren't you afraid of choking to death?"

Official silver is not circulated in the market, and each piece has a special stamp, unless it is melted and recast, it is extremely difficult to sell.Those people were obsessed with official money and spent a lot of money, and they were lucky not to be discovered only in places like southern Xinjiang, where the sky is high and the emperor is far away.

Fu Wan thought further.She could tell at a glance that these people were probably not ordinary robbers.

——If the locals really robbed the silver, they can spend it slowly in southern Xinjiang. Anyway, there are no merchants here who can tell the difference.If the path is wider, you can even melt all this batch of silver and recast it, and you can sit back and relax from now on.

But this group of people was different, they hurriedly exchanged this batch of silver for jade articles. There was only one explanation, the batch of goods was probably going to be transported back to the north.

The person who robbed the silver may be in the court, and it is not impossible to even guard and steal.

Thinking of this episode, Fu Wan frowned, and his whole body was filled with awe-inspiring aura.

"When I find out the truth, I will definitely make him regret living in this world."

During the conversation, the two had arrived at the shed area that the store said.There were no people on this street, the wind blew through the gray yellow mud and gravel road, and there were two rows of low wooden houses beside the road. The two of them had just walked a few steps forward when they noticed many curious eyes cast from those wooden houses.

Fu Wan suddenly grabbed a little boy who ran past her with his head down.

The boy didn't wear shoes, and the rough clothes were a little stiff, revealing a pair of red feet from the cold.

Fuwan squatted down, calmly opened his encircling hands, took out her purse and shook it: "Huh?"

The boy still insisted: "What are you doing! This is my mother's purse!"

Fu Wan raised her eyebrows, pulled open the purse and turned it over to show him, only to find that there was no money in it, only a few stones.

The boy's expression changed.

Fu Wan said: "I don't have any money with me. In this way, you can answer me a few questions, and the answer is good, this sister—" She pointed to Bai Chan who was standing coldly beside her, confidently, "She will I will give you silver envoys."

Bai Chan: "..."

Boy: "..." He didn't know what aura was, but the girl in white could see the sword so long around her waist, so he didn't even dare to touch her purse just now.

Bai Chan sighed, and spread out her hands, a broken piece of silver lay on her slender jade palm.

The boy's eyes straightened immediately.

Fu Wan smiled: "Do you know a family named Wang?"

The boy regained his senses and looked her up and down vigilantly: "There are many people surnamed Wang here, what are you doing?"

"Wang Jinfa, the jade picker, the one who fell ill a while ago, do you know him?"

The boy pursed his lips: "No."

Fu Wan was surprised, he didn't expect this kid to have such a tight mouth.She said: "You can think clearly, you don't want money anymore?"

Before the boy could speak, a man next to him said with a scowling face, "My lord, I know where Wang Jinfa's house lives. Shall I take you there?"

The boy suddenly raised his head: "You!" He raised his arms in front of the man, puffed out his chest desperately, like a bluffing little hen, "I won't let you go! Isn't it enough to take Uncle Wang away? What else do you want to do?"

It was taken?Fu Wan and Bai Chan looked at each other.

The man lost his patience, grabbed the boy like a chicken and threw him into the haystack by the side of the street, staring straight at the broken silver in Baichan's hand, reaching out to grab it.

Fuwan ignored him, only pulled the struggling boy to stand up again, and said patiently: "We are not bad people, we want to treat him."

The boy's eyes were red, he kept struggling, and wanted to bite her with his mouth: "You are lying! That person said the same thing last time! But Uncle Wang went and never came back! Xiaoyu and Auntie are crying every day..."

Fu Wan thought about it, and leaned over to his ear and said a few words.

The boy stopped moving: "Really?"

"That's right," Fu Wan lied to the child without blushing, "The boss heard that the Wang family is in trouble now, so he plans to pay for their leftover jade materials."

The boy frowned: "But...how can Boss Xin's guy not know his family?"

Fu Wan smiled: "The epidemic is raging now, which guy is willing to step into the shanty town? The boss has no choice but to hire outsiders. Have you seen the sword that the girl is wearing? We are just people from the rivers and lakes who are begging for a living." Fu Wan also turned his head to talk. Cicada smiled, "Xiaobai, show me a hand?"

Bai Chan: "..."