Seed dealers in ancient times

Zheng Jiangting didn't feel relaxed after a day of business, but was even more tired. After a day of talking and talking, his face was almost stiff, and his throat was dry and astringent.

After pouring a few large cups of warm water and taking a shower, his body felt more comfortable. Zheng Jiang tucked into the bed and fell asleep, even forgetting to close the window.

The sky changed at night, and the wind was blowing into the house. The wind in May was not cold, but the windows were swaying back and forth and rattling, disturbing some people who couldn't sleep.

The window rang continuously for a while, Zheng Jiang drank too much without drinking water, and was awakened by the surging desire to urinate, so he got up from the bed with his dry eyes.

After solving his internal emergency, he walked slowly to the window, and the cold wind with rain was blowing over the sky, and he suddenly became more awake. There is no moon or starlight tonight, and the sky outside is dark, as if it has already arrived. In the middle of the night, the lanterns of the inn were turned off, and it was quiet.

Zheng Jiang yawned in a muffled voice, and when he closed the window and was about to go back to the bed, a black shadow flashed past in the corridor.

How could there be people jumping around at this point?

The second floor is full of rooms with better facilities in the inn. You can eat, drink, and scatter together. There is no need to stay outside late at night, so don’t be caught by thieves.

Zheng Jiangting walked to the door softly, opened the door softly, and someone was going downstairs in the corridor.In the middle of the night, all the staff rested. In order to save lights, few lights were left in the corridor on the second floor.

Seeing the figure disappear at the bottom of the building, Zheng Jiangting opened the door and followed cautiously.

Zheng Jiang stopped looking for the shadow and followed all the way down the stairs. It was dark downstairs, and the figure disappeared in a flash.He wandered around in the dark for a while, but when he couldn't find anyone to listen to, he fell silent, probably lost.

He found the small side room on the first floor, and was going to call Xiaoer up to see if there was anything missing in the inn.

Just as he was about to knock on the door, he suddenly heard a movement again. This time Zheng Jiang stopped fucking the guy and went looking for the sound: "Who is it!"

The other party paused for a moment when he heard the voice, and was about to run upstairs. Zheng Jiang stopped and passed the stick.

Zheng Jiang stopped trying to catch up again, but suddenly the backyard was lit up, accompanied by crackling sounds.Zheng Jiangting's expression froze, secretly something was wrong, it was on fire!The direction of the fire is the place where they put the goods.

He watched the fire for a moment, and with a bang, the door burst open and rushed out. Zheng Jiang stopped chasing and turned into an alley he didn't know.

Zheng Jiangting didn't dare to chase after him, so he hurried back to watch the fire.

The goods are placed in the backyard, and people are guarded every day and night. In the past two days, a lot of goods have been sold, and the remaining goods are running out. Zheng Jiang is tired after watching everyone busy with sales. So the number of people guarding the goods was reduced from four to two.

He rushed back to the fire scene, and the fire had already ignited a large area of ​​goods, but at this time no one came to put out the fire.

Zheng Jiangting immediately picked up a washbasin and beat it vigorously: "It's on fire! It's on fire! It's on fire! Put out the fire!"

The two people who were guarding the goods were stunned in a corner at this time, and they became confused when they heard the loud noise, and they were frightened when they woke up.

"on fire!"

"on fire!"

The two hurriedly touched the black bucket with water to put out the fire.

However, the fire has no tendency to decrease. There is oil in the base material and the oily chili peppers, and the chili peppers are also dried. Once ignited, the fire will be very fast.

The battle became more and more noisy, the lights on the ground floor gradually turned on, and there was commotion upstairs, the sound of doors opening one after another, and the sound of chaotic footsteps extending from upstairs to downstairs.

"Why did it suddenly catch fire!"

"Cough cough..."

"Quickly put out the fire!"

Pots, bowls and buckets splashed water back and forth, but the effect was negligible. Zheng Jiang stopped seeing that the men had come to put out the fire, and grabbed someone and said, "Is there sand and soil nearby? There is oil in the fire, and the water is not easy to splash."

"Yes, yes, the yard is about to plant flowers, and the soil has been newly dug."

The buddy brought people to carry the soil, and it took more time to put out the fire because of the large number of people.

The place where the goods were placed was in a mess, many bean paste jars were heated and burst, the sauce was scattered all over the place, and there were burnt goods everywhere.

After the fire was extinguished, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and finally had the time to trace the source.

"Why did this good thing catch fire!"

"Yeah, what kind of inn are you staying here? If the fire hadn't been extinguished, I'm afraid I would have confessed here today."

"It's really unsafe. I encountered this when I was away from home."

The residents started to quarrel as they talked, looking for reasons for the management, and not long after, even the shopkeeper rushed over to make an apology.

The people on Zheng Jiangding's side also cried and complained: "What happened to the people who saw the goods, they didn't even know it was on fire."

"Who owns it now that the goods are burned."

"Stop arguing!" Zheng Jiangting scolded coldly: "Hurry up and order some goods, but there are still some leftovers. Mister will use the account book to tell the couple how many things have been destroyed."

Only then did the shopkeepers calm down, waiting for the results of the inventory.

"Master Zheng, yes, I'm sorry, the two of us were supposed to guard the goods tonight."

The two people looking at the goods were ashamed and couldn't lift their heads to look at Zheng Jiangding.

Zheng Jiang stopped and said, "Tell me about the situation tonight."

"It's nothing special tonight. When we came here to keep the goods, it was very hot. The younger brother said that it might rain tonight, so he boiled a big pot of tea in the yard and went to drink it by himself when he was thirsty. The two chatted here for a while and were thirsty, drank two bowls of tea, and fell asleep at some point."

"We're running around outside, and we've always slept lightly. I don't know why we slept so hard tonight."

Zheng Jiangting frowned: "Where's the tea, take me to have a look."

Several people went to look at the water in the tea mug together. The night was sultry and there were many people drinking water. There was only a little tea left in the big mug.

The shopkeeper who sent the customer away and calmed down heard the sound: "Master Zheng, what's wrong with this tea?"

"I got up at night and closed the window. I heard noises upstairs. I saw two sneaky figures. I was afraid they might be thieves. They followed them all the way down. Not long after, a fire broke out."

The shopkeeper was shocked: "So someone set the fire on purpose?"

Zheng Jiangting breathed a sigh of relief: "Otherwise, how could the good things catch fire?"

"Then Master Zheng has seen the person clearly?"

Zheng Jiangting shook his head: "The lights are too dim, so I couldn't see clearly."

"Shopkeeper, I'm afraid the thieves put sweat medicine in the tea cup, otherwise everyone wouldn't be so sleepy. I suggest you find a doctor to take a look."

"Go, go, hurry up and invite the doctor."

After tossing for a while, it was almost dawn, the cool wind continued, and there was already a drizzle.

"Master Zheng, most of our goods were burned, only 140 jars of intact bean paste remained. The destroyed goods... [-] catties."

Zheng Jiangting closed his eyes slightly, originally everything was going smoothly, who would have thought that this would happen in the end, the culprit must be found out, it is really abominable!

"I'm really sorry, Master Zheng, this incident was caused by the negligence of our inn. We have reported the incident to the government and will definitely compensate you when the time comes."

"Let's talk about compensation, the most important thing right now is to catch the person who set the fire." Zheng Jiangting said in a low voice: "The shopkeeper will take a step to speak."

When dawn broke in the morning, the rain had already picked up. All the stone slabs in the streets and alleys were soaked, and drops of water dripped from the corners of the raised eaves.

"Check out, check out! Hurry up and give us the money to get out, we can't live in your store anymore."

"Guest officer, it was really an accident last night. Some thieves sneaked into the inn to cause trouble, and it was not our inn's intention. It's raining outside, so it's inconvenient to go out."

"Don't be tricky, why didn't we see that thief."

"Yes! Why don't you catch the thief and give us an explanation! It's easy for us to travel a long way to start a small business."

Early in the morning, the inn counter was surrounded by guests who wanted to check out and leave. There were only three or four guests at first, but the number of people became more and more as soon as they made a fuss. Can't help it, some people even made a fuss and wanted to lose money.

"Master Zheng, are you sure there are people inside? If this continues, my inn may not be able to do business!"

The man on the second floor opposite couldn't sit still seeing the falling situation, and his chest heaved violently while holding on to the railing.

Zheng Jiangting frowned tightly, his eyes never leaving the counter.

"Master Zheng!"

"Here we come!" Zheng Jiangting stood up suddenly, pointing at the two men who were poking around the counter: "Do you know who these two are?"

"The ones in the dark red robe and the dark blue robe?"

"Yes!" Zheng Jiang stopped and locked the two of them tightly: "It's similar to the figure I saw last night."

"Ah Kan, look, what are the identities of those two?"

Xiao Er, who was standing on one side, took a quick look: "Those are two merchants who live in our inn. The ones in red are selling silk. I Qingqinger remembers that they came to our inn on the same day as Master Zheng. It's on the second floor, right across from Master Zheng."

Zheng Jiangting's pupils shrank: "Wait for me to go down to confirm, shopkeeper, ask the good people to prepare."

The shopkeeper took a deep breath: "Ah Yun, go, tell the thugs to get ready."

Zheng Jiang stopped slowly and went downstairs, put on a sad face, and squeezed in front of the two, as if he wanted to ask the counter to refund the money, yelling: "Losing money, my goods were burned in your inn, pay me money !"

Hearing that the goods were burned, the two people who were clamoring to check out subconsciously turned their heads to look at Zheng Jiang, and then hurriedly looked away, pretending that they didn't see anyone.

Such a move made Zheng Jiangting more convinced.

"Hey, you two sell silk and satin?"

The man in red turned his head: "Exactly, how does this master know?"

"I live next to you. I saw your silks and satins earlier. The colors are very beautiful. It is the style that my husband likes. I wanted to buy a few with you when the goods are sold out." Zheng Zheng Jiang Tingchang sighed: "I didn't expect that the goods are gone now. But no matter how difficult it is to go out, I still have to bring some things home. I wonder if you two have a lot of cloth. Can you sell me two."

The two looked at each other and said with a smile: "Brother is really open-minded and caring for the family. It's easy to talk about it. It's not a problem to sell you a few. I'll give you another piece of fashionable satin when the time comes."

Zheng Jiangting hastily reached out his hand to shake hands with the man to thank him. The man in red was taken aback for a moment, and then he wanted to reach out his right hand to shake Zheng Jiangting back. He raised his hand slightly, and then changed to his left.

"Thank you, thank you."

Zheng Jiang stopped holding the man's left hand, then suddenly leaned forward, his tall body was unsteady and bumped into the man's body, and took the opportunity to grab the man's right hand and swipe down from the wrist.

"hiss!"

Zheng Jiang stopped moving his eyelids and laughed: "Oh, I'm really sorry, they squeezed me."

Seeing Zheng Jiang's teasing smile, the man said angrily, "What do you mean!"

Zheng Jiang stopped and said, "What are you still doing, catch these two thieves!"

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