Chapter 426 Trouble ensues
At dusk in the afternoon.
When Gu Chan and Ma Zheng came back, they were already carrying a small bag of copper coins.
The two of them counted on the way back and found that they had earned more than ten taels of silver today by talking about cross talk on the street.
All the beggars on East Street were dumbfounded.
Yesterday Gu Chan played Allegro, and today she actually took Ma Zheng to talk cross talk.
All in all, Gu Chan’s flower work didn’t involve the same thing for two days. How could this not make them feel dumbfounded?
You know, what Gu Chan earned in one day was more than what they earned in three days.
Soon the reputation of these two little beggars, Gu Chan and Ma Zheng, began to spread in the East Street area.
The leader of the East Street beggars, Mangy Dog, also pays more attention to them.
After dark, the two returned to Wanyuanfang.
Go back to their respective rooms to wash up. After dinner, the four of them gathered in Gu Chan's room.
The four of them sat around the table. Di Lin was the first to say, "Shopkeeper, we have gone to the north to meet with Wei Xing and the others."
"How are they now?" Gu Chan asked curiously.
"They bought a building in the north to do green shop business, called Yingchun Building. Now the business is quite good." Di Lin said.
Gu Chan stretched out her hand and scratched her head, her face showing embarrassment.
When they parted ways in Zhongyuan City, she never told Wei Xing and the others that they would do something when they came to Jiangnan. Now it’s fine. They bought a building and opened a green shop when they came. This was not what she expected!
Yuan Jie blushed and said, "Shopkeeper, there are many good-looking girls in their green shop, and they usually rely on these girls to get information."
"What's the point? Is there any good news?" Gu Chan turned around and asked.
Di Lin and Yuan Jie looked at each other, with worries on their faces.
Gu Chan realized something was wrong and said with a solemn face, "Go ahead! I have been mentally prepared for a long time."
"The news that the imperial envoy sent by the emperor has come to Jiangnan has already been reported in Jiangnan. The news has spread secretly, so now all the imperial officials and wealthy people in the Jiangnan area have made a private discussion and will never let the imperial envoy take away too much money from here," Di Lin explained.
"It's true, now it's really troublesome." Gu Chan sighed.
"Yes! So Wei Xing asked us to come back and tell you that you should stay here on East Street with the Yaoduoduo caravan. Don't go to the north and cause trouble for them. No one knows yet that they are Your people, this way they can do things conveniently, make money, and at the same time provide you with information secretly," Yuan Jie said.
Gu Chan nodded noncommittally.
In this case, she really doesn't need to go back and mix things up. She just needs to establish a foothold here, and then slowly develop her own caravan, and make the medicinal materials business bigger and stronger.
Thinking like this, Gu Chan made a decisive decision and said, "Well, you two don't have to be idle. Tomorrow you go look around the East Street area to see if there is a suitable small building. Just buy a three-story building. As for the subsequent opening of the shop, you can take care of it yourself. I won’t worry about it.”
“Shopkeeper, the price of buying a building in Jiangnan City is not low! , I'm afraid it will cost a lot of money," Di Lin reminded.
"It's okay. I saved two hundred thousand taels of silver in Wan Yuanfang. If you need money, you can ask Wan Peng directly. Otherwise, I wouldn't bother to bet with him before. Anyway, I just saved this money to open a shop. Yes." Gu Chan said with a smile.
Not bad!
Before, she deliberately kept her money in Wan Yuan Fang in order to prepare for opening a shop in the future.
Anyway, I have just arrived and am not familiar with the place. My money is stored in a bank, but how can it be as safe as a gambling house?
So don't look at her as if she's playing around, but in fact she has already thought about this clearly in her heart.
Di Lin couldn't help but give her a thumbs up and said, "As expected of the shopkeeper, you are really awesome. I am completely convinced." "Two hundred thousand taels! Shopkeeper, how on earth did you get the money from the young master's family? I won it." Yuan Jie said in surprise.
In all her life, she had never seen so much money.
Gu Chan said with a smile, "Don't worry about how I won. From now on, just spend it. When the Yaoduoduo shop opens, I will have to use this shop to make a small bet on the big one and let the two hundred thousand taels be given to me. I'm getting more and more."
"Okay, we understand, we'll do it tomorrow," Di Lin said, patting his chest.
"Then you go and have a rest! From tomorrow on, you will be busy." Gu Chan said with a smile.
The two nodded in agreement and prepared to get up and leave.
But before they could go out, a white homing pigeon suddenly flew to the back window and stopped.
Gu Chan was stunned for a moment.
Ma Zheng quickly got up and ran over, grabbed the carrier pigeon, ran back and handed it to her and said, "Boss, isn't this the white carrier pigeon you left for the Ninth Prince when you left the border? How come it turned out to be Flying to Jiangnan?"
"It's over, I'm afraid something happened to that boy Xuanyuan Qing," Gu Chan said with a stiff face.
Ma Zheng was startled, and he quickly reached out to take off the letter from the pigeon's leg, opened it, and looked at it carefully.
After reading it, he said with a shocked look, "Boss, the carrier pigeon is from Qingluan. The letter says that the Ninth Prince was assassinated. He was hit by a sword in the left chest and almost died. Now he is lying on the bed unable to move. !”
“Fuck!”
Gu Chan yelled angrily.
She had long expected that Xuanyuan Qing would not be stable at the border, and now it seems that her prediction was accurate.
It’s just that she didn’t expect that this accident would happen so quickly. After all, she had just arrived in Jiangnan with her people a few days ago!
Ma Zheng said anxiously, "Boss, what should we do now? If the Ninth Prince dies, our life will probably be difficult!"
"Hurry and prepare the carriage. We will take the carriage overnight to the Yingchun Tower in the north. "Gu Chan waved his hand and ordered.
Ma Zheng nodded, quickly put down the carrier pigeon and left to prepare the carriage.
Di Lin asked, "Shopkeeper, do you need us to go with you?"
"No need, you go and have a rest. We will proceed as planned tomorrow. This matter has nothing to do with you. It doesn’t matter, I will handle it myself,” Gu Chan said.
Di Lin and Yuan Jie nodded, then they said no more and immediately left to rest in their own rooms.
After half a stick of incense.
Gu Chan quietly came to the back door of Wanyuanfang, rode a carriage with Ma Zheng, and rushed to the north Yingchun Building overnight.
After midnight, the two finally arrived outside Yingchun Building.
Gu Chan sat in the carriage and waited, while Ma Zhengze obeyed her instructions and ran inside to find Wei Xing.
After a while, Wei Xing followed Ma Zheng out and got into the carriage without attracting attention.
When the two met, Wei Xing said angrily, "What are you doing here? Didn't I ask those two people to go back and tell you not to come over?"
"The Ninth Prince was assassinated. Yes." Gu Chan said with a solemn expression.
Wei Xing was stunned on the spot when he heard this, and his face became extremely ugly.
Obviously, he did not expect that at this most critical juncture, Xuanyuan Qing would be assassinated.