The girl who wears fast

Chapter 37 The Prime Minister's Tool Man Stepwife (37)

While Xu Shichu was busy with her stepson's marriage, shopkeeper Li from Drunken Fragrance Pavilion suddenly came to tell her that someone had quietly come to check on her Zhuangzi, which was used as a spice workshop near the outskirts of Beijing.

Xu Shichu immediately pretended to be unwell, and handed over the affairs of his stepson's marriage to Luo Changqing's people, while he himself dealt with the investigation of the spice shop.

In fact, Xu Shichu's Zuixiang Pavilion is not the first time someone has been interested in it, but it is the first time that it has been found on the spice shop, because Xu Shichu pays more attention to keeping secrets, and the little Zhuangzi who runs the spice shop is the one she has avoided many people's eyes and ears. Besides, the location of this small Zhuangzi is relatively remote, and all the people in the Zhuangzi are her servants who have mastered the contract of selling themselves, on the one hand, they are easily bought by others.

But now this secret spice shop has been approached by someone, this is a relatively big hidden danger, Xu Shichu can't pretend that he doesn't know, otherwise her money bag of Zuixiang Pavilion will be snatched away.

During the day, she couldn't hide from others, so Xu Shichu had no choice but to ask shopkeeper Li to find out about the situation of the spice workshop, and learned that he found out that outsiders came to investigate because all kinds of fragrance-making raw materials stored in the warehouse in the spice workshop were all missing.

The small portion is very, very small. If it wasn’t for Shopkeeper Li who is particularly sensitive to weight, he might not be able to feel it. However, if the portion of one ingredient is a little less, it may be because the workers did not adjust the portion due to carelessness. But if each ingredient is How about a little less?Then it is impossible for the workers to be careless, unless they are self-stealing.

Could it be that the craftsmen are ungrateful for profit and want to guard themselves?The incense-making raw materials in the warehouse are the most important things. When Xu Shichu first built the workshop, it was stipulated that the craftsman could not enter the warehouse alone. There must be two or more people before entering, just to avoid the situation of guarding and stealing. .

So, is it possible that the two conspired?This possibility is not very high. Xu Shichu is not stingy with the craftsmen. The wages of these craftsmen are two or three times that of their peers, and sometimes there are bonuses. They are unlikely to take risks for financial desperation. First hand.

Intimidation by outsiders?This small Zhuangzi is located in a remote place, and there are no people in a radius of ten miles. If a stranger comes, it is impossible for the guards in the Zhuangzi not to notice.

Therefore, this probably ruled out the suspicion of craftsmen guarding themselves.

In addition, shopkeeper Li also told Xu Shichu that the guards found a very shallow footprint in the grass on the roadside outside Zhuangzi, and the soil left by the footprint was not around Zhuangzi. Therefore, he suspected that an outsider had come outside Zhuangzi. Cha Tan, this footprint was accidentally left by a spy.

After hearing shopkeeper Li's reasoning, Xu Shichu became more cautious, and decided to give bonuses to shopkeeper Li and the guard who found the footprints. These two people are really dedicated and deserve to be rewarded!

After learning about the general situation and letting Shopkeeper Li keep it a secret, Xu Shichu returned to the prime minister's mansion. She planned to wait until night to go to her spice shop to find out who put their claws on her territory.

In the dead of night, Xu Shichu, who was lying on the bed, opened her eyes. She quietly put on her night clothes, disguised herself, put on tools, and left the prime minister's mansion. Like a paper kite, she flew quickly in the night. leave.

Her inner strength is well practiced now, and she can last for a long time even if she moves forward at high speed in the darkness. That's why she ran to the small village on the outskirts of Beijing at night to investigate, and before dawn return.

Half an hour later, she arrived at Xiaozhuangzi. It was midnight, and the craftsmen had already rested, but the guards did their duty, and Xu Shichu entered the warehouse without alarming them.

The incense-making raw materials in the warehouse were piled up to the brim, but the bags were all neatly placed. Xu Shichu checked according to what was wrong that shopkeeper Li found, and found no reduction in the quantity.

These incense-making raw materials must be increased to a fixed amount every day before the warehouse is closed to make up for what is consumed every day, so that the amount of incense-making raw materials will be sufficient after the warehouse is closed.

From this point of view, only yesterday's portion was small, which happened to be discovered by the too competent shopkeeper Li.

Xu Shichu was not surprised to find no clues about the spies, but she was not discouraged. She took out a finger-long incense stick from the package she brought and lit it, then took out a small jar from the package, and the flying A powder moth the size of a bee came out, and the powder moth flew around the incense stick for a while, then flew away in one direction.

Xu Shichu extinguished the incense stick, put it back into the package, and then quietly chased the powder moth.

The pink moth was not conspicuous in the night, but Xu Shichu chased after it not by watching it with his eyes, but by smelling it.

People who can become masters of spices have an exceptionally developed sense of smell and can identify thousands of flavors. Xu Shichu is no exception. She has a sensitive sense of smell. In addition to practicing martial arts, her five senses are more acute, and her lightness kung fu is advanced, so she can easily chase Get on this powder moth.

After flying in the dark for a long time, Xu Shichu followed Fen Moth back to the city, which was expected, after all, only those people in the capital who could keep an eye on Zuixiang Pavilion's business could make her move.

Fen Moth brought Xu Shichu to Xicheng. Xicheng is a slum in the capital, and the people living in it are either poor people or people of all kinds.

In the twists and turns, the powder moth flew into a dilapidated and simple mud house, and stayed on a person on the bed in the house.

Xu Shichu carefully checked the surroundings and the house, and found that there was indeed only one person, so she jumped in from the window lightly.

And the person sleeping in the room really deserves to be a spy in the spice workshop, he felt very vigilant, just as Xu Shichu came in, he woke up, jumped up from the bed, shouted "who" and rushed towards Xu Shichu quickly Come.

Xu Shichu deftly avoided his capture, turned around and kicked him, and started fighting with him, maybe he had a ghost in his heart and didn't want to make it public, so this man didn't even dare to make a loud noise in the fight, for fear of waking up the neighbors.

Xu Shichu didn't want to disturb the others, so they both got in the way for a while, but after all, Xu Shichu was the better at it, and he was quickly beaten to the ground by her.

Before he could yell, Xu Shichu removed his chin so that he could no longer yell.

Xu Shichu tore off the thin quilt from the bed, tied up the man, made sure that he had no strength to resist, then found the oil lamp and lit it.

The man who was tied up had a mediocre appearance, about 30 years old, thin and strong, and he was staring at Xu Shichu viciously, very fiercely.

Xu Shichu didn't pay attention to him, but searched the house. This man is just a spy, a young man, not someone behind the scenes, but it takes skill to get the correct information from him. Xu Shichu doesn't in a hurry.

(End of this chapter)