coobybook Chapter 186 Being targeted
Chapter 186 Being targeted
Among the crowd of people setting up stalls, Lin Xi and Cao saw several hunched old men with various fresh vegetables placed in front of them.
"Grandpa, how much is this cabbage?"
Lin Xi looked at the old man in front of him with tattered clothes and purple lips from the cold, squatted in front of his stall, and asked in a gentle voice.
"Little girl, this cabbage is half a cent a pound. Look at how fresh it is. Can I weigh one for you?"
The old man picked up a cabbage with trembling hands and handed it to Lin Xi. He looked at Lin Xi with hope in his eyes.
Lin Xi took the cabbage, pretended to pull some leaves, looked at it, and nodded with satisfaction.
Seeing that there were only about twenty cabbages on the old man's stall, she smiled and said, "Your cabbages are very good. I want some. Please weigh them to see how heavy they are."
"Hey! Good!"
The old man's face broke into a smile when he heard this. He swiftly took out a bamboo basket, weighed the basket first, then put a few cabbages into the basket and weighed them. In a short while, he had weighed all the twenty or so cabbages!
He looked at Lin Xi and said nervously, "Little girl, these cabbages weigh a total of 150 kilograms. Can you take them?"
Lin Xi directly took out seventy-five coins and handed them to him, saying with a smile: "Grandpa, this is seventy-five coins, please count it!"
"Hey! It's exactly seventy-five cents! Little girl, let me help you move it!"
The old man happily took the money, counted it, then carefully took out a cloth bag from his arms, put the copper coins in it, kept it close to his body, and quickly got up to help Lin Xi move the cabbage.
After helping Cao and Lin Xi put the cabbages in the carriage and watching them leave, the old man happily packed up the sacks and the load. Someone beside him said enviously, "Uncle, you are so lucky. You sold them all in one go!"
The old man smiled naively and said, "Yes, I have met a noble person today. I have to go back and buy more food. After selling them, I will buy a few more kilograms of food so that I can survive this winter with my wife!"
After saying that, he picked up his load and hurried out of the city.
Lin Xi and Cao went to other elderly people's stalls to buy some vegetables. Looking at the grateful smiles on their faces, they sighed and drove away from the market in their carriage.
After arriving at the entrance of Huichun Hall, Lin Xi smiled at Cao in the carriage and said, "Mom, I'll be out soon. Please wait for me in the carriage for a while!"
Hearing her daughter's words, Cao smiled and nodded. She sat in the carriage holding Xiaobai and counted the things she bought today to see if there was anything missing!
After parking the carriage at the side of the door, Lin Xi walked quickly into Huichun Hall.
Quanfu saw Lin Xi coming in with sharp eyes. Just as he was about to speak, Lin Xi hurriedly said in front of him: "Hey, young man, is Doctor Zhou here? I feel a little unwell and I want to see him."
Lin Xi thought about it and decided that from today on, he would see Doctor Zhou as a medical doctor and try not to meet him in private. Moreover, he would have to disguise himself when he came next time, which would be safer.
Hearing Lin Xi's words, Quanfu rolled his eyes and reacted very quickly, saying with a smile: "Miss, please wait a moment, there is a patient inside being seen, it will be your turn next."
Then he pretended not to know Lin Xi and continued to grab the medicine with his head down.
There was a glimmer of admiration in Lin Xi's eyes. He sat on a stool beside him and waited quietly like any other patient who came to seek medical treatment.
But after a while, several more patients came in for treatment and lined up behind Lin Xi.
When Manager Zhou sent the patient out, he immediately saw Lin Xi who was waiting obediently by the side.
Quanfu knew that Lin Xi pretended not to know him for a reason. Seeing that the shopkeeper had seen Lin Xi, he was afraid that he would approach her to talk to her, so he hurriedly walked up to the shopkeeper, pointed at Lin Xi and said, "Shopkeeper, just give me the prescription. Now it's the turn of this girl to see the doctor!"
The shopkeeper raised his eyebrows when he heard this. What was he and Lin Xi up to?
However, he still cooperated and handed the prescription in his hand to Quanfu, saying, "Go and get the medicine for this patient."
Then, he looked at Lin Xi and said with a smile: "Miss, please follow me to the clinic!"
Lin Xi bowed to Doctor Zhou, and the two of them entered the consulting room one after the other.
After entering the clinic, Lin Xi took out a letter and a note from his arms and handed them to Manager Zhou. He coughed twice and deliberately said loudly: "Doctor, I have had a headache these two days and I can't sleep well. Please take a look at me!"
Shopkeeper Zhou's eyes fell on the note and he saw the words written on it: Please hand this letter to Jun Moyue as soon as possible. Remember it must be opened by him personally and must be kept confidential!
After reading it, Shopkeeper Zhou threw the note into the brazier and carefully put the letter in his arms.
Then he nodded to Lin Xi, and while feeling her pulse, he said, "Little girl, you are so young, why is your liver fire so strong? I'll prescribe you a prescription. The pain will go away after taking it for two days. You should change your impatience!"
"I understand. Thank you, doctor! Please prescribe the medicine!"
After a while, Lin Xi came out holding a prescription, and Doctor Zhou's voice came from the room: "Next!"
"Brother, please get me some medicine!"
Lin Xi blinked at Quanfu and said with a smile.
A quarter of an hour later, Lin Xi came out of Huichuntang carrying a bunch of medicine packets.
When Cao saw Lin Xi throwing a string of medicine into the carriage, she was about to ask when she saw her daughter wink at her.
She swallowed the words that were about to come out of her mouth.
"Mom, do you think we need to buy anything else? If not, we can leave town and go home!"
Lin Xi looked at Cao and asked with a smile.
Cao thought that during this period she had made two more sets of clothes for each family member, so there was no shortage of clothes, but there were too few accessories.
It just so happens that I'm going into the city today, so I can stop by the jewelry shop to see if there are any suitable jewelry for children, especially Lin Kang, who is at the age to get married, so he needs to dress up well.
So, she smiled and said to Lin Xi: "Xi'er, mother wants to go to the jewelry store we visited last time!"
"Okay! Mom, please sit down, we'll be there in a minute!"
Half a quarter of an hour later, the mother and daughter arrived at the jewelry store where they had bought the jade hairpin.
In the shop, the people who came from the capital to Linshan County to investigate Lin Xi and her daughter were waiting here.
The shopkeeper and his employees have been suffering terribly during this period of time. They don’t even know the mother and daughter from last time, so where can they find help?
But when they couldn't find anyone, these people threatened to kill them!
Seeing Lin Xi and her daughter coming in, the shopkeeper felt like he had found a savior and hurriedly came forward to greet them warmly.
The waiter who received Lin Xi and her daughter last time quietly pulled the sleeve of a man dressed as a waiter next to him and winked at him carefully.
The guy understood and approached Lin Xi and her daughter with an enthusiastic look on his face. He started talking to them, asked them what kind of jewelry they needed, and at the same time took note of their appearances without leaving a trace.
Lin Xi couldn't help but sigh that the owner and the shop assistants in this shop were becoming more and more enthusiastic. No wonder their business was so good!
Under the enthusiastic recommendation of the shopkeeper and the clerk, Cao and Lin Xi, mother and daughter, picked out a lot of accessories, mostly men's hair buckles, hairpins, headbands and jade pendants.
After Lin Xi and her daughter paid the money and left the jewelry shop, the clerk who had just received them hurried to the box on the second floor. After ordering a few people to follow Lin Xi quietly, he took out paper and pen and quickly drew two portraits.
He quickly walked out of the jewelry shop holding the two portraits. When passing through an alley, he was captured by the people left by Anyang Hou to secretly protect Lin Xi and her daughter!
From the moment this group of people came to Linshan County to inquire about Lin Xi and her daughter, Anyang Hou's people noticed them. When they saw that the man was holding the portrait of Cao's mother and daughter, they took out a fire starter, first burned the portrait, and then took the man to a courtyard.
"Tell me, who are you working for, and why are you investigating this mother and daughter?"
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