Chapter 100: Big purchases, snooping news

The two left the back door of the antique store. After making sure that no one was following them, the couple started a big purchase. The missing oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, etc. were all made up. I bought some more. Many of the family's clothes were destroyed by the flood, but it wasn't that they couldn't afford it. Gu Shuixiu simply counted everyone's amount and bought them together. There was no shortage of food in the family, so Gu Shuixiu went to buy some seeds. , the fields at home need to be replanted quickly, although the harvest is definitely not as good as last year, but it can be harvested in this way.

Dong Chenghu remembered the ship he repaired, and wondered if he should go to the carpenter to buy another one, then row the ship back and use it as a spare later, Gu Shuixiu naturally had no objection, they went to sea Safety comes first, and she doesn't feel safe in a repaired boat.

The two summed up and ordered a new boat. The two were old acquaintances with the carpenter. The carpenter simply sold them the finished product. Got the boat into the water.

After doing these things, the next step is to start all over again.

"Shuixiu, let's find an inn to stay tonight, and I'll ask about the Zhang family."

Gu Shuixiu had deep worry in her eyes. They did not hear any news about the Zhang family in Linhai County. The Zhang family seemed to have completely disappeared from Linhai County. In this barren mansion, no one mentions the glory of the Zhang family. If they take the initiative to inquire about the news, will they be targeted by those who care?

But when she thought of the two pitiful children in the family, Gu Shuixiu couldn't say anything to stop her, and after thinking about it, she suggested: "Otherwise, let's find an inn first. Come on, there are a lot of beggars on the street now, how about we dress up a little in the evening and give these beggars money so that they can help us find out the news?"

Dong Chenghu's eyes lit up when he heard the words, he also had the same concern, and now he was reminded by Gu Shuixiuyi, he immediately knew what to do.

"It's better to find someone who can read, so that he can write down the information he has inquired and send it somewhere, and we will let someone else get the letter for us, which is much safer."

Gu Shuixiu looked at Dong Chenghu with admiration on her face. I didn't expect this guy to have such a strong ability to infer other things, and it can still be cultivated.

It was night, and there were still many poor poor people begging on the street. Dong Chenghu was fully dressed, wearing a certain straw hat on the street. If he covered half of his face, no one would recognize him. .

He was wandering around the street, walking three or four blocks before stopping, and found that there are beggars here too, first ask the other party if they can read, and if the other party is illiterate, give money and let him help Looking for a few literate people to come, the so-called rich and easy to do things, within half an hour, those beggars found the people Dong Chenghu needed.

Dong Chenghu gave each of them a piece of paper and black charcoal, and said: "I know you need money now, I want to ask you to help me inquire about one thing, you just need to write what you inquire about on the paper Come on, tomorrow night, I will let someone pick it up under the stone statue of Sanxian Temple, and pay you according to the content of what you inquired, and the more you inquire, the more you will get, this deposit."

There are five people who come here, all of them are literate, although the writing is not good, but they can write, when they hear that they have money to earn them, it feels like a pie in the sky, not to mention Dong Chenghu The deposit given is fifty cents per person. If they hear the news, doesn't it mean that they can get more than fifty cents in silver?

With this money they won't have to go hungry for a while.

The beggars who helped find someone looked envious, Dong Chenghu looked at them and said, "Well, you can form a team, for example, if they are illiterate, they can be literate and illiterate. form a team, how about an equal share of the money you get?"

The beggars looked at the other five literate people with hope, they just agreed for a while, if they formed a team with others, maybe it could be faster, get There is more news.

Seeing that they reached an agreement, Dong Chenghu said: "This is a task for you. You can open it when I leave."

Several people were afraid of offending Dong Chenghu, the gold owner, so they obediently waited for Dong Chenghu to leave before opening the paper to check the task.

Some of these beggars have been in Linhai County for many years, they know a thing or two about the Zhang family, and they know where to go to find out about the Zhang family. They quickly separated in the alley , Dong Chenghu came out of the shadows after seeing them go, then took off the hat and face towel, went to the street to buy a roast goose and brought it back to the inn to give Gu Shuixiu a toothbrush.

Several beggars are also smart people. They did not directly go to the house where Zhang's house is located to ask people, but first asked old beggars they knew well, and finally pretended to casually want to walk in Zhang. The house, in broad daylight, will definitely be discovered, and immediately a passerby sternly stopped them.

Several people hurriedly knelt down pitifully and begged for mercy, while saying that it was not easy for them to beg for food, while saying that they were just here to try their luck.

The color, and asked a few words from time to time, the man wanted to open the chat box when he saw the love in their eyes, and started talking.

When passers-by heard the beggar's question, their expressions immediately became secretive, they got closer to the beggar, looked around, and whispered: "Master Zhang's family doesn't know who they have offended, they have been destroyed. , the whole family did not stay, there was still a lot of noise at that time, I heard that many people were asking about the Zhang family, but no one knew, and no one has mentioned the Zhang family again in the past two years."

Passers-by shook their heads sadly, then left.

Several beggars looked at each other and stopped talking, and continued to go begging on the street, as if what just happened had never happened.

In the evening, Gu Shuixiu and his wife checked out of the room, went to the bank to exchange the banknotes, and immediately waited on the boat.

In Hai, the beggars went to the agreed place one after another and put the information they had collected on it. After a while, a little beggar put a cloth bag in that position, and the beggars took the cloth inside. Good luck for slipping.

Dong Chenghu and Gu Shuixiu did not rush to read the papers, but immediately rowed away, the old boat was still pulling behind the new boat, and those who didn't know thought it was two boats advancing together.