blueteamnovel Is Chapter 78 correct?
Is Chapter 78 correct?
The following morning, inside the Crane Returns Tower.
As Li Zigui was sipping tea and fiddling with a batch of precious medicinal herbs that had just been delivered, a voice came from the doorway.
"Dr. Li."
Li Zigui turned around and found a tall, thin man with a goatee standing at the door.
Li Zigui recognized him; he was Rong Lin, the manager of the Na Cai Pawnshop.
In Li Zigui's eyes, pawnshops have always been places where ordinary people pawn their household items when they urgently need money. He has lived for fifty years and has never lacked money for a single day, so naturally he has never had any interaction with Rong Lin.
Li Zigui knew Rong Lin because a few years ago Rong Lin brought his father to see him for medical treatment, and that's how Li Zigui got to know him.
"Manager Rong, He Gui Lou is not offering consultations today. If you are unwell, you should seek medical attention elsewhere."
"Doctor Li, everyone in Xichuan Prefecture knows about this, and I naturally know as well. I've come today because your daughter pawned a jade hairpin at Na Cai Pawnshop yesterday. The hairpin is of excellent quality and quite valuable. My shop is small and profits are meager, so I couldn't come up with that much silver right away. Just when I was in a difficult situation, your daughter said that the pawnshop could accept the money first and then deliver it to He Gui Lou. After accepting the hairpin, I immediately gathered the money from relatives and friends, and I've come today to deliver the silver to your daughter."
Rong Lin bowed slightly, his smile full of respect for Li Zigui.
Putting everything else aside, Li Zigui saved his father's life, a debt of gratitude that cannot be measured in money.
Rong Lin reached into his robes and took out two items: a pawn ticket issued by Na Cai Pawnshop and the jade hairpin that Li Hongyi had pawned at Na Cai Pawnshop.
As for the origin of this jade hairpin...
It was naturally the precious jade hairpin that Qingchuan had temporarily stored with Mu Li.
Before leaving Ningzhou Prefecture, Li Hongyi went to the morgue of the government office and stole Mu Li's head from her head. This was not because she was greedy for money, but because she remembered Yun Luobai's hint.
If this jade hairpin is going to fall into someone else's hands sooner or later, she might as well snatch it first, since she is a thief after all.
The reason Rong Lin brought this jade hairpin was quite simple.
The people in Xichuan Prefecture generally knew that the daughter of Doctor Li in Hegui Tower was a thief. After Li Hongyi returned from studying with Hu Youxuan, she often robbed the local people, but she only did it for fun. Afterwards, Li Zigui would compensate the victims.
Since no one reported the theft, the government naturally turned a blind eye.
Rong Lin knew that this item was so precious that it was most likely stolen by Li Hongyi.
If the owner finds He Gui Lou in the future and Li Zigui wants to return the item to its rightful owner, he may have to find Rong Lin's Na Cai Pawnshop.
If Rong Lin had already taken the jade hairpin by then, he wouldn't know how to face Li Zigui.
However, if he politely declined Li Hongyi's pawning offer, firstly, he could tell at a glance that the jade hairpin was extremely valuable, and he would definitely make a profit if he accepted it; secondly, his father had been cured by Li Zigui, and Li Hongyi was, after all, Li Zigui's daughter, and he did not want to offend Li Zigui because of this.
Li Zigui took the jade hairpin and examined it for a while, his eyes showing great interest.
"A win-win situation...not bad quality..."
Li Zigui is the young master of Qianbing Manor. In the past, many martial arts figures were willing to exchange all kinds of rare treasures with his father, Li Fanyu, for a peerless divine weapon. This gave him a very broad perspective, and he was able to recognize the type of jade hairpin at a glance.
"As expected of Doctor Li, this is truly a perfect match..."
Rong Lin praised him, but Li Zigui just smiled slightly, took the pawn ticket, and glanced at the amount on it.
"120,000 taels of silver? This jade hairpin is indeed worth that much silver, but Manager Rong, you are, after all, running a pawnshop, so you have to make a profit. You also have a wife, children, and elderly parents to support..."
"Dr. Li, there's no need to worry. Since this item was pawned by your Miss Li, even if I had a thousand times the courage, I wouldn't dare to take advantage of it. Rest assured, I'll just make a little less profit when I sell it. I should thank Miss Li for supporting the pawnshop's business... I just don't know if Miss Li still intends to redeem this item..."
Upon hearing this, Li Zigui smiled slightly and instantly understood Rong Lin's meaning.
"Just follow the pawnshop's rules. If she hasn't redeemed it by the due date, you can dispose of the hairpin yourself; I won't cause you any trouble."
"Thank you so much, thank you so much..."
Rong Lin took the jade hairpin with both hands and turned to leave. No sooner had he left than Leng Honglou walked in from behind.
"Is that the manager of Na Cai Pawnshop? What's he doing here?"
"Your daughter sold stolen goods to him, and he's afraid of getting into trouble, so he came to test my intentions."
As Li Zigui spoke, he handed the silver note in his hand to Leng Honglou. Leng Honglou glanced at the amount on it and looked up at Li Zigui again, a look of disbelief flashing in her eyes.
"120,000 taels of silver?"
"Yes, your daughter could be called a notorious bandit now."
"She's stolen things before, but never anything this expensive. Even if she stole something valuable, she'd just fiddle with it for a couple of days and then return it. She's not short of money, so why would she pawn it?"
"How would I know? My wife, why don't you come with me and ask that troublesome girl..."
Li Zigui's smile was full of helplessness.
Everyone knows that Qianbing Manor is incredibly wealthy, so 120,000 taels of silver is nothing to him.
But if his mother, who lived far away at Qianbing Manor, found out about this, the thought of her precious granddaughter pawning things for 120,000 taels of silver would likely provoke her to write him a letter of scolding, or even come to his house in person. He wouldn't know how to explain it then...
Li Hongyi had long forgotten about pawning the jade hairpin to the Na Cai pawnshop.
For her, the reason for pawning the jade hairpin was simply because it was an item stolen from a dead person, which she felt was unlucky, so she wanted to sell it as soon as possible.
Li Hongyi wasn't in her own room; she was in the study across the street.
She has her own study, which she used to practice calligraphy and painting when she was a child.
The sandalwood incense wafted through the air as she casually sketched the outline of a human figure on the soft white paper. Unconsciously, the figure on the paper kept overlapping with the person in her memory.
"Wife, look at our little thief! He's not out stealing anything; he's at home drawing!"
Upon hearing her father's voice, Li Hongyi instinctively wanted to cover the painting, but then felt it was unnecessary. She angrily flicked her sleeve and looked up at the couple in front of her.
Leng Honglou's gaze swept over Li Hongyi's painting, and after a moment's thought, he answered.
"It's possible that it's a forgery. Isn't Hu Youxuan quite good at forging documents?"
"Judging from their clothing, they should be a contemporary figure, right? If genuine works aren't even worth much, then forging them would be incredibly stupid..."
"If she was copying a contemporary painting, and that painter is still alive, she could just go to his house and steal it."
"As expected of my wife, she is truly beautiful inside and out..."
Li Hongyi listened silently to their conversation, her lips tightly pressed together, for she was afraid that she would be so angry that she would vomit blood at any moment.
Would a normal couple react like this when they see their daughter drawing a portrait of a young man at home?
Is that correct?