Chapter 35 Section VI

A bearded woman knocked lightly on the door, spoke a few words quickly, and interrupted the conversation between Ruyi and Aman. "Wait a minute, please sit down, I'll come as soon as I go." When Aman grinned, Ruyi always suspected that he was going to eat his nose. "Please." Ruyi wished that Oman would leave her alone in the room.Watching Aman walk quickly into the backyard through the crack of the door, Ruyi rushed to the corner of the wall in two or three steps.Lifting off the tapestry, Ruyi couldn't help but praise her keen eyesight.Behind the tapestry is a half-person-high wall cabinet, the door of which is tightly locked.

Ruyi went back to the door again and listened to the movement outside the door.It was the best time of the day for business, and there seemed to be hundreds of people talking in the lobby, and there was a lot of noise.The guys and beard girls are busy greeting the guests, serving food and wine, no one pays attention to this side. The door is a Tang-style sliding door with only one hasp.Ruyi locked the door with the buckle, and took out the unlocking tool she had prepared from under her skirt.It was a very delicate set of gadgets left to her by her adoptive father, a souvenir of the old Persian Hur's wanderings in his youth.

The plate lock on the cabinet door sold from Persia looks much more difficult to handle than the "one-post lock" nose lock popular in Tang Dynasty, but under Ruyi's skilled hands trained by experts, the two Both of them can be opened in less than a cup of tea. It turned out that the inside of the wall was not a cabinet, but a ladder that folded down.The steps were clean, with thick boards at the edges, and it was obvious that someone had used this passage frequently. After putting down the tapestry and closing the cabinet door, the light in the dark passage suddenly disappeared.This is not very good, Ruyi opened the cabinet door again, took a suet candle and lit it, and then returned to the secret passage again.

What's next?Ruyi is bold and not afraid of anything.But she also knew that this kind of self-comfort was useless.The idea of ​​the wood paneling on the steps is a good idea and it is very quiet to walk on.Moreover, the steps are not long, only a dozen or so steps. After descending, turn right and you will find a narrow passage.Since the West Market is located in a very low-lying area, Ruyi could already feel the moisture under her feet, and the candle flame kept shaking with the rising moisture. Well, it's finally here.There was only a three or four zhang long corridor that made Ruyi sweat profusely. There was a small door at the end of the corridor, which was not locked.

"Why are you so slow? It took me a long time to walk these few steps!" When Ruyi opened the small door, Aman was already waiting inside. Ruyi was startled, and the suet candle fell to the ground and went out.However, there was only a moment of darkness in the cellar, and then someone lit a candle as thick as a child's arm, and Aman tightly clasped Ruyi's wrist. "That day Ye Shipeng came to me for no reason to sniff around, and today he sent his concubine here again, what are you guys trying to do?" Ruyi's arm was twisted behind her back by Aman, and the severe pain made her think that her arm was just a piece of cake. It's about to break.

However, Ruyi is not an easy woman.She immediately shouted loudly: "Listen to me. Since you know that I belong to Ye Shipeng, you still dare to touch me and don't want to live?" "Don't bother, no matter how loud you are, you won't be able to hear it outside." Although Aman didn't want to take chances, he didn't want his ten years of hard work to be ruined by recklessness. "Tell me, why did you come here?" Aman let go of Ruyi's arm. When she retreated to the candlelight, Ruyi seemed to be in pain, and kept blowing air on her swollen arm, but she was actually examining the marks on her arm.Ruyi felt a burst of tingling pain when Oman grabbed her arm tightly, which made her suddenly understand.At this moment, when she found that besides the bluish-purple marks, there was a clear mark of a wild wolf on her arm, she was not surprised at all.

This is the engraving on Oman's bowstring ring, but he turned the engraving to the palm side. At the end of the two letters that Ruyi had put so much thought into, there was a pattern of this wild wolf printed on it. "I'm sorry." Ruyi stopped shouting, but seemed to be a different person in a blink of an eye, and put on a cute and charming look. "Who told you to leave me alone in the room? I'm just curious to see how much treasure you have hidden. Now it's spread all over the street, saying that you specialize in big business and made a fortune. I also want to Borrow some light, so..."

Aman suddenly pulled out Ruyi's carefully covered arm, pointed at the wild wolf pattern and said, "Everyone says you are a witch incarnation. I didn't believe it at first, but it looks really true. You must have seen this thing, Ye Shipeng is Don't you know about me too?" Aman no longer hid his anxiety, and at the same time, ferocious Shawen rippled from both sides of his long nose, and his big hand, which was too thick and bony for a businessman, also touched Ruyi's slender neck. "Why are you crazy? Of course Ye Shipeng asked me to come." With all her strength, Ruyi opened Aman's big hand. "If it wasn't for him, how would I know that you were betraying Datang's secret?"

Seeing that Oman was startled by her sudden attack, Ruyi adjusted her dress generously, and said in a elongated tone complacently: "Should we talk about business now?" "Business?" Oman didn't figure out what was going on for a while. "We Persians are all businessmen, and we have a price for everything. I am here today to represent Ye Shipeng and negotiate a price with you. I don't care if you are a Persian." Ruyi suddenly approached In front of Aman, he whispered: "Your Persian is so bad, it's okay to lie to them Tang people, but don't try to lie to me, Turkic!"

Ruyi is an experienced negotiator in the business field, and she knows how to take advantage of each other's weaknesses. "Aren't you afraid that I'll kill you?" Aman lost his mind for a while, facing the shrewd and stupid little girl in front of him. "It's useless to kill me, then you have to crawl out of the Tang Dynasty, and the money you have earned these years will be for nothing." Ruyi's face did not change, but she was terrified to die. "If a person is alive and has no money, it is better to be dead, don't you think? Besides, we don't want much. If we cooperate in the future, maybe you will make a lot of money instead."

"I can't trust you." Oman finally walked out of the ecstasy that Ruyi had set up for him, and regained his former shrewdness and viciousness. "You don't need to trust me. As long as you can come up with money, I will trust you." "How can you trust me?" Oman teased. "From today onwards, we are a partnership business." "If you trust me, eat this." Aman threw a small porcelain bottle on Ruyi's dress. "What is this? Poison?" Only she knew that the panic on Ruyi's face was half-truth. "This is a great invention of the people of Tang Dynasty. It is a wonderful thing called Mafeisan. Eating it is just a sleep." Ruyi hesitated for a long time, then timidly said: "Isn't it okay not to eat? What if I fell asleep to death!" Aman smiled triumphantly: "For the sincerity of cooperation, it is better to eat. After eating, I will take you to a good place." "Don't lie to me." Ruyi seemed to really reveal the timid, suspicious, and inexperienced characteristics of a little girl. When the medicine powder was poured on her tongue, Ruyi made a painful grimace, and showed Oman the gray-black medicine powder on her tongue, and said vaguely, "Make a bowl of tea."