Chapter 65 Chapter VI French Silver Coins

When I came to Xiamen Island this time, I brought a big tea gossip needle for self-defense, but now I turned my luggage upside down and couldn’t find it.Mu Qingxiang didn't have time to help me install the needle, but there must be a lot of hair in it, enough to kill the people in Huangcuoli several times.The thief did not take the broken scriptures, nor did he take anything of value, but only the drug needle box, and it is likely that he knew what the needle box was for.Since the thief knew the purpose of the needle box and only stole the needle box, he must be using it to kill people. In other words, everyone in the room became hostages.

The fact that I have a needle box is only known to Mu Qingxiang, she is not like a gossip woman, so naturally she will not tell others.Apart from her, only my uncle claimed to know my whereabouts over the past year, so he probably knew that I got the poison needle box.My uncle ran to my room last night and talked nonsense with me arrogantly. I don’t know if he noticed the needle box in the luggage bag in the dark. As for my whereabouts, my uncle has kept my three cousins ​​from knowing, so it is unlikely that they will know that I have a poisonous needle box.If anyone else knows, it is likely to be the confidant of the uncle-Lao Yan, but he never kills with a knife, and it is unnecessary to ask for a poisonous needle; Huang Dejun, the owner of Huangcuo, has unknown origins, and he may have stolen the needle box , this is his territory, it is not easy for him to steal things, but who does he want to kill for stealing the needle box?Or maybe the person who stole the needle box was just having fun?

In short, the needle box was stolen. It can be said that everyone in Huangcuo is in danger, because it is easy to kill people with needle boxes, and it is difficult to treat them.I could go far away, but I'm not willing to leave like this. Although my uncle's family is not very humane, I brought the needle box. If someone is killed, I will not escape the blame. I am most afraid that the person who steals the needle box will want to kill me, because they are all a family, so why wait until today if they want to kill them.I panicked, and after putting away the original and copy of the Canon, I immediately went out to find Mu Qingxiang to discuss countermeasures.As soon as I walked out of the room, I saw Mu Qingxiang came back with a blank face. She was always so calm and composed, so I went forward and told her about the stolen needle box, trying to scare her.

Unexpectedly, Mu Qingxiang replied very easily: "Don't worry, since someone stole the needle box, it is very likely that they want to harm people secretly, and dare not face everyone directly, as long as you try not to be alone, you will be fine." "It seems to be too." I said worriedly. "What you need to worry about is yourself, the things belong to you, maybe someone else wants to frame you." Mu Qingxiang speculated. I got dizzy when I heard this, and cursed in my heart, what kind of bastard is going to kill me when I just came here.I really want to leave right away, and leave alone, but Mu Qingxiang's heart is in the ancient city of Yuequan, and she doesn't want to leave as soon as she arrives.The ancient city of Yuequan is the place my father has been looking for all his life, and I really want to find it for him and fulfill his last wish. After thinking about it for a long time, I finally decided to stay until the fifth day before leaving.It's a pity that it's inconvenient to go to the police about the needle box being stolen. After all, it's hard to explain it clearly to them, and it might be charged as a false report.It takes 24 hours to report a missing person, and it takes less than an hour for a needle box to be lost. The police don't know how scary the needle box is, so they don't care about it.

At the end, Mu Qingxiang asked me if I had anything else to say, I shook my head and said no.Mu Qingxiang told me very seriously that she said Huangcuoli was a bit weird, not like an ordinary house.I snorted, and thought that Huangcuo didn't look ordinary at all, so it's up to you to say that.Unexpectedly, Mu Qingxiang told me that there was a faint tea fragrance floating everywhere in the yellow house, but she couldn't smell what kind of tea this tea fragrance was and where it came from. You know, Mu Qingxiang is very powerful, and you can smell the variety and year of the tea, and even the source of the water without tasting it, so I asked in surprise: "Aren't you very good, there are times when you can't smell it?"

Mu Qingxiang was indifferent to my mocking exclamation, she frowned slightly: "Huang Cuo is located in the ancient Watanabe, I think this big house was built here on purpose, because of the sea breeze, the tea fragrance will be blown away, and others will be very angry." Hard to catch." "Who is so stingy, it's still illegal to drink tea, do you need to be so mysterious?" I don't believe it. Before Mu Qingxiang could answer me, the little cousin yelled in surprise, and Mu Qingxiang and I hurried out to find out what happened.I thought to myself that not long after the needle box was stolen, maybe that little cousin with a vicious mouth was killed. I wouldn't be surprised if she was killed, because the little cousin's mouth must have offended many people.The eldest brother and the second cousin heard the shouts, and they also came out of the wing room. Everyone groped to the front of the main hall, only to find that the little cousin was frightened. She was standing outside the main hall, trembling.

The unscrupulous me was actually disappointed, the little cousin was not hurt at all, only her beauty was paled.I would like to ask my little cousin if she was frightened by a mouse or a cockroach. As for shouting so loudly.But when I walked up to my little cousin, I followed her line of sight to look at the ground, and couldn't help being stunned for a moment. On the ground made of black bricks, there was a dead chicken, its feathers splashed all over the ground, and its flesh and blood flew everywhere. I don't know who would do such a cruel thing to a fat chicken.When we got to the main hall in the morning, there was nothing on the ground, it was clean, no one knew who threw the dead chickens here.The little cousin and the two cousins ​​had been sitting in the room. Later, the little cousin ate peaches until she felt sick, so she wanted to ask Huang Dejun if he had prepared lunch. Before going, she had a fight with the two cousins hello.In less than a minute, the little cousin walked to the front of the main hall, and she was frightened by the dead chickens on the ground.

In such a short period of time, it is impossible for the little cousin to prepare a dead chicken and throw it on the ground outside the main hall.Even if she hid the dead chicken in the house beforehand, she sneaked it out of the main hall, and then threw the dead chicken away, her clothes would always get chicken feathers, or chicken blood, but her clothes were clean.The two cousins ​​were in the house all the time. After the little cousin left, they couldn't catch up and throw the dead chicken out, let alone they ran out with us. I can't figure out who is so boring that he wants to scare people with a dead chicken, but after thinking about it, it is impossible for anyone present here to do this.The only possibility is that the people who are not present now, Uncle, Lao Yan, and Huang Dejun are all behind the main hall, and only they can complete this prank.But the uncle and those people are so serious, will they be so idle and play pranks secretly?

At this time, the uncle and others came out from the back of the main hall calmly, and at first glance, they were people who had passed through the storm.When they looked at the dead chicken, they just felt puzzled, and they didn't yell in fright like the little cousin.After Huang Dejun came out, he was very surprised, and then gestured to Lao Yan for a long time. After Lao Yan figured it out, he whispered to his uncle again. After a while, we finally knew why Huang Dejun was surprised. It turned out that the dead chicken on the ground was the chicken that was making chicken soup today.In the morning, the steamed buns and chicken used for breakfast were gone. Everyone didn't pay attention to it at first, but now they saw the chicken was killed and then left dead in front of the main hall.The chicken was spoiled beyond recognition. Huang Dejun recognized the original chicken because he tied a red string to the chicken leg.

"Who did it? It made us hungry all morning!" The big hall brother was furious with hunger. The second cousin was also very sorry: "If such a fat chicken is stewed, it must be delicious. Now that it has become like this, who can eat it, throw it away." The little cousin nodded: "Of course, throw it away quickly, it will turn off your appetite, what else do you want to eat?" Fortunately, Mu Qingxiang and I came here together with our two cousins, so they didn't give up if they wanted to wrong us. I don't think the uncles and the others seemed to know about it, so I felt very strange. Who killed the chicken and threw it away? Is it really just a prank here?

Huang Dejun stood behind his uncle, his eyes lit up suddenly, and he ran to the dead chicken to rummage through the broken corpses.I stretched my head and took a look. There seemed to be a coin stuffed in the chicken, but it didn't look like it. It was a bit like a silver dollar in old China.Huang Dejun wiped off the blood stains on the silver coin, squatted and stared at it for a long time, as if he knew the origin of the silver coin.The uncle asked Lao Yan to take the silver coins, regardless of whether Huang Dejun agreed or not, he was more domineering than the overlord of Chu. Mu Qingxiang whispered in my ear, she said that she knew that silver coin, its full name was the French Indochina trade silver coin, commonly known as Zuoyang, which was one of the foreign silver coins circulating in China in the late Qing Dynasty.Later I learned that according to the "Illustration of Silver Dollars" published in the People's Bank of China in 1952, the official name of Zuoyang should be Annan Silver Dollar, also known as "Zuoren" and "Faguang". The wreath on the head of the seated goddess has seven beams of light, also known as "seven corners", but because it has spread widely, it has been called so. French Indochina is located in the eastern part of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia, including French Tokyo, Annan, Cochin China, Laos, and Cambodia (equivalent to today's Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia).At that time, these French silver coins were used to buy Chinese tea and do business with some tea people.Wutong Ancient Ferry was a key pier to and from the sea at that time. It would not be surprising if French silver coins were left here.Not only France, but also Britain, and other big powers, not only tea, but also tea-making technology were operated back then. Those silver coins were far from enough to offset the value of tea-making technology. Looking at my uncle's dignified expression, I recalled that Huangcuo was bought and then rebuilt. I have no way of knowing who the previous owner was.Could it be that the original residents of Huangcuo were French, and because of the war, they couldn't take all the silver coins away, so they left a few boxes here?The thought of money swayed my heart, and made no sense at all, but why that French silver coin was in the carcass of a dead chicken was another inexplicable mystery. I saw that my uncle and Huang Dejun looked strange. They must know the origin of the silver coins, but they didn't want to say more, and there was no way to force them.Besides, Huang Dejun is dumb, he couldn't speak even if he wanted to.Among the crowd, Lao Yan had the lowest status, so the task of throwing the dead chicken was entrusted to him, and the silver coins were taken away by the uncle. After the matter came to an end, we walked into the main hall. Huang Dejun was about to make lunch, but the little cousin kept yelling that she had no appetite to eat.Facing the distasteful eyes of the eldest brother, I stood aside in embarrassment, but Mu Qingxiang didn't care at all, and sat down leisurely.I ate and drank enough outside, but the three cousins ​​couldn't go out a step, all because of the prohibition issued by the uncle, they were not allowed to go out a step.I actually feel sorry for the three cousins ​​at the moment. With such a difficult father, it's no wonder they have such weird tempers. Mu Qingxiang was sitting next to me, and when I sat down, she whispered to me: "Your uncle smells a bit strange, it's completely different from yesterday's." "What's the difference? Is it because he doesn't take a bath often, so it stinks?" I replied casually. Mu Qingxiang sighed, as if disappointed in me, she said: "He has a very strong tea fragrance, this time I can smell it, because it's too strong, the sea breeze can't blow into the main hall for the time being." "What kind of tea smell is it? Can you smell it?" I wasn't surprised, because my uncle is a tea merchant, and it's normal for him to smell like tea. Who knew that Mu Qingxiang told me: "The smell of your uncle should be the pumpkin head tea from the Fohai Demon's House, and it's from the same batch!"