Chapter 50: Buying everything from the pawnshop

Good man, who else could it be but the wicked shopkeeper who cheated her out of a mirror and only gave her five taels of silver!
Why did this guy come to open the shop so early in the morning? That's not right. The pawnshop is on West Street. You shouldn't go inside when you open a shop. Why should bad things go out?

Subconsciously feeling that something was wrong, Li Yaoguang followed him without giving it much thought. Then he discovered that the old man was going to the market to have breakfast. Perhaps because it was still early, the old man was leisurely and not in a hurry at all. He walked into the familiar breakfast shop with his hands behind his back, and after ordering the food, he didn't ask the shopkeeper to rush to serve it. Instead, he wanted to drink a pot of morning tea first. It was really enjoyable, unlike him who was still hungry.

Li Yaoguang touched her empty stomach and complained. Suddenly she thought of something. Her eyes rolled again and she turned around and ran straight to the terrible pawnshop.

Taking advantage of your absence to take your property, this is revenge!
Li Yaoguang ran very fast. She did not go through the main gate, but instead went around to the secluded area in the backyard of the shop and climbed over the wall. She successfully avoided Shuangxi, the waiter who was sleeping soundly in the back door room, and ran straight to the front shop. With a pair of hydraulic pliers in her hand, she knew the world was hers. What's more, the back door of the shop was not locked, so don't blame her.

Li Yaoguang moved swiftly and smoothly. After making sure that the door would not creak, he carefully opened a crack and crawled in. In the blink of an eye, he was behind the tall counter and began to collect the things inside.

She didn't care. She just took them for revenge. She left nothing behind wherever she went. Finally, Li Yaoguang was satisfied when she saw the empty shelves. She turned around to leave, but found a secret door and stairs under her feet. She opened it and took a look. Hey, it turned out to be a storage warehouse. It seemed that the things that could be put here were more valuable than those on the shelves outside. What was she waiting for? She took them.

Because she only collected information and did not look at it, it only took Li Yaoguang a few minutes to clean up the basement which covered more than 100 square meters. She was afraid that the unlucky old man would suddenly come back, so to be on the safe side, she was ready to run away immediately. However, when she turned around the screen, she found the upward staircase around the corner that she had just overlooked.

Thinking that there was a second floor to this shop, Li Yaoguang subconsciously stopped and went up the stairs gently. After going up, she found that there was someone living upstairs. Looking at the clothes hung on the landscape screen in front of the bed, Li Yaoguang was sure that this place must be the old man's residence, which was why she saw him leave early in the morning to find food.

Since he was already here and had to take the money, Li Yaoguang didn't hesitate. He took out a pair of disposable gloves delivered by the takeout and put them on. Li Yaoguang searched the house quickly with disgust, looking for any secret place where he could hide money.

I have to say that reality comes from life, and novels never deceive me.

She climbed the stairs to look inside the wardrobe, bed, pillows, and even the beams. She actually found a roll of silver bills in the wooden pillow, a box of gold cakes on the beam, and a wicker box from the empty secret compartment under the wardrobe. There were quite a few silver ingots and coins scattered inside. Hmm, this bad old man was quite wealthy!
But when he thought about it, these were obtained through fraud and deception just like what was done to him in the past, so Li Yaoguang did not feel guilty at all.

Seeing that it was getting dark outside, there was no time to count the harvest. Fearing that the old man would block her again, Li Yaoguang left quickly with a guilty conscience. Fortunately, she moved quickly and it took her less than 20 minutes to complete the whole process. She climbed over the wall the same way she had come back. By the time she reached Wa Lane, the old man had finally arrived.

With his hands behind his back and shaking his head, he opened the back door and entered the yard, only to find that the back door of the shop in front was open. At first, the old man didn't think much of it, but when he went in, he found that both the shop and the basement, and even the money he had saved up upstairs over the years, had been emptied out. The old man, who used to be very arrogant, sat on the ground with weak legs, slapped his legs and cried like a shrew.

He turned around and pulled up the still confused Shuangxi and scolded him, saying that Shuangxi had colluded with others to steal the pawnshop. Shuangxi felt very wronged and reported to the authorities to clear his suspicion. Of course, there was no news, and the authorities had no time to deal with this matter at the moment, as they were busy. However, Li Yaoguang, who had already left West Street and happily lit up the broken shopkeeper's furniture, didn't know about this.

There were a total of one hundred gold cakes in the box, each weighing about one tael, which meant one hundred taels of gold; and the roll of silver notes weighed one hundred taels each, which meant there were twenty in total; plus the miscellaneous change in the wicker box, which was over three hundred taels; she had become rich again.

Li Yaoguang, in a good mood, arrived at Wa Lane, hurried to do some shopping, and planned to go out of the city today, so he went to a familiar shop and bought a few big meat buns, wrapped them in lotus leaves and ate while walking. When he arrived at Ma Shi Street, he first rented a large carriage, and then went to the grain shop. Seeing that the shop had just opened and the clerk was cleaning, Li Yaoguang went up and waved his hand, and generously ordered a cart of fine grains, including rice, white flour, and some soybeans and red beans. Naturally, he used the silver bills he got from the old man to pay the bill.

Well, she had studied them carefully in the space, and there was nothing unusual about these banknotes, nor did they look like they had been marked, but to be on the safe side, she still disguised them.

Not only did he use a needle to poke words on it, he also smeared sesame oil and sprinkled pepper on it. He was secretly annoyed that he didn't have any wind oil or floral water at home, but he kept fiddling with it, thinking that even the original owner's mother wouldn't recognize it. Only then did he feel at ease to use it.

The reason why she used banknotes instead of silver or gold to pay the bill was also her little thought.

She felt that this was ancient times after all, not modern times, and even the dynasty might not be sure, not to mention that these were generally banks run by merchants, chambers of commerce, or aristocratic families?

It's not like she didn't have a place to save it, so it would be better to hold the actual gold and silver in her hands for peace of mind. It would be better to spend the silver notes as soon as possible. As for going to the bank to exchange gold and silver for savings? She hadn't thought about it yet.

It's not that she is stingy and cares about the high cost, but she is young and afraid that someone will take advantage of her. She is also in a hurry to leave Beijing and has no time, not because she is guilty and afraid of being targeted (that's weird!).

I made up my mind that I would use these banknotes if I could, and if I couldn't use them all, I would exchange them somewhere else after leaving Beijing.

After buying the grain, Li Yaoguang gave the driver a handful of copper coins, which the Marquis's storehouse had collected a lot of. She asked him to use them to eat and help her to load the cart. She left the grain shop and went shopping in the grocery store, snack shop, and bookstore in Wa City, buying all kinds of oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, and wine, all kinds of candies, snacks, and preserved fruits, enlightenment books, pens, ink, paper, and inkstones, and even expensive fruits that the merchants had just shipped from the south. Li Yaoguang also bought a lot of them with the silver notes, and asked them to deliver them to the grain shop to load them together. In the end, she had spent all the two silver notes.

Li Yaoguang felt the remaining eighteen bills and stopped a horse-drawn carriage in Kyoto City on the way to the western inner city. When he arrived at the clinic, he thought and felt that he could not bear to deceive the old doctor, so he gave him the balance in cash. He then took the medicine that the old doctor, his disciples, and the boys had spent the whole morning preparing, and then he got on the carriage back to Wa Lane with satisfaction.

(End of this chapter)