Xia Yue immediately ordered people to follow Zhao Laicai to find Cheng Er, the gangster who sold him the cat's eye stone.

Master Ruhui naturally did not exchange jewelry for money from him, so where did his cat's eye stone come from? It doesn't matter if he stole it or cheated it. Now that he has this pair of cat's eye stone, he can follow the clues and find them.

The person who interacted with Master Ruhui.

The policeman hurriedly followed Zhao Laicai and came back quickly.

When everyone saw them returning empty-handed, their hearts sank.

"Sir," the policeman said, "We followed Zhao Laicai to the back alley of his house, but we didn't see Cheng Er. We asked the neighbors and they said they hadn't seen anyone for several days. We went to his house again, and sure enough, it was cold.

There is a bit of dust on the stove and door... Could it be that he ran away knowing that the matter was exposed."

Zhao Laicai is also very depressed. As long as Cheng Er is found, he will be completely free of suspicion. Now that he is not found, he cannot escape.

Xia Yue frowned and said: "Zhao Laicai, you said that Cheng Er lives behind your house and you see him often. Do you know who he usually associates with?"

This is difficult for Zhao Laicai: "It's just... those gangsters, I can't name them, but I often see them in groups of three or five, wandering around without any serious business."

Probably all gangsters are like this, wandering around with nothing to do.

Normally, there is no income, so I rely on deceit and deception. If I have money, I will spend it as much as I want, and wait until it is spent.

But this is not difficult for Xia Yue. Xia Yue is not afraid of people that Zhao Laicai dare not provoke.

Soon, several other gangsters who had close contact with Cheng Er and worked together to deceive and abduct him were brought here.

Although they were scattered in threes and fours outside, inside the six doors, they were all as obedient as quails, shrinking back and asking questions.

When asked about Cheng Er, several people said that he has become rich and no longer hangs out with us. He has lived in Qingyue Building for a long time. I saw him once half a month ago. He was dressed like a dog. When he saw us

He also likes to ignore others.

"Then do you know how he made his fortune?"

It was half a year ago that Zhao Laicai received the pair of cat's eye stones, but he gave them two hundred taels.

Two hundred taels, when everyone heard the price, they almost wanted to complain about Cheng Er. Even if you are a pawnshop, the pawnshop's profit is the price difference between the pawn and the sale. No matter how good the thing is, it will naturally be worthless to him.

But there must be something similar. The quality of this cat's eye stone is so good that there is no third one on the market in the capital. Even if it is not inlaid with a finished product, just selling it as a bare stone alone will cost several thousand taels of silver.

Two of the same size, the value is more than doubled.

But Zhao Laicai gave him two hundred taels, and he gave away one hundred taels a piece, just like giving away to a beggar.

Zhao Laicai knew that Cheng Er's stuff had an unknown origin and he didn't know the goods, so he kept the price ridiculously low.

Two hundred taels of silver was a dead bargain. Although it was outrageously low, it was already a large amount of money for Cheng Er. It was enough money for him to squander for a while. But it was absolutely impossible for him to squander it for half a year.

In other words, in the past six months, just recently, he has found a new source of money.

Xia Yue said: "Go to Qingyue Tower and capture Cheng Er."

There is no need to guess here, as long as Cheng Er is here, arrest him and question him.

Liu Sha responded, and Ye Caitang also walked out.

"Hey." Xia Yue felt something was wrong and said quickly: "Xiaoye, what are you doing?"

"Arrest people." Ye Caitang said confidently, "Aren't we going to arrest Cheng Er?"

"You want to go?"

"What's wrong?" Ye Caitang said sternly: "I'm going to help Brother Liu."

Liu Sha's expression was very strange. When did I ask for your help? I'm just a little gangster. Do you need help? Besides, even if you want help, there are so many people in the six doors. Do you want a girl to arrest them?

?

"Forget it." Xia Yue stood up and dragged Ye Caitang away without hesitation.

Do you want to arrest someone? No, you want to go to a brothel. The eager expression on your face betrays you. Don't think about it. That place is really not suitable for girls.

Ye Caitang didn't succeed and was very depressed.

Sure enough, Cheng Er was in Qingyue Tower, in the room of his old friend, Miss Man Yue, drunk and dreaming, not knowing what night it was, until he was brought back, the smell of alcohol still lingered on his body.

When he saw the six doors, saw Xia Yue, and saw Zhao Laicai, he sobered up in an instant.

"Sir." Cheng Er said in panic: "I don't know what you came to me for... I've been keeping to myself recently. I haven't done anything bad. I haven't fought, and I haven't confiscated anyone's protection money..."

And those things are not enough for Liumen to take action. He has been living in the capital for these years, so he still understands this.

"Don't pretend to be stupid with me." Xia Yue said: "I heard that you are quite wealthy these days. Where did you get the money?"

No matter when the origin of huge wealth is unknown, it must be explained. Money will not fall from the sky. All methods of getting rich are written in the law.

Ye Caitang also stared at Cheng Er. For a just person like her, what she hated the most was having huge amounts of property with unknown origins. It was not allowed by nature.

As soon as Cheng Er saw Zhao Laicai, he knew that this matter could no longer be concealed. Zhao Laicai must have tried anything. If he didn't, he would be severely punished.

Cheng Er knelt down with a plop: "My lord, my lord, let me tell you. I stole the two stones sold to Zhao Laicai."

Cheng Er was actually not very nervous at the moment. After all, he had done too many petty thefts, and he didn't know what those two opals were. He only knew that they were two gems. One of them was

It was sold for one hundred taels of silver, so I don't think it's very valuable.

"Where did you steal it from?"

"There is a family not far behind my house, whose surname is Wang, and his name is Wang Xi." Cheng Er said: "I came back late that night and passed by his house. I saw that their door was closed. I thought it was because the courtyard door was forgotten.

When it was closed, I thought it belonged to my neighbors and wanted to remind them."

Everyone was laughing in their hearts.

Do you really dare to say that you went to remind people to close the door? You probably saw that the door was open and wanted to sneak in to see if you could steal something?

Cheng Er was used to being thick-skinned and would not be embarrassed. He continued: "I quietly walked to the door and took a look. There was someone in the yard. I know Wang Xi. There were also two people dressed in gray. I couldn't tell the gender.

, looks quite thin.”

Everyone pricked up their ears.
Chapter completed!