Chapter 550: Chapter 179: Identity! Orphan! The Old Emperor Passes Away! (A 10,000-word mega Chapter, please subscribe)_2
"Hmm?" However, he quickly noticed that the expression on one of the shop assistants in his store was somewhat off.
The elderly shopkeeper frowned and said, "Boy, why do you look so pale, and why are you breaking out in so much cold sweat?"
"Shh! Shh!"
The shop assistant, already fright out of his wits, said nothing and pulled at the elderly shopkeeper’s hand, dragging him to the back. Then he lowered his voice significantly and said, "Shopkeeper, you must, must not talk nonsense in front of this person!"
"What do you mean?" The elderly shopkeeper was perplexed, but seeing the shop assistant so solemn, he could not help but lower his voice as well, "Do you know this person?"
"I don’t know him... but, but I’ve seen him!" The shop assistant, his face filled with terror, said, "Do you remember what I told you just now about the big trouble that befell the Fu Clan yesterday?"
The shopkeeper was startled, "I remember... isn’t that just your wild talk?"
The shop assistant, on the verge of tears, said, "Shopkeeper, you know I’m a coward; how could I dare to make up such a thing? How could I dare to slander the Fu Clan? What I said was what I personally witnessed!"
"What?!" The shopkeeper almost jumped.
If what the shop assistant had said earlier was not half false, did it mean that the Fu Clan, which had operated in the Imperial City for a millennium, had truly become history?
Could such an inconceivable thing, such stuff of dreams, really happen?
The elderly shopkeeper was dumbfounded!
"Shopkeeper, if you really don’t believe it... later, you can go outside and casually ask a few people. There were a lot of witnesses to the event!"
The shop assistant explained, "With so many people having seen the Fu Clan go through such a big event, this kind of news will certainly spread quickly!"
"This..." Hearing the shop assistant’s guarantee, the elderly shopkeeper swallowed hard. He was now seventy percent convinced.
"And this man?" The elderly shopkeeper glanced surreptitiously at Fan Wu, who stood at the entrance.
The shop assistant hurriedly said, "It’s this man, this man! I personally saw him coming out of the Fu Clan’s place yesterday. He must have some definite connection to the downfall of the Fu Clan!"
Shopkeeper: "!!!!"
The pawnshop owner was at a loss for words to describe his current feelings.
He had lived in the Imperial City for many decades, and with a fair network of connections, he thought he had seen all kinds of storms.
But today he found that the current storms in the Great Zhou Imperial City were truly beyond anything he had ever seen.
The Fu Clan... The Fu Clan was destroyed?!
And this exceedingly tall and burly man in front of him had an inseparable link to the Fu Clan’s downfall?
The elderly shopkeeper gasped sharply.
He had actually considered ousting this mysterious giant just moments before?
Wasn’t that to say he had just taken a stroll in front of the gates to the Underworld?!
If it wasn’t for the shop assistant in the pawnshop hastily covering his mouth, he might have brought disaster upon himself!
That is to say...
He had picked up a narrow escape!
With a myriad of shocking thoughts flashing through his mind, the elderly pawnshop owner’s face underwent several changes. Soon, he put on a very bright smile.
This brilliant smile even carried a hint of subservience and flattering obsequiousness.
He turned around and walked towards Fan Wu.
Rubbing his hands together, he said to Fan Wu, "Sir, you were asking about a jade pendant from twenty-two, or perhaps, twenty-three years ago? I’ll find it for you right away, sir!"
Having said that.
He looked at the shop assistant, "What are you standing around for? Hurry up and help me look; let’s start by taking out the account books from twenty-some years ago!"
"Ah? Oh! Oh!" The shop assistant nodded like a pecking chicken.
A shopkeeper and a shop assistant.
They rummaged around the small pawnshop, expending all their energy, with both sweating profusely.
But neither dared to slack off.
For they both now knew just how terrifying the man before them truly was.
Related to the downfall of the Fu Clan yesterday and still daring to walk around in broad daylight.
Such a figure...
Was truly terrifying!
At least... definitely not someone a common citizen of the Imperial City could afford to provoke.
"Eh?" It was unclear how long he had been searching, and the pawnshop owner’s eyes were starting to blur. But just then, he suddenly let out a soft "Eh."
He curiously asked, "Sir... the jade pendant you mentioned, could it be the one pawned for fifty taels of silver? And the person who pawned it here promised... to redeem it after twenty-three years for ten times its price?"
The shopkeeper’s eyes widened; why didn’t he have any recollection of such a matter?
To know that ten times fifty taels of silver was five hundred taels! Such a large amount should have been something he was sensitive to.
But the fact that he had no memory of such a matter was written in these account books...
Strange indeed!
Could it really be due to his old age?
That he couldn’t recall many things from over twenty years ago?
The pawnshop owner fell into deep thought.
"Yes." It was Fan Wu’s voice that finally awakened the shopkeeper, "Is the person who pawned this jade pendant surnamed Fan?"
