Three Hundred and Fifteenth Alley

"That's right, that bald man is ugly!" several boys laughed.

Seeing that the girl had nothing more to say, Zhou Xing pulled out a piece of candied haws and stuffed it into her hand, and said with a smile, "That's a good talk, I'll see you off."

The girl was very happy, took a big bite immediately, and said vaguely: "It's delicious!"

When the boys saw it, they immediately rushed to tell stories. When they learned that the more they told, the more candied haws they got, they searched their brains to recall anecdotes, until they told everything they knew, and the candied haws on the trolley was less than half.

"Remember, don't tell your family about this. It's a little secret between us, okay? If anyone leaks it out, grandpa will never give him candied haws again. Hide the money for candied haws Now, just treat it as the pocket money that grandpa gave you."

"Thank you, grandpa!" The children bowed and thanked, and ran and jumped home.

Zhou Xing immediately pushed the cart away, turned to the other side of the town, and then repeated the trick, exchanging candied haws for the truth in the child's mouth.

Before dark, a cart of candied haws was sent out, and Zhou Xing returned with a full load.

When Die Wu saw a hunchbacked old man walk into the room, she was stunned. Zhou Xing smiled and straightened his waist, and said in his original voice: "It's me, Zhou Xing."

"How?" Die Wu hurriedly asked.

"It's not bad, but it's a bit disorganized." Zhou Xing succinctly described the experience of the day, and then wrote down all the information that seemed worth paying attention to on paper, and wrote several pages densely.

Die Wu read it carefully, and then analyzed it carefully, trying to find the information that is related to each other, and then further peeled off the cocoon.

This work is very cumbersome and laborious. The two of them kept thinking about sorting out until dawn, and finally sorted out three more meaningful pieces of information: First, in recent months, the number of new faces in Honglian Town has increased a lot. There was a commotion, and the local people stepped up inspections, but found nothing; second, there was a bald man among the outsiders, who performed a large-scale ritual. After the ritual, a large number of fish appeared in the local river. As for the species of fish, even the old The fishermen couldn't tell; thirdly, near Xiama Alley, there were three murders in one month, and all the dead lost their heads.

"Today, I'm going to go to the dismounting alley." Zhou Xing said suddenly.

"Where is that place?" Die Wu asked curiously.

Zhou Xing squeezed his chin, and said with some embarrassment: "If I understand correctly, it should be a Goulan brothel."

"Ah?" Die Wu exclaimed.

Zhou Xing was very disgusted with visiting brothels, and now that he was a practitioner, he was even more reluctant to go to those dirty places, but the clue pointed to it, so he had to go.

After some discussion, the two changed their looks again, and they both seemed to be in their early twenties. After a few inquiries, they found the Dismounting Alley easily. Xiama Hutong is long and wide, not like an alley, but like a street. Before noon, the place is already crowded with people, busy with traffic, feasting and feasting, laughter and laughter.

Zhou Xing is now wearing silk wrapped in satin, with a jade pendant around his waist and a folding fan in his hand, full of extravagance. Although he was very nervous in his heart, he tried his best to maintain the appearance of a nobleman who was used to such scenes, while Die Wu, who was walking behind him, was dressed as a maid, and as soon as he walked into the Xiama alley, his face flushed, and he lowered his head and did not dare to mess around. look.

There are three brothels in Xiama Hutong, namely Hongxiu Tianxiang, Guihuazhai and Furongyuan. Among them, Furongyuan is the largest, has the most customers, and is also the busiest in front of the door. Zhou Xing stepped into the Furongyuan.

As soon as Zhou Xing entered the door, a pretty girl came up to meet her, covered her mouth and said with a coquettish smile: "Welcome, young master! You are very friendly, this is the first time you have come to our Furong Garden, right?"

Zhou Xing squeezed out a smile, nodded and said, "It's indeed the first time I've come to Furong Garden." After finishing speaking, he casually threw out a piece of silver, which was worth twenty taels.

The pretty girl caught the heavy silver with both hands, her eyes lit up, her smile became warmer immediately, and she hurriedly said: "Thank you, young master! Please come with me, young master, we will definitely serve you well in Furong Garden!"

Zhou Xing didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but on the surface he still pretended to be okay, waving his folding fan and following the girl with a smile on his face.

Seeing that the young man behind him was generous, the pretty girl took him directly to the VIP room. As for his maid, she treated her like nothing from the very beginning and turned a blind eye.

"My lord, please help yourself." The pretty girl led Zhou Xing to the VIP room, saluted and left with a smile.

Zhou Xing looked around and found that the VIP room was much more spacious than other places. In the center of the hall, there were four women serving musical instruments such as the sheng pipe, flute and flute, while the other four graceful women were dancing. On the left and right sides of the hall, four elegant rooms are divided, but these elegant rooms have no doors, and only a few bead curtains hang down symbolically.

Three groups of people have already occupied three private rooms. Some of them talk loudly, some eat and drink, and some enjoy singing and dancing quietly. The three of Zhou Xing walked directly into the fourth private room. As soon as they were seated, four maids walked in gracefully with large and small plates, put pastries, seasonal fresh fruits, wine, etc. on the table in turn, and said in unison: "My lord, please use it slowly."

Zhou Xing immediately rewarded each of them five taels of silver, and the four smiled at each other, thanked each other and left.

Not long after, a middle-aged woman came in with three young girls. The woman smiled and said: "Young master is lonely, and you need a beautiful woman to accompany you. Ladies, stay with me!"

Zhou Xing hurriedly waved his hands and said: "No, no, my lord, I'm bored today. I don't like crowds. It's good to just enjoy singing and dancing here, and there will still be rewards!" Then he took out fifty taels of silver and handed it to the woman.

The woman was overjoyed and thanked her a thousand times. The three girls looked at each other, covered their mouths and laughed, and looked at Zhou Xing like a fool.

Just as the woman was about to turn around and leave, she suddenly hesitated and said, "My lord, do you want to see my courteous Mo Shanshan?"

Zhou Xing had a thought, and felt that although his trip was like walking on thin ice, it was not in vain. After all, what he threw out was a lot of money. Moreover, his intuition told him that he might be able to find out a lot of little-known information from this oiran. After all, the people he contacts are either rich or noble, and these rich people must know something in order to win the favor of the oiran. Just say anything, without any scruples.

Thinking of this, he cleared his throat and said solemnly: "It's okay to meet Huakui."

Die Wu snorted lightly.

The woman beamed with joy when she heard the words, her expression became more respectful, and she said with a flattering smile: "Young master is really lucky, my family Shanshan only sees guests once a week, and today just happens to be the day to see guests, so you caught up with me, this is fate." ah."