Zuan wasn't annoyed at all, and said with a grin, "Then, considering our friendship from drinking together, tell me what the most profitable industry in the city is, and I'll try my luck."

The woman put down her wine pot and looked him up and down a few times: "You're quite an interesting person. If you ask about the most profitable industry in the city, of course, the Chu family's salt and iron industry would be the first choice. After all, most people in the world are ordinary people who need to eat and farm. These two things are indispensable in every aspect of life."

"Then there are the Yuan Stones of the Yu family. This is a highly profitable industry, after all, Yuan Stones are rare and precious, and each one is priceless."

"Of course, those are all business paths. If you are strong enough, you will naturally not lack money."

Zuan rolled his eyes: "If I were strong enough, would I be being blackmailed by the Plum Blossom Gang?"

"Then there's nothing we can do." The woman smiled nonchalantly.

Zuan added, "Actually, there's another way to make money the fastest and much easier."

"Oh? What is it?" The woman also seemed interested.

"I once heard a handsome guy say something about a theory. He said that there are an infinite number of women in the world, but our energy is limited. If we try to chase an infinite number of women with our limited energy, we're bound to lose. So he decided that he wouldn't try to chase an infinite number of women anymore, but would instead focus on chasing a rich woman. Now the more I think about it, the more sense it makes, and I've decided to learn from him," Zu'an said seriously.

"You're probably the only one in the world who can make being a kept man sound so elegant and refined." The woman was dumbfounded.

"Miss, would you like to consider me? ****I'm not clingy... Ugh, I mean I'm handsome, dashing, and considerate." Zu'an spoke with the air of a peddler selling his wares.

"Haven't you already successfully become the Chu family's son-in-law? Why are you still bothering other women?" The woman spat, "Scumbag!"

Zuan was taken aback: "You know me?"

“We didn’t know each other before, but from your conversation with Mei Hua Thirteen just now, it’s easy to guess,” the woman said with a light smile. “A few days ago, there was a lot of gossip in Mingyue City that the princess of Mingyue City, the eldest daughter of the Chu family, got married, and her husband was not a young master from a noble family, but a good-for-nothing coward.”

"To be honest, I was also very curious before, how could such an outstanding person as Chu Chuyan choose such a husband?"

"But after seeing you, I suddenly understand a little."

Zuan puffed out his chest: "Is it because I'm handsome?"

"No, it's because you're shameless enough." The woman stretched, revealing an extremely graceful curve to her chest. "I've been out long enough, I'm leaving now, see you again someday."

After saying that, she turned and walked into the bamboo forest behind, leaving behind a graceful and elegant figure.

Watching her departing figure, Zu An felt a sense of loneliness and desolation. Earlier in the pavilion, although she smiled from time to time, there always seemed to be an unresolved sorrow between her brows.

"I wonder what's making her sad." Zu'an thought for a while, then suddenly paused, "What are you pretending to be, you're just lusting after her body, aren't you?"

Shaking his head, he gathered his thoughts and decided to go find Yu Yanluo first.

At this moment, Mei Hua Thirteen hurriedly arrived at the headquarters of the Mei Hua Gang in the south of the city, and then ran directly to the gang leader's study.

Bang!

"Something terrible has happened, Chief..." He had just pushed open the door when he heard a woman's exclamation from inside. He was stunned. A naked woman hurriedly dodged and searched everywhere for something to cover her body.

"If you don't have a reasonable explanation, you'll be going to the punishment hall to receive twenty lashes later." A one-eyed burly man sat at the desk, grabbed the hair of the terrified woman, and forced her to kneel down under the desk again.

Waaah...

All that remained was the woman's incoherent voice.

Mei Hua Thirteen swallowed hard, thinking to herself that Tan Wei's wife was really fair-skinned.

Upon hearing the question, he hurriedly replied, "I just ran into Zu'an."

This fierce, one-eyed man was none other than Mei Chaofeng, the leader of the Plum Blossom Gang.

"Who is Zu'an?" Mei Chaofeng leaned back in her chair, looking quite relaxed.

“It’s the person you asked Twelfth Brother to deal with before,” Mei Thirteen hurriedly replied.

"That son-in-law of the Chu family?" Mei Chaofeng sat up straight abruptly, her eyes snapping open with a fierce glint in them.

A cough... came the sound of a woman gagging from under the desk.

Mei Chaofeng glanced down, then casually looked up: "Last time, the twelfth brother messed things up, so I gave him another chance. What, he still hasn't done a good job?"

Mei Shisan replied, "I received news earlier that some brothers in the gang saw Twelfth Brother leaving the city with him earlier yesterday. I thought it was a sure thing, but Twelfth Brother still hasn't returned. Instead, Zu An has reappeared in the city."

"What's going on?" Mei Chaofeng frowned, realizing that something was amiss.

Mei Shisan replied, "I asked him, and he said that not long after the two of them left the city yesterday, they met Tan Wei, and then Twelfth Brother went after Tan Wei, and the two of them separated."

"Waaah~" Upon hearing the name Tan Wei, the woman under the desk became agitated and struggled to get up, but Mei Chaofeng held her down firmly, preventing her from moving an inch.

Mei Hua Thirteen felt her mouth go dry: "Godfather, could it be that Twelfth Brother was... by Tan Wei...?"

"Impossible!" Mei Chaofeng waved her hand. "Tan Wei is far inferior to the twelfth brother in both cultivation and cunning. He can't cause any trouble."

"Report!" A follower ran to the door. "A follower has found Tan Wei's body outside the city."