Seeing the Xiahou brothers' submissive and receptive expressions, Liu Hong's cold face softened considerably.

"Good, let's go!"

After saying that, Liu Hong took the lead and walked downstairs. Xi Zhicai, Wang Yue, Jian Shuo and the other people, as well as the ten guards, followed closely behind. The Xiahou brothers and Xu Chu also followed behind with trepidation.

When the manager at the front desk downstairs saw Liu Hong and his group coming down, he quickly went to greet them.

"Young master, are you satisfied today?"

Liu Hong smiled and nodded, "Hmm~, it's pretty good, not bad!"

Seeing this, the shopkeeper's face also plastered with a fawning smile, and he said respectfully:

"I'm glad you're satisfied, young master. Miss Xinyue is the top courtesan at our Cuihong Pavilion. She charges 20,000 coins for each person for an hour. You've had five people in today, for a total of 45 minutes."

The fee is 25,000 yuan. Could someone please settle the accounts?

"Twenty-five thousand coins?"

Upon hearing the shopkeeper's price, Liu Hong paused for a moment, glanced at the servant indifferently, and then calmly waved to Jian Shuo behind him.

Upon seeing this, Jian Shuo hurriedly touched his chest and sleeves, only to find that he had not brought any money with him, and his expression changed.

Then Jian Shuo moved closer to Liu Hong and whispered:

"Sir...Young master, I was in such a hurry that I forgot to bring any money with me..."

"Hmm? What do you think about all day?"

Liu Hong's expression shifted, and he turned to look at Jian Shuo with some displeasure.

"Please forgive me, young master...!"

Upon hearing this, Jian Shuo quickly lowered his head in a panic. After thinking about it carefully, he realized that this was the third time he had displeased the emperor, and he felt extremely frustrated.

Seeing this, Liu Hong shook his head helplessly, then looked at Wang Yue beside him.

"Wang Shi? Did you bring any money?"

"Young master, we were in such a hurry that we forgot to bring any money!"

Wang Yue touched his empty sleeve and shook his head awkwardly. Shi A and the ten guards also shook their heads.

Seeing this, Liu Hong shook his head helplessly, then turned to look at Xi Zhicai beside him.

"Young master, I'm broke too!"

Xi Zhicai gave a wry smile and shook his head.

Xi Zhicai then looked at the shopkeeper, stepped forward, and said with a smile, "Shopkeeper, we were in a bit of a hurry to leave today and didn't bring any money with us. What do you think...?"

The shopkeeper, looking troubled, said:

"Well... Young Master Xu, you're a regular customer here, and you know we don't offer credit, so...?"

Although the shopkeeper noticed Liu Hong and his companions' predicament, he could also tell that Liu Hong and his group were of unusual status, so he didn't say anything unpleasant. Instead, he looked at Liu Hong expectantly.

Seeing this, Liu Hong had no choice but to turn around and look at the Xiahou brothers following behind him, and then wave to them.

"Come here!!"

The Xiahou brothers also hurriedly lowered their heads and came to Liu Hong's side.

"What are your orders, young master?"

Did you bring any money?

Xiahou Dun paused for a moment, then said somewhat:

"Young master, we didn't either..."

"Young master, we have some at home. I'll go get it for you right away, shall I?"

Before Xiahou Dun could finish speaking, Xiahou Yuan quickly chimed in.

Xiahou Dun looked at Xiahou Yuan with some surprise. How come he didn't know where the family had any money?

Liu Hong nodded slightly, "Okay, go ahead!"

Xiahou Yuan smiled and nodded, "Oh, young master, please wait a moment!"

After saying that, Xiahou Yuan immediately turned around and ran out of Cuihong Tower. He glanced around and then ran towards the Cao family mansion, which was the closest to him.

Soon Xiahou Yuan arrived at Cao Song's residence. Fortunately, Cao Song and his wife were not at home, and the servants of the Cao residence did not stop him when they saw that it was Xiahou Yuan.

Xiahou Yuan then sneaked into Cao Song's study, recalling how he had "several" unintentionally witnessed Cao Cao taking money. He then followed Cao Cao's example and began to search the bookshelf.

"Hey~, it's here after all!"

Before long, Xiahou Yuan found a hidden compartment in a corner of the bookshelf. Looking at the wooden box inside, Xiahou Yuan couldn't help but chuckle.

"Huh? Why is there so little left? Did my older brother take it all?"

Upon opening the wooden box and seeing the only two ingots of gold inside, Xiahou Yuan was momentarily stunned.

"Taking one piece or two pieces will both result in getting beaten up, so you might as well take them all!"

After muttering something to himself, Xiahou Yuan gritted his teeth, took out the last two ingots of gold, and put them in his pocket.

Xiahou Yuan then put the empty wooden box back into the hidden compartment, and quickly left the Cao residence, heading towards the Cuihong Tower.

While waiting for Xiahou Yuan to deliver the money, Liu Hong frowned as he watched the young people going up and down the second floor and the onlookers in the hall.

"Zhicai, do you know all those people?"

Xi Zhicai respectfully said, "Young Master, these people are mostly scions of aristocratic and powerful families!"

"The prices here are so high, but they don't seem to care at all. These people are really rich!"

Looking at those elegantly dressed young men, Liu Hong couldn't help but chuckle.

Xi Zhicai laughed and said, "This amount of money is nothing to these people. Besides, they don't have any fun places to go in their spare time except here!"

"That's true, people need entertainment too, but it's not good for these young people to put all their energy into it!"

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