Before we knew it, time flew by and soon it was the end of the month.
Gu Qingze successfully won the first place in the brothel this month and successfully obtained the precious opportunity to meet and talk with the current chief courtesan.
During this period, thanks to the unremitting efforts of brother Jinnian and Ling Xiao, however, the most crucial thing is Ling Xiao's contribution.
After all, Brother Jinnian and Su Han went out to do something and never came back. As a result, the two of them were supposed to take turns coming here, but because of the absence of Brother Jinnian, Ling Xiao had to do it.
However, he was already very grateful that his younger brother Jinnian could help them so much. Apart from feeling sorry for Ling Xiao's hard work, he had no other objections.
Seeing the madam coming to him, her eyes kept secretly looking him up and down, making him feel uncomfortable and uneasy.
The feeling of being treated as an "object" and having one's value measured and estimated is really terrible.
"Come with me." The madam looked at him for a while, as if she had checked him out inside and out, then she turned around and waved gently, indicating that he should follow her.
Gu Qingze nodded slightly and followed the madam along the winding corridor to a dark and narrow room.
Just when he thought this was his destination, the madam took out an irregular crystal and embedded it into a depression in the wall.
"Swish—"
Accompanied by a deafening roar, a small hole suddenly appeared near the floor where Gu Qingze was standing.
He looked down and saw a completely different world. There was a winding staircase that seemed to have no end, and there was endless darkness all around.
The madam did not wait for him and walked down the stairs on her own.
Gu Qingze quickly quickened his pace and caught up.
I have to say that the steps of this staircase are not only high but also steep. When walking up, you must concentrate completely and look closely at your feet, because there is not even a handrail. It is easy to step on empty air and fall down if you are not careful.
He walked step by step, and time seemed to stand still.
Looking up, I still saw the endless stairs and the heart-pounding darkness...
If the brothel owner leading the way in front of him had not been working hard to get there, he would have suspected that he had encountered a real-life version of the "Penrose Ladder Effect."
But looking at the madam's familiar and relaxed pace, it was obvious that she had done this many times.
Gu Qingze took a long breath, adjusted his irritability caused by long-term repetitive movements, cheered himself up, and quickened his pace again, walking down the stairs step by step.
Finally, after an unknown amount of time, he reached the bottom.
Looking up, his eyes were filled with shock.
Beneath the ground, there is a hidden world where a palace of strange shape stands.
"Wait here for a moment. I'll go and inform them first... Once I let you in, you can go in later."
The madam turned around and looked at him. Halfway through her words, there was an inexplicable subtle pause.
"Okay." Gu Qingze nodded obediently, his eyes following the madam's gradually receding figure, as if he was watching her see off, like watching a relative see off.
Although he noticed the subtle pause of the madam just now, he could not analyze anything because he had too little information and did not know much about the madam, so he just wrote it down and kept it in his mind.
As her figure gradually disappeared, the smile on Gu Qingze's face also disappeared, and he returned to a calm expression.
After a while, he confirmed that he was the only one around, then he began to observe the place with peace of mind. After looking around, he was a little disappointed.
There is nothing here except the strangely shaped palace.
How boring.
Gu Qingze didn't know how long he had been waiting. He just felt that time was extremely long, but he still didn't see the madam return.
He slowly approached the palace and touched its surface with his hand out of curiosity. It was actually made of solid wood.
By the way, the unique shape of this palace really does look like a huge tree...
Could it be that this palace was built on the foundation of a big tree?
Gu Qingze was curious for a moment, then obediently moved away from the palace and waited patiently there.
Before successfully meeting the chief courtesan and obtaining intelligence, he didn't want to cause too many changes so as not to arouse other people's suspicion in advance, so he kept a low profile as much as possible and tried his best to pretend to be well-behaved.
"Huh——" Gu Qingze breathed a sigh of relief again, secretly encouraging himself in his heart, forcing himself to cheer up, and tidied his clothes by the way.
Although I won't be able to see the chief courtesan clearly when I meet her later because of the curtain, I should at least face her with the best attitude to show my respect for her.
While waiting, he reviewed his experience in the brothel again.
In the days near the end of the month, he took the initiative to seek Chenluo's opinion - whether to leave the brothel immediately.
Chenluo hesitated at first, but when she learned that he had found a customer who could redeem her, she looked at him meaningfully, hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded.
Although he didn't understand why she looked at him like that, since Chenluo had agreed, as a friend he met in the brothel, Gu Qingze would do his best to help her, get her out of the brothel and regain her freedom.
Therefore, when Ling Xiao came again, he asked Ling Xiao to use an unfamiliar identity and try to make this identity look like a generous "local tycoon".
He first used this identity to get in touch with Chenluo for a period of time, pretending to be fond of her, and then generously spent money to redeem her, and then found a proper place to settle her.
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