Even without a thermometer, she roughly estimated that it was only October and the beginning of November, and at night, the temperature in Jimengha City could drop to at least minus 20 degrees Celsius.
In her previous life, she lived in the southwest, where the four seasons were distinct and it wasn't too cold.
Even after traveling through time, Lingfeng County is still located in the southwest region with a pleasant climate. Even in Beijing, the temperature in October at night is still seven or eight degrees.
This made Chaoge feel like every day here was a year long.
Following the address given by the beggar, Chaoge asked around and finally found the address on the note in a civilian area.
It is snowing again today. The streets and alleys of the capital are all covered in silver. Every step you take will leave deep footprints.
On a day like this, except for some businesses, many shops have put up signs saying they are closed.
Chaoge exhaled a breath and knocked on the wooden door that was covered with a thin layer of ice and had mottled vermilion paint.
In such a huge capital city, you can occasionally see patrolling soldiers, and there are only pedestrians passing by in a hurry.
Chaoge simply couldn't imagine a place like this. How would the beggars under the command of a gang like the Beggars' Gang, which made a living by begging, survive the long winter?
After a long while, the heavy wooden door was opened from the inside with great effort.
A man, wrapped in a sheepskin coat and wearing a hat that was made of something that could not be identified as leather, poked his head out from inside.
The man tilted his head curiously as he looked at the person standing outside, with only his nose and eyes showing, wearing a firefur cloak.
"Who are you looking for?"
Chaoge couldn't understand what the man said with his accent, so she could only speak first: "I came from Canglan Dynasty, and here is a letter."
Chaoge handed the letter from the beggar to the man who opened the door.
The man took it, opened the envelope, unfolded the letter, and lowered his eyes to read it.
When he finished reading the letter and spoke again, he was already speaking poor Canglan Chao dialect.
"Please come in, young lady."
Chaoge didn't expect that it would be so easy to get in, and anyone who opened the door would know what Canglan Chao said.
I followed the man in and the door was closed again.
There was snow in the yard, but not as thick as on the road outside. I guess it had been cleared.
The entire yard is built with blue bricks and black tiles, with a quadrangle layout. It is not fancy at all and focuses on practicality.
Chaoge was brought to the main room, where a charcoal brazier was burning. The temperature was a little higher, and it was much warmer than outside.
The door of the main room is not composed of two doors like those of the rooms in Canglan Dynasty.
This door has only one leaf, and a thick curtain is hung on it, probably to prevent wind, snow and cold air from entering the house.
After a while, the man came in with an old man wearing a fur coat, and Chaoge stood up quickly.
"Are you the one that Dongzi sent the message to find that boy?"
As soon as the old man came in, speaking standard Canglan Dynasty official language, Chaoge suddenly felt a little more familiar.
"Yes, old man. I rushed over immediately after receiving the news."
Upon hearing this, the old man looked Chaoge up and down, then nodded, "I didn't realize that you are quite good at martial arts despite your young age. It would take 11 or 12 days for someone with good martial arts to come here from the capital of Canglan Dynasty. You have only been here for a few days, right?"
"None of this is important. What's important is that your people told me that you have a way to help me get the person out of the palace?"
It was just a transaction between them, and Chaoge had no need to reveal his abilities to them.
The old man nodded and said, "Let the Beggars' Gang do the work. As long as you have enough money and do not violate the principles of our gang, everything will be fine. But you also know, young lady, that is an important place in the palace, unlike other places, and this kind of mission is very difficult."
"Of course I will give you the remuneration you deserve. In fact, I don't need you to help me go in and get the person. As long as you tell me the specific location, that's all."
Seeing Chaoge so confident, the old man looked at her again with a hint of suspicion.
"Girl, since you are from the Canglan Dynasty, I want to remind you that the Beipinglu Palace is not like other places. It is best not to break in if you can. Even if you are good at martial arts, if it is so easy to break into the Beipinglu Palace, do you think the other four countries would have already conquered it?"
After hearing the old man's words, Chaoge felt even closer to him.
"Thank you for your advice, old man. I will be careful. This is the reward for providing you with the clue this time."
Chaoge took out a gold note worth one hundred taels of gold and placed it on the table.
Looking at the denomination on the gold note, the old man was a little surprised.
The gang meeting on their side was only to assist the tasks issued by the gang headquarters. In fact, the headquarters had already received the commissions.
Therefore, the one hundred taels of gold from Chaoge were given to them completely for free.
"Miss, you are a straightforward person. I will not treat you badly. Please wait a moment. I will draw you a map of the palace. With this map, even if you are discovered, you can quickly find the exit and escape. It will also be easy to find the location of that guy."
Hearing the old man's words, Chaoge was full of surprise. He never expected that this person from the Beggar Gang was such a talented person that he even had the layout map of the Imperial Palace of Lu in Beiping.
"That's great, thank you."
"Master, it's bad. The brothers in West City have been bullied by the Tianhu Gang. Now they are surrounded by hundreds of them in the temple. They want you to take out five thousand taels of silver to solve this matter!"
As soon as Chaoge finished speaking, the heavy door stop was pushed open from the outside, and the boy who had just led Chaoge in shouted at the old man in the awkward Cangnan dialect.
Upon hearing this, the old man's face immediately turned dark and he stood up in anger!
"This is really too much! Pass the order down, and the anxious brothers should go over immediately."
"But Hall Master, we only have more than a hundred brothers in this city, and we can't defeat them in the past!"
[Ding Dong, the system has issued a task. Help Master Bai solve this difficulty. If you complete the task, you will be rewarded with a copy of the address of the Beiping Lu Gold Mine. If the task fails, the Reshaping Frost will be taken back.]
Chaoge!
It would be fine if this system didn't issue any tasks, but the rewards for issuing tasks were really exciting.
Isn’t it too cruel to just take back the remodeling cream as a punishment?
This time when she came to Beiping, Lu originally wanted to rob their imperial palace treasury, but finding the address of a private mine was a completely unexpected windfall for her!
"Accept the mission!"
Chaoge thought about it and immediately agreed.
When Chaoge regained his composure, he realized that Master Bai had called him several times.
"Sorry, I was thinking about something else just now. Since Master Bai is in trouble now, let's go and solve the problem first."
Seeing Chaoge like this, Master Bai nodded and said, "If I can't come back this time, you will have to go to the palace by yourself. If that doesn't work, you can go to Xiaoha City, 500 miles away, to find the people from our Beggars' Sect. They will help you."
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