Chapter 159: The Third Day
"If you don't want to talk about it here, then go to the Dali Temple and talk about it."
When the madam heard what Shen Yun said, her face froze. "My lords, I really don't know who redeemed Qian Qian. But there are people in our building who have a good relationship with Qian Qian, so they should know. Please come up, lords."
Soon, the two women were brought into the house by the madam. "Sir, they will tell you everything about the matter. Please be gracious and don't make things difficult for my small business."
When Shen Yun heard this, he sneered. It was the first time he heard a brothel owner talk about his small business.
The madam didn't dare to stay in the house for long. She hurried upstairs to check if there was anything wrong, so as to avoid being caught by those plague gods in the Dali Temple.
As soon as the madam left, one of the girls, Ziyan, suddenly knelt on the ground and asked anxiously, "Sir, has something happened to Qianqian?"
Shen Yun asked: "Why do you have such a guess? Redemption should be a good choice for you."
"Redeem is indeed a good destination, but it's not easy to meet a good person. About half a year ago, a young man often came to the building. He only asked people to call him Master Cheng. After coming a few times, he only went to Qiqi's room. Qiqi told me that I saw that she must be moved. She also told me that Master Cheng promised her that he would redeem her and marry her home."
At this point, Zi Yan laughed sarcastically, "Men can say anything in bed, but men are the kind of people who don't recognize you as soon as you put on your pants. There is no truth in their mouths."
Another girl, Shuang'er, glanced at the two "men" in the room, rubbed Ziyan gently with her hand, and reminded her to be careful with her words and not to upset the adults.
Zi Yan also stopped talking and continued to talk about Qianqian and Mr. Cheng. "But Qianqian believed it. Qianqian is beautiful and she has never been willing to stay in such a place. Brothel girls have no good ending after they grow old and lose their beauty. Mr. Cheng is generous and can speak sweet words. He said that he is a bastard and his stepmother is the head of the family. She will not interfere with his marriage. Marrying a brothel girl will make his stepmother happier."
According to what Ziyan said before, Xie Hui asked her: "Why don't you believe what Mr. Cheng said?"
"Because Master Cheng also told me the same thing, but I just didn't believe it. I didn't think Qianqian was pretty and likable. I told Qianqian about this, but she said Master Cheng had already told her about it. Master Cheng said that since we have a good relationship, he wanted to marry her home so that we can have a companion... Ugh!"
"When did Qianqian leave? Did she leave with Mr. Cheng? He is from the capital."
"About half a month ago, Qianqian came to say goodbye to me, saying that Master Cheng had redeemed her and rented her a house in the capital, and would take her back to her hometown in a while. I... I was angry with her at the time, and I never spoke to her, nor did I ask clearly where that Master Cheng was from. My lord, has Qianqian been in trouble? Is that right? I heard that the Dali Temple handles murder cases, has she been murdered?"
Shuang'er, who was standing by, quickly grabbed the excited Ziyan and said, "Ziyan, Ziyan, calm down and listen to what the adults say first."
"Since you have met Master Cheng, if you are asked to cooperate with the Dali Temple in painting your portrait, would you be willing?"
"Yes! I am willing!"
Zi Yan was originally in regret, regretting why she didn't ask more questions out of anger at the time. Now that she had the opportunity to make up for it, she agreed without hesitation.
"Okay, it's too late today. I'll send someone to take you to the Dali Temple tomorrow."
It is not appropriate to take the person directly to the Dali Temple today. Even if they do not sleep to handle the case, the portrait painter still needs to rest. It would be inappropriate to call the person out in the middle of the night.
To be on the safe side, Shen Yun and Xie Hui left a team of detectives to watch outside the Ziyan Room when they left.
After coming out, Shen Yun replied to Xie: "It's getting late, you should go home and rest early, don't go back to the Dali Temple today."
The case is important, but we can't not get some sleep.
"Uncle, let Youqi arrange the portrait tomorrow."
Xie Hui still remembers that tomorrow is the third day baptism ceremony of my nephew Manman. The matter of painting his portrait is also simple. I can just tell the portrait painter and watch it myself. There is no need for the Dali Temple Minister to come in person.
"You can just watch first. The bath will only take a short while. I'll go over when it's done."
"Yes, then I would like to congratulate my uncle first."
When Xie returned home, it was already late at night. He ate the midnight snack prepared by the servants and went to bed.
On the next morning, the Shen family opened the door to entertain guests. Shen Yun did not worry about the third-day bathing ceremony at all. Shen Su took care of it all by himself, and he also invited the guests himself.
"Dad, I helped too. What my sister-in-law taught me before was not in vain."
Shen Su also said, "Manman has helped me a lot this time." Shen Su had never done these things before, and originally thought it was easy, but when he actually did it, he found that there was a lot of knowledge everywhere. He was not as good as his sister in this regard.
Shen Yun smiled and patted his daughter's head, "Well, Dad will reward you later."
At 9:00 am, the third-day bathing ceremony officially began.
Sui Sui, wearing a bright red bellyband, was held in his father's arms. On the third day, the red on the child's body faded a lot, revealing a fair and tender complexion.
Afterwards, Shen Su handed the child over to He's mother. According to Dazhao's custom, the grandmother should hold the child during the third-day bathing ceremony, but the grandmother was not there, so the two families decided to let the grandmother-in-law come instead.
According to the order, Princess Kangle first added a ladle of clean water into the basin, and then threw some gold ingots into the basin, which was called adding water to the basin.
Many people nearby saw the things Princess Kangle added to the basin and were secretly amazed at her generosity. The things she added to the basin were all various pure gold-cast toads, ingots, tigers and other gold ingots, and she gave out a handful at a time.
When all the relatives and friends have filled the basin, the water in the basin will be used to bathe the child. The child will cry when he feels cold, which is called "ringing basin".
The little guy Sui Sui howled a few times, which was very loud. The guests present all praised the child's spirit.
After that, they moxibustioned his forehead and rolled his testicles. After all these movements, Suishun fell asleep.
After the ceremony, Shen Yun told his son to entertain the guests, and he planned to return to the Dali Temple to see how the portrait was being painted.
At this time, the housekeeper came in from outside and whispered something to Shen Yun. After listening, Shen Yun walked out and came back after a while. He didn't expect that the case that he thought was going smoothly would go wrong in an unexpected place.
Shen Yuan happened to see her father's expression and asked, "Dad, what's wrong?"
When Shen Yun saw her daughter, she thought of what she had said to her outside the Gongyuan, and also of what Xie had just said: Manman was good at painting, and maybe she would like to give it a try.
"The painters at the Dali Temple had a problem. They had to draw the appearance of a suspect, but the old painter who was able to draw had retired and returned to his hometown. The new painter could only draw a face and could not draw by just listening."
"Dad, I can try!"