He rode the old yellow wolf out of Qingliu Cottage and just reached the street corner when a brave idler approached him and said to Chu Tian with a smile, "Mr. Chu, you are in a good mood. Why are you leaving so early today?"

Chu Tian glanced at the idle man, raised his foot and gently tapped his shoulder: "Gua Zao, which courtyard are you recruiting for? Hong Gu has been unhappy these days, so, hey, when will I explain to you, a filthy fellow?"

Chu Tian raised his right hand as if to hit him. The idle man quickly squatted down and put his hands on his head, smiling at Chu Tian with his face tilted: "Boss Chu, Uncle Chu, hehe, how dare these two thieves interfere in your business? There's a new Qinyun Yazhu just opened in front!"

The idle man stretched out his hand and pointed in the direction of the street corner ahead.

At the gate of a large courtyard on the corner of the street, a very luxurious carriage was parked. The curtain was lifted, and a bearded man wearing a loose robe, with a dignified demeanor but also a bit of scholarly style, walked out slowly. He stood at the gate with his hands behind his back, looked left and right, and walked into the courtyard with his head slightly raised.

"Wang Yi, the Chief Clerk of Qizhou." Chu Tian looked up at the sun, which was hanging high in the sky. He couldn't help but wonder, "In the middle of the day, a Chief Clerk of a state, hey! What's the origin of this courtyard?"

Seeing Chu Tian was interested in this, the idle man stood up with a smile and said in a very attentive way, "Wasn't this courtyard originally the territory of Wanhua Tower? Just five or six days ago, the owner of Wanhua Tower lost money and sold the courtyard. This Qinyun Yazhu just opened yesterday."

Licking his lips, the idle man looked at Chu Tian with a smile and said nothing.

Chu Tian glared at the idler, took out seven or eight big coins from his sleeve and threw them into his arms with force.

The idle man hurriedly grabbed the big coin and held it tightly in his hand, and said hurriedly: "The girls in Qinyun Yazhu are not from our local area. They are all prostitutes from Qinzhou and Huaizhou in the southeast. They are all good at singing and dancing, and are best at reciting poems and composing couplets."

With a sly smile, the idle man lowered his eyebrows and said in a low voice: "From yesterday to today, I don't know how many gentlemen from Qizhou have come in and out. It's scary. I heard that a cup of tea in there costs ten taels of silver. Only a romantic figure like you, Master Chu, can have the confidence to go in!"

Chu Tian raised his fist and was about to hit him: "Dirty bastard, how can we men go to a place where a group of officials are going?"

The idle man hurriedly squatted on the ground with his head in his hands. Chu Tian sneered and said, "Let me ask you, where did this yard come from? Is it designed to steal business from Hong Gu?"

The idle man raised his eyes and said hurriedly, "I was just about to say it, I was just about to say no, I heard that this courtyard is managed by Ling Shou, the chief steward of the Ling family. Although the courtyard is registered under the name of a distant relative of the Ling family, the owner is actually the new son-in-law of the Ling family, Mr. Zhou Liuyun."

After releasing his hands, the idle man stood up again. He weighed the large sum of money in his hand and said with a hint of envy, "Master Chu, do you know the Jishan Academy? Scholar Zhou is the new dean of the academy. Aren't all the scholars in Jizhou flocking to support his business?"

Chu Tian remained silent, took out a piece of silver from his sleeve and threw it to the idler, then patted the old yellow wolf's head hard.

The old yellow wolf let out a low roar and rushed forward with its legs spread out.

The idle man behind him was so happy that he held the silver in his hand and shouted to Chu Tian: "Mr. Chu, Mr. Chu, if you want to go to that yard to have fun, remember to tell the mother in the yard that it was me, Er Gouzi, who introduced you there. Don't forget it!"

Chu Tian waved his hand without even looking back, and drove the old yellow wolf to run wildly in the streets and alleys of Yizhou City.

There has always been a saying in the city of Qizhou that the rich are in the east and the poor are in the west, and that the officials are in the north and the merchants are in the south. The people living in the east of Qizhou are all the dignitaries and wealthy merchants of Qizhou, while the various government offices of Qizhou are mostly distributed in the north of the city. The south of Qizhou, like the Wengcheng that Chu Tian passed by when he entered the city, is a place where shops gather.

The west of the city was the largest, but also the most chaotic. All the common people, even some idle rogues, and all kinds of low-class people gathered in the west of the city. The streets and alleys here were mostly several feet wide and rugged alleys, and the houses were arranged in a mess, just like a huge maze.

The old yellow wolf rushed from the east end of the city to the west end, where he slowed down.

Chu Tian rode on the back of the old yellow wolf, his sharp eyes constantly scanning the inconspicuous corners of the streets and alleys.

After walking through three or five streets and alleys, Chu Tian found the secret sign he was looking for. He followed the sign and walked all the way. A quarter of an hour later, Chu Tian stopped in front of a large courtyard at the foot of the west city wall.

In broad daylight, all the people in the compound had gone out to make a living, leaving the yard completely empty.

A few skinny watchdogs were lying listlessly at the gate of the yard to bask in the sun, occasionally lowering their heads to nibble on their own or their companions' tails. An old yellow wolf with a huge body and a strong aura walked over silently and stood steadily at the gate of the yard. The dogs were immediately frightened and shrank their bodies, trembling all over and not daring to make a sound.

'Ah, ah, oh, oh', in broad daylight, extremely subtle panting and calling sounds came from a tiled house in the corner of the slum. Chu Tian stood on the back of the old yellow wolf with his mouth tilted, most of his body was over the top of the courtyard wall, and he squinted his eyes to look around the courtyard.

After waiting quietly for a quarter of an hour, I heard an almost hysterical gasp coming from the tile-roofed house. After a long while, a man's triumphant "hehe" was heard, followed by the sound of the bed shaking, the bench sliding, and the sound of the door bolt being pulled open.

A short but fat man with lard all over his collar, with a bulging belly, fanning himself with a greasy handkerchief in his right hand, proudly opened the door and walked out. He turned back and smiled into the room, "Zhang's wife, hey, I'll come back to see you in a few days when I'm well rested. Make soup with that rib to nourish your body, and hide that string of money, don't let Brother Zhang San take it to gamble again."

A woman's voice with a bit of hoarseness came out lazily: "Don't bother, get out of here! Don't let Third Brother see you, it will be Nunu who gets beaten again, you have no conscience!"

The fat man touched his belly with a smile on his face, and walked towards the gate of the yard, looking back every step with a nostalgic look on his face.

Still far from the gate, the fat man suddenly saw Chu Tian, ​​half of his body was higher than the wall. He was so scared that he took three steps back. He pointed at Chu Tian and cursed angrily: "Where did you come from, you blind man? You, you, what are you looking at here?"

"Damn, you're so brave!" Chu Tian casually pulled out a broken brick from the top of the wall and threw it out with his shaking hand.

With a loud 'bang', the broken brick hit the fat man's forehead, knocking his fat body three feet off the ground. He fell heavily to the ground and fainted.

"Shhh," Chu Tian whistled.

On the tile roof of the house where the fat man had just come out, a silver light suddenly lit up, flew across a distance of more than ten feet and landed on Chu Tian's shoulder.