The young man ran up to Boss Jiang, took two deep breaths, and said, "Just now on South Street, I met an old woman. She said she had seen the person in the portrait!"
Boss Jiang was so happy that he was speechless. He wanted to ask something but couldn't think of it. Jiang Huaixu asked, "Where is this old woman now? Did she say where she had seen the person in the portrait?"
"Yes, yes, can you introduce him to us?" Mr. Jiang asked repeatedly.
The beggar boy didn't keep the question secret and said quickly, "The old woman has left, but I have already asked her clearly. She said that the lame woman in the portrait is in Zangchunlou on South Street."
"What, what lame?" Boss Jiang asked with wide eyes, unable to react for a moment.
After all, the beggar boy had never seen the woman in the portrait in person, and could not describe her clearly, so he could only repeat what the old woman said in detail.
What Boss Jiang cared about was the lame leg, but what Jiang Huaixu and Yun Qi cared about was the name "Cangchunlou".
No matter how you taste it, it has an inappropriate connotation.
"Do you know what Cangchunlou does? Is it a brothel?" Jiang Huaixu asked Yun Qi in a low voice.
Unexpectedly, Jiang Huaixu even knew about brothels. Yun Qi's expression froze, "You know about brothels?"
Jiang Huaixu asked as a matter of course: "Don't you know?"
Yun Qi remained silent. He knew it was normal, but wasn't it a bit abnormal for Jiang Huaixu, a little girl who had never left Ping'an Town, to know that it was a brothel just by hearing the name?
"Cangchunlou is indeed a brothel, and it is very famous in Yaozhou City."
"Uncle Jiang, you may not know what Cangchunlou is. This is a place that ordinary people like us cannot go to..."
"Can't go?" Boss Jiang, his eyes slightly red after learning that his sister had become lame, asked, "Why can't we go?"
Before the beggar boy could answer, Jiang Huaixu spoke first, "Dad, Yun Qi is familiar with this place. Let him take me to find my aunt. You just wait here and pay the people who come back. Is that okay with you?"
"Xiao Qi has a way?"
Unexpectedly, Yun Qi was once again blamed for his familiarity with the brothel. Under the gaze of the father and daughter, he nodded with difficulty.
Boss Jiang showed a look of joy on his face, "Then I'll leave my little girl to you. Please bear with her if she makes any mistakes."
"Uncle Jiang, you're too serious."
After the two finished talking, Jiang Huaixu exchanged a look with the beggar boy.
The beggar boy cleverly followed Jiang Huaixu and the other two away.
"Your aunt should be a good citizen, why did she end up in a brothel?"
Jiang Huaixu was also thinking about this. The biggest possibility now was that there was a problem with Jiang Tao's in-laws, and this problem had only recently emerged.
If there had been problems with Jiang Tao's in-laws from the beginning, she would have been married for so many years, and Jiang Lao Da would have cared so much about his younger sister that he wouldn't have been completely unaware of it. It only makes sense that something had happened recently.
"I'm not sure, I'll find out after I go and take a look. Do you have your own people in Yaozhou City?"
Yun Qi did not hide it, "Yes, but it has nothing to do with Cangchunlou."
Without asking why Yun Qi wanted to follow them, Jiang Huaixu said, "I'll change my clothes and follow you in. Is that okay?"
Yun Qi glanced at Jiang Huaixu's small figure and said, "Not very reliable. Even if you are a servant, you look too young."
Although he said it very politely, Jiang Huaixu still couldn't help but glance at him.
What’s so great about being tall?
"I will sneak into the backyard of Cangchunlou, and you go to the front to find the girl to get information."
Yun Qi was inexplicably angry, his expression cold: "I never visit prostitutes."
"Mr. Yun is a man of high moral character!" Jiang Huaixu flattered him without hesitation. "Such excellent character deserves to be praised by everyone. He is merely seeking information from a girl, not soliciting her. There is a world of difference between the two. Mr. Yun, please don't let your imagination run wild."
After thinking for a moment, Jiang Huaixu added, "You'd better not let me use the favor of saving my life to threaten you."
Yun Qi snorted coldly and didn't want to talk anymore. He had never seen such a sharp-tongued girl.
The beggar boy following behind them heard almost the entire conversation between the two. He never expected that the dark and thin girl had saved the boy who looked very noble. He couldn't help but look at Jiang Huaixu a few more times.
"Excuse me, little brother, is there any dog hole in Zangchunlou that people can crawl through?"
Jiang Huaixu didn't think much about it, he just thought that beggars should be familiar with such nooks and crannies.
Unexpectedly, as soon as these words were spoken, both of them started coughing.
Jiang Huaixu took a step back and covered his mouth and nose, fearing that he would be infected with bad germs.
The beggar boy who was looking at Jiang Huaixu coughed twice due to choking on his own saliva. After recovering, he whispered: "Yes, yes... If you want to go, I can take you there."
After receiving a positive response, Jiang Huaixu said to Yun Qi, "You go in through the front door. This young man and I will go to the backyard to explore. We will act accordingly."
Yun Qi nodded slightly, resisting the urge to even glance at Jiang Huaixu.
It was still daytime when the three of them arrived at Cangchun Tower. There were not many guests in front of the building, but those who came and went were merchants or dignitaries dressed in brocade clothes. Their carriages and horses alone were endless. One could imagine how prosperous the scene would be after dark when the lights came on.
After separating from Yun Qi at the door, Jiang Huaixu followed the beggar boy around Cangchunlou for most of the way, and finally stopped on the path along the river.
"The dog hole is blocked by these logs. I don't know if it's blocked inside. Someone tried to get in here before, but got stuck halfway through, and it attracted quite a few onlookers."
Jiang Huaixu wanted to laugh when he thought of the scene where a person's head was inside with his butt exposed outside, unable to move forward or backward.
"I'll move these pieces of wood first. If you can get in, you wait at the corner. If I'm still not out half an hour before curfew, tell my father to leave the city first."
The beggar boy agreed and bent down to help Jiang Huaixu move the wood, but he saw that the wood in Jiang Huaixu's hand seemed to have no weight. After moving it away, he made room for her to enter and exit, and then stacked it up neatly.
While he was stunned, Jiang Huaixu was already preparing to drill a hole.
After getting to the middle, she looked at the beggar boy and asked, "Do you want silver, or do you want the unique thank-you gift I mentioned?"
The reason she asked this was that she felt that the boy had no use for the mirror. After getting it, he would still have to exchange it for silver at the pawn shop. What if he encountered an unscrupulous and unscrupulous merchant who wasted her "unique thank-you gift"?
There are no middlemen making a profit from the price difference, which is good for both her and the boy.
The young man pinched the corner of his clothes and asked cautiously, "Can you give me some silver? My brother is sick, and I want to use the silver to treat him."
"How much silver do you think is appropriate?" Jiang Huaixu asked.
Subconsciously, I wanted to examine the character of the young man in front of me.
The beggar boy looked conflicted. After hesitating for a long time, he softly asked, "How about ten taels of silver?"
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