Tang Chen had just stopped in front of the building when the consul, who had been standing by and observing her for a while, came forward, twisting his slender waist and waving his round fan, to stop her: "Hey, young lady, this is not a place for a little girl like you. You should go play somewhere else."
"......" Tang Chen glanced at her and without saying a word, threw the purse into her arms.
The consul weighed the purse in his hand, his eyes almost smiling: "Miss, please come in, our distinguished guest has arrived!"
The consul waved his handkerchief and invited Tang Chen into the building, and asked with a smile: "Miss, are you here to look for someone?"
Tang Chen stood in this magnificent brothel without looking around. Her mind was full of Su Zhirou, and she didn't even bother to look at the place carefully. "Looking for someone, Su Zhirou."
"Miss, please go upstairs!"
When the consul said this, Tang Chen stood where he was, raised his head and smiled bitterly, then was led upstairs.
When the consul opened the door, a disheveled woman sat before a mirror, combing her messy hair. Seeing the consul's sudden arrival, accompanied by a woman casually dressed in a shawl, she slowly stood up. She had seen this kind of thing many times. Judging by her attire, she figured it was some master's fiancée or daughter who had come to question him.
Tang Chen stood at the door, looking at the strange woman in front of him, and suddenly breathed a sigh of relief: "...Consul, who is she?"
The consul hurried forward and pulled the woman in the room over, introducing her: "Su Zhirou, our famous second daughter. Zhirou, come here, meet the young lady."
"Greetings to the young lady."
Tang Chen said that she didn't understand the jargon of "Yaoer, Xiaosan" or "Yaosan". But the only thing she was sure of was that Su Zhirou wasn't here. "She's not the one I'm looking for. Goodbye."
Tang Chen carried his things, muttering to himself, his expression somewhat dazed as he walked back to the inn: "What's going on? Could it be that they have the same name? But what the consul said matches all of Zhirou's information. Is it that the woman I met in Yunshao Mansion who deceived me, or what?"
The man was walking carelessly on the street, thinking about life, and he didn't even notice the familiar lotus fragrance that suddenly appeared beside him.
Liang Shuyi heard from the grapevine that Wang Yanzhou had returned to Jiangdu with Tang Chen, and she hurried over to follow them. To her surprise, she ran into Tang Chen, who was alone, upon arriving in Jiangdu. It was like heaven had provided help.
"Finally I caught you."
Tang Chen patted the hand that suddenly appeared on his shoulder and said irritably, "I'm annoyed. Don't pay attention to me."
Tang Chen thought it was someone he knew, but when he turned around, it really was her: "Oh, Miss Liang, why is it you?"
Liang Shuyi raised an eyebrow and smiled: "Return? Why don't you run away this time? Aren't you afraid that I will eat you?"
Tang Chen shrugged, threw the box in his hand to the ground, and said in a self-deprecating manner: "I'm annoyed, just eat me."
"Okay, I won't be polite then."
So, as usual, Tang Chen was knocked out by Liang Shuyi with a smoke screen and then taken away. Liang Shuyi's choice of location was always a bit unpredictable. The first time was in her own villa, the second time was in the woods of Qingliang Valley... This time, it was in front of a toilet outside the city. This location could be said to be very tricky.
After the effects of the drug wore off, Tang Chen gradually regained consciousness. It was the same formula, the same setting, a group of familiar bodyguards; the same ropes, probably the same as before, and Liang Shuyi sitting in the chair.
Tang Chen looked at his tightly bound hands and feet and shook his head: "How boring."
Liang Shuyi looked at her with his chin in his hand and shook his head. The first few times she was tied up, she screamed and yelled, which seemed quite interesting. But the last few times, this person seemed to have no reaction at all. Should she try a different approach?
"I think it's boring too," Liang Shuyi said, waving his hand and saying "untie", thus untying the rope on Tang Chen.
Liang Shuyi winked at Tang Chen and asked, "Why, Wang Yanzhou doesn't want you anymore?"
Tang Chen sighed. Su Zhirou's disappearance and the loss of Wang Yanzhou, his trusted partner, should be considered an emergency of the same level. "Well, that's about right."
It was unclear whether Liang Shuyi had lost interest in Tang Chen, or had already determined that she posed no threat to him. This time, somewhat unexpectedly, she released the person she had just captured. "...Since he doesn't like you anymore, I'm not unreasonable. I'll let you go this time. Go away."
Tang Chen stood there, just shaking his head and sighing, without saying a word. Liang Shuyi saw that the shaking old man was really annoying, and just as she signaled the bodyguards to hold her head down, Tang Chen hurriedly stopped and explained: "Well, can you give me a ride? I don't know the way."
"……bother."
When Wang Yanzhou returned in the evening, the waiter had already started serving the dishes. After Tang Chen asked him to come over and sit down, he stared at the food on the table with his chopsticks in his hand and became dazed.
Wang Yanzhou felt something was amiss. After he had eaten and drunk his fill, he took a pair of clean chopsticks and tapped the dish in front of Tang Chen. "What's wrong with you? 'Quiet as a virgin' isn't the right word to describe you. Did you lose your wallet?"
After Tang Chen glanced at him, he subconsciously touched the purse at his waist. Oh, it's really gone. When did she lose it? How come she didn't know! Oh my god, when did the security in Jiangdu become so bad?
Amnesiac Cheng, who was panicking like a chicken, calmed down and explained the unsuccessful search today. "Boss, the Su Zhirou I found is not Zhirou. Huahua also said that she is living well in Jiangdu now, and she has seen her, but why is it not right? What went wrong? The letters she sent to me were indeed sent from here. If she is not her, then who wrote these letters to me, and why were they signed with her name..."
"The person you've always wanted to meet in Jiangdu is Su Zhirou?"
Facing Wang Yanzhou's inquiry, Tang Chen did not answer, but just put down his chopsticks and hung his head. Wang Yanzhou had never seen her so worried except when she was short of money or hungry. It was only then that he remembered that the person in front of him was a woman, not a little girl: "Maybe she has some unavoidable reason and cannot see you. If you are really worried, I can accompany you to find Zhang Xiaohua to ask about the situation."
Unexpectedly, this time, Tang Chen refused his help: "...Alas, no need, I know you are busy. I want to calm down and go back to my room first."
After Tang Chen got up and left, Wang Yanzhou sat in his seat and looked at Tang Chen's clean dishes for a while before returning to his room.
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