Fengyitai, although it is not a Qinglou under the jurisdiction of the Department of Education, it is indeed a regular Qinglou registered in Jingzhao Mansion, not those wild roads. Moreover, the reputation of Fengyitai in Xijing City is firmly pressed on the Qinglou under the jurisdiction of the Jiaofang Division, and in the past 30 years, eight out of ten recognized Oiran in Xijing City have come from Fengyitai.

In addition, Fengyitai is still a time-honored brand in Xijing City, and it has a history of at least 100 years since it opened for business.

"In other words, this is the property of the Tantai family, specially for the cultivation of female fine workers." Jin Miaomiao glanced at Shen Cha, who nodded slightly, "Sure enough, those rumors are not groundless, it is actually a fact that the Lantai family used the back house to control the courtiers." ”

"This is a conventional method, and it is not unique to the Taijia family."

Shen Cha was not surprised at all, in the early days of the establishment of Shadow, she also considered such a method, but she always felt that it was too immoral to do so, and there were too many unstable factors, so she gave up. Later, many people, even the first emperor, came to persuade her, but they did not succeed in making her nod. The methods she doesn't like and spit on will not be shaken no matter what.

"What the general said is that there are not many people in this world who are so disciplined and conscientious as the general." Yan Ruyu smiled at Shen Cha, "The reason why the general and the princess don't like me is because I was disrespectful to the grandfather and the general back then, I can understand this, but at the same time, it has also aroused the general's vigilance to the Huaiyin Bofu, right?" ”

"Madame did it on purpose?" Shen Cha immediately understood what Yan Ruyu meant, "The hand of the Lantai family is inevitably too long!" However, at that time, didn't Madame have already cut off contact with them? ”

"It's so easy to say it's cut off." Yan Ruyu's face showed a touch of bitterness, "It's easy to get on a thief ship, but it's hard to get off a thief ship." She looked at Shen Cha very seriously, "The general said that the shopkeeper was arrested, he wasn't trying to trick me, right?" ”

"The shopkeeper is just a pawn, and the boss is the big fish, isn't he?" Jin Miaomiao had seen the list provided by Mu Sheng, Bai Meng They first arrested the boss of Fengfengyitai, and then seized Fengyitai. "Madame hates the shopkeeper more than the boss?" She glanced at the two little girls who were obediently sitting beside Yan Ruyu, "If it's inconvenient, we can invite the two young ladies to sit in the side hall, and when our side is over, you can go back to the house together." ”

"No need." Yan Ruyu shook her head gently, "My background has never been hidden from them, and there is nothing inconvenient. She smiled at her two daughters, turned her head to look at Shen Cha, Jin Miaomiao, and Song Jinyu, "In the fifteen years I have been in Fengyitai, I have not seen the so-called boss. As for Lord Kim's so-called hatred, there is no way to talk about it, I just ...... I don't care to be with them. ”

"What a disdain to be with them." Song Jinyu tilted her head and looked at Mrs. Huaiyinbo, "However, you said that you have been in Fengyitai for fifteen years, and you grew up there?" If I'm not mistaken, when you married Huaiyin Bo, you were sixteen or seventeen years old? ”

Song Jinyu said while looking at the Queen Mother, she was a little worried that what they talked about would make the Queen Mother bored, but when she saw it, the Queen Mother listened to them with great interest, and her spirit was very high, so she put her heart at ease and turned her eyes back to Yan Ruyu.

"Her Royal Highness the princess is right, when I married my uncle, I was indeed sixteen years old." Yan Ruyu lowered her head slightly, "I'm an orphan, I've lived there for as long as I can remember, until I met my uncle." Although Fengyitai is registered in the government, the essence has not changed, the means that the Qinglou should have will still have it, and the dirt that should have it will not disappear because of this. ”

"What do you mean by Madame?"

"When I was a child, Xijing City was not as stable as it is now, it was full of all kinds of people of unknown origin, ruffians, hooligans, human traffickers, and I could meet them every day. Some of the girls in Fengyitai, except for those real orphans, really can't find their parents, and a large part of them are bought from human traffickers. I don't know exactly where they came from, but a few of the sisters I know better are from the border. For them, it is much better to be trafficked by traffickers to a Qinglou in Xijing than to stay at the border where the war is frequent. At the very least, they don't have to worry about losing their lives at any time. Yan Ruyu looked at Shen Cha, "Don't think too much about it, general, at that time, you weren't born yet!" ”

Shen Cha didn't speak, just stared at her and motioned for her to continue.

"We have been learning since we were three or four years old, not to mention that we are proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, we have to be about the same, if we don't learn well, we will be beaten by Mr., in fact, it is also very hard." Yan Ruyu's expression was very flat, as if he was not talking about his own business, but someone else's business. "In addition, we also have to learn how to talk and how to comfort others so that they can take the initiative to say what is in their hearts."

"Only by taking off your guard can you find out the news you want to investigate." Shen Cha nodded, "I heard Her Royal Highness the princess say that Madame became the youngest Oiran in Fengyitai with the song "The Return of the Goose", and from this night on, she became famous throughout Xijing City. With Madame's fame at the time, it was not difficult to get some information, but according to the confessions of the shopkeeper and the boss, this was not the case. ”

"Are they saying that I am extremely uncooperative, and the news I get back is useless?" Seeing Shen Cha's acquiescence to such a statement, Yan Ruyu shrugged, "Before I fled from that place, I always thought that the shopkeeper and the boss were doing things for foreigners. The news that let us find out will eventually become a knife that falls on the heads of the people and soldiers at the border gates. As a Great Xia person, why would I do such a conscientious thing? It's not good for me to be a prostitute, but I won't betray my country because of it. ”

"But you don't know, they don't do things for foreigners, their master is a mysterious family."

"Yes, a family I have never heard of, but whose methods are extremely vicious. Many of the little sisters around me died at their hands. Yan Ruyu looked at Shen Cha, "The mark that the general showed me just now is their family's." That family controls the entire Fengyi Terrace, and all the people in it do things for them. ”

"When did you find out about this?"

"A month after escaping from Xijing, they were blocked by them in Jiangnan." Yan Ruyu smiled bitterly, "I never thought that their power could extend from Xijing to Jiangnan. I thought it was a dead end, but they let me live and told me something I didn't know before. ”

"When you fled Xijing, Uncle Huaiyin was with you?"

"Yes."

"So, he knows all these things you know?"

"......" Yan Ruyu was silent for a while, "Yes, Uncle knows." But the general, the uncle has nothing to do with it. ”

"Whether it is closed or not, it is not you who have the final say, nor I have the final say, it is Your Majesty who has the final say." Shen Cha looked at Mei Zhu, "Tell Your Majesty the news, and decide whether to invite Uncle Huaiyin into the palace for questioning." ”

"Yes!"