Chapter 204: Seven Streets
In the early morning of the next day, there was a sporadic light rain in Shengjing City, and the autumn wind had stopped, but the autumn rain was cold.
Wei Shaoguang was forced by Ji Hua to wear a thick layer, she rubbed her palm, which had slowly become cold in the autumn rain, and looked at the west outside the small building, where Jiang Qiqi lived, there was no one in the house.
Shake the light guessed that he should have gone back to pretend to be sick.
It's not easy to be a prince, and it's even more difficult to be an unfavored prince.
Shake Light sighed.
She stood under the verandah of the wisteria building and saw Xia Houming coming over with an umbrella.
"Ji Hua, it's time for me to go."
Shaoguang shouted into the room, and Ji Hua put down the things he was packing and walked out.
"My lord, remember to keep warm in time when it's cold today."
"Okay, I got it."
Shaguang took the umbrella in Ji Hua's hand, then stretched it out and stepped into the rain.
She hasn't told Ji Hua about her brother's disappearance, she went out today just to find Yushi's traces and go to the criminal department to sit down, and she still can't let go of Xuan Qingyi's matter.
On the morning of the autumn rain, the streets were sparsely populated, Shaoguang and Xia Houming jumped down from the carriage, opened their umbrellas and looked up at the signboard of "Go to Sickness", the "Xinghuahui" next to it was also closed, and the flags fluttering in the wind outside the wine shop seemed to cry in the autumn rain.
"Tie up your horse and come in."
She turned back to the little servant in the house and ordered.
The little guy said "yes" and began to busy himself with his own business, Wei Shaoguang glanced at his movements and withdrew his gaze, and Xiahou Ming glanced at each other, did not speak, but the two of them had already understood each other's unspeakable meanings, and walked into the pharmacy one after the other, Li Youguang walked out in plain white clothes to greet her.
"Lord Yan, you're here."
"Well, I'm going to trouble Mr. again."
Wei Shaoguang looked at Li Youguang with a smile, she was pretended to be welcomed into the inner hall where she usually saw a doctor, Wei Shaoguang sat down casually, Li Youguang cautiously looked around before closing the door and returning to Wei Shaoguang's side.
"What? Are you going to close the net? ”
"No, it's still early, and besides, it's not me laying out, this time I'm in the game."
Xiahou Ming was guarding the door, and the two people in the house dared to talk about the plan.
"And who are you here today?"
Wei Shaoguang sighed and said, "I was used as a pawn by Zheng Jiawen, and I am currently planning to find out what we need." Also, Yu Shi was captured by them, Xia Houming and I will go to explore the road later, and when I come back from the Criminal Department, we will prepare to start. ”
"This time, don't do it, just continue to be your miracle doctor."
Li Youguang looked at Wei Shaoguang with a serious face and was a little worried, he had a lot of bits and pieces of secrets in his hands, and he also knew how many powerful people there were in the capital, it was very difficult for Wei Shaoguang, a newcomer to the six-rank petty official, to protect himself, he thought about it and warned Wei Shaoguang:
"Shake the light, all you need to do is find the fragment of the Frontier Talisman, and I hope you don't care about the rest!"
Wei Shaoguang knew what Li Youguang was referring to, she smiled and said, "I know, you have to rest assured that I am not a good person with a good heart." ”
"You'd better be able to do what you say!"
Li Youguang didn't believe Wei Shaoguang's words, in his opinion, Wei Shaoguang was a rotten and well-intentioned fool, otherwise how could he have saved himself, a hopeless garbage man, from Yan Bai's hands in the first place?
With a sneer, Li Youguang was ready to clean up the mess for Wei Shaoguang.
"It's time for us to go, we have two places to run today, and time is short."
Wei Shaoguang stood up, and Li Youguang led the two to the backyard, and asked them to go out through the back door of the pharmacy and enter the "Seventh Street" that Feng Chao said.
When she saw this kind of alley for the first time, Wei Shaoguang didn't realize that this would be such a mixed place, she just thought that Jiang Qiqi had found such a mansion in order to avoid the emperor's investigation, maybe this was a wonderful fate.
Wei Shaoguang looked at the narrow alley and smelled the smell of danger, what would it look like behind this still clean and tidy alley in front of him? Shaking Light didn't dare to imagine that she was afraid that this neighborhood would be the kind of dark world that she shouldn't touch.
The alley leading to the back door of "Go to Sickness" happens to be in the same direction as the alley connected by the back door of the wine shop next door, but it is different, and the two alleys extend almost parallel to each other.
Wei Shaoguang squatted on the wall and quickly figured out where she was, and she gently jumped down from it with her hands on the wall.
"This alley is still safe, let's go."
Walking out of the alley behind the pharmacy, the two of them stepped into the alley like a spider's web, and the two of them pretended to come to see the house, wearing fabrics that only the rich could afford, and walked in the chaotic alley with a look of injustice.
Wei Shaoguang already knew where Feng Chao was, but she still chose to pretend to be lost and deliberately went around in a big circle, and walked around this narrow and crowded neighborhood roughly, and finally went around to Feng Chao's door, Xiahou Ming stepped forward and knocked on the door, and Feng Chao's impatient voice came from the small courtyard:
"Who?!"
"Yo! Feng Chao. ”
As soon as he opened the door, he saw the smiling face of the demon, and Feng Chao closed the door with a 'snap'.
"Xiahou Ming slammed the door for me!"
Wei Shaoguang badly instructed Xiahou Ming, so frightened that Feng Chao inside hurriedly opened the door and asked Shaoguang with a smile:
"Oh, my little ancestor! I can't help it! If you have any orders, just tell the small ones, the small ones are old and old, and they really can't stand your toss! ”
"Really? Let me go in and see where you are, the old and the old? ”
Shaking his hands behind his back, he smiled at Feng Chao, who wanted to cry without tears.
"This ......"
"What's wrong? Are you lying to me again? Xiahou Ming! Hit again! ”
"Yes!"
"Oops! I was wrong! Little Ancestor, please come in! Come in! ”
Feng Chao jumped to Wei Shaoguang's side in a few steps, nodded and bowed his waist to invite Wei Shaoguang in, laughing was more ugly than crying, Shaoguang glanced at it with disgust and walked into Feng Chao's small courtyard.
He was also a clever person, and he knew that Wei Shaoguang was afraid that something would happen when he suddenly came to him, so he waited until he entered the courtyard before his eyes twitched and asked in a low voice:
"It's not! What are you doing all of a sudden? Nothing leaked out of the small one! You have to believe the small! ”
Wei Shaoguang silently pulled out a dagger from his sleeve, raised it in front of his face, looked at it, and then looked at Feng Chao.
"No, no, no, no! No way!? The little one didn't say the wrong thing, right? What are you going to do? Put the handle, put the knife down...... If you have something to say, let's talk about it, okay? ”
Seeing that Feng Chao's frightened legs began to tremble, Wei Shaoguang approached him with a dagger in disgust.
"Shut up! It's noisy! ”
"Ben Gongzi suddenly found out one thing, you will be frightened by Ben Gongzi's dagger, which means that sooner or later you will betray me because of someone else's knife! So after thinking about it, I'm going to kill it! ”
"Spare your life!"
Feng Chao immediately knelt on the ground and began to kowtow one by one.
Xiahou Ming stood at the door and looked at the situation in the courtyard coldly, shaking the dagger in his hand and smiling like a villain, looking down at Feng Chao, just as she was about to speak, an old woman appeared by the door of the hall.
"Chao'er, did you offend anyone again?"
When he looked up, he saw that it was an old woman over 70 years old, with gray hair and wrinkles at the corners of her eyes that were about to drown her eyes. Shaoguang immediately put the hand holding the dagger behind her back, she turned her head to look at Feng Chao who was kneeling on the ground, and scolded: "Don't hurry up yet!" Would someone of this size still fall? ”
"Oooh! Be! Yes, I'll get up right away. ”
Feng Chao got up from the ground, but the old woman by the door was groping for a way out, Wei Shaoguang kicked Feng Chao and reprimanded him in a low voice: "Go and help him!" ”
"Oh, good."
Feng Chao trotted over and helped the old woman, "Grandma, you go back to the house to rest, I didn't offend anyone, it's just that someone came to me to ask about something, and it will be fine in a while." ”
"Chao'er, be a man with a conscience, don't do things that hurt nature and reason, you! I'll go back to the house, and you can go outside by yourself, and you don't need to help me. ”
"Okay, okay, it's all for you, come, I'll help you in."
Feng Chao helped the short old woman staggered into the house step by step, and Wei Shaoguang stood in the courtyard and watched their backs silently, and then beckoned to Xiahou Ming.
"How's it going out there?"
Shake the light and whispered.
Xiahou Ming shook his head and replied in a low voice: "No one is approaching for the time being." ”
"Hmm."
Wei Shaoguang nodded, and let Xiahou Ming stand at the door again, paying attention to the situation outside.
Feng Chao in the house helped his grandmother to sit on a chair, and he stood at the window and secretly looked at Wei Shaoguang in the middle of the courtyard under the cover of the only jujube tree in the yard.
"Damn it!"
He let out a low curse and slammed his fist into the lattice, making a dull sound.
"Chao'er?"
"Ah, it's okay, grandma, don't go out in the house, I'll be back in a while."
Feng Chao turned and walked out of the room.
"How about a small suggestion to find a place to shelter from the rain and talk?"
He put on a flattering smile mask again, trying to get closer to Wei Shaoguang to ensure his own safety.
"Okay."
Wei Shaoguang had already put away the dagger when he entered the room, and she followed Feng Chao into the porch with an umbrella.
"Don't panic, I'm just here to ask you a few questions, as long as you are obedient enough, I can save your head."
"Ah, yes! Just ask. ”
"Okay." Wei Shaoguang put away the umbrella and held it on the ground in his hand, and asked with a smile:
"I ask you not to be verbose! First, tell me where that friend of yours lives. ”
"He, he lives in the little attic in the alley behind Longcui Fang."
"Second, have you seen anyone enter the alley and disappear until yesterday?"
"Yes, but not many of the small ones have seen."
"Thirdly, where are they missing?"
"This ...... The small ones are not clear, they are often accompanied by a special person, and you know that there are many people who do that kind of business in this area, and the rule here is that you are not allowed to meddle in other people's business, which will kill people! ”
"Well, then fourth, you said before that the girl in the dress would come here to perform, is that true?"
"The little one also listens to what others say, and the little one can't guarantee that the girl will come."
"Whew! Idiot! Last question, do Nu Hong Xiaolou and Qianqing Pavilion have their own special passages on Seventh Street? ”
"This is true, the entire eighteen alleys are connected here, otherwise where did those girls come from? And here will also help them deal with some disobedient people, touch some gray things, the little ones themselves have also got money from this, it can be said that the entire Seventh Street and Eighth Lane basically rely on the Eighteen Hutongs to survive. ”
"Good! I'm done asking, protect yourself in the next time, I believe you are not a stupid person, what can you say and what you can't say weigh it in your heart, don't lose your life without knowing what! ”
"Yes, yes! You're right! ”
"My son is gone! If today's conversation had been known to a third person, your grandmother might have no one to support her, understand? ”
"The little one is written down!"
Wei Shaoguang opened the umbrella and walked into the rain, Feng Chao followed her in the rain and walked to the door, Xiahou Ming opened the door, and the alley outside was empty, Shaoguang frowned after looking at it.
"Close the door and stay back, don't come out!"
Her words were very anxious, and before Feng Chao could react, Xiahou Ming and Wei Shaoguang had already flashed out of the courtyard and closed the door tightly, he stood behind the courtyard gate and soon heard the sound of swords colliding outside, and the sound of people who practiced martial arts using their own internal skills to boost their qi and run on the street came through the sound of rain, Feng Chao grabbed the corner of his clothes in fear, and his face turned pale with nervousness.
Who the hell are these two people?!