The first floor of Shede Xiaozhu is nearly two stories high, there is no private room, there is a circle of boxes above the height of the first floor, and there is a stage on the northernmost side.

In the lobby, there are individual customers who don't buy boxes, and most of them come to see the girl's performance.

To the west of the lobby are the kitchens, warehouses, and the quarters of the people who work in the lower classes. To the east, there is the girls' dressing room, and further inside is Liu Lanniang's residence.

After going downstairs, Su Tan wandered around to understand the terrain, looked up at the box above, and found the figures of Master Qiao and Master Yin.

So he took Brother Ping and walked to the box, and the guy arranged the box on the west side, and he changed it to Lord Qiao on the grounds that he couldn't see the girl on the stage because of his poor sight.

Brother Ping looked at this position and said: "We avoid being observed by him, but we can't observe him anymore, and it is difficult to monitor each other unless there is a loud noise between the two boxes." ”

Yue'er glanced at the two of them, and then asked Su Tan, "Do you want to be able to observe the overall situation like them?" ”

Su Tan smiled: "You still know me best, let's go, standing here all the time will attract the attention of others." ”

Yue'er smiled: "It's already noticed." ”

After that, she nodded to the box above, and Su Tan also looked up, it was Lord Qiao who was looking at them, and Lord Ancha had an extremely cold attitude, like a fox and a fake tiger.

Entering the box, the curtain fell halfway, and Yue'er looked downstairs through the curtain.

Brother Ping introduced the people downstairs to the two: "Of the seven tables downstairs, three of them are not familiar to me, and they may not be from Beiping." The other four, sitting alone, followed by an entourage is the owner of one of the eight buildings, Fumanlou, named Zhang Junling, who is fifty out of forty this year, a native of Shandong. ”

Yue'er looked over and said: "He is the owner of Fumanlou, the Lu cuisine of that family is very authentic, it turns out that he is from Shandong, no wonder." ”

Su Tan pointed to a table next to the owner of Fumanlou and asked, "Is that table also from Beiping?" It looks like a practitioner. ”

Brother Ping nodded: "He is Peng Decheng, the current master of the Four Seas Dart Bureau, born as a dart master, the old master has no son, and the eldest daughter recruited such a dart master." However, Sihai did much better in his hands than the old master, and the big business in Beiping City was almost monopolized by him. This is not obtained by forceful means, it all depends on character and hard work. ”

Yue'er sighed twice: "Character, he can still mention character, isn't this all going to the Qinglou to drink flower wine, I don't think it's very good." ”

Su Tan also looked at it seriously, and Brother Ping said: "This is not clear, I have never paid attention to other people's family affairs. ”

At the other two tables, there were two middle-aged men, and they didn't ask the girl to accompany them, and the two of them were talking together.

Brother Ping observed for a while, but suddenly looked at Peng Decheng, the head of the Sihai Dart Bureau mentioned before, and said: "The applause shopkeeper did not sit in the main seat, it seems that he came with someone else, and that person's status is higher than him, maybe he may be here to talk about business." ”

Yue'er also followed him back and agreed with his conjecture: "What you said makes sense, and I see that he has always been unsquinting and never looked at the girls. ”

Su Tan held back a smile on the side: "We are all trapped here, and you still have the heart to pay attention to other people's affairs." ”

Yue'er smiled and didn't say anything.

Brother Ping pointed to the last table he knew, and said: "I saw those two people upstairs before, in Tianji Pavilion, it is said that the fat man is the owner of Hongyuan Building in Huai'an Mansion, and he said that he was coming to Beiping to open a branch." I recognized the thin man who accompanied him, it was Beijing Deheng, and the shopkeeper of the Beiping branch was called Wang Xingheng. ”

Su Tan looked at the thin man and said: "Deheng is the largest pawnshop in the capital, when Lao Qi and the son of Lord Mu, the governor of Caoyun, and Yang Shijun of the Zhenguo Mansion went there to mess around, it was after that day that there was a fight in the Huaishui East Building, and he threatened to build a mourning hall for Shijun. ”

At the mention of Yang Shijun, several people fell silent, this mourning hall was indeed built later, or in his Yanwang Mansion. It's really unpredictable, who would have thought that Yang Shijun would die like this!

After a moment of silence, a few people came down from the second floor, and this time Yue'er opened her mouth to introduce: "That is Song Ziqi who just greeted me, a scholar I knew when I was copying books in Beiping, his family is in the countryside, and his ancestors have been such a scholar for generations, he is a scholar who reads while copying books, he is very hard, and he is also a very good person." ”

Her words caused Su Tan's discomfort, and she stared at Song Ziqi coldly and said, "Are you hard?" Then why do you still come to the Qinglou? It's not the same as a brothel. ”

Yes, the girls in the Qinglou are not comparable to prostitutes, they have different abilities and talents, and the cost required is also worlds apart, but it is not something that ordinary people can afford.

Yue'er smiled dryly, and wanted to argue a few words for her friend, but was blocked by Su Tan.

The other party was looking in the direction of the box on the other side of Lord Qiao, and asked Brother Ping, "Is there anything special about this Xiaozhu today?" Isn't that overwhelming? ”

Brother Ping hurriedly looked over and was shocked: "The people from the Jin Palace's Mansion came to Beiping?" ”

Yue'er also recognized Ling Jue, and asked very puzzled: "He came when he came, and he was still so ostentatious?" ”

"It's enough to swagger" Su Tan said this, and saw Brother Ping nodding at Ling Jue, because he was already waving at him.

After nodding, Brother Ping asked Su Tan, "Did Brother Yong know what floor this Ling Jue was on just now?" ”

Su Tan shook his head: "Yuheng and Tianquan on the left and right sides of the stairs on the third floor, we haven't figured out who is inside. And the innermost shaking light, the same is true, our people can't bring it in, there is no way to check it at all. ”

Brother Ping glanced at the audience and frowned: "Now any of us have too big a goal to go out, I'll try to go upstairs to check when the field is lively." ”

Yue'er leaned on the fence, looked at the two parties and turned back and said, "There are only three boxes in total, are the people in those rooms in the lobby downstairs now?" ”

Su Tan and Brother Heping were not sure, they just shook their heads and did not answer.

There was a knock on the door of the box, and the dim sum and wine sent by Xiao Er asked before leaving: "Lan Niang's mother asked Xiao Niang to ask, how many sons do you want to be accompanied by snow?" ”

Su Tan waved his hand impatiently and said, "It's too much to drink, I'll see how the Persian dancer is doing later, and I may call her to accompany the wine when the time comes, you go out first." ”

Xiao Er withdrew and Yue'er gave Su Tan a blank look: "What's the matter?" Still like that, throwing a lot of money or something, smashing a top card? ”

Su Tan smiled: "How can it, do you think I'm that kind of person!" ”

"Hmph" Yue'er turned her head and ignored him, muttering to herself: "That Manxue said that Xiang Yu'er lives in the backyard, should I visit this old acquaintance?" ”

Brother Ping was frightened and hurriedly stopped: "Ancestor, don't mind, look at the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in this building, don't leave our sight!" ”

Yue'er looked up at him, the calmer her eyes were, the more Brother Ping'er's heart went up, and it was all mentioned in her throat, so she heard Yue'er say: "Good grandson, the ancestors will not be impulsive, you can rest assured." ”

Brother Ping'er's eyes widened in a daze, and Su Tan burst into a hearty laugh.

However, his laughter attracted the attention of the other two boxes, and Master Qiao asked over there: "Master Yue, this official is very eye-catching, but this laughter is a little familiar, dare to ask is it from the capital?" ”

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