Chapter 24: Tongbaofang
Du Xi'er came to the shore of Yongping Lake alone, pretending to be her own woman's place to stay, but now the building is empty.
I inquired around, but I said that someone suddenly built an attic more than half a month ago. For half a month, people lived every night, but no one had seen the face of their master.
But there was no light last night, but someone came to pack their luggage early this morning, and calculated the time, just before the two of them entered Lizhou City with Dugujing.
Entering the attic, the first floor was empty, Du Xi'er went directly to the second floor, and just arrived on the second floor, he smelled a faint aroma, rouge.
Du Xi'er secretly thought in her heart that she hadn't used rouge for a long time.
Although there are not many furniture on the second floor, the things needed for the women's boudoir are indeed available, and they are not cheap items.
Du Xi'er came to the dresser and sat down, the bronze mirror on the table was bright, reflecting Du Xi'er's immature face. The drawer was open, and it was empty, except for a box of overturned rouge on the side.
Reaching out and picking up the rouge box, he raised it to his nose and smelled it, it smelled very good, but he couldn't recognize where it came from, so he covered the box and put it in his arms.
After checking it again, all the drawers, closets, including the bed, were empty and nothing special, and they were extremely clean, even if they touched the corners with their hands, they were not dusty.
Leaving here, Du Xi'er wandered around, but secretly inquired about the rumors of the rivers and lakes in the past two days.
Du Xi'er is not like Dugujing, there are very few people who have seen her, and even fewer people know her identity, so she runs around openly, as long as she doesn't meet Le Zhengshang, even if she encounters the guards of the Ethereal Tower, it doesn't matter.
According to Dugujing's previous guidance, Du Xi'er came to a place known as the Ghost Gate.
The Ghost Gate Pass is not a Ghost Gate, but a black street, but it is dark and chaotic and unattended, so with such a title, it seems that entering there is like entering the Ghost Gate.
Actually, there is a nice name there, it's called Tongbaofang.
Originally, there was a pawnshop there, and it was later occupied by people in the rivers and lakes to sell all kinds of news in the rivers and lakes and gradually developed, but there were many underworlds in the rivers and lakes, and the name Ghost Gate Pass came out at that time.
Later, it was occupied by the beggar gang, who took in the homeless people, and there were many disciples under it, and they only accepted and did not teach, so Tongbaofang not only did not improve, but became dirty and messy.
However, there is a common problem that martial arts people have, as long as you are willing and you are not innocent, no one will interfere, and Tongbaofang has been able to develop in Lizhou City so far.
Although Dugujing spent a lot of saliva to make Du Xi'er mentally ready, Du Xi'er almost vomited breakfast when she first arrived at Tongbaofang.
Turn an alley and see a black and dirty archway, a tattered plaque on the archway engraved with the words "Tongbaofang".
Walking through the archway, I saw a stinky ditch, and at the same time a stinky smell came, which was also mixed with the fragrance of inferior rouge, and Du Xi'er, who smelled the smell and did not react, was almost spit out by this fragrance, and quickly covered his mouth and nose and walked forward quickly.
There are weapons shops, pawnshops, calligraphy and paintings, and even shops that sell breakfast, which looks like a normal neighborhood, if it weren't for the abnormality of the beggars around.
The shop where the beggars sell news is in the depths of Tongbaofang, opposite a green building. Dugujing's introduction here was only vague, saying that he didn't know much, so Du Xi'er believed him.
Go to the depths, a very gaudy big red attic, the cornices around are full of red lanterns, most of them have been damaged, and a slightly new plaque at the door reads the words "Flower Appreciation Building".
At this moment, it is the time when breakfast has passed but lunch has not arrived, and it is also the time when the sleeper has just woken up. An old bustard shook his handkerchief to say goodbye to the guests, and the powder on his face fell with a smile.
Du Xi'er endured not to look but looked at the opposite side, opposite was a dark shop, no plaque and no popularity.
Du Xi'er looked around, and while looking, she skipped the location of the flower appreciation building, and found that there was only this one shop here, so she raised her feet and walked in.
As soon as I entered, I heard a voice from the flower viewing building behind: "The stinky beggar has opened!"
"It's coming! It's coming!"
A moment later, a disheveled but clean beggar came out of the cherry blossom building with his shoes in his hand.
Sitting on the steps, the beggar patted the dust on the soles of his feet and put his shoes on his feet, and kept saying: "Xiaocui is good at everything, but it is tiring...... You're a little girl, you probably don't understand, this man and woman......"
"Shut up!" Du Xi'er didn't want to listen to his words, if she let him continue, she didn't know what to say, now she felt that her face was already a little hot.
The beggar felt interesting, looked at her twice, and said in his heart that this girl actually came to the ghost gate alone. After looking up and down, he saw a jade flute on Du Xi'er's waist.
The beggar who led Du Xi'er into the store said: "The woman listens to other people's directions? ”
Du Xi'er nodded and said, "One or two." ”
The beggar plucked his ears and sat behind the high counter, which was almost as tall as Du Xi'er, and Du Xi'er needed to look up to see the beggar's face.
The beggar flicked his long nails and said casually: "Whether you can pay only one or two depends on whether the news brought by the woman is worth enough." ”
Du Xi'er took out a small ingot of silver from his arms, exactly one or two, and said, "The martial idiot who went to the Absolute Return Valley back then did not die. ”
The beggar's face changed and he was shocked: "How did the woman know this news?"
Du Xi'er said: "You don't have to worry about this, I can guarantee that my news is true." ”
The beggar looked at the silver and rubbed his hands and said, "This matter cannot be confirmed......
After hearing this, Du Xi'er stretched out her hand to retrieve the silver, but was grabbed by the beggar and said, "What does the woman want to ask?"
Just kidding, this kind of thing can be said by the other party, and now I have heard that if the transaction fails and the money is taken away, who knows what will happen later.
Du Xi'er asked: "There is a brand-new attic on the south bank of Yongping Lake, and the people around say that it was built more than half a month ago, I don't know who built the attic?"
The beggar quickly said, "The Southern Tang Dynasty is rich and prosperous." ”
Du Xi'er said strangely: "Why did he build that attic?"
"That's the second question. ”
Du Xi'er hesitated for a moment, then took out a silver ingot or tael and put it on the counter and asked, "Who lives in the attic?"
"I don't know. The beggar quickly put away the silver, as if he was afraid that Du Xi'er would snatch it back, and Du Xi'er did reach out to grab it, "Don't be in a hurry, I can give you some more free information, and I don't need you to exchange it for other information." ”
The information here is asked for ten taels of silver, and if you have other information in exchange, you can ask for one or two pieces of silver. Du Xi'er's second question was not answered, so naturally he couldn't collect money.
The beggar was afraid that Du Xi'er would make a move, and hurriedly said: "Have you heard of Duan and the Jade Woman?" Dali Duan Heyu, a boy and a girl, thousands of people and thousands of faces. This person is extremely good at transfiguration, and only when he plays the pipa is his real body, so he has a nickname 'pipa song'. ”
Du Xi'er said: "I know, so what?" Du Xi'er remembered Dugujing's entrustment, as long as the other party asked for information, he had to pretend to understand.
The beggar said: "The woman naturally knows. drunk infatuated pipa music, insolent sword sleep in the rain and snow. Each has the power of a grandmaster. But what the woman didn't know was that Duan Heyu was the guest of the Sima family, and he was also the master of Sima Fengnian's pearl, and Sima Pet, who was known as the world's first beauty in Jiangnan. ”
Du Xi'er said: "So what?"
The beggar said, "In the past six months, almost no one has seen the people living in the attic, but there are often all kinds of people who come and go for the night, even men and women. That's all the information, as for who that person is, let the woman judge for herself. ”
There are men and women, boys and women, thousands of people and thousands of faces, Sima Pet's master, this information has been given enough, and the other party is either Sima Pet or Duan Heyu.
Du Xi'er forced herself not to think about it for a while, and took out a tael of silver and asked, "Where is that person now?"
The beggar put away the silver but did not answer, Du Xi'er was stunned for a moment and said, "The master of the ghost gate is not dead. ”
The beggar stood up suddenly, but the boss with his mouth open didn't say a word for a long time, until Du Xi'er asked again: "Where is that person now?"
The beggar looked at the people under the counter again, this time very carefully: "That person has left this morning, but since the information brought by the woman is too special, I will give a few more free to the woman." ”
"Yesterday, the shopkeeper of the Ethereal Building, Le Zhengshang, caught a person in the backyard, no one knows who this person is, early this morning, not empty arrows, accompanied by Fang Feile Zhengshang, arrogant Zhang Kuan, plus a total of four people in the attic, holding yesterday to catch that person at sunrise this morning out of the east gate of Lizhou City.
This matter will come out soon, so this news is not worth much, similar things happen every day in the rivers and lakes, but this matter may be more valuable to the woman, so what I want to tell the woman is that they will go to the Southern Tang Kingdom, Hangzhou. ”
Du Xi'er took out the box of rouge from his arms, sniffed vigorously before he put down the beggar and said: "Hangzhou Wenxiangzhai's high-grade rouge, this is not a ...... that ordinary people can afford."
Before the words fell, Du Xi'er took back the rouge that had not been put down......
The beggar is almost crazy and just wants to slap himself a few times.
Du Xi'er took out another tael of silver and put it on the counter and asked:
"Where did the Gu Qin Valley Lord go after he left the Qianhe Mountain Villa yesterday?"
The beggar didn't take the money, but shook his head and said: "It's not everything here, the news in the rivers and lakes is suspected of exaggeration, not to mention the matter of Qin Guiyu, this matter cannot be told to the woman, please forgive me." ”
Du Xi'er took back the silver, said "thank you", and turned around to leave.
The beggar behind him asked, "Where did the heroine's jade flute come from?"
Du Xi'er didn't stop and replied: "Ten taels of silver ask." "Leave the stunned beggars.
I don't know where Dugujing learned the messy things, and they were all handed over to Du Xi'er, if Qin Guiyu knew, I don't know what kind of expression he would make.