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When Shen Xi Jun left, it was unknown if she truly left the Duke Palaces, but he had to watch over him.

"Alright." After watching Tsai leave, Mu Qian Xue's gaze turned and landed on Shi Jiu. "Thank you for what happened just now."

Shi Jiu looked at the place where she stood and said expressionlessly: "Even if I didn't stop you, your palm wouldn't have landed on your body."

Mu Qian Xue smiled slightly. They had made contact several times, letting her understand Shen Xi Jun's arrogant and despotic personality, so she had always been on guard against him in secret. When the latter just raised his hand, she quickly took a step back.

"What did you find out when you came over?"

Hearing these words, Shi Jiu remembered his purpose for coming here, and said solemnly: "There is indeed something strange in Yi Cui Shu."

The light in Mu Qian Xue's eyes brightened, and she lightly waved her mud-gold fan: "Go on."

"On the surface, the Yi Cui Shu appears to be just a brothel for guests to gamble on. In the past seven years, its name has risen greatly and it has become one of the top brothels in the entire Jinling. However, nothing can be found out about what happened seven years ago."

Xia Yue curled her lips and said, "Yi Cui Shu hasn't even opened seven years ago, of course we can't find anything. What's so strange about that?"

Shi Jiu cast a cold glance at her, "The Jinling is the capital of the Dazhou, so to be able to open a brothel here, other than having a large amount of wealth, one also needs to have sufficient connections. Otherwise, just the thugs in the city would be enough to make you unable to do business here.

Xia Yue was speechless, she really did not know that there were so many secrets behind a brothel.

Shi Wu went to investigate, the old procuress was originally a young lady from a brothel in Biancheng, she could not be considered famous. About seven or eight years ago, her body was redeemed by someone, and then, this Yi Cui Shu opened this house. As for the person who helped her redeem herself, who was the owner of the money from the Yi Cui Shu, and why no one went to find trouble with her, I do not know for now, but Shi Wu and I will definitely speed up our investigation.

Mu Qian Xue thought for a moment, then said: "She should only be a pretense."

Shi Jiu's eyelids jumped, "You're saying …. There's someone hiding behind the Ruan Niang? "

"That's right, that person is the true owner of the Yi Cui Shu. It is also he who secretly opened up the black and white sides, allowing the Yi Cui Shu to have a stable foothold in the Jinling."

Shi Jiu thought for a while, then asked: "If he has that kind of ability, why did he hide himself for the past seven years, and find a girl from a brothel to use as a shield?"

"If he really does open a brothel, then there's no need to do this, but what if he doesn't?"

Shi Jiu frowned, "Every night, that place will be sent to you, relying on your door to sell your jokes. How can it not be a brothel?"

Mu Qian Xue smiled, "Shi Jiu, do you know where the best place to gather information is?"

"Court? Six parts? "Post station?"

Shi Jiu spoke for quite a few times but all of them were rejected by him, "Yes, it's an inn and a brothel."

"Impossible, these two places are completely unrelated to information."

"There are people of all kinds in the tavern, so there is naturally news about them. As for the brothel …" Those who are able to go to the brothels, especially those who are renowned in the Jinling like the brothels, are mostly people with status, and are either rich or noble.

Mu Qian Xue shook her head: "No, for the sake of attracting our attention to the Yi Cui Shu, those Tung Ling assassins did not hesitate to cause such a huge commotion, how could it be them?"

Shi Jiu lowered his head to think for a moment, then said seriously: "I remember something. About a day before you came to Jinling, someone threw a few dead people at the entrance of Yi Cui Shu.

"These corpses were brought to the Jing Zhao yamen, but in the end, they were ignored. Their identities, as well as the identity of the person who killed them, have not been discovered."

Mu Qian Xue lowered her head and gently turned the goatee jade bracelet on her wrist. This was given to him by the Empress Dowager Wei after the last birthday celebration.

"From the looks of it, they probably provoked the anger of the Tung Ling, causing them to attract this kind of crazy retaliation. I don't understand why Yi Cui Shu would want to provoke Tung Ling. "

There was no need to talk about Shi Jiu who could not understand what was going on. All he could say was: "Shi Wu and I will go investigate it again tonight."

"No need." Mu Qian Xue's answer surprised Shi Jiu, "Why?"

"Tonight, there will be a lot of people going to the Yi Cui Shu to investigate, let's not go and join in on the fun." A faint smile appeared on Mu Qian Xue's lips.

Today, before the sky had completely darkened, the Yi Cui Shu which was lit up by red lanterns was already packed full to the brim with people. There were even a few standing outside, making it seem that business was going well, but facing the guests in the room, all the beautiful girls stood far away and did not dare to go forward to greet them.

Before she could go down the stairs, a tortoise slave came up to her ears and whispered a few sentences. The latter nodded and by the time she had walked down the last step, her exquisite makeup was already full of smiles. She brought a fragrant wind and came to the side of a young man sitting in the middle, "What wind blew you, Master Mu Wang?"

Dong Fang Ze smirked: "What, you can't come?"

"How could that be? I am very happy that Mu Wang is willing to come to this Yi Cui Shu." As she spoke, she poured two cups of wine from the untouched wine pot on the table and smiled, "Come, come, let me toast to Prince. Our Yi Cui Shu's wine is specially brewed and cannot be drunk anywhere else.

"Clang!" Dong Fang Ze slapped the wine cup that she passed over to him onto the ground and said coldly: "Cut the crap. Tell me, what is your relationship with the assassins?"

Ruan Niang blinked her phoenix eyes and asked with a blank expression: "What assassin?"

Dong Fang Ze coldly snorted, "Stop pretending here, every time before we attack, the assassin would bring up the three words' Yi Cui Shu '.

As expected, before the letter king was assassinated, he heard the name "Yi Cui Shu" and then "King Rong" and then "King An" and then "King Lu" and the answer was all the same. It was definitely not a coincidence that there were so many similar assassins and assassins that did not have anything to do with Yi Cui Shu, even ghosts would not believe it.