Fortunately, it was almost noon and there were many people on the street. Zhao Qi and Qiao Wanqi followed them all the way without attracting anyone's attention.

Qiao Wanqi looked at the road becoming more and more familiar, and turned all the way into Nancheng. He had been here yesterday.

Zhao Qi wanted to follow him, but Qiao Wanqi grabbed him and said, "Don't alert the enemy!"

Zhao Qi waved her hand: "It's okay, there are many people now, and my family lives in that alley!"

Qiao Wanqi opened his mouth in surprise: "Your home?"

Before Zhao Qi could reply, the beggar had already carried Wu Shirong into the second-to-last door in the alley.

This is where the two men dressed as beggars came out yesterday!

Zhao Qi was surprised that they would enter that door: "That's the back door of the original Salesian Pharmacy!"

Qiao Wanqi was anxious to keep an eye on him and hurriedly said to Zhao Qi: "Go back and call for people. There are only three or four of them. I'll go and keep an eye on them first!" After saying that, he jumped up on the wall.

Zhao Qi grabbed him and said, "Go back and call someone, call my brother too, and just tell him to go home."

With that said, Zhao Qi entered the first door at the entrance of the alley.

Qiao Wanqi hurriedly went back to find someone and couldn't help but sigh.

He came to the capital with his parents when he was very young. At first he could only rent a house in the suburbs. In less than two years, his father bought a small courtyard in a not-so-good area of ​​Xicheng.

However, he had rarely had the opportunity to go out to play in the yard since he was a child, and he was not familiar with the roads in the capital.

The Blue House is located in Xicheng. He has no familiarity with the area at all, and he can't find the place where he lived back then.

Fortunately, he still remembered how to get back to the Blue House, so he quickened his pace.

After Zhao Qi entered the yard, she walked straight to the front yard.

The doors in this alley are all the back doors of each courtyard. Zhao Qi entered the courtyard through the back door. Going further in, there was an abandoned well there.

Move the big stone slab on the abandoned well and jump down.

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Blue House.

"You actually entered Qianjing Hutong?" Zhao Rui heard Qiao Wanqi say it was next to his home, and asked with some surprise: "Isn't that the back door of the pharmacy?"

Qiao Wanqi didn't care about that and urged to find a few people quickly.

Zhao Rui looked at Baijiaxing, who asked him to take Chu Yuan and Xiao Sining to follow, and Gan Lai also followed.

On the way, Zhao Rui saw that Qiao Wanqi was anxious and comforted him: "You don't have to be anxious. Since my brother is there, he can know what they are doing."

Chu Yuan didn't understand, so Zhao Rui explained: "Next to Qianjing Hutong is Abandoned Children's Hutong. I heard that when the Salesian Bureau was established, a well had to be dug in the Salesian Bureau in order to facilitate water collection;

A well also had to be dug in the courtyard of the pharmacy allocated to the Salesian Bureau;

Because it was a well-drilling team hired by the government, it didn't cost money to dig a well. At that time, the residents next to the Salesian Bureau also asked for a well-drilling team to take advantage of it, saying that one sheep is for driving, and two sheep are for herding;

The government agreed, but the well-drilling team did not agree. They said that the Salesian Bureau belonged to the imperial court, and if they dug wells, they would be considered as contributing to the imperial court. How could these people take advantage?

As a result, that family said they lived right next to the Salesian Bureau. If something happened at the Salesian Bureau, the neighbors wouldn’t be able to help take care of it?

In the event of a fire or something, an extra well could save many children. The government thought it was right and ordered the well-drilling team to dig a well for their home;

The well-drilling team was very angry. That family was obviously taking advantage, but the government officials didn't have to pay anyway, so they were generous with their words. As a result, it was only the well-drilling team that lost money;

Naturally, the well-drilling team felt disgusted, so they dug a well for this family first. This family felt that they had taken advantage of it and were very happy.

But who was the well-drilling team? Why did they dig a well for his family first? Just to disgust people! The well they dug for his family was a shallow well, and when the water came out, the family was very happy;

But the Pharmacy and Salesian Bureau dug deep wells, and within a month, the Pharmacy and Salesian Bureau had no problem with water, but that family’s well ran dry!”

There are stories like this about digging wells, which Chu Yuan and others find very new.

Zhao Rui continued: "The family later wanted to find a well-drilling team to rework the work, but they couldn't find it. They looked for another well-drilling team. They said that the walls of the well were only half bricked, and the bottom of the well was full of mud and sand. They had to add more water.

The family refused to pay for washing the well, and later the well was abandoned;

Later, an epidemic spread to the Salesian Bureau, and many children died. The surrounding residents felt it was unlucky and moved out one after another.

That family also wanted to move out, but the house couldn't be sold. They said it was because there was a well, and the water under the well was connected. Who knew whether it was dirty or not? After all, people living next door had contracted diseases and died;

Later, the family sold the house at a loss and moved away. Decades have passed, and the houses in that area can only be rented, with no one buying them.

In fact, I can’t even rent it out, for fear of bad luck, even beggars are reluctant to enter the hospital;

These wells were later filled in because they were afraid that the water in the wells would be dirty. From then on, the alley at the back door of the Salesian Bureau was called "Qianjing Alley";

We brothers rented this yard because the price was cheap. Anyway, we are just two grown men and we are not afraid of any bad luck or not, as long as it is cheap;

However, we found that the well seemed to have been dug and filled in. We were curious, so we dug it out and found that the soil was not difficult to dig. We kept digging and dug to the pharmacy next door.

My brother must have drilled through that well, don't worry, he can see."

Several people were wearing short clothes similar to the coolies on the street. They were very inconspicuous. They walked to the side of the road and walked through the alleys. Soon they arrived at "Qianjing Alley".

Zhao Rui waited for everyone to enter the yard, locked the door, and led them to the abandoned well.

Seeing the stone slab next to the wellhead, everyone knew that Zhao Qi had indeed gone down from here.

Several people also jumped down from the abandoned well and crawled along the tunnel that was only large enough for one person to pass through. Zhao Rui took the lead. The exit was next to the abandoned well of the pharmacy, which was right at the corner.

At this time, Zhao Qi was lying on the roof of the pharmacy. He felt that the sole of his shoe was touched. When he turned around and saw that it was Zhao Rui, he motioned for him to go back quickly. He looked a little nervous.

Zhao Rui didn't know why, but his brother had already warned him, so he returned to the tunnel and waited.

A quarter of an hour later, Zhao Qi also entered the tunnel, pulled a few pieces of scrap wood from the ground to cover the entrance of the tunnel, and then drove everyone back to his home.

This is also called home? There is dust everywhere, and it looks like it has been uninhabited for a long time.

Everyone went through the tunnel in vain, and they were all covered in dirt, but they didn't bother to beat them, because Zhao Qi said anxiously: "Fortunately you didn't make any noise!"

Everyone was confused, so Zhao Qi said: "There are many people hiding in the two rooms on the left and right. They are all dressed as beggars, but they are all practitioners!"

This news surprised everyone.

Zhao Qi added: "I saw the beggar and the man surnamed Wu enter the main room, so I climbed to the roof to peek and saw a well-dressed man sitting inside. After the beggar entered, he threw the man surnamed Wu in the house.

on the ground;

Then the two men beat up the man surnamed Wu, and then the man surnamed Wu took off the wooden hairpin from his head and gave it to them;

One end of the wooden hairpin was alive and could be unscrewed, and there were thin copper bars inside. But the two men beat him again and asked where the other one was.

The man surnamed Wu was almost beaten to death. He said that this was the only one, so the two people discussed whether it might have been stolen;

Then the decent man asked the beggar to go out and find someone to ambush him, saying that he would kill him if he came here to open the box.

Not long after the beggar left, many people followed him, about twenty or so, into the east and west rooms;
Chapter completed!