The Tang family's affairs were quickly settled, and Tang Yu's full cooperation saved Chu Qianqiu a lot of time.
Then it’s time to do some personal things.
"Fourth Master Tang, I have one more request." Chu Qianqiu has never known what it means to be embarrassed.
"Master Chu, please tell me." Tang Yu seemed to have given up on resisting. After being planted with spiritual seeds, the difficulty for him to resist increased sharply.
As a qualified family leader, personal grudges always come last. They have no willful capital.
The death of the sixth brother and nephew was tragic, but the dead must make concessions to the living.
"I want to find someone in the brokerage circle. That person has appeared in Xingcheng."
"If I can find his whereabouts, I will give credit to the Tang family."
Chu Qianqiu pondered for a moment. Although he didn't believe that the others would foolishly stay in Xingcheng, there would always be some clues as people left their names and geese left their voices.
"The Tang family only has a relationship with one big broker in Lingzhou. Her name is Mrs. Huo."
"Then please ask Fourth Master Tang to make arrangements for me."
"Yes, Mr. Chu."
Xingcheng, Louwailou
This is the largest place for flowers and willows in Xingcheng, and it is also the largest intelligence center in Lingzhou. Countless brokers have made their fortunes here.
Mrs. Huo is also one of them.
However, her experience is quite legendary, or the history of her fortune is very dark.
Mrs. Huo was once the oiran of Louwailou, an inner disciple of Hehuan Sect, and is now the madam of Louwailou. This is common in brothels and is not surprising.
But Mrs. Huo did not change from an oiran to a madam.
When Mrs. Huo was working as an courtesan, she was also ransomed by wealthy businessmen, and even got better marriages each time.
It's just that every time she gets married, her husband will die young within half a year, and he will have no strong relatives or friends, so she will monopolize the family property.
Mrs. Huo is also called the black widow in private.
Almost all the people in Xingcheng believed that her husband was killed by her, and some citizens with a sense of justice went to the Yamen to report the murder.
The county magistrate of Xingcheng can be regarded as a good official. At least such immoral matters cannot be tolerated by secular morality, so he sent many officials and detectives to investigate the ins and outs of the matter.
After a year of investigation, it turned out that the husband died of an accident.
Now Chu Qianqiu understood the truth. The person who did it was none other than Master Bai Du. The two sides were working together in such a collusive way, taking care of people's lives and trying to steal family property.
"Master Chu, you can't blame me for this."
"Knowing that she is a black widow, she still has to be greedy for beauty and marry her into the family. Naturally, there will be a lot of trouble."
"Mrs. Huo would have asked someone else if she didn't ask me for medicine." Master Bai Du quickly explained after Chu Qianqiu came to question him.
"You are hiding something, tell me, and I won't argue with you."
"Well, then Mrs. Huo is the adopted daughter of the old man." Master Baidu said with a sneer, telling the story of how the two got to know each other.
It turns out that the two of them met before the Tang family established a relationship with Mrs. Huo.
At that time, Master Baidu was still a young man in his nineties. He had the characteristics of true energy and could go to the land of flowers and willows to live happily.
With his status and financial resources, he naturally found the oiran girl. It was at that time that Master Baidu recognized her as his adopted daughter.
"Wait a minute, you were over ninety years old at that time, and you adopted an eighteen-year-old girl as your adopted daughter." Chu Qianqiu took a deep breath and said with some disbelief.
"Well, isn't that why I'm still young when I'm old?" Master Bai Du blushed inexplicably and defended himself.
"Go on, talk about the important points!" Chu Qianqiu didn't want to know the old guy's romantic history, so he asked him to focus on the important points.
Master Baidu had no choice but to continue recounting those old stories.
It turned out that when Mrs. Huo was serving Master Baidu, she gradually figured out that he was a master of medicine, and he was probably a big shot from the Medicine King Sect, so she tried her best to flatter him and tricked him out of his ability to kill people
unique skill.
So the two of them worked together and used these methods to deprive three wealthy businessmen of their property.
Later, the Tang family's business was introduced by Master Baidu, and the two embezzled a lot of Tang family's funds together.
"Sure enough, birds of a feather flock together and people flock together."
Chu Qianqiu questioned him carefully and couldn't help but sigh at the correctness of this sentence. What kind of bird people were they all gathered together?
If he hadn't promised to spare his life and let him write a book on treating diseases and saving lives, he would have been killed now.
"Master Chu, I was working in cahoots with her at first, but then she became her own broker, and it became even more serious."
"Among the big brokers in Lingzhou, she is one of the best, much higher than Lao Chan."
"This time the Tang family was able to mobilize the 36 Green Forest Heroes, and she deserves half of the credit."
Master Bai Du quickly removed himself and praised Mrs. Huo fiercely.
"Okay, I'm asking myself, you know how to deal with those green forest heroes."
"I understand that these murderous gangsters will never come back." Master Baidu smiled flatteringly and said that he had already poisoned the green forest heroes. As long as he added another kind of medicine, he would ensure that they would all die in the evening.
Light.
So just wait until the afternoon and give them decapitation meals.
So Chu Qianqiu asked Master Baidu to send those green forest heroes to heaven, while he went to Louwailou and met with Mrs. Huo.
Mrs. Huo didn't look like an oiran at all. She was already a bucket-waisted aunt, and with her heavy make-up, she made people particularly disgusted.
No wonder Tang Kui was able to withstand the temptation when he first came out of the world.
Now I think it's natural.
I saw Mrs. Huo strolling over, twisting her waist and swinging her arms, looking quite sentimental. When she saw Chu Qianqiu, the fat on her face was squeezed together, she was smiling from ear to ear, and her eyes were fast.
He couldn't see it anymore, and he blinked like a young girl and said:
"Master Chu's visit makes the slave family very happy."
"I've heard people say that Mr. Chu has outstanding appearance. Today, when I saw him, he is indeed worthy of his reputation. He is a rare and handsome man, even three points more handsome than Mr. Tang."
"My heart is beating when I see you."
Mrs. Huo wanted to imitate Xizi in flattering her, but there was no hint of flattery in her. Instead, she seemed to be imitating Xizi.
Seeing this, Chu Qianqiu frowned slightly, took out his official power, and said in a deep voice:
"Mrs. Huo, there's no need to be pretentious. I'm looking for you today because I have something important to discuss."
"If you knew Tao——"
Before Chu Qianqiu could finish speaking, Mrs. Huo smiled slightly and interrupted:
"The Nu family knows that Mr. Chu is here for this, right?"
"I think Tao Wanwan was assassinated several times, which must have made you very distressed."
Chu Qianqiu was shocked when he heard this.
"Mrs. Huo, do you know the whereabouts of Tao Wanwan?"