Pang Panghai and the others came back very late. Lin Ye looked at them all in high spirits and couldn't help but shake his head slightly.
Seeing Lin Ye's reaction, Pang Dahai quickly explained.
"General, it's not what you think."
Lin Ye: "What do you think I think?"
Pang Dahai said: "Brothers, please tell the general that we must be innocent."
Those men looked at Pang Dahai one after another with innocent expressions on their faces. Don't you know it yourself?
Pang Panghai sighed and returned the money bag to Lin Ye. Lin Ye was surprised to see that most of it was left.
Pang Panghai: "Looking at the money, I know we haven't gone to that kind of immoral place."
Lin Ye became interested and asked, "Then you guys walked away for most of the day and didn't come back until after dark. What were you doing there?"
Pang Dahai: "Take a bath."
Lin Ye frowned slightly: "You guys, are you going to take a shower?"
A soldier glanced at Pang Dahai with a resentful look: "It's not like the team is being cheated."
Lin Ye became even more interested.
Pang Panghai sighed and said: "Who would have thought that all the businessmen in Caoshu City have eight hundred tricks."
He said: "We were walking on the street, and the owner of a bathhouse stopped us and asked me if I could take a shower."
"I asked, what's so fun about that? A group of grown men take a bath and walk the birds with their butts naked? What's the point? We really want to walk the birds, but I don't really just want to walk the birds."
"The boss said... This good man, you don't understand this. You go to a brothel, and on average you get five taels of silver per person. What are you playing with? It's a waste of money, and you might even get tricked.
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"But when you stay with us, you can do more than just take a shower. For just one tael of silver, you will get an absolute surprise."
Pang Panghai said: "I asked him what the surprise was, and he said you can come in with me and give it a try. We were also curious for a moment, thinking we were just taking a bath, and at worst we would go to the brothel afterward."
"Who would have thought that this is really a fucking sperm bath. A big and thick old man held me down and gave me a bath, and even opened my buttocks for you to wash..."
A soldier next to him said: "It's like rubbing the fish to remove its scales, until a layer of skin falls off."
Lin Ye looked at them again and nodded: "It is indeed much fairer."
Pang Dahai said: "My subordinates never expected that they would be exhausted after taking a bath. This is not the end of it. After taking a bath, I was lying there while someone was giving me a massage."
The soldier next to him said: "It is indeed very comfortable. I fell asleep as soon as I pressed it."
Pang Panghai said: "When I woke up, I took care of the food. The food was good. I said that if I didn't want to go home, I could stay there for one night."
Lin Ye said: "So you really just went to take a shower."
Pang Panghai nodded vigorously: "It's really just a bath. If the general feels that we have suffered a loss, why not return the money to us and let's go out and spend it again tonight."
Lin Ye hung up the money bag: "I think you lied, and I'm going to investigate."
Pang Dahai: "Ah..."
Lin Ye stepped out and found a bathhouse according to the place Pang Hai and the others said.
It's indeed a good place. It's not that I spread my buttocks and rub you in place, it's just a massage to relieve fatigue. That's enough.
It was really refreshing. After the bath, I felt like I had lost three pounds. I then had a massage, a pot of tea, and various fruit snacks, dried fruits and peanuts.
This tael of silver is indeed very satisfying to spend.
When Lin Ye came out of the bathhouse, it was already very late. The moment he went out, he couldn't help but stretch his arms comfortably.
On the way back to the inn, the night wind blew gently, and it felt like I had changed myself into a new one.
At this moment, Lin Ye felt something was not right. He looked sideways and saw a dark figure standing at the entrance of an alley.
Seeing Lin Ye pay attention, the man immediately turned around, and Lin Ye followed him without hesitation.
After walking for about a moment, the man stopped in a remote place and turned around to wait for Lin Ye.
Lin Ye recognized who he was when he saw him, and at the moment of recognition, Lin Ye guessed the identity of the dead priest.
"Please do something."
Chen Weiwei stood in the shadow, and her first words were only these four words.
Lin Ye: "I will."
Chen Weiwei didn't say what it was, but Lin Ye seemed to know what it was when he opened his mouth.
Chen Weiwei was silent for a moment and then said, "Thank you very much."
Lin Ye: "Aren't you going back?"
Chen Weiwei said: "I won't go back for at least a year or two."
Lin Ye said: "Tell me an address. I will ask Uncle Chen when I go back. If he wants to come here to accompany you, I will escort him here."
Chen shook his head slightly: "No need."
He seemed to be looking at Lin Ye carefully, and after a while he said: "Take care when you go back."
After saying that, he turned around and left.
Lin Ye: "You too."
Chen Weiwei paused, and after being silent for a while, he turned back and said to Lin Ye: "Stay far away from Shangyang Palace, it's not as beautiful as it looks."
Lin Ye hummed.
Chen Weiwei strode away and quickly disappeared into the darkness.
In fact, he also wanted to say, in the past few years, I have only been a little jealous of you, but I have never really resented you.
It's like I haven't seen my father for so many years, but actually I don't really hate him.
If the father could be stronger and pull me home instead of always looking at me with a miserable look on his face, I probably wouldn't have refused to go home.
He came to Lin Ye because he knew that he could really relax by entrusting his father to Lin Ye.
Chen Weiwei left, and Lin Ye knew that they would not see each other again for at least a few years.
He stood there and stared for a long time, actually not knowing what else he could see, just staring at the deep darkness in a daze.
At the same time, in Caoshu City, less than two miles away from Lin Ye, there was a brothel named Shangke.
What makes this brothel unique in Chosukseong is that its location is special enough.
There is a small lake in Caosu City, and there is a small island in the lake. This island is so small that only a brothel of this size can be built.
Shang Ke Yuan is on a small island. There are many flower boats parked around the island. It is said that it is a unique experience to have fun on the boat.
In such a rather cramped place, there is actually a tower built, which is five stories high and hung with red lanterns. At night, the tower becomes the symbol of Shangke Garden, and it is particularly beautiful when viewed from a distance.
In the innermost part of Shangke Garden, there is a small single courtyard. This is where the owner of Shangke Garden lives. There are basically no outsiders on weekdays.
The owner of Shang Ke Yuan is a middle-aged man who looks to be around thirty-five or six years old. He is wearing a set of linen clothes, which are loose and casual, and he looks a bit out of place.
He was sitting in the pavilion in the small courtyard playing the piano, and there were several young and beautiful women standing next to him. Some were fanning her, some were expelling insects for him, some were warming wine for him, and some were making tea for him.
He doesn't look very handsome, his face is a bit squarer and still rectangular.
Her hair is spread loose, which can cover her face. Both eyes have single eyelids, which, like her lips, give people a cool and thin feeling.
"My boss."
Someone came quickly from outside, leaned over and said, "That Lin Ye seems to have found something."
Upon hearing these words, the sound of the piano suddenly stopped.
The boss asked: "Next time if you don't speak directly about important things, your tongue will be of no use."
Lin Ye may have found out the matter."
The boss's face remained the same as before, without any change, but his eyes flickered slightly.
After a moment of silence, he ordered: "Let Guan Jiu go back and tell my father that I am going back to Dayu."
The men immediately responded.
The boss's hand tapped lightly on the table and he muttered to himself.
"No one has mentioned this matter for more than ten years. Suddenly a Lin Ye appears...I am afraid that the emperor is going to do something outrageous."
A young woman next to him leaned over and said, "With your concubine here, the young master should be fine."
This boss was Wan Cangce, the son of Wan Yulou, Dayu's current left minister, and Wan Cangce who had participated in the Northern Expedition more than ten years ago.
Wan Cangce breathed out slowly.
"That's what I say, but the emperor's heart is deeper than the bottom of the sea. My sister is important, not me, nor my father. Concubine Wan Gui is always there. Concubine Wan Gui's brother, and even Concubine Wan Gui's father, are always there when necessary.
You don’t have to be here.”
The woman said: "But if the young master doesn't go back, no one from Dayu will come to bother you."
Wan Cangce said: "Do you really think that Lin Ye can dig up what happened back then and make a new conclusion?"
After he closed his eyes and thought for a while, he ordered: "Let Guan Ba stay here to take care of business. Except for him, everyone in the thirty-sixth room will follow me back to Dayu."
"yes!"
The maid leaned over and responded.
Everyone went to prepare, and Wan Cangce himself was the only one left in the pavilion.
His fingers gently played with the strings, and the sound of the piano was like dewdrops being gently flicked away by a woman's delicate fingers.
At this moment, someone flew over from a distance, flying in the air like a falcon searching for a target.
The man landed in the yard and walked slowly to Wan Cangce.
Wan Cangce raised his head and glanced at him: "Has the situation changed?"
The person who came was none other than Dongbo Dauchi's first-class bodyguard. He spoke in a slow voice.
Bai Sheng said slowly: "It's probably changed, but I don't know exactly how. What I know is that the beautiful woman named Lin Ye will definitely be a big trouble for you."
Wan Cangce nodded: "If things really change in Dongbo Palace, my stay in Dongbo will be meaningless."
Bai Sheng said slowly: "I'm here to remind you that the young man named Lin Ye alone cannot do anything to you, but he must not be alone."
Wan Cangce hummed, and then asked: "Do you want to go to Dayu with me?"
Bai Sheng pondered for a moment and said, "If you think it's necessary and you need a new face like me to help you with something, I can go."
Wan Cangce said: "Come back with me. If things change in the palace, you won't be able to take another step forward. Baili Honglian has suppressed you for more than ten years, and it will be even harder in the future."
Bai Sheng nodded slowly: "Okay, then let me go."
Wan Cangce: "If you want to follow, you can bring all your people with you."
Bai Sheng said slowly: "Let's forget it. I'll go with you first. If the opportunity comes in the future, let them go back together."
Wan Cangce said: "That's fine."
He stood up and stood side by side with Bai Shengman.
"Everything in the world is unpredictable. In the past, we acted in accordance with the current situation and we were able to benefit from it. But now the situation has changed."
Wan Cangce sighed: "It's time for us to protect ourselves."
Bai Sheng smiled slowly: "Back then, you could kill so many people just for profit, but now you don't dare to do it to protect yourself?"
Wan Cangce also laughed: "In this world, the only thing I dare not do is challenge the master."
Bai Sheng said slowly: "Get ready. I will go first. It will be more comfortable for you to walk alone, and I can also help you explore the road."
After saying that, his body flashed and disappeared into the night.