Xuanxia

Chapter 409 Xiangyanzhai

In the evening, on the South Street of Beijing.

Next to a noodle stall on the street, Fu Qingzhou and Qiu Chan sat opposite each other at the table. Fu Qingzhou slurped his noodles while Qiu Chan looked at him with her chin in her hand.

"Why do you like noodles so much?"

Qiu Chan asked helplessly: "There are so many delicious foods in the capital, and you are just focusing on noodles?"

"What's wrong with the noodles?" Fu Qingzhou raised his head and said dissatisfiedly, "Take this bowl of noodles for example. The soup is fragrant, the noodles are chewy, and the meat is cut neither too thick nor too thin, just right. Isn't this cooking better than those dishes in restaurants that are only beautiful and fragrant?"

Qiu Chan rolled her eyes.

But his words were heard by the noodle stall owner, who was delighted: "Sir, you have good eyesight! Come on, let me give you some meat!"

A spoonful of beef soup was poured over him, and Fu Qingzhou smiled happily.

After saying thank you, he and Qiu Chan tilted their heads at the same time and looked towards a rouge shop not far away.

The name of this rouge shop is Xiangyanzhai, and its business is neither good nor bad. At this moment, several young women are choosing rouge in the shop with a giggle. The proprietress is also a young woman, and she is smiling as she helps them choose.

Those young female guests were none other than the female disciples of Ziqi Xianfeng Temple.

And that proprietress... was the palace maid that Concubine Zi mentioned before, who changed her identity and escaped from the palace.

This Xiangyanzhai is the property for accommodating the palace maids.

According to Concubine Zi, they had only given the maid a shop in the beginning, but they did not expect that she had some skills and managed it successfully. Although she was not rich, she had enough food and clothing.

"She's not particularly pretty."

Qiu Chan looked at the proprietress from a distance and whispered, "She is young, but there are so many young and beautiful women in this world. What is so special about her that she can attract a strong man like Hui Xin?"

Fu Qingzhou swallowed a mouthful of noodles, raised his eyebrows, and said casually: "This is love, it's hard to explain~ This is love, confusing and muddled..."

Qiu Chan: “?”

"Oh, who can explain this thing clearly?" Fu Qingzhou said with a smile: "Isn't Hui Xin practicing the Golden Cicada Divine Shell Technique? This thing can turn an old man into a young man. He can be considered an old tree blooming. What's so strange about him falling in love with a woman?"

Qiu Chan suddenly narrowed her eyes: "No, you pervert, you don't believe this at all, do you?"

Fu Qingzhou grinned: "After all, Zi Fei is your uncle, how could I not believe her?"

"If you don't believe it, just say it directly."

Qiu Chan glared at him: "Don't talk about you, I think it's too coincidental."

Fu Qingzhou kept smiling: "Tell me what you think."

Qiu Chan snorted, "I don't have any ideas. We first went to Uncle Ziyun just to ask her to help find out Huixin's whereabouts, but she directly gave me Huixin's weakness. And this weakness is about a woman? Anyway, I think it's weird."

Fu Qingzhou blinked. It seemed that no one was stupid.

He put down his chopsticks and said calmly: "Whether it is a coincidence or not is not important."

"If we want to know Hui Xin's whereabouts, we can only ask someone or find a way to investigate. But with our current abilities, we can't find Hui Xin's whereabouts at all. Asking is the only way."

"As for who to ask? After all the calculations, the only person we can ask, besides your uncle, is Yuan Zhen."

Fu Qingzhou tapped the table with his fingers and said, "But Yuan Zhen is from Jinchan Temple after all. I can't trust him completely."

Qiu Chan showed a look of understanding.

She laughed: "Since Uncle Ziyun is our only source of clues, why don't we just stop thinking too much? If she is misleading us, she must have a reason for misleading us. If we follow the path she gives us and pay more attention, we may be able to find something."

"good."

Fu Qingzhou nodded: "After all, she is your senior from Ziqi Xianfeng Temple. She would not lie to you for no reason. If she wanted to lie, there must be some vested interest involved... and this interest would also be related to Jinchan Temple." As he spoke, the female disciples of Ziqi Xianfeng Temple who had been strolling around Xiangyanzhai had all returned. They sat down beside the two of them, laughing and giggling. They all had a small bag in their hands, and it was obvious that they had bought some rouge.

"Actually, her rouge is pretty good."

A female disciple said, "No wonder the business is so good."

Qiu Chan glared at her and said, "You only know how to buy things, how about getting information?"

"Sister Qiu, don't be so fierce. We finally got down the mountain, you should let us enjoy ourselves." Another female disciple joked, "We are not as lucky as you, wandering around the foot of the mountain every day with a man to accompany us..."

"man?"

Qiu Chan rolled her eyes at Fu Qingzhou and said, "If you want it, I'll give it to you."

"You said it!" The female disciple was overjoyed. She came close to Fu Qingzhou and flirted with him: "Young Master Fu, I told you my name, do you remember it? Although I am not as pretty as Senior Sister Qiu, I am much gentler in character~ Unlike her, who is a tigress!"

Not only her, but several other female disciples also gathered around and chattered non-stop.

Fu Qingzhou covered his face, Qiu Chan rolled her eyes to the sky, and the noodle stall owner was stunned, with envy on his face that was almost dripping with saliva.

But despite all the noise and fury, it was still easy for these female disciples to do the inquiries.

When they bought rouge just now, they already had a general idea of ​​the proprietress's situation.

Her name was Wen Qingru. She claimed to be from Jiangnan and had been in the capital for nearly ten years. She said that she had worked as a maid in a wealthy family before. Two years ago, the old lady she served died of a serious illness, so the master gave her a severance pay and asked her to leave.

So, she used the money to open a rouge shop, and has been running it until now... and she is still unmarried.

Of course, it was impossible for her to run this rouge shop alone. There was also an old, ugly, short and fat man in the shop. It was said that he was Wen Qingru's uncle, who helped with the heavy work in the shop.

"A wealthy family, severance pay?"

Fu Qingzhou smiled and said, "It seems that Wen Qingru may indeed be a maid who sneaked out of the palace."

"Can what our uncle-master said be false?" a young female disciple said with a smile.

Fu Qingzhou and Qiu Chan looked at each other, just smiled, and said nothing more.

Then the next plan is very simple.

"You guys go back and wait for two days~"

The female disciple who had approached Fu Qingzhou the most and claimed to be very gentle, her name was Si Yu, said with a smile: "When I bought rouge just now, I talked the most with the proprietress. In the next two days, I will try to get closer to her and find out more things. When we have a good understanding of the situation, we can start."

Qiu Chan nodded slightly and said softly: "Junior sister, you still have to be careful. Don't forget about Senior Sister Jiang."

As soon as she mentioned Senior Sister Jiang, the smiles on the faces of several female disciples disappeared, they lowered their heads slightly and stopped playing around.

Si Yu also said softly: "I understand, Senior Sister Qiu, we will take it to heart."

Fu Qingzhou was a little curious: "Senior Sister Jiang? Who is she?"

Qiu Chan glanced at him and said calmly, "East Shu, Wanshi Town."

Fu Qingzhou suddenly realized.

He and Qiu Chan first met in Wanshi Town. At that time, she had a senior sister with her, but that senior sister was brutally killed by Fa Zheng of Fanyin Temple...

It had only been over half a year since this happened, but so many things had happened during this time that it felt like a lifetime ago to him.

"I'm sorry." He smiled apologetically, "I just didn't think of it for a moment."

Qiu Chan smiled and said, "It's okay, it's all over. Let's go home."

(End of this chapter)