Shocking Mountain Moon

Chapter 49 Tianxiang Pavilion

The book records Xue Han with a vague face, emphasizing that he was born as a beggar and recognized a eunuch as his father. He saved the crown prince and killed Prince Fu, and he was praised and criticized, but the criticism outweighed the praise.

The Xue Han she knew was a bit evil and hard to tell. He was willing to help her, but his kindness was strange, as if it was just for her.

Xue Han, who was accidentally exposed today, was not bound by his identity as the Imperial City Envoy and would do passionate things.

His adoptive father was the eunuch Xue Quan, one of the Five Thieves, and she would have to deal with him in the future. It would be convenient to act if she knew what kind of person he was.

Qiu Heng pondered in his mind, but kept walking and arrived at the haunted house with ease.

The sound of birds chirping was heard and the door opened gently.

"Brother Magpie, you are here!"

After seeing Qiu Heng again, Chen San became much more enthusiastic.

Qiu Heng flashed in and looked around quickly.

There were no lights on in the house, only moonlight pouring in from the wide-open windows. It was not completely dark, and it was obvious that there was no sign of life here.

"Tell me about the situation, three of you."

It was Chen San who spoke first: "I pretended to be a peddler walking around the streets as planned, and passed by the front street at the agreed time every day. Yesterday, Sanniang went out with a few guards. She stopped by my place and bought some small items, and gave this to me quietly."

He handed a ball of paper to Qiu Heng.

Liu Er continued, "Sanniang later went to a clothing store and a perfume store..."

Liu Er is not as talkative as Chen San, but he is more skilled and careful, making him suitable for tracking.

Qiu Heng silently memorized the names of the clothing store and the perfume shop.

Nie Sanniang entered Yuan's house and lost her freedom, so she must have had a purpose for going somewhere.

"I asked a gangster to rent a place for me to live and set up a tea stall nearby..." Tao Da described the situation.

Fish have their own paths, shrimps have their own paths. The more populous and prosperous a city is, the easier it is to hide your tracks as long as you have money.

The three wanted to survive in the capital for a long time, so living in a haunted house was not a long-term solution. They needed a visible identity and a place to communicate easily, and an inconspicuous tea stall was the perfect choice.

After listening to this, Qiu Heng handed the purse to Tao Da and said, "Thank you for your hard work, I will go back first."

The purse is filled with silver ingots, which need to be exchanged for copper coins when needed, which is a huge sum of money.

Tao Da was a little embarrassed: "Brother Que gave me some extra before."

"Brother Tao, just take it. It will be inconvenient if you don't have the money when you need it. Compared to what we want to do, what does money mean?"

After hearing this, Tao Da stopped refusing.

Yes, if it's just for money, there are many ways for them to make money with their skills.

"Brother Magpie, be careful on the road."

Qiu Heng waved her hand and left lightly.

Because of the summer heat, many people came out at night to find food and have fun. Qiu Heng chose to walk through remote places and successfully returned to Lengxiangju.

Fangzhou waited as usual.

"Fangzhou, turn up the light a little." Without even bothering to wash up, Qiu Heng unfolded the paper ball.

The words on the ball of paper are very small, but because the paper is not big either, what is written is concise and to the point.

The people in Yuan’s house mainly include two beautiful concubines, a housekeeper, and a captain of guards.

The steward is greedy for money, the captain of the guards is a gambler, one beautiful concubine loves fancy clothes, and the other beautiful concubine loves perfume.

Qiu Heng soon set his sights on two beautiful concubines, one named Li Niang and the other Hui Niang. The paper specifically mentioned that the two concubines were competing for favor, without hiding the fact.

In this way, it is obvious that the clothing shop and perfume shop that Liu Er mentioned Nie Sanniang went to are places where these two beautiful concubines often go.

Qiu Heng decided to go and take a look tomorrow. Nothing happened that night.

After breakfast, Qiu Heng made a list and asked Mother Wang to arrange for someone to deliver the prepared perfume pendants to the homes of the noble ladies with whom she had agreed to exchange gifts yesterday. Then she went out in the name of buying perfume.

The clothing store Liu Er mentioned was called Yunxiafang, and the perfume shop was called Tianxiangge. Not only were they on the same street, but they were also right next to each other.

Qiu Heng went to Yunxiafang first.

The two floors of Yunxiafang are filled with layers of fabrics that are dizzying to look at, and none of them are cheap.

The waitress took out a picture album and introduced the latest popular styles to Qiu Heng. Qiu Heng did not plan to have her clothes tailored here, so she bought a handkerchief and went out.

Afterwards, we went to the Tianxiang Pavilion next door. Not to mention all kinds of spices, there were also ready-made incense balls, incense powders, incense sticks, and some incense pendants.

Qiu Heng pointed at a round incense pendant and said, "Let me see."

"Miss, you have good taste. This is the most popular perfume pendant recently. It has a long-lasting fragrance and is easy to wear. It is said that it was originally made by a noble lady..." The waiter talked incessantly. Although he could not see the reaction of the female customer through the veil, he was confident that a girl like this would be unable to resist buying it.

Sure enough, the girl reached out and picked up the incense pendant, looking like she couldn't let it go: "It's well made."

"That's right. Although there are many shops selling perfume pendants nowadays, our Tianxiang Pavilion is one of the best in terms of workmanship, style, and fragrance."

“Then there are a lot of people coming to buy, right?”

"Of course, many wives and daughters of wealthy families come here in person..." The waiter boasted excitedly, "Mr. Yuan, who everyone is talking about recently, you know him, right? The wives of Mr. Yuan love to visit our shop. The last time they came here, they said they were here to buy new styles of perfume pendants in the past two days."

"I bought this pendant."

The guy smiled and said, "I'll install it for you right away."

"By the way, how often do we get new champagnes here?"

The waiter blurted out, "A new product is released every ten days or so. Today happened to be the day of the new product release. You are lucky to arrive in time, young lady."

After leaving Tianxiang Pavilion, Qiu Heng wandered to the tea stall set up by Tao Da. After observing for a while, she randomly found a scoundrel and gave him some money to have tea with her.

The idler was naturally happy to have money and tea to drink. After drinking the tea, he put the folded note under the tea bowl according to Qiu Heng's instructions and left as if nothing had happened.

After a while, Tao Da came to clean the table. He picked up the bowl and saw the note underneath. He quickly hid it. When no one was around, he read it and contacted Liu Er and Chen San.

Liu Er secretly kept an eye on Yuan's house. The next day, he saw a beautiful concubine going out and immediately notified Chen San as planned.

"Needles, thread, wooden combs, and hair ties--" The young peddler walked to a teahouse and started shaking a rattle.

Boom, boom, boom—

In the elegant room of the teahouse facing the street, the rhythmic sound of rattles was heard. Qiu Heng stood sideways at the window and looked out, and saw Chen San slowly walking forward.

I waited until evening yesterday, and waited until now today, and finally it came.

"Fangzhou, did you remember everything I said?"

"Don't worry, girl. I'll remember it."

Fangzhou put on the veil hat and went to Tianxiang Pavilion.

She arrived earlier than Yuan Chenghai's beautiful concubine Hui Niang who loved fragrance, and the waiter came forward to greet her.

"What do you want to see, girl?"

"I heard that the champagne here is very good. Let me take a look."

The waiter placed a box of perfume in front of Fangzhou and said, "Girl, take your time to look at it."

Fangzhou was indeed looking very carefully, and when the waiter was secretly getting impatient, Hui Niang came in.

Hui Niang was not wearing a veil, and two servants immediately came up to her and greeted her warmly.

Hui Niang glanced at them and pointed at the waiter who was serving Fang Zhou: "This waiter was the one serving us before, let him come again."

(End of this chapter)