Chapter 50 (1/2)
Ning Que didn’t realize that the owner of Red Sleeve Club was staring at him coldly on the top floor. He didn’t know that this owner was angry because the girls were chatting with him instead of focusing on the business. Ning Que sat causally next to Lady Shui Zhu Er, chatting with everyone while also collecting information about Zhang Yi Qi’s death without people noticing.
“I like your smile, your dimples are so cute, “Shui Zhu Er laughed and winked at him, “But all things aside, since you are applying for the Academy you need to study hard. Or else if you failed to enter, then everyone would think us girls were the reason for your failure. How are you going to compensate such negative rumors?”
“Don’t pull us in, Ning Que comes everyday and only chat with you, what does this has to do with us?” A girl joked.
Although Shui Zu Er’s words seem to be a joke, but she actually cared about Ning Que’s future performance in the entrance exam. Ning Que’s heart was filled with warmth and replied casually. He was just saying rubbish like he was done with his work and they don’t need to worry about his grades. Sang Sang was aside with her head down eating seeds and talking with the maid, Xiao Cao. She thought to herself, “Master, your words are not rubbish but rather lies. There are six topics in the entrance exam of the Academy, and I reminded you everyday to study. In the end, do you even know how many topics there are?”
Although for her appearance Sang Sang didn’t need any make-up for camouflage to act as a servant, but the keen eyes of the girls in brothel already knew she was a girl. Xiao Cao was chatting with her on the side and thought to herself with sympathy, “Ning Que definitely disliked Sang Sang because she’s not pretty, that’s why he visits the brothel everyday shamelessly.”
In the room on the top floor, the middle aged man wearing the green advanced next to the owner of the Red Sleeve Club and looked down into the building. He saw the youngster chatting with the girls around him and couldn’t help but smiled. His sharp and steady eyes were brightened.
“If this youngster is truly the last tenant of Forty Seventh Street, then there is no reason for me to allow him to stay.” That man smiled, “If I get him out of there, all of the rental approval will be in my hand. Then I can transfer those approval to the government, and what other reasons can you use to reject the requisition of Forty Seventh Street from the Chang An government?”
“All of the shop owners of Forty Seventh Street were once gone when you interrupted, but have you ever see me lower my head?” The middle aged man in green s.h.i.+rt smiled, “Besides….. you can’t get this youngster out of there.”
“I can’t?” The man stared into his eyes quietly and suddenly laughed, “Sure, who dare to act unwisely in front of Lao Chao of Chun Feng Pavilion?”
The middle aged man smiled but didn’t replied. He turned around and sat back into his chair.
Earlier in the day he has received messages from his fourth brother (In this case, Fourth Master Qi). He knew what happened today in the Forty Seventh Street. A young foreign student was not afraid at all between two gangs’ heated situation and actually gained benefit from it. Ning Que basically robbed a whole year worth of rent from him, but that youngster didn’t try to raise the price any higher. Ning Que’s way of doing things are mature and knew when to stop, in another words, he’s very generous.
The first day Old Brush House was opened, he went to Forty Seventh Street not for the purpose of avoiding the rain, but he was rather interested which idiot was brave enough to rent his shop. But after the observation, he then knew that this youngster may not know the events that was happening between the Chang An’s gangs, but he’s not an idiot.
There isn’t a single idiot in this word that could write with such delicate penmans.h.i.+p. There is no idiot that has such thick skin on his palm that hold swords. Thinking back to the firm and steady writings hanging on the walls of Old Brush House, he felt a hint of murderous scent. Relating this back to Forth Qi’s description to today’s event, the middle aged man was suspicious that perhaps the youngster killed people……no, he was suspicious that perhaps the youngster killed a lot of people.
Only fifteen or sixteen years old, the youngster has already killed a lot of people. Even to the middle age man, who constantly walked in the darkness with blood on his boots, it wasn’t really a believable fact. For a youngster like him, if he’s not willing to move himself, then who is able to force him to?
“Chao, in the very least I’m representing the prince mansion today, can’t you be a little bit more respectful?”
The middle aged man raised his head and noticed that his mind wasn’t concentrating because he was thinking about that youngster. He couldn’t help but smiled apologizing. The prince mansion didn’t affect him one bit.
The man who was talking with him is named Cui De Lu. Although it was a very common name, but he was definitely not an ordinary person. The man who could take care of the best brothel in Chan An couldn’t be ordinary. Most of the Chang An citizens thought this brothel’s background was a powerful official, but only figures like the middle aged man knew, Cui De Lu relied on the prime stepward of prince mansion. Some people even believe that this brothel was the business of the prince.
“Red Sleeve Club is in troubles recently, I never thought you have the time to talk about these things.”
Cui De Lu’s face got colder, “The prince doesn’t want Forty Seventh Street, you know this. It’s only because the military department couldn’t interact with this kind of business, therefore they asked us to help them. Who knew you are so stubborn and wouldn’t let go of that s.p.a.ce, which irritated the big figures in the military. Now this thing became huge, a few days ago the Chang An government came and you pushed them back, now even the Yu Lin military was sent out……”
Hearing Yu Lin Military, the middle aged man’s eyebrow raised, as if the word hurt him so.
Seeing his expression, Cui De Lu switched his topic and laughed, “Of course you should know, the prince mansion is helping the two departments to solve their problem. In the end there would be benefit for us. Even the prime stepward said, the prince admired you. Once after he was drunk he mentioned your name and said you do things with rules in Chang An and knew your place.”