Lin Shijing never expected that this man was actually pretending to be drunk. He was shocked as he watched Gu Qingzhang get up in a hurry. After questioning the prostitute, he sat down next to Lin Chonghan with a sullen face and asked her for tea.

"No tea," Lin Chonghan shook his head, took out a bag of loquats from the drawer of the carriage and handed it to him, "I sent the turtle slave to buy a bag of loquats, which can relieve hangovers."

Gu Qingzhang bit his loquat and looked at the prostitute in the corner. She didn't answer his question just now, so Gu Qingzhang asked: "What's your name?"

"My family's name is Qingle," she bit her lip, looking uneasy and frightened, "My family doesn't know the question that Mr. Lang asked..."

Qing Le has a graceful demeanor and elegant appearance. She looks soft and weak, which makes me pity her, but Gu Qingzhang is a hard-hearted person who doesn't understand the charm.

"Stop pretending, I saw you running downstairs in a hurry that day to tell the madam about Qingxiao's death."

He continued: "When I visited Bozhou City before, I specifically talked to the locals. They all said that the sisters Qingxiao and Qingle were comparable to Feiyan Hede in the Han Dynasty. Not only were they beautiful in appearance, but their figure was even better.

It’s so light that you can dance on your hands.”

"If Feiyan dies," he ate the loquat and spoke word by word, "it's impossible for Hede to not know the cause of her death, right?"

Qingle raised her head and looked at him in fear. She glanced around the carriage and suddenly realized that she had completely left Xiaoyue Tower. From now on, the man in front of her was her master.

She swallowed her saliva and spoke tentatively: "What's the use of knowing? You can't live without a single virtue -" Before she could finish her words, she was interrupted by Gu Qingzhang.

The other person raised his eyebrows: "I can save your life."

Qing Le thought of the intimate scene between Fang Zhong and Gu Qingzhang. Fang Zhong treated each other with such courtesy, which showed that he was definitely not a white person at least; moreover, Gu Qingzhang was definitely not the same as Fang Zhong, otherwise he would not have known the cause of Qing Xiao's death.

Thinking of her sister's tragic death, Qing Le no longer hesitated: "You know it clearly. Nujia and Qingxiao are not biological sisters. She also has a biological sister, which she did not bring into the building."

Gu Qingzhang nodded inwardly, knowing that she was not planning to lie.

Qing Le continued: "You can also see my mother's attitude towards Young Master Fang. Although Xiaoyue Tower is said to be my mother's business, who knows that the person behind this is Fang Zhong?"

"This person is very familiar with Bozhou City," Lin Chonghan said thoughtfully, "Whether it is the city gate, inn, restaurant or brothel, his shadow is behind all of them."

Qing Le glanced at her, nodded and said, "Your Majesty is right, Fang Zhong has the final say in the entire Bozhou City."

"What about Zhizhou?"

Qing Le smiled bitterly: "Either you join him in collusion and collude with him, or he evades your power and can only be a puppet."

Fang Zhong can indeed be said to be a real local snake in Bozhou City. Gu Qingzhang listened without saying a word and suddenly asked: "Did Qing Xiao be strangled to death by someone sent by Fang Zhong?"

Qing Le was shocked and lost her voice: "How do you know?"

"I have seen her body," Gu Qingzhang peeled another loquat, "If she was hanged to death, the strangulation marks should be heavier in the middle and lighter on the ends; but if she was strangled to death, the strangulation marks would be evenly distributed.

Even."

"The strangulation marks on Qingxiao's neck are very even. She did not hang herself."

Qingle murmured: "She is such a strong person, and her biological sister has not grown up yet, how could she hang herself?"

After eating the loquat, Gu Qingzhang guessed the whole story. He turned his head and asked Qing Le for confirmation: "Did Qing Xiao accidentally learn something about Fang Zhong, and Fang Zhong had to silence her?"

The carriage swayed forward in the dark night. There was a small lamp hanging on the wall inside the carriage, which flickered with a faint light. The dim light could illuminate the entire carriage and illuminate Gu Qingzhang's shining eyes.

He saw the deepest part of Qing Le's heart at a glance. Under these eyes, her secrets were hard to hide.

She subconsciously said: "It's not that I learned—it's that there is evidence."

Gu Qingzhang sat upright instantly.

*

At this time, the third floor of Xiaoyue Building

The madam opened the door carefully, waved the person waiting next to her to go out, rolled up her sleeves herself, and used a hot towel to cleanse Fang Zhong's face with his eyes closed to relax.

"Sir," the madam put down the towel and squeezed his shoulders, "isn't it a good idea to let Qing Le go out like this?"

Fang Zhong said "hmm" and said in a nonchalant manner: "Why, do you feel bad about missing a money tree?"

Seeing that he hadn't responded yet, the madam had no choice but to remind him tactfully: "Qing Le and Qing Xiao have always been close to each other - when Qing Xiao died, the husband was also present."

Fang Zhong suddenly opened his eyes.

He sat up and turned to look at the madam: "Why is Gu Qingzhang here? Didn't he just come to Bozhou?"

The old bustard shook his head: "I don't know about this, but it was Qing Le who came downstairs that day and told me the news of Qing Xiao's death. I'm not sure about anything else, but the husband must have known Qing Le."

Fang Zhong's expression kept changing. Qingxiao was the surprise that he least expected. She was obviously just a plaything, but she had been among all kinds of people over the years, and she was able to write down a ledger that could kill him.

.

Now the missing account book has become a big stone in his heart, making it difficult for him to sleep well day and night.

Gu Qingzhang didn't like anyone, why did he only like Qing Le who was close to Qing Xiao? Maybe he knew the inside story of Qing Xiao's death. What's more, he was born in the capital and was a noble man. What kind of beauty has he never seen?

?

The more Fang Zhong thought about it, the more something was wrong. His breathing gradually became heavier, and before he knew it, cold sweat was covering his forehead.

"Sir," Fang Zhong's confidant opened the door and came in with an anxious look on his face, "something is wrong. We have a group of homing pigeons that went to the capital, and ten of them were lost."

"But this batch of pigeons has always been used on the road from Bozhou to Beijing, and no matter what the weather is, we will never lose more than ten pigeons."

The loss of the homing pigeons was not a big deal. Maybe the homing pigeons encountered something unexpected this time, but these coincidences together gave Fang Zhong a vague feeling that a storm was about to come.

This intuition allowed Fang Zhong to avoid countless dead ends, so this time he also chose to trust his intuition.

He said: "Take people now to surround the inn where Gu Qingzhang is. You must remember that you can't scare the snake away, let alone let anyone escape - be quick!"

*

"You mean," Gu Qingzhang's expression was difficult to discern under the dim light, "Qing Xiao has a ledger in his hand, which is enough to make Fang Zhong doomed?"

Qingle swallowed and replied: "Yes, the account book was divided into two."

"I am the only one in Xiaoyue Tower who knows that Qingxiao has a sister. Even my mother doesn't know, so I guess that one of the books should be at her sister's place, but I don't know about the other one."

Just when Gu Qingzhang was deep in thought, Lin Chonghan said: "We met you that day."

Qing Le was puzzled: "Yes, what's going on?"

Lin Shijing's face suddenly became very ugly: "We have seen you, the madam was also present, and she also knows that we have seen you - but Gu Qingzhang wants to leave you today."

"Do you think Fang Zhong and the others won't be suspicious?"
Chapter completed!