Chapter 418 - The Secret Place
Chapter 418 The Secret Place
Today if she managed to rescue Xiu and Hongyu’s sister, what Moqin and Hongyu had done would be discovered sooner or later.
She would rather take them away than leave them here to face the consequences.
According to the folk customs of the Jin State, prostitutes were generally despised.
Nevertheless, Lin Mengya knew that ladies like Moqin and Hongyu had a means of communication which was definitely incomparable to that of those ladies who had spent most of their time in their boudoirs.
She could tell that from Yunzhu. If she could talk Moqin and Hongyu into partnership, they might be of great use.
“Silly girl, you don’t want to implicate us, right? Don’t worry. The worst thing is to be beaten, and we can bear the bitterness of flesh.”
At the moment, Moqin had put on purple clothes. She had already thought of a place where the people Qingge and Hongyu were looking for might be.
“We will meet in the backyard in a while.”
Moqin told them in a low voice. There came the drumbeats from outside, and Lin Mengya was about to go dancing.
“Backyard? There are many people coming and going. Are we going to sneak out?”
Lin Mengya asked with some puzzlement. When she came here, she found that the backyard was small. If something secret was going on there, she would have discovered it easily, right?
“No, it’s not that backyard. This Huichun House looks small, but there are some secret places inside. Come to us in the innermost room on the second floor after you get free later, and I will lead you there.”
After telling Lin Mengya, Moqin got out of the room with Hongyu.
Fortunately, after being frightened by Moqin, Ziyun and other ladies brought contempt upon themselves and no longer dared to walk around Moqin’s room.
Lin Mengya took a deep breath and calmly stepped out of Moqin’s room.
Unexpectedly, it was quite smooth.
Moreover, there were some unexpected gains.
Although Lin Mengya said that she didn’t care, she still felt slightly cheerful because of the rare confession of Long Tianyu.
Thus, she walked at an increasingly brisk pace. On the stage, the procuress had begun to introduce the new girls. Almost all the flower ladies and guests upstairs went to the first floor to watch the fun. Along the way, Lin Mengya almost did not meet anyone.
Finally, Lin Mengya reached the end of the second floor, and opened the door quietly while no one was around.
“Don’t panic. It’s me!”
As soon as she entered the room, she found a chair above her head and about to fall down.
After shouting cleverly, she finally prevented the chair from having an intimate contact with her head.
After that, Hongyu’s face with guilt appeared in her sight.
“I’m so sorry, Qingge. I thought, I thought it was…”
Hongyu said with a little embarrassment. Nevertheless, this was the first time she had done this kind of thing, so she inevitably felt a little nervous.
Lin Mengya didn’t blame her, but looked towards Moqin, who had just let her guard down.
“It’s very smooth, and I have found a trump card that can successfully cover the retreat. What is going on here?”
Hearing Lin Mengya’s words, the two of them were relieved at once.
To be honest, when she went out to dance in Moqin’s place, the two of them stayed here in breathless anxiety.
They were afraid that this girl would make any mistake or someone would step in this room.
Since she said that it was done, the two of them naturally didn’t need to worry about anything.
“That’s good. Here leads to the most secret backyard in Huichun House. After a while, I will tell others that you are a new flower lady promoted by me, because it is a money-expending nest for real rich people. Remember, after finding the people you are looking for, we will have to leave quickly. Otherwise, we will never be able to leave.”
Money-expending nest for rich people? Lin Mengya got a bit of bad hunch.
She had inadvertently heard from Qinghu that he and Yunzhu had served the most famous wealthy merchants in the Jin State.
Moreover, although Qinghu was highly skilled in martial arts, there was fear hidden in his eyes.
Thus, she got a rough idea of how they “served” the merchants exactly.
Unexpectedly, in this Square Town, there could be such a place.
Lin Mengya was already full of vigilance. If that were the case, the plan to rescue Xiu and Hongyu’s sister would be more difficult than she had imagined.
“Let’s go. These people only come here after dark and leave quietly at noon. Besides, people down there could only see this kind of event every once in a while. The owner does not stop the ladies going down there, but they could never come out once they are chosen.”
Moqin said. She was obviously alerting them both.
Hongyu seemed to be indifferent. Anyway, she was in a quagmire both upstairs and downstairs.
Wherever she was, she was just pining away days.
Nevertheless, she could never let this little girl Qingge trapped downstairs and stained by those people.
“It’s okay. I’m much more cunning than them. Let’s go.”
She covered her face with the veil again and followed Moqin to walk softly downstairs from a staircase in the corner of the house.
The secret backyard of Huichun House was actually not designed ingeniously.
In fact, it looked similar to her small clinic, but built with different means.
After walking dozens of steps, she found a small red-brown wooden door in front of her.
Moqin pulled herself together and stretched out her hand to push it slowly.
A breath of air mixed with various fragrances came out from the wooden door.
Lin Mengya frowned, and found a bluestone secret passage inside the door.
“Be careful. We are about to arrive after getting out of this dark room.”
Moqin looked a little hesitant, probably because she was one of the few flower ladies in the house who could freely enter and leave here.
However, it was conditional on something.
Every time she came to deliver girls here.
She was laden with anxiety. Although not all the girls she delivered here were allowed to stay, she knew that neither of Hongyu and Qingge could stay here.
She bit her lips gently with her teeth, and had already made the worst plan.
It was a dark room, but its function was similar to that of a modern underground passage.
After they came out of the exit of the dark room, the strong scent made Lin Mengya frown tightly.
“What’s wrong?”
Hongyu glanced at her, and asked with a bit puzzlement.
She naturally didn’t know that Lin Mengya’s sense of smell was much more sensitive than ordinary people. It was just an ordinary scent to her, but it was no less than a bombshell to Lin Mengya.
“Musk, ambergris, agarwood, powder of five minerals, poppy… What kind of a place is this?”
All kinds of precious spices almost made her nose out of action.
Moreover, there were powder of five minerals and poppy which were similar to drugs. It was really a money-expending nest as well as a depraving place.
“You have a sensitive nose. Look at this place, it is covered with gold and jade everywhere. Powder of five minerals is no big deal. There are even more absurd things.”
Moqin seemed to be suppressing a certain emotion. Nevertheless, she walked in front, so Lin Mengya couldn’t see the aversion on her face rising from the bottom of her heart.
Outside the dark room was a corridor with carved beams and painted rafters.
However, as Lin Mengya looked at them carefully, she found it a little strange.
The walls and the beams were engraved with auspicious patterns like five sons passing the imperial examination or gorgeous peonies.
However, the corners or other inconspicuous places were engraved with a dragon with a single horn, eyes and no eyeballs.
It didn’t exactly look like a dragon.
The general dragon was yellow or red. But this one with no claws and a single horn was black.
She took a closer look, and found there were three places in this corridor engraved with this pattern.
However, if she didn’t look at them carefully, it was difficult to notice them. It looked like a dragon, also like a snake. But the ancients particularly stressed auspicious signs. How could they engrave such a thing that was neither a dragon nor a snake?
Moqin seemed to be familiar with this place. She led them two to turn a few corners and then enter a small moon gate.
The small yard they had just passed through was fine. It was ornately decorated, but wasn’t out of line.
However, after going through the moon gate, Lin Mengya felt her eyes dazzled.
Perhaps it was not appropriate enough to describe it as a world of exceptional charm, because, even the original blue bricks on the ground were replaced by blocks of polished and smooth white marble of the same size.
The bright ground was obviously specially designed, and bypassed all the ornaments. But when she got closer, she discovered that all the plants here were decorated with fine silk, emeralds, jade and so on.
Gosh! Lin Mengya was panic-stricken.
Her small courtyard could be considered a famous luxury exhibition center in the Capital City.
However, compared with here, it could only be considered a tolerable small yard.
Fortunately, she was not fascinated by these things, but only felt a little uneasy. The one, who could gather these things, was more than merely a wealthy man.
“Who is there?”
Deep inside this small courtyard was a big house, and there happened to be two guards.
After having eye contact with the two people, Lin Mengya looked down instantly.
Their sharp eyes seemed to be able to see through her mind. What surprised her even more was that the two people looked 80% alike.
Dressed in steel grey costumes, these two strong men, looked increasingly tall and upright. Different from those rude men outside only capable of fighting, these two men seem to be calm, capable, brave and astute.
However, what made Lin Mengya consider them underestimated was that they could guard so many treasures all day long without forgetting their innate intentions. They were almost as steadfast as god.
“I brought them here. These two are the new girls in the house. I consider them not bad, so I brought them over in order to show them to the guests.”
Moqin said arrogantly, with no smile on her gorgeous face, seeming to have ignored these two guards completely.