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The sound of the mule's bell gradually approached. Shen Tang returned at a jog after her inquiries, feigning mystery: "Why aren't you asking me, Yuan Liang? Aren't you curious about that person's news?"
Qi Shan kept his composure, calmly saying something that would make people clench their fists: "Youli isn't someone who can hold her tongue."
Shen Tang: "..."
Every day I want to jump up and perform brain surgery on Qi Shan.
"It's truly rare for someone with a mouth like that to have lived so long in peace," Shen Tang teased and complained. Qi Shan, however, didn't even bat an eyelid. She could only say, "According to the butcher, that old gentleman is quite a 'celebrity' in the vicinity. His family name is 'Chu'."
Qi Shan asked: "Which character?" There were many surnames with the same pronunciation.
Shen Tang, having specifically asked the butcher, replied: "It should be the 'Chu' from 'to take off one's clothes and store them in a Chu' (褚), meaning 'to store clothes'."
Hearing it was this Chu, Qi Shan's brow furrowed almost imperceptibly, but Shen Tang, two steps behind him, didn't notice.
"Chu... this surname is rare in both the State of Xin and the State of Geng."
Shen Tang asked: "Which country is it common in?"
Qi Shan shook his head, avoiding the question, and changed the subject: "Besides the surname, did you find out anything else?"
Shen Tang said: "The butcher also said that this Elder Chu was sent to the market five years ago as a cheap slave. At that time, over thirty slaves were brought. He also heard that there were originally over two hundred slaves, meant to be sold elsewhere, but an epidemic broke out halfway, and only this many were left. They could only be sold nearby in Xiaocheng. Because they had suffered from the plague, the price of the slaves was very cheap..."
Qi Shan asked: "Five years ago? Are you sure about this time?"
Shen Tang carefully recalled the butcher's words: "The butcher also couldn't remember too clearly. It might have been five years and a few months... Elder Chu was then packaged and bought by Moon Splendor Tower as an extra, and he's been there ever since. I even specifically asked what Moon Splendor Tower was..."
Before she finished, Qi Shan said: "It's a male brothel."
Shen Tang paused, looking at Qi Shan's back with a strange expression, muttering: "How do you know so much?"
What kind of place was a male brothel? A place where both men and women could seek pleasure.
Qi Shan didn't answer directly, but turned his head and said in a tone used to admonish a child: "Youli isn't old enough to understand these things yet."
Shen Tang: "..."
She gave an internal middle finger. Your sister here has been an adult for eight hundred years, thank you very much!
Qi Shan: "What does this gentleman do at Moon Splendor Tower?"
Shen Tang said with a look of bewilderment: "He's definitely a handyman in the