Chapter 185: Drunken Red House
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
She simply turned around and sat facing Song Jingchen. She hid her small body in Song Jingchen’s cloak and hugged his waist to sleep.
Song Jingchen smiled and pulled the reins to slow down the horse.
The journey that he had expected to take an hour took him two hours.
Rooster and Thirty Thousand squatted under the city wall, shivering in the cold.
“Do you think Master stood us up?” Rooster kept leaning against Thirty Thousand, trying to get warm.
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Thirty Thousand moved away from him in disdain and started eating a cold meat bun.
Rooster rolled his eyes and said angrily, “You only know how to eat all day. Sooner or later, you’ll be tricked by someone using food.”
After a pause, Thirty Thousand finally looked at Rooster and asked, “How did you know that Manager Feng tricked me using food?”
Rooster was silent for a long time before asking, “What did he use to lure you in there?”
“A roasted chicken.”
Rooster was speechless.
He remembered that Thirty Thousand was in the dungeon longer than anyone else.
It was a miracle that this silly man managed to grow into an adult.
Yao Ji looked at Thirty Thousand with sympathy and reached out to pat this poor man’s head lovingly.
Thirty Thousand glared at him and tilted his head to avoid it. He felt a chill.
The two of them chatted casually. It was basically Rooster talking and Thirty Thousand listening.
No one knew whether Thirty Thousand was actually listening, though.
Suddenly, a black shadow quickly slid down the city wall. The two of them immediately stood up and looked at the black shadow. Only then did they realize that there was a person hanging in front of the black shadow.
Shen Yijia hugged Song Jingchen’s neck tightly with one hand and covered her mouth with the other, afraid that she would lose control and scream in excitement.
Her beautiful husband was simply too handsome.
Song Jingchen lowered his head and met Shen Yijia’s infatuated eyes. He looked away awkwardly, but he secretly enjoyed it.
Rooster stood rooted to the ground, not daring to move. He regretted not hiding just now.
Thirty Thousand rubbed his stomach and muttered to himself, “What did I eat? Why do I suddenly feel so full?”
This successfully brought Song Jingchen back to his senses. He awkwardly pulled Shen Yijia’s hands away from his neck and coughed dryly.
Shen Yijia looked at Thirty Thousand resentfully. “I shouldn’t have given him such a good name.” she thought.
Thirty Thousand felt a chill down his spine.
“Where is he?” Song Jingchen asked. He took a step forward and blocked Shen Yijia’s gaze.
Shen Yijia was speechless.
Thirty Thousand scratched his nose and said, “The Drunken Red House.”
He felt like he was about to get in trouble.
Song Jingchen couldn’t help but frown when he heard this name.
He regretted bringing Shen Yijia along.
He thought that Shen Yijia definitely wouldn’t know what kind of place it was. He was about to say something to bluff her.
Shen Yijia said in surprise, “The Drunken Red House is a brothel, right? Are we going to a brothel to listen to beautiful girls singing?”
In novels, any establishment with the words ‘Red’, ‘Flower’, or ‘Fragrant’ always turned out to be a brothel.
Song Jingchen fell silent. It seemed that Shen Yijia knew what a brothel was.
Seeing her excitement, Song Jingchen knew that it was too late for him to stop her. Feeling helpless, he could only let the two of them lead the way.
However, there was something he could do about it.
Fifteen minutes later, Shen Yijia was lying on the roof with a head full of question marks.
It turned out that she could listen to beauties sing on the roof of the Drunken Red House.
“My husband is so stingy.” she thought.
Song Jingchen ignored the strange gazes from the three of them and glanced at Rooster. Rooster lifted a tile and the two men below appeared in their sight.
Seeing one of them, Shen Yijia’s eyes narrowed. She raised her wrist and wanted to shoot an arrow at that person.
Song Jingchen seemed to have expected her to do this. He grabbed her wrist and pulled her into his arms. He whispered in her ear, “Wait a few more days. I won’t let him live comfortably.”
Shen Yijia paused and buried her head in his arms. She had always taken revenge on the spot. She had never bothered waiting to strike back.
However, she also knew that a county magistrate couldn’t be killed easily, especially in the territory where Song Jingchen was. That would bring trouble to her beautiful husband.
Song Jingchen’s gaze was cold as he looked at the two people enjoying their wine below.
There were countless disaster victims outside, but the officials were living in luxury. The country was indeed doomed.
The two people below were almost done drinking. Cao Dezhi waved his hand, and a few scantily clad women immediately retreated.
“Cao Dezhi, Cao Dezhi. Back then, we were still in the same batch of High Scholars. After so many years, do you know why you’re still a county magistrate?” Hong Jianzhang raised his wine gla.s.s and clinked it against Cao Dezhi’s. He raised his gla.s.s and drank it in one gulp. “Because you’re stupid!”
His face was red. He had obviously drunk too much.
The difference in rank between the two of them was quite substantial. Even if Cao Dezhi was angry, he did not dare to do anything to Hong Jianzhang. He drank the wine in his cup and said sarcastically, “You’re right. I am indeed stupid.”
Cao Dezhi felt even more disdain in his heart. If this Hong fellow hadn’t been born with good looks and relied on the good Yue family, he wouldn’t be where he was today.
They simply had different levels of advantage in life.
Back then, when the two of them entered the capital to take the examination, he was still a person full of confidence in the bureaucracy and motivated to be a good official.
However, he did not expect to be taught a lesson on his first day in office.
He should have joined the Hanlin Academy, but he was prevented from doing so because of Lord Hong.
Lord Hong had s.n.a.t.c.hed away his spot because of his sponsors.
“No one can save you this time.” Cao Dezhi thought.
Cao Dezhi was thinking when he suddenly heard the same sentence being repeated out loud.
His gaze suddenly turned cold as he narrowed his eyes at Hong Jianzhang, as if he was looking at a dead man.
Hong Jianzhang muttered to himself for a while before suddenly falling unconscious on the table.
This commotion woke Cao Dezhi up from his daze. He flicked his sleeve angrily and left.
Hong Jianzhang was left alone, drunk.
Shen Yijia looked at Song Jingchen and blinked. It was over just like that?
Song Jingchen grabbed her waist and stood up. “Let’s go!”
With a few leaps, he landed steadily on the ground with Shen Yijia.
She thought that he was going to continue following Cao Dezhi, but Song Jingchen pulled her in the opposite direction.
The two Mahjong Brothers didn’t follow them.
Song Jingchen brought Shen Yijia to the residence where Rooster and the others had been keeping a lookout.
One Dot and the others were waiting there. Seeing that Song Jingchen had even brought Shen Yijia along, they were all puzzled. “Isn’t it a burden to bring a woman here?” they thought.
However, they did not dare to say it out loud. Fifteen minutes later, their faces were slapped.
This residence was Hong Jianzhang’s temporary residence in Anyang County.
Lord Hong thought he was smart, but he didn’t know that he was too smart for his own good. If he had chosen to stay the night in the county office, it would have been difficult for Song Jingchen and the others to make a move.
“What are we doing?” Shen Yijia had been excited all night. Even though her voice was soft, she could not hide her excitement.