Chapter 102 Clues
After Zhou Heng described the characteristics of the two women in detail.
"So it's them that you're interested in, sir." The madam suddenly realized, waved her round fan and laughed, saying, "You really have good taste. These two girls are the best of our Tongtian Pavilion.
"Even the name of our building is because of them. The masters who have come here to play say that only they can lead people to the climax of Tongtian Paradise.
"You came at the right time. They haven't seen any guests today and are staying in their boudoirs. If you like, sir, I'll take you to see them?"
"Okay." Zhou Heng nodded slightly, looking very surprised.
In fact, there was some surprise.
Originally, he had already prepared for the madam to find that the two were not there and let him wait first.
After all, for him, as long as he could confirm the room where the two lived, it would be enough. Anyway, he came here just to check whether there were any clues in the room of the two women.
Now it's better to go directly.
However, he didn't let down his guard.
What if the two women had already arranged and set traps in the Tongtian Tower, and the madam just led him there?
It was not impossible.
Facts proved that Zhou Heng might have thought too much.
The madam had no other thoughts at all. She did not question his identity along the way, and she was full of tricks to get money from him.
If it were normal, Zhou Heng would definitely not be persuaded, and no matter what he wanted, he would not want money from him.
But now, in order to avoid complications and enter the residence of the two women smoothly, he took a silver note of 100 taels of silver and handed it to the madam.
The madam immediately smiled and became more attentive.
The two came to the two most gorgeous rooms on the top floor of the Tongtian Tower, and the madam stopped.
"Sir, we're here." The madam said with a smile, "The room on the left is the red-dressed girl you want to find, and the room on the right is the yellow-dressed girl.
"However, they should have rested by now, and may have gone to bed, but the door is never closed. You can go in directly for a night raid. Isn't it fun?"
"Go in directly?" Zhou Heng frowned, "Won't they resist?"
"No." The madam took out a jade pendant from her sleeve and said with a smile, "As long as you show them this jade pendant, they will all listen to you and let you do whatever you want."
"Oh? Interesting." Zhou Heng chuckled and raised his hand to take the jade pendant.
"Sir, you really don't know the rules." The madam smiled and pulled her hand back, saying, "It's already this time, don't hide it.
"We never sell on credit at Tongtian Pavilion. You have to pay the money with one hand and the jade pendant with the other. Two hundred taels for each of the two girls, a total of four hundred taels. It will make your dream come true. It's a good deal."
This old procuress is really good at talking. Zhou Heng raised his eyebrows, resisted the urge to burst veins on his forehead, tried to calm himself, and smiled: "Okay, a mere four hundred taels, what's that? Haha!"
As he said that, he took out another four hundred taels of silver notes and handed them to the old procuress.
On the surface, he was calm and treated money like dirt, but his heart was actually bleeding.
Even though the money was only temporarily out of his hands, he felt very heartbroken.
"Okay, okay! Master, please take it!" The old procuress hurriedly took the silver note, her face smiling like a blooming chrysanthemum, and after handing the jade pendant to Zhou Heng, she hummed a little song and swayed downstairs.
Zhou Heng ignored her and directly pushed the door and walked into the room of the woman in red on the left.
At this time, the soft red curtain in the room was emitting an ambiguous glow, and the air was filled with the smell of powder. The fragrance of women was so fragrant that people would have a lot of imagination just standing in such an environment.
Unfortunately, there was no one here.
The red-dressed girl who was supposed to live here had been blasted into a charred corpse by Zhou Heng's palm thunder and thrown into a pile of wild dogs.
However, Zhou Heng did not start searching immediately, but waited quietly for a while.
He took action only after confirming that there was nothing unusual here.
The two of them were indeed the top stars of Tongtian Pavilion, and the room was the main place for receiving guests, so it was really spacious and gorgeous, not like a brothel in a small county town at all.
The level was quite high.
Zhou Heng had a strong insight ability, and he could not hide any secret compartments and hidden places in these two rooms. He turned every corner inside and outside.
But in the end, he did not find any particularly valuable clues. The only clue that could be considered was a booklet.
The above records the list of disciples of Jinglei Villa received by the two women.
There are also texts marked at the back.
Yes or no.
Zhou Heng looked through it carefully and found some text records at the back.
The meaning of these standards seems to be to determine whether this person intends to go to Yuanhe Prefecture City.
There are actually quite a few marked "yes".
"Yuanhe Prefecture City?"
Zhou Heng frowned slightly, a little puzzled. Jinglei Villa is more than ten miles north of Dongxiang County, which is quite far from Yuanhe Prefecture City. It takes five or six days to get there by horseback.
In this era when transportation is very inconvenient and there may be robbers and beasts on the road, most people have no interest in traveling far away.
Even if you want to make a name for yourself in the world, you will go to Pingzhou County City. Even if you go to a prefecture city and become famous, how many people will know about it?
In Zhou Heng's opinion, there was something wrong with so many disciples of Jinglei Villa intending to go to Yuanhe Prefecture City. Perhaps they were instigated by the two women.
And the two women were from Honghua Palace, and they were also equipped by the Plague Emperor Sect. It might be the will of these two evil sects to instigate the disciples of Jinglei Villa to go to Yuanhe Prefecture City.
"The record stopped half a month ago, and it started a month ago. It should be because there are few people from Jinglei Villa recently, but has there been any important things in Yuanhe Prefecture in the past one or two months?"
Zhou Heng concentrated on thinking, and suddenly thought of the topic that he heard the young men and women on the same boat talking about when he was crossing the Qingxia River.
Martial arts competition.
A martial arts competition will be held in Yuanhe Prefecture City in half a month. It is said that the rewards are quite generous, and there will be young masters in the top 50 of the list.
"Is it because of the reward of this martial arts competition?" Zhou Heng flipped through the booklet in his hand and thought to himself, "But something that can attract the two evil sects, the Plague Emperor Sect and the Red Flower Palace, is in a small city?"
He was puzzled.
However, his goal was only to kill the remaining two Plague Emperor Sect disciples, and he didn't need to pay too much attention to other things.
If the reward of the martial arts competition was really related to the plot of the Plague Emperor Sect and the Red Flower Palace, it meant that there was a high probability that these two evil disciples would appear in Yuanhe City during this period.
This was his chance.
"What a pity for these gold, silver and jewelry."
Zhou Heng looked at the gold, silver and jewelry and stacks of silver notes that he had searched for with some regret, and only took out 500 taels of silver notes from them and left through the window.
A gentleman loves money and gets it in a proper way.
If he took these gold, silver and jewelry, it would be the same as stealing, and he didn't want that.
The 500 taels of silver notes were only used to compensate for his loss to the madam.
After all, five hundred taels of silver were used to buy "services", and he didn't enjoy them, so there was no reason to pay for them. He must take them back.
Taking them from this room now only saves one process, but the essence is still the same.
…
After leaving Tongtian Pavilion, Zhou Heng did not stop, but directly checked out of the room in the inn and rode his red horse to a remote direction.
Although Tongtian Pavilion did not find that the two women were gone, it would be discovered sooner or later. The charred corpses in the pile of wild dogs should also be discovered tomorrow, and it would not be concealed for long.
Therefore, Zhou Heng did not plan to stay here overnight, but left directly.
However, it was late at night and the city gate was closed.
You can't get out through the main gate.
So Zhou Heng rode his red horse to a remote city wall, pinched one of the red horse's legs, jumped up, stepped on the city wall to the top of the city, and then jumped down without stopping at all.
Then he turned on the horse and rode away.
Throughout the whole process, the red horse was stunned, and the expression on its face was dull.
(￣△￣；)……
There were people on the city wall, and there were still a few soldiers on duty.
However, in this relatively peaceful place, the soldiers on duty standing on the city wall only had a symbolic meaning, and there was no serious defense at all.
When Zhou Heng climbed over the wall, most of the soldiers had already gone to bed, and only a few soldiers who got up at night stared at Zhou Heng's series of actions in amazement.
The expressions on their faces were all stunned.
(｀Д)!!
There were actually people climbing over the city wall by grabbing a horse!
This is also possible! ? ?
On weekdays, they have also seen many martial artists climbing over the wall in the middle of the night.
But this operation of grabbing a horse and leaving was the first time they saw it.
Awesome!
…
Zhou Heng rode the red horse and returned to the official road from the remote area.
It was late at night and there were no lights on both sides of the road even on the official road. Fortunately, the moonlight was bright enough and the road was clear, so it was easy to ride a horse.
"Then the question is, how should we get to Yuanhe Prefecture City?" Zhou Heng scratched his head.
Since he originally planned to come to Jinglei Villa to inquire about the news of the Plague Emperor Sect, he only knew some of the conditions in the surrounding areas of Jinglei Villa.
For example, Dongxiang County, Danyun County, Wuguo County and other places.
Yuanhe Prefecture City is still far away from Jinglei Villa. The entire Yuanhe Prefecture is also relatively large, and there are many affiliated counties. He didn't pay much attention to the route to the prefecture city. He only remembered that it was generally heading southwest.
"Forget it, just follow the official road, and you can always find the place." Zhou Heng played the mentality that there must be a way when the car reaches the mountain, and gave up recalling the specific route to Yuanhe Prefecture City.
"I was planning to open the lucky bags I got earlier, but I was interrupted by the two women from the Red Flower Palace and didn't have time to do anything. Now I have some free time."
In the last battle in Yuyang County, he had a lot of gains.
Two copper lucky bags and two silver lucky bags.
In addition, there was a silver lucky bag rewarded for the perfect Quanzhen inner strength and a gold lucky bag rewarded for breaking through to the eighth level.
Now he has a total of:
One gold lucky bag, two copper lucky bags, and three silver lucky bags.
"Should I open them all at once, or open a few first and wait to enjoy them slowly later?" Zhou Heng was riding on his red horse, and fell into philosophical thinking.
So is it more enjoyable to rush to the peak in one breath?
Or is it more enjoyable to open them bit by bit slowly?