After entering the city, they looked for an inn that looked cheap and clean to stay in, only to find that their silver bags had been knocked off their horses.

Seeing that it was already dark, the two men stood under the two large red lanterns of the inn, listening to the rumbling sounds of their stomachs. They both felt as if they were "a tiger in dire straits with no food to eat". How come they had survived at the bottom of the cliff where there was no one around, but now in Ci County in the south of the Yangtze River, they couldn't even fill their stomachs?

Pei Yi touched the jade pendant hanging on his belt. It was a gift from his mother on his birthday one year. It was cut from the same piece of jade as the white jade lotus crown given to Xie Zhichan as a thank-you gift.

In fact, there was a jade pendant of even better quality in the pouch around his waist, which was the one engraved with Ayuan's nickname. Ayuan still doesn't know that this jade pendant is on him.

When Xie Zhichan saw Pei Yi touching the jade pendant around his waist, he knew what he was planning. But looking at his hesitant and struggling expression, he knew that this jade pendant must have special meaning to him.

It was also because the flood in Jiangnan had emptied her family's assets. Even the silver bills she had casually put into the space in the past were put into the Jiangnan disaster relief money. The only thing left in the space was Pei Yi's white jade lotus crown, so she naturally had to keep it.

Apart from that, the only valuable things in the space were the pills she made on a daily basis. However, the pills were made of ordinary medicinal materials and could not be sold at much price.

She treated some valuable life-saving pills as disaster relief supplies and escorted them to Jiangnan along with medicinal materials.

The only thing that is still worth some money and can make money the fastest is, of course, the small porcelain bottle of "Man's Gas Station".

Xie Zhichan looked up and saw that there was a brothel opposite the inn. All the guests were wealthy people. Her eyes rolled and she thought that this must be heaven's help for her, but a fortune from heaven!

She held Pei Yi's hand and said, "I know where to make money. It will cost a lot of money to buy a carriage, and we will need food, lodging and other expenses on the road. If you take your jade pendant to the pawnshop, the owner will see that we are poor and need money, so he will definitely lower the price. The money we get in exchange may not be enough to support us to Yangzhou. It is better to make enough money at once."

As he spoke, he took Pei Yi to the pawnshop and pawned a pair of white jade earrings on his ears for some silver.

The pawnshop owner saw that Xie Zhichan and Pei Yi were in dire straits and knew that they were in urgent need of money, so he lowered the price. The white jade earrings worth twenty taels of silver were pawned for only seven taels of silver.

Xie Zhichan didn't care and pulled Pei Yi out of the pawnshop.

Pei Yi asked curiously, "Ayuan, didn't you say that the pawnshop owner would lower the price? Why didn't you let me pawn the jade pendant, but pawned your earrings instead?"

Xie Zhichan weighed the silver in his hand and said, "Doing business still requires some necessary costs."

After saying that, she took Pei Yi with her and followed a wealthy old man dressed in brocade and silk clothes to the small building with the "Three Spring Red" hanging on it.

The madam who was in charge of soliciting customers at the gate felt strange when she saw a young man and his wife walking into the building. People in their line of work are always very sensitive, and they are afraid that something will happen, not only destroying the signboard, but also the small building.

She immediately reached out to stop Pei Yi and the other two, looked at them with a strange and suspicious expression, pointed at the sign above the gate and asked, "Do you two recognize the words on my sign?"

Pei Yi looked strange. He didn't know why Xie Zhichan brought him here. But since A Yuan said there was a way to make money, he chose to believe her.

Without waiting for Pei Yi to speak, Xie Zhichan walked up to the madam, handed her the five taels of silver, and said with a smile, "Of course I know. It's not like I won't give you the money."

The madam took the silver, weighed it, and gave it back to Xie Zhichan, sneering, "You can't hire a girl from my Sanchunlou with this little money."

After saying that, he looked at Pei Yi with disdain, his eyes conveying silent words, as if to say: "He looks like a decent person, but who would have thought that he can't even afford to pay for a prostitute--" "It would be fine if he can't afford to pay for a prostitute, but he still wants to come to the high-class prostitutes--"

Xie Zhichan didn't care about Pei Yi at all. He just whispered to the madam meaningfully, "I don't want to invite a girl. It's just that my husband and I are always lacking some fun at home. We have to come to this place to make it happen. I'll give you five taels of silver. Just arrange a room for us. We'll stay for one night and then leave."

Pei Yi had sharp hearing and listened to every word. His face had turned extremely dark.

After hearing Xie Zhichan's nonsense, the old procuress looked at Pei Yi in an even more strange way, but her expression seemed to be somewhat relieved. As for men, doesn't the old saying apply: A wife is not as good as a concubine, a concubine is not as good as a maid, a maid is not as good as a prostitute, and a prostitute is not as good as a secret lover? Some men probably have a special fetish and like to engage in some forbidden excitement.

She took the silver again and said to Xie Zhichan, "Go in."

Then he called to the waiter in the building, "Find them a room upstairs."

Xie Zhichan then pulled Pei Yi along, and went up to the second floor with a errand boy, amid the strange looks of many people in the lobby on the first floor.

Just as the waiter led them to an empty room, Xie Zhichan took out two taels of silver and gave them to the waiter, saying, "Brother, can we use that room?"

The waiter quietly took the silver and felt the size between his fingers. He felt that he had made a small fortune unexpectedly. This was more than his monthly salary here. He looked in the direction of Xie Zhichan's finger and saw that it was a room opposite. It was also an empty room. He immediately smiled and said, "Of course, please follow me."

As he spoke, he took Xie Zhichan and Pei Yi to the designated room, opened the door, let the two in, and went to the lobby on the first floor to wait on other guests.

Xie Zhichan and Pei Yi entered the room and closed the door. They saw Pei Yi's face as dark as Bao Gong, sitting on the small couch in the room, with his horse and sword drawn, as if he was waiting to settle accounts with Xie Zhichan.

Xie Zhichan was a little afraid to get too close, so he asked at the bead curtain: "What's wrong?"

Pei Yi raised his eyes to look at Xie Zhichan, frowned and asked, "What did you just say to the madam?"

Xie Zhichan forced a smile. When she was chatting with others, she had no psychological burden and could say anything. But it was difficult for her to repeat those unrestrained words to Pei Yi.

She smiled and said, "I've already picked out our big client, the one who came in before us. He's a guy with a brain full of bugs. He's bloated and has dark circles under his eyes. It's obvious that he's overindulged in sex and lacks yang energy. He won't be able to enjoy himself in this brothel. I have medicine in my space, I'll make sure he's satisfied."

Pei Yi finally understood what business Xie Zhichan brought him to the brothel for, and frowned and asked, "How are you going to sell the medicine to him?" After all, selling such medicine to a man is implying to him that "no". At that time, let alone buying the medicine, he would have to fight with them directly.

Xie Zhichan chuckled and said, "Well, it depends on whether your "Kung Fu" can lure him over here--"

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