Cypress Boat Floating

This capital city has always been known as a place full of gold. As long as you come to the capital city, you can get all kinds of wealth and glory.

For this reputation, many people traveled all the way north, and would rather die than come to the capital to take a look and fight.

There are many street performers among them, but the capital is different from other city-states. Anyone who comes to the capital to perform can only go to the westernmost theater. Only after getting approval and obtaining the permit and relevant documents can they gain a place in the theater. The manager of the theater will arrange a place for you according to your conditions.

The theater is not big, but it occupies more than half of the western area. There are many people coming and going in the theater, and there are many vendors and people who come to watch the show. Naturally, there are many things for people to enjoy. There are stalls selling food, making sugar figurines, selling lanterns, selling clay figurines, storytelling, singing, dancing, etc. There is everything you can imagine.

There is also a theater called Goulan, which is specially used for acrobats to perform. The traditional Goulan is a theater for the actors to perform. Later, more and more people came, and there were more acrobats. In order to prevent the acrobats from having nowhere to go and disrupting the system of Da'an, the court thought about it and included them in the management scope of Goulan. A large piece of open space was specially opened for them. They could build according to their needs. Of course, they still needed to inform in advance if they wanted to build equipment.

There are more than a dozen brothels of various sizes in the theater, occupying one third of the space. It is ok at ordinary times, but once various festivals come, the theater will be so crowded that there is no place to stand.

The regulations of Da'an gave these street performers a place to live, but also imposed certain restrictions on them, stipulating that these street performers could only perform in brothels and were not allowed to go out on the streets.

Now the place where the fire-breathing show was taking place was almost approaching the East District. The East District was where those wealthy, powerful and influential officials above the third rank lived, and peace and quiet were the key. Now that these people appeared here, if some important person passed by later, they would probably not get any good luck.

But the strange thing is that even if these people are new, when they first enter the city, the guards will tell them to go to the west to perform. The head of the theater will also arrange two people at the city gate to guide these outsiders to perform. With this arrangement, there will be no ignorant outsiders performing on the streets.

I'm afraid these people's purpose is not just to perform. Thinking of this, Ye Jianqing couldn't help but look at this group of people with a scrutinizing eye. There was one person in the front who was breathing fire, one person in the back who was collecting money, and another person who was helping to beat the drums. There were three people in total. These three people seemed ordinary, just ordinary performers, but Ye Jianqing always felt that it was not that simple.

There were more and more people around, which obviously attracted the attention of the officers and soldiers. Each area had an exclusive yamen, and there were exclusive officers and soldiers patrolling in these yamen. Once anything wrong was found, they would be arrested immediately.

The officers and soldiers from the West District had already arrived, and when they saw them gathering here, they hurriedly drove them away. It was a good thing that no important people were passing by at the moment. If it was later, when those important people returned home and saw such a commotion on the street, they would be in trouble.

Naturally, the fire-breathing artist was also taken away by the soldiers and locked up for a few days. Jiang Wanyin saw that the soldiers were about to take action and wanted to step forward to stop them, but he didn't expect to be stopped by Ye Jianqing first.

"What are you doing? They are just performing here to earn some money to make a living. What right do those soldiers have to arrest them?" Jiang Wanyin was indignant and naturally spoke a little louder, which attracted the attention of the soldiers next to him.

"Who are you? How can you have any say in the affairs of the government?" Seeing the soldiers coming towards him viciously with knives in their hands, Ye Jianqing pinched Jiang Wanyin to tell her to shut up, and then pulled her behind him.

"Brother, don't be angry. I'm a newcomer and don't know anything. Please don't mind it." Ye Jianqing kept saying good things for Jiang Wanyin.

Previously, because of the need to investigate the case, Ye Jianqing basically went to every government office in the capital. She was the kind of person who could chat with anyone, so she naturally knew the people in those government offices, and the people in the government offices also knew her. When the officer saw that the other party was Ye Jianqing, he naturally did not intend to embarrass her.

"It's Miss Ye. How come you are free today?" The soldier who came forward greeted Ye Jianqing familiarly.

Ye Jianqing studied the other person's face and searched his mind for a while before remembering who he was. "It turned out to be Liu Qin, Brother Liu. I was wondering, this voice is so familiar. I didn't recognize it just now. Please forgive me, Brother Liu."

"Oh, Ye Jianqing is joking. Ye Jianqing has a lot of things to do and is quite busy." Liu Qin smiled. How could he dare to blame Miss Ye? Miss Ye was a popular figure around the Eighth Prince. He felt lucky that the prince could remember his name.

"Why are you here today, Miss Ye?"

"Oh, my sister just came from the countryside and doesn't know anything. I brought her out today to see something, and we just happened to meet someone performing acrobatics here." Ye Jianqing stood in front of Jiang Wanyin, looking as if he was determined to protect her.

Seeing that the person who had just said the clumsy words was Ye Jianqing's friend, Liu Qin felt too embarrassed to blame him. He said a few words to Ye Jianqing and left.

Ye Jianqing carefully observed the people around him. There must be a reason for these people to suddenly appear here.

"Are you familiar with those officers?" After the officers and soldiers walked away, Jiang Wanyin tugged at Ye Jianqing's clothes and asked.

"Do you know how dangerous you were just now? If I wasn't here today, you would have been taken away and locked up." As soon as the soldiers left, the smile on Ye Jianqing's face disappeared immediately. He turned around and started scolding Jiang Wanyin.

Jiang Wanyin lowered her head, twisted her sleeves, and dared not speak. This was the first time she saw Ye Jianqing get angry.

"Here, don't say what you shouldn't say, and don't care about what you shouldn't care about." Ye Jianqing frowned and wanted to say a few more words, but seeing her look like this, she couldn't bear it. Besides, the other party had no idea about these, so she didn't say much.

Alas, for children who grow up under socialism, being loving is a good thing, but here, being loving will sometimes only harm yourself, especially when you have no ability but only a loving appearance.

"I'm sorry, I was wrong. I just felt that those people were pitiful. They were arrested for no reason." Jiang Wanyin muttered in a low voice.

"For no reason, there is no such thing as for no reason in this world." Ye Jianqing glanced at her, calmed himself down, and kept telling himself in his heart, "This person is from the New World. I can't blame her if she doesn't understand."

"What do you mean?" Jiang Wanyin was confused by this.

"There are brothels in the capital where they can perform. They can naturally find a place to perform in a theater. Why do they need to come to the streets? The people coming and going here are all high-ranking officials and important people. If they accidentally bump into them, the fate of these performers will not be simply being arrested and locked up for a few days." Ye Jianqing pointed around and explained to her one sentence at a time why these performers were like this.

"Then..." Jiang Wanyin wanted to say something, but she didn't continue in the end. After all, her understanding of this world was still not enough.

"From now on, remember what I say. Don't meddle in other people's business and don't say too much. You have to protect yourself first." Ye Jianqing warned her in a stern voice. She didn't want to have to rescue her from hard work in the future.

"Okay." Jiang Wanyin nodded, but Ye Jianqing didn't know whether she had listened to what he said or not, and felt helpless.

"Are you all right?" As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Ci Qiu came over and said, "I just saw the officers coming over there, and since you guys haven't come for a long time, I came to look for you."

"It's okay. I recognize the officer. He's Brother Liu Qin. I've met him before when I was investigating a case. When he saw me, he chatted with me for a few words. It's nothing." Ye Jianqing comforted him.

Lu Ci Qiu glanced at Jiang Wanyin and said nothing. He didn't want to play this kind of shopping trick with her anymore, so he took the initiative to offer to take Jiang Wanyin back.

"It's getting late. If Miss Jiang doesn't go back, Aunt Chun might get suspicious. Let's send Miss Jiang back first."

"Okay, then Wanyin, let's send you back first. I'll talk to Aunt Chun another day and then take you out to play." Ye Jianqing finally wanted to ask Jiang Wanyin's opinion.

"Okay." Maybe she was scared by what happened just now or what, but Jiang Wanyin didn't want to continue playing anymore. Instead, she agreed to Ye Jianqing's suggestion to send her home.

Ye Jianqing and Lu Ci Qiu sent Jiang Wanyin back to Chunmanlou. They watched her walk into the building with their own eyes before they turned around and left.

"I just suddenly remembered something." Ye Jianqing suddenly spoke on the way.

"what's up?"

"Washer."

“???” Lu Ci Qiu was puzzled, but Lu Ci Qiu was waiting for Ye Jianqing to explain.

"The shrine we want to investigate is the most widely known among the people. If we want to find out the news among the common people, we have to go among them. There are people of all kinds coming and going in Washe. Their identities allow them to see things that we cannot see. If we want to investigate more information, it is most appropriate to ask them." Ye Jianqing was extremely regretful at this time. Why didn't he think of this problem at the beginning?

There are a lot of talented people in the Shenling Sect, and there are also many talented people in the Washe. If the Shenling Sect wants to find someone, they have to look in these places.

Moreover, people who usually go to the theater to perform are short of money. Will these people help the shrine for money?

The shrine can appear and disappear mysteriously in the capital city, and no one can find its whereabouts. There must be someone helping it, and this person may be found in the theater.

They were asking the wrong question from the beginning.

A shrine is not necessarily a house, nor does it have to be luxurious or beautiful. The most important thing about a shrine is that it helps the person fulfill his or her wishes.

People are the most important. So wherever the manager of the shrine is, that is the shrine.

They are all imprisoned by their own ideas, which make them small and narrow-minded.