Bring a scumbag girl to bully me, and you are afraid of using modern weapons.

Mincheng.

Xie Jinglan changed into men's clothes and came into Mincheng with Beitang Yuan and Zhu Yichen.

Although it is a city, there is no gate at all, which means anyone can come in. However, it is also a place where some people become rich overnight.

The three men were dressed in gorgeous and noble clothes and had good looks. Although Beitang Yuan was still wearing a mask, they all had extraordinary aura, which attracted passers-by to turn their heads.

Suddenly, someone bumped into Zhu Yichen from behind.

He turned around and saw that it was a half-grown boy who bumped into him and ran away.

"Want to run?" Xie Jinglan reached out and grabbed the boy's collar.

"Let me go!" The boy struggled desperately. Seeing he couldn't escape, he screamed at the top of his lungs, "Help! Someone is trying to capture the children and sell them..."

"Hmph!" Xie Jinglan pressed the boy's numb point, found a purse from his body, and threw it to Zhu Yichen, "Hide the things."

Zhu Yichen blushed slightly and put the purse into his sleeve.

"That's my money, you can't take my purse..." the boy shouted.

But passers-by just glanced at them and hurried past.

"Boy, this little trick of yours is what I left behind."

Xie Jinglan untied the boy's acupuncture points again, dragged him to a nearby alley and left him there. She pulled out a dagger and said, "If you dare to touch my money, I will kill you. Do you want to cut off the left ear first, or the right one?"

When the boy saw the dagger, he realized he had run into a tough opponent. A pitiful expression immediately appeared on his face. "Master, I know I was wrong. Please let me go this time! I won't dare to do it again next time!"

"Let you go?" Xie Jinglan slapped his face with her dagger. "It seems you're a habitual offender, cheating people on the streets a lot, right? If I let you go like this, won't I hurt even more people?"

"Then what do you want in exchange for letting me go?" The boy was truly terrified, with pleading eyes. "My grandma is sick, and I have a seven-year-old sister waiting for me at home. If I can't go back, they'll starve to death. I beg you adults to be magnanimous and let me live!"

He said it so pitifully, but Xie Jinglan didn't show any sympathy in her eyes. "Do you want to make money?"

"What?" Her sudden change of words made the boy stunned. He didn't understand what she meant.

"If you don't want to make money, forget it." Xie Jinglan stood up, put away the dagger and was about to leave.

"I want to make money." The little boy hugged her legs and said, "Sir, please!"

The boy knew that his chance to make a fortune had come.

Xie Jinglan took out some small change and gave it to him. "We will stay here for a few days. We want you to help us with something. If you do a good job, there will be money for you."

Seeing the silver in her hand, the boy's eyes lit up immediately, "What do you want me to do?"

"Help us find a more formal inn to stay in first." Xie Jinglan said.

This city is too chaotic. I'm afraid they'll end up staying in a shady hotel, so why not give them some drugs in the middle of the night?

Although she is not afraid of encountering such a black shop, it will be very troublesome.

The boy tilted his head and thought for a moment, "There's not a single inn in Mincheng that's not shady. Even if the people there don't cheat you, the people living in the same inn will definitely target you.

You all look like wealthy people, why don't you stay at Mr. Zhan's Bafang Inn?"

"Mr. Zhan's inn?" Xie Jinglan frowned.

"In this Mincheng, Mr. Zhan is the biggest leader. No one dares to disobey him." said the boy.

"Okay, I'll believe you this time." Xie Jinglan said and walked out of the alley.

The boy carefully put away the change, then ran ahead to lead the way, turned into a street, and stopped in front of an inn that looked very upscale.

"This is it."

The three of them looked up and saw that the inn had three floors, with four big characters "Banfang Inn" written on a large plaque.

Seeing that there were guests coming, and they were all dressed in extraordinary clothes, the waiter came out with a smile on his face, bowed and said, "Gentlemen, please come in."

Xie Jinglan was about to speak when she suddenly heard a noisy sound behind her.

They turned around and saw a group of people riding horses towards them, followed by a group of onlookers.

When the boy saw these people, he was so scared that he quickly hid behind Xie Jinglan, as if he had seen some ferocious beast.

The group of people came over quickly and found that the horse at the back was dragging a man with both legs chopped off. He was covered in blood and left a long trail of blood.

Xie Jinglan and Beitang Yuan looked at each other. It seemed that Mincheng was even darker and crueler than they had imagined.

The three of them entered the inn, asked for three upper rooms and paid the rent.

"Three gentlemen, your rooms are on the third floor." The shopkeeper respectfully handed them the room keys.

Xie Jinglan turned around and saw the boy standing outside the door, not daring to come in.

"He is ours, let him in!"

The shopkeeper was a little confused, but without asking any more questions, he let the boy in.

After going up to the guest room on the third floor and waiting for the waiter who came to deliver water to leave, Xie Jinglan began to ask the boy about some things in Mincheng.

It turned out that the group of people just now were from the Zhan Mansion. Anyone who dared to break the rules of the Zhan family would be punished like this.

"You have to be careful and don't bring bad luck to the Zhan family. In this Mincheng, everyone has to abide by the rules of the Zhan family." said the boy.

Xie Jinglan frowned. This Mr. Zhan dared to be so arrogant, he must have some powerful backer behind him. Then, did the resurrection pill come from the Zhan family?

"Master, do you want to know? Why don't we go to Zhan's house and check?" Xiao Jinzi suggested.

"I heard that there's an auction house here that's been quite popular. When will the auction start?" Zhu Yichen, who was sitting next to him, also asked.

"Not necessarily, but it will be held on the 15th of every month. There will be one tonight," the boy answered him.

The fifteenth of every month? Today was the sixth day, the day the Fifth Elder had mentioned for the auction of the Resurrection Pill.

"Then you should know about the 'Resurrection Pill'. How long has this pill been sold?" This is what Xie Jinglan wanted to know most.

"I know. It's been more than a year. The twentieth pill has been auctioned this month." The boy seemed to know all this very well.

More than a year? Twenty pills, that would be a year and eight months.

Xie Jinglan clenched her fists, feeling that an answer was about to come out.

"Master, this can't be such a coincidence, can it? Your mother disappeared that year, and it's very likely that she's not dead. Could it be that she was captured by these people, and you didn't know about it and thought she was dead!"

Xiao Jinzi felt that this was possible, otherwise how could such a coincidence happen?

[I’m determined to break into this Zhan family.] Xie Jinglan gritted her teeth. If her mother’s disappearance was related to this Zhan family, she would definitely make this Zhan family disappear from the world.

Feeling her emotional fluctuations, Beitang Yuan and Zhu Yichen looked at each other and both felt that things were not simple.

No wonder she came here. Did she discover something?