This made Li Shimin anxious, and he wanted to trade one for one with me.

Qu Yue responded, "Okay!"

When the staff of Qingfenlou learned the whole story from Qu Yue, they were all shocked.

Those four young ladies were all regulars at Qingfenlou. Everyone at Qingfenlou knew about their backgrounds, so no one dared to neglect them.

Before long, more than twenty waiters from Qingfenlou arrived.

Zhao Banyan said to them, "We have already sent someone to report to the authorities. You keep an eye on these people and don't let a single one escape!"

"Yes!" the waiters of Qingfenlou answered in unison, and then stood at the door to prevent the young men inside from coming out.

Trapped inside, most of the young people inside were not worried.

He Gu felt a sense of panic.

But he was helpless in the face of his predicament.

Not long after, the women saw Tang Qiuyan return, and they were all taken aback. Judging from the time she left, she had at most walked out of Qingfen Tower.

Zhao Banyan asked curiously, "Qiuyan, why are you back?"

"Didn't I tell you to report it to the authorities?"

Tang Qiuyan ran back, panting, and said, "No need to go, the people from Chang'an County Government are already at the door."

Hearing this, the women were even more astonished.

Cen Ling asked in confusion, "How could they have arrived so quickly?"

The women were also puzzled. Qingfenlou was in Pingkang Ward, while the Chang'an County Government Office was in Changshou Ward. One was in the east and the other in the west, separated by many wards.

Even if they came on horseback, they couldn't have arrived this quickly.

Tang Qiuyan said, "I don't know, I saw them as soon as I stepped out of Qingfen Tower."

"They seem to be after Qingfenlou."

The women exchanged bewildered glances, then heard Tang Qiuyan say:

"And another thing, I saw that Cheng Sanlang is here too!"

Upon hearing this, everyone was shocked.

Did Cheng Sanlang bring them here?

Could it be that he knew we were at Qingfenlou and came to help us?

The women looked delighted as they gazed at the path leading to Qingfen Tower.

Soon, everyone saw an older man in a scarlet official robe, with an imposing presence, leading a group of yamen runners towards them.

The women noticed that beside the older man was a tall man, about 1.85 meters tall, wearing a xiezhi crown and a scarlet imperial censor's robe.

"Cheng Sanlang!"

Qu Yue blurted out her debut.

It really is Cheng Sanlang... The ten female core members of Cheng Sanlang's fan club are seeing him for the first time, and they are both nervous and excited.

Cheng Jun smiled and nodded at them.

This kid is so popular with women... Yang Zuan was puzzled when he saw this.

In his memory, young women of the past preferred men who looked like scholars. Cheng Jun's burly and imposing figure seemed completely out of place among scholars. Had the world changed...?

Yang Zuan muttered something to himself, then deliberately coughed, "Ahem."

Cheng Jun immediately said, "This is Magistrate Yang Ming of Chang'an."

The women bowed and said, "Greetings, Prefect Yang."

The staff at Qingfenlou also bowed in greeting.

Yang Zuan nodded slightly and asked, "I just came in and heard from the servants at Qingfen Tower that there was trouble here. What happened?"

Zhao Banyan said, "Prefect Yang, this person is spreading rumors and causing trouble!"

She pointed to He Gu inside the house and said, "This man is named He Gu. He's the one who spread rumors about Cheng Sanlang here. These people can all testify to this!"

After she finished speaking, she pointed to the young men around He Gu inside the room.

Yang Zuan walked to the door and looked in the direction she was pointing.

At this moment, the young people inside the room all stood up, looking somewhat uneasy.

Yang Zuan didn't waste any words. He simply waved his hand and said to Bu Ganzuo, the head constable behind him, "Take it."

Without hesitation, Bu Ganzuo stepped forward and pressed down on He Gu's arms and shoulders.

He Gu panicked completely and shouted, "Prefect Yang, I'm innocent!"

Yang Zuan said expressionlessly, "So, you didn't spread rumors?"

He Gu quickly replied, "Yes! I heard it from someone else!"

Cheng Jun suddenly spoke up: "You mean, you have someone above you?"

In an instant, everyone's eyes turned to Cheng Jun.

Yang Zuan couldn't help but glance at him.

He Gu vehemently denied it, saying, "No, no, no one instructed me to come here."

Cheng Jun stared at him for a few seconds, then turned to Yang Zuan and said, "Prefect Yang, this man's eyes are darting around, he looks flustered, and he's talking nonsense. He's obviously up to something. We need to interrogate him."

Yang Zuan grunted in agreement and waved his hand, saying, "Take him away!"

Bu Ganzuo immediately took He Gu and led him out of the house.

He Gu cried out in a panic, "Prefect Yang, these young ladies are spreading rumors too! Why are you only arresting me and not them?"

Yang Zuan turned to look at the women, "Did you tell them?"

Tang Qiuyan said sweetly, "No! We would never say anything bad about Cheng Sanlang!"

He Gu shouted, "They didn't mention Imperial Censor Cheng; they're spreading rumors about Vice Minister Lu!"

Cheng Jun suddenly said, "You mean, he sent you?"

In an instant, everyone's eyes turned to Cheng Jun.

He Gu's expression changed, "No!"

Cheng Jun said solemnly, "You're lying, you definitely are!"

As he spoke, he looked at Qu Yue, Zhao Banyan, and the others, and instructed them, "Just keep this to yourself, don't tell anyone."

The women all said in unison, "Yes, Cheng Sanlang!"

Yang Zuan looked at him strangely. "Are you telling them not to tell anyone? It sounds like you're giving them a message..."

He Gu said urgently, "I really didn't!"

Cheng Jun asked curiously, "If not, why are you so concerned about Lu Ting? Did he feed you?"

"Pfft..." The women couldn't help but chuckle, feeling that Cheng Jun's few words were more effective than their long arguments.

He Gu's face turned green. He wanted to curse, but seeing Cheng Jun's crimson official robe, he had to swallow his words. To curse him was to insult a high-ranking official, a serious offense. He could only shout at Yang Zuan:

"Prefect Yang, you have to do justice for me! I only heard it secondhand, you shouldn't have arrested me!"

Cheng Jun frowned and said, "You're instructing Magistrate Yang on how to do things? You scoundrel, how dare you, a commoner with no official position, order around the magistrate of Chang'an?"

After saying that, he said to Bu Ganzuo, "Take this man back to the Chang'an County government office and give him fifty strokes of the cane!"

Bu Ganzuo and the other constables from Chang'an County who had come with him clasped their hands in greeting and said, "Yes, sir!"

"What nonsense are you talking about? Why listen to him? Is he the magistrate or am I the magistrate?" Yang Zuan's face darkened, and he almost lost his composure.

Fortunately, Bu Ganzuo and the others still knew who the Chang'an magistrate was. Although they agreed to Cheng Jun's request, they all looked in this direction.

Yang Zuan said with a stern face, "Take him away."

After Bu Ganzuo and the others left first, Yang Zuan turned his gaze to Zhao Banyan and the others, glanced at them, and asked:

"Just the people like you?"

Tang Qiuyan said sweetly, "We are just the leaders. There are more than a thousand people like us in Chang'an!"