Chapter 136: Received news of Hong Yao

At this moment, there were quite a few people in the alley looking around.

Hearing the prostitute Wang Shi's words, they laughed one after another:

"Auntie Wang, you are already old, stop selling your charms! What kind of filthy place is your house, even decent women don't bother to look at it, and you still have the nerve to invite the officer to go? Phew, truly shameless!"

"Save your winks for us brothers? The officer from the Xuanjing Division doesn't eat that!"

"That's right! She is a high official of the Xuanjing Division, how can she be climbed by a prostitute like you?"

Auntie Wang was also a spicy one, opening her mouth and scolding: "We are all lower nine streams, who is more noble than whom! Look at your poor and sour appearances, your pockets are cleaner than your faces, and you still want me to please you? Get lost! Phew!"

Lin Qingyue was already about to walk far away, but hearing the shouting behind her, she stopped her steps again.

As soon as she turned her head, the noisy voices behind her immediately stopped.

Even the most shameless rogue, because of fear of the official uniform on her, timidly lowered his head and didn't speak.

Lin Qingyue walked back to Auntie Wang's door and asked: "You are called Auntie Wang, right? You just said, you want to invite me to drink tea?"

The usually spicy Auntie Wang, under Lin Qingyue's examining gaze, couldn't help but show fear: "I, I was just saying it for fun."

Lin Qingyue said: "The official happens to be thirsty."

Auntie Wang was stunned for a moment, reacted, and hurriedly stepped aside, giving up the position at the door: "Officer please, please come in!"

After Lin Qingyue entered, Auntie Wang proudly glanced at the crowd watching, then snorted coldly, and twisted her waist to go in.

Someone was curious, why would a high-status female officer go to a prostitute's house to drink tea? Don't you think it's dirty?

But before they could crowd to the main gate to watch, the courtyard gate banged shut, blocking the view inside.

Auntie Wang's house is not big, but it is considered clean. People who come and go are her guests. Other neighbors find it dirty, and even feel bad luck when passing by her door.

Suddenly entertaining a distinguished guest, she was a bit flustered, and when pouring tea, she dropped a cup, but fortunately Lin Qingyue caught it with quick eyes and hands.

"I'll do it myself." Lin Qingyue picked up the old ceramic teapot and poured herself a cup of tea to drink.

Auntie Wang watched her drink it, without showing any look of disgust, and her eyes actually turned red.

"I heard that the officers of the Xuanjing Division are different from other officers, I didn't believe it at first, but today I believe it."

In this era where people are divided into three, six, and nine grades, status is engraved in everyone's bones.

The nobles in the upper layer and the outcasts in the bottom layer are completely two worlds of people, and even stepping here is absolutely impossible. The nobles would rather die of thirst than walk into a prostitute's house to drink tea.

Lin Qingyue put down the teacup and said: "You made those movements, isn't it just to attract me? Speak, what is your purpose?"

Neighbors along the way looked curiously. But because of her official uniform, no one dared to talk easily.

Only Auntie Wang repeatedly invited her, this unusual behavior must carry some purpose.

Although Lin Qingyue didn't know the specifics, she was still willing to stop and drink a cup of tea.

"Officer, you are wise, the servant does have something to tell!"

Auntie Wang took a white jade hairpin from her sleeve and handed it to Lin Qingyue with both hands: "Someone entrusted the servant to hand this to the female officer surnamed Lin of the Xuanjing Division. You are Officer Lin, right? I have inquired, there is only one female officer surnamed Lin in the Xuanjing Division."

Lin Qingyue was originally indifferent, but when her gaze fell on the hairpin, her expression changed instantly.

That is Hong Yao's hairpin!

When they were in Yushi Town, after solving the ghost that came out to make trouble on the wedding night, the owner of the jade shop thanked them and gave Lin Qingyue and Hong Yao jewelry, and the one Hong Yao received was this white jade hairpin.

Lin Qingyue asked: "Who gave you this hairpin?"

Auntie Wang said: "About ten days ago, a very beautiful woman suddenly broke into my backyard. Her leg was broken, and she was spitting blood, which looked very scary."

"I thought she was bullied and hurt by a man on the night road, and was ready to help her report to the officials. She pulled me and claimed that someone was chasing her, begging me to take her in and hide for a while."

"Not long after, there were hurried footsteps outside. I quietly went over and peeked through the cracks in the courtyard gate, and saw more than a dozen fierce-looking people wandering in front of our alley..."

Those people didn't look like people to be trifled with, Auntie Wang didn't dare to make a sound at the time, thinking they would retreat if they couldn't find anyone.

After they searched the alley, they gathered together to discuss countermeasures because they couldn't find anyone. Because the distance was not far, Auntie Wang could hear their conversation:

"Officer, we are not wrong, she must be hiding nearby. However, Qifang Street is large and has many residents, searching house by house, I'm afraid we won't be able to finish searching until dawn tomorrow."

"She is cunning enough, actually knowing to run to this area!"

"Cunning? Hmph, no matter how cunning the fox is, it can't escape the hunter's butcher knife! Burn it all."

As soon as that word came out, even his subordinates were shocked: "Burn it? Officer, there are nearly five hundred residential houses here, with thousands of residents. If you set fire, I'm afraid..."

"Better to kill the wrong than let go!"

Separated by a crack in the door, Auntie Wang only saw the man's face hidden in the darkness, like a demon in the world.

The demon actually intended to burn all the people in Qifang Street to death, just to catch that seriously injured woman!

Auntie Wang ran back to the room and said to Hong Yao: "I don't care who you are, now you must leave. Those people are not things, they want to set fire to the whole Qifang Street! We have thousands of people living here, we can't die in vain because of you. Girl, I beg you! Please be kind, don't implicate us poor people!"

The woman curled up in the corner slowly stood up.

Auntie Wang turned her head, not daring to look at her face, and could only cry in a low voice: "Sorry, really sorry..."

"No need to say sorry, you just made the right choice."

She tore off a piece of her skirt, dipped it in her own blood, quickly wrote a few lines, and pulled the white jade hairpin from her head, stuffing it to Auntie Wang together.

"Please hand the blood letter to the female officer surnamed Lin of the Xuanjing Division." Her voice trembled but every word was clear, "This hairpin is a thank you gift, I have no one to trust and am at a dead end, I only have to entrust it to you, please be sure to help!"

After saying that, the woman in red dragged her injured leg and climbed over the low wall of the backyard, deliberately breaking a pottery jar on the side of the road when she landed, making a sound.

Auntie Wang just clenched the hairpin and the blood letter, watching her disappear, and heard the messy footsteps outside the wall chasing in the direction the woman fled. ===== CHAPTER 137 =====