Qingshan town is a small town in Shazhou, but it is still remarkable because there is a small brothel in the town. Generally, there are no small towns, but Qingshan town has opened a brothel only in the county. The green banana building has been in the town for more than 30 years. Compared with the most prosperous time in that year, it is quite dilapidated and even not repaired.
It used to be a scene of the town, but now it has become an inferior cellar. Because the town is full of rural villagers, business is good.
In the crowded town, a rumble of cars sounded.
I saw a horse team stop in front of the best restaurant in the town.
Seeing that all these people were tall and well dressed, the waiter quickly smiled and greeted them: "I don't know whether to stay or pick up?"
Long Xiao smiled: "accommodation, give us five rooms."
He went out with 20 people. Now ten people stay in the county not far ahead and move at any time, and he took another ten people to explore the town.
Xiao Er led them into the restaurant. After ordering, long Xiaocai said, "Xiao Er, I heard there is a building in your town. I don't know where it is?"
The waiter was stunned and then smiled: "go straight east for fifty feet and turn left. However, men can tell at a glance that they are city people. The brothels in our town are all inferior goods. They are a place for those rural widowers to play. How can they get into the eyes of men? "
Long Xiao was surprised. He knew that what he wanted to check now was the aunt of Zhenxi Hou. Did she come from such a building? Thinking, he sighed again and again.
A gold scale guard behind him said, "how can I hear that there are many beauties inside, ha ha ha."
The waiter smiled: "Alas, it was fine more than ten years ago, but it has declined these years. Anyway, I advise you to go away and go to the county. "
Long Xiao only smiled: "bring us wine quickly."
The waiter bowed down and left.
After a while, he served wine and vegetables. After a big meal, Long Xiao took the two out. According to the little two, he soon found the green banana building.
It was an ordinary two-story building standing on the street on the first floor, which was dilapidated.
In broad daylight, I still open the door to do business.
One side of the golden scale guard said, "it's strange that we should open the door to welcome guests in broad daylight."
Long Xiaoxiao smiled: "you have little experience. Naturally, you don't know. There are few people in the town, and there are few people at night. You can only do business in broad daylight. Hum, let's go. "
With that, Long Xiao led them in. Immediately, a group of women with heavy makeup rushed out and surrounded them with bright eyes.
"Oh, my guest, who are you looking for? Looking for me, isn't it? " Several half old Xu niangs kept throwing handkerchiefs at their faces.
Just because the three people are not rural poor people at first sight. They are tall, clean and well-dressed. They deal with those poor and dirty rural poor people all year round. They rarely encounter such people. Naturally, they all scramble to come.
Long Xiaosan was scared to death.
They come from the capital. Even if they are not dignitaries, they are also rich. Usually, even if they really go to the brothel, they are entertained by some beautiful young girls.
I can't stand this group of half old Xu niangs with heavy makeup.
"Go away, go away." The two young gold scale guards were even more frightened and cried out.
"We're looking for your mother." Long Xiao said coldly.
Then he took out a handful of money from his arms and threw it underground. Those half old Xu niangs all screamed and threw themselves on the ground, desperately picking up money.
"Oh, you three gentlemen, look, you are not ordinary people. You must have come from Chengfu." A laugh rang out.
Long Xiaosan looked up and saw a tall and fat woman walking down the painted stairs step by step. With the same heavy makeup, she was wearing a satin peach skirt with a golden step on the left and a big red flower on the left. At a glance, she knew that she was the procuress in the building.
"But the girls in our building are not bad. I don't know which one of the three likes." The procuress said with a smile.
Long Xiaosan took a smoke from the corners of their mouths. With these goods in front of them, how can he have the face to say that the girls in this building are not bad, and... This is not a girl anymore?
Long Xiao simply said, "then mom."
The procuress was stunned for a moment, immediately smiled and said, "the old man likes me, of course."
The business of lvjiao building is getting worse and worse. As long as there is a guest, let alone a fairy in the sky, she also wants to pull it down and give it to him.
Those heavily made-up half old Xu Niang were disappointed for a while. One said, "it's not a matter for all three to wait on their mother. We still have people. Let's pick two more."
"Yes, two more." The procuress knew at a glance that they didn't really come to play. There must be something else. Now they are asking for her, so they try their best to give them money.
Long Xiao's face was black. He turned back and said to the two behind him, "pick one of you and go!"
The two men's faces changed, but they didn't dare to resist: "yes..." their voice trembled.
The surrounding group of half old Xu niangs quickly screamed and rushed at them.
Long Xiao couldn't bear to see it again. Listening to the cry for help from his subordinates, he turned to the procuress and said, "please, mom!"
"Good, good!" The procuress laughed so hard that she couldn't see her teeth. "Uncle can call me mother Chun."
Two went upstairs together. The third mother chose a Tianzi room 1. After entering, Chun's mother let the little girl here serve wine and food.
Long Xiao said, "mother Chun, we came from Shazhou city government to find people."
Mother Chun shook her handkerchief and said, "hahaha, it's fun. Who's not looking for someone in our building."
Long Xiao's face sank: "Mom, I'm talking to you seriously."
Mother Chun coughed, "ha ha, it's just a joke. Do you need to be so serious? OK, sir, please! Who are you looking for? However, the people who can enter our building are unclean. Are you sure they are in our building? "
"If this is the green banana building, that's right." Long Xiao poured himself a glass of wine. "We're looking for a girl, but that was more than 20 years ago."
"More than twenty years ago?" Chun's mother frowned and then smiled: "at least she is thirty or forty years old now. There are many girls below. They are from this old building. Go down and pick. Is there anything you want to find?"
Long Xiao shook his head: "it was sold into the green banana building more than 20 years ago and finally redeemed by the guests. Now the man is dead. Now, we just want to make sure it's her. "
Spring's mother was a little confused: "more than 20 years ago, I was not the procuress here. Besides, there were not thousands or hundreds of girls in the building. Who remembers who?"
Long Xiao's face changed and said anxiously, "what about the old procuress? When did you buy the green banana building? "
Mother Chun raised her eyebrows and said, "the former bustard is dead."
Long Xiao's face was more ugly and his fist clenched.
"But..." mother Chun snorted, "I was in this building more than 20 years ago."
Long Xiaoyi said, "really?"
"Yes!" Mother Chun nodded, "ten years ago, the last bustard was old and wanted to sell the building. I didn't have the good looks of my sisters and couldn't go anywhere else. So just spend your life savings to buy this broken building and continue to operate! Unexpectedly, in recent years, a new brothel has been opened in the county and city, and our business is getting worse and worse. Now... It's just a living. "
Long Xiao was excited. The mother in front of him came up from this building. He may have seen aunt Yun.
Long Xiao took out the picture from his sleeve and slowly opened it: "look, do you recognize this man?"
Mother Chun was stunned, looked up, and then was surprised. Her eyes stared wide: "this is not that... Er... What's its name?"
Long Xiao was delighted by the response of Chun's mother. Although she couldn't say her name, it was obvious that Chun's mother knew the person in the picture.
Long Xiaodao: "her name is Luoyun."
"Falling clouds?" Mother Chun was surprised, looked at the picture seriously, and then nodded: "yes, falling clouds! She's called Luoyun! That's the name, that's right! "
Long Xiao breathed a sigh of relief. He was lucky. The procuress in front of him just recognized him.
Mother Chun frowned lightly: "at the beginning, our building was also lively, but it was really worthless compared with the buildings in the county and Chengfu until the girl Luoyun was sold in. It was this face and beauty that raised the level of our whole building several grades. As soon as she entered the building, she became the flower leader of our green banana building. She not only looked beautiful, but also played the piano and wrote. Even the young CHILDES in the city came to see her. The business of lvjiao building is getting better and better. Later, she was bought by a passing general. Since she left, the building has gradually ceased to be lively, and finally turned into the look in front of her. "
Long Xiao's eyes flashed with excitement. They were all right! Aunt Yun bought it for uncle Chu. Isn't uncle Chu a general at that time?
But the matter still needs to be confirmed: "how do you know that the man who bought her is a general?"
Mother Chun snorted coldly, "at that time, several strange old men went to the building to drink together, and I waited on them. Finally, they bought our Huakui, so they have a deep memory of them. At that time, when we went to accompany the wine, we listened to them call the noble man a general one by one. As for where the general is, I don't know. "
"If you look at the picture carefully, are you sure it's her?" Long Xiao said again.
Spring mother Liu Mei picked up: "although it has been 20 years, how can I forget this unforgettable beauty? Even if it is a little vague, there is still some impression that she is good."
Long Xiao said, "do you remember who sold her into the building?"
Spring's mother stared: "Sir, you're being difficult. I don't remember so much."
Long Xiao's eyes flashed slightly. How could he not remember that the woman became the flower leader when she entered the building, and pushed the green banana building from ordinary to brilliant. Finally, because of her departure, she gradually degenerated into the look in front of her.
How can mother Chun forget such a woman who has special significance to the green banana building?
Long Xiao is also an accident. He took out a silver ticket from his sleeve and slapped it on the table.
Mother Chun was so excited that she almost jumped up when she saw that fifty-two Liang was written on the silver ticket. I don't know how many years, such a large silver ticket hasn't appeared in front of her.
"Hehe, sir, you asked me a few questions. I seem to have some impression." Mother Chun sat down with a smile, "it seems... A village man."
"Village man?" Long Xiao frowned. He thought it would be some human traffickers and so on.
"If I remember correctly, it should be..." said Chun's mother, "because miss Luoyun is so beautiful, we can't help being jealous of her. We couldn't help asking how she came. Later, we learned that a villager in some village sold her."
"Which mountain man?" Longxiao hurried.
"Oh, this......" I don't want Chun's mother to frown deeply again.
Long Xiao's face was a little black. He didn't want to argue with her. He immediately took out a silver note from his sleeve and slapped it on the table: "tell me quickly!"
Mother Chun's face was full of laughter. She put away the silver ticket and said, "I really can't remember this time. Who remembers this kind of thing after so many years? Ha ha ha. "
Long Xiao was almost out of breath. Looking at the silver ticket that Chun's mother brought into her sleeve, he wanted to grab it back, but he was a man's husband who had no face to grab a woman's silver ticket, so he had to swallow the dumb loss.
Fortunately, mother Chun was also a conscientious person. Her eyes turned: "however, there are two or three old people who stay here like me. Maybe they know. By the way, tell me which villager sold her, that's Cui Niang! "
"Who is Dongcao?" Longxiao hurried.
"Right down there." Mother Chun stood up, walked out of the room and looked down the hall in the corridor: "Cui Niang!"
In the lobby below, a group of heavily made-up semi-old lady Xu was filling wine for them around the other two golden scale guards.
One of them, a round faced woman in her late 40s, raised her head and said, "Hey."
"You come up." Mother Chun said.
"Money, mom?" Cui Niang smiled.
"Yes, you come up."
When long Xiao in room 1 heard the words "earn money", his eyelids jumped. He felt that he was bleeding by them here. However, it was a victory at present, and it didn't cost much. After all, the problems that can be solved with money are not problems!
Soon, Chun's mother took Cui Niang in.
"Say hello to uncle." Cui Niang smiled.
Long Xiao looked at the powder on Cui Niang's face, but took out a piece of broken silver and put it on the table. Cui Niang saw that there was five cents, so he excitedly came forward and took the silver.
Mother Chun said, "this uncle came to inquire about people. Do you remember the falling cloud more than 20 years ago?"
"What falling clouds?" Cui Niang couldn't remember for a moment.
"Where else can it come from? It's the flower leader when our green bananas were the most popular." Spring mother.
"Ah... I remember." Cui Niang nodded, "isn't it bought? Well, I suddenly talked about her today. "
"Do you remember who sold her at that time?" Mother Chun said, "at that time, we talked about her together, that is, which villager you said sold it."
Cui Niang was stunned and then said, "yes, there is such a dead ghost. I used to come to the building every day. Suddenly one day he didn't buy laughter and sold a girl in. "
"Who is that?" Longxiao hurried.
Don't want to, Cui Niang is the PA that smokes to get, a jilt: "I forgot."
Long Xiao's eyes darkened: "forget? How could I forget? "
Cui Niang stared at him: "what do you mean? We've been coming and going for more than 20 years. How can we remember which one and which one? I remember that more than 20 years ago, the Huakui entered the building and was sold by a benefactor at that time. "
Long Xiao's whole life is bad. A brothel welcomes him every day. Although the town is small, men from all over the country come here to buy laughter. In this way, I don't know how many floating people there are!
Moreover, it was more than 20 years ago, which makes it even more difficult to check.
"By the way, Niu... Beauty! Cow beauty! " Cui Niang suddenly said, "sister Chun, do you remember we made fun of her when she just sold into the building? We secretly call her Niu Mei! "
Mother Chun said, "yes? I don't remember. "
"What is this?" Dragon filial piety, no matter what, more clues can be.
Cui Niang said, "when she went upstairs, she fascinated the smelly men. We couldn't get along. Naturally, we spoke ill of her, so I secretly scolded her for being a cow and beauty. Because the man who sold her used to show off that he had cattle! He sold her again, so we ridiculed her as a cow beauty. "
"So, the one who sold her had cattle?" Long Xiao.
"Yes." Cui Niang said.
Long Xiaoxin is happy. If you know what that man does, it's better to find him. But I know cattle are valuable. They are not available to every family in rural areas.
"What's your last name?" Long Xiao said.
"I don't remember." Cui Niang said.
Long Xiao asked a few questions again, but he couldn't find anything valuable. He put down another silver or two, and then turned and left.
Long Xiao left the green banana building, and his subordinate was finally free from a group of half old Xu niangs.
One said, "Sir, can you find it?"
Long Xiao nodded: "it's certain that the one in lvjiao building is really the one we're looking for, but her identity and origin are still unknown. However, we have found a clue. The man who sold her was a mountain village man with a decent family and cattle. "
The two subordinates brightened their eyes: "farming cattle is precious. Whoever raises cattle and kills cattle must be registered with the government. We can determine how many there are when we ask the magistrate here."
Long Xiao nodded.
Several people returned to the inn without delay. The three immediately rode to the county.
Half an hour later, I finally came to the county where Qingshi town is located.
Several people walked into the Yamen. Long Xiao immediately took out his token and revealed his identity.
The magistrate there was so frightened that he immediately obeyed his orders. Long Xiao said he wanted to check the cow books of the county. The magistrate dared not, and immediately ordered the martial master to move all the cow books to let Long Xiao check them one by one.
Long Xiao only picked cattle books from that time more than 20 years ago.
I wrote down all the cattle farmers in Qingshi town that year. After staying up all night, I finally collected all the lists, more than 40 households.