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The moment the ladies who greeted Mu Xiaoling at the entrance of the Spring Pavilion saw her, their eyes immediately lit up. In their line of work, they rarely saw such a delicate piece of meat. They immediately surrounded Mu Xiaoling in an impenetrable manner.

"This little brother is really handsome, why don't you come in and play with elder sister?"

"Little bro is someone I saw first. If you fight over face with me like this, then you'll lose face."

"What do you want face for this business of being me? I'll pay a tael of silver. This little brother will now belong to me."

"I bid five liang!"

"I bid 10 taels!"

"…" For the first time, Mu Xiaoling felt extremely regretful. Why didn't she go through the back door? The rich fragrance of the powder made her nose itchy and she couldn't help sneezing. She bent down and quietly slipped under everyone's skirt.

In the end, the girls won twenty silver taels each. However, when she looked for the young man in high spirits, she found that he was long gone. She stomped her feet in anger, and the girls laughed and scattered back to their posts.

After Mu Xiaoling entered the door, she saw a stage with four exposed foreign dancers dancing around. There were a few round table chairs on both sides of the stage. At this moment, most of the tables were filled.

The halls on the first floor were a bit cheaper. Although the girls were not as meticulous as the ones upstairs, they were still not bad.

Mu Xiaoling set his gaze on the second floor.

At this point, the old procuress had already walked over. She giggled, "This guest looks unfamiliar. This is the first time you've come to our Spring Festival Gala."

"Get a private room, a table full of dishes and wine, and two girls as well." Mu Xiaoling had never seen a pig run after eating pork before, so she had seen it on TV before. "I don't want anything that isn't good." As she spoke, she threw a silver ingot into the bawd's hands.

When the bawd saw how generous the little gongzi was, she beamed with joy. "Don't worry, little gongzi, all the girls from our Spring Festival Gala are great." As he spoke, he personally led the way up to the second floor.

There was also a hall on the second floor with a few scattered seats. Further in, there was a corridor with elegant rooms on both sides.

Mu Xiaoling was led to the third room on the right. As soon as she entered, she found that the room was more like a normal room, but it was a bit more luxurious than a normal room.

Mu Xiaoling was sitting on a chair when the bawd brought two girls over. "This is Lü and this is Red Jade." He then said to the two young ladies, "Why aren't you accompanying the little gongzi?"

Mu Xiaoling nodded. The girls on the second floor were much stronger than the ones on the first floor. Lu Yi was dressed in a green cotton dress with a bit of makeup on her face. On the other hand, Hong Fei was wearing a red dress.

Mu Xiaoling nodded her head and the two ladies immediately sat down beside Mu Xiaoling. The dishes were served and they began to pour the wine for Mu Xiaoling.

Mu Xiaoling took a sip and put down the wine cup. The two pieces of banknotes were immediately thrown out, causing the two young ladies to burst into laughter. Then, she casually asked, "I just saw the young master of the Du Family. I don't know if my eyes are playing tricks on me."

"It's not that we're seeing things, the young master of the Du Family is indeed here." Red Jade looked at the value of the notes and was even happier. He immediately told her everything he knew, "The young master of the Du Family is in elder sister Chun's room. elder sister Chun is the Courtesan Belle, but she has been hired by that young master for a year."

"Just now, four more people went in. Three men and one woman. I saw them with my own eyes."

Mu Xiaoling immediately understood that the Meng Family had already entered.

"But there's one thing I'm looking at." Red Jade hesitated for a moment, but after seeing the silver, she steeled her heart and said, "Just a few nights ago, my benefactor was drunk and insisted on going to the backyard to see the snow. Wherever the snow comes from in the summer, I will also advise to prevent it from happening, and as a result, I personally saw elder sister Chun throw a black bag into the wine cellar with four big men. Hong Fei gestured with his hand, revealing a black cloth bag that was about half the height of a man, and then said: "I asked her first, and I heard from Big Sister Chun that it was the Du Family's Young Master who asked her to keep it temporarily, it's all useless stuff."

Mu Xiaoling rolled his eyes as he took out two more silver notes.

Red Jade's eyes were straight, "However, that cloth bag accidentally fell when it was passing by the wine cellar's door. I saw it move with my own eyes, maybe it's some living creature."

"Thank you very much." Mu Xiaoling smiled as she knocked the two ladies out with her hand.

And then he flew down through the window in the backyard.

The wine cellar door was completely silent. It didn't look much different from an ordinary wine cellar. Occasionally, a turtle would come over to fetch some wine jars.

When no one was around, she walked into the wine cellar.

The wine cellar was dark and cool. There were shelves on both sides of the room that were filled with wine jars. There was a row of large wine jars on the wall in front of him. Nothing else could be seen.

Mu Xiaoling's eyes made a round and found that there was a jug of wine in the corner. It was extremely strange.

This jug of wine was very small, only slightly larger than the palm of his hand. However, it was empty.

There were no empty wine jars in the wine cellar. It was obvious that they had been moved somewhere else. Since they had all been moved, why did they leave this one here?

There must be something behind this!

She was holding the jar of wine when she heard a conversation from outside.

Mu Xiaoling immediately gave up and looked up at the ceiling before leaping up the beam.

At that moment, the cellar door was pushed open and two young men entered.

One of them was fat and the other was thin. The fat man scolded, "But why are those dog things from the small families at the border in the young lord's eyes? They still have to make a trip for us."

"Lower your voice. If the Young Lord were to hear this, we would both be in trouble. The skinny man bared his teeth, "Besides, the Young Lord only wanted that person to stay alive. It can't be considered as having entered my blue eyes. Perhaps he has other plans."

The fat man spat out his saliva, "Hmph, that's for the best. When I see that he won't look good, I will give up on the girl that I have my eyes on. I can't take this lying down."

The thin man did not say anything. He twisted his hand on the empty wine jar, causing the floor in the corner to crack open, revealing a secret passage.

The two of them entered the cave, and after about ten minutes, they exited and left.

Mu Xiaoling waited for a while longer to make sure that no one came in before she flew back down. She imitated the way the two of them acted as she twisted the jar of wine.

With a clang, the secret tunnel on the ground opened up again.

She slowly walked down the stairs and reached a dungeon.

There was a man sitting in the dungeon. He didn't even turn his head as he cursed, "What are you guys doing back here? No matter how many times you guys come back, I will never listen to you bastards!"

Other than Meng Yifan, who else could possibly have done such a thing?

Mu Xiaoling crossed her arms over her chest, taking her time.