We said we would experience life, fairy, how did you become real?.

Chapter 172 Danyang Sect

Noon the next day.

Xiao Mo was in the kitchen teaching Jiang Xin how to cook fish porridge.

Catfish have relatively few bones, especially the belly part, which is perfect for making fish porridge.

After sprinkling on chopped green onions, the aroma becomes even more irresistible.

The other parts of the catfish are used for frying or stir-frying, with a few wild chilies and some shredded ginger, which tastes delicious.

When Jiang Xin put a bite of fish into her mouth, her eyes lit up instantly, and she ate a little faster than usual.

"I'm going into town to take a look. You just wait in the courtyard."

After lunch, Xiao Mo told Jiang Xin that he planned to go to the city today to find out about A Zi and exchange the gold for some silver.

But just as Xiao Mo turned around, Jiang Xin reached out and gently tugged at Xiao Mo's sleeve: "Can I go with you?"

Looking at Jiang Xin's exquisitely beautiful appearance, Xiao Mo frowned: "It might not be a good idea for you to come with me. You attract too much attention."

Jiangxin had fair and delicate skin and exquisite features; she was clearly a beauty in the making. In this cannibalistic Western Region, she was all too easy to be targeted.

"It's okay, I have a way." Jiang Xin quickly ran into the kitchen.

When Jiang Xin came out, her face had been blackened by her own makeup, just like when they first met.

“That will do,” Jiang Xin said confidently. “My mother and Sister Zi have both told me that I’m too good-looking, so I have to darken my face and pretend to be a boy when I go out, otherwise I’ll be easily sold.”

Xiao Mo smiled and said, "When I asked you to take a shower and change your clothes, you absolutely refused. Were you afraid that if I saw you clean, I would turn around and sell you off?"

Jiang Xin lowered her head, her two small fingers poking at each other, her bright eyes filled with guilt.

Although Jiang Xin did not answer, judging from her expression, it was essentially an admission.

Xiao Mo felt that if she hadn't been forced to take a bath in the stream while catching fish last night, she might have faced herself in a dirty and disheveled state for several days.

Until she truly believes in herself.

“I don’t blame you. It’s a good thing to be vigilant. Since you want to go, let’s go together.”

After speaking, Xiao Mo returned to his room, took out two or three pieces of gold, placed them close to his heart, and then led Jiang Xin toward Luofeng City.

Luofeng City is about an hour's journey from the abandoned village where Xiao Mo lives.

After bringing Jiang Xin into the city, Xiao Mo planned to go directly to "Ma's Pawnshop" in the west of the city.

The business behind Ma's Pawnshop is similar to that of Fang Yuanwai.

As the saying goes, when people in the same profession meet, they are bound to be extremely jealous.

Even though Boss Ma and Master Fang seem to get along well on the surface, they secretly wish the other dead.

So even if Master Fang secretly sent people to look for those "bastards" from that night, they generally wouldn't be able to find Boss Ma.

Otherwise, Boss Ma would definitely have spread the word that Master Fang was keeping a concubine and that his private savings had been stolen, making Master Fang lose face badly.

When Xiao Mo entered the pawnshop, a shop assistant saw that he was dressed in tattered clothes and reached out to stop him. However, when he saw that Xiao Mo had a few pieces of gold, he let him pass.

At the current gold-silver exchange rate in Luofeng City of the Western Regions, the two taels of gold in Xiao Mo's arms can be exchanged for twenty taels of silver.

However, the pawnshop owner also guessed that the gold in Xiao Mo's little beggar's hands was of dubious origin and that it had been stolen from somewhere, so he deliberately lowered the price to fourteen taels of silver.

After some haggling, Xiao Mo finally settled on a price of seventeen taels of silver. He had no choice; he felt this was the highest price he could get for his ill-gotten gains here.

Although visiting more pawnshops might earn you a few extra coins.

However, this would greatly increase the likelihood of exposing oneself.

After exchanging the silver, Xiao Mo took the silver and walked out of the pawnshop, then pulled Jiang Xin to the backyard of the Fengyue Tower in Luofeng City.

Although Fengyue Tower was a brothel.

However, brothels have one unique characteristic: they attract people from all walks of life, and men, especially when they are in bed with a woman, tend to become very talkative.

The proprietress of the brothel was good at business because she would compile information from her customers and act as an information broker.

There were even people who went out of their way to sell information to brothels.

As for the guests being "leaked"?
All information from my Fengyuelou is merely "speculation" and cannot be guaranteed to be true.

So there was no "leak" at all; all the information was just what I heard at Fengyue Tower.

As for whether you'll come to sleep with the girls in our brothel in the future?

The figures and appearances of the girls at my Fengyue Tower are unparalleled.

If you're so capable, then don't come back again.

Otherwise, when you arrive, please keep your mouth shut and don't tell our girls everything.

If you really want to hold this against me, then go and talk to my former employer—the Lord of Luofeng City.

In fact, Xiao Mo wasn't very confident that he could find out any information about "Sister A Zi".

But to everyone's surprise, the brothel actually had similar news.

"Little brother, you're talking about a woman carrying a long sword, with three or four children? And the woman with the sword has a mole near her eye, and she's about my height?"

After Xiao Mo gave him three taels of silver, a woman dressed in revealing clothes and heavily made up smiled at him.

“Yes,” Xiao Mo nodded.

"That's quite a coincidence. There was indeed a guest earlier who said he saw a woman leading several children flying towards the Danyang Sect."

Because the woman was indeed beautiful, and her swordsmanship skills were impressive, the guest remembered her clearly, and spoke of her with considerable excitement afterward.

"Danyang Sect?" Xiao Mo frowned. "What kind of sect is that?"

As soon as Xiao Mo finished asking his question, the woman glanced at him again.

Xiao Mo's brow twitched, and he gave the other party another tael of silver.

"The Danyang Sect specializes in alchemy. The sect's rank is not high, and the sect leader is only at the Golden Core stage. As for its reputation, it's just so-so, and we don't know much about it."

After all, young man, you know we're just a small brothel in a small town.

Although we have the city lord's backing, which allows us to sell some information, how much can we really access? Even a tiny bit deeper, or even just a little bit, wouldn't be enough to earn us that little bit of money from you.

"Understood, thank you, sister." Xiao Mo bowed.

"Hehehe..." The woman covered her mouth and chuckled. "You little rascal, your manners are quite proper, like a scholar. And you're not bad looking either. How about joining my brothel and becoming my young master?"

(End of this chapter)