Recalling Marquis Zhennan behind the curtain, Fatty felt more and more that Jiang Cheng's words made sense. At the time, they had been quick to assume that Marquis Zhennan was seriously ill, but now that he thought about it, how could someone so ambitious give up the temptation of disciples?

If that was the case, then on the Chun Shen Lake that night, something very subtle must have happened between General Guo and the others, Marquis Zhennan, and the Marquis Zhennan's wife. In any case, it was definitely not as Marquis Zhennan had described it; there must have been something hidden.

The more Fatty thought, the heavier his head became. It was a strange sensation, like sinking into a quagmire, the more he struggled, the deeper he sank. Moreover, he felt a faint pain in his shoulder, accompanied by an indescribable chill, as if someone was constantly blowing cold air on his neck.

Seeing Fatty rubbing his shoulder, Jiang Cheng asked casually, "How do you feel? Is something bothering you?"

Fatty said with a bitter face, "My shoulder is a bit cold. I probably got frostbite from carrying that thing for most of the night last night. My bones are aching."

Now, recalling the scene he had glimpsed last night, Fatty's calves were still cramping, especially after Jiang Cheng and Li Bai helped him break Gao Yanqing's fingers to separate them.

Worried that Fatty would overthink things, Jiang Cheng changed the subject at the right time. The two walked and talked, asking a few passersby along the way before finally arriving at the west of the city and finding the place called Wu Family Alley.

After arriving, Jiang Cheng and Fatty understood that although Wu Family Alley sounded like an alley, it was actually more like a slum. The environment here was very poor, and the construction of the houses and streets was also problematic. In short, the people inside were very mixed, with people from all walks of life. Jiang Cheng found a disheveled beggar in a corner. In this kind of place, no one had better information than a beggar.

Jiang Cheng squatted down and dropped a few copper coins into the beggar's broken bowl, making a clanging sound. The beggar, who had been dozing against the wall, immediately woke up, then grabbed the copper coins with his dirty hands and stuffed them into his tattered clothes. "Thank you, sir! Thank you, sir!"

After the beggar grabbed the last copper coin, Jiang Cheng unhurriedly weighed the remaining dozen or so in his hand, which made the beggar's eyes light up.

"I have a few questions for you. If you answer them correctly, these are all yours." Jiang Cheng glanced around, and seeing that no one was paying attention, he said, "Do you know anyone in Wu Family Alley named Wu Yuhuan?"

The beggar stared straight at the copper coins until Jiang Cheng clenched his fist and put them away. Only then did the beggar finally look at Jiang Cheng, and said with some difficulty, "I don't know Wu Yuhuan, but I know a girl named Wu Yujiao at the east end of the alley. She's a virgin, and she's very pretty."

"Wu Yujiao..." Jiang Cheng nodded. "Okay, take us there."

The deeper Jiang Cheng went into this so-called Wu Family Alley, the more deeply he understood the poverty and suffering here. It was full of beggars, disabled people, patients, and all kinds of petty merchants. Moreover, there seemed to be no overt regulators here, and it had completely become a gray area in the city.

After walking for a while, the beggar pointed with his hand, and several dilapidated thatched houses were not far away, surrounded by a simple circle of rubble and fences. Although low and dilapidated, it could be seen that it was a courtyard.

"It's here. Wu Yujiao's family lives here." The beggar smiled obsequiously, first wiping his dirty hands hard on his body a few times before reaching out to take the copper coins Jiang Cheng handed over.

Seeing the copper coins spread out in his palm one by one, the beggar was in a good mood, his eyes narrowed into a slit. He swallowed and looked at Jiang Cheng again. "Hehe, I say, sir, if you also have your eye on this Wu Yujiao, then things are easy. She has a gambler father who has long wanted to sell her. The price is clearly marked: 50 taels of silver. I know the price isn't low, but the goods are good. She's definitely a virgin, big breasts and big butt. Marrying her home is sure to produce a big, fat son."

Seeing that Jiang Cheng didn't speak, the beggar seemed to understand, and let out another hehehe laugh, wiping the mucus from the corner of his mouth with the back of his relatively clean hand, and looked at the thatched huts on tiptoe. "Could it be that sir has a shrewish wife at home, making it inconvenient? Hehe, that doesn't matter either. It's just a matter of wanting to get a taste. That's even easier. I'll help you negotiate. About 20 taels of silver should be enough. Her old man can even keep watch for you outside. I also know a herbalist in the north of the alley who sells top-notch medicine, guaranteed to keep you hard all night for just 20 copper coins. I'll get it for you right now..."

Before he could finish speaking, Jiang Cheng took out a few more copper coins, but instead of giving them to the beggar, he threw them directly on the ground. "Shut your mouth and wait for me here."

The beggar didn't care about Jiang Cheng's sudden change in attitude. Seeing the copper coins on the ground, he immediately lay down and picked them up one by one, stuffing each one into his palm as if it were a treasure.

Before he could even get close to the thatched house, a strong man came out wielding an iron fork. The man was quite old, staring at Jiang Cheng and Fatty with a fierce look, and said fiercely, "Who are you? Get out of here!"

The man was missing an ear and three fingers. Judging from the scars, they had been cut off with a knife. Jiang Cheng also knew some of the rules of the gambling houses, so it seemed that the person in front of him was Wu Yujiao's gambler father.

Without wasting any words, Jiang Cheng directly took out a piece of broken silver and threw it into the man's arms. The man's eyes turned red when he saw the silver. He dropped the iron fork and caught the silver, then, as if in disbelief, put it in his mouth and bit it. After confirming that it was real silver, the way he looked at Jiang Cheng and Fatty changed. "Oh, so the two of you are here to find my daughter. My daughter is a famous beauty for miles around. This silver... hehe, it's not enough."

"Who is Wu Yuhuan to you?" Jiang Cheng didn't bother to say another word to such a person and got straight to the point.

But unexpectedly, as soon as these words came out, the man's face changed drastically, becoming extremely frightened. "You... how do you know I have another daughter, Wu Yuhuan? Are you... are you people from the Marquis's residence?"

After a few words, Jiang Cheng roughly understood the ins and outs of the matter. It turned out that the man had two daughters, the eldest daughter was Wu Yuhuan, and the second daughter was named Wu Yujiao. Because the man was addicted to gambling, he owed a lot of debt, so he had to sell his eldest daughter to pay off the gambling debt. He later learned that the buyer was the Marquis Zhennan's residence, but not long after, he received the news that his eldest daughter had died, but he didn't know exactly how she died.

"And then?" Jiang Cheng pressed.

"Then I thought about asking the Marquis's residence if they wanted my second daughter, but not only did they not want her, but they also beat me up. The leader also warned me, saying that I must not reveal the matter of someone dying in the Marquis's residence, otherwise, I would be in trouble."

The man clutched the silver and said angrily, "That's right, I later secretly found my eldest daughter's grave, thinking that since she was someone who came from the Marquis's residence after all, there should be something valuable in the coffin, but who would have thought that the grave was very clean, and the body was wrapped in a mat."