Chapter 555
Jing Rong and Ji Yunshu went to the second floor of the teahouse opposite the brothel and sat down in a small private room. This place has good scenery and was pleasantly cool.
Most importantly, they could see the second floor of the brothel opposite, through the open windows of the room. There were many people patronising the brothel even though it was broad daylight.
Inside, girls dressed as beautifully as blooming flowers twirled around those lecherous men, teasing them with sweeps of their handkerchiefs. In turn, the men grinned in delight, completely forgetting about their wives waiting at home.
Ji Yunshu sneered at the scene and turned away as the waiter served a pot of tea.
The waiter asked, "You two young masters seem unfamiliar to me, are you from outside the county?"
"Yes, we came here to visit relatives." Ji Yunshu replied.
"I knew it. Outsiders are rare in our Yufu County. Most residents here are local people and I know them all," he remarked smugly.
Jing Rong didn't speak but hummed softly with a straight face.
However, Ji Yunshu thought for a moment before asking the waiter amiably, "This little brother, don't deceive me. You said you know everyone here? How could it be possible?"
The waiter hurriedly replied, "I didn't deceive you. When it comes to local residents in our Yufu County, I know every one of them."
"I bet you are bragging." Ji Yunshu threw down a challenge, secretly hiding a smile as if anticipating a fish would bite on her bait.
Jing Rong who was sitting across her, started to get curious as he finally understood her intentions. What does this woman have up her sleeves now?
The waiter became agitated when Ji Yunshu said he was boasting. "Young master, if you don't believe me, then just randomly pick someone. Whoever you pick, I am sure I will be able to tell you something about that person.."
He took the bait. "Really?"
"Of course."
Ji Yunshu thereupon pretended to have pondered a while before asking, "I heard that there is a famous Young Master Qiao in Yufu County. Tell me about him so that I can tell whether you are right or not."
The waiter was stunned for a moment, and then he glanced unwittingly at the brothel across the street. He moved his mouth but did not speak.
Seeing this, Ji Yunshu goaded him, "Like I said, you are just bragging, but it's no big deal even if you can't say anything. After all, there are so many people in Yufu County."
Hey!
"Of course I know about Young Master Qiao. Everyone knows him!" The waiter glanced at the surroundings before bending down and started to dish out the gossip furtively, "The Qiao's are an influential family in Yufu County. Qiao Zheng, who was appointed Minister of the Ministry of Personnel several years ago, belongs to this Qiao family. Recently he seems to have resigned and is preparing to come back to be a state governor. Generations of the Qiao family have produced many high-ranking officials, so they are very well-known in Yufu County and no one dares to offend them.
"However, the young master of the Qiao Family is rather incompetent. He is a lecher without a proper trade or skill, that frequently indulges in drink and promiscuity, and becomes wild after getting drunk. For some reason, the Qiao family doesn't restrain him at all. After all, he is the only male child in the family. Anyway, he can't repress his base nature despite having married a bunch of wives and concubines. By the way, he was involved in a murder case where a songstress died in her room in the opposite brothel three years ago. At that time, it was said that Young Master Qiao had killed her, but in the end it was found out that the deceased had committed suicide."