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Chapter 695 It’s better to be young

“But those in their line of work, who force women of good character into prostitution or kidnap women, don’t care about your background as long as you pay them money.

Li Yue was good-looking, and was favored by a patron on the first night. He paid the madam 100 taels of silver every year to keep her, and refused to accept outside customers. Later, Li Yue gave birth to a son, but the madam didn't care about her because Li Yue said that the man would come to redeem her one day.

"Instead of paying so much silver every year, it would be better to redeem it. Doesn't she find it strange?" Jiang Youzhen shook his head, thinking there were so many mistakes.

"The master is a businessman who travels all over the country and has no fixed place to live. He just said that he would redeem her after he bought a house in the capital. The madam also thought Li Yue was naive, but she had no objection to the 100 taels per year."

Zhu Zhimin spoke calmly. Judging from Jiang Youzhen's attitude, he felt that the child must be very important.

One hundred taels may not sound like much, but Li Yue was only above average. She didn't know if she would have enough money to entertain customers all year round, so the madam accepted it.

"Didn't you find anything unusual?" Jiang Youzhen was helpless. This old procuress was obsessed with money and didn't care about anything else.

"It is said that Li Yue would go to burn incense on the first and fifteenth day of every month. She always said that a mother is honored by her son, but she is not good to her child. She usually beats or scolds the child."

Jiang Youzhen sneered in his heart, "I guess that child is not Li Yue's. I wonder where she got it from as a shield? Her real target is Huang Mintao's child. But why she is lurking in the brothel, there must be another explanation."

Jiang Youzhen went to ask the madam in person, and she was indeed a confused person who didn't know anything. But when it came to Li Yue, she had a lot of opinions.

"She looked down on the girls in the building and always called them lowly. She would beat and scold the child and never leave the room. She only went to burn incense on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month. Later, I felt something was wrong, so I sent someone to follow her to the Fa Rong Temple."

Jiang Youzhen had an idea and took note of Farong Temple.

"She said she didn't accept outsiders, but other men always came to see her. I told her that she had to pay me for accepting outsiders, but she always gave me 10 or 20 coins. I was so angry that I even argued with her."

The madam curled her lips and said, "If it weren't for her beauty and her husband's promise to redeem her, I wouldn't have tolerated her."

She had already thought about making these two people bleed, but who would have thought that the little bitch would actually run away.

Jiang Youzhen immediately turned to Zhu Zhimin and said, "Sir, I think this Fa Rong Temple is a little suspicious. Why don't we send someone to Fa Rong Temple to find out the situation?"

Zhu Zhimin nodded, "Alright! I'll send someone over right away."

Jiang Youzhen suddenly thought of something, "Sir, maybe the child is hidden in Farong Temple. After all, according to their habits, the most dangerous place is the safest place. You must send someone there secretly and don't let the news leak out."

Zhu Zhimin found the situation tricky and frowned.

If I ask, the news will definitely leak out.

"Do your best! We will send someone to secretly monitor the Fa Rong Temple, and then find someone to secretly question."

"The monks in the temple may not know her identity. Why don't you draw her portrait and identify her by the portrait?"

How could Zhu Zhimin not agree? So Jiang Youzhen began to paint based on the brothel owner's instructions.

"Her eyebrows are higher here, there is a mole between her eyebrows near the bridge of her nose, and her face needs to be rounder..."

The madam watched Jiang Youzhen paint and described it in detail.

"Yes, yes, that's right. My right eyelid isn't that double..."

In just half an hour, after some revisions, Jiang Youzhen finally finished the painting.

When the madam saw it, she was shocked.

"This? This is too similar, it's like a real person."

In fact, Jiang Youzhen uses charcoal pencils to paint. She thought that she might use them frequently in the future, so she made charcoal pencils. Now her paintings are similar to sketches and are naturally very similar.

A beautiful woman appeared on the paper. She was quite pretty, but her clothes were rather seductive. Jiang Youzhen even managed to depict her expression vividly.

Zhu Zhimin also admired her painting skills. He still felt that Jiang Youzhen was more suitable for the Dali Temple and it would be a waste of talent for her to go to the Censorate.

Zhu Zhimin quickly ordered someone to do it. Jiang Youzhen waited for him to come back and said, "Sir, there is a lot of evidence that needs to be found and sorted out today. Shall we start now?"

Speaking of this, Zhu Zhimin felt a headache as it filled up two rooms. However, this was a political achievement, so he felt a headache but also a little happy at the same time.

Jiang Youzhen still couldn't sleep that night. She didn't stop until dawn to drink some water.

She rubbed her tired brows, then decided to have dinner first and then check again.

When she opened the lunch box, she suddenly found a small note in the corner. She was a little surprised and looked around. She found that Zhu Zhimin was eating and didn't pay attention to this place at all. She opened it quickly and found that there was only one sentence on it.

"I'm leaving today."

With just these four words, Jiang Youzhen knew who it was.

She finished her meal as if nothing had happened, and then quickly stuffed a note into the rest of her meal.

A guard came in soon. Jiang Youzhen looked at him carefully and then continued to immerse himself in the letters.

Second Prince's Mansion

The second prince was pacing back and forth in his study. The imperial envoy sent to Jin Province to accompany him had urged him several times, and it would seem unusual if he didn't leave.

"Your Highness! There is news." Zhou Hai came hurriedly, holding a note stained with rice in his hand.

The second prince breathed a sigh of relief and hurried forward to take it.

There was only one name written on it, Ma Yunrong, the magistrate of Suzhou, Jin Province.

The second prince was immediately delighted, as he knew that this person's name would not appear on the list. Only hidden people like this would bring unexpected surprises.

"Let's go! Take our people and set off for Jin Province!"

Jiang Youzhen and Zhu Zhimin worked day and night for three days before they sorted out all the evidence.

When Zhu Zhimin looked at the sky, he suddenly realized that it was late at night again and all the lights were on in the house.

I glanced at Jiang Youzhen and found that the young man was still as cheerful as ever, with a dignified demeanor and no signs of fatigue at all. I couldn't help but feel a little envious.

It's good to be young! He couldn't bear it any longer. He only slept for two or three hours every day these days. Now he was so sleepy that he couldn't open his eyes.

Jiang Youzhen wanted to report to the palace immediately, as he was afraid that the night would be too long and he would have too many dreams. But when he turned around, he found that Lord Zhu was so sleepy that he could not open his eyes, so he thought it would not be too late to wait until dawn.

The emperor has been in poor spirits these days and has not attended the morning court at all. Now that the emperor has gone to bed, let's wait until tomorrow!

She put all the evidence she had into the space, and she wanted to hide the evidence around Lord Zhu as well, to be safer.

Unexpectedly, as soon as she raised her hand, Zhu Zhimin suddenly opened his eyes, and with lightning speed, he attacked Jiang Youzhen's neck with his right hand.

Jiang Youzhen reacted quickly, but she moved her feet and fell to the side, pretending to have barely avoided it.

"Sir, it's me!" she shouted quickly.