Wearing a secret agent with many tricks, the cold and proud prince flirts easily

In this way, the secret guards escorted Bai Yirong's charges and Bai Yirong to the Yamen in Xiangbei City.

When the Yamen magistrate saw Murong Hao's token, he broke into a cold sweat.

This Xiangbei city is thousands of miles away from the upper capital. I didn't expect that Prince Rui would come to their poor hometown to take refuge in person.

"May I ask where His Royal Highness Prince Rui is now? I will go and welcome him to the government office." Magistrate Zhu of Xiangbei City looked at Tianyi who handed him the charges.

"Your Majesty will leave Xiangbei City tomorrow. There is no need for Magistrate Zhu to spend so much effort. Your Majesty said that you must handle Bai Yirong's case." Tianyi repeated Murong Hao's words.

"Yes, I understand."

Magistrate Zhu understands that this matter is of great importance, and he will definitely handle the case properly!

Tianyi left the government office and returned to the inn where Murong Hao and Lin Yunxi stayed.

Lin Yunxi stayed in an inn again. She asked for an inn with walls on all sides. Today she heard Bai Yirong say that she spied on the two of them, and now she feels a little palpitated when she sees the inn.

Fortunately, they were staying in the villa at night, but they were still very worried. It would be terrible if someone spied on her secret.

Murong Hao saw her looking around every corner of the wall with such seriousness that he smiled under his lips.

"Don't worry, Xi'er. This inn has brick walls, no one can peek in, and we won't sleep here."

"It's better to be more careful." She really didn't expect that she would be spied on.

"Okay, arrange more secret guards to keep watch tonight."

Murong Hao looked at this overly cautious woman. She had completely forgotten about her teasing her today, but let her go for now. They had tasks in the afternoon and would settle the score with her in the evening.

"Husband, let's have lunch quickly. After that, we can walk around and look around." Lin Yunxi also thought about the mission of the two of them.

Their mission to search for tungsten mines in Xiangbei City was completed, but after hearing the news that some people were selling their daughters for money, they still felt that there was something wrong with Xiangbei City.

The two finished their lunch quickly, put on their coarse clothes, and left the inn.

"Tiansi, where did you check the news today?"

The group of people wandered around on the street casually, and Lin Yunxi asked the sky four questions.

"Mistress, we found that most of the families selling their daughters are in a place called Qiyuan Street." Tiansi replied respectfully.

"Take us there." Lin Yunxi ordered.

Soon, after turning several streets, the group came to Qiyuan Street.

What caught Lin Yunxi's eyes was a dilapidated street. The street was covered with fallen leaves. It was already late spring and early summer. Logically speaking, there shouldn't be so many fallen leaves here, unless these fallen leaves had been left from winter until now. People had cleaned it, and the streets were strange, with almost no pedestrians walking around.

There are storefronts on both sides of the street, but almost none of them are open.

Lin Yunxi frowned. Compared with the street they walked on just now, Qiyuan Street is so different. Why don't people here know how to do business? Who are the residents here?

Lin Yunxi and Murong Hao kept walking and didn't see anyone walking on this street for a long time.

"Husband, why don't we knock on the door and ask." It's not Lin Yunxi's character to just look at the general situation. She wants to understand why Qiyuan Street is like this.

"Well, go and ask." Murong Hao thought about it with her.

Lin Yunxi randomly found a house and knocked on the door:

"Hello, is there anyone? We want to come and ask for water." Lin Yunxi knocked on the door and said.

After waiting for a while, the door was opened from the inside.

The person who opened the door was a ragged old woman in her 60s.

"Do you want to drink water?" The old woman looked at the two people who looked like a couple of gods, but they were wearing shabby coarse clothes, and she asked curiously.

"Old lady, we are from out of town. We are tired from walking when we pass by here. We want to ask you for a drink of water." Lin Yunxi pretended to be a tired person and sat on the steps of the small house.

"It turns out they are from outside. I have some water, please wait." The old woman said and entered the house.

After a while, the old woman took out a gourd made of water from the house, which was filled with water.

"Do you have a water bag? Pour it into the water bag and drink." The old woman looked at Lin Yunxi and said warmly.

"Yes, old lady, give it to me." She took out a water bag from her sleeve pocket, unscrewed the bag, took the water ladle and poured the water into the water bag.

She handed the water ladle to the old woman and secretly put some water into the equipment in the science and technology library for testing.

Ever since she was raped by that abominable Yan Shuyan, when she went out to eat or eat anything, she had to check it before she dared to eat it.

Soon the science and technology library gave the result that the water was non-toxic.

She took a sip with confidence, looked at the old woman with a smile, and asked:

"Old lady, we first came to Xiangbei City and wanted to do some small business. I wonder if the environment in Xiangbei City is good and suitable for people like us to do business, or is it a good life in Xiangbei City?

Why do I think there are almost no people walking on this street? Is it something wrong with Xiangbei City? Why is this street different from the streets near the city gate? "

The old woman saw that she was a foreigner who came to this city to do business, and she smiled:

"You have asked the right person. My wife has moved to Xiangbei City alone for decades. Although she is not a native of Xiangbei City, she still has a general understanding of the situation here."

"Old lady, can you tell me that my husband and I are being ostracized by our brothers and have left our hometown to look for a place to make a living. We want to find a good place to make a living and settle down." Lin Yunxi's lies came out smoothly.

Murong Hao watched from the side as she lied without blushing or heart beating. He really admired this woman for telling the story so clearly.

"If you and your wife haven't started to stay in Xiangbei City yet, you'd better choose to go to other cities. This is not a good place." The old woman said this seriously when she saw that the two of them didn't look like bad people.

"Why?" Lin Yunxi looked at the old woman in confusion.

"The streets near the city gate where you enter the city are face-saving streets, specially built for the people of the imperial court. The people living in those streets are either rich or noble. They are either officials or merchants who collude with the government. ,

People like you who don't have much money can't do business with those merchants. They have the government as their backing. It's good if you don't get bullied. "

The old woman was thinking something and tried to persuade the two of them seriously.

"Is it really impossible to do business?" Lin Yunxi showed a disappointed expression.

"Listen to my wife's advice. In addition to those few streets, there are so many streets like ours on Qiyuan Street. You haven't seen it yet. Many people in this Xiangbei City came from places that were flooded decades ago. Moved here,

At that time, the government said they could give us fields for farming, but when the land was actually divided, not many people could get it.

They are all a group of poor people. If you look back, you will see that Xiangbei City is actually very poor. Many people on our street do hard work for people on the streets in front of them.

We have no land, so we can only do the lowest and hardest work. Even so, without food and money, many people in their families will often starve to death.

There were even people who specifically let their wives give birth to girls and sell them. This Xiangbei city was really a hell on earth. Food was incredibly expensive, and there was no money for medical treatment when they got sick. Many people starved to death or died of illness like this. "

The old woman sat on the steps and talked for a long time, with mist in her eyes.

"Then people here haven't thought about escaping from a city like this?" Lin Yunxi was very puzzled.

"You can escape wherever you go. You haven't eaten anything. You can't go more than a few miles before starving to death on the road. It's not like no one wants to escape here, but there are a few people who can succeed." The old woman shook her head.

"The imperial court distributes relief grains every year, haven't you received any?" Murong Hao on the side asked in a deep voice when he heard how hard the people lived.

"Relief food? It cannot fall into the hands of us people. The government distributes it layer by layer, and I don't even know who it is distributed to." The old woman forced a smile.

Finally, Lin Yunxi took out a small silver ingot from his sleeve pocket and handed it to the old woman as a reward for drinking water. After that, the two left Qiyuan Street and walked to other neighborhoods.