Chapter 950.
Guangping County, was one of the three upper counties within the territory of Donglu Prefecture.
Linjiang County, where Wang Duan had once served, was also an upper county, and Guangping County’s prosperity was not inferior to Linjiang County at all, with a population that exceeded Linjiang’s. With easy access to land and water transportation, there were a great number of merchants and travelers from the south to the north.
The clues found by the Blood Clothes Guards investigating the disappearance case in the Prefecture some time ago were eventually merged into the city of Guangping County.
However, the amount of taxes provided by Guangping County every year accounted for a rather high proportion of Donglu Prefecture, so this upper county could not be lightly messed up, and with the fear of the true culprit’s strength, that’s why it has been delayed until now.
Guangping is three hundred and seventy miles away from the capital, Wang dust in the morning, along the official road all the way Mercedes-Benz, to noon time to see the county wall.
Just like Linjiang County, the county town was also built next to the Chunan River.
In fact, the two counties rely on the same river, Guangping is in the upper reaches of the Linjiang River, the river boat weaving, the shore pier bustling with people, very lively.
In addition to the Chunan River, the other three sides of the county are flat, and reclaimed a large amount of farmland, a manor house stands, the scenery is unique.
While resting on the road, Wang Dust disguised himself as a solo traveler who had traveled extensively, and after arriving at Guangping, he led his yellow horse into the middle of this bustling county.
“This grandpa, may I ask if you need a guide?”
Just after Wang Chen entered the city, he was followed by a few “little tails”, who chased him all the way, saying, “I am most familiar with this Guangping County, I can take you wherever you want to go, for only ten copper coins as a guide fee.”
Yet there were rivals, “Master, I only need eight copper coins!”
“Seven coins!”
“Six coins!”
Wang Dust saw that a few hairy children were on the verge of fighting, so he had to stop and say, “Don’t fight, take me to the best restaurant here, and I’ll give you twenty copper coins to split amongst yourselves.”
In order to avoid spooking the snakes, he is now playing the role of a first-time visitor to the rivers and lakes.
With dark skin and a weathered face, he looked like he was in his thirties or forties.
“Yeah!”
A few children immediately let out cheers, scrambling to take Wang Duan to the best restaurant in Guangping County City.
“The best restaurant we have here is Peony House, which has the strongest wine, the most beautiful people, and the best songs and dances ……”
Wang Duan held the yellow horse and listened to these kids talking about Peony House, a faint smile spread on his face.
Of course he knew about Peony House, because according to the Blood Clothes Guards’ investigation, most of the missing people had been to this restaurant before, so it was a key target of suspicion.
The nature of Peony House was very similar to the Spring Moon House in Linjiang County, combining a tavern, Ji Pavilion and gambling house into one, and then dividing it into three buildings, which had all kinds of enjoyment and consumption, and only entertained luxurious customers.
Ordinary people didn’t even have the qualifications to step into the threshold!
When he reached the front of the buildings, Wang Chen looked up at the golden plaque hanging above the front door and pulled out a large handful of copper coins and threw it on the ground, “Reward for you!”
This handful of copper coins amounted to thirty to forty pieces, tinkling on the ground, causing a few of the children leading the way to immediately scramble for them.
And when a fellow in front of Peony House saw this scene, he immediately greeted him with a smile, “This master, please come inside!”
The fellows of this kind of restaurant were the most discerning, and could basically tell at a glance if they had money or not.
The way he looked at Wang Chen was like looking at a big fat sheep!
“Uh-huh.”
Wang Dust threw the reins in his hand to him, “Take care of Laozi’s horse and feed it with more refined material.”
With that, Wang Dust threw out another silver ingot, “Arrange another elegant room for me, this is a reward for you!”
“Okay!”
The fellow immediately smiled, and busily took the reins and the silver, “You can rest assured, I guarantee that the arrangements are proper, if there are any problems, you can just whip the face of a small!”
Silver money opens the way, naturally no harm will come, Wang Dust was attentively welcomed into this luxurious and grandiose restaurant.
He was then arranged in an elegant room on the third floor.
“Good wine and good food, just serve it!”
After Wang Dust sat down, he put on a look of hunger and thirst, and directly slapped a silver ticket on the table, “Let your chef show his skills, master can afford to pay the silver!”
As the saying goes, money makes the devil work, reasonable requests like Wang Chen’s were naturally met to the fullest.
A steaming dish of delicacies was brought into the elegant room like running water and served on Wang Duan’s table.
Wang Dust perched himself on the table and chewed, eating happily.
“Master, may I ask if you need to listen to a song to cheer you up?”
While the wine was flowing, the restaurant’s staff brought a few girls with heavy makeup to the room and nodded to Wang Chen, “These girls in the building are the best at playing and singing, so you won’t be disappointed.”
The concubine girls threw winks at Wang Duan from behind.
Wang Chen glanced at them and waved his hand, “Change the batch.”
Restaurant fellow: “Uh ……”
Only to change a batch.
Wang Duan snorted: “You Peony House great reputation, take so crooked to fool people, is afraid of this master can not afford to give silver, or when the master is not to see the fat sheep ah?”
“Please don’t be angry.”
The restaurant fellow replied with a bitter face, “I will immediately go to the Jinxiu Pavilion to take a look and find a few more girls to show you.”
“Forget it.”
Wang Chen waved his hand with a big grin, “Let’s talk about it in the evening, prepare an upper room for Master, Master wants to play here for two days!”
The restaurant’s staff agreed.
After Wang Chen had eaten and drunk his fill, he let the fellow take him to the Yumsang Place in the Peony Building.
The Peony Building was divided into three buildings, besides the main building with guest rooms, there was also the Jinxiu Pavilion and the Yum Yum Place respectively.
The former was the Ji Pavilion, and the latter was the gambling house.
There are five floors up and down, each floor is full of gamblers. According to the restaurant’s staff, the rule here is that the winner is the biggest, and the higher up you go, the bigger the loss will be, and it all depends on the financial strength and luck of the competition.
As for the items to play, there are mainly dice, Pai Gow, chess and so on.
Interestingly, here is the guest with the guest in the gambling, gambling house does not sit in the bank only draw, to ensure that the gambling is fair.
And inside the gambling house is playing chips.
Wang dust did not immediately go down, but in the first floor round, heart roughly have a bottom, and then took out the silver ticket exchange a batch of chips in the hand.
It just so happened that one of the gamblers at the table next to him lost all his money and left the game, so Wang Chuan sat down.
This table is betting on the dice, the casino dealer is responsible for shaking the dice, and then the gamblers guess the size, the winner gets the chips proportionally from the loser’s side, it is the simplest game.
Accompanied by the clattering sound of the dice, the Dutchman will be the dice bell heavy on the table: “Guess big, guess small, buy to leave!”
The surrounding gamblers placed their bets, and Wang Chen waited until the others had finished before throwing out a stack of chips.
“Big!”
The next moment, the lotter opened the bell.
Four, five, six big!