We Agreed On Experiencing Life, So Why Did You Immortals Become Real?

The next day at noon.

Xiao Mo was teaching Jiang Xin how to cook fish porridge in the kitchen.

Catfish had fewer bones, especially in the belly area, making it perfect for cooking fish porridge.

After sprinkling chopped green onions on top, the aroma became even more enticing.

The other parts of the catfish were used for frying and stir-frying, with a few wild peppers and some ginger shreds added, making the taste exceptionally delicious.

When Jiang Xin put a mouthful of fish meat in her mouth, her eyes immediately lit up, and she ate faster than usual.

“I’m going into the city to take a look, you just wait in the courtyard,” Xiao Mo said to Jiang Xin after lunch. Today he planned to go into the city to inquire about that Sister Zi’s whereabouts, and also exchange some gold for silver but just as Xiao Mo turned around, Jiang Xin reached out and gently tugged at the corner of his clothes, “Can I come with you?”

Looking at Jiang Xin’s delicate and refined appearance, Xiao Mo frowned, “It might not be good for you to come with me, you’re too eye-catching.”

Jiang Xin had fair and delicate skin with exquisite features, clearly a budding beauty. In this man-eating Western Region, she would easily attract unwanted attention.

“It’s okay, I have a way,” Jiang Xin hurriedly ran into the kitchen.

When Jiang Xin came out, her little face had already been blackened by herself, just like when they first met.

“This way it’s fine,” Jiang Xin said confidently. “Mother and Sister Zi used to tell me that I was too pretty, so when going out I had to blacken my face and pretend to be a boy, otherwise I could easily be sold.”

Xiao Mo smiled, “When I asked you to take a bath and change clothes, you refused no matter what. Were you afraid that if I saw you clean, I would turn around and sell you?”

Jiang Xin lowered her head, her two small fingers poking at each other, guilt showing in her bright, watery eyes.

Although Jiang Xin didn’t answer, seeing her like this was essentially an admission.

Xiao Mo felt that if it hadn’t been for last night when she went to catch fish and was forced to bathe in the stream, she might have faced him with a dirty and disheveled appearance for several more days.

Until she truly believed in him.

“I don’t blame you. Having vigilance is a good thing. Since you want to go, let’s go together.”

After speaking, Xiao Mo returned to his room, took out two or three pieces of broken gold, placed them close to his chest, then headed toward Luofeng City with Jiang Xin.

Luofeng City was about an hour’s journey from the abandoned village where Xiao Mo lived.

After Xiao Mo brought Jiang Xin into the city, he planned to go directly to “Ma’s Pawn Shop” in the west of the city.

The boss behind Ma’s Pawn Shop was involved in similar business dealings as Squire Fang.

As the saying goes, when peers meet, they are particularly hostile to each other.

Even though Boss Ma and Squire Fang appeared harmonious on the surface, they secretly wished each other dead.

So even if Squire Fang secretly sent people to look for those “little brats” from that night, they generally wouldn’t come to Boss Ma’s place.

Otherwise, Boss Ma would definitely spread the word about Squire Fang keeping a concubine and having his private money stolen, making Squire Fang lose face thoroughly.

When entering the pawn shop, a shop assistant saw Xiao Mo’s ragged appearance and reached out to stop him, but seeing that Xiao Mo had a few pieces of broken gold, he let them through directly.

At the current gold-to-silver exchange rate in Luofeng City in the Western Region, the two taels of gold in Xiao Mo’s chest could be exchanged for twenty taels of silver.

But the pawn shop owner also guessed that the gold in this little beggar’s hands was of dubious origin, not knowing where it was stolen from, so he deliberately lowered the price to fourteen taels of silver.

After several rounds of negotiation, Xiao Mo finally settled at seventeen taels of silver.

There was no choice, Xiao Mo felt this was the highest price his dirty gold could fetch here.

Although he could visit a few more pawn shops and possibly exchange for an extra tael or a few coins but doing so would greatly increase his chances of exposure.

After exchanging the silver, Xiao Mo took the money and left the pawn shop, then led Jiang Xin to the backyard of Luofeng City’s Fengyue Tower.

Although Fengyue Tower was a brothel but brothels had one characteristic, that is, they attracted people from all walks of life, and men, once they encountered women, especially when lying in bed with women, tended to open up and talk.

Where the brothel madam was shrewd in business was that she would organize the information that clients revealed and act as an intelligence broker.

Some people even came specifically to sell intelligence to Fengyue Tower.

As for clients being “leaked”?

All information from Fengyue Tower was just “speculation,” not guaranteed to be true.

So there was no such thing as “leaking.” All information was just what Fengyue Tower had “heard.”

As for whether you’d come sleep with our brothel girls in the future?

The figures and appearances of Fengyue Tower’s girls were in a class of their own.

If you had the ability, don’t come in the future.

Otherwise, when you do come, be more tight-lipped and don’t tell our girls everything.

If you really wanted to make an issue of it, then go talk to my old boss, the Luofeng City Lord.

Actually, Xiao Mo didn’t have much confidence in whether he could find out about “Sister Zi” but unexpectedly, Fengyue Tower actually had similar information.

“Little brother, you mentioned a sword-carrying woman with three or four children? That sword-carrying woman also has a mole at the corner of her eye and is about as tall as me?” After Xiao Mo gave three taels of silver, a scantily dressed, heavily made-up woman smiled at Xiao Mo.

“Yes,” Xiao Mo nodded.

“What a coincidence. Previously there was indeed a client who said he saw a woman with several children flying toward the direction of Crimson Sun Sect.

Because this woman was indeed beautiful, and her sword-flying cultivation left a deep impression, this client remembered it very clearly. When he mentioned it to the girl afterward, he was quite excited about it.”

“Crimson Sun Sect?” Xiao Mo frowned, “What kind of sect is this?”

As soon as Xiao Mo finished asking, the woman looked at him again.

Xiao Mo’s eyebrow twitched, and he gave her another tael of silver.

“Crimson Sun Sect specializes in the art of alchemy. The sect’s grade isn’t high, the sect master is merely at the Golden Core realm. As for reputation, it’s just average. We don’t know much about them either.

After all, little guy, as you know, we’re just a small brothel in a small city.

Although we rely on the City Lord and can sell some information, how much can we really access? Even slightly deeper information, even just a little bit, wouldn’t be worth just the little silver you’re paying.”

“Understood, thank you, sister,” Xiao Mo bowed in salute.

“Giggle…” the woman covered her mouth and laughed lightly. “You little fellow, your bow is quite proper, like a scholar, and you’re quite good-looking too. How about it? Would you like to enter my Fengyue Tower and become a male courtesan?”