Although Xu Yun and Ruan Qingshuang knew very well that illegal businesses like casinos and chicken coops wouldn't be open for business during the day, they still followed the address that Hua Zhongxiong had given them. In less than a morning's time, they easily found the place. According to Hua Zhongxiong's description, it was a place with a video screening room, and there was a hidden gambling place inside.
Of course, that was a few years ago. In today's society, even the most backward places wouldn't have a video screening room, right? After all, the speed of social development was advancing by leaps and bounds. Even Internet cafes had been declining for many years. Other than large clubs, a considerable number of them were half-dead, not to mention video screening rooms, which had long been extinct.
Now, in front of Xu Yun was a teahouse. Ruan Qingshuang couldn't help but frown. "We didn't find the wrong place. Could that person have remembered wrongly? There's no video screening room. Isn't this clearly a teahouse? Should we call again to ask and confirm? "
"No need to ask," Xu Yun said. "Sister Shuang, casinos are places where sheep's head is hung but dog meat is sold. It's just that a few years ago, sheep's head was hung here, and now it's a goat's head. But the essence hasn't changed. It's still selling dog meat. Hua Zhongxiong even suffered from depression because of this incident. I believe that he definitely didn't remember the wrong place. "
"Gambling in a teahouse?" Ruan Qingshuang was a little confused. She had never been to a teahouse before, but she subconsciously thought that it was a place where scholars and refined scholars sat together to drink tea and chat. The people drinking tea should be writers or painters. Everyone gathered together to talk about creation and how to use works to criticize reality or transmit positive energy. How could it be a casino?
Xu Yun shrugged. How many teahouses nowadays didn't have a few hidden doors and a few mahjong tables? Otherwise, who would come to drink tea? Scholars and refined scholars? There were a lot of high-end private clubs. How could a small teahouse on the street attract people who thought they were virtuous and virtuous? This wasn't derogatory or sarcastic. If literary people didn't think highly of themselves, then they wouldn't have the capital to write good works that would be immortalized for generations to come!
Of course, this was referring to a real literary scholar, not a literary loafer who was unsatisfied with half a bottle.
Perhaps after this place was changed into a teahouse, gamblers would no longer be prevented from coming here to gamble during the day. However, the day was not the right time. Xu Yun was not stupid enough to cause trouble for himself for no reason. After confirming the location, he left with Ruan Qingshuang for the time being.
Although Nanjiang's specialty snacks were well-known, they were not to the liking of Ruan Qingshuang. Xu Yun ate with relish. He could now list out a hundred examples of the delicacies from all over Hua Xia. As for eating, anything that could fill one's stomach shouldn't be wasted.
For someone like Xu Yun who had been starving in the mountains, there was no food that was not appetizing. He had swallowed snake gall, chewed bean worms, and when he was hungry, he could even dig out an ant's nest and suffocate it in a water tank to eat … Of course, those harsh survival training in the wild had long been a thing of the past, but it had created Xu Yun's frugal habit.
Only people who had been starved knew the preciousness of food.
Seeing that Ruan Qingshuang had some things that were really difficult to eat, Xu Yun didn't hesitate and directly helped her solve it. Soon, he was full. Ruan Qingshuang had thoughts, but she didn't have much appetite. However, she couldn't persuade Xu Yun. She still bought a bai ji bun on the way back to the hotel.
When the sun finally set, the street lights in Nanjiang City had been turned on. The traffic on the road was not sparse. For a city like this that relied on coal mining, the streets were full of luxury cars. It was enough to hold a car exhibition in a small county. Especially those kinds of large SUVs, such as the Land Rover Range Rover, BMW X5, Grand Cherokee, and the Porsche Cayenne that Xu Yun drove. They were not rare on this big road. From time to time, one could see the Barbossa's six-wheeled off-road that was close to ten million …
Let's put it this way. A luxury car that cost five million didn't have a sense of superiority here. The A8 and 7 series or Mercedes-Benz S-Class were just like the A6, 5 series, and E-class in a small county. They were really common. Ferraris and Lamborghinis were rare. Because the road conditions in this city were quite bad and bumpy, off-road vehicles were paid attention to. In contrast, supercars were much rarer. Only a few people who weren't afraid of playing with a broken chassis would get a bull to run on the ground … It was a waste of natural resources.
When Xu Yun drove to the teahouse, there were already many cars parked outside the teahouse. From the imported Audi Q7 to the domestic Changfeng Cheetah, there were cars of all prices. Based on this, Xu Yun could be sure that this was a place that was pretending to be a sheep's head but selling dog meat. How many cultured people would drive a Changfeng Cheetah to drink tea?
After all, the older generation didn't have driver's licenses yet. Cultured people generally didn't know how to drive. It wasn't like now, where the streets were full of road killers. If the line was not busy, then the lane was randomly changed … Sometimes, he really felt that the kind of adults who brought children to run red lights were not good people. You already had no quality and were incurable, but you shouldn't harm the children, right? Quality had to be grasped from the beginning. Stopping at a red light was the most basic thing.
The Hua Xia style of crossing the road had long been ridiculed by other countries internationally more than once. In the eyes of some pedestrians, the traffic lights were fart. Some drivers were the same. The traffic lights without cameras were just decorations. What was the harm in running them? Anyway, it wouldn't deduct points …
Xu Yun and Ruan Qingshuang got out of the car, locked the car, and walked straight into the teahouse.
The lady boss of the teahouse greeted them with a smile. "Oh, the two of you are here again. Please come in. What would you like to drink?"
The people who opened the door to do business greeted everyone with a smile. People who had never seen them before were like regulars. There was no pressure at all to greet them. Although she called Ruan Qingshuang a beauty with a smile on the surface, she didn't know how many times she had cursed a fox spirit in her heart.
If a woman who came to gamble with a man wasn't a fox spirit, what was she? She was a man's plaything.
"We are not here to drink tea. We are here to find someone." Ruan Qingshuang didn't have so many tricks up her sleeves. She went straight to the point. Xu Yun knew that she was anxious, so he couldn't say anything. After all, she was looking for news of her brother. Anyone would be anxious.
When she heard that they weren't here to "spend money" but to find someone, the lady boss's face changed. Could it be that a customer's wife came to catch them gambling? "Find someone? Miss, you have come to the wrong place. I am the only woman here. Who else can there be? "
"Lady boss, you don't have to pretend. We are all people in society. Who doesn't know about this little trick?" Xu Yun smiled slightly. "But don't worry. We are not here to trouble your customers. We are just here to inquire about a person."
Although the lady boss's face eased a little, she was still a little unhappy. "Go to the police station to inquire about a person. What's the use of looking for an old woman like me? Go find someone who checks household registration. Go, go, go. I am busy here. I don't have time to waste with you. I won't see you out. "
Before they asked anything, the lady boss was in a hurry to see them out. Obviously, she was afraid of delaying her business and was too lazy to talk nonsense with them.
However, Ruan Qingshuang didn't give up. She took out a photo of Ruan Chao from her pocket and stood in front of the lady boss. "I just want to ask you one thing. Have you seen this person? Eighteen or nineteen, thin and tall … "
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