Early the next morning, before dawn, Yan Liqiang, who was wearing a green hood and a leather jacket, quietly left the solemn side door and left the manor from the solemn side door before dawn. From an alley, he avoided the carriages and horses waiting outside the manor, and came to the street near the plum garden not far away.

Pingxi City had just woken up at this time. There were already people on the street, but many shops had not opened yet. Some snow that had fallen two days ago had not completely dissipated. There was a sense of coldness in the air. Many people driving ox carts, and dung collectors were pulling a large wooden barrel on the ox carts, quietly shuttled through the city...

Liang Yijie was wearing a strong suit and a sword hanging around his waist. Sun Bingchen's outfit was like a businessman with a leather hat on his head. For such a trio, if he did not reveal his identity, it would be difficult for someone who had never met Sun Bingchen to associate him with a court official who inspected the imperial court.

"Sir, where are you going now?" Liang Yijie, who looked around, spoke first.

"Don't call me lord after you come out, call me master!" Sun Bingchen smiled and corrected.

"Yes, Master!"

"Li Qiang, are you familiar with Pingxi City?" Sun Bingchen looked at Yan Liqiang.

"I can find the place where the master wants to go, just tell me it!" Yan Liqiang responded.

"Okay, let's find a place to have breakfast first. Liqiang, you can lead the way, and you need more people and a lively place..."

"Do you want to call a taxi?"

"No need, just walk around the city and take a look. It's rare to walk around..."

"good!"

Yan Liqiang was not sure what Sun Bingchen wanted to see when he came out today. Is it a day trip to Pingxi City, or is it really trying to experience the hardships of the people in the middle and lower levels of Pingxi City, and there are many lively places where you can have breakfast. However, those places are different. Some places are visited by rich people, and some places are visited by ordinary people at the bottom. In these two places, what you eat, see, and hear are different.

Yan Liqiang thought about it, so he took Sun Bingchen and Liang Yijie to a restaurant not far from Meiyuan. The restaurant was called Quanchunlou. The various pastries they made were exquisite and delicate. It was very famous in Pingxi City. Early in the morning, many people would come to the restaurant for breakfast. I heard that scholars said that this place was naturally a place that rich people in Pingxi City liked.

When the three of them arrived at the restaurant, there were already many diners in the restaurant on the third floor. The shopkeepers were carrying baskets of steaming pasta, buns, and soup, passing through the restaurant. As soon as the three of them came, they found a place to sit down. A waiter came up to greet him. After a moment, they brought the three of them a few baskets of signature money buns in the small building.

Sun Bingchen ate one and the fragrance was everywhere. He couldn't help but laugh, "No, good..."

Seeing that the inspection made the adults eat breakfast here with peace of mind, Yan Liqiang also pinched his little thoughts and said nothing more.

After eating breakfast slowly, Pingxi City was completely active, and there were more people on the streets, and shops were opened. Sun Bingchen thought of going to the most lively market in Pingxi City to take a look. Yan Liqiang didn't say much and took the two of them out of the restaurant.

As soon as he walked out of the restaurant, Yan Liqiang frowned slightly. The feeling of being peeped and watched quietly appeared. He looked around and was on the side of the road not far from the restaurant. At some point, a carriage in a black shed was parked. The carriageman seemed to be feeding the horses, but from the corner of his eyes he looked at the restaurant.

Just as Yan Liqiang was hesitating whether to remind him, Liang Yijie walked over and patted Yan Liqiang's shoulder. When his palm touched Yan Liqiang's shoulder, he pinched him slightly. An inexplicable smile appeared on his face. He looked at Yan Liqiang deeply, "Let's go, Liqiang, you'll be responsible for leading the way today!"

"yes!"

...

Late at night, in the county magistrate's study, Ye Tiancheng was listening attentively as a subordinate reported the whereabouts of Sun Bingchen and the other two in one day...

"Today, Sun Bingchen took his two servants around him to visit him in a private manner. He left the Chu Family Manor early in the morning and walked around Pingxi City. They first went to Quanchunlou for breakfast, and then went to Dahongfang City for a morning. At noon, they had dinner at Zuiyue Tower. In the afternoon, they went to Xuanyue Temple and Jiulong Bridge. After leaving Jiulong Bridge, they drank two pots of tea in Mingxiang Teahouse on Zhongshun Street. They heard that people had been talking about books for half an hour. In the evening, after dinner at Youjia Shop, they called a carriage and returned to Chu Family Manor..."

"Who are the two servants Sun Bingchen took out for a private visit today?" Ye Tiancheng asked with his eyes narrowed.

"One is Liang Yijie, and the other is the young man named Yan Liqiang whom he recruited. All day today, these two people followed Sun Bingchen!"

Hearing this, Ye Tiancheng's eyebrows stretched a little, with a smile on his face, which made him look much more relaxed. "Who are the people who have talked to Sun Bingchen today?"

"When I was in Dahongfang City, I chatted with a rice shop with the owner of a cloth shop. At noon, I asked about the livelihood of a housekeeper in Zuiyue Tower. I chatted with a few idle people drinking tea at Mingxiang Teahouse, but nothing else was left. The things they talked about, the criminal arrest yamen had already asked people to ask about them. Those people were also ordinary people in Pingxi City, without any other background. The content of their chat and the information of those people were all here..." The man who replied, handed over a thick stack of paper with words on it.

Ye Tiancheng looked around casually and found that it was just some ordinary things. The people who were chatting with Sun Bingchen were nothing special, so he put the paper together, "Yes, continue to monitor. As long as Sun Bingchen leaves the Chu Family Manor, I must know every move he makes!"

"yes!"

...

The next day, Yan Liqiang continued to take Sun Bingchen to visit privately, but the place where Sun Bingchen visited privately the next day became outside the city.

There are several towns outside the city of Pingxi City and many villages. Sun Bingchen wanted to go, so he naturally could not stop him, so he had to go. Fortunately, the road to the private visit outside the city was a bit far away. Sun Bingchen asked Liang Yijie to prepare a carriage. Three people went there and came back in a carriage. The so-called private visit was similar to seeing the scenery. I would observe and learn about the lives of the people inside and outside Pingxi City along the way. The whole process was not the bloody scene that often appeared in TV dramas, and it seemed ordinary.

On the third day, Sun Bingchen continued to leave the city, took a carriage and went to the county closest to Pingxi City. He took a look at the place and came back in the evening.

Early in the morning of the fourth day, Liang Yijie asked the casual guards to pack up their things and prepare to leave Pingxi City. Yan Liqiang also took on a task. On behalf of Sun Bingchen, he ran around the city and went to the county magistrate's office and the governor's office, and gave two invitations to the county magistrate's office Ye Tiancheng of Pingxi County and Huangfu Qianqi of the county magistrate's office, and invited the two to the Chu family manor to have supper in the evening.

Both the county magistrate Ye Tiancheng and the governor Huangfu Qianqi agreed happily.

This day was December 18, 12, 12th year of Yuanping, the Great Han Empire...

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Chapter completed!