The Demon Concubine of God

People imagine that "Sanjianzhai" means three houses side by side, or it may just be a vulgar name of an organization.

Some people say that the owner of the Three Houses is a powerful dark organization with many capable people and righteous men, and its power is comparable to that of a country. Others say that the Three Houses have all-powerful hands and eyes, and that they can find out any secrets they want to know, and they can punish anyone they want to punish, no matter how rich you are or how powerful you are. They are secretive, untraceable, and unexpected, and the things they do seem to be related, but there is no clue, which makes many people who want to investigate them feel troubled.

Shen Wen was sitting at the desk by the east window in the third room of the three rooms arranged in a row, staring at the items on the table in a daze.

The layout and furnishings of the third room are even more familiar. It looks very much like the room she and Zhong Jie lived in when they were young. The checkered bed sheet, the anime figurines on the bedside table, and the sketches of landscapes on the wall are their common talents and hobbies. This is an imitation of Zhong Jie's room. There are also furnishings in the west compartment, the same checkered bed sheet, the books and pens on the bedside table, although they are not real here, they are very realistic, just the style she usually likes to use. There is also a small area where she puts the drum set. Although it has been moved, there are traces of it being placed there, and a drumstick is left on the ground.

There was no need to doubt anything. This room was enough to prove that Zhong Jie had been here and had lived there for a long time. On the desk, there were also books and handwriting left by him, as well as his sketchbook. It was a comic book, with a simple soldier in a big hat, a vivid and interesting self. Shen Wen lingered and chased the corner of the book, so that the character moved vividly. In the animation, Zhong Jie was a lonely soldier, sitting under a tree with a backpack on his back, thinking. The last page was a bit strange, with only a keyboard drawn.

Shen Wen spent three days leisurely in the courtyard of the three houses, and finally digested the shock she received on the first day. She asked Zhinuan to get a bamboo recliner in the courtyard of the first house, and then she lay on it with her eyes closed to take a nap, but her mind was like a revolving lantern thinking about her past and present lives. Although this life was a halfway one, she still had some memories of her previous life when she was a child, and as time went by, those memories kept coming back, especially the years when she stayed in the Shen Guogong Mansion when she was a child.

Zhinuan sat on a small stool beside her and peeled walnuts for her. Shen Wen suddenly said, "Zhinuan, do you know if your former chief chairman and I had any intersection in the past?"

Zhi Nuan thought about it seriously and said, "I don't know. I am just a servant. I have only met the chief master twice. He doesn't like to meet outsiders. In my impression, he is a very quiet person. Compared with my chief master, he is even worse. My chief master is the one who is closest to him, and they don't sit together and chat like you and I."

Shen Wen tapped the handle of the chair with his fingers, recalling the scene over and over again in his head.

The handsome man looked at the child gently and asked, "Are you sure you don't want to come with me? Although life will be a little harder, it will be much more enjoyable than living here. Don't you believe me? Look..." The handsome man raised his arm to show the child the wound he had just cut, "My blood saved you, and my blood is still flowing in your body."

The little boy believed it this time, but he was afraid. The grandfather who had raised him up had such a strong control over him that he dared not struggle at all. He was as in awe of this elder as if he were a god. He and his elder brother were both ordinary people, so how could they dare to disobey their grandfather? His grandfather would make them suffer miserably.

The handsome man looked at him with regret and confusion in his eyes. He was not sure if taking him away would harm him. Perhaps his fate would not get better. After all, he also had opponents he was afraid of. If he miscalculated, the child would surely fall into her hands, and then he might be doomed.

This meeting was their last meeting, and there was no news of each other after that.

Let’s not think about this situation for now.

Shen Wen reorganized his thoughts.

But another one popped up in my head.

This time I thought of the man Chu Yanqiu.

She couldn't understand why she was thrown on the street for no reason. Mr. Chu had a lot of secret guards and private soldiers, and she didn't know what strong opponent he encountered at that time to take her away.

So Shen Wen asked again: "The head of your family should be very powerful, right? Was I taken out from the Duke of Ji's Mansion by someone he sent?"

Zhi Nuan replied, "I'm not sure. The headmaster didn't mention the Duke Ji's Mansion when assigning tasks recently. And the girl wasn't kidnapped from the Duke Ji's Mansion, but from the Nine Red Dust Streets of the brothel. There were two groups of people trying to kidnap you. I know those two groups. One is from the Rui Wang Mansion and the other is from the Imperial Master's Mansion. They were really bold this time. They wore the clothes of their respective families and did this in broad daylight in the downtown area."

Shen Wen said: "The brothel? The nine red dust streets?"

Oh my god! What did she miss? How come she has no memory of it at all?

"No, I can't just lie at home..."

So Shen Wen bounced up and brushed off the wrinkles on his body and said, "Let's go! Let's go to the place where the accident happened."

Seeing that she had decided to go, Zhinuan said nothing and immediately got up and followed her out.

The place where the robbery took place now seems to be an extremely secluded place. The two-meter-wide alley is now silent and cold, with not even a single pedestrian passing by.

Shen Wen and Zhi Nuan sat in a small teahouse on the right side of the street facing the alley and drank tea. Shen Wen asked about some details of what happened and some people's appearances from time to time.

At this time, a dirty little girl in flowery clothes passed by the teahouse with a little boy in grey coarse cloth trousers and jacket. They must have been very thirsty, so they timidly moved to the side of Shen Wen, stared at the tea in Shen Wen's hand and asked: "Sister, what kind of tea is this? Is it black tea or green tea..."

The little boy next to him couldn't help licking his lips. He also asked, "So the tea stalls here give out free snacks? How luxurious..." If he hadn't had a shred of common sense left in him, he would have reached out to take the snacks on the plate.

Zhinuan was amused by his words. She glanced at Shen Wen and with Shen Wen's secret consent, she picked up the snacks and said with a smile: "How can the snacks be given away for free here? Of course they were bought with money." As she said that, she distributed the snacks to the two children.

Shen Wen asked the two children: "Why did you come here alone? Why is there no adult with you? Are you from around here?"

The older girl ate some snacks and said, "We don't live here. We live in the countryside outside the city. Our mother got seriously ill a few days ago and kept crying at night. My brother and I had no choice but to run to the city to find our father and go home."

Shen Wen saw that although they were wearing coarse cloth clothes, they were not patched, so he guessed that their family was probably well off. After thinking for a while, he asked, "What does your family do? What did your father do in the city?" As he spoke, he handed the tea bowl in his hand to the little girl, and the two of them rushed to drink it up.

Zhinuan asked the waiter to bring two more bowls of tea and ordered two plates of snacks.

The little girl was very articulate. She quickly replied, "My family is a farmer. My father is a scholar. My mother said that he studied in the city and became a respectable man."

Shen Wen picked up a piece of snack that had just been served and handed it to the little girl. The little boy saw that he was good at appreciating snacks, so he also interrupted the conversation and said, "My father is very respectable. My mother said that she admires people like my father the most in her life. I heard that my father has a second mother in the city. He is very busy in the city and has not returned to the village for more than half a year."

The little girl glared at her brother unhappily and said, "Don't talk nonsense."

The little boy was still not convinced and said, "How could I say such nonsense? Daddy is living in that second mother's house. If we hadn't asked where Daddy and his family lived, wouldn't we have come to find him?"

Then the little boy asked Shen Wen, "Sister, do you know how to get to Nanjie Hutong? My father lives in Lai's Braised Meat Shop in Nanjie Hutong. Her female shopkeeper is called Lai Fengzhi. It's easy to find her."

Shen Wen smiled and said, "You have given a complete account of this. Is it the adults in the village who told you this?"

The little boy was so embarrassed that he said, "I heard it word for word. I still remember the tone of his voice. That man was Uncle Niu, the cart driver in our village."

Zhinuan touched the two children's heads and said, "How many days have you been looking for them? Judging from the dirty clothes, South Street should be in the south of the city. How did you find East Street?"

The little girl suddenly realized and scratched her head and said, "Isn't that right? But before, an official said that this is South Street. He also told me that if I still can't find it, I can go to Cuiyan Tower to find him. He will personally take us to find it. Did he lie to me and my brother?"

The little boy said to his sister, "No, that soldier is also a good man. He said that those who wear armor and boots are officials of the court, and officials of the court are high-ranking officials who serve the people."

Xiaodouzi, you are so naive!