Forced to be a concubine, I went to my husband's place to become a wealthy merchant

Chapter 145

With the help of the innkeeper, Ye Xi disguised herself as an old woman again and followed several people from the escort agency to Hangzhou City.

They first took a horse carriage, then changed to a passenger ship and traveled along the river all the way to Hangzhou City.

After Ye Xi arrived in Hangzhou City, she asked everyone in the escort agency to go back and she could leave on her own.

After the people from the escort agency left, she checked into an inconspicuous inn disguised as an old woman.

The next day, she went out again in this appearance, wanting to find out what was going on.

There is also a notice posted at a kiosk in a prominent location in the Hangzhou City Market, but people don't seem to pay much attention to it. Well, if this notice has been posted for two months, who would still pay attention to it?

It would be inconvenient for her to ask anyone casually in public, as she might easily be suspected.

She thought of her brother. She wanted to go back and stake out the area near Ye's house to see if she could catch Ye Xin coming in or out and ask him about the situation.

However, she immediately rejected this idea, because she felt that if it was really a trap set by Wei Jue, then the other party must be waiting for her to fall into the trap.

She can't be so stupid. She can't do this in such a hurry.

She first went to the street to find a little beggar, gave him a few taels of silver, and asked him to squat on the main street where the Ye family came and went.

If she saw a man passing by who looked very similar to her and was of similar age, she would try to secretly give him a note in her hand.

He specifically told the beggar to be careful and said he would give him double the money after the task was accomplished. Naturally, the little beggar agreed readily.

Ye Xi would stay in a bookstore every day.

The location of that bookstore is quite special. The windows on one wall of it are staggered with the windows of a room in the inn next door.

At first glance, the two buildings seem to have nothing in common, but when the windows are opened, people can see the people on the opposite side from the windows.

This was something Ye Xi discovered accidentally when she came to this bookstore when she was playing around.

At that time, she was still thinking that if a scholar was studying in this place, and some discordant sounds came from the inn next door, wouldn't it be very embarrassing? She didn't expect that she would use it today.

Ye Xi had already given a sum of money to the owner of the inn next door and rented the guest room opposite for a month.

She told the shopkeeper that if a young man specifically wanted to stay in this room, the shopkeeper should ask him what he was doing there. If he replied that he was here to taste the pre-rain Longjing tea, then he should let him in.

The shopkeeper had seen everything and thought it was just another reunion of a man and woman who had eloped. As long as there was money to be made, it didn't matter to him, so he agreed.

These days Ye Xi picked a few books and sat by the window of the bookstore, leaving early and returning late.

She knew Ye Xin's schedule, and if it didn't change, she should be able to wait for him during this time.

In order not to miss the meeting time, she seldom drank water and even asked the waiter to buy her meals.

Finally, on the third day, she heard some movement from the guest room of the inn next door.

"Glow-in-the-dark cup of fine grape wine. If you want to drink Pipa, please hurry up..."

The sound was low, and she moved closer to the open window to listen carefully.

She wrote in the note that after Ye Xin arrived in the room, he should go to the window and recite poetry casually.

This was to make her sure that the person coming was Ye Xin. She listened carefully for a while before confirming that it was the other person.

Ye Xin, who was reciting poems in the room, was a little puzzled. The little beggar suddenly bumped into him and stuffed something into his hand.

At first he was startled and a little frightened, then he thought of something, nervously clenched the things in his hands, and pretended to be nothing happened as he walked into the house.