Chapter 560: Meeting
Rooster felt that Young Madam was thinking too much. He stammered, "If it’s a brothel, why can’t I hear any movement around?"
"A place of fireworks is nothing more than songs and dances. These sounds can’t be..."
Halfway through his sentence, Rooster was stunned. He almost forgot where he came from.
Seeing that he had thought it through, Shen Yijia turned to look at Song Jingchen, who had been silent. "Hubby, if we confirm that there’s something going on in the Fragrant Teahouse, will it be useful to report this matter to the higher-ups?"
Song Jingchen shook his head and said seriously, "It’s not illegal to open a brothel."
Moreover, Great Xia did not explicitly state that officials were not allowed to go to the brothel. At most, it would embarrass them.
Most importantly, the old prince did not know anything about politics at all. Apart from his title as a prince, he did not have any real power in his hands. No one would think that he was forming a party for personal gain.
If something happened, he would cry to the emperor. Even if it was for the sake of the royal family’s reputation, the emperor would not make a fuss. At most, he would ask him to close the Fragrant Teahouse. This way, the clues would be cut off again.
Song Jingchen even suspected that the other party wasn’t worried about this being exposed at all.
Taking ten thousand steps back, if it was confirmed that the women in the Fragrant Teahouse had been kidnapped, the final outcome would only be that the old prince would be dealt with as the mastermind, but...