"Big brother", the little bottle happily rushed into Zhang Feng's arms, two small hands tightly grasping Zhang Feng's clothes, her little head leaning on Zhang Feng's shoulder, a look of enjoyment on her face.

  Xiaoping had thought about her big brother a lot, now that Uncle Taiyun and Uncle Wu were gone, she only had Zhang Feng's brother left, although Grandpa and Grandma took good care of her, Xiaoping still missed her own big brother in her heart.

  At this time, another elderly couple walked out from behind the door. They were indeed Niu Yeye and his wife, who were kindly looking at the warm scene between Zhang Feng and her siblings.

  After the great army returned to Beiping, those villagers on the mountain were all settled by Zhu Di outside the city to form a new village. The small bottle entrusted to Zhang Feng by Tie Shan was temporarily fostered by Niu's couple. After all, Zhang Feng still had to be in the military camp and couldn't always accompany Xiao Ping'er, so he had to resort to this inferior strategy. On the day of entering the household register, Zhang Feng and Xiao Ping'er became a family, and now on Zhang Feng's household register, it was written "sister Zhang Ping'er" in three big words.

  Although it was a helpless move for Zhang Feng, the Niu couple couldn't be more eager to have such a clever and mischievous little girl bring some joy and atmosphere to their home.

  The old couple's children are not around, people say that when parents are in high positions, the wandering son also returns home, but things change frequently. The old couple's eldest son is now like Zhang Feng, also serving as a soldier, but at the border of the Great Wall, while their second daughter is married far away in Ruining Prefecture and can only return home once a year during festivals. The youngest son follows the owner of the cloth workshop to run around everywhere, often not at home.

  For being able to have a lively and lovely child like Xiaoping move in, the old couple expressed their warm welcome. Even Zhang Feng's intention to leave some silver money was refused by them. They were not short of money either. Although their youngest son was not at home, he would always leave some money for his parents.

  They just hope that this quiet home can have some laughter and joy. Now Xiao Ping has come, the old couple is raising her like their own granddaughter, loving her to death.

  "Uncle Niu, tomorrow I'm on holiday, so I plan to take Xiao Ping out for a trip. After all, she hasn't had a good time playing in Beijing since she arrived." Zhang Feng put down Xiao Ping from his arms and explained to the old couple.

  The old couple understood, they didn't mind this day either. After all, Zhang Feng often had to be in the military camp, and Xiaoping had plenty of time to accompany them. Now that Zhang Feng finally had some free time, it wasn't good to disturb the two siblings.

  ……

  The two siblings rested well at the Niu's house for a night, and early next morning, Tong'er was waiting for Zhang Feng to take her to that so-called fun place. As for Xiao Tong'er's expectation, Zhang Feng just smiled, but what they both didn't know was that Chen Feng's agreed-upon Hu Tong alley wasn't the kind of place they had imagined.

  The city of Beiping is very large, so large that for ordinary people, it may take a whole day to walk from the east side to the west side. It is square and faces north towards south, except for two relatively small missing parts in order to symbolize 'the sky collapses in the northwest and the earth sinks in the southeast', the entire city of Beiping is very neat and tidy.

  So Beiping's streets and alleys are also horizontal and vertical, with four districts and eight stabilities, and the Hutong alleys are all over the four urban areas, and this Rouge Hutong is in the southern district.

  Zhang Feng led Xiao Bin'er all the way to here, at this time Chen Hua and others had not arrived yet. Looking at the people coming and going in front of him at the entrance of the alley, he couldn't help but think of the scene when he asked for directions earlier.

  "Old fellow, I'd like to ask how to get to Hu Tong Alley." Zhang Feng asked an old man who was setting up a stall by the side of the road, while holding Xiao Ping'er's hand.

  "Oh, just walk to the end of this street and head east, you'll find it at the first alleyway." The old man's gaze when responding to Zhang Feng was quite strange, as if he was looking at a scoundrel.

  Perplexed Zhang Feng couldn't understand why no matter who he asked for directions to Hu Tong Alley, as long as they saw him leading Xia Ping'er, they would all show a face of disgust, and some aunties even showed a face of loathing. With his keen sense of hearing, Zhang Feng could even hear the curses from those aunties after they walked away.

  This made Zhang Feng very puzzled, thinking that something was wrong with the alley, why these people changed their appearance when they saw him carrying a small bottle, and he couldn't help but doubt what Chen Hua said about the good place, and his heart secretly drummed up a feeling that something bad would happen today.

  "Zhang, over here!" Chen Hua suddenly walked out from the alley, it turned out they hadn't arrived yet, but had already been there. Seeing Chen Hua's satisfied expression, Zhang Feng furrowed his brow and walked over.

  "Huh? Little brother, how did you bring this girl here? Was she the person you said you'd bring yesterday?" Chen Hua stared at Xiao Ping behind Zhang Feng, his face looking strange as he gazed at Zhang Feng.

  "What's wrong? I heard Brother Chen say there are fun places to go, so I brought Bottle along, after all, she has never been to Beiping City before."

  "Has Zhang arrived? Hurry up and invite him in, the girls have all prepared for him!" At this time, Ma Cheng saw Chen Hua standing outside the alley and knew that Zhang Feng had arrived, so he hastily invited him over.

  "What girl?" This made Zhang Feng even more puzzled. He stretched out half of his body to take a look inside the alley, and this time it was really bad.

  Zhang Feng's eyes widened and his mouth opened wide, the rouge lane in front of him was indeed true to its name. A strong scent of rouge and powder hit him in the face, followed by a group of flower-adorned girls calling out to passersby. The four words "Smoke Flower Willow Lane" suddenly appeared in Zhang Feng's mind.

  The little bottle saw her big brother staring at the inside in a daze, thinking there was something fun to see, and hurriedly wanted to go over and take a look. This scared Zhang Feng so much that he quickly stretched out his hand to cover Xiao Ping's eyes and pulled her back.

  "Brother Chen! You're not talking about that kind of place, are you? The Spring Breeze Pavilion?" Zhang Feng asked with difficulty, swallowing his saliva.

  Chen Hua nodded helplessly, a mixture of laughter and tears: "That's right, Chunfeng Pavilion is the largest one in Huajie Alley. Originally, this was where we planned to entertain you new recruits, but who would have thought that you'd bring a little girl along?"

  No wonder, no wonder those passersby looked at him with disdain, it turns out that Chunfeng Pavilion is a brothel. They thought he wanted to sell Xiaoping into it, which is why they were disgusted with themselves. But he had been on the mountain for 16 years and didn't know that brothels were called that, even the name "Smoke and Flowers Lane" was heard from his fellow disciples who came down the mountain, now where can he go to reason with them...

  "Ah! How did Brother Zhang bring a girl?" Ma Cheng's exclamation startled Xiao Ping'er, and she looked at this tall and big uncle (paying silent tribute to Ma Cheng for three seconds) timidly hiding behind Zhang Feng.

  "Brother Chen, I think I'll just forget it this time. You guys go ahead and have fun. I'll take the little bottle and go somewhere else to check it out." Zhang Feng had a bitter smile on his face. Although he also wanted to go into the legendary brothel to experience it for himself, it was clearly not possible today...

  "It doesn't matter, Zhang brother should still accompany Xiao Ping'er well. This kind of thing is not urgent, next time I'll invite you, older brother." Chen Hua patted his shoulder to comfort him.

  "Little bottle, go play somewhere else with your brother Zhang, you can't come here." Chen Hua squatted down and patted the little bottle's head, the little bottle bit her finger and didn't dodge, she still had an impression of this uncle.

  Just as Zhang Feng led Xiao Ping'er away, a voice came from not far away: "Baozi, you're here too..."

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