Chapter Fifty One.

"General Fei,I would like to start the investigation soon so I will need someone who is familiar with Moon City to guide me. So I was wondering if you would allow Bro Feng..."Before Duan Xinyue completes relaying his request,Feng Yi immediately agrees without allowing General Fei to give his consent.

"Now that you've mentioned the investigation how are you going to conduct the investigation?"General Fei asks paying attention.

"I have to find someone who is familiar with Splendor Music House and bribe him,"Duan Xinyue says jokingly yet seriously.

"Speaking of that I know a popular instrumentalist who resigned from Splendor Music House a few months ago and joined Azalea Opera House,"Feng Yi speaks drawing attention.

"What's his name and why did he resign?"

"His name is Yuan Ye. People say he said he's tired with playing instruments so now he wants to try doing opera."

"It's rare for someone who is addicted to playing instruments to suddenly quit. Maybe he got injured or something happened at Splendor Music House,"Lei Qiang comments his gazed fixed at Duan Xinyue and waiting for his response.

"We'll visit him in the evening,"Duan Xinyue concludes and drags Feng Yi outside leaving the other two to resume playing their game.

"Bro Duan where are you taking me?"Feng Yi asks Duan Xinyue continues dragging him away. Duan Xinyue let's go of him immediately,"Oh I wanted to remove a distraction from the two playing inside."

"How am I distraction?"Feng Yi questions back feeling offended.

"Sorry then. See you in the evening."

"Sure."

The two part ways as Duan Xinyue heads back to his tent.

Meanwhile on their way,one of the horses pulling the carriage gets injured by accidentally stepping on a bunch of thorns. It keeps leaping making the carriage lose balance.

"Stop the carriage!"Hong Yi who is now in the carriage shouts. Du Yichen has completely lost control of the horses. He leaves it up to fate to take its course. Hong Yi has experienced such things before so he immediately jumps out of the carriage,runs after it and snatches the horse bridles from the panicking Du Yichen and stops the horses. Du Yichen is breathing heavily due to the shock that he coughs afterwards.

"Are you okay?"Hong Yi inquires.

"Yes,that was close."Du Yichen confirms holding his breath.

"One of the horses is injured."

"What do we do?"

"It might take time for it to completely heal so we have to get another one. There's a small horse ranch in front let's see if we can get one."

"I'll give you money to get the horse and I will stay here to guard the carriage."

Du Yichen immediately takes out his money pouch and hands it over to Hong Yi,"Take it all because we don't know the exact horse price."

"Fine,"Hong Yi says walking away.

"Hey what do we do with this injured one?"

"We'll deal with it later,"Hong Yi replies as he increases his pace and disappears out of sight after a few minutes.

After an hour he comes back riding on a horse with a twelve year old boy.Du Yichen immediately alights from the carriage as he hears the movement. They immediately exchange the injured horse with a healthy one. The twelve year old boy leaves with the injured one.

"I thought you would leave the horse here to be devoured by wolves."

"I just told them it's very beautiful and a little injured so they agreed to take it,"Hong Yi replies still maintaining a straight face.

"I didn't know you would compliment anything else apart from your master,"Du Yichen jokes and receives a glare in response.

"Get in the carriage,"Hong Yi commands.

To avoid angering him any further,Du Yichen immediately does as instructed and they set off.

In the evening Duan Xinyue dresses up ready to go to Azalea Opera House with Feng Yi. As he immediately gets out of the tent,he finds Lei Qiang standing outside dressed up too.

"Lei-xiong,why are you here?"Duan Xinyue asks surprised.

"I'm going with you."

"What?"Duan Xinyue laughs,"Lei-xiong I haven't asked you yet,why didn't you leave with Hong Yi and Du Yichen ?"

"General Fei asked me to stay,"Lei Qiang replies looking away probably indicating he's lying. Duan Xinyue doesn't dwell much on the topic as he leads the way to General Fei's tent to pick Feng Yi up. The three of them immediately leave the military camp and head towards Moon City.

Azalea Opera House is a recently opened opera house and is yet to gain popularity. As they get in,they are a few people seated inside probably waiting to watch opera.

"It isn't bustling as my Qingfeng Pavilion,"Duan Xinyue brags.

They settle down at a table upstairs where the rich customers usually sit.They sit down for a while before Duan Xinyue notices a girl in a red gown walking upstairs. He guesses she might be going backstage and suggests they should follow her.

"Isn't it inappropriate to follow her? She might think we're perverts,"Feng Yi points out.

"Don't worry showgirls aren't that timid. She might think we're interested in her and we want to tip her off later and that will promote her business,"Duan Xinyue comments confidently.

"No wonder you're the owner of Qingfeng Pavilion."

There's a corridor after the upstairs venue leading to the Dressing Room where the performers usually dress themselves in. As suggested, they follow the girl and as predicted she keeps looking back at them and smiling shyly. But still she increases her pace as she isn't sure of their real intentions. When she reaches the Dressing Room, she's surprised to find the rest of the showgirls standing outside and the door seems to be locked.

"What happened?"the girl asks anxiously.