"Let's go. Take me over to the Lanxiang Troupe."
Feng Qizheng's eyes went wide. "You... when did your standards drop this far? Straight down from the courtesans' quarter to the Lanxiang Troupe... Or do you have some special taste I don't know about, and old ugly women are what you go for?"
Ning Chen felt a headache coming on.
"Less of your nonsense. This is business!"
The two of them left the residence and rode for the outer city.
"Ning Chen, aren't we going to the Lanxiang Troupe?"
Feng Qizheng asked it on the way, out of curiosity.
Ning Chen said, "The Inspectorate first."
He did not know what the Ghost Doctor looked like.
But the Inspectorate was bound to have a record of him.
And while he was there he could collect Pan Yucheng and Gao Ziping and the rest of them.
They came to the Inspectorate.
The Inspectorate did have a file on the Ghost Doctor, sure enough... By the record, lechery was second nature to the Ghost Doctor, his face was ugly, and he was barely put together.
Ning Chen then took Pan Yucheng and the others out of the Inspectorate and on to the outer city.
The Lanxiang Troupe was not far from the outer city's market quarter.
The crowd here was a mixed one.
Directly across from the Lanxiang Troupe there happened to be a wine house.
Ning Chen took a room on the second floor and opened the window, and through it he could see the front door of the Lanxiang Troupe.
The light was still good, and the Ghost Doctor was hardly going to come touring a whorehouse in broad daylight.
"Ning Chen, what exactly are we doing here?"
Chen Chong asked it out of curiosity.
Ning Chen smiled. "Catching the Ghost Doctor."
"The Ghost Doctor?"
That startled several of them.
Ning Chen was surprised in his turn. "You know about the Ghost Doctor too?"
Pan Yucheng said, "Of course we do. This fellow's art of remaking a face is a formidable thing... Plenty of the bandits on the Inspectorate's wanted list have…