The pickup truck drove along the path to the northwest of the town, and when it turned the corner, it saw a retro-style pub with an eye-catching sign.
"Watch the car." Wu Qi stepped out of the car and ordered Gao Yuan and Guo Baibo.
Wu Qi walked to the door of the tavern. The door of the tavern was an arched wooden door. Wu Qi opened the wooden door and went in. What he saw was a tan-toned room. This is a small pub, with a bar on the right row and round tables on the right row. There are several bright yellow chandeliers hanging on the wooden ceiling, and a faint fragrance of fresh malt floats in the air.
It was obviously daytime, but entering the tavern felt like walking into a dimly lit night. A few dim lights in a dark room, coupled with the air mixed with the smell of alcohol, can easily involve men and women with fluctuating emotions; a dark place is a good place for secret transactions.
When Wu Qi just walked into the pub, a sexy girl wearing a thin black gauze with her legs exposed walked towards Wu Qi. The girl leaned over enthusiastically and proactively, asking him what he wanted to order.
Wu Qi said bluntly: "I'm looking for 'Gu Tietan', where is he?"
The girl hesitated for half a second, then turned to point at the man leaning on the lounge chair behind the bar.
The man looked to be at least thirty-two or three years old, with flat eyebrows, deep eyes, a high nose bridge, and a slender and angular face. His skin was a healthy wheat color, and he had a thick beard on his upper lip and chin. He looked at He is not sloppy, but looks like the thorns of a rose. His thick black hair reaching the temples is naturally curled into four or six points. His exquisite image is very conspicuous among a large group of people in the tavern.
Although his face is not very old, the man's whole body exudes the aura of a mature man. He was wearing a clean white T-shirt, a dark blue leather jacket, a pair of blue-gray jeans, and a pair of hard-soled leather boots.
Wu Qi passed the girl in the tavern and walked straight to the bar. The bartender behind the bar was hard at work mixing drinks, but the man was lying on the chair with his legs crossed, leisurely reading the newspaper. With this posture, he seems to be the owner of this tavern.
The tavern girl followed Wu Qi and said in front of the bar: "Boss, someone is looking for you."
Gu Tietang put the newspaper aside, his brows flicked, his eyes widened, he straightened his slender legs and slapped the ground, stood up from the lounge chair, then walked slowly to the bar and put his elbows on the counter. , his eyes were on Wu Qi's face next to the girl in the tavern, and he looked Wu Qi up and down.
"Beautiful young man, are you looking for my boss?" Gu Tietan spoke with a sly tone, not as mature as his appearance made him look.
Wu Qi put his index and middle fingers on the wooden table and tapped: "I have a deal, it's not convenient to talk about it here."
Gu Tiedan frowned, and with a short "hmm" he agreed to Wu Qi's request.
He walked out from the side of the bar and led Wu Qi to the corner at the end of the pub. There was a staircase at the corner. Wu Qi followed Gu Tiedan up the stairs step by step to the second floor of the tavern.
The layout of the second floor of the tavern is much more elegant. The walls are painted the same color and there are several exquisite hanging lights on the walls. On the right side of the wooden floor is a carved wooden coffee table and a dark couch surrounding the coffee table. At the other end of the room is a desk and several cabinets high for one person.
There seems to be a third level in the tavern. But the second floor is already Gu Tietan's private space. Gu Tietan sat on the sofa, opened a bottle of pure wheat beer on the table with his bare hands, filled two glasses, and pushed one glass to the other side of the coffee table.
"sit."
Wu Qi sat down on the sofa and looked at the glass of beer in front of him, feeling an indescribable feeling.
Wu Qi suddenly discovered that Gu Tietan had an aura, and his plain words and deeds attracted people to get close to him. Before he said anything about the deal, Gu Tiedan took him to the second floor and treated him first as a courtesy.
It turns out that the boss of the intelligence dealer in several safe zones in the surrounding area was not just a rumor, but Gu Tietan did have this kind of charm.
"Boss Gu, I haven't said what the deal is yet, but you are so enthusiastic." Wu Qi said calmly. He didn't pick up the drink.
Gu Tietan first picked up the wine glass and drank half of it, and then said: "Because young man, you are very good-looking and neatly dressed. In the wilderness, well-dressed people always have something more than ordinary people. Maybe it is wealth, Maybe it’s status or ability. I believe in one thing: Only those who are comfortable in life understand the integrity of transactions better. I like to deal with such people.”
Wu Qi felt more and more awkward. In fact, he had clenched his fists in his heart. If what the woman said was true, the boss Gu in front of him was infatuated with Sister Ruorong. He had long been prepared to beat her up, but as a result, she received her warmly and flattered her. He didn't know whether to be gentler or not.
But the premise of everything is that Gu Tiedan really met Ruorong.
Wu Qi picked up the wine glass and took a sip. The mellow fresh wheat flavor blended into the wine and slid into his mouth. The taste was light and refreshing, much better than the spirits in Xujiazhai.
Both sides have demonstrated their most basic trust in each other with practical actions. Then Wu Qi took out Ruorong's portrait and asked directly: "Boss Gu, do you recognize her?"
Gu Tiedan took the portrait from Wu Qi's hand. When he looked carefully, his pupils shrank for a moment, but he did a good job of hiding the abnormal movements of his facial muscles. If Wu Qi hadn't quietly locked onto Gu Tiedan's micro-expression, he wouldn't have been able to tell anything strange about him.
He asked back: "Who is this woman? She is so stunningly beautiful that I really want to see her with my own eyes."
Wu Qi said calmly: "Don't know? Then I'll ask Boss Gu to check it out. This is my deal."
Gu Tietang put down the portrait and said, "Young man, what do you call me?"
"My surname is Wu."
"Well, Mr. Wu, I would like to take the liberty to ask, what is your relationship with the woman in this portrait?"
Wu Qi sneered in his heart. Gu Tie dared not tell the truth, and then lied to him. He said calmly: "Boss Gu, why do you want to know? You are the chief information seller in several safe zones around here. This is the basic trading rule."
Gu Tiedan was stunned for a moment and then said with a smile: "Mr. Wu, I am rude. It's just because the woman in this portrait is so beautiful that I can't help but want to know more about her. You won't blame me, right?"
Gu Tiedan's mouth really blossomed, doing one thing after another. Wu Qi didn't want to go around with him anymore, so he said: "Boss Gu, make a price. I want to know her identity and where she is now?"
Gu Tietan frowned slightly. If he knew where the woman in the portrait was, he would have rushed over to find her. As for his identity, Gu Tietan himself has checked it frequently over the past two years.
In fact, the line Gu Tietan set up in a base to the east was already close to finding out Ruorong's identity, just one step away.