Quicksilver brought Fang Tinglan into an inner room. There is no window in the inner room, so the darker the light, the narrower the space. Such an inner room is very suitable for exchanging some shady secrets.
"What do you want to ask?" Quicksilver lit the lamp, opened the drawer, touched some shredded tobacco and stuffed it into the pipe.
"Ask two people."
"Living or dead?"
"One is alive, the other is uncertain." Fang Tinglan replied.
"Then you should ask the living people first," Shuiyin lit the pipe with the oil lamp, "The living people have clearly marked prices, so it's easy to talk about."
"Then I'll get straight to the point." Fang Tinglan said calmly, "Do you know of any way to meet Nanhong's proton Qin Weiyu without disturbing anyone?"
The dangling cigarette rod stopped abruptly on Shuiyin's index finger, and a pair of emerald eyes looked at the new guest in amazement. After a long while, Shuiyin slowly closed his half-open mouth and sighed: "...I thought Haiyin The guest from Dongzhou brought by Lianhui is at most a stupid rich businessman who was cheated out of money by the Tisu people."
Fang Tinglan smiled without saying a word.
The name Qin Weiyu was heard by his customers from time to time, and he also knew that such a Dongzhou prince lived in the embassy in Bainiao District. After the war of splitting the country in the Hong Dynasty, in order to contain Bei Hong, who had the support of the northern desert states, Nan Hong signed a treaty with Ti Su, and sent the sixth prince Qin Weiyu to Ti Su as a pledge, and had the right to be a "token" of a temporary friendship. Qin Weiyu has stayed in Tisu for ten years, and the two sides have lived in peace for ten years. Beihong is afraid of Tisu, so naturally he dare not act rashly—as long as Tisu's royal power does not change, maybe this highness will stay in Tisu. forever. And Qin Weiyu is only a hostage in Tisu, not a prisoner. If the Dongzhou man in front of him wants to see him, he can see him in a letter to the embassy, but he said he wants to "not alarm anyone"... Mercury faintly feels that he can't think about it any more. After going down, he took a deep breath of cigarettes to force himself to interrupt his thoughts, and then whispered: "Yes, yes, like Hailian, three days at the earliest."
"Don't worry." Fang Tinglan was very considerate, "Can I ask the second person next?"
"go ahead."
"It's still an old thing, a person from Dongzhou." Fang Tinglan raised a finger, "Have you heard of the name Fei Yi? Do you know where this person is now, what is his name, and how can I find it?" him?"
This time the pipe was stuck between the fingers for a longer time, and the tip of Mercury's tongue was pressed between the teeth, as if he had forgotten how to pronounce: "This... I don't know."
"real?"
"Really." Mercury looked back at Fang Tinglan, "I've heard the name Fei Yi before, and know that he is a general who betrayed your emperor eight years ago and fled to the southern border. This is a scandal that everyone in the world knows. I also know that your emperor lost his temper because of this, implicated and sentenced many innocent people, but no one knows where Fei Yi went after he fled to the southern border." He paused here, "No one ever asked about it. After this name, you are the first."
In the blind corner of his sight, Fang Tinglan's hands slowly clenched into fists, but his expression remained unchanged: "Then, let me tell you something I know—someone said that Fei Yi is in Tisu."
"Why don't you continue to ask that person?" Quicksilver asked back.
"He's dead." Fang Tinglan replied with a smile.
The young man had nothing to say.
Fang Tinglan didn't care about the other party's silence, but emphasized: "When Hailian introduced you to me, he said that you are the most famous intelligence dealer in Anwana District, and even the dignitaries in Shiratori District sometimes You should condescend to come here to inquire about the news."
The Dongzhou man's voice was calm and gentle from the beginning to the end, not at all like other people who came to Shuiyin for news. The voices of those people are always eager, anxious, and aggressive, and every syllable is full of shallow desires. Quicksilver is never afraid of his guests, and doesn't care what those who get the news are going to do. In his eyes, come to inquire The person who informs is the same as the person who comes to court him.
But at this moment, his intuition told him that the Dongzhou man in front of him was more dangerous than all those people combined.
much more dangerous.
"...Guest, I can only tell you that Fei Yi is not in the Bainiao District." Although his throat was dry, Mercury swallowed subconsciously, "People in the Bainiao District look down on Dongzhou people, they only value Dongzhou people's pockets If there is a Dongzhou native who can be a general at the noble banquet, it is impossible for me not to know—or this general Fei Yi changed his face and pretended to be a mercenary from the North Desert, an officer from the South Border, then That's another story."
There was a sound of unlocking the door outside the room where Mercury was speaking, and a moment later, the hot scent of wheat came in through the crack of the door. It should be that Hailian came back with lunch.
The two were silent for a while in the smell of food and tobacco, Fang Tinglan took a step forward and said in a low voice: "I believe in your ability."
"No problem, I will inquire for you and let you know if I have any news." Quicksilver promised. He stood up and knocked the remaining ash on the ground. The room was too depressing, he had to go out to get some air, "Don't worry about the money, I will come to you when the time comes."
"Anyway, don't let me return empty-handed," Fang Tinglan called out to Shuiyin, "I want to ask another person who you can definitely provide information to immediately."
"Who?"
"Helian."
Mercury almost choked on the smoke, and he stared: "Didn't he bring you here? If you want to know about him, just go out and ask him?"
"I have money and no place to spend it." Fang Tinglan's face remained unchanged, he put a gold coin in his palm, and showed it to Quicksilver, "You can just talk about it, such as what Hailian did before, or what he did for a long time. It doesn’t matter if there is a dream or no family members.”
"Why are you asking about him?"
"I like Hailian, I fell in love with him at first sight, and I want to know him better." Fang Tinglan said without blushing.
This time Mercury was really choked by the smoke, he squeezed his neck and coughed several times, and finally recovered his breath before looking at Fang Tinglan.
Fang Tinglan was lying, and Shuiyin knew it. But not earning money is the same as leaving men alone. It’s not his own character. After thinking about it, he decided to answer Fang Tinglan’s first question: “I haven’t known Hailian for a long time. He is also a thug of the White Tiger Gang, responsible for solving some things that cannot be solved by gang fights for the gang. Three years ago, he committed a crime and defected from the gang. He had nowhere to go, so he ran to Yunhai as a pirate. Thanks to his luck After fleeing for a year, the head of the White Tiger Gang was suddenly hanged by the Public Security Bureau, and no one came to chase him down, so he moved here from the Yangjiao District, and sometimes came to me to buy some news—he would be a Pirates, you will be an assassin for a while, just dawdling with your life money."
"He's very skilled." Fang Tinglan interrupted suddenly, "He doesn't look like an ordinary thug."
"Of course," Shuiyin said disapprovingly, "The White Tiger Gang spent so many years training him, it's not just for nothing."
Fang Tinglan was taken aback for a moment, this was the first time his expression cracked after entering the inner room: "You said his skills... were trained by gangs?"
"Of course." Quicksilver frowned, "Is there any problem?"
"It's impossible." Dongzhou people blurted out.
"There's no way this is possible," Shuiyin didn't expect the other party to be fussy about this link, and couldn't help but retort, "Do you think the gang can't train such a skilled person? Come on, Tisu has been abundant since ancient times. Assassins, we know assassination techniques better than you Dongzhou people. Hailian's teacher is 'Blind Eagle Ag', the top assassin in Jiumeng twenty years ago, is there any problem with the students he taught?" After finishing speaking He snatched the gold coin and added, "Okay, I won't answer other questions about Hailian, and I can't add money."
Fang Tinglan laughed: "I thought you had forgotten that you were selling information."
"I've never been ambiguous in business." Shuiyin stared at Fang Tinglan, "and Hailian is my friend."
"I know, he never bought lunch for me." Fang Tinglan nodded.
"Guest," Shuiyin warned, "for the sake of gold, let me remind you, if you really want to hook up with Hailian, you should be careful about his friendship."
"His girlfriend?"
Quicksilver raised his eyebrows: "Didn't you and Hailian meet at sea? His lover is his vicious captain, Huisha."
"I see..." Fang Tinglan murmured.
"What?" Fang Tinglan's four words were in Dongzhou dialect, but Shuiyin couldn't catch them.
"It's nothing, I mean thank you for your reminder, but I shouldn't be careful about a dead person." Fang Tinglan smiled, and opened the door first, leaving Shuiyin alone in a daze at the last sentence he said.
Hai Lian outside the door had just finished his share of lunch, he licked the crumbs off his fingers, frowned and complained: "It's been a long chat."
"Are you jealous?" Seeing that Hailian was about to stare at him again, Fang Tinglan quickly changed his words, "Just kidding, it's hard work for you to run."
Hai Lian snorted: "Hurry up and eat, it will be cold after you leave it."
Fang Tinglan responded with a smile, turned to Shuiyin and said, "Let's go."
After that, he walked out first.
The intelligence dealer was still standing in the small room, and the young man smacked the Dongzhou man's seemingly invulnerable face, and choked out a sentence in a low voice for a long while:
"If you really fall in love with Hailian... that's really unlucky."