Although the man in front of him was wearing a half-worn sailor suit, and his curly beard covered half of his face, but the man's iron-blue gloomy eyes couldn't be covered up by the beard and dirt. Faluco's expression was not surprised when he saw Hailian, and he even breathed a sigh of relief. He gestured for Hailian to stop asking questions, and then looked around: "This is not a place for chatting. , go to the tavern and talk."
After dismissing the chattering pirate with a glass of good wine, the remaining four found a corner in the cave tavern and sat down. The magistrate took a sip from his wine glass, then frowned: "...I'm still not used to it." After speaking, he looked at Hailian, "You can ask."
"Talk about yourself first," Hailian raised his chin, "Fang Tinglan said you were missing, how did you come to Shagui Bay now?"
"It's actually not complicated." Faluco replied, "I wanted to go home that day, pack up the documents and sort out the evidence, and wait until dawn to start the investigation of Simona, but I was one step too late. Simona had already noticed that I had He didn’t want to cooperate with him, so he preemptively set fire to my house and planned to assassinate me on the way.”
"But you are not dead." Fang Tinglan said. The wine was too bad for his taste at all, so he didn't take a sip.
"Yes, I didn't die, because someone saved me."
"who is it."
"..." As if the name was difficult to say, Faluco was silent for a long time, and then the tip of his tongue slightly touched his teeth, and spit out a few words, "Scorpion Amber."
"Scorpion amber?" Hai Lian remembered that after Abal's death, no matter whether it was the stronghold they set up in the palace or the roster held by the king, they were all lost in the collapse. Afterwards, he and the people from the Public Security Department searched several times over the years, but no one has ever seen those killers walking in the dark again, nor heard of any important person who died silently. Hai Lian frowned, "Are you sure it's those people, not some impostor?"
"I'm sure." Faluco said slowly, "I don't know exactly what happened at the time. When I woke up again, I was lying on the side of the street, and they had already ended the battle and were dealing with the scene—transported in a carriage. Go to Niutouyan and throw it into the sea. No wonder we have received few murder reports in recent years. I met several poisonous scorpion ambers who had met in the palace. They told me that after the death of King Amber, they There was also infighting within the organization.”
"Oh, it seems that the situation is the same all over the world." Fang Tinglan sighed.
Faluco glanced at Lord Zhenhai, and continued, "The rest of them hibernate according to the new leader's order, secretly collecting Simona's criminal evidence, and will never act unless necessary--exactly, they Only then did I find out that Simona was against me in advance and saved me."
"You don't seem to trust a former opponent so easily." Hai Lian said.
"If it hadn't been for Simona who couldn't wait to arrest me, I wouldn't have accepted the help of the poisonous scorpion amber in such a embarrassment." Obviously, it is extremely difficult for a sheriff to let his former opponents witness his most embarrassing side. With great shame, Faluco lowered his head and pressed the center of his brows, "I reached a cooperation with them and decided to leave Jiumeng City. Before that, I went to Flo secretly once to warn him. Hope he leaves with me."
Hailian's hand was slowly clenched,
"He refused?"
Faluco nodded: "I had a very unpleasant chat with Flo at the time. In the final analysis, people from a noble family like him and I believed in different things from the beginning. I am loyal to the balance in my heart. , who is sitting on the throne is not important to me, he is different. Although I broke up with him, but at this time we still think that the next one is nothing more than another coup, so I Without any further persuasion, he pretended to hide in the hay cart and left Jiumeng City, while he started to unite with other nobles to condemn Simona..." He paused, and a trace of regret flashed across his expression, "Until On the day of New Year's Eve."
When everyone is still making the next move according to the rules of the script, the person who overturns the chessboard first is the winner.
"I think Duke Zhenhai should have told you everything that happened in Jiumeng City later," Faluco said.
Helian hummed in a low voice.
"At that time, I hadn't left Tisu, but I was staying with a farmer's house on the outskirts of the city—he used to be my informant. After learning about the riots and Flo's arrest, I had no choice but to ask the poisonous scorpion Amber to help me. Get him out." The man's gaze looked through the remaining wine in the glass, and he seemed to see the embarrassing scene at that time again.
"We failed.
"We not only failed to rob the prison, but even caused the sentences of Flo and Berensu to be brought forward. They even demonstrated that the execution racks were not placed on the Qiwutai of the royal family, but on the Amber Square that the common people can see without looking up.
"The poisonous scorpion amber also exposed its whereabouts because of the failure of the operation, and we had to flee to the sea."
After saying this, he couldn't stand it anymore and drank the remaining wine in the glass.
Hai Lian looked at his friend, since that night, nothing can be controlled or expected under Faluco's control, no wonder he looks so depressed now. The baron couldn't say any words of persuasion. He thought for a while, and simply took back the hand that was about to pat Faluko's shoulder, picked up his own wine glass and bumped him, and also took the strong drink. All into the mouth.
This is Shang Hailian's way of comforting.
After a round of intense burning in his throat, Faluco also felt better. He asked in a hoarse voice, "... don't talk about me, how about you?"
"We are also quite tortuous." Hai Lian is not very good at talking about these ins and outs, so he simply turned his attention to Fang Tinglan who was on the side. I briefly talked about the plan. Sure enough, Faluco frowned immediately after hearing this: "You actually brought Her Royal Highness to Sand Ghost Bay?! You are not afraid—"
"To be exact, she's still on the Black Shark, and hasn't set foot on the land of Sand Ghost Bay." Hai Lian said.
Faluco pursed his lips tightly and said after a moment of thought, "Take me to see her, I have many things to tell her."
As he said that, he put down his wine glass and was about to stand up, but Fang Tinglan stopped him: "My lord, before taking you to see His Majesty Long Rong, I have one more question to ask you."
"What's the problem?" he said.
"Since you are here, it means that the poisonous scorpion amber should also be here, right?" Fang Tinglan smiled.
Falluco did not immediately answer the question. He was not surprised that the Nanhong Zhenhai Guild and Hailian appeared together. After all, he had made a deal with this person before, but a person who dared to use the commercial guild to insert dark lines all over the southern border, and even controlled his own people had never heard of it. The secret ministers of other countries sitting here made him instinctively wary.
Fortunately, Hai Lian saw Faluko's concerns, nodded and said, "It's okay, he is on the same front as us now."
"No, I still can't trust him." Faluco said decisively, "I can take you and Ake to meet the leader of Scorpion Amber, but it's up to him to decide whether to show himself in front of others."
Fang Tinglan has long been accustomed to this kind of hostility, and he raised his eyebrows and smiled: "Then you go to meet the poisonous scorpion amber, while I will go around in Shagui Bay and meet you on the Heizhan at sunset-speaking of which, I am still the first to meet you." The next time you come to Sand Ghost Bay, of course you have to take a good tour.”
"What's there to visit in Sand Ghost Bay..." Hailian muttered, but he didn't veto the proposal. He pulled Ake up, nodded slightly to Fang Tinglan, turned and left the cave tavern.
Fang Tinglan watched the three of them leave. After a while, a Dongzhou man dressed as a smuggler sneaked up to him and whispered something to him. The man smiled slightly after listening, "Ask me to make a decision? I'm just a wealthy idler, what can I decide?"
"Mr. Zhenhai was joking." The man was embarrassed. If the person in front of him dared to call himself a wealthy and idle person, no one would dare to call him an idler that day. "All the ministries on the stage have been running for a while. Although Zhou Yiguo is in charge of the stage, without you behind the scenes, those old families It's hard to guarantee that they won't be tempted. For example, this time they donated such a large sum of money to Tisu and drove the Yingcang Army to respond, they were quite critical..."
"Suppression?" Fang Tinglan's smile deepened, "This word is very memorable to me. I spent my money, where did they get the criticism? Or do you think the money should be spent on them?"
The man wiped the sweat from his brow and dared not answer.
"It's normal for them to complain about the Yingcang Army," Fang Tinglan said leisurely, "After all, the military expenses of the Yingcang Army are paid by our Fang family's accounts instead of the treasury. It will become our private soldiers to stop the flames and abuse power, is that what it means? Then they guessed wrong."
"Of course, of course, the Yingcang Army is Nanhong's navy, they are talking nonsense..."
"Because the Yingcang army has been my private soldier from the very beginning." Fang Tinglan ignored the man's sudden terrified gaze and continued to smile, "And after I'm sure that the various ministries of Taiwan can carry out the decree without hindrance, let alone It will be my personal soldier until there is another old man who comes to trouble me again."
The man was completely speechless.
The man half-closed his eyes, looked at the other person who didn't dare to breathe, and suddenly let out a low laugh, and the atmosphere relaxed: "Forget it, I don't have any suggestions for the policies on the discussion stage, but I would like to give Zhou Yiguo some advice." It is still possible to write a letter. When will it be delivered?"
"It only takes fifteen days to walk away from the kite line."
"There's plenty of time." Fang Tinglan stood up, pointing to the glass of wine on the table that he hadn't touched, "The wine here is too bad, I'm not used to it, do you have flowers on board?"
The man nodded blankly. The secret merchants of the Fang family have always prepared two pots of flowers in the cabin.
"That's right, give me a jar for a change," Fang Tinglan smiled and stretched out his hand, "Lead the way."