67.
While Hailian was waiting for the scab to heal, the brothel of Snake actually sent a message—two red hat merchants inadvertently mentioned that they had seen a man in the courtyard of the mansion in Simona when they were drunk. A well-dressed old man with manacled hands.
"Do you think it will be the Viscount?"
"I'm not sure, I need to spend some time investigating." Fang Tinglan shook his head, took off the bandage contaminated by the powder, and rewrapped Hailian with a new one—the work of changing the dressing these days is all done by him, "If If it's really Yonoel, you can at least breathe a sigh of relief, it seems that Simona didn't take the torture route, but planned to buy the viscount in a gentle way, so his wife should still be alive."
Hailian looked at the information sent by Xi Snake, and hesitated: "But how are you going to investigate? If Simona's house is so easy to sneak in, I would have killed him a long time ago."
"It's not as troublesome as you think," Fang Tinglan smiled. "We just want to confirm whether the old man is Simona. I bought a high-rise bell ringer to move his children and parents, and give him a He will help me monitor all the movements in the courtyard of Simona's mansion all day long."
"All in all, it's about opening the way with money."
Fang Tinglan raised his eyebrows, and admitted frankly: "I will never do anything that can be done without doing it myself, and I also like all methods that don't involve bloodshed. But you, if it is really the Viscount, how are you going to save him?" come out?"
Hai Lian just wanted to blurt out, "Just kill him like this", but he immediately shut his mouth - this is the method of pirates, but not the method that the Lord of the Sea should adopt. He had to be careful to keep himself in step with the queen who was far away from the capital.
The young man scratched his hair and began to think hard, while Fang Tinglan beside him waited leisurely while wrapping up the last bandage.
He has given enough hints, it just depends on whether the children can comprehend.
Finally, Hai Lian seemed to remember something, he paused for a moment, then turned to Fang Tinglan: "I have a plan."
"Your Excellency, please speak."
As Hailian finished his plan step by step, the smile in Fang Tinglan's eyes deepened, and the baron couldn't help but stop talking: "Where am I wrong?"
"No, your plan is very good," Fang Tinglan immediately encouraged, "even better than I expected. Really."
Hai Lian was obviously very grateful for this encouragement, but he didn't want to show it too obviously, so he ground his teeth and said, "I just thought of what he did before, and it's just an eye for an eye."
"Sometimes, it's really necessary to fight an eye for an eye." Fang Tinglan leaned back halfway, motioning Hailian to move his arms, "How about it?"
Hai Lian stretched her chest, and after confirming that her movements were all right, she quickly put on the outer clothes she took off, "It's not bad."
Fang Tinglan nodded with a smile.
Now that the plan has been made, Hailian has to go out immediately to make arrangements. When he put on his outer clothes and tightened his gauntlets, he suddenly asked: "If I just said that I would go directly to save people, what are you going to do?"
Fang Tinglan tilted his head slightly: "Of course I will veto you. Before you fully recover, I will veto all your acts of violence."
"What if I insist on this?"
"Well..." The man smiled innocently, but the words he said were extremely obscene, "Then I can only press you on the bed, which will make you exhausted, and your legs will be everywhere except my waist. can not go."
Helen punched him with the arm that was still working.
68.
I don't know when, a rumor spread in Jiumeng City with the rising summer heat. What started as a bad doodle or two taped to the wall showed a pitch-black vulture perched in its nest, behind him the king's golden crown and a hungry crow; it slowly turned into a child's babbling at hide-and-seek Chanting nursery rhymes.
The eggshell is broken, the eggshell is broken, and a baby bird has hatched!
Not a blue bird, not a white bird,
Buttercup petals fluttered and fluttered, reddening its black feathers.
Gradually, the nursery rhymes were also known to the adults, and in the crowded tavern, groups began to chat about the secret of unknown origin—the rumor was that the young king who had been exposed to the public had a mistress, and the two The man secretly had a son, who is now hiding in Simona's mansion. The old man who kept watch nearby can testify that he heard the child's cry from inside several times at midnight.
"Master Simona is the biggest hero who brought us into the palace!" Someone yelled, "I don't believe he would do such a thing!"
"What if this scoundrel was born of his daughter?" The drunk lowered his voice mysteriously, "He could even give his own wife to a cripple, so why not give his daughter to Berensu!"
"That's all your guesswork..."
"You said that Simona is a hero, what is his merit? We have made life worse!" Another person put down his wine glass heavily, "When the cripple was around, I could take fourteen coppers a day For wages, when Berensu was here, he could get eleven a day, but now? Now there is no place to work! The factory was smashed, and the shop is gone. When winter comes, everyone will be hungry Forget it!"
"That's right. At the beginning, it was clearly agreed to drive out all those nobles and let us live in a big house, but now half a year later, the White Bird District has changed, and it's not us! It's the red hats! The gold in the White Bird District They didn't fall into our hands, they were washed in the blood of the Reflecting River, and returned to the pockets of the rich!"
Everyone in the tavern looked at the patches on each other's clothes and the bad wine in their cups, and fell silent for a while.
"We..." A shrill voice sounded tremblingly, "We really need to ask them for an explanation..."
Once someone makes a sound, the volume of echo will become louder and louder.
"Even if you don't have that baby, at least you have to ask Simona what their plan is..."
"Red Hat said at the time that it would exchange those antique gold wares for money and send them all to us poor people, but it didn't count anymore!"
"That's right! We can't be fooled again!"
…
The furious emotions burned more and more vigorously under the pile of words one after another. The angry people flocked to the center of the tavern, and one of them shouted loudly: "Let's go! Let's go now!" After saying that, he waved his fist, The first to leave the tavern. People followed him one after another, singing out-of-key battle songs together, and flocked towards Simona's mansion.
The singing disturbed more people, so that the team continued to have new members, craftsmen, beggars, students... People from the Black Stone Gang joined, and the sailors from Sand Ghost Bay walked to the end of the team. Ji and her subordinates also mixed in. She chanted slogans perfunctorily in the crowd. When passing by the street, the woman calmly gestured to two tall figures in cloaks.
"Are you sure this will work?"
"They have already done it once, and the second time they don't need someone to guide them. We just let them realize that they were deceived by Simona a little earlier." Fang Tinglan put down his hood, He sighed, "If a barrel of explosives is just placed there, it is nothing more than a pile of nitrate and flint; only when the fuse is ignited, it will become a sharp weapon for killing people."
"..." Hailian pursed her lips.
He didn't speak, but Fang Tinglan seemed to see what he was thinking, "You can't think about making explosives, you have to be the one who ignites the explosives."
"I know." Hailian whispered.
The battle begins with a stone that shatters glass. Simona and the others are still in the palace on the top of the mountain today. The manpower he arranged for the mansion in the Shiratori District is simply not enough to resist such a large torrent. The guards widened their eyes in horror and fired a few shots in vain. Afterwards, it angered everyone even more, the gate was quickly smashed down, and the crowd shouting "Let Simona get out" rushed into the courtyard, completely starting their midnight carnival.
Hai Lian and Fang Tinglan were not involved in all this.
Hailian frowned all the time, the young man always felt that there was a thread in his heart that was always tense, unable to
A hand stretched out and patted his shoulder comfortingly: "Don't be nervous, if there are no accidents, you will see Viscount Yonoel soon."
"I'm not nervous." Hailian shook his head. He has long found that he is a person who is difficult to be influenced by the fanatical atmosphere around him. Perhaps it is because he saw too many ugly people in the black boxing arena when he was young. He has never been able to truly participate in Yancheng's resplendent feast. But this is the first time he has been a man with a knife, not a lone blade.
"...It's just that this pure onlooker feeling is too weird." Hai Lian's eyes were locked on the door.
"You will get used to it." Fang Tinglan said.
Helian smiled.
It didn't take long for them to see Reddy and Kunji rushing out of the mansion while guarding a few people in casual clothes with handcuffs, including Viscount Yonoll and his wife. The two old men looked tired and staggered, but they still insisted on supporting each other and closely followed the team. The couple were stunned when they saw Hailian: "Hailian...?"
There was no room for greetings, Hai Lian could only smile back at the two of them, and then immediately whistled. The members of the Black Stone Gang who were disguised as rented carriages rushed to the front and sent everyone into the carriage.
The moment the car door closed, the old lady finally couldn't help but say, "Xiaoyu she—"
"She's fine. Don't worry."
The old lady finally showed a relieved smile to the two of them.
"These noisy guys must also withdraw. The guards probably went to the Public Security Department and the palace to notify Simona." Kunji calmed down, "calculating the time, they will come to arrest them soon."
"Send away those who are still awake, they probably turned Simona's treasury upside down, and they should be satisfied, as for those who have lost their heads, there is no need to worry about it." Hai Lian said.
Kunji nodded, and Reddy and the others returned to the chaos.
Hai Lian pursed his lips, and when he was about to follow them in, Fang Tinglan grabbed his arm: "I have something to tell you."
It wasn't until he was in the deserted alleyway dozens of steps away from the tavern that Hailian glanced behind the bright lights: "Say something."
"Are you satisfied with the result this time?" Fang Tinglan asked.
"It's not bad." Hai Lian hooked the corner of his lips, "Your subordinates are very good at instigating the flames."
"Then you have to have a lead to make it work." Fang Tinglan raised his eyebrows.
Hailian's expression also gradually relaxed, "Speaking of which, it seems that your help this time is not counted in our contract."
"Then treat it as a business addition." Fang Tinglan spread his hands generously, and then said without warning, "There is another reason why I want to help you rescue Viscount Yonoel as soon as possible— I may not be able to witness how you became the Lord of Long Dreams."
Hailian paused, and he was half a step behind.
Fang Tinglan turned around and faced him, "The fourth urgent letter from Nanhong is urging me to go back to China. Nanhong's national situation has been in great turmoil this year, and the situation has not been very stable. That's why the people in Tianjiku A few mice were stuffed in, and once they know that I am not in the middle school, I may not be able to delay it for too long with my blindfold." When the man said this, his voice was low, as if he was sighing, "I'm sorry."
"Why do you apologize, I didn't stop you from going back to China." Hailian waved his hand, "Your own territory is in danger, of course you should go back and handle your business first, otherwise your big ship will leak and sink, and you will suffer It's everyone." For a person like Fang Tinglan who understands the world, Hai Lian felt that he should not understand this truth.
"If I go, you'll miss me."
Hai Lian froze for a moment, thinking that he heard it wrong, "What did you say?"
"You have to miss me." Fang Tinglan repeated.
These words are too inexplicable, Hailian frowned: "Fang Tinglan, what tricks are you going to-"
"Because we've never been properly separated."
Hailian's back stiffened. Every meeting between him and himself is always full of accidents, deceit and farce.
Fang Tinglan took a step forward, the alley was dark, but he was able to hold Hailian's hand precisely, "The sea of permission is too wide, which makes me feel completely helpless."
"I came to see you this time because I was fully prepared. I moved all the movable and immovable resources of the Fang family. When the Yingcang army was transferred to the Tianzhu Strait, Zhou Buyi jumped his feet in anger and said that he would Invoke a council meeting and punish me as the first sinner of Nanhong's new dynasty—but that would not meet his life goal of being a treacherous minister, so I just let it go." Fang Tinglan smiled, his voice was low and mellow , but the tone was so light that it seemed that he was afraid of disturbing the long night.
I have typed up a lot of manuscripts, and the information about Tisu has become a hill. How to persuade and persuade when I see him... But there is a voice that keeps laughing in my heart—is this enough alone, Fang Tinglan.
Of course it is not enough, far from enough.
"You are the sea breeze that I have obtained but can't hold." Fang Tinglan said every word, his heart attacking battle of thousands of miles is coming to an end, and now he is withdrawing his troops, waiting for the other party to hand over the document to stop the war, "I will not imprison the wind, but I hope the wind can blow to me."
"Is what I've done enough to make you think of me when you look out to sea?"
If it was Hai Lian in normal times, he should have sneered at this Dongzhou fox and said that you deserved to die, and that you didn't take other people's feelings seriously, which is why you are in this mess. But the temperature coming from the palm made Hailian's sulking anger stuck in his throat.
Obviously, these hands are hands that can already wield great power, but in this wet and narrow path, they are like the hands of a green-headed young man who has just tasted love and is worried about gains and losses, with a hint of dampness and trembling.
How could there be such a strange relationship, Hailian himself didn't know why. He can give his back to this person in times of danger, but he cannot make a promise of peace with him.
"I don't know." Helian replied in a low voice.
Fang Tinglan's heart sank heavily, he closed his eyes, and just about to let go, his pirate, assassin, baron, his little friend continued to speak: "I don't know if I will miss you when you leave You, I don't think about you deliberately, but you will always appear in my mind."