"What are you going to do? Supervise me?" Hailian frowned.
"No, to help you." Fang Tinglan said.
"It's just you?" The young man's eyes fell from Fang Tinglan's face to Fang Tinglan's body, and he sneered when he saw the expensive silver thread shirt on Fang Tinglan's body. It was swallowed until there were no bones left."
Fang Tinglan said confidently: "But in that naval battle, your Poisonous Bee was destroyed by me."
Hailian: "..."
"I'm really here to help you, and I'm also helping myself." Fang Tinglan explained in a rare way, "If you think it's too risky to go into the enemy's lair alone, I can have a surefire way to make you escape unscathed."
"any solution?"
"This..." Fang Tinglan made a long sound, he reined in the rein to make the old horse turn, and at the same time, he revealed his plan. Hai Lian was listening, rubbing the new clothes in his arms back and forth with his fingers, and when Fang Tinglan spoke to the end, his fingertips were about to dig into the material: "As long as this is all right?"
"By and large, the rest will follow suit."
"Don't lie to me, your plan is obviously only half."
"It's true that I only thought about half of it. The other half is a secret, okay?" Fang Tinglan showed that familiar fox smile again.
Hai Lian hated the other party's expression the most. He made a casual gesture and turned his head away, not looking at Fang Tinglan anymore.
When the two staggered back from Chenming Palace to Anwana District, it was the peak business period of Flower Street, and there was not much space for a carriage on Mrs. Jinlinghua's site, so Fang Tinglan had to take the old The horse led to the Pearl Tavern. The proprietress first said that this broken car occupied the space of two cars and refused to accept it, and then said that the old horse looked like it was going to die of illness at any time, and it would be unlucky to park in the stable, so she insisted on taking Fang Tinglan's fodder twice as much. money. Fang Tinglan walked back while thinking about whether he should buy two sets of poor people's clothes. As soon as he arrived at the door of his residence, he found Hailian still standing at the door. After seeing him coming, he handed the two things in his hand to he.
"O'Brien said to pay you back half first, and the remaining half will be soon. He is actually a hardworking person, but he is unlucky." Seeing that Fang Tinglan was about to open his mouth, he added another sentence to block what the man wanted to say. , "Don't say that your cousin is not a cousin, you keep your own money."
Fang Tinglan smiled, stuffed the purse into his bosom like a gentleman, and looked at the thing in the other hand: "What is this?"
"The ticket for the grand theater, he invited you, saying that it is interest."
Fang Tinglan glanced at the words above with the light from the window, and his lips moved slightly—if I remember correctly, the next meeting Qin Weiyu and himself agreed to meet is this "Silver Key by the Lake". He turned his gaze to Hai Lian, who was waiting for his reply: "He just gave you a ticket?"
"Two."
"So you're going too?"
"Yes." Hailian nodded, always doing what he promised his friends.
Fang Tinglan sighed regretfully in his heart, but smiled and said: "Thank him for me, just tell him that if I have no other arrangements that day, I will also go to cheer him up."
The other party's answer was ambiguous, and Hai Lian didn't care what answer he received, as long as he delivered the things. The young man was about to leave, but after thinking about it, he turned back, raised his head and said, "I'm still thinking about the plan you just mentioned."
"Huh?" Fang Tinglan blinked, "Do you think something is inappropriate and needs to be revised?"
"No, I'm not as smart as you, and I can't think of so many twists and turns. Your plan is very good."
"That is… "
"I originally only planned to pay the money and deliver the goods with you, so I took it as farting when you said that you were a companion." Hai Lian looked Fang Tinglan in the eyes, and said it very calmly. "But this time, if I really went to Shagui Bay according to your arrangement, it would be equivalent to handing over my life to you. Fang Tinglan, how did you convince me to believe you?"
"Is this question important to you?"
"Very important, the most important." Hailian replied seriously.
This street is really not suitable for such a serious matter. On the other side of the wall between the two is wine, bright lights, animal desire and copulation. Mrs. Golden Bell Flower's high-pitched shriek is like some kind of noisy bird, hovering endlessly in the night sky; Coughing, resentment, disease and poverty, men with broken legs scolding their wives, children crying and washing clothes that seem to last forever.
In this kind of place, there should be neither lifelong promises nor eternal love.
Fang Tinglan lowered his eyes in the midst of laughter and crying, why was someone like Hailian born in such a bad place. Originally, he only went to test Hailian because he had a small piece of thread on his body and wanted to peel it off, approached him, and teased him half-jokingly, watching the little pirate who was obviously angry but seemed to have no memory, and was still so straightforward , Those interests in him have long gone beyond the scope of curiosity, and entered a more blurred and more dangerous line.
Fang Tinglan had already held Hailian's hand before his reason stopped him, and then slowly pressed it on his left chest. He slowly lowered his head in Hailian's astonished pupils—two hours The heads that had just bumped into each other bumped together again, but this time it was very light, like a lover kissing on the forehead when they are intimate.
Fang Tinglan smiled and said, "Based on this, trust me."
36.
Until Fang Tinglan came to the gate of the Grand Theater next month, he never saw Hai Lian again.
He thought it was the little pirate who was frightened by his sudden actions and ran away that night, so he avoided seeing him. He even looked at the locked door on the roof and wondered if the other party had moved, but yesterday he and Zhou When Buji went to a tavern for a drink, the other party inadvertently mentioned that a governor of a certain region hundreds of miles away from Jiumeng City died strangely on the way home.
"The death was very clean, and he was killed with a single knife. The person who did this job must be a veteran. Not only did he not leave any traces, but he also remembered the aftermath. He didn't let the corpse spread out in the street. It was a drunk who woke up early in the morning. When I opened my eyes, I realized that there was someone else around me. Interestingly, on the third day after this person died, Tisu immediately intercepted a confidential letter." Zhou Buyi took a sip of his wine, "It should have been on this official. of."
"What confidential letter?"
"I don't know, I didn't find out about my lover." Zhou Buyi shook his head, "If the pillow wind is blown too hard, it will hurt your head. It's not worth it. They all said that it was the work of the poisonous scorpion Amber. But I don't think so."
For some reason, Fang Tinglan had an inexplicable intuition—it was Hailian who did it. Fang Tinglan understood: "Because the letter didn't appear directly in the king's hands?"
"That's right." Zhou Buyi raised his finger, "It was obtained by an earl named Simona."
"What does this man have to say?"
"The big red man is very hot. If there is a competition to see who can lick the lame king's shoes the cleanest, he will definitely win the first place." Zhou Buyi drank the last sip of wine and started eating nuts again. Don't let your mouth have a moment of leisure, "But according to my intuition as a person who has licked Qin Weishen's stinky feet before, there is something wrong with this person-after all, being a villain and a courtier requires some skills, and he has done too much. For example, the king's girl now... er, I use a more formal name, lover. It is a woman named Mrs. Nando. At first, this woman was a dancer in the Grand Theater, and later she became the wife of Count Simona, and later The king slept with his wife, and the earl not only showed no sign on his face, but also nodded and bowed and sent his woman into the palace."
"Maybe he's just spineless?"
"Fang Qianwei, everyone is a sensible person," Zhou Buyi was very dissatisfied, "Why do you have to say this to me?"
Fang Tinglan smiled and asked directly: "How can I meet this person?"
"That's enough. The king's favorite minister, the rewards of thousands of treasures are still too much to fill. Mrs. Nan Duo is such a beautiful woman that he can give it up. Money and beauty are definitely useless to him. At least we have to place a heavy bet on our side. He exploded," said Zhou Buyi, "I mean 'the real him'."
"I understand." Fang Tinglan nodded, "Tomorrow I will go to see Qin Weiyu and see if he can do anything."
Zhou Buyi was amused: "Fang Tinglan, someone like you who likes to have both sides, should be a big profiteer."
"How can a traitor make more money than a traitor?" Fang Tinglan smiled and put the money for the wine on the table, got up and left. A moment later, a scream came from behind him: "Fang Tinglan, you fucking only pay your own share of the drink!"