That afternoon, after lunch, Huang Donglai and Sun Yixie were wandering around Xuzhou City, but they didn't do anything serious.
At Youshi, the two of them returned to the inn, just like yesterday evening. They each stayed in the room for a long time, probably washing up or something. An hour later, when it got dark, the two of them were dressed brightly again. Come out and prepare to run to the kiln.
The spy sent by the concubine to keep an eye on them had been following them since they left the inn, and could not see anything abnormal. In other words... there was no abnormality, which was an abnormality in itself.
So what did the spies miss?
I missed the inn itself...
Sun and Huang really didn't do anything serious outside this afternoon, but Huang Donglai had quietly asked a waiter in the inn to help him take care of things before leaving the inn.
While they were wandering around, the inn clerk went to the drugstore in the city to buy a bunch of medicinal materials and delivered them to Huang Donglai's guest room. The few who were following him didn't know about this because they were all following Sun Huang. Running outside, no one was left watching at the inn.
Of course, even if you keep it, it's actually of no use.
The medicinal materials Huang Donglai asked the guy to buy were all very common things. He bought more than twenty kinds in total, and the quantities were quite large. The total amount of them added up to a lot.
But in fact, the poison he wanted to prepare only required nine kinds of medicinal materials, except for a few materials he carried in his luggage; and the reason why he asked people to buy so many kinds and large quantities of them was The medicinal materials came back mainly to cover up his formula.
This skill is based on Huangmen's experience, and it is also a little secret known to many masters of poisoning and even medicine in the martial arts world - when you are away from home and preparing to purchase materials locally to prepare some relatively confidential secret recipes, it is best to use more Buy several or even a dozen unrelated materials. Don’t buy just the right amount, but buy more. When you start making preparations, in addition to the materials you need, use up some of the materials you don’t need. ...In this way, even an expert cannot reversely deduce your recipe by tracing the type, quantity, and remaining quantity of the materials you purchased.
Furthermore, when it comes to "poisoning", with this method, even if someone comes to search your house afterwards and finds such a large amount of medicinal materials, they cannot use these materials as evidence to prove that what you prepared was poison.
Now, Huang Donglai used this routine. During the hour of "bathing and changing clothes", he took part of the time to prepare all the medicines to be used tonight, and then left the inn with Sun Yixie.
Just after Xu Shi, the two of them arrived at Qiliu Youlan.
This time, the madam's attitude towards them... was different.
Because Huang Donglai rejected the proposal of the concubine's "friend" yesterday, the madam would not show any good looks to them today.
As soon as they met each other, the old madam said in a strange way: "Hey, here we come~" She squinted her eyes and looked up high, and muttered as if she was talking to the sky, "Oh, I said this today What's going on with Tian'er...Why is there an evil wind blowing? It turns out that some ignorant person insists on coming to the door."
Huang Donglai didn't talk nonsense to him, and responded in a very serious tone: "We have something to do, and we want to see the concubine. I hope you can inform me."
The Madam didn't expect that the other party would make such a request so straightforwardly. After hearing this, her expression changed slightly, and she finally looked at the two of them, but her tone was still unkind: "Is it possible for you to meet me whenever you want? Do you think you can?" Who are you?"
She originally wanted to make things difficult and humiliate these two people, but who knows...
"Oh?" Sun Yixie laughed as soon as he heard this, and immediately retorted, "Is this a guest that you can reject on your own initiative if you want to? Who do you think you are?" He said this. , and raised his voice deliberately, "Your place is also strange. The dog makes the decision for the owner, right?"
The people who come to Qiliu Youlan are all decent people, and there are not many professional scolding players like Sun Yixie who were trained in the fish market. Over the years, the most common people this madam has encountered are just people who cursed her with a few swear words. She was used to it, but such cunning counter-taunts like this were rare for her. The key words really caught her, making her tremble with anger and unable to speak back.
"My surname is Sun! Don't push yourself too far!" The madam still had a temper and was still saying harsh words, "Don't think that just because I look at you so highly, you are confident!"
"Wow, the dogs bark so loudly in this courtyard." This time, it was Sun Yixie's turn to look up at the sky, "Brother Huang, is this a brothel or a dog market? I can't understand."
"That's right." Huang Donglai also looked around seriously, but didn't look at the madam. "Why don't we go back? If the concubine asks about him in the future, we will tell him that we came to see him, but he was barked away by a dog."
After saying that, the two turned around and headed out.
The madam was so angry that she almost vomited blood, but she was helpless. In the end, she had to lower her face and beg the two people not to leave.
"You two, please stay..." At this moment, a strange man suddenly appeared from outside the gate and stood in front of Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai. He rescued the old bustard at the right time, "Master, are you there?" Please go upstairs and talk... please come this way."
Shuangxie knew that this man was one of the spies who followed them during the day, and they were not surprised by his appearance.
After hearing this, the two of them looked at each other, shrugged, then turned back and walked upstairs in a swagger; when they passed by the madam, they didn't even look at her.
The madam was so angry with them that she didn't recover for a long time. Now she has learned the lesson. If you are allowed to rely on human power, you can allow others to pretend to be powerful. Sometimes high martial arts is of no use. Is aquatic martial arts high enough? Aren't you here to be a turtle slave? A lackey who doesn't use his brain will remain a lackey for the rest of his life.
At the same time, in the uncle’s room.
My concubine, I have been sitting in the room waiting for Shuangxi for a long time.
He knew that these two people would come again tonight, and even if no one overheard what Chu Xue and Sun Yixie said, he could still guess to a reasonable degree by guessing.
"Master, they have gone upstairs." At this moment, a man's voice suddenly sounded in the darkness and said something to the concubine.
"Yes." The concubine nodded and replied in a deep voice, "Everything is going according to plan."
…………
In a short while, Sun and Huang were sitting at the same table with the concubine.
It was the concubine who spoke first: "You two are here today, but do you have anything to ask of me?"
"Haha..." Sun Yixie sneered, "My uncle, what you said is obvious. I'm asking my 'friend' to do something. What do you want to ask for?"
"What? Are we friends again now?" My uncle asked, "Yesterday, Mr. Huang clearly rejected my proposal as a friend. Today... you two went back on your word?"
Huang Donglai shook his head and continued: "What I said is wrong. Rejecting a proposal does not mean rejecting a person...'Friends', anything can be discussed. You have your proposal, and we also have ours." , let’s all exchange.”
"Oh..." The concubine took a sip of the wine in the glass and continued unhurriedly, "Then you can tell me, what is your proposal?"
"It would definitely be inappropriate to destroy the Guangxing Escort Agency." Sun Yixie said.
"But it will definitely not work if our brother Buji takes the blame for Zheng Mu's murder." Huang Donglai said.
"It's not good to push Shui Sheng out." Sun Yixie said.
"So in our opinion, otherwise..." Huang Donglai said, "The responsibility of killing Zheng Mukai will be shouldered by you, right?"
The two of them kept talking to each other, and the more they talked, the more they went overboard. Finally, they actually made such a request in front of each other.
But the concubine did not get angry, but replied calmly: "Then...how can I handle it?"
Sun Yixie replied: "Anyway, Zheng Mukai's death was because he secretly entered Qiliu Netherland with the intention of mistreating Miss Chuxue. That Shuisheng... after all, he was also your person, so why don't you just take advantage of the situation and follow the lead of Zhu Jiaxue?" The matter has been made clear, but don’t mention that Shui Sheng did it, just say that you ‘let your subordinates do it’, isn’t that the end of it?”
What he said was tantamount to making public what he already knew about the case. Of course, this was what I expected.
"How do you explain the two gangsters who died in the Chengxi Inn?" The concubine still replied in a calm tone, "Did I just say that I wanted to eradicate the roots?"
"Yes." Huang Donglai responded at this time, "You can also say that not only do you want to eradicate the root of the problem, but you also want to put the blame on us because you heard about Zheng Mukai's previous conflict with us, so you have to move his body. , and the matter of whipping corpses with fists has also been explained together."
"Yes." The uncle nodded, "In other words, I take responsibility for what Shui Sheng does and what I do myself." He paused, "In this way, Zhu Jiaduan will not Instead of looking for Lei Buji or Shui Sheng to settle accounts, they will come to me instead."
"That's right." Sun Yixi said, "When the time comes, I just need to show my strength to Zhu, and give him some compensation, so that he can have a step to go down..."
Huang Donglai took over from Sun Yixie and continued: "After this combination of kindness and power, considering that Zheng Mukai's death is basically deserved, Zhu Jiaduan naturally had no choice but to give up, and then the matter is over."
"Haha...hahahaha..." When the concubine heard this, he couldn't help laughing.
Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai laughed when they saw him, and they laughed too, and it was the standard villain laugh, one wave after another...
The three people laughed there for a long time. Finally, the concubine took the lead to stop and suddenly asked: "Okay, you have made arrangements for me clearly, so now I have the most critical question to ask you. ..." He paused, his tone suddenly cold, "...Why should I help you like this?"
After he finished speaking, Sun and Huang exchanged glances for a moment, with the confident smiles still on their faces.
"Master, is it a coincidence that we are drinking with you here today?" Sun Yixie did not answer the other party, but asked a question.
"No." I don't like lying. People like him don't like things that make them feel uncomfortable.
"There is a reason behind this 'inevitability', right?" Huang Donglai asked again.
As soon as he said these two words, the concubine understood that these two people had seen through the plan he had made to lure them to Qiliu Youlan when he was covering up the scene for Shui Sheng.
"You two..." I was silent for a while, glanced at the deserted place beside him intentionally or unintentionally, and then replied, "You are more powerful than I thought..."
"Excuse me." Sun Yixie said.
"You're welcome." Huang Donglai said.
The concubine took another sip of wine and continued: "Yes, you have what I want."
"But the 'proposal' you gave me yesterday is not enough to exchange for that thing." Huang Donglai continued.
"It's really not enough..." the uncle said, showing an expression that was half-smiling, "but you can't blame me...yesterday I thought you two were just two fledglings who broke the Tianqi Gang's situation with a little luck. Brat."
"What about today?" Sun Yixie asked.
"You want to hear me praise you?" said the concubine.
"Think about it, tell me, and I'll listen." Sun Yixie was a shameless person, so he had nothing to be embarrassed about.
The concubine smiled: "You don't mind if I say you are pretending to be pigs and eating tigers, being cunning and cunning..."
"You don't mind." Huang Donglai said, "Besides, we don't mind the proposal you gave yesterday or the surveillance on us today... because we can all understand that it would be very difficult if we were in your position. Might do the same thing.”
"When it comes to negotiations, it's normal for everyone to list out the conditions and negotiate slowly." Sun Yixie added, "Brother Huang just said that between 'friends', anything can be discussed, right? ?”
"Well, since you two are so open and honest, I'll tell the truth." When it came to this point, the concubine no longer minced words, he took advantage of the situation and said, "As long as you put the record of Gu Qiying's poison in Give me the notes on the technique, and those things you mentioned just now...I will do them all."
Now that things have happened, he finally showed his flaws.
Although the solution to "Bliss Gu" is no longer a secret, Gu Qiying's voodoo skills are far more than just Bliss Gu. His notebook contains a wide variety of poison and voodoo techniques with endless wonderful uses. They are all things that cannot be bought with money and are of immeasurable value.
For this reason, not to mention the conditions that Sun and Huang just put forward, even if they put them a little more excessively, the concubine will still agree.
"My concubine's hands and eyes are as deep as the sky, don't you know..." After a breath, Huang Dong came back and said, "...Have I already given this note to Jin Yiwei?"
"I know." The uncle said, "But as Huang Shaoxia, as the young master of the Huang Clan, during the time this thing was left in your hands...didn't you read it? Didn't you note it down?" He smiled, "Ha... I even doubt whether the notebook you gave to Jin Yiwei is true?"
"Ha... As expected of a concubine, I really can't hide it from you." Sun Yixie suddenly praised the other party at this time.
Huang Donglai also had a similar attitude and smiled coquettishly: "Okay, I've seen through it now, so I won't hide it. I did write down a lot of the contents in the note... but those are only in my mind. , I did not copy it down; if you want it...I can think about it after I go back tonight, and in a day or two, I will make a copy and send it to you, but before that..."
"You want me to finish what you have to do first?" The concubine directly said the last half of what the other party was going to say.
"That's right." Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai responded in unison.
At this time, the concubine turned his head, pretending to be thinking, and looked at a window on one side of the room. After looking at it, he replied: "Okay, then without further ado, tonight... No, do it now!”
