In the afternoon, Qu Xin sat in a daze on the counter of the tea shop as usual.
What was placed in front of him was not tea, but water.
There is a saying that "the salt seller drinks light soup, and the one who weaves straw mats sleeps on bare beds." Qu Xin, the tea shop owner, can be considered to agree with this - he drinks plain water without any tea leaves every day.
The taste of water is very bland, and it needs to be paired with some "seasonings" to make it taste better.
And the tea shop opened by Qu Xin is just a place where people can chat.
Qu Xin is just forty years old this year. He looks ordinary in both height and appearance. Even the regular customers of this tea shop are not too impressed by him as the shopkeeper, because usually the shopkeeper is responsible for greeting customers. Man, and he's just sitting there like a mascot.
No one paid attention to him, and no one would have thought that this seemingly ordinary tea shop owner would be the third person in the organization "Shadow".
Wuchang is one of the most important water and land transportation hubs in Dashu. As an organization that mainly collects and exchanges intelligence, it is logical that Shadow would set up its base camp here.
When Gu Qiying was away, the person who had full authority to manage the organization on his behalf was Qu Xin.
Qu Xin's martial arts skills are certainly not as good as Gu Qiying's, nor as good as Shen Youran who is younger than him. He may even be better than some of the killers in the organization... But it's him who sits firmly in the third place. On top of the throne.
There are two things he relies on: first, excellent logistical dispatching capabilities; second, Gu Qiying's trust and respect.
Of course, this "trust" is only a relative term.
The only person Gu Qiying "truly trusts" is Shen Youran. As for the others... no matter how much they trust, they will inevitably be tricked by him.
Qu Xin is no exception.
However, the voodoo in him is different from that of others - members of the shadow, the voodoo planted will be different according to their level; for people of Qu Xin's level, the voodoo on their body will break out. The interval will be long, which not only shows Gu Qiying's "trust" in him, but also allows him to act independently in a place far away from Gu Qiying for a long time.
In addition, Qu Xin also holds in his hands the recipe for continuing the poison for all people below him; please note that it is a recipe for "continuing the poison", not for "removing the poison", which means that the effect of this medicine is It is to alleviate the next attack of the poison, rather than to completely eliminate the poison.
I have to say that the system Gu Qiying came up with really worked... Because of the existence of this system, the organization did not fall apart even after he "died".
After the Luoyang incident, Qu Xin took over the command naturally and maintained the operation of Shadow as usual.
During these days, in addition to continuing to collect various intelligence from the world, the people, and the government and the public, members of Shadow at all levels also had an additional key task: keeping an eye on Huang Donglai and trying to get the Lord's notes from him.
After seeing this, all readers must have understood... The "fourth person" lurking in the darkness on the roof of the inn in Xinyang that night was none other than one of Youying's spies.
The ambush at the post house last night was also caused by the shadow; the leader of the killers who led the nine killers in was none other than Qu Xin himself.
However, after all, Qu Xin has stayed in the "sitting position" for too long. His performance in leading the front line was not very good. Last night when he rushed into the house, he said stupidly "Fight with me." Even his subordinates wanted to complain.
Originally, the order he issued last night was: Except for Huang Donglai, who must be captured alive, the other two people can live or die, depending on whether they resist fiercely or not.
As a result, when his voice shouted, it became intense even if it wasn't intense...
If it hadn't been for his roar, maybe the brothers would have rushed in and quickly put the knife on the three people's necks, and the matter would have been settled, and they could have captured the three people alive without even having to fight. But now, ten of them went out, and only three came out in the end. A total of seven brothers were revealed there, and the martial arts of these seven were not weak.
Although it can be said that due to the intrusion of the master Ran Ling, they would fail no matter how they responded, but without his stupid behavior, at least a few people would have died less.
The truth... is this truth.
Unfortunately, no one will say these words.
This is also the drawback of Gu Qiying's "control system" - no one dares to offend his superiors.
But in any case, last night's setback obviously caused doubts about Qu Xin's commanding ability within the organization; facing these subordinates who dared to be angry but dare not speak out, Qu Xin was also very stressed...
Because those people are not stupid, they all understand: if we can't get the Lord's notes, the person who will be hurt the most is not us, but you, Qu Xin.
Although our voodoo cannot be solved, we can at least "continue the voodoo" to maintain it. But how to alleviate your voodoo, Qu Xin, only the Lord knows; now that the Lord is no longer around, when your voodoo reaches its attack stage, If you haven't got the notes yet, you're in serious trouble.
Right now, Qu Xin is sitting here, seemingly in a daze, but actually he is thinking about this matter.
At this moment, several familiar figures passed in front of him...
"Hey, four gentlemen, come on, come on, please come in, we have a seat here." The waiter in the store greeted Ran Ling, Sun Yixie, Huang Donglai and Lei Buji at the same time. At an empty table.
Ran Ling was naturally dressed in casual clothes at the moment. If he came here wearing a royal outfit, he would definitely scare away all the guests in the room.
Sun, Huang, and Lei also put on their normal clothes and no longer wore the tattered disguises.
"After picking out the tea, here are some plates of dried fruit snacks." Ran Ling casually ordered the waiter as he sat down.
"Hey~ Okay!" The guy responded, then turned around and went to work.
Before he could go far, Lei Buji whispered to Ran Ling: "Brother Ran, didn't you say you would take us to investigate the case? Why are you here drinking tea?"
Hearing this, Ran Ling glanced at Lei Buji and replied unhurriedly: "Drinking tea here is to investigate the case."
"Ah?" Lei Buji didn't understand.
But Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai understood.
"Brother Ran means...that intelligence can be collected here?" Huang Donglai answered softly.
"Not bad." Ran Ling also lowered his voice slightly and replied, "This tea shop is the best in the city, and the clerks and regular customers here also like to gossip... There was such a big thing in the inn last night , someone will definitely talk about it here today, we might as well sit here for a long time and listen to what they can chew out that we don’t know about... we should be able to gain something."
The few words they whispered, but not a single word escaped Qu Xin's ears - they were listening with their ear skills.
Maybe he was worried that the shopkeeper was too absorbed in his "daze" and didn't notice the appearance of these people. At this time, another waiter in the shop walked up to Qu Xin and whispered: "Shopkeeper, look... "
Qu Xin waved his hand, indicating that he didn't need to say any more.
This is like walking through iron shoes and finding nowhere. It takes no effort to get there.
The next second, Qu Xin couldn't help but made a gesture to the waiter under the counter. The meaning was very simple: add medicine to the tea.
