"What?" Li Su's words made me stunned, and asked in surprise: "That handsome guy just now...is he your brother?"
Li Su didn't speak, she just nodded slightly.
I turned to look at Li Su, and recalled the appearance of the handsome leading guy in my mind. Not to mention, these two people were more or less connected.
I rolled down the car window, lit a cigarette, and said, "Since he is your brother, why didn't you stop Xiong Ming just now...?"
I originally thought that Li Su would give me a deeply emotional explanation as soon as I asked this question, but who could have imagined that she tilted her head and looked at me, and then said, "Why should I stop you?"
Li Su's words were really beyond my expectations. I looked at her and didn't know what to say for a moment. Fortunately, Li Su smiled when he finished saying this, and then sighed: "The reason why I didn't stop him is because he came to kill me in the first place."
"He's here...to take your life?" Li Su's words made me more and more confused. I slowed down the car, turned around and looked at Li Su and asked, "Aren't you two siblings?"
Li Su couldn't help but laugh twice when he heard my question, and said, "This is a long story..."
Although it is a bit long, Li Su still told me a story about her.
Li Su's younger brother is named Li Zetian. He is thirty-four years old this year, four years younger than Li Su.
Li Zetian is different from Li Su. He was talented and had excellent grades since he was a child. He worked in a government department right after graduation, while Li Su has been wandering around in the world and living by buying and selling news.
The relationship between the two siblings had always been very good, until one night three years ago, everything changed at that moment.
It was one day in September 2005. Li Su came to the Tianci Tea House in the northwest of the capital as usual.
The Tianci Tea House is not that big. It only has two sides, and the inside and outside together only have seven or eight rooms at most.
Although this place is not big, Tianci Tea House has never lacked business, because the owner here, Zhao San, is one of the top figures in the dark market in the capital.
What is a dark market?
As the name suggests, the dark market is a market that cannot be seen in the light. Although it cannot be seen in the light, it is fundamentally different from the ghost market. What is sold here is not things and objects, but mostly invisible and intangible information.
Although the dark market is not big, it has its own complicated rules. First of all, the first one is that gold and silver are never found in the dark market. In other words, if you want to buy something in the dark market, you can’t just use money. It works.
Since money is not easy to use, how can you buy the news you want?
It's very simple, use things, or exchange equivalent messages.
This rule may sound a bit confusing, but it is indeed a hint of the rules inside, and these rules were also set by Zhao San.
Zhao San is the implied Guotou, which means the person in charge, and everything in the dark market is decided by him.
On this day, Li Su came to Tianci Teahouse normally.
When she arrived, Zhao San was already waiting for her in the private room called Cifu.
When Li Su entered the private room, the aroma of tea was already overflowing inside. She raised her nose to smell it and said with a smile: "This is... Yuqian Longjing?"
Zhao San smiled and said: "I didn't expect your nose to be quite sharp!"
After Zhao San said this, he raised his hand and gave Li Su a cup. Li Su was not polite. After sitting opposite Zhao San, he raised the cup and drank the tea in one gulp.
After finishing the drink, Li Su took a long breath and let the aroma of tea linger in his mouth for a while. After a while, he slowly said: "Good tea!"
Zhao San smiled and said: "Of course it's good tea!"
Immediately afterwards, Zhao San poured another cup of tea for Li Su and asked, "Do you know why West Lake Longjing is listed among the top ten famous teas in China?"
Li Su slowly picked up the cup in front of him, looked at the light green tea soup in the cup and said: "The reason why West Lake Longjing ranks first among the top ten famous teas in China is because Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty accidentally tasted Longjing when he visited West Lake in Hangzhou. After drinking the tea, he felt that the tea was fragrant and the aftertaste was sweet, so he praised Longjing tea highly and named the eighteen tea trees in front of Hu Gong Temple at the foot of Shifeng Mountain as imperial tea... I must have thought that the cup of tea I drank at this time, It was collected from those eighteen imperial trees, right?"
Zhao San nodded when he heard this and said, "It seems that I have to look at you with admiration."
Li Su drank all the tea soup in the teacup, then slowly put down the teacup in his hand, and said with a smile: "Brother Zhao, what's going on today? You, a thief like you, actually invited me to drink such a good drink." Tea, is there anything important you want me to do?"
Zhao San smiled and said: "What? Can't I treat you to some good tea?"
Li Su smiled and said: "Brother Zhao, let's talk about something if we have something to do. Can't we just stop making these useless things? I'm actually quite unsure of what you're going to do with this drama!"
Zhao San smiled bitterly twice and said nothing. Instead, he slowly took out a small box from under the table and handed it to Li Su. Although he said word by word: "I need you to help me check this." The origin of things.”
Li Su took the small box, opened it, and found that there was a black-backed and white-spotted millipede inside the box. The bug had long since died and its body had dried, but even so, the bug looked to be at least thirty or forty centimeters tall.
Women have a natural aversion to bugs. Looking at the black-backed and white-spotted millipede in the box, Li Su frowned and said, "What is this?"
Zhao San shook his head and said: "I don't know! That's why I asked you to check..."
Li Su looked at the bugs in the box. After a while, he raised his head and looked at Zhao San and asked, "What is the reward?"
Zhao San did not answer Li Su's question directly, but asked: "What do you want?"
Li Su thought for a while and then asked: "I want the buyer's information after the matter is completed..."
Li Su's words were obviously beyond Zhao San's imagination. He was stunned for a moment, and then said slowly: "This... doesn't seem to be in line with the rules!"
Li Su smiled and said: "Rules? Isn't the rule in the hint different from equivalent exchange?"
Zhao San said: "Do you think the information about the buyer of this news is the same as the origin of this bug?"
Li Su didn't speak, she just nodded.
Zhao San asked again: "Can I ask one more question?"
Li Su smiled and said, "Of course!"
Zhao San thought for a while and then said: "Can I know why you want this buyer information?"
Li Su smiled, and then said: "Why is Brother Zhao starting to be interested in other people's affairs? Don't you always only provide transactions and never ask the visitors' intentions?"
Li Su's words left Zhao San speechless. After a while, he nodded slowly and said, "I just don't want anything to happen to you... Now that you have thought it through! Let's make a deal!"
After saying that, Zhao San stretched out his hand towards Li Su, and Li Su also stretched out his hand and shook it with Zhao San.
All this was normal, but Li Su never expected that the change in his life would begin at this moment.
