Fang Zilan ignored the shopkeeper's words, just looked at Mo Han and said, "I'm hungry."
After she finished speaking, before Mo Han could say anything, the shopkeeper took the lead and asked, "What does this girl want to eat? I'll have someone prepare it for you. All your expenses in this building today will be recorded in my account." superior……"
"The shopkeeper doesn't have to be like this." Mo Han quietly interrupted the shopkeeper. He waved his hands hurriedly and said: "Young Master Mo, you don't have to be polite."
After hearing this, Mo Han wanted to say something more, but Fang Zilan grabbed her sleeve. She smiled slightly and said, "In that case, we are not polite. Thank you, shopkeeper." A gift.
The shopkeeper breathed a sigh of relief, turned to the waiter and asked the waiter to take them to sit down, and then went to the back kitchen in person to urge the cook to prepare drinks and food.
Seeing this, Mo Han couldn't help but feel a little helpless, but Fang Zilan didn't care, "Sometimes, being too polite will make the other person uncomfortable, so it's better to go with the flow and be disrespectful."
"Sister Lan's words make sense." Mo Han nodded slightly, "It's just that I didn't think carefully."
"This is such a trivial matter, there's nothing to reflect on." Fang Zilan knew his temper, so she didn't say much. She turned to Awan and asked, "You've been absent-minded since you went out. What's wrong?"
"It's nothing..." Awan opened his mouth but hesitated, his eyes falling on several guards standing not far from them.
Fang Zilan felt relieved and stopped asking any more questions. Instead, she changed her voice and said, "I need to go to the toilet. I'll come back as soon as I go."
She got up and left, then quietly walked around the hotel rooms, and finally found Deputy General Cao in one of them.
Vice General Cao in the guest room heard the noise and held his breath tightly as he clenched the knife hidden behind his back. However, when he saw Fang Zilan climbing through the window, he couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. He quickly put the knife away and shouted "Boss".
Fang Zilan didn't have time to chat with him, so she got straight to the point and said, "What have you gained here?"
Vice Admiral Cao nodded and lowered his voice deliberately: "There are many pirates in the city. I followed the traces of a few of them to this restaurant, and like them, pretended to be foreign businessmen and moved in."
"A lot?" Fang Zilan frowned slightly, "How much is a lot?"
"At least there are about ten people." Vice General Cao recalled yesterday's situation and slowly said: "Yesterday, someone robbed me of my baggage as soon as I entered the customs. Fortunately, I listened to the boss and sorted out the baggage, and there was nothing in it. It was nothing that revealed my identity, and I didn’t have much money. I deliberately didn’t catch up with the person who stole my baggage. After he relaxed his guard, I followed him secretly, and then I discovered that there was a group of people behind him. The group of people all had tattoos on their bodies. Some are herrings, some are tridents..."
Before he could continue, Fang Zilan said softly: "That group of people are all pirates."
"Yes." Vice Admiral Cao looked solemn, and Fang Zilan snorted coldly, "Different tattoos represent different branches of pirates. It's interesting that the group of people came together from different backgrounds."
Vice General Cao couldn't help but look worried, "I heard that the major branches of the pirates have always been at odds with each other. The only time they joined forces was because General Xiahou sent troops to encircle and suppress them. They had no choice but to do so. What happened now that allowed them to join forces? Are these remnants getting together again?"
"Who knows." Fang Zilan raised her hand and frowned slightly, and said quietly: "This restaurant is the property under the name of Mo Bin's wife, Mrs. Hu. There are several prisoners who have been imprisoned for two months in the Mushanguan Mansion Prison. A pirate who was captured a while ago.”
Upon hearing this, Vice General Cao's eyes widened, "This..."
"Mo Bin and his wife, one caught the pirates and the other hid the pirates, but I don't know whether they did it intentionally or unintentionally." Fang Zilan thought for a while and asked in a low voice: "Old Cao, based on your observation, Is there anyone in this restaurant who has connections with pirates?"
"No." Vice General Cao shook his head, "But as soon as I entered this restaurant, I felt like I was being watched."
"You're being targeted?" Fang Zilan looked stern, and Lieutenant General Cao said with some uncertainty: "I always feel like someone is following me, but I don't know if that person is looking at the pirates or me. Yesterday, while I was taking a bath, I deliberately visited the waiter in the shop. My upper body is exposed in front of me. Logically speaking, I don’t have any tattoos on my body, so it shouldn’t arouse suspicion. As for being targeted..."
Seeing his hesitant expression, Fang Zilan analyzed: "The pirates stole your baggage, probably because they were angry at you and to confirm your identity. However, there is nothing special in your baggage, and they will not just stare at it. It's up to you. As for Mo Bin, since you have been let in by the soldiers guarding the city, they won't bother to keep an eye on you. Unless..."
As she spoke, she suddenly changed the subject, frowned and asked, "Think about it carefully. Was there anything special about when you entered the city yesterday?"
Hearing this, Vice Admiral Cao went through yesterday's situation carefully in his mind, and suddenly said as if he remembered something: "When I was tracking the pirates yesterday, I met a young master on the road. I saw him staring at me all the time. Look, I was afraid that he would see something wrong, so I took the initiative to chat and asked for directions."
"Then how did he reply to you?" Fang Zilan frowned even more, and Vice General Cao shook his head, "It's nothing special, but he said that my accent didn't sound like someone from the southeast, and that I should be from the north. I I felt that there was nothing to hide, so I admitted that I was indeed from the north and was just passing through Mushan Pass in search of relatives."
"What does the young master look like?" Fang Zilan's expression relaxed a little, and Vice General Cao described it while thinking about it: "He looks ordinary, but the jade crown he wears looks a bit unusual. Although I don't know much about gold and silver jewelry, but at any rate I have been with the boss for so long, and I have seen some things in the market. His jade crown seems to me to be jadeite."
"Jadeite?" Fang Zilan read these three words softly, and an idea flashed in her mind, "Could he be..."
She didn't say anything further, and Vice General Cao couldn't help but ask: "Does the boss know who he is?"
"There are no aristocratic families in Mushan Pass, so Mo Bin's son may be able to afford jade." Fang Zilan explained, with a serious look on her face, "I saw you enter the pass yesterday, and there was nothing unusual at that time. But you As soon as I entered this restaurant, I felt like I was being watched. The only suspicious person here is the young man you have met..."
She paused for a moment, then suddenly changed her voice and said to Vice Admiral Cao: "Wait here, I'll go find out. If he is really Mo Bin's son, Lao Cao, you have probably been exposed."
Vice Admiral Cao was stunned on the spot. Before he could ask her who she wanted to inquire about, he saw her jumping out of the window. He followed him to the window and saw her reentering the lobby from the backyard of the restaurant.
