[75] I treat you as a brother

"The illegitimate daughter" coughed lightly, calling Zhan Zhao's attention back.

"I know you have a lot of things you want to ask me, and I won't hide what I can say..."

Before she finished speaking, Zhan Zhao interrupted her suddenly.

"I'll talk about your business later." He pushed the giant door away with his thumb, and his whole body was full of aura, "To prevent accidental injury, I still have to ask more questions. The one who gave the jade card that day hurt Bai Yutang, but your lord ? What enmity do you have with my fifth younger brother?"

Bai Yutang traveled day and night, and followed Yinji into an inn.

That night, he was obsessed with ghosts, his mouth was quick, and he almost poured out the secrets that had been hidden for many years. He was waiting for Zhan Zhao's response with full expectation, but suddenly heard a flute sound like a bird.

This voice is his special way of communicating with others, and it is mostly used for urgent matters.

So that night, even though Bai Yutang wanted to catch up to break the casserole and ask the end, he was still worried about delaying the business, so he had to forcefully suppress the little bit of curiosity like a cat scratching in his heart, and chased the secret and left alone.

There is already some distance from Tongguan. Compared with the city, this place is sparsely populated, but it is rare and peaceful.

When Bai Yutang came here, there was no trace of the secret, so he had no choice but to go in, check it out, make a pot of tea, and rest.

This inn is small in scale, but it is kept spotless.The sun shines in through the window, filled with a sense of warmth.

There were not many guests in the inn, and there were only three in Bai Yutang.The other two are a pair of master and servant, who picked a place with the best sunlight and were eating.

Because of the light, the face was not very clear, and Bai Yutang was not interested in caring about others, so he swept it lightly and chose another place.Just as he was about to sit down, he suddenly realized that there were more than three people in the room, and there was another person lying on the stool here, but because of the angle, he didn't see it just now.

People didn't see it, and the breath didn't feel it.

Bai Yutang narrowed his eyes slightly.

Looking at the person on the chair, he is not thin, with a bamboo hat covering his face, his legs are raised high, and he is shaking his feet comfortably.

Bai Yutang felt that this person looked familiar.

He raised his eyebrows slightly, but didn't say anything, just sat down on the stool opposite the man, picked up the kettle, and poured himself a cup of tea.

The tea was just filled, before the entrance, the familiar tea fragrance wafted out first.

As soon as Bai Yutang smelled it, he knew that this was his favorite tea, so he smirked lightly, and while drinking tea slowly, he asked the air, "How long are you going to pretend to be dead?"

The person lying down did not make a sound, determined to play dead to the end.

Bai Yutang's upper body didn't move, but he suddenly kicked his leg under the table.

This time it seemed that he didn't exert any force, but the lying man suddenly jumped up. At the moment he jumped up, the wooden stool under his pillow suddenly fell apart, and with a "boom", it shattered into pieces. The wood scum of the ground.

But just now that person had already jumped onto the table, and the bamboo hat twirled and fell from the mid-air, and it just hit his head in an unbiased manner.

He looked down with lingering fear, curled his lips like a toothache: "Little brother has prepared good tea for you all the way, but you treat me like this, fifth brother is really kind."

Bai Yutang sat firmly like a mountain, drank the tea into fine nectar and jade dew, without raising his eyelids: "Want to be kind? Then I will show you kindness."

Just as he finished speaking, he suddenly slapped the table with his palm.

The entire table flew out together with the people on it, but stopped suddenly before flying far.

The person above was caught off guard and didn't even have time to react. He fell directly from the table, but didn't fall to the ground - the posture of his fall seemed to have been arranged and calculated in advance, and it was a coincidence that his buttocks fell On a new stool.

Looking at Bai Yutang again, he was still holding the teacup in his hand, looking graceful as if he had stepped out of a painting.

"I'm afraid, I won't make trouble with you." The man patted his buttocks and got up, put the table and stool back, then took off the bamboo hat on his head, and threw it aside, "You and I haven't seen each other for a long time, it's hard to meet once , still tormenting me like this—I have no hatred against you, why don't you see you tormenting Zhan Zhao?"

This person's complexion is strangely pale, with an evil look on his face, he doesn't look like a good person just by looking at his face, only those who know him know that this person has never harmed a loyal person since he was born.

It was Bai Yutang's close friend, the white-faced judge Liu Qing.

Hearing him mention Zhan Zhao, Bai Yutang's stable expression finally changed: "You came to me just to talk about this?"

"Of course not." Liu Qing lay down in front of the table, resting her chin with both hands, "I can come to you, of course I have good news."

Bai Yutang raised his eyelids and looked at him with dim eyes.

"But I'm hungry now - once I'm hungry, my memory will not be very good. If I don't have the meal invited by my fifth brother, I won't be able to remember any good news."

Bai Yutang's eyelids trembled slightly, he took out a piece of silver from his pocket and threw it to him: "Whatever you want to eat, order it yourself."

Liu Qing cheered, took the money and asked Xiao Er to order.

After he stroked the wooden sign in front of the counter and ordered almost all the dishes in the store, Bai Yutang crossed his arms and added with a blank expression: "How fat is it? You still eat."

Liu Qing: "..."

Three rounds of wine, five flavors of food.

Liu Qing ate and drank enough, touched her round belly, and burped in satisfaction.

Bai Yutang tapped on the table with his fingers: "Don't sleep, let's get down to business first."

Liu Qing said speechlessly: "Sleep when you're full, do you think I'm a pig—I'm about to talk to you about something, didn't you ask me to check on your elder brother earlier?"

Bai Yutang: "Do you have any clues?"

"Yes." Liu Qing took out a folded piece of leather from her bosom, and unfolded it in front of him.

Bai Yutang: "Map?"

On the top of that piece of unknown skin, many symbols were drawn on it.

"Well." Liu Qing pointed to the symbol on it and explained to him, "Didn't you say before that your elder brother took you around to run a business? In the past few years, I have followed the route of your business, and will continue to I revisited those places again, and guess what I found?"

Bai Yutang looked at him steadfastly, his eyes sparkling.

Liu Qing knew that he was anxious for an answer, and wanted to keep it a while longer, but she was afraid that she would piss him off too much, so she smiled mysteriously.

Unexpectedly, just as he was about to speak, Bai Yutang on the opposite side leaned back and said first, "You found out that there is water everywhere we have been."

"—Or, to put it more bluntly, my elder brother's running a business is fake, and his real purpose is to use running a business as a cover to search for water sources and... springs?"

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