Huangfu Ning smacked his lips, then stood up and said, "I don't care about political matters, but I have to make some offerings to my stomach."
Shi Zairong said, "Are you hungry now?" When he first came here, he told Huangfu Ning not to rush and to eat some dry food first, but he refused to eat. He had endured it until now, so it would be strange if he wasn't hungry: "Look at the time, it's almost time to eat. There is only a big pot of rice in the army, Uncle Ning, please don't be disgusted."
Huangfu Ning said: "I don't mind, I don't mind. Now I can eat anything except dry food which is dry and tasteless!"
Crows, especially those that have been specially trained, can fly at impressive speeds. After Shi Zairong sent the letter via black crow, it arrived safely at the Qingliang Palace in just two days and two nights.
Qiu Liang always went to the pigeon coop when he woke up early. Today, before he even got there, he could hear the pigeons making a lot of noise. When he arrived, he saw two crows. "They're usually quiet, but now there are two of them. It's interesting."
Tang Chen took out the two letters that had come across each other by chance and compared them. He couldn't help but chuckle. After taking out a tinderbox and burning both letters to ashes, Tang Chen said, "Qiuliang, get ready. I need to go out."
Qiu Liang took a while to react, thinking he had misheard: "What?"
Tang Chen repeated, "I said, I'm going out for a while. Don't be so surprised, it makes me feel like I'm always sneaking out."
Qiu Liang hurriedly asked, "Where do you want to go, Madam?"
Tang Chen replied concisely, "In town, for tea. If Wang Yanzhou asks, just reply like this. Also, you have to come with me."
"Qiuliang, get ready immediately." Tang Chen rarely went out and took the initiative to ask Qiuliang to escort him. Qiuliang thought that something big might happen when he went out, so he disappeared in front of Tang Chen with a shake of his body.
After Qiu Liang left, Jiang Wanying asked curiously, "The tea in town isn't as good as the one in the palace. Are you going to see someone?"
Tang Chen said bluntly: "It's the person who gave me a gift last time."
Jiang Wanying asked with a half-smile, "It hasn't been a few days, and he's here to give you a gift again. Could it be that he's trying to get in through the back door?"
Tang Chen smiled and replied, "Yes, and the gift is quite big. It's a big gift."
Jiang Wanying asked, "Do you need me to go with you?"
"No need. The autumn breeze is enough. Too many people would be a bit eye-catching. And..." After saying that, Tang Chen beckoned Jiang Wanying with a half-concealed gesture, motioning her to lean closer, and whispered, "The latest gossip is that Nian Qing took half a day off today to rest and should be at the hot spring villa now. I think you should go there. You've been here for so long, but you haven't experienced the world-famous hot springs in my Qingliang Valley yet."
Jiang Wanying immediately clasped her fists and said, "Thank you so much!"
However, when Tang Chen changed his clothes and came out to prepare to leave, Jiang Wanying not only stood there, but also had a silly smile on her face, her face red and bleeding from her nose. At first glance, she looked like a female hooligan: "...You, your mind is full of what kind of dirty things, wipe your nosebleed, you are too angry."
"hey-hey!"
Tang Chen gently patted Jiang Wanying's forehead and reminded her, "Don't giggle. I'm going out now. Hurry up. Wang Yanzhou is a notorious scoundrel. Who knows if Nianqing will be taken back to continue serving as a soldier in the middle of her rest?"
"Why didn't you say so earlier? Goodbye!"
...Qiu Liang drove the car and soon brought Tang Chen to the designated inn: "Madam, we are here."
Tang Chen was holding a light bag in his hand but had no intention of getting off the car. He just ordered, "Go in first and help me see if there are many people eating in the inn today. If there are many, call me. If not, we will go home."
"yes."
As Qiu Liang entered the inn, he was greeted warmly by the waiter. Seeing that the inn was practically full, Qiu Liang couldn't help but frown beneath his mask. While Qingliang Valley was self-sufficient and didn't rely on outsiders for most things, at this point in time, not many people had extra money. How could so many people come to the inn and spend money just for a meal?
After Qiu Liang came out of the inn, he actually had some doubts about the person Tang Chen was going to meet today: "Madam, there are quite a few people, most of them are martial artists."
After hearing what Qiu Liang said, Tang Chen tidied up his appearance and got out of the car: "They are thoughtful. You wait here for me, I will be out soon."
Before Tang Chen left, Qiu Liang couldn't help but ask, "Madam, are the people inside from the black market?"
Tang Chen nodded and replied: "Yes, we are all here to do business."
If they were from the black market, then even if only Tang Chen went in alone, there wouldn't be any problems: "Understood, then Qiu Liang will wait here for Madam to come out."
Tang Chen saw that because more people came to the black market, some small shops on the street that had been closed had opened again, so he said, "If you feel bored, you can give the carriage to the innkeeper and walk around the street to kill time."
...Tang Chen stood at the door of the inn and scanned the people inside, then walked straight to the innermost seat and sat down in front of a middle-aged man. "Boss, I didn't expect to see you again."
The man put down his bowl and chopsticks and asked with a smile, "The last time we met, I was wearing a mask. I wonder how Madam could recognize me?"
"You are the biggest here, so you must be the owner." Although there seem to be many people in this inn and everyone eats their own food, intentionally or unintentionally, whenever someone comes in, their eyes will all look at the same place. If Tang Chen can't see it, then these big eyes would be in vain.
The shopkeeper called the waiter to clear the table and ordered, "Bring me a pot of the Xueding Hancui tea I brought."
"I will prepare it right away. Please wait a moment, sir."
Tang Chen placed the small bundle he had been holding on the table and said, "I didn't know Boss Hua had this ability to predict the future. I haven't even asked for those things yet, and he already sent them to me."
Shi Zairong's letter and the letter from the black market arrived at the Qingliang Palace together. One letter wanted her to help collect some little secrets of the underworld people who had close ties with Tianshu Tower, and the other asked her to bring the corresponding reward and come to this unknown inn to do business. The items of the transaction happened to be what Shi Zairong asked for. Isn't this a coincidence?
The shopkeeper was a little surprised and said, "Oh, really? Then our work is timely."
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