Chapter Thirty-Nine: Dinner in the Hall of Rebirth
"So, you beat those guys half to death, and in the end you just asked about the whereabouts of the children. You don't know who was behind it?"
"To be fair, it's not easy to bring the children back safely, right?"
Gu Sanqiu rolled his eyes: "You have to be lucky that those guys want to encircle them once, otherwise it will probably be a problem whether those children can be recovered."
Keqing frowned: "As a result, even you don't know where they came from."
"The methods they use are quite ancient, at least dating back to a previous era."
Gu Sanqiu said seriously: "At that time, there were some small evil gods, that is, guys with little ability, who deceived believers and used this method to bring them clean children for blood sacrifices."
"According to my family's records, this kind of idiot has been killed round after round. But there are too many guys who want to take a wrong path to improve their strength. Maybe those people also left a legacy at that time."
"Inheritance? Will those who desperately improve their strength leave a legacy?"
Gu Sanqiu shrugged: "In fact, in the later stages, each of these guys basically turned into a clone of the evil god. They completely lost their autonomy. Maybe their souls have been swallowed up."
"Those evil gods can't do anything else, but they are very good at seeking benefits for themselves. How could they let those guys take away their power so easily?"
"Inheritance is actually left by the evil gods themselves. Maybe some of them were hammered to death by immortals or even Lord Yan, but after all, it is a method of using power, and it is not surprising that some people use it."
"That makes sense."
Ke Qing nodded, then looked at Gu Sanqiu with expectant eyes: "Then can you find out these inheritances?"
"It would be possible if I were an immortal offering incense, but unfortunately I am just an incense offering."
Gu Sanqiu looked at Keqing as if she were a fool: "You don't think I have that ability, do you?"
"I have to say that although times are changing, some things ultimately require professional counterparts to do it well."
Ke Qing combed her hair: "I heard that the little secretary wants to invite you to work at Yuehai Pavilion. What are your intentions?"
"If you are willing to come, I can directly promote you to become my exclusive secretary. There won't be many things to do, and you don't have to worry about the intrigues in the officialdom."
"Thank you Bu Min."
Gu Sanqiu smiled: "With so many generations of savings from the Gu family, and my family is not a family with many children and many blessings, it won't be a problem for me to squander it for two to three hundred years on my own."
"Tsk."
Ke Qing shook her head: "The seven wealthy businessmen in Liyue should become the eight wealthy businessmen. It seems that no one has made an overall calculation of the assets of your Gu family."
"There are only seven out of seven stars. I can only say that you are overthinking."
Gu Sanqiu asked: "By the way, I have a question for you. Is Sister Beidou one of the Seven Stars?"
"Why do you ask so suddenly?"
"Big Dipper, Big Dipper, I always thought Sister Big Dipper was the former leader of the Seven Stars, but she was killed by that person, so I took Southern Cross around everywhere."
Gu Sanqiu pointed to the sky: "After all, now is the era of 'everyone knows everything and God has the right to respect', so I want to gossip about the inside story. I am very interested in this."
"I don't know. Generally speaking, I don't pay attention to these things. After all, they are not too important."
Ke Qing shook her head: "If you want to know these things, you can ask that person yourself. If it is you, I believe she will be quite happy to answer."
"Haha, I'm afraid of heights."
"One more thing. Some time ago, I noticed that the Qianyan Army's hidden sentries seemed to have more than doubled. Has anything happened recently?"
"You know this as well?"
Ke Qing was surprised, and then she frowned slightly. It seemed that the Qianyan Army instructors responsible for secret operations still needed to improve their work abilities.
"It's not an important matter. Some time ago, another group of fools came from the Winter Kingdom. This group of fools was even personally attended by their executive officer, Young Master Dadalia."
Keqing said: "According to intelligence records, you also know what the Fools have done in Mondstadt. We are very worried about what problems may arise if an executive officer can personally respond to the Fools' team."
"To be honest, when the child abduction and trafficking incident occurred, our immediate reaction was that fools were taking action, and we had even initiated some emergency preparations."
There was a trace of murderous intent in Ke Qing's eyes: "We are not Mondstadt waiting for something to happen. If the fools want to kidnap the people of Liyue for something, then kill them!"
"Okay, okay, don't be so angry. In terms of time, there shouldn't be any intersection between these guys and the Fools."
Gu Sanqiu poured a cup of tea for Ke Qing: "Besides, from what I know about those guys, they fools like the idiots we caught don't even have the intention to recruit them as cannon fodder."
"Okay, then this matter should be over. In the next half month, the people of Qianyan Army will be on high alert, and there will be nothing to do without you for the time being."
Ke Qing looked at Gu Sanqiu: "Come with me to have a meal."
"Forget it, you go directly to the Hall of Life, and I'll go home and prepare the ingredients. It's rare that you guys have time to have a meal together, so grab Hutao and let's have a dinner together."
Gu Sanqiu flexed his fingers, it was time to get something from his food shop.
"Wow, the busy guy is here~"
After Hu Tao saw Ke Qing and Gu Sanqiu appearing at the same time, she looked at the pair with a little surprise.
"You two can actually appear at the same time, what's going on?"
"He was helping me handle a case recently."
Keqing handed her coat to the waiter at the Death Hall next to her, nodded to Gu Sanqiu who was returning home, and then looked at Hutao.
"It's you, haven't you left Liyue Port recently?"
"No, I'm on vacation during this period. I'm not so busy every day and night."
Hu Tao shook his head: "What case is it? Can you tell me about it and let me hear about it?"
After Gu Sanqiu prepared the ingredients and came back, he saw the two people fighting with pokers on both sides of the table.
"Three belts and one."
"Take care...take care of it."
Keqing's face had already been pasted with several white strips, while Hu Tao's face only had two. It was quite intuitive to see what the results of the two were.
Different from the past, this time it was Keqing who had two decks of cards in his hand, but strictly speaking, this kind of two-player landlord fight was maliciously requested by Gu Sanqiu. The weird rule about two decks of cards for farmers is really not very friendly to novices.
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"Hey, hey, don't bully newbies with this."
Gu Sanqiu knocked Hu Tao on the head: "Is the kitchen ready?"
"Okay, okay, Sanqiu is really long-winded."
Hu Tao stuck out her tongue at Gu Sanqiu: "Then we'll just wait here to eat without being polite~"
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"Being cute can't cover up your behavior of not intending to help in any way."