Chapter 289 A Strange Place

In a restaurant not far from the crowd, Zhao was sitting alone by the window of a private room, watching the noisy crowd not far away, drinking and eating without much interest.

He had no interest in the discussion and noise of the crowd in the distance. What does it matter to him whether this group of people believe it or not? He was just doing things according to the emperor's wishes.

Whether it is effective or not is something the emperor should consider, not him. To put it another way, can the lack of effect dispel the emperor's determination to provoke a war?

No! Absolutely not! The long-cherished wish of more than 20 years will not be dispelled unless he dies suddenly, at most it will be postponed. But for more than half a year, will so many preparations be postponed because of a little trouble?

Most likely not.

So what's the point of worrying about something that is bound to happen and it doesn't concern me at the same time? It's better to calm down and eat and drink.

After drinking the wine in the glass, I reached out to touch the wine pot, which was already a little cold. The sky outside was gloomy, and Zhao was not in a good mood either, so he simply drank a few more cups to relieve his depression.

"Waiter, the wine is cold, change a pot!"

The waiter was very quick, and came in to change the wine before he finished speaking. It was noisy outside, but the private room was relaxed.

After changing to warm wine and drinking a few cups, there was a knock on the door. Zhao grinned and said, "Come in, I'm alone!"

When the door was opened, it was Wangshu's otherworldly face. In addition, he was holding a man with shifty eyes in his hand, who looked like a gangster.

"Is this your subordinate?" Zhao asked.

"No. He followed me all the way, and I don't know what he wanted to do, so I just arrested him."

That's it. Zhao didn't care too much, and returned to the topic and asked: "How is it? Have you found anything about what I want?"

Wangshu didn't answer immediately, but left the fainted person behind, pulled open the chair opposite Zhao and sat down, and asked: "Where is the thing I want? Are you ready?"

"Pills? There are still some, but how do I know if what you found is worth the price? This pill is very precious. I begged and begged for five. I don't want to do a business that loses money!"

She didn't respond, but took out a letter from her arms and pushed it in front of Zhao. Frankly said: "I didn't find much valuable things, but I think there should be something you are interested in in the letter."

Oh? I am interested? Zhao raised his eyebrows, took the letter and opened it. There was not much useful information on it. It only said that the fire in the official warehouse of Chuzhou was probably not done by people from Hexi. As for the actions of Hexi, they were all vague and unclear.

She put down the letter with an unhappy face and said with a smile: "If you only find out what is written in the letter, then I'm sorry, I won't give you any!"

"What do you want?" Wangshu's voice was obviously a little angry, and he looked at Zhao Jue with some unkindness, as if he would fight if he disagreed with her.

She lowered her eyes, suppressed the anger in her heart, and stared at the man in front of her with gritted teeth. This man is simply a man who got the advantage and still wants to take advantage of him.

If it weren't for the fact that the elixir is really useful, and if it weren't for the fact that she really can't kill him at the moment, how could she let the man who took advantage of her live to this day?

Thinking of that day, Wangshu's anger, which he had suppressed with great difficulty, surfaced a little in his heart. There were some ripples on his face, which was like a stagnant lake.

"At least you have to find out who set the fire in Chuzhou and who he works for." Zhao Jue drank the wine and felt the murderous aura on Wangshu, and his tone became much calmer.

"It's useless to just find out that it's not from Hexi, my beauty!"

Alas... Wangshu's murderous look disappeared, and he said helplessly: "To be honest, it's hard to find out the identity of the arsonist! If you hadn't said that it wasn't done by the Jinyiwei, I would have suspected that you did it yourself..."

Uh. Zhao shook his head and said decisively: "I dare not say anything else, but it is definitely not done by us. The official warehouse is not a trivial matter."

"Okay." Wangshu also shook his head, quite helpless.

After a moment of silence, she seemed to suddenly remember something and suddenly asked: "I wonder if you are interested in the other two things?"

"Tell me about it."

"The first thing is that Lu Wenyu went to Jingzhou to meet the governor of Hexi, Liu Huanzhou."

It turns out that the governor of Hexi is called Liu Huanzhou. Zhao nodded as if he suddenly realized something. Lu Wenyu went to see the governor of Hexi, most likely for the purpose of sending troops to the north. There is nothing strange about it.

Said: "Continue."

"The second thing. You should know that the disciples of Lantuo Temple and Kuchan Temple were killed in Lin'an Mountain Temple."

"You know, there are strange places?" Zhao looked directly into her eyes and asked.

Wangshu nodded, "Yes, and there are many."

"From the scene, the disciples of the two temples formed a large formation together, and maintained it for a long time. But for some reason, the formation was suddenly broken."

Zhao was confused and put down the wine glass and said impatiently: "Just get to the point, how did it break?"

"From the outside!" Wangshu said.

"And the time was very short, almost in one strike! I suspect that it was the Grandmaster who took action, but it didn't seem to collapse in one strike at the scene, so it was not human power but artifacts!"

Artifacts? Zhao was shocked and couldn't think of any artifact that could break the formation with a junior master in one strike.

After thinking about it, he still asked in confusion: "What artifact? The formation with a junior master in charge, it won't be so easy to break, right?"

"I don't know!" Wangshu told the truth.

"I only checked here. If you want to check further, it will be a different price! Do you want to add more money and check further?" Her eyes were dark, like a shrewd businessman.

Ah? Zhao's eyes widened in disbelief. No, what she said was my words!

"No."

Zhao threw out a small medicine bottle, "There are two pills in it, I can only give you so many!"

Wang Shu didn't mind, put away the medicine bottle, turned around and walked out.

As the door slowly closed, Zhao Jiu's expression darkened completely, and he gently shook the letter in his hand. The smell above smelled a bit familiar, but I couldn't remember where I had smelled it before.

He was originally a drug addict and was very sensitive to smells. When the letter was pushed over, she could already smell it. At first, she thought it was the smell of Wangshu's powder, but after she sat down, the two smells were completely different.

It's really strange.

I closed my eyes and sniffed it carefully with my nose. It was still familiar, and I still couldn't remember where I had smelled it. It's really strange. Logically speaking, I haven't been in contact with many people, so I should be able to quickly remember who they smell like.

But it just happened to be hazy and I couldn't remember.

Slow footsteps sounded from behind the screen, followed by a teasing and joking voice.

"Everyone has left, but are you still reluctant to leave?"