Chapter 268: Qing'er's Ambition

"Ye Jingluo, is the itinerary for waiting for today still arranged as originally said?" After the meeting of Seven Seas Trading Company, Xing Siming stood beside Ye Tao.

Ye Tao and Qi Zhentao are going to meet with an intelligence bureau that has arranged a dark line for a year today to confirm a very important clue. And according to this clue, Ye Tao can make up his mind whether to arrange someone or not. Since both sides have to be arranged in detail, not only so that Ye Tao and Qi Zhentao can understand the situation more clearly, but also to ensure that the dark lines under the arrangement cannot be exposed, Xing Siming has made extremely careful arrangements. But Ye Tao and Qi Zhentao were too busy after all, and Xing Siming was also ready not to disturb the normal arrangements of the two.

"Just follow your arrangement." Ye Tao looked at Qi Zhentao and said affirmatively.

Xing Siming led Ye Tao and Qi Zhentao back to the courtyard where Ye Tao had stayed. It was getting late, and while Ye Tao's courtyard was preparing dinner as usual, Ye Tao and Qi Zhentao went out from the side gate of the courtyard, entered through the side door of the courtyard on the opposite side, and boarded the prepared carriage. In order to reduce the danger of being discovered, there were only five guards around the two, but the escort team composed of Liu Yong, Guan Huan, Zhou Rui and Qi Zhentao's personal guards Qian Qian and Zheng Jing did not dare to say that they could escape in any situation, but they also had strong enough combat effectiveness and adaptability. Although Xing Siming is not good-looking, he is an out-and-out good hand. And Xing Siming made arrangements along the way, and said that there was no leakage.

Half an hour later, they came to a house on the edge of Yuhang Harbor. At the front of the house is a fruit shop, which looks very cramped, but this house has a hole in the sky, and the interior is quite spacious. Actually, it was the effect of connecting the two houses. This house is now a property rarely used by the Intelligence Bureau, and is basically used to temporarily host some landings in Yuhang Port. It is then sent to the middle and senior intelligence personnel in other locations in Chunnan through the intelligence bureau's system. And in order to arrange for Ye Tao and Qi Zhentao to meet with the staff of the Intelligence Bureau here, although Xing Siming himself didn't think it was necessary, he still touched it up a little - he covered the wooden boxes piled up in the corner of the room with dark blue coarse cloth, and those boxes contained all kinds of weapons. Xing Siming even prepared a pot of tea in the room, a pot of good tea that seemed to him to be unnecessary.

Ye Tao and Qi Zhentao sat in the room for a while before they waited for the person who came to explain the important things they saw and heard that day, a little girl who was only nineteen years old, but had been working in the previous internal security system and the current intelligence bureau system for five and a half years: Qing'er.

Qing'er is now the personal maid of Ji Zexiang, the number one red card in Yuhang's extremely famous Qinglou - Embroidery Building. Although she works in the Qinglou, she is one of the few people in the Qinglou who comes and goes freely. One of the women with full personal autonomy. And the other one, it may be the old bustard in the green building, in fact, whether the old bustard of the embroidery building with a very deep background can come and go freely is really a very serious question. Qing'er was born in the alley behind the embroidery building, and now many girls in the embroidery building have known Qing'er since they were bought, and no one has any reason to suspect that Qing'er is a fine worker, or, according to the records of the Dongping Intelligence Bureau. It's a third-level field spy. But in fact, since Qing'er's parents were killed eleven years ago because of a small turmoil in Yuhang, two insignificant little people were abandoned and killed, Qing'er's grandfather, who helped the embroidery building take care of all kinds of miscellaneous items piled up in the back alley, was recruited by an internal guard. Actually, the housekeeping guard was just investigating what had happened. A little kindness, I found a reason for the old man to be able to feed the little girl, and to be able to give him a little money on a fixed basis. In fact, the housekeeper did not tell the old man until the third year. He was in the service of the Dongping royal family. At the beginning, this job was very, very simple, that is, to meet with the housekeeper once a month, and roughly talk about whether there were any major things happening in the embroidery building in the past month, and how many important people had come...... And so on.

The old man was illiterate and did not have a wide range of knowledge. The reaction is not fast, and in addition, to take care of Qing'er, the things that can be found out are too limited. However, when the little girl Qing'er began to work as a low-level handyman in the embroidery building, the situation changed greatly. Qing'er is very smart, since she knows that her grandfather is serving Dongping, and Dongping's fine work has no good impression of those who have a great relationship with her parents' deaths, the young Qing'er regards doing a better job in the intelligence bureau as an opportunity to avenge her family. Thereupon. At a young age, she helped her grandfather brilliantly complete the list of important visitors. Prioritizing things. When she was chosen by Ji Zexiang to be her personal maid, she was only eleven years old. At that time, although she was not an official member of the houseguard, she had actually taken over her grandfather's job for a while.

After her grandfather's death when she was thirteen years old, Qing'er devoted herself more wholeheartedly to sorting out what happened in the embroidery building and reporting it to the housekeeper. Not only that, as Qing'er knew more and more words, and became more and more familiar with the girls and some guests in the embroidery building, she was able to report more and more situations. As one of the most famous, oldest and deepest Qinglou in Yuhang, Xiulou has all kinds of things happening in it, as well as the entanglement of interests of all kinds of people, and the cooperation and struggle between them may not be all that the young Qing'er can understand, but the things she reported and other aspects of the situation are combined, but people can see the whole picture of things more clearly. So, more than a year later, before the internal guard was promoted to the head of the party and was no longer specifically responsible for Yu Hang's affairs, he officially recruited Qing'er.

Although the job Qing'er is doing is so boring and unimportant, and a little girl who is not very good-looking, but also right, is a handyman in the Qinglou, it is really quite dangerous and requires courage. However, Qing'er, who has persevered, finally reported a very important matter after waiting for so many years. Although there is a bit of a lag in this matter, it seems to tell us something. Qing'er knew that winning this opportunity to present the situation to Ye Tao and Qi Zhentao in person might not change the trajectory of her life, and the system of the Intelligence Bureau was really far from the jurisdiction of Ye Tao and Qi Zhentao. And Qing'er's heart is not about how much wealth, prestige and status she has gained, but because she hopes to stay in Yuhang for a long time, until she can send those who caused the innocent death of her parents to hell.

Qing'er wants to find an opportunity to come out of the embroidery building, and she must not arouse suspicion at all, and the time is very difficult to control. Although someone from the intelligence bureau covered for her, she thought that Ji Zexiang went to a certain temple in the suburbs to get a spirit talisman for the reason that she came out, and she had at least two hours of free time. Needless to say, that so-and-so temple is also a dark line of the intelligence bureau. And while waiting for Qing'er's arrival, in order not to let Ye Tao and Qi Zhentao wait stupidly, Xing Siming roughly talked about Qing'er's resume. This nineteen-year-old girl has been working for nearly ten years, which is really moving.

"The one who recruited Qing'er and her grandfather is Mr. Jiang Zhiqing." Xing Siming finally said. Jiang Zhiqing is now in charge of the intelligence bureau's comprehensive reconnaissance and espionage work in Northern Liao, and he can be in charge of this work during the preparatory period for the Dongping attack on Liao.

"Ye Jingluo, Qi Lao, Mr. Xing...... I'm really sorry to keep you waiting. It's really not easy to get out of the embroidery building. After listening to Qing'er's bitter and bitter story, she was a little surprised to see that she was full of laughter, and she seemed to be just a young woman who could be met at any time in the market.

"Miss Qing'er, you're welcome. We don't have much time, so let's talk about the situation that day. Ye Tao said with a smile. Xing Siming pulled over a chair for Qing'er to sit down, and quietly listened to Qing'er's third statement of the whole thing. As a veteran intelligence officer, Xing Siming can only admire Qing'er's almost innate professionalism. This third statement is almost exactly the same as the first, without adding or subtracting any details, without adding any of my own judgments, and without hiding what I have not seen or heard because of the restrictions of the time. Qing'er left all the power of judgment to these adults she respected.

That night, Xia Yu, the fourth son of the Xia family, came to the embroidery building. The embroidery building is the industry behind the Xia family, but the people of the Xia family rarely come to the embroidery building, and even if they come, it is usually not Xia Yu. Xia Yu is generally responsible for more important things in the Xia family. And that day, two carriages came to the embroidery building, and they did not come in at the door, but directly entered the Pearl Garden in the middle of the embroidery building from the alley on the side, which is Ji Zexiang's place. Seeing Xia Yu's arrival, Ji Zexiang was also surprised. But she still served Xia Yu very diligently. At that time, I thought it was even more strange that the man in the second carriage they had come with had hurriedly stepped out of the carriage and had not come out after entering the room. There was a room between the room where the man was and Xia Yu's room. The guards are very tight. Qing'er whispered what she saw that day.

"At the time, I was sitting in the doorway. In distant places, Ji Zexiang usually let me stay at a distance when receiving important guests. But it didn't take long for her to come out. ”