Chapter 30: The Herb Hall
After bidding farewell to the Golden Wind and Jade Dew Building, Hate Wind followed the Wind Chasing Guide she released on the assassin all the way, leaving Yucheng and coming to a dilapidated herb hall in Quancheng.
The medicine hall was opened in a remote corner, far from the avenue, with sparse crowds, and a tavern with no signboard opened opposite, which was also deserted.
The medicine hall is a three-in-one courtyard, the main hall is used for daily operations, it is a middle-aged woman who never speaks, she has a square face, thick eyebrows, her eyes look fierce, her mouth is slightly protruding forward, and she is wearing a black silk shirt without patterns, which looks boring and rigid.
The side hall is used for living, with doors and windows closed, and a few quilts and clothes drying under the eaves.
The wind-hating wind chaser pointed to the side hall.
The reason why Thunderfire has been able to run rampant in Yaskawa for so long is precisely because it has no fixed stronghold, and all the assassins are scattered all over Yaskawa, and they will only act when they receive a mission.
If you want to defeat the thunderfire, you must have an entry point, sort out its intertwined power system, and go up from one node, like a spider's web, to find the next node, section by section, and always find the center point of this complex and intertwined network.
Then, completely destroy the central point of the thunder fire, leaving no room for it.
This was the method that Chu Tingyun told Hate Feng that day, and it was also very likely that Shi Mingxuan sent her to do this task.
She needed to find the assassin's counterpart, as well as his commander, and then trace it back to the next level of the Thunderfire Commander.
Hate Feng stayed in an inn two blocks away from the medicine hall, and changed into a simple peasant dress, as inconspicuous as a country woman, her face was smeared with dust, and if you didn't look closely, you couldn't see her original face at all.
Pretending to buy medicine, she went to the Herb Hall, hoping to find out if there were any other Assassins living in the area.
When she first came to the herb hall, the woman in the main hall was putting a bunch of freshly dried medicines into the medicine box, she sat in the courtyard, bent over, picked out the medicinal herbs little by little, and put them into the box.
"May I ask if there are three clearing?" said Hate Wind, pretending to be a peasant woman, came to the courtyard.
The middle-aged woman glanced up at her, her eyes were sharp, but when she saw that it was an ordinary peasant woman, her eyes returned to normal.
She silently got up from her chair, entered the main hall, went around to the medicine cabinet, took a packet of paper-packed medicinal herbs, and a note, and returned to Hate Wind.
He didn't say a word during the whole process, and there was no smile on his face, it was extremely cold.
I saw a few words written on the note in her hand: three clear and two taels, a total of sixty yuan.
Couldn't she speak?" thought to the wind as he took the money out of his bosom.
If that's the case, how can we deal with her? She doesn't look like she can talk to people casually, and besides, she's still a mute, and it's even harder to find out the news. Do you want to come and explore at night?
Hate Feng thought about it as he handed over the money and took the medicine.
The middle-aged woman put the money in her palm and counted it, then put it in her arms, sat down again, and silently sorted out the dried medicinal herbs.
Just as Hate Feng was about to leave the courtyard, the door of the side hall suddenly opened, and a voice came out: "Wife, when will today's meal be delivered, I'm dying of hunger." ”
As he spoke, the door was pushed open, and a man with a cane slowly walked out, his face had a scar from the left forehead to the right jaw, and his face was extremely ugly, it was Shi Qiyuan, the assassin he met in the Golden Wind and Jade Dew Building that day.
Stripped away the thug's clothes, he was wearing an ordinary civilian costume, and he looked like an ordinary man, who would have thought that behind him was actually an assassin who killed people without blinking?
As he walked, he coughed, but his wounds were still unhealed.
The middle-aged woman sitting on the ground immediately threw down the medicine in her hand, turned around and went to the side hall on the other side, opened the door, and entered it, and there was the sound of dingdong dishes and chopsticks intersecting.
As soon as he went out, he saw the back of Hate Feng and shouted, "Hey, who are you and what are you doing here?"
As soon as she heard it, she recognized the voice, she stopped, and thought to herself, if she was dressed as Qiao Zhuang, he shouldn't recognize herself, so she turned around and bowed her head and replied, "I'll buy medicine." ”
Shi Qiyuan took a few steps forward and looked at her carefully, not because he recognized this person, but because the curves on Hate Feng's body made him move his heart.
"Yes, what kind of medicine did you buy?" he asked with a wicked smile.
When he heard it, he faintly felt the strange smell in his words, which was very uncomfortable.
She suppressed the fire in her heart and replied, "Three clear dispersions, go to the hot ones." ”
"Why are you here? There are so many pharmacies out there. He was still laughing disgustingly.
"Because it's cheap. Hate Wind casually thought of a reason.
"That's right, the medicine in our store is not expensive, and the little lady will come often in the future. ”
If it weren't for the assassin's whereabouts, she would have solved the person in front of her a long time ago.
Hate Feng was patient, and simply asked, "This pharmacy seems to have been around for a while, are you in business?"
"It's just me and my wife, and there's no one else here, what, do you still want anyone here? Or do you want to be the only one here, and no one else?" his voice dragged on, especially ambiguous, and with his narrowed triangular eyes, it looked even more greasy.
Hate Wind couldn't help it, she had to get out of here as soon as possible, otherwise, she couldn't be sure what would happen.
Before leaving, she quietly struck Shi Qiyuan's clubbing crutches with her powerless, and his body suddenly became unstable and fell to the ground, letting out a wail.
The middle-aged woman immediately ran out of the side hall, still holding a steamed bun in her hand.
It turned out that she was Shi Qiyuan's wife.
Hate Feng remembered that it was recorded in the mission file of Jin Feng Yulu Lou that Shi Qi was twenty-five years old in the first year, so beautiful, it was really strange that he married such a wife.
Hate Wind didn't think much of it, and quickened his pace and left the place.
After she returned to the inn, she kept thinking about how to lurk around Shi Qiyuan without him and find the Thunder Fire Assassin who was docking with him without him being aware of it.
She thought about it for a long time, and only came up with a way - to find the spies at Jackdaw's Gate.
If you want to dispatch the Jackdaw Gate spies, you need to get Shi Mingxuan's consent, Hate Feng immediately made a decision, immediately wrote a letter to Shi Mingxuan, explained the reason, and put the letter into the carrier pigeon, this place is not far from the Jackdaw Gate, he should be able to receive the letter soon.
Sure enough, the next afternoon, she received Shi Mingxuan's reply.
He had already instructed the Jackdaw scouts to lurk around the herb hall and report back as soon as they got the news.
Moreover, Shi Mingxuan will arrive in Yucheng tomorrow and be invited to participate in the wedding banquet of the Liu family in Yucheng, he said, the Jackdaw scout is investigating the news, and if Hate Feng has no other arrangements, he can go to participate together.
It's okay, Hate Feng thought to himself, the spies are investigating, and there is nothing else to do here, so it's okay to go to Yucheng to have a look.
Although she doesn't like to be lively, she can't do anything else now, and it's boring to be bored in the inn all day.
Besides, when Hate Feng was young, the two families had dealings, so they should go to see the old man, even if they can't recognize each other, it's better to take a look from afar.