After the makeup, Qin Tai dressed up as a shabby middle-aged scholar, and at first glance he was a sour talent who made a living by selling words. There are bargains all over his body, as long as people with a little eyesight know at a glance that Qin Tai is a poor bastard who wants to save face. This set of clothes and dresses was specially prepared for Qin Tai according to Qin Tai's appearance. Qin Tai almost didn't have to pretend, and when he changed his clothes, he was a living one. Zhan Xiaoxiao once wanted to use this outfit to help Qin Tai escape from the surveillance or tracking of the imperial court, and when necessary, he dressed up and went to the south. With Qin Tai's identity and reputation, as long as Qin Tai returns to Jiangnan, it is estimated that no one will dare to blatantly target Qin Tai, and Qin Tai will be relatively safe.

In contrast, Zhan's small dress is much more extravagant. Zhan Xiaoxiao is still dressed as a woman, and with these good food and good maintenance, her skin is not only white but also smooth, so Zhan Xiaoxiao is more like a rich boy. Zhan Xiaoxiao prepared a Jianghu person dress for himself, the so-called Jianghu person dress refers to a short dress on the basis of a pair of cardigans, plus a knife in his hand, full of Jianghu people. At a glance, people can know that Zhan Xiaoxiao is a handsome and wealthy person in the rivers and lakes, which can not only hide Zhan Xiaoxiao's identity, but also make ordinary people dare not offend Zhan Xiaoxiao.

Although the identities of these two people are different, although they seem to be very out of bounds, they will not attract too many people's attention when they mix in the crowd. Zhan Xiaoxiao and Qin Tai made an appointment, and the two of them kept a certain distance and covered each other to advance. Whenever you find a suspicious person or a favorable clue, give the other party a hint that you know how to do it, and then cooperate with the action. Zhan Xiaoxiao's main task is to protect and cover Qin Tai, and Qin Tai's main task is to inquire or listen to relevant clues. In the afternoon, Qin Tai wanted to accompany Zhan Xiaoxiao to a news hall opened by the Jianghu people themselves to spend money to buy news. Zhan Xiaoxiao told Qin Tai that the general news halls of people in the rivers and lakes are set up in martial arts halls or brothels, and there will be some more eye-catching signs at the door. Of course, you need to know the "incision" of Shangjiang and Lakes to buy and sell news, and for ordinary people, the other party does not accept any buying and selling news. The so-called "incision" is the black language spoken by the Jianghu people, that is, to report their identity and territory. Zhan Xiaoxiao was embarrassed to say anything, but Qin Tai also knew that the people in the rivers and lakes seemed to look down on the people in the official mansion. The people in the rivers and lakes call the people who open martial arts halls and set up open gangs Baidao, the people who set up cottages to do business without capital are called green forest heroes, the catchers or heads in charge of the government are called eagle claw suns, the officials in charge of officials are called those who wear robes, and the officials and soldiers are called those who eat imperial grain. Imprisonment is called entering the bureau, torture is called Daoshan, kidnapping tickets is called selling meat, people who are kidnapped are called meat tickets, killing heads is called reincarnation, picking flowers is called tasting sweetness, stealing things is called handy, robbing things is called borrowing money, robbing darts is called planting flags, bodyguards are called flag guards, people who do not understand the rules are called eating raw rice, spies are called chopsticks, those who inquire about news are called buyers, and those who make a living by buying and selling news are called sellers. Therefore, Qin Tai can't disclose his identity and name in that kind of place, otherwise his life may be in danger. If he wasn't worried about Qin Tai's safety, Zhan Xiaoxiao wouldn't have agreed to take Qin Tai to this kind of place.

Qin Tai and Zhan Xiao mingled in the crowd and walked around the bazaar, with few clues. If you can't inquire about the news, you can forget it, but you were monitored or followed by several groups of people, and you were almost caught by them. Qin Tai and Zhan Xiaoxiao immediately understood what the other party meant, and the yamen secretly released the news, asking the local people to pay attention to outsiders. All suspicious people are monitored, and when necessary, they can be arrested first, and those who are related to the case will be rewarded. As a result, the local thugs are very unexpected, and they would rather make mistakes than let go of any opportunity. Zhan Xiaoxiao had no choice but to show the waist cards borrowed by the Daxing County Government and the Shuntian Mansion Government again and again to drive away batch after batch of people who tried to arrest Qin Tai. For the convenience of movement, in order to better protect Qin Tai, Zhan Xiaoxiao borrowed the fast waist card of the two-level yamen of Shuntian Mansion and Daxing County. In other words, Zhan Xiaoxiao is now a temporary case-handling and arrest at the two levels of the Yamen of Shuntianfu and Daxing County, and has the right to be qualified to arrest people in his own territory. The local gangsters can despise outsiders and ignore the rules of the people in the rivers and lakes, but they dare not give face to the local government, and they are even most afraid of offending the people in the yamen. The officials of the government are simply the nemesis of the local gangsters, and the people who meet the yamen are more respected than their ancestors.

Seeing that these gangsters were already so noisy, Qin Tai had no interest in secretly inquiring about the news. Because in the territory of these gangsters, these landlords have already gathered all the useful clues and reported them, so there is no need to waste time here. Qin Tai asked Zhan Xiaoxiao to go back immediately to inform everyone, try not to disturb the people in the process of looking for clues, and not to do things that are not conducive to the peace, otherwise the local governors in various places will take all the responsibilities for this. This is very necessary, otherwise some gangsters will take advantage of this opportunity to destroy the local area, and some officials will extort the local wealthy, and the consequences will be very serious.

Zhan Xiaoxiao placed Qin Tai in a teahouse, and then returned to the yamen by himself immediately, and rushed back to the teahouse immediately after explaining everything. Coming and going is just a cup of tea, and ordinary people don't run back and forth so fast. This is the ability of a master, and it is also one of the benefits of being a master's subordinate. Qin Tai is quite satisfied with his wife's speed and performance, Qin Tai seems to have returned to the time when he went south to handle the case, Qin Tai really misses the time back then.

Zhan Xiaoxiao gave a blind man and a big man in the teahouse, that is, a big coin. There are many such blind people in teahouses everywhere, they are the ones who collect intelligence, and they will compile any useful information. But they don't sell the news directly to a single person, but gather the news in the news hall in the form of a daily report. That is to say, they are supported by the people of the Message Pavilion and are one of the eyeliners of the Message Pavilion. The news hall seems to be run by each locality, but in fact, there is a subordinate relationship between the upper and lower levels, and there is a very strict hierarchy inside. The blind are not members of the official news house, they are part-time news buyers and sellers, just like the prostitutes in the brothels and the beggars on the roadside. There are a number of men in the local news halls, who belong to the lowest level of membership. There is a steward at the township level, who belongs to the second-level personnel, and has a slightly higher status than the first-level guy. Generally speaking, townships and towns generally do not set up external information centers, and are only responsible for intelligence collection in their own areas. At the county level, there is a news hall that is open to the public, with a supervisor and three stewards. The steward belongs to the second-level personnel, and the supervisor belongs to the third-level personnel. The supervisor is responsible for the overall affairs of the region, and the three stewards are in charge of news aggregation, message storage and collation, and message buying and selling, and delivery. A large news hall is set up at the state level, and a chief steward is set up to be responsible for all the affairs of the news hall, which belongs to the fourth-level personnel. Each province has a large news center, and a general manager is set up, who is responsible for the overall affairs of the news center of a province, and belongs to the fifth level of personnel. The whole country has set up a general information center in the north and south, and the person in charge is the chief manager, which belongs to the sixth level of personnel. It is said that above them, there is a president, three vice presidents, and a superintendent, who belong to the seventh-level personnel of the news hall, and they are also the real core personnel of the news hall. From the blind man, he could only ask for the address of the local news center, and the prescribed price was a large coin, that is, ten cents. This is the rule, and it is also a unified national market situation. As for the news to be bought, the price should be set by the manager in charge of the business according to the size of the matter and the degree of trouble. Moreover, the price said by the steward is the same price, and the buyer is not allowed to make a counteroffer. The same goes for selling news, if there is news to be sold to the news store, it is also priced by the manager in charge of news collection, and if it is suitable, it will be sold to the news store, and if it is not suitable, it will not be sold. However, there are rules in the news store, if one news store refuses, other news stores cannot take that person's business, whether it is buying news or selling news.

After getting the detailed address of the news hall, Zhan Xiaoxiao was not too surprised. Daxing County is subordinate to Shuntianfu, which is the nearest local yamen outside the capital, so the news hall does not dare to blatantly do business here. Therefore, there is no fanfare news hall in Daxing County, and the news hall exists under the guise of a martial arts hall or a brothel. And now it is a peaceful year, especially near the capital, the general martial arts hall or dart bureau is strictly guarded by the local yamen, so the general news hall command is set up in the brothel. The news hall of Daxing County is in the green garden of Fireworks Street, which is one of the most famous brothels in Daxing County, and Fireworks Street is a street of brothels in Daxing County. Unlike other streets in Daxing County, Fireworks Street is sparsely populated during the day, but it is very lively at night. At night, it is almost crowded, and almost the entire street is blocked by prostitutes, petty traders, supper-deliverers, solicitors, and people delivering things. Who would have thought that in such a place, there was a news hall in it that was no less than that of the imperial court's intelligence agency.

When you come to Fireworks Street, it is the least crowded time in the afternoon. The average prostitute has not yet gotten up, and some would-be prostitutes or maids are busy training or preparing to serve their own young ladies. There are only some young turtle slaves or small servants, sitting at the door chatting or playing. This is the most relaxed time for these children, and at night they have to be a subordinate, a belittled bastard. For Qin Tai and Zhan Xiaoxiao, who appeared here at this time, these people didn't pay much attention to it. First, it was because their eyesight was not enough to see Qin Tai and Zhanxiao's true identity. If it were an ordinary bustard or an old turtle slave, at least it could be seen that Zhan Xiaoxiao was a woman, and Qin Tai was not an ordinary sour talent. The second is because now is not the time to do business, and Qin Tai and Zhan Xiaoxiao will not get any reward for their hospitality. So these children were too lazy to greet Qin Tai and Zhan Xiaoxiao, and no one even talked to Qin Tai and his wife. Qin Tai and his wife don't need to ask anyone, as long as they find the signboard of the Green Garden, they will find the news hall.