Shao Xi came to Dali Temple again to make Long Qitai feel a little surprised, thinking that Shao Xi had some new news to tell him, but he didn't expect Shao Xi to come to ask him about the news this time.

After inviting Shao Xi into a relatively secluded room, Long Qitai opened his mouth and asked Shao Xi: "Brother Shao, you must have something important to come here today, if you want to know anything, just ask, I will definitely know everything." Shao Xi has always recognized Long Qitai's positive and serious attitude towards doing things, and in this Kyoto officialdom of striving for fame and fortune, there are indeed not many people who can be as upright and selfless as Long Qitai, and take punishing evil and promoting good as their own responsibility.

"Brother Long, I didn't have anything special to do this time, I just wanted to ask you, did the secret agents you sent to Xinjing Teahouse find anything special inside?

"Especially how did Xiao Liuzi or the man who didn't have a beard communicate with the people in the teahouse after entering the teahouse? What tokens can they have to prove their identity? Long Qitai heard Shao Xi ask this, and reached out and took out a small notebook from the shoulder bag on his body, which made Shao Xi feel a little surprised.

It turned out that he still had the habit of taking investigation notes, and Shao Xi couldn't help but secretly admire Long Qitai's work was indeed very reliable.

But it's not surprising to think about it, the Xinjing Teahouse has been stared at by him for half a year, and it is impossible to keep all the details in mind, and it is indeed a good habit to write down some necessary things in the notebook that you carry.

Speaking of which, there are indeed a lot of cases to be investigated in this Dali Temple in a year, and as a direct contact with the case of the director, it is normal to have the habit of recording the details of the case at any time.

I saw Long Qitai rummaging through the book, and finally seemed to find something. While staring at the book, he said to Shao Xi: "According to the report of the brother who sneaked into the teahouse to make an unannounced visit, ordinary guests generally just sit in the lobby downstairs and drink tea after entering the teahouse, and only a few people will go to the elegant seat upstairs, but the people who go upstairs are generally people who look more noble."

And Xiao Liuzi and that person would always talk to the shopkeeper of the teahouse in front of the counter every time they went, and they didn't hear what they said clearly, but even if they often went to get acquainted with the shopkeeper, they would always take out a sign before they were let into the back hall to prove their identity.

"It seems that the shopkeeper of the teahouse only recognizes the sign but not the person, and even if he knows them, he must show the sign before entering the back hall of the teahouse, and it seems that the back hall is where they really exchange information." When Shao Xi heard Long Qitai say this, he hurriedly asked, "Can you see what the signs they showed to the shopkeeper of the teahouse look like?" Long Qitai glanced down at the notebook in his hand again, and said to Shao Xi with great certainty: "The brother who entered the teahouse also paid special attention to this matter, and found that the sign that Xiao Liuzi showed every time he went has never changed.

The other man had used two signs, one that seemed to prove his identity, which was silver, and he didn't see anything special, and the other black.

"According to these two brothers, it seems to be very similar to the black ghost head brand we found from the envoy of the White Night Kingdom half a year ago, but every time they are flashing, they don't really see it." When Shao Xi heard this, his heart moved.

Could it be that the black brand used by Gao Cai is also a life-seeking card? If it is true, this Xinjing Teahouse seems to be related to the Ghost Emperor's Mansion.

However, judging from the fact that Gao Cai and Xiao Liuzi both went to Xinjing Teahouse to deliver news, this teahouse is not affiliated with the Ghost Emperor's Mansion, but is more like an intelligence transit place for a certain force to pass news to the outside world.

In other words, the information obtained from the outside will be transmitted to this force through the teahouse, and the news that the force wants to transmit to the outside will also be transmitted through the teahouse.

Then the interconnection between this force and the Ghost Emperor's Mansion through the teahouse may be the use of the life-seeking card as a certificate, if the judgment is good, this Gao Cai is the most important internal and external messenger.

Every time the outside news is passed to him through Xinjing Teahouse, and then he brings it to someone, and if someone wants to pass the news outside, he also passes the news through Xinjing Teahouse.

Xiao Liuzi is just a secret pile arranged in Dali Temple for them, and it belongs to the external intelligence collection manpower, and the task should be relatively simple, so every time Xiao Liuzi only needs to show the certificate to prove his identity.

Gao Cai, on the other hand, is also responsible for conveying someone's instructions to various places outside, so he will change the documents he has to present according to the object and task of each instruction.

This is the only way to explain why he doesn't use the same brand every time. So when he showed the teahouse shopkeeper the life-seeking card, it must be because the object of the mission this time was the Ghost Emperor's Mansion, and the order to be conveyed must be to hunt down or eliminate some people.

Thinking of this, Shao Xi hurriedly asked Long Qitai again: "Brother Long, can you help me take a look at whether that person has been to Xinjing Teahouse during June and July?" What kind of sign did you show when you went there? Long Qitai also felt from Shao Xi's tone that this matter seemed to be extremely important, so he looked it up in the small book again, but stopped after only turning two pages, and seemed to have found the answer.

"I found that this person went to Xinjing Teahouse at the end of June, to be precise on June 24, and the voucher he showed was the black sign, and he also went to the teahouse on July 21, and he also showed the black sign.

"Personally, it seems that this person went to the teahouse for the same thing on both occasions. Of course, this is just my guess, and we can't know what happened to him on these two trips.

"However, judging from the black signs he showed on both occasions, at least the two times he went to the teahouse before and after were related to each other, more like the news that he went to receive the return after nearly a month of delivering the news, as for the details, it is unknown." After listening to Long Qitai's answer, Shao Xi already had a rough idea in his heart, and it seemed that the black brand used by Gao Cai was the life-seeking card.

And it seems to be right in terms of time, the Ghost Emperor's Mansion's plan to hunt down Ruan Haoyang should have started on June 24.

Gao Cai passed the news of Ruan Haoyang's presence in Zhiqiu Town to the Ghost Emperor's Mansion through the Xinjing Teahouse, and rushed to the Ghost Emperor's Mansion and Wandaomen from the mission to Zhiqiu Town and Ruan Haoyang's battle of Fangting, with a gap of fourteen days.

And after the end of that war, from the ninth day of the seventh month to Gao Cai's reappearance in Xinjing Teahouse, there were 12 days in between.

The reason why it took two days less than before should be related to the killing of Wan Tong, the master of the Ten Thousand Dao Gate, and the black and white impermanence of the Ghost Emperor's Mansion, so the transmission of the news was more urgent, so it took two days less.

From this point of view, all the news of Ruan Haoyang's murder was transmitted through this Xinjing Teahouse, and it was also handled through Gao Cai's hands.

It seems that there is not much problem with his judgment at the beginning, Gao Cai is indeed an important intermediary transmitter and instruction giver for someone to pass information to the outside world.

From this, it can also be determined that the affairs of the Ruan family back then were indeed committed by this force. If Gao Cai is just Xiao Yuzhi's subordinate, then the fake news that he deliberately revealed in Dali Temple last time, Xiao Liuzi rushed to Xinjing Teahouse to pass on the news, and it seems a little unreasonable for Gao Cai to receive the news on the same day.

Because judging from the previous murder of the envoy of the White Night Kingdom and the death of Xiao Liuzi to Wuriyeti, Xiao Liuzi is not Xiao Yuzhi's person, but a hidden pile planted by another force in Dali Temple.

So judging from this, since Xiao Liuzi's news was received by Gao Cai, it proves that Gao Cai is not Xiao Yuzhi's person, at least not only for Xiao Yuzhi.

Judging from the fact that You Yi'an and Wandaomen participated in the affairs of Fengjiazhuang and the Ruan family at the same time, this also proves his previous guess that Gao Cai is indeed doing things for the two forces at the same time.

He really showed that he worked for Xiao Yuzhi only ten years ago in the matter of Fengjiazhuang, at most it was the matter of Jingci'an.

And through his appearance in June and July, plus the first two days of Xinjing Teahouse, it proves that he has been doing things for another force so far.

From the analysis of Gao Cai's participation in everything, the state he shows should be the primary and secondary of the two families he plays for at the same time.

Since there is a distinction between priority and subordination, it proves that one of them is his real master, and the other party is just pretending to obey orders, but in fact he is only winning the trust of the other party.

These two forces are hostile to each other, so Gao Cai's identity is about to come out. The force he is working for now should be his real master, and Xiao Yuzhi is just the person he was ordered to approach, win trust, and pretend to serve.

This also further proves that almost all of Xiao Yuzhi's situation has been mastered by the force that is hostile to him, so the assassination of the envoy of the White Night Kingdom will seem to be more active in the other side.

It seems that Xiao Yuzhi has been controlled by another force for so many years, but he himself is in the dark and does not know it.

What a great drama of Infernal Affairs! If this is the case, then this force is indeed very terrifying, much more difficult to deal with than Xiao Yuzhi, so has everything he has been doing all this time already been mastered by this force?

Have you been kept in the dark and don't know it? Thinking of this, Shao Xi couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, the person behind this force looked more difficult to deal with than he imagined, and he was also more deeply hidden.

But because of this, it aroused Shao Xi's interest. A powerful opponent who hides deeper makes this game more interesting and makes Shao Xi feel more challenging.

It seems that the destruction of the Feng family ten years ago did not end with Xiao Yuzhi, and Shao Xi's revenge is not over.