Chapter Twenty-Four: No Taboos
"Ganyu, I want to go to the Iwagami Tea Room to investigate some things now, can you help me find a few Millelith Army to go with?"
Anping put down the dishes and chopsticks after eating, put the incident records he had summarized and sorted out into his pocket, and asked Ganyu.
If he didn't ask for help from the Millelith Army, he would be a common man, and people would not pay attention to him when he went to a place like the Iwajo Teahouse, let alone ask for any clues.
"Anping, have you found any clues?"
Gan Yu suddenly raised his head, and the dumb hair in the middle of the pair of horns on the top of his head swayed back and forth.
"That's right, although it may have nothing to do with the murderer of the emperor, it should be related to the Fatuida's preparations for the Immortal Ceremony, I want to go there and ask the owner of the Imagami Teahouse."
"In that case, I'll go with you."
Ganyu also stood up from his seat.
"Huh?"
An Ping looked at Ganyu suspiciously.
He wants a few tall Millelith troops to deter the boss, what the hell are you recommending Ganyu.
Just those little arms and legs and cosplay-like dress, go to the rock teahouse to deal cards online?
"Rest assured, as the secretary of the Seven Stars, all matters must go through my hands first, and all the shop owners in Liyue City still have to give me a few thin noodles when they see me. And now that the Millelith Army is also on alert, it is not convenient to free up people to help. β
The suspicion in Anping's eyes forced Ganyu to explain two more sentences.
"Oh well... Later, if things don't go well, you can hide behind me. β
Although Ganyu, who felt soft and weak, probably couldn't help anything, at least Yue Haiting's secretary followed, and An Ping was not afraid of being taken away by the Millelith Army afterwards.
Although Anping is submissive to the Demon God and the Fatui Executives, he still looks like a god of war when it comes to fighting the Slime Hilichurls Treasure Hoarders.
At the door of the tea room on the rock, he hummed two generals, and Anping could play with his eyes closed.
Ganyu nodded silently.
So the two of them got up and walked out of the Moon Sea Pavilion.
ββ¦ How long have I been in the Moon Sea Pavilion? β
An Ping looked at the dark night sky and was silent for a few seconds before asking.
The position of the bright moon overhead, when I came in at noon today, should still be the sun.
"It's been about thirteen hours."
No wonder I was hungry like that.
Anping thought that he had only stayed for five or six hours, but now that he was reminded by Ganyu, he suddenly felt that his eyes were a little dizzy.
"Let's go, it's time to rest today after asking about this."
Fortunately, even if this is the case, it is not yet time to close, so it should be the time to be busy.
There are noticeably more Millelith patrolling the streets tonight.
However, Ganyu's status in Yuehai Pavilion seemed to be very high, and many Millelith soldiers would stop and say hello to her when they saw it, which made Anping a little surprised.
When he came to the Yanshang Tea Room, Anping didn't go to ask the hostess with a bad attitude at the window if there was a location, and walked directly to the door.
The second general at the door saw An Ping coming over and took the initiative to greet him.
Anping thought that this was going to be done, and was about to roll up his sleeves and start drying, but he didn't expect these two guys who usually look at people with their nostrils suddenly nodded and flattered Ganyu behind him with a smile on their faces.
"Why does Lord Ganyu have time to come to our tearoom today, it really makes our tearoom shine."
"Lord Ganyu won't give you a notice in advance, otherwise our boss will arrange a first-class seat for you."
Anping, who was ignored, silently pulled down his sleeves.
"We're not here to drink tea, we're here to find the owner of the tea room, please open the door."
Ganyu didn't speak with any momentum at all, but the waists of these two guys hung even lower.
"Did you come to talk to our boss about something? Okay, that's good, let's go in and report it, but our tearoom is really not worthy of your identity as Lord Ganyu, and it's too late... Why don't you wait until tomorrow and ask the boss to go to Liuli Pavilion or Xinyue Xuan to find a good private room and invite Lord Ganyu to sit down? β
It seems that the fact that this tea room on the rock has a gambling house under the sign of the tea room has been investigated.
However, it is difficult to say that there is no one in the General Affairs Department to help him, but this has nothing to do with Anping, and he is not here to check these today.
"If you don't get out of the way, I'm going to break in."
Anping didn't have time to wait for them to delay here so that the people inside could quickly clean up, he just came to ask a few words and left, and was in a hurry to sleep.
"Open the door."
Ganyu's face also darkened.
Hunched hum two generals, you look at me, I look at you, I don't know what to do.
Fortunately, at this time, the glasses bearded boss of the Yanshang tea room rubbed his hands and smiled all over his face and greeted him from the tea room.
"Oh, Lord Ganyu is here, it's rude to not be able to meet him from afar."
After laughing at Ganyu, the boss's face suddenly fell, and he used the ledger in his hand to at least look like he smacked twice on the second general, panting and scolding:
"You two guys who go out without eyes, Lord Ganyu will dare to stop you when you come!"
After scolding, the extremely hypocritical smile returned to the boss's face, and he raised his hands to make an inviting gesture.
"Lord Ganyu, please come inside! Inside, please! β
This boss didn't look at Anping from beginning to end, and it is estimated that he was purely regarded as Ganyu's entourage.
An Ping shook his head, the profiteers in this world seem to be carved out of a mold.
"Okay, since you're out, we won't go in and waste time, so I'll ask you two questions, and we'll leave if you explain honestly, or we'll go with us to the General Affairs Department to talk."
An Ping was afraid that this guy would be dishonest, so he said half-threateningly.
"Lord Ganyu, who is this?"
Don't go in? It's best not to go in!
The owner of the tearoom was secretly happy in his heart, but after glancing at An Ping, he felt that he was really raw, and he didn't remember seeing such a young official in the General Affairs Department.
hurriedly asked Ganyu for Anping's identity.
"You can answer whatever he asks, and you don't need to know his identity."
Ganyu disdained to introduce Anping to such people.
Or Ganyu doesn't know how to introduce it, the current murder of the emperor is still in the news blockade stage, and the identity of Anping's Tianquan Star specially commissioned investigator is not easy to publicize.
"Good, good, good. I must know everything..."
The boss nodded repeatedly.
"I ask you, two months ago the General Services Department received a report that you had a conflict with a debt collector in the middle of the night in your tea room, and in the end you admitted that you owed money to the Northland Bank, and they were only here to ask for the debt. He then told the Secretary of General Affairs that the debt had been repaid, and finally the Secretary of General Affairs fined the Bank of the North for violently collecting the debt. Do you remember this? β
An Ping clasped his hands in front of his chest, his eyes condescendingly staring at the hunched tea room owner.
"Remember, remember."
The smirk on the boss's face froze after hearing that it was the incident, and it became more ugly than crying.
Just looking at his expression, An Ping knew that there must be something strange in this matter.
"You confess all the events of that day, we already have some information, if what you say doesn't match the information we have, you will be ready to live in prison for the rest of your life!"
An Ping had a cold face, a half-threatening threat.
Sure enough, hearing An Ping say this, the boss's smile was completely unbearable, the look on his face changed for a while, and finally he actually cried.
"Help, sir! I'll be honest with you! β
It turned out that this Rock Tea Room had been owing millions of Mora to the Northland Bank. Two months ago, the owner of the Iwagami Tea Room received a Hundred Taboo Basket from a gambler as collateral, and it happened that night that someone from the Northland Bank came to the door to ask for the debt. So he snatched this taboo-free basket away to pay off the boss's arrears of millions of mora.
and also threatened the boss's life and made him not to talk about it.
"How can that hundred taboo-free urns be worth 1.6 million Mora, they are robbing! And threatened me... Your Excellency, you have to help me do justice! β
The way this boss sat on the ground and cried was really disgusting.
However, Anping finally figured out what happened that day, although he was really pitiful from the perspective of the boss's story, but only he knew how much water there was.
"Well, we immediately called the Millelith Army to come over, you go to the General Affairs Department with the Millelith Army for temporary refuge, this tearoom will be closed first, and then you can come out of the General Affairs Department when we help you solve this matter."
As soon as An Ping's words fell, the boss's cry immediately became smaller.
"This rock tearoom is the hard work of three generations of my ancestors, I can't close it, I grew up here, I can't afford to leave, you just need to administer justice for me..."
"All right, but didn't the Fatui threaten your life? I'll let the Millelith come and guard your faΓ§ade day and night..."
An Ping nodded expressionlessly.
"No, no, the Millelith is to protect all the people of Liyue, how can I trouble the Millelith Army with such a thing, if I die here, I won't let the Fatui go if I turn into a ghost..."
The boss stopped crying and got up from the ground.
"As long as the adults help me administer justice..."
An Ping saw that the Northland Bank threatened him with the boss's life not to tell it, and nine times out of ten, this matter was false.
Maybe the boss was happy that a taboo-free urn had waived millions of Mora in arrears.
It was only when I learned the value of this thing later, and I regretted it a little, but I couldn't afford to provoke the Northland Bank, and when I met them today, I pretended to be pitiful as much as possible and hoped to get the hundred taboo baskets back.
"Then you go back first, and I'll help you think about justice."
Anping and Ganyu left the Iwagami Tea Room with the boss's great gratitude.
I got the news I wanted, but An Ping didn't even understand what this hundred taboo-free urns were.
Could it be that half of the Fatui's tracks in Liyue City have disappeared because of this million-dollar Mora-worth forbidden urn?