There are three levels of Tingfeng Tower, which are: Raven, Nightingale, and Blue Bird. Miss Cai is a nightingale, those "guys" and the men who stayed outside Yizhuang are ravens, and the blue bird in front of her is the person who listens to Fenglou here.

Li Xuandu slowly stepped forward and sat on the left side of the Fugui couch.

The blue bird poured a cup of tea for Li Xuandu with his extremely skillful tea skills, and then asked, "I wonder what news this guest officer wants to inquire about?"

Li Xuandu pondered a little and said, "Tingfeng Lou's reputation has been very good over the years, otherwise I wouldn't have come, but I still want to ask for a word, what I want to say next, your store must not leak the news." ”

Bluebird smiled and nodded, "It's nature. ”

Li Xuandu glanced down at the teacup, there was no text on it, only a picture of a hundred birds towards the phoenix, and said: "I want to find out the whereabouts of a person, this person's surname is Qin, a single name is a Xiangzi, successively served as the secretary of the military department, the governor of the left army of the left army, the governor of Qinzhong, etc., and later hung the seal of the general of the conquest, and served as the chief military officer of Qinzhou and Zhongzhou, and was imprisoned in the second year of Tianbao, and Tianbao was released from the edict in the fourth year of the cabinet through the intercession of Sun Songchan, the first assistant of the cabinet. ”

The smile on the blue bird's face gradually solidified, replaced by a solemn one, and said in a deep voice: "This guest officer, you should know that this Qin Governor used to be a prisoner of the imperial court, even if he is no longer a prisoner, but he is still a nail in the flesh and a thorn in the eye of the Empress Dowager and Qingluanwei. ”

Li Xuandu said: "Of course I know, otherwise I wouldn't have come to you." ”

The blue bird was silent for a long time, and then spoke: "I don't care if Your Excellency is a member of the imperial court, or the old minister of the Qin Governor, or the old person of the four ministers, I will now remind Your Excellency that the price of this news is very expensive. ”

Li Xuandu asked, "What is the price?"

The bluebird was silent and held out two fingers.

Li Xuandu was silent for a moment, and sighed: "Two thousand Taiping money, that's sixty thousand taels of silver, I don't know how much grain I can buy." ”

There was a slight smile on the blue bird's face: "If the guest official is too expensive, we will not force Fenglou to buy and sell." ”

"Bought it. Li Xuandu said expressionlessly.

The smile on the blue bird's face that had not been showing for a long time suddenly froze, and he hesitated: "Guest officer, what do you say...... Bought it?"

Li Xuan didn't answer, but just took out three Taiping tickets with a denomination of 500 and 50 worry-free coins from the "eighteenth floor".

The blue bird looked at these Taiping money, which should be very tempting, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "It seems that the guest officer has made up his mind, so please come with me." ”

So saying, she got up from the couch and came to the side of the jewel map, and gently flicked the hands on the chiming bell, and then saw the bookshelf on the other side parting from it, and the wall behind the bookshelf rose upward, and behind it was a staircase leading to the ground.

The bluebird picked up a candlestick from the table to reflect the path and walked straight into it. Li Xuan didn't hesitate and followed in.

The staircase was not too long, three hundred and sixty steps in all, and the two of them came to an underground hall.

The hall occupies a huge area, surrounded by dense bookshelves, each three feet high, flush with the dome of the hall, the bookshelves are divided into nine levels, the highest floors can only be reached by ladders, each compartment of the bookshelf is stuffed with thick volumes, and the pages of the files are filled with various bookmarks.

After looking around, the bluebird pushed over a ladder of the book cart to the west of the bookshelf, and then climbed the ladder to pull out a file from the eighth level of the bookshelf.

Bluebird jumped down the ladder of the cart to the only table in the middle of the hall, found one of the bookmarks, and spread the file in his hand on it.

Li Xuandu also followed to the table, glanced at it roughly, and saw that many of the contents on the pages of the book were written at the same time, obviously not written at the same time, and the contents were even more varied, including the latest trends of the court, the votes of the cabinet, the approval of the celebrants, and the various recitals of the imperial envoys.

The blue bird's gaze quickly swept over a lot of irrelevant content, and finally landed at the end of this page, reading: "Qin Xiang's last public appearance was at the Lantern Festival in Longmen Mansion on the fifteenth day of the first month of the sixth year of Tianbao, he was invited by the Sikong Grand Sacrifice Wine of the Vientiane School Palace, went to Longmen Mansion, and settled at the Mingsheng Inn, the two talked secretly until late at night in the name of admiring the moon, and the content of the secret conversation is unknown, and since then, Qin Xiang has not appeared in public. ”

Li Xuandu frowned, and just as he was about to speak, the blue bird had already continued to read: "According to the report of the sub-nightingale, after this incident, Qin Xiang planned to leave for the north several times, but for some reason he was unable to make the trip, and finally went to Jingzhou via Longmen Mansion on the sixth day of the fourth month, and then diverted from Jingzhou to Jiangzhou. ”

She raised her head, looked at Li Xuandu, and said softly, "Now Qin Xiang is in Jinling City in Jinling Mansion, Jiangzhou. ”

As the saying goes, "Ten miles of Qinhuai, a dream in Jinling." "In terms of prosperity, Jiangnan is better than Zhongzhou, which has declined, and Jinling Mansion, as the first prosperous place in Jiangnan, is not inferior to Dijing.

Li Xuandu frowned and said: "Jinling is so big, if your store only tells me that Qin Xiang is in Jinling City, it is just a needle in a haystack to a needle in a big lake, I am afraid it is not worth the price of two thousand Taiping dollars." ”

"Don't worry, please listen to my explanation. The blue bird said slowly: "After all, the governor of Qin is a big living person, and he is not a dead thing, he has hands and feet, the itinerary is uncertain, Zhongzhou is thousands of miles away from Jinling, and it is also difficult to send messages back and forth." So we can only be sure that he is still in Jinling City, as for where he is in Jinling City at the moment, whether he will continue to stay here next, we don't dare to pack tickets, maybe when I was talking to the guest officer, the Qin Governor was ten miles Qinhuai, and when the guest officer arrived in Jinling City, he had already left the Qinhuai River to go to the Sage Temple, and even left Jinling City. ”

Speaking of which, Li Xuandu couldn't help but agree, but he believed that Tingfeng Lou would definitely have a solution.

Sure enough, Blue Bird continued: "But we can send someone to lead the way for the guest officer, we have our men in Jinling City, and after we arrive, we can directly lead the guest officer to meet the Qin Governor." ”

Hearing this, Li Xuandu suddenly figured out one of the key points, looked at the beautiful woman in front of him, and said slowly: "If I guessed correctly, Governor Qin left Zhongzhou through the path of Bailian Fang. ”

The blue bird was suddenly startled, and then calmed down, and did not dare to underestimate the young man in front of him, and said calmly: "It is under the escort of the White Lotus Fang that the Governor of Qin left Zhongzhou to go to Jinling, and the four families of Tingfeng Building, White Lotus Fang, Wenxiangtang, and Wandumen have coexisted for many years, and sometimes it is inevitable to communicate with each other, so we will have the whereabouts of the Governor of Qin here." ”

Li Xuandu was not surprised, nodded and said, "I see." But if an outsider of mine knows your secrets, won't you do anything about it?"

The blue bird looked at Li Xuandu deeply and asked, "What does the guest officer want us to do?"

Li Xuandu smiled: "For example, killing people and killing people." ”

Blue Bird was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "The guest officer is really joking, if you kill the guests without permission, and then this matter spreads out, then we don't want to do the business of Tingfeng Lou." ”

Li Xuandu turned his head to look in another direction: "Since you don't want to kill people and kill people, then please show up, why hide it." ”

As the words fell, a graceful figure emerged from the darkness in the corner of the hall.

Different from the beautiful blue bird in a wide robe and big sleeves, although she is also a beauty, she is a rose with spikes, a black leather armor that is not common in the rivers and lakes, made of multiple layers of leather, painted on the surface, and painted with various talismans, which can not only resist all kinds of arrows and hidden weapons, but also defend against spells.

On her feet were a pair of tin boots, but she didn't hear a sound as she walked, with a dagger stuck in the boots and two staggered sheathed scimitars at her waist.

She said softly: "The guest officer has such a powerful ear power, I just spit out half a breath of turbidity before the guest officer found out." ”

Li Xuandu looked at the blue bird, waiting for her explanation.

The blue bird smiled slightly and said: "We listen to the wind building according to the twelve earthly branches are divided into twelve departments, each department has a different function, she is the Chenbu blue bird, and I am the Ube blue bird." ”