Chapter 39: Dinner at the Hall of Rebirth
"So, you beat those guys half to death, and in the end you only found out the whereabouts of the children. You don't even know who was behind this?"
"To be honest, it's not easy to bring the children back safely."
Gu Sanqiu rolled his eyes and said, "You should be thankful that those guys wanted to stockpile the food once, otherwise it would be a problem whether we could get those kids back."
Keqing frowned: "Until now, even you don't know where they came from."
"The method they used is quite ancient, dating back to at least the last era."
Gu Sanqiu said seriously: "At that time, there were some small evil gods, that is, guys with no great abilities, who deceived believers and used this method to bring them clean children for blood sacrifice."
"According to my family's records, such idiots have been killed over and over again. However, there are too many people who want to take crooked paths to improve their strength. Maybe they left behind a legacy at that time."
"Inheritance? Someone who is desperate to improve his strength will leave behind a legacy?"
Gu Sanqiu shrugged. "In fact, in the later stages, these guys basically became the incarnations of the evil gods. They no longer have autonomy. Maybe their souls have been devoured."
"Those evil gods don't know anything else, but they are good at making profits for themselves. How could they let those guys take away their power so easily?"
"The inheritance is actually what the evil gods themselves left behind. Perhaps some of them were beaten to death by immortals or even Lord Yan, but it is a way to use power after all, so it is not surprising that some people use it."
“That makes sense.”
Keqing nodded, then looked at Gu Sanqiu expectantly: "Then can you find these inheritances?"
"If I were an incense-burning immortal, it would be possible, but unfortunately I am just an incense-burning immortal."
Gu Sanqiu looked at Keqing as if she were a fool: "You don't think I have that ability, do you?"
"It has to be said that although times are changing, some things still need to be done by professionals."
Keqing smoothed her hair and said, "I heard that the secretary wants to invite you to work at Yuehai Pavilion. What do you think?"
"If you are willing to come, I can directly promote you to be my exclusive secretary. There won't be much to do, and you don't have to worry about the intrigues in the officialdom."
"Thank you ."
Gu Sanqiu smiled and said, "The Gu family has accumulated savings for so many generations. My family is not a family with many children and good fortune. It won't be a problem for me to squander it for two or three hundred years."
“Tsk.”
Keqing shook her head. "The seven great merchants of Liyue should be the eight great merchants. It seems that no one has calculated the assets of your Gu family."
"There are only seven Seven Stars. I can only say that you are overthinking it."
Gu Sanqiu asked: "By the way, I have a question I want to ask you, is Sister Beidou one of the Seven Stars?"
"Why do you ask that suddenly?"
"Big Dipper, Big Dipper. I always thought that Big Dipper was the leader of the Seven Stars, but she was defeated by that person, so she is wandering around with Southern Cross."
Gu Sanqiu pointed to the sky and said, "After all, this is the era of 'everyone knows that the power of heaven is supreme', so I want to gossip about the inside story. I am very interested in this."
"I don't know. Generally speaking, I don't pay attention to these things. After all, they are not too important."
Keqing shook her head. "If you want to know these things, you can ask her yourself. If it's you, I'm sure she will be happy to answer."
"Haha, I'm afraid of heights."
"There is one more thing. Some time ago, I noticed that the number of Qianyan Army's secret sentries seemed to have more than doubled. Has anything happened recently?"
"You know this as well?"
Keqing was surprised, then frowned slightly. It seemed that the work ability of the Qianyan Army instructors in charge of the secret operation still needed to be improved.
"It's not a big deal. Some time ago, another group of Fatui came from the Kingdom of Winter. This group of Fatui was even their executive officer, and Master Tartaglia went to meet them personally."
Keqing said, "According to the intelligence records, you also know what the Fatui did in Mondstadt. We are very worried that something might go wrong with the Fatui team that was personally picked up by an executive officer."
"To be honest, when the child trafficking incident occurred, our immediate reaction was that the Fatui were behind it, and we even initiated some emergency combat preparations."
There was a hint of murderous intent in Keqing's eyes: "We are not Mondstadt, which needs to be rebuilt. If the Fatui want to kidnap the people of Liyue to do something, then kill them!"
"Alright, alright, don't be so angry. Judging from the time, these guys and the Fatui shouldn't have any intersection."
Gu Sanqiu poured Keqing a cup of tea and said, "Besides, based on my understanding of those guys, they don't even want to recruit idiots like the ones we captured as cannon fodder."
"Okay, then this matter should come to an end. In the next half month, the people of Qianyan Army will be on high alert, and you will have nothing to do for the time being."
Keqing looked at Gu Sanqiu and said, "Come with me to have a meal."
"Forget it, you go directly to the Hall of Rebirth. I'll go home to prepare the ingredients. It's rare that you have time to have a meal together. Let's go have a meal together with Walnut."
Gu Sanqiu flexed his fingers. It was time to get something from his own food store.
"Wow, here comes the busy man~"
When Hu Tao saw Keqing and Gu Sanqiu appear at the same time, she looked at the pair with a little surprise.
"How can you two appear at the same time? What's going on?"
"He's been helping me with a case lately."
Keqing handed her coat to the waiter in the Wangsheng Hall nearby, nodded to Gu Sanqiu who was going home, and then looked at Hu Tao.
"But you, haven't you left Liyue Harbor recently?"
"No, I'm on vacation during this period. I'm not so busy every day and night."
Walnut shook her head: "What case is it? Can you tell me about it?"
When Gu Sanqiu came back after preparing the ingredients, he saw the two men fighting with poker cards on both sides of the table.
"Three with one."
" Take care of it..."
There are several white stripes on Keqing's face, while there are only two on Hu Tao's face, which shows the battle records of the two very intuitively.
Unlike in the past, this time it was Keqing who had two decks of cards in her hand, but strictly speaking, this kind of two-player Landlord game, with Gu Sanqiu's malicious request and the strange rule about the peasants having two decks of cards, was indeed not very friendly to novices .
"Hey, don't use this to bully the newbie."
Gu Sanqiu tapped Hu Tao's head and asked, "Is everything ready in ?"
"Okay, okay, Sanqiu is so long-winded."
Hu Tao stuck out her tongue at Gu Sanqiu: "Then we will just wait here for dinner without any hesitation~"
"Being cute can't cover up your behavior of not trying to help at all. "
