Chapter 28 Ge Quan

Buying a soft sleeper ticket on the train is actually a luxury, because I don’t have much money left, and I’m sure I won’t be able to get any more in a short time.

What’s more, I’m not sure if I can find the people I’m looking for after I arrive at my destination.

After all, it has been almost three years since Master Liu gave me this notebook, not to mention the fact that he is a person who rarely goes out. Even if he gave me the notebook at the time, the information recorded on it may not be the most up-to-date. The only thing I can be sure of is the record of the relationship between those people and my master.

However, I had to choose a soft sleeper. First, I was in danger. There were many people on the train, and even if I had changed my appearance, there were still loopholes. I didn’t dare to put myself in that kind of environment. After all, the time spent on the train was a certain amount of time, not like passing by a passerby.

Second, I need a quiet environment to think and rest, to keep myself in the best condition at all times.

I was looking through the notebook left by Master Liu, but my mind was also distracted by these things. I didn’t have much money left. If I didn’t get any money soon, what should I do? Should I go back to work? After all, there was a limit to the time I could change my appearance. How long could I continue to walk around like this? Should I really ask Jiang Yi for money? Wouldn’t that be like being led by the nose by the department again?

My eyes once again rested on a name, and the bitterness in my heart swelled up, making my mouth bitter. But fortunately, I am a bachelor, and I quickly discarded these messy thoughts and instead stared at that name in a daze.

The name was very ordinary, just Ge Quan, a complete stranger, and the relationship with the master was described as good because they had done a lot of business together and the master had helped him out a few times, which had led to a good relationship.

But it was just good, not like the few people in this notebook, who were described as friendly, extremely friendly, and life-and-death friends.

The record of this person is also very simple. He is a Taoist priest, but he doesn’t have any profound skills, no special secret methods, and no special skills, such as the disguise of a middle-aged man.

In any case, I shouldn’t have chosen this person from among the many names, but one of the things that attracted me to this person was that he was the all-knowing expert in this circle. To put it more simply, he was the kind of person who specialized in collecting information to sell. His channels matched his business, and they were getting stronger and stronger. He was also quite famous in the circle, and people often asked him to buy information.

I slammed the notebook shut, but I still felt uneasy. After all, this person was a businessman in a sense, so would someone have already come to him to buy my information? And the good relationship with my master was not enough to make me completely trust him.

But I had no choice. I desperately wanted to know the whereabouts of my fellow students and friends, so I had no choice but to go to him!

Judging from the attitude of the department, they hoped that we could reunite (the advice provided by the female doctor), but the department did not give me any news about them. It can be seen that the department has not yet fully grasped their whereabouts and is unable to give me any news. I can only choose this Ge Quan. Sometimes, information from the people is faster than official information.

Another point is that although Ge Quan is well-known, he has a rule that he only does business ten times a year. He says that he doesn’t have enough power behind him, so he doesn’t dare to sell information recklessly. If he offends someone one day, he might be eliminated. Therefore, I still have a certain probability of gambling. Even if he knows the whereabouts of my brother and sister, he hasn’t sold them yet. It’s not too dangerous for me to find my brother and sister.

In fact, I don’t believe it myself. No one is looking for them now. After all, my death was accompanied by a lot of rumors. Someone must have been keeping an eye on their whereabouts, waiting for me like a rabbit in a tree. But they are also very smart. They have completely hidden their whereabouts. At least from the fact that such a powerful organization has not yet grasped it, this judgment is reliable.

I put away the notebook, my heart a little calmer, and also pondering a question, this Ge Quan really has no backstage? No backstage dare to sell information like this? Sold for so many years? That’s impossible, can only say that this person or hidden very deep.

Often, such people are unpredictable. They are not greedy, they are careful, and they are very capable.

My only and greatest support is that my master’s judgment of people should not be wrong. Take Master Liu for example. He is such an eccentric person, but as it turns out, he is actually a very reliable person.

I wonder what Master Liu would write about his relationship with his master if he were to record it. Probably not good enough?

When I think of Master Liu, I can’t help but think of a lot of past events. I wonder if the girl named Guan Laidi is still doing well? Nowadays, I am like two people completely cut off from the past, unable to touch the world of the past, because I have to try hard to play the role of a dead person. I don’t know when these days will end.

In the midst of my thoughts, I gradually fell asleep. It wasn’t the peak of the transportation period, and I was unexpectedly only sharing a soft sleeper with two other people, me and another young girl I didn’t know.

We arrived in Ge Quan’s city at around 6 a.m. the next morning. In this late autumn season, in this northern city, the nights are even longer. I walked out of the train station, and the city outside was still dark. I endured the cold wind, which could already be called a cold wind, and for a moment I was even a little lost.

I was only confused about the address. Was Ge Quan still there? If not, what should I do next?

I was anxious, but I had to keep going. I didn’t dare to take a taxi, so I just recited the address in my heart, asked passers-by, and then found the bus station. In the cold wind, I looked at the bus I was waiting for and smiled bitterly. I had to wait until 7 o’clock for the first bus, and there was not even a breakfast shop nearby. If I went back to the train station to have breakfast, it would take time, not to mention the prices there… Now I am a poor child, and I can’t afford to be hurt.

What’s even funnier is that I’m the only person on the road wearing a thin suit, looking like a fool. But there’s no way around it. I have to stay alert at all times and maintain a consistent style.

Is this to make me look even more miserable? I couldn’t help laughing to myself. Before I got injured, I was very resistant to the cold, according to my physical constitution. After I got injured, I seemed to be more sensitive to both cold and heat. It’s not a good thing to lose your vitality.

But I am a man, and a man who has many things to do, so I am doomed to not feel miserable. Even if I make fun of my suffering, I can’t lose hope and a certain spirit, and that’s already very good, isn’t it? Compared to those life-and-death crises, and those days without freedom.

So I waited at the station, and finally the first train came. The moment I got into the warm carriage, I felt that it was happiness.

After 40 minutes, I finally arrived near my destination and asked my way to Ge Quan’s address.

I was surprised to find that Ge Quan lived in such a villa area. In the early 2000s, being able to live in a villa was a very prestigious thing, but Master Liu had casually bought a villa, so it was normal to think that Ge Quan, who sold information, could also buy a villa.

After thinking about it, it seems that only my master and I look like we’re down on our luck. We look like a pair of poor gentlemen!

The security guard at the villa area was quite responsible. After questioning me for a long time, and only after I had not been asked to show my ID card, he carefully registered me and let me in. I secretly called myself lucky. Would I dare to show my ID card? This comparison is completely two different people.

This reminds me of another question: Can a dead person have an ID card? If necessary, I have to get a fake ID for myself.

Walking in the garden of the villa area, I felt grateful again. I was grateful that while the security guard was questioning me, I also quietly found out that Ge Quan still lived here. It turned out that he was a very famous old man because he actually took a group of people in the villa area to practice Tai Chi, including some middle-aged rich men and rich wives. How did this happen?

It was already light out, and I used the morning light to look for the villa where Ge Quan lived, paying attention to every street number and road sign. I then came to a large garden.

There was a large open space here, and from a distance I could see a group of people in silk Tang suits practicing Tai Chi.

I wasn’t interested in this kind of morning exercise, but I stopped when I thought of Ge Quan’s reputation! Then, I looked carefully at the crowd to see which one of them was Ge Quan.

The notes that Master Liu gave me did not have any photos.

However, as I watched, I was surprised to see that the group was practicing a version of tai chi that was not the version that was passed down by the people, but the introductory version of taoism. The difficulty was much greater than the folk version, and of course, if you practiced it well, the effect would be greater than the folk tai chi’s fitness effect, but without a master, it was difficult to master the essentials of the movements.

But this group of people still played with a sense of rhythm. Although the essentials of the movements were not quite there, they were already quite good.

Before I knew it, I was so absorbed in watching them that I was almost eager to give them some guidance myself. It wasn’t until they had finished their set of movements that I came back to my senses and remembered why I had come.