Chapter 15: My 5th Day of Slacking Off in Mondstadt
"Hey? Are you going to Liyue too?"
There was a hint of mockery in Wendy's smiling eyes.
"Let me ask you something. Do you have a brother or sister to look for?"
He did not try to persuade Shui Qingli with the same eloquent words as he did to Kong. Instead, there was a hint of temptation in his tone.
He had doubts about Kong's identity from the first moment he saw him, and when he heard that he was looking for a golden-haired sister of his family, he was basically certain of it.
But he had already made an agreement with that person not to leak any information, so he could only guide Kong to Liyue to find the old man. He believed that the old man would probably do the same.
The atmosphere in Teyvat is very delicate now. The Ice God of Winter is raising the banner of rebellion, and undercurrents are also surging in other countries. Before justice wakes up, he and the old man will not do anything to destroy the balance.
Only the traveler Sora, who is not under the imprint of the starry sky of Teyvat, can act arbitrarily without being watched by the law of nature.
But as someone who has also come from another world, does the person in front of him have the same purpose as Sora?
"Sister...I do have one, but she's not in this world."
Shui Qingli didn't know how to explain it. According to the memories he inherited, the Ice Princess and the Fairyland were real, but the personality memories that originally belonged to the Flower Planting Family kept reminding him that those were just false plots in the three-dimensional world.
But since the continent of Teyvat can become real, who can be sure that the Ye Luoli wonderland is not real?
Anyway, it has nothing to do with him now.
"I went to Liyue only because some things are hard to sell in Mondstadt."
Shui Qingli did not hide his power. In front of the God of Wind, all information was transparent, and the wind was omnipresent. Maybe Wendy did have a period of weakness when he just woke up, but it didn't mean that he really knew nothing.
Not to mention the Fatui, the Abyss Cult that previously attacked Tevarin is now almost extinct in Mondstadt.
Regardless of whether they voluntarily withdrew from Mondstadt or were cleaned out by Master Diluk, who was written as the richest man in Mondstadt and read as the hero of the dark night, Venti, the god of wind, must not be completely ignorant.
So the question is, how does Diluk accurately find all the invading "rats" every time?
Of course, he has money and connections, but the Abyss always has some strange means that people are unknown to. Even with Kaeya's secret help, Diluk's 100% accurate and terrifying intelligence is also highly targeted.
Of course, it was just his suspicion. Anyway, as long as Wendy didn't say it herself, no one would know whether he actually did it.
"Oh, so that's it."
Wendy nodded and turned with a smile to Diluk who was standing behind the bar with his arms crossed.
"But you don't have to go to Liyue. Master Diluk is also a big customer of antique collections. Am I right, Master Diluk?"
After all, he was a person who once bought up large quantities of genuine and fake wine just based on the rumor that a bottle on the market contained a ray of power from the God of Wind. He could exchange three bottles for a bottle of good wine. He felt very sorry when he heard about this.
What he regretted was that Diluk had negotiated with the Fatui and bought up all the bottles, leaving him no chance to fish in troubled waters.
As for the power of the wind, it is plentiful.
Diluk saw the hidden meaning in his words and glanced at his frivolous god. If it wasn't for the purpose of preventing the power of the God of Wind from falling into the hands of the Fatui, he wouldn't have spent so much time and money.
Now that the genuine Wind God has awakened, those bottles certainly cannot be real. Angel's Gift has naturally stopped the acquisition plan. No matter how much money he has, he will not throw it into the water like this.
"Although I don't have any interest in or research on antiques, Chenxi Winery sometimes replenishes some vintage ornaments. If you have any suitable ones to sell to me, I will buy them at a reasonable price."
The Leggenfind family, which controls 80% of Mondstadt's wine industry, is considered a prominent force in Mondstadt. Even if Diluk himself has no hobby of purchasing luxury items, his housekeeper, Miss Adeline, will always buy some things she likes and bring them back, so a few more won't hurt.
At least it's better than that tasteless vase someone gave me.
However, Shui Qingli shook his head.
"These things don't meet the aesthetic requirements of being 'ornaments' or decorations. Only people who like to study history will be interested in them. I won't bother you."
He really wanted to go to Liyue to watch the Traveler fight against Osel. After all, he didn't watch them fight Tevarin before to avoid suspicion.
And for some reason, he actually prefers Liyue, which is similar to his hometown. Although the people in Mondstadt are very welcoming, he misses the food from his hometown.
If he hadn't been short of money, he wouldn't have stayed in Mondstadt for two months without moving. If it hadn't been for Lisa's help, he would have been so poor that he would have been ready to go to the Adventurer's Guild to take on commissions like a traveler.
…if he could fight the Water Prince's un-meddling instincts.
Diluk didn't care about it. He was willing to help, but he wasn't the enthusiastic or proactive type.
"It seems that Xiao Shui is also a person who can't sit still."
Wendy smiled and drank another glass of wine, then suddenly reminded him as if she remembered something.
"Song went to Liyue before you. If you need help, you can ask him for help. That enthusiastic kid will definitely not refuse you."
He had never met anyone more kind-hearted than the blond traveler, and he would accept any commission as long as it offered some simple rewards.
Hmm, it looks like he's short of money.
Shui Qingli's eyes drifted away.
Maybe the traveler needs his help even more.
After all, there was a male fox from winter with ill intentions and a Morax who didn't like to carry money when he went out...
After the party, Yifeng and Yishui left Mondstadt in unison, as if they had discussed it beforehand.
But the direction they were heading was not Fengqidi. Kaiya watched their backs as they left, thought for a while, and finally did not follow them.
Those two looked difficult to deal with, so he might as well go to the Angel's Gift to see if he could get some information.
Even though Diluk was a little weird in daily life, he had never rejected him, right?
Feeling the departure of the aura behind them, the two people in front looked at each other.
"Mondstadt's current peace and stability is truly inseparable from Diluk's contribution."
It has absolutely nothing to do with the God of Wind himself.
"Hey, Master Diluk has always been reliable."
The Wind God, who was implied, chuckled. For Lord Barbatos, who had long since developed a thick skin, just two words of implication meant nothing.
He now understood why the material for upgrading Diluk's talent was resistance.
In the free and easy Mondstadt, the existence of responsible people like Jean and Diluk is simply a protest against the unreliability of the God of Wind himself.