Chapter 183 Hua Hua, let's go eavesdrop!

"As far as I know, she does not practice martial arts."

Her mother was very strict and wouldn't let Ling Xuerou learn martial arts.

As for Marquis Dingyuan, he himself doesn't know martial arts, so how can he teach it?

At least when Ling Xue Rou was chasing her in her previous life, she didn't know martial arts.

Wei Jingchen suppressed his doubts and simply nodded.

"I'm probably overthinking it."

As Wei Jingchen spoke, he led her out.

"Come on, let's find a place to stay."

"Okay!"

A residence in the west of the city.

A dark figure leaped in from outside the wall, and the people inside gripped their knives.

"who?"

"It's me."

The dark figure clutched his arm and hurriedly entered the house.

"Are you injured?"

The people inside were startled and rushed forward.

"No, it's an old injury. Their people attacked. I saw Ding Yan's men go to rescue the box, and I was worried something might happen."

So I cut the ropes, but I didn't expect Ding Yan's men to have such a skilled fighter; I almost got caught!

Blood dripped from her fingertips, and another person hurriedly stepped forward with a medicine box.

"Come inside, I'll bandage you up!"

"Sister, we're out of medicine."

There wasn't much left to begin with, and the sudden flood washed away almost everything that was left in the house.

"I'm going out to buy some now. Second sister, please take care of Third Sister's wound first, and wait for me to come back."

The older man changed his clothes and went out, coughing as he walked, pretending to be unwell.

Suzhou experienced a breach in the dikes, and most of the pharmacies were destroyed.

Even after Ding Yan took over Jiangnan, he distributed the remaining medicines in the city, which was only enough for two pharmacies to operate normally.

Apart from medicines for treating the plague, the pharmacy only had some common medicinal herbs left.

"Shopkeeper, cough cough, do you have Panax notoginseng powder here?"

The shopkeeper paused in his work, then looked up at the man.

Yes, how much do you want?

"My family member fell and got injured, cough cough, but we don't have much money left at home. Look at this, how much is that enough?"

The man coughed twice more, and the shopkeeper turned around to wrap some Panax notoginseng for him, then asked, "Your cough, have you caught the plague?"

"This is a long-standing problem."

Although he said that, the shopkeeper was still afraid and hurriedly wrapped the Panax notoginseng and placed it on the table.

"You'd better leave now! If you're coughing, don't run around!"

"Oh, cough cough, thank you!"

The man covered his mouth with his sleeve, so his face was not visible throughout.

After the shopkeeper let him leave, a figure appeared behind him.

It was Lu Li.

Inside the inn, the Xu family members were resting.

Yun Zhao sipped her hot soup and asked, feigning curiosity, "Why haven't I seen Brother Lu Li all day?"

Wei Jingchen calmly replied, "I heard from my father that only two pharmacies are open in Suzhou."

Lord Ding knew that Uncle Lu and his son were skilled in martial arts, so he asked them to keep an eye on them.

Um?

It seems he has other guesses?

Yun Zhao looked up at him, but saw that he was calm and composed, as if he had no other guesses.

She then looked at Ling Xuerou at another table, and seeing that she didn't move at all, Yun Zhao felt even more strange.

I always felt that there was something she had overlooked.

She thought for a moment, then gulped down the broth and wiped her mouth.

"I'm full, I'm going to feed the flowers~"

After saying that, Yun Zhao put down his chopsticks and ran away.

Upon arriving in the backyard, Yun Zhao quietly went to the woodshed.

"Huahua, it's getting dark, let's go outside!"

"Ooh~"

The tiger was overjoyed to hear that he could go out.

After placing the tiger cub on the mother tiger's head, Yun Zhao climbed onto the tiger's back.

The tiger tiptoed out the door, but suddenly stopped and hid in the shadows, watching the outside world.

Just then, Lu Li climbed over the wall and came in.

He glanced around and, seeing no one was there, climbed through the window into the Wei family's room.

"Huahua, do you remember Lu Li's scent? Go find out where he came from!"

Tigers have a keen sense of smell; he just returned, so they might still be able to detect his scent.

The tiger sniffed around the corner, then led Yun Zhao out the back door.

It was already late, and apart from the patrolling soldiers, there was no one else in the city.

The tiger was agile, carrying her darting left and right through the streets, dodging people, and heading straight for the west of the city.

Finally, it stopped outside a house in the west of the city.

Lu Li stayed here the longest, and the smell was the strongest there.

The tiger even smelled blood here.

This is it!

The walls of the house were washed away by the flood, and the owner of the yard only used a fence to make some separation.

The tiger pawed at it a couple of times and easily squeezed inside.

Following the scent of blood, the tiger led her to a corner of a room, where it remained motionless.

Yun Zhao understood; it seemed the injured person was in this room!

Knowing that the other party was highly skilled in martial arts, she didn't dare to move rashly and instead leaned against the window to listen.

"We still don't have enough Panax notoginseng powder. Should I go steal some?"

A woman's voice came from inside the house.

"Sister, you mustn't! Lord Ding is said to be an extremely meticulous person."

If the pharmacy reports this, he'll probably investigate thoroughly, and our whereabouts will be exposed!

The voice that came again was still a woman's voice.

Yun Zhao was surprised.

How could a young woman escape from Lu Xun's clutches while injured?

"If Lord Ding is really so insistent on this matter, why don't we tell him the whole story and let him stand up for our Zhuge family?"

"Sister, even Lord Ding couldn't protect Prince Jin, how can you expect him to protect us?"

The injured woman chuckled, her weak voice carrying a hint of mockery.

For a moment, the room fell silent.

Yun Zhao wanted to hear more, but the tiger beneath her suddenly moved, and she quickly lay back down.

The tiger immediately led her to hide in the shadows, crouching there, looking ready to pounce.

At that moment, two figures climbed over the courtyard wall.

Yun Zhao looked closely.

Oh wow, it's Lu Li and Wei Jingchen.

It seems she did find the right place.

Unfortunately, the two people in the room did not speak again.

Wei Jingchen didn't hear anything and went to another rooftop.

Yun Zhao thought for a moment, fearing that she would be exposed, and immediately had Tiger take her away.

Not long after Tiger left with Yun Zhao, Ding Yan secretly sent people to surround the entire mansion.

Back at the inn, Yun Zhao looked at the room with the lights on and whispered, "Hua Hua, let's go to that room and eavesdrop!"

That was the Ling family's room.

The tiger led her on a crawl, stopping beneath the window of that room.

Inside the room, Ling Ruofeng was pacing back and forth anxiously.

Lin Shujing's eyes were dazzled by what she saw, and she asked helplessly, "Master, what are you doing?"

"My letter has been sent out for most of the day, but the Provincial Surveillance Commissioner of Jiangnan still hasn't arrived. How can I not be anxious?"

Ling Ruofeng was filled with a fierce aura.

The Provincial Surveillance Commissioner of Jiangnan was a man planted in the Qi family by the Fifth Prince. The fact that he was able to escape unscathed when the Governor-General of Jiangnan got into trouble was because the Fifth Prince was behind it.

Why didn't he come to see him at this time? Could it be that the Fifth Prince really intended to give up on him?

"Father, could the Provincial Surveillance Commissioner of Jiangnan simply be busy? I went to see him today."

The convoy transporting disaster relief supplies fell into the river, and as the Provincial Surveillance Commissioner, he had the duty to assist Ding Yan in verifying the situation.

"Xue'er, did you mention in your dream who embezzled this batch of disaster relief supplies?"

Ling Ruofeng asked.