Following Ye Xueruo's instructions, Ye Fan successfully found Cui He, the former secret guard of the crown prince, on North Street. After showing the jade token, Cui He gave him the address of a jewelry store and a contact name.
The owner of the jewelry store was a young man of about twenty-five or twenty-six years old, dressed in gold and silver and fancy clothes.
He looked the person up and down and didn't come out to greet him. Instead, he said calmly, "Sir, you are free to look at any jewelry you want to buy, but please don't touch it if you don't want to buy."
Ye Fan took out the jade token and said, "I want to pick out a suitable pair of jewelry for you, my dear."
The shopkeeper glanced at the jade plaque and put down his pen. "Sir, our shop has just received a batch of Southern Territory blue silk enamels, but they are quite expensive. You are obviously an expert in this field. Would you like to have a look?"
Ye Fan nodded, and the shopkeeper led him into the inner room, where various precious jewels were displayed.
"Is that what they are?"
"Sir, would you like something better?"
Ye Fan glanced at the shelves and said, "Things for noble people should naturally be the best."
"Then tell me, what exactly do you want?"
Ye Fan blushed and spoke awkwardly, telling the shopkeeper the code Cui He had given him: "The rabbit dug the fox's hole."
The shopkeeper said with a knowing sigh, "It's not convenient to talk here. Please follow me."
The shopkeeper gave him a mask, took him out of the jewelry store, and opened a secret passage in a dark alley.
Ye Fan cautiously opened the tracking incense he carried with him and followed the shopkeeper in the dark for a long time. The shopkeeper brought him to a mansion behind the North Mountain.
Ye Fan felt that the atmosphere in this mansion was very strange, but in order to investigate the information about the Crown Prince's secret guards and the Southern Territory, he had no choice but to follow him into the mansion.
The two walked through the garden rockery and came to the backyard of the mansion. It was already dark, and strings of lanterns were hung in the corridor of the backyard, lighting up the entire yard red.
The shopkeeper took him into a room with luxurious furnishings. The entrance was covered with a luxurious marble floor, and rosewood furniture was decorated with glass ornaments, jade and coral. It was obvious that the owner of this mansion was very wealthy.
In the middle of the room was a huge long table with eleven seats. Eight people were already sitting on both sides of the table, two women and six men, all wearing different masks, as if they were welcoming his arrival.
The shopkeeper led Ye Fan to sit in the empty seat in the middle of the long table, and he sat at the side of the table.
"Everyone is almost here." The shopkeeper told Ye Fan that their organization was known by code names. They would normally carry out their own tasks and would only gather when there were important instructions.
Ye Fan looked at the vacant seats and asked who else hadn't come. Are there only ten people in the organization?
The shopkeeper replied that he was not sure how many people there were.
"Let's first introduce our respective identities to this distinguished guest."
The person sitting in the middle, wearing a white fox mask with red stripes, was the first to speak: "I am Smiley Fox."
Then, the burly man sitting next to him said in a sweet and tender voice, "My name is Qianji Fox."
Then, several masked people introduced themselves one by one.
"Trick Fox."
"Fox hunter."
"Green Fox."
"The medicine-pounding fox."
The two women sitting at the very edge also started to introduce themselves: Xiangxue Fox and Yumian Fox.
When it was the shopkeeper's turn, he smiled and said respectfully, "I am the lucky cat."
Although the scene was very strange and serious, Ye Fan couldn't help but ask, "Why are you a cat?"
The shopkeeper smiled and explained, "They are all family, cousins, uncles-in-law and brothers-in-law. It's a family business, and I'm just an outsider."
"How could it be an outsider? Brother Cat, you are my breadwinner." At this time, two more people came in from the door. One of them was wearing a dark black robe with dark gold patterns and a black-faced fang ghost mask.
The other man wore a red cloak with white velvet edges and a plain white mask without any patterns on his head.
The green fox said, "Black-faced fox, you're late. I came all the way from the southern border and arrived earlier than you."
The black-faced, fang-toothed ghost masked man slowly walked into the lobby, took off his leather gloves, and said in a deep, magnetic voice with a hint of laughter, "Our Yunnuan Pavilion's future business dealings will still depend on Brother Cat."
The lucky cat smiled and shook its head. "You black-faced fox, don't try to get close to me. You must pay the bill in full. You can't even call me dad."
"That's too much, Brother Cat. Even a stingy person can still get rid of some rust."
Ye Fan stood up from his seat in an instant, clenching his weapon tightly, "Yun Nuan Pavilion!"
As everyone knows, Yunnuan Pavilion is now the property of the acting Pavilion Master Fu Yi. They call themselves members of Yunnuan Pavilion, which is tantamount to admitting their identity as traitors!
The black-faced, fang-toothed ghost-masked man waved his hand and ignored the tense Ye Fan. Instead, he walked to the side of the Xiangxue Fox and leaned on the table.
He conjured up a bouquet of flowers from nowhere and handed them to her, chatting with the fragrant snow fox in a doting tone, "Have you been wronged in the capital, Xiaoxue'er?"
"No, it's Sister Yueying Fox who has suffered a lot." Xiangxue Fox took the flowers from his hand with a smile and sniffed them. "Why did you choose such an ugly mask?"
"Don't you think this mask fits my great demon king's temperament very well?"
"You're just being ridiculous. By the way, where are the flowers coming from in this freezing weather?"
"Hehe, don't even mention flowers, I can even pick the moon from the sky for you."
The lucky cat shook its head and said, "Hey, hey, you two are showing off your affection like this, have you ever considered other people's feelings?"
Seeing that no one paid any attention to him, Ye Fan angrily said, "You are not the prince's secret guards!"
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