Chapter 468: Like a Wolf Eyeing Meat
The woman glanced at him briefly, then looked away indifferently.
Like a random stranger you meet on a long street at night.
Yan Changkong stood in place, but he could clearly hear the deafening sound of his own heartbeat.
When he came to his senses after being accidentally bumped by a passerby, the woman had disappeared from under the building light.
The sense of loss that came over Yan Changkong made him laugh. He was really out of his mind.
His life has been planned long ago. From the moment he was born to the end of his life, there will not be and cannot be any accidents.
That feeling of being out of control just now only happened once.
"Sister, what were you looking at just now?" Xiao Mai Sui and Bing'er asked casually while choosing a headband in front of a street stall selling headbands with their backs to the building lights.
Tianbao went forward to help them choose, "Someone is looking at me, so I look back. You are lively, so use red. Bing'er is cute and innocent, so choose jade."
Tianbao helped the two girls pick out headbands and paid for them.
Little Wheat Ear took another green headband from the stall, tilted her head and smiled sweetly, "Standing alone and untainted by the world, sister, this headband suits you, buy it!"
Tian Bao pursed her lips and smiled, "Okay, buy it."
The young people were full of energy and were very curious about the customs and culture of the new place. After dinner, they could not stay in the inn, so they ran to the street in groups.
After the three of them bought the hairbands, Bai Yu and the three brothers from the Su family came back with a bunch of oil-paper bags filled with various street snacks that smelled tempting.
Bai Yu handed a bag of skewers to Tian Bao, not wanting to hold onto a handful of leftover bamboo sticks. "The old man loves to be in a crowd. If he can resist not coming out with us, he must have found something more fun. I don't think he'll be back too early tonight."
When going out, several people stopped using names that might arouse suspicion.
Too famous, there's nothing I can do about it.
Su An bit a piece of oily fruit in his mouth and chuckled, "I bet the old man must have gone to the big houses to check it out. Wanna bet?"
Su Wen raised an eyebrow, looking at him with disdain. "Is there any need to make a bet? The most you can do is trick that fool Su Wu and win a few melons or dates from him."
"Who's stupid? I guessed it a long time ago but I just didn't tell you! Let me tell you, the small fortunes I have are not that easy to cheat!" Su Wu was furious.
Bing'er's mouth was stuffed with delicious snacks, and her cheeks were propped up, making it inconvenient for her to speak. When her brothers were playing, she followed them with her eyes, grinning, looking cute and naive.
Little Wheat Ear was too lazy to talk. The habits developed by the old man in his family over decades could not be changed. Fortunately, his legs and feet were in good condition, so he just hoped he could come back safely.
Tian Bao patted his head and tilted his head towards his fellow apprentices, "You've been out for quite a while, go back and rest. There are too many people following you, it's troublesome."
As they walked back to the inn, she glanced at the young man in white who was only a step away from her and lowered her voice, "I saw Yan Changkong."
"Did he recognize you?" Bai Yu responded without changing his expression.
"I don't know. The look in his eyes at that time," Tian Bao thought for a moment and came up with a description, "was like a wolf staring at meat."
Bai Yu paused, his eyes grew colder, but a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
He poked the girl, and when she turned her head, he stared at her, "Is that the look?"
Tianbao frowned and looked carefully for comparison.
The young man's eyes were focused and intense, and the possessiveness in them was unconcealed.
Tianbao couldn't understand the emotions that were too complicated, but when Bai Yu looked at her like that, she felt inexplicably uncomfortable, which was not the case when she looked at Yan Changkong.
"Like, but not quite. But it doesn't matter, just an opponent." She turned her head away. "Don't force a smile if you don't want to. It's creepy."
Bai Yu, "..."
At midnight, lanterns were extinguished everywhere in the post house.
The envoys from various countries fell into a deep sleep.
Dayue became friends with Yunqin and Xiling when they first met. Thanks to Xiling, he was able to occupy half of the corridor of the post station.
However, due to his social status, Gan Zhenyu, a fourth-rank academician, had a separate room, while the maids and guards who came with the group could only live in a large bunk bed each, separated by only a wall.
So when someone scratched the window on the man's side, the neighbors could hear it clearly.
The window of the woman's bunk creaked open, and Wheat Ear poked his head out, yawning, his eyes too sleepy to open. "Old man, what are you doing scratching your head so late at night? Just crawl in through the roof."
The sneaky old man twitched his lips and said angrily, "What the hell are you doing? We sleep on the second floor, and there are third and fourth floors above us! You want me to crawl down from the floor of someone's room on the third floor?!"
"Then why don't you just find an empty room in the mansion and stay there? If you keep tickling the neighbors next door, they'll wake up too."
"Shh! Keep your head down! Close the window! Go to sleep!" Hearing the rustling noise coming from the room next door, the old man was so angry that he fell backwards again.
Everyone was woken up by the little girl's yelling!
He quickly threw smoke bombs under the windows of other bunk beds, then jumped to the third floor and kicked open Gan Zhenyu's door.
They pushed Lord Gan, who was frightened awake, aside, pulled the quilt over him and covered him with it, and he began to snore.
Gan Zhenyu stared at the old man who suddenly appeared on his bed and rubbed his eyes several times before making sure he was not having a nightmare.
On the other side is the Emperor's eldest grandson's mansion.
Yan Changkong put on his clothes and got out of bed. After leaving the bedroom, he turned and walked into the small flower hall next to him for a nap.
There was no light in the hall at midnight, only the moonlight filtering in through the west window.
He glanced at the dark figure standing quietly in front of the window, sat down in the armchair against the wall, and pinched his aching brow, "Didn't come?"
The shadowy figure replied, "The other party has just arrived in Danyang and is probably unfamiliar with the terrain. He just casually wandered around the surrounding alleys for a few laps and didn't approach the Emperor's eldest grandson's mansion."
"Du Buqin always scouts the area before taking action whenever he arrives. The Emperor's Changsun Mansion is the richest in this area, so he won't let the fattest sheep go. Keep watching."
"yes."
"Are there any unusual movements by the others? Can you find out how many people came?"
"Master, please forgive me, I haven't investigated the matter yet. There are a total of twenty-one people in the Dai Viet envoys group this time. Aside from Gan Zhenyu and Du Buqin, whose identities have been confirmed, the others still need to be investigated. However, according to my speculation, Su Jiuni must be among them. She and Du Buqin have a close relationship like grandparents and she won't let him take risks alone."
Yan Changkong didn't ask any more questions and waved his hand, "Go down."
After the spy left, he sat in the armchair for a long time, staring at the moonlight slanting in through the window.
His right hand tapped the armrest of the armchair unconsciously, and in the quiet flower hall, the rhythmic tapping sound could be heard.
Now that Su Jiuni is here, Bai Yu can't be absent.
So, there are now three people confirmed.
That's enough.
Su Jiuni and Bai Yu are the core of every action of the Exiled Land Madmen.
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