The two were startled. Qiu Honglei hurriedly pushed Zu An away. Usually, she was charming and seductive, but now her face was full of shyness.
Zuan was also a little embarrassed, thinking to himself, "What's going on here? No wonder there's an old saying that rabbits don't eat the grass near their burrows; it's easy for trouble to happen here."
"Oh, it's Sister Yun! I was worried about you earlier." Fortunately, Zu'an had a thick skin and quickly calmed down.
Yun Jianyue was also a little angry, but she knew that she was angry for no reason. It was perfectly normal for couples to kiss. She couldn't very well go up to Hong Lei and say, "Disciple, I'm having an affair with your man too, can I?"
She snorted heavily: "Don't worry, I won't die. But you've acted very quickly, taking care of Zhang Jie's forces so fast."
Zu An chuckled and said, "Zhang Jie is, after all, an official appointed by the imperial court. He can't manage his subordinates as effectively as the Prince of Yan does."
With the help of city lord Liao Ling, the enemy's trusted confidants were brought under control before they could react, thus avoiding a repeat of the previous mutiny at the Prince of Yan's residence.
“You’re quite the talent, kid. After the Prince of Yan returned, he kept praising you.” Yun Jianyue couldn’t help but laugh as she recalled the scene. “By the way, Hong Lei, give him the thing you found.”
Qiu Honglei seemed to wake from a dream, and took out a small note from her bosom and handed it to Zu An.
"What is this?" Zu An's expression changed as soon as he took the note, because he noticed that the paper was made of a special material that was impervious to water and fire. Each Embroidered-Robed Envoy had a small booklet with this kind of paper on it, which recorded their missions and related clues. The special material was to prevent damage, and inside the Embroidered-Robed Envoy, it often served the same function as the black boxes in his previous life.
For example, if an Embroidered-Robe Envoy has an accident, investigating his register can often reveal problems, especially when two Embroidered-Robe Envoys are involved in an operation together. If one dies and the other survives, and there are signs of tampering or other errors in the deceased's register, his companion will easily be suspected. This is also a mechanism used to allow Embroidered-Robe Envoys to supervise each other.
Qiu Honglei replied, "This is something that the Prince of Yan's mansion found during an investigation some time ago. The death of the seventh Gold Medalist was suspicious, and the Prince of Yan sent people to investigate. There are many capable people in the mansion, and some of them found this note that the seventh Gold Medalist had hidden based on various clues."
Zu An thought to himself, no wonder he didn't find any useful clues in the seventh-ranked gold medal's relics back then; it turned out that the people from the Prince of Yan's mansion had gotten there first.
He opened the note and found a string of strange terms written on it, many of which were marked with circles. Clearly, the seventh-place gold medalist had also been quite troubled by these names.
"Passerby, salted fish, servant, tomato, stone, handsome old man, fat seaweed, girl, landlord..."
Zuan read out the contents of the paper one by one, looking somewhat bewildered: "What are these?"
These recorded things are so commonplace that if they weren't recorded in the seventh-ranked gold medalist's book, they would probably have been thrown away as trash.
Yun Jianyue shook her head: "We don't know either, but it's obviously closely related to the death of the seventh-ranked gold medalist."
Zuan examined the contents again. Some of them looked like items from a vegetable market, some were medicinal herbs, and there were also some names.
We have no idea what code the seventh-place gold medalist left behind; there's simply no way to decipher it.
At this moment, Qiu Honglei suddenly spoke up in a low voice: "I have heard some rumors that a group of mysterious people are preparing to deal with the dog emperor. These names may be the code names of the people involved."
Yun Jianyue was startled: "How come I didn't know? Why didn't you tell me before?"
Qiu Honglei's face flushed: "I only found out by chance these past two days. Zhao Lu told me this to curry favor with me, but I don't know if it's true or not."
Zhao Lu was the grandson of the King of Yan and the son of the heir apparent Zhao Huang. He was a notorious playboy in Yicheng.
Zu An thought to himself that Qiu Honglei was indeed incredibly charming; even the grandson of the Prince of Yan, who was used to seeing beautiful women, was completely captivated by her.
"Could it be that he deliberately misled us?" Yun Jianyue thought to herself that her precious disciple had forgotten her master as soon as she got a man, and that she would tell Zu An about such an important matter first.
Qiu Honglei shook her head slightly: "I still have the ability to discern, and Zhao Lu would never have such a scheming mind. In addition, the people in the Yan Prince's mansion have been in a state of panic these past few days, all thinking about how to exonerate the Yan Prince, so they haven't paid much attention to keeping the relevant secrets."
"It seems the Prince of Yan has found quite a bit of information." Yun Jianyue was somewhat dissatisfied. They were allies, yet he deliberately kept such important information from them.
Zuan stared at those names. His first reaction upon hearing the news was to believe it, because he had indeed sensed a crisis lurking beneath the calm, and that someone was going to take action against Zhao Hao. This Fengchan ceremony was the perfect opportunity.
But with Zhao Hao's unparalleled cultivation, could these inexperienced fellows really handle him?
For example, who would give themselves such a nickname, "Salted Fish"?
Could they be from the sea?
Does someone who names themselves "Tomato" (番茄) mean they like to eat tomatoes?
That guy called "Old Handsome Guy," I don't know who's so shameless as to choose such a name. He must be a very narcissistic and repressed person.
There's also the term "māzi," which in some places in the past was associated with girlfriends and carried a certain insulting connotation.
...
Looking at these strange names, Zu An could roughly guess what these people were thinking. Because dealing with Zhao Hao was of great importance, they dared not show their real names for fear of being doomed, so they used these nicknames to address each other.
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