After traveling for several days in a row, the three of them were exhausted. After the initial curiosity and excitement after entering the city wore off, they just wanted to have a good sleep, but unfortunately, the situation did not allow it.
Chen Huaixu stood in front of the window of the superior room, which was only slightly open, changing the angle to confirm the appearance of the people following them downstairs. After noting them down, she turned and walked to the mahogany table, picked up the tea poured by Xiaoman and took a sip.
"Xiangyi City is someone else's territory after all. It's not good to start a war. Let's see what they want to do first."
As he spoke, Shen Huaixu yawned, washed up briefly, said goodbye to the two of them, and went to rest on his own.
In her dream, she seemed to hear Fu Yin's voice. In the chaos, she was only awake for a moment, and then sleepiness overwhelmed her like a tide.
When he woke up, Shen Huaixu was not sure whether the sound was a dream or real.
Candles were already lit in the room, and Xiaoman stood up when he heard her getting up.
"Miss, are you awake? It's still early, you can sleep a little longer."
Shen Huaixu shook his head and asked, "Where's Frost?"
"I stayed up all night watching over the frost, and just went to bed."
His mind gradually became clearer from the chaos of just waking up. Shen Huaixu tilted his head to look at the closed window and said, "Ask the waiter to bring some hot water. We'll go out for a while later."
An incense stick later, the two men appeared in an empty alley next to the inn. In front of them lay a sloppy idler who was unaware of anything. He was one of the people Shen Huaixu saw through the window today.
Xiaoman glanced at the man on the ground with disgust, took out a white porcelain bottle, leaned over and placed the bottle mouth under the man's nose and waited for a moment. When the man was about to wake up, he stood up again.
"Who...who are you?!" An unpleasant, hoarse voice sounded in the empty alley.
Two hundred years ago, Southern Xia was the territory of the previous dynasty. It was only later that the Wei clan developed rebellious intentions and declared themselves king. Therefore, the languages of the two countries were still mutually intelligible. Even if the other party spoke with a heavy accent mixed with dialects and slang, Shen Huaixu could still understand it even if he had to guess.
"Where are you going to grab the words?" Chen Huaixu's tone was lazy but with a smile, "Why did you follow us all the way?"
The idler's face stiffened for a moment, and he stumbled away.
Xiaoman, who had been waiting by his side, grabbed his shoulder, moved it down, exerted force with his hand, and kicked with his leg. As the idler knelt on the ground, the arm that was grabbed was bent behind his back at a strange angle.
He only let out a short cry of pain, and then there was no more sound.
Xiaoman looked at the person on the ground helplessly, then looked at her young lady, and couldn't help but mutter, "He's too weak."
If her young lady were to come here, she would probably be dead.
Shen Huaixu smiled and said, "Wake him up, I have something to ask."
After waking up from his faint for the second time, the idle man had learned his lesson. He no longer thought about running away. He knelt on the ground and begged in his broken Dajin dialect: "My two young ladies, please be magnanimous. My brothers and I saw that you came from other places and wanted to find an opportunity to borrow some money from you. I never thought that the three of you were as brave as men. It is really admirable. Since I have never succeeded, please forgive me this time..."
"You just want to borrow some money from us?" Shen Huaixu asked.
After a few words of falsehood, the idler said with a flattering smile, "If I say even a single word of falsehood, I will be struck by lightning—"
She was halfway through her words when she was interrupted impatiently by Shen Huaixu, her tone arrogant and willful, "Alright, alright, get out of here! It's so sleepy in the middle of the night! Get all of you out of here! If I see you again tomorrow morning, don't blame me for being rude to you!"
He thought he would die here, but he didn't expect to escape so easily. The idler was stunned and speechless for a moment.
Shen Huaixu pulled out the whip from his waist and waved it in the air threateningly, making a crackling sound. "What? You want to stay?"
The idle man reacted and shook his head quickly, "No, no, no, I'm leaving now, I'm leaving now!"
As he said this, he rolled and crawled out of the empty alley.
After everyone left, Shen Huaixu asked, "There should be spies in secret. Have you solved it?"
"Lixia said those people were all death warriors. When they were in trouble, they bit their poison sacs and committed suicide. We couldn't get any useful information from them."
A hint of amusement flashed across Chen Huaixu's eyes, and he said with a smile: "The person behind this is so vigilant, there are people waiting openly and secretly, it seems that he hates me very much."
She then said to Xiaoman, "You go back to the inn first. I have something else to do. I'll be back soon. Don't worry about me."
As she spoke, she walked towards the alley entrance.
The last sentence made Xiaoman swallow back the words that were about to come out. She looked at the lady's back and knew that she couldn't follow her at this time.
Having followed the young lady for so long, she had long discovered that sometimes the young lady didn't let them follow her because she thought they were in the way, not for any other reason.
Shen Huaixu walked quickly in the direction the idler left. Not long after she walked out, she put on a cloak in the dark and her figure completely disappeared into the night.
The idler's leg was kicked by Xiaoman and he couldn't walk too far, so it was easy to catch up with him.
Not long after, two people, one in light and one in darkness, arrived at the shore of Luoyin Lake in the south of Xiangyi City, one in front and the other behind. Seeing him boarding a large ship docked on the shore with ease, Shen Huaixu came to the middle of the ship and climbed onto the ship with his bare hands.
The night was dark, the bright moon hiding shyly behind thick clouds. It was late, and the only people walking around on the boat were the servants.
As she landed gently, she heard footsteps coming from the stairs leading to the lower cabin. She stood by the boat motionless. The person who came was a maid, and as soon as she showed her head, she raised her hand and chopped her on the back of the neck.
The maid rolled her eyes and fainted. Chen Huaixu caught her body with one hand and caught the porcelain plate that was about to fall to the ground with the other hand. The food in the porcelain plate rolled to the ground and she had no time to pay attention to it.
A moment later, Shen Huaixu put on the coat she had taken off the maid, simply tied up her hair, and took out the disguise tools from the space. In a very short time, she changed her appearance according to the techniques she learned from Xiaoman and Shuangjiang. Then she picked up the snacks that fell on the ground and put them back on the porcelain plate.
After getting everything ready, she looked at the sleeping maid, a cold light flashed in her palm, and a moment later, a dull sound of falling into the water sounded in the silent night. Perhaps because she was in a deep sleep, she did not disturb the people on the boat.
Chen Huaixu lowered her head and eyes and walked towards the direction of the voice with snacks in her hand - the voice of the idler was particularly unpleasant, she remembered it clearly.
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