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The goddess's expression in the dressing mirror remained unchanged, her features charming and beautiful. After admiring herself in the mirror for a while, she turned back to You and said,
"No problem, let her stay here for a while."
"Since this is the little hamster he sent me... I have to observe it carefully, otherwise how can I repay his kindness?"
The smile on You's lips faltered slightly, and then she responded happily: "Sister is right, then You want to continue watching?"
The goddess stood up from the dressing mirror, walked to the window of the top pavilion, and looked at the lonely scenery outside through the window lattice for a while.
"The time is almost up... Apart from this matter, don't interfere in other matters."
"As long as it's about my future plans, no matter what you say." She turned her head, looked at Tong You, and said word by word with contempt, "I will not agree."
“…”
The words he wanted to say were anticipated by the goddess, and he was unable to utter them when they were on the tip of his lips.
The gloom in his eyes gradually deepened as he lowered his brows, but when he looked up at the goddess, his eyes were bright and clear:
"Since my sister doesn't want to, I won't force her."
He blinked, and the curve of his lips deepened a little: "But please believe me, sister..."
"You will never betray your sister at any time."
The goddess was silent for a while, then looked at him with a complicated expression in her eyes. There seemed to be a flash of compassion, but then it faded away.
"Really?"
"You are my good child, I naturally believe you."
—
Jiang Nian lowered his eyes and pushed open the door.
The smell of dust and long-stored sandalwood hits you in the face.
There was nothing in sight except a bed, curtains blocking the window, and a simple dressing mirror.
There is nothing else.
The wind in the corridor blew past her, causing the door to open slightly.
The slight sound made Jiang Nian turn around and glance at the corridor behind him.
Except for her door which had just been opened, all other doors were open.
As he passed these doors, Jiang Nianyou turned his head and took a look inside.
Some are double rooms and some are single rooms.
But without exception, there was no one inside.
The layout of the room will be the same as her current one, except that the items will appear newer.
“…”
Jiang Nian turned around and went into the room carrying the wooden box.
The room inside smelled stuffy, as if it hadn't been ventilated for a long time.
But apart from this, the rest of the smell was not as overpowering as what I smelled before I opened the door.
The wooden box was then placed in a corner of the table. Jiang Nian looked around but couldn't find any sink to clean the room or any place to wash.
It turns out that I'm used to living a good life.
Even though her status as a maid seemed rather special, and she could live in a rugged corner on the third floor of Zuihua Tower and was treated much better than an ordinary maid, she was still somewhat uncomfortable.
Jiang Nian walked around the room and saw that there was no one else and there were no strange-shaped talismans or papers like those of the Wu Mi people in the corners of the walls. She breathed a sigh of relief and then spoke softly in the same tone she had used to contact Qing and Yu in Pingzhou.
I remember Xiao Yingzhu said there were secret guards in Zuihua Tower. If I shout now, will they appear?
She was looking around hesitantly when suddenly her peripheral vision dimmed and a figure appeared behind her.
As if afraid of scaring her, when Jiang Nian took a step back, the secret guard suddenly knelt on one knee, clenched his fist, and placed it under his left shoulder.
"At your service."
…
…………
Is it true?
Jiang Nian inexplicably felt as if he had been blessed with good luck from heaven. The difficulty of finding information in the hell before him instantly dropped several times, turning it into a maze puzzle game.
She hesitated for a moment and then asked, "Are you his...secret guard?"
Knowing who Jiang Nian was referring to, the secret guard said calmly, "Yes. It's the one who is feared and bloodthirsty in the capital."
"?"
What's the difference between this and directly reporting the person's name?
Jiang Nian had an inexplicable illusion that the guard in front of him was joking, but when he looked closely, he saw the serious expression on the guard's face, and the sense of incongruity disappeared.
Not wanting to dwell on this for too long, she nodded and asked, "...Can you help me find a damp cloth to wipe the tables and chairs, and a broom to sweep the floor?"
The secret guard paused in his response, as if he finally realized that the place was too dusty and it was difficult to sit or lie down to rest. After silently agreeing, he immediately disappeared from Jiang Nian's sight.
Why do I feel so dull?
Jiang Nian felt inexplicably funny. After curling his lower lip, he took out a small mirror from the wooden box and looked at the side of his neck.
There was a seal cast by the flat-faced man.
It was the silhouette of a blood-red flower.
Its twisted branches support the interwoven, broad leaves, and the flowers on these branches are graceful and elegant, like the slender weeping willows by the stream.
It was as if two objects that were forcibly separated by external factors were put together.
There is a strange feeling of being extremely separated and yet being integrated with it naturally.
Jiang Nian looked at the mark on the left side of his neck in the mirror for a while, then touched it lightly with his hand, and a little red powder fell off.
It seems to be washable.
But since it is the proof that I am allowed to move around in Zuihualou, I will keep this flower around my neck for a while.
Jiang Nian put the mirror down and was about to go outside to see if anyone had returned when the secret guard he had just summoned knelt on one knee silently, with his right hand under his shoulder and his head lowered in silence.
He looked around, but nothing he wanted was there.
"...Is it impossible to obtain these items?"
Having doubts in his mind, Jiang Nian asked directly.
The secret guard shook his head and said only: "I did not understand the difficulties in your residence in time. Please punish me!"
Before Jiang Nian could react to how his logical thinking was working and why he was being punished, footsteps were heard outside the room gradually approaching.
Oh no, could it be that the manager Ling sent someone to come to her and tell her what she needs to do?
The door of the room was only ajar and could be opened with a push.
Jiang Nian hurried forward, raised his hand and patted the secret guard's shoulder, and whispered quickly: "Don't kneel down yet, find a place to hide first!"
The secret guard was stubborn and continued to kneel on the ground motionless.
Jiang Nian's blood pressure rose for no reason, but now was not the time to argue with the secret guards. The most important thing was to protect her identity as an undercover agent!
Racing against time, one must seize every second. Jiang Nian reached out and grabbed the secret guard's collar, then tried to forcefully pull him towards the only place where he could still hide in this shabby room - under the bed.
But this secret guard was like a thousand-year-old stone standing on the top of a mountain. No matter how hard you pulled, he wouldn't budge at all. He maintained a firm belief in serving his master, "I won't leave until you forgive me."
“…”
Jiang Nian suddenly felt that the good luck she had just had while dodging the incense might be the result of all the good luck she had had since entering Zuihualou.
All my good luck has been used up while I was hiding from the incense.
This guard was neither as flexible as the ones around her, nor as stubborn as Xiao Yingzhu... at least not single-minded.
Could it be that he was led astray by Qin Lan?
Jiang Nian was angry and anxious, thinking about the maid outside the corridor who would see someone kneeling and worshipping her as soon as she opened the door. She felt that the wide road that she had barely avoided and was about to use to steal intelligence was falling straight down like a puzzle.
She took a deep breath and was about to hide under the bed with her bag in hand, enduring the dirt, when the half-closed door of the room was pushed open completely.
A maid dressed in the same attire as her stood outside the door, holding a wet rag and broom set in her hands. She raised her eyes and glanced across the room.
From right to left.
The huge and stupid secret guard who was kneeling in the middle and Jiang Nian who was standing aside holding the wooden box which was not fully closed because the mirror was stuck in the gap.
After an extremely short silence, his gaze finally stopped moving and fixed on Jiang Nian's stunned, surprised and confused face.
"As you command."
"I brought supplies to clean the room."
—
Youguan Mansion
Qin Lan walked out of the flower hall, followed by the Yu tribe members who were taking small steps forward.
The troops in the Intelligence Bureau are divided into three parts: Wu, Yu, and Yi.
Their main responsibilities are:
The Armed Forces Department is responsible for weapons research and development and technical support, ensuring that the department has advanced weapons and equipment.
The Feather Department is responsible for intelligence compilation and external communication tasks, as well as external communication to ensure the sharing of the Intelligence Bureau.
The wing is responsible for tracking intelligence and repairing data to ensure the integrity and accuracy of the intelligence.
Because of the division between the Feather Department and the Wing Department, there are often tasks that can be done by both departments. Therefore, in order to avoid working too much, they usually choose to argue and fight with each other. After the result is determined, the loser will take on the task.
Right now, it is the losing side this time - the Wing Division.
Yi Bu, who is usually good at shirking his duties, made a bet in front of Qin Lan, the head of the Intelligence Pavilion.
He also arrogantly declared that if he lost, he would take on all the tasks of all departments except the military department for the next period of time - in fact, there were only two left.
Rock-paper-scissors battles are played in a best-of-three format.
The wing was defeated.
A crushing defeat.
Yu Bu laughed at this and said: Don’t you like the sharp tongue? Why don’t you smile after losing? The sharp tongue defended himself by saying that he felt he was sure of himself when he played the stone three times.
In short, after Qin Lan watched the whole process of their bet, he handed over the information about the previous "Lu" route to Yu Bu for processing.
But what a coincidence.
When talking with Jiang Nian before, he happened to mention the third prince Meng Hao, who was in charge of the border between Xuanmo and Huandu. At noon on the day when Jiang Nian went to Zuihualou, he sent a letter with a seal about the Wu Mi people to Yu He.
However, the content of the seal related to the Wu Mi people and not the "mineral grass" related to the plague.
Instead, it was talisman paper related to the talisman array and a few unknown pills.
Judging from the speed of the goods' movement, this batch of goods should have been shipped from Donglan three years ago.
But for some unknown reason, they were stopped halfway. Except for the people transporting the goods who disappeared, all other goods were stored intact in the carriage.
Because the supplies inside are really special, and the refugees and displaced people on the border mainly take food and medical supplies, which are of little use to them, and may be contaminated with some incurable diseases, so the goods are treated as garbage and thrown into the jungle.
It was not until recently when Meng Hao cleared and controlled the border that he was discovered by patrol soldiers and saw the light of day again.
However, even though he knew that the Wu Mi people were not going to deal with Huandu, in the environment where Meng Hao had lived for a long time, there were very few Wu Mi people who would not care about the consequences and would jump in front of him to cause trouble. Therefore, he did not know as much about the Wu Mi people as Yu He, who was directly responsible for participating in the Wu Mi people cleanup incident.
Only then did he write a letter to Emperor Changde, requesting that this matter be handed over to Yu He and let Yu He complete it personally.
Emperor Changde knew that Yu He hated the Wu Mi people to the core, so he agreed to Meng Hao's request, doing him a favor and sending the letter to Cang County intact.
Yu He was busy here at this time, controlling the epidemic and clearing out the Wu Mi people.
However, this route is the same as the route recorded by "Lu" for transporting "mineral grass" back then.
At this point, they decided to get to the bottom of this matter before taking action at Zuihualou.
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