“Li Xin, what are you doing here?” Zhang Qingfeng stood at the door of the Zhang Mansion and barked at Li Xin outside the door.
Li Xin said, “I want to see Lord Luo.”
“Lord Luo is not here.”
“Master of the Zhang family, I have something important to report to Lord Luo. The matter is important, if Lord Luo’s business is spoiled because of you, can you afford to do so?” At the end of the sentence, Li Xin’s voice was stern.
“This ——” Zhang Qingfeng hesitated.
For this Li Xin, Zhang Qingfeng was extremely hateful. Let’s not talk about his a*sa*sination of himself in the street, if not for Lord Luo, he might have gone to ground. The way Lord Luo treated Li Xin alone was extremely disconcerting to Zhang Qingfeng.
Li Xin was just the B*****d son of the Li family, who had turned against Li Ping-sheng and taken over the Li family, and now he had somehow managed to get on Luo Yan’s line and was on an equal footing with himself. And looking at Luo Yan, he also held Li Xin in the highest regard.
This kind of person made Zhang Qingfeng, who had gone to great lengths to defect to Department Six and thought that Department Six had made a great contribution to the capture of Yangcheng, how could he not be hostile.
He wanted to stop Li Xin, but when he thought that Lord Luo would blame him afterwards, Zhang Qingfeng couldn’t help but be a bit waxed.
At this moment, a subordinate came running and whispered in Zhang Qingfeng’s ear.
After hearing this, Zhang Qingfeng’s face turned blue and purple, extremely wonderful. When Li Xin looked at Zhang Qingfeng’s face, he suddenly felt like laughing a little, and all the layers of worries in his heart dissipated at once.
“Come in, Lord Luo wants to see you.” Zhang Qingfeng spat out these words with difficulty.
It looked like it was Luo Yan who had learned of the situation at the door. What Zhang Qingfeng had just done would have lost a lot of points in the eyes of the higher-ups.
Following Zhang Qingfeng’s footsteps, Li Xin came to a small, secluded courtyard.
In the courtyard, Luo Yan and his master, Lu Qifeng, were drinking tea and chatting about matters.
“This is my master, one of the Four Divine Constables of Department Six, the Wind Chasing Divine Constable.” Luo Yan raised his hand to introduce himself.
“Greetings, Lord Divine Constable.” Li Xin and Zhang Qingfeng were busy saluting.
It looked like you, he hadn’t seen the Wind Chasing Divine Constable earlier. Li Xin secretly glanced at Lu Qifeng beside him.
“There is no need to be polite,” Lu Qifeng smiled warmly, “Li Xin, in the name of the Wind Chasing Divine Constable, I grant you permission to join Department Six, from now on you will be under Luo Yan’s command.
You said you had something important to report, what was it?”
Li Xin said, “Thank you, Lord Divine Constable. My subordinate has learned that Zhenshanjun’s army will march in nearly two months’ time.”
At the beginning, Xuan Guang and Qing Yu had said that the bet between him and Zhen Shanjun would be completed in three months’ time. The matter of the gambling agreement was just a means for Xuan Guang to cover up the truth. Even Xiao Gao, beforehand, did not know the details of Xuan Guang’s cooperation with Zhenshan Jun, and had once raised doubts about the benefits Xuan Guang had promised to give to Qing Yu.
However, Xuan Guang had accidentally revealed a crucial clue in the end, the time. If three months was not the time for the bet to be completed, then what could it be?
After thinking it over, Qing Yu came to the conclusion that Zhenshanjun’s army would march in three months, which was now two months from now. That was the only explanation.
“Oh,” Lu Qifeng said with a straight face, “is there an exact time?”
“Your Excellency, no. But I can vouch on my head that this information is absolutely accurate.” Li Xin said with a determined face.
In fact, Qing Yu did not expect that Li Xin would vouch for it with his head. After all, speculation was only speculation, and he only asked Li Xin to report this news. In the matter of Zhenshanjun’s rebellion, no detail could be overlooked. Even if the truth of the information could not be ascertained, the imperial court would certainly do something. He had no idea that Li Xin would give his head as a guarantee in order to convince the court.
Lu Qifeng pondered for a moment before saying, “I am aware of this matter, you may go on.”
“Yes, my subordinates will retire.” Li Xin and Zhang Qingfeng said in unison.
After the two had gone down, Luo Yan hurriedly said, “Master, is this true?”
Lu Qifeng had been listening to Yangcheng with the art of listening to the wind, so he should have known the truth of the news.
“Although it is said to be able to monitor the whole Yangcheng City, but you have also learnt the art of listening to the wind, so you should know that this secret art cannot be exercised for a long time, and I cannot open the art of listening to the wind all day long.” Lu Qifeng said helplessly.
He had also tried the Wind Listening Technique, and the sound of all the sounds in his ears almost made him go mad on the spot. It was scary to have voices ringing in your ears so often, see a certain director who relied on forced chatter to talk about crazy older cousins for details.
“Besides, I noticed the two of them only after I informed you to back up Zhang Qingfeng on that occasion after he was a*sa*sinated on Long Street, and only then did I start paying constant attention to them. That Little Daoist Priest Qing Yu should have learned of the news before, I have never heard anything about this matter from him, this is an extremely careful and cautious person.”
“Since the news has not been confirmed as true, should we hold our ground for now.” Luo Yan said.
“No, we have to move first,” Lu Qifeng got up and said, “The fact that Song Ziqi’s identity has been revealed and Zhenshan Jun is still not moving means that there must be a compelling reason for the delay. This news is most likely to be true. You go and send a letter to inform the brothers of Department Six outside the city to move into Yangcheng.”
“Then what are you doing, Master?” Luo Yan looked at Lu Qifeng who was about to set off.
“I’m going to inform Great General Ye Tiannan and tell him to aim to enter Yangcheng tomorrow. For such a big event, I still have to go and speak in person.” Lu Qifeng said.
Great General Ye Tiannan of the Heavenly Eagle, the military commander stationed in Lingzhou.
“Tomorrow, how is that possible?!”
Lu Qifeng was extremely light and it was possible that he would inform Ye Tiannan before tomorrow. But it took time for the army to mobilize, and the soldiers were not Lu Qifeng, it would be good if they could reach Yangcheng within ten days, tomorrow, it was completely impossible.
“So Yan’er you are still too young, as early as ten days ago, General Ye had merged with the army supported by the court, a total of 200,000 troops, long ago stationed in the mountains a hundred miles away from Yangcheng, what do you think Department Six cleared the mountain bandits for during this time. A mere Sun family is not enough to make us waste that much effort.” Lu Qifeng said with a long laugh.
After he finished speaking, a light breeze drifted by and Lu Qifeng had disappeared into thin air.
“Old and cunning.” Luo Yan gritted his teeth.
It was his suggestion to clear out the mountain bandits near Yangcheng. During the purge, the old fifth Sun family was captured, thus holding the five brothers of the Sun family, who were brothers in arms, hostage and making them work for Department Six.
Together with the collected Zhang and Li families, although the Li family was later put under Li Xin’s control, Li Xin also had his heart set on the Great Qian court. Of the four great families of Yangcheng, three of them served Department Six. In this, Luo Yan did not know how much effort had been spent. Now he learned that the big brother above him had other plans, and that he himself was just a cover.
Thinking clearly about this, even to his beloved master, Luo Yan hated him with a pa*sion.
But despite his anger, Luo Yan dutifully went to write a letter, sending out eagles to inform the Department Six men outside Yangcheng.
