"I met a few people who were sneaking around. I wanted to follow them and have a look, but I found you halfway."
Xiao Lingyue pointed forward and lowered her voice: "They are going that way. If you don't chase them, you will lose them. Let's talk slowly on the way."
Zhan Beihan knew that she would not joke about serious matters, so she must have really discovered something.
The two people exchanged glances and soon chased along the alley.
But unexpectedly, at the end of the alley, we reached a river. On the other side of the river were dense reeds, rustling in the wind.
The three cloaked figures had long since disappeared.
"Have you lost me?" Xiao Lingyue looked around and frowned slowly.
"Who are you chasing?" Zhan Beihan asked.
Xiao Lingyue: "Three practitioners, wearing cloaks, were sneaking through the alley in the middle of the night. I don't know what they were doing."
Zhan Beihan: "Is it a boy or a girl?"
Xiao Lingyue: "I can't see clearly, but it feels like three men."
Zhan Beihan: "Where did it appear from?"
Xiao Lingyue shook her head: "I don't know. I originally went to meet you in the courtyard, but you weren't there. When I wanted to go out, I heard footsteps, and then I found three people."
After a pause, she said: "After I went into the water a few days ago, I was attacked by men in black underwater..."
She briefly told Zhan Beihan what she had experienced in the past few days.
Zhan Beihan asked: "So you didn't return to the boat, because you were swept away by the river?" His cold eyes fell on the side of her face, "The disguise was also destroyed in the water."
"Well, I was unlucky. I encountered a high tide underwater."
Xiao Lingyue touched her face a little depressed and said: "When I first arrived in Yuanmu Town, I saw the code you left, and I originally wanted to meet you, but..."
But with her current face, she didn't want to be seen by King Xiang, for fear of being recognized.
Xiao Lingyue didn't say this, but Zhan Beihan could guess it.
Zhan Beihan thought for a moment: "Are you suspecting that these three cloaks are related to the man in black you met?"
"I'm a little skeptical."
Xiao Lingyue did not deny it, she frowned and moved her shoulders, "I just thought that since we have encountered each other, there is no reason not to follow up and take a look. And according to my observation, the three cloaked men know the terrain of Yuanmu Town very well.
They even knew the patrol pattern of the government officials and deliberately avoided them along the way. I suspect they have been in Yuanmu Town for a while, and I don’t know what their purpose is.”
After a pause, she said: "Now there is a mixed bag of fish and dragons in Yuanmu Town, and the forces are more complicated than we imagined. The large caravan from Nanyan is not sure whether it is real or fake, and it has attracted caravans from all over Northern Qin.
In addition, this place is close to the imperial mausoleum, there is a ferry, and some people are secretly smuggling iron ore.
The caravan from Nanyan is said to be distantly related to the county magistrate here.
It’s hard to tell which one is true and which one is false.”
Zhan Beihan narrowed his eyes slightly and said nothing for a while.
Xiao Lingyue thought of something and turned to look at him: "By the way, what did you do tonight?"
Zhan Beihan: "Visiting prison."
"..."
Xiao Lingyue was stunned for a moment and asked curiously: "Is it Prince Xiang? You didn't fish him out?"
Zhan Beihan looked at her: "You know?"
Xiao Lingyue held her forehead: "Prince Xiang was imprisoned, and he still has something to do with me..."
Zhan Beihan raised his eyebrows and looked at her with a half-smile: "Are you the girl he flirted with on the street?"
Xiao Lingyue: "..."
She couldn't laugh or cry for a moment, and spread her hands and said: "It's not a tease, Prince Xiang saw me on the street this evening, but he didn't recognize me. Maybe he had met me in the capital before and felt that I looked familiar.
It's not convenient for me to recognize him, anyway...
Due to various misunderstandings, the girl in the caravan with me regarded him as a gangster and reported him to the government officials for arrest!"