Li Mu Yang glanced at Hong Xiu and said, "I'll go take a look."
"Let me go instead." Hong Xiu spoke anxiously. "Could the Song family's spies really have found us so quickly? If there's any danger, Young Master, leave Tiandu immediately. Laying low for a while would be for the best."
"They couldn't have." Li Mu Yang smiled. "If the Song family's spies were really that capable, they wouldn't have waited until now to find us. Besides, making such a huge commotion coming here—aren't they afraid of alerting the enemy and scaring them away?"
"Please wait, Young Master." Hong Xiu hurried outside. No matter what, she didn't want Li Mu Yang to take the risk. Tiandu City was fraught with danger now, nowhere near as safe and secure as when Grand Commandant Lu was still alive. If anything happened to Li Mu Yang, their existence would be meaningless.
When she reached the front of the shop, she discovered that it was indeed neither a Song family spy nor a soldier from the City Patrol Division, but a beautiful woman dressed in gorgeous brocade robes covered in Tiandu Cherry-red patterns.
The woman stood coldly at the shop entrance. A group of maids and servants clustered around her, while more than a dozen fully armored soldiers of the Feather Army guarded the entrance outside.
The Feather Army was the imperial army. The fact that this woman could bring them out with her showed at a glance that her status was noble and extraordinary.
The shop assistants Gao Dafu and Chen Goudan both knew the woman. Even Manager Mo stopped his bookkeeping and hurried over to greet her.
Gao Dafu prided himself on having delivered cloth to the woman before. With an ingratiating, fawning smile, he said, "Miss Chu, what would you