Chen Fei's expression could not help changing, but he did not panic. Instead, he let the little boy enter the courtyard and shut the main gate firmly.
"Do you know where Uncle Chi is now?" Chen Fei asked, sitting down across from the little boy.
"I don't know either. It's just that Uncle Chi didn't come look for me today."
The little boy licked the candied fruit residue from his fingers and said, "Uncle Chi said that if one day he didn't come to find me, I should come find you and tell you to run quickly. That was all."
"What a good boy. This is for you!"
Chen Fei took out a tael of broken silver. The little boy's eyes widened at once, and he hurriedly hid the Silver Taels inside his clothes. After bowing to Chen Fei in thanks, he skipped away.
Inside the courtyard, Chen Fei's brows slowly furrowed.
This child should have been a contingency Chi Defeng had left behind, meant to warn Chen Fei. He had not expected it would actually be put to use. The crucial point now was: who exactly had captured Chi Defeng?
For the past month, Chen Fei had quietly stayed in the house cultivating. Aside from occasionally going out, he had not come into conflict with anyone. Chi Defeng had likewise kept to himself, at most helping Chen Fei purchase some herbs.
"Is it still that Shallow Water Gang?"
Chen Fei thought back to a month ago, when he had been targeted by a gang because he was selling medicinal pills. If one had to speak of suspects, then this Shallow Water Gang was probably the biggest.
But they had already taken the initiative to hide. Was that Shallow Water Gang still chasing them relentlessly like this?
Chen Fei returned