"Um, Lu Mei Sha from the Commerce Affairs Office went in with the key. What should we do?"
Across from Zhang Rongfang's residence, a couple selling tofu made from their own produce at a stall looked somewhat lost.
If it were anyone else, they could have secretly dealt with them. But Lu Mei Sha, as Spirit Envoy assassin, was one of the few guards who knew Zhang Rongfang's true identity.
This was done to ensure the safety of the residence at all times.
But now, it's the adults' relatives who have entered. "Don't rush, immediately send a message back and let the adults decide for themselves. This is the adults' family matter, it's not our place to decide," the woman said softly while scooping tofu.
"That's all we can do," the man sighed.
On the other side, Lu Mei Sha quickly closed the courtyard gate and looked around the yard.
The first thing that catches the eye is the rows of wooden stakes that have been almost broken.
Wooden stakes are everywhere; almost everyone who practices martial arts has them.
Lu Mei Sha only glanced at it briefly before looking away; her purpose was to find Zhang Rongfang's true secret.
Don't waste time on these ordinary wooden stakes.
She crossed the courtyard and came to the door of the inner room, pushing it hard.
Suddenly, a flash of red seemed to appear before her eyes.
"Huh? What is that!?"
Lu Mei Sha looked around warily.
The room was unusually tidy, with some weapons wrapped in cloth hanging on the wall.
They have swords, spears, and wheels.
On a large mahogany table were standard writing implements.
A light brown bamboo Inkstone Screen engraved with the Taoist Qingjing Sutra divides the entire table into two parts.
Inkstone Screen is a small screen that is usually placed on a desk to block light when there is strong light, and occasionally it also serves a decorative purpose.
On the left, in a wooden storage box, were seven or eight stamps of different sizes.
Lu Mei Sha stepped forward, picked one up and looked at it; she didn't recognize the characters engraved on the bottom of the seal.
Just then, she heard a faint pecking sound.
Looking up, I immediately saw a red feather tail bobbing up and down behind the Inkstone Screen.
"A bird?" Lu Mei Sha's heart skipped a beat, and she slowly approached.
Suddenly, she reached out and grabbed the Inkstone Screen.
But there was nothing after that.
Looking around the table in confusion, all I could see was a pile of empty grain husks.
But we still can't see the owner of that red feather.
"Strange." She narrowed her eyes, a hint of murderous intent flashing in them.
With a sudden wave of her hand, she looked at the back of the Inkstone Screen in her hand.
A little Xiao Hong Bird was lying on her back, staring at her with wide eyes.
In an instant, Lu Mei Sha noticed that something seemed to be tied to the Xiao Hong Bird's foot.
She reached out and grabbed at him.
Unfortunately, I grabbed nothing.
It also caused her to lose her balance and bump into the corner of the table with a thud.
Lu Mei Sha covered her face and cried out in pain before collapsing to the ground.
My face!
She got up, covered her face, and stared intently at the Xiao Hong Bird.
The Xiao Hong Bird, with its jewel-like eyes, looked calmly into her gaze.
The strong and the weak are obvious at a glance.
"Heh. It's bleeding." Lu Mei Sha let go of her hand, looked at the little bit of blood on her finger, and her face immediately darkened.
Pfft! She slapped the Xiao Hong Bird hard.
Unfortunately, it was another missed shot.
She slammed her hand heavily on the table, making a crisp popping sound.
"Ouch!" Lu Mei Sha's hand hurt so much. She looked at the Xiao Hong Bird that had instantly moved to her right and her eyes were practically spitting fire.
"I refuse to believe it!"
She calmed herself down, took deep breaths, and then suddenly clapped her hands repeatedly.
Clap clap clap clap clap! She swore her hands had never been so nimble since birth.
Like a series of beats, or like a float on water, it bounces nimbly across the tabletop.
Unfortunately, the Xiao Hong Bird always managed to dodge her attack by simply shifting its position at the crucial moment.
Left, right, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, pfft! Lu Mei Sha slapped the corner of the paper cutter next to her hard.
Her eyes bulged out, and she arched her back in pain, opening her mouth as if to scream, but then suddenly remembered that this was not her home, and she forced herself to hold it in.
She pulled her hand back, revealing a shallow cut on her right palm, but more noticeable bruising.
Fortunately, the paper cutter was wrapped in a protective wooden shell.
"My hands are useless!" Lu Mei Sha trembled with anger; she felt she had never been so furious before.
She stared intently at Xiao Hong, then suddenly stretched out her intact left hand and pointed at her.
"You're dead! Just wait, I'll catch you and steam or deep-fry you right now!!"
"Chirp chirp." Xiao Hong chirped twice, looking completely bewildered.
Swoosh! Lu Mei Sha was furious. She felt like a complete idiot! She couldn't even catch a bird!
So she took off her coat, opened it, and suddenly threw it forward! Thump! Xiao Hong jumped calmly, lightly tapped her head, and landed on the door frame behind her.
Then he looked down at the foolish human and slammed his head against the hard mahogany table.
Lu Mei Sha looked up from the table and saw Xiao Hong fly away again, and she almost collapsed.
She rolled up her clothes and threw them at Xiao Hong with all her might, but unfortunately, before the clothes even reached her, Xiao Hong had already flown out of the door and landed on the treetop in the yard.
"Die!!" Lu Mei Sha lunged forward in anger, swinging her clothes horizontally with all her might.
Unfortunately, she didn't notice that there was a threshold under her feet.
The clothes were flung halfway down before plummeting to the bottom like a cliff.
A muffled thud.
Lu Mei Sha fell face down to the ground.
At this moment, Xiao Hong on the tree and Lu Mei Sha on the ground.
The aura of the strong and the wails of the weak are immediately apparent. His Xiao Hong- like eyes held no emotion, only calm.
This kind of playfulness, in its special training, doesn't even qualify as after-dinner entertainment.
It glanced listlessly at the humans struggling to their feet, preened its tail feathers with its beak, and flapped its wings to fly away.
Lu Mei Sha got up, her nose bleeding profusely from the fall, almost uncontrollably.
She quickly stuffed her nostrils tightly with a handkerchief.
Looking back at the somewhat messy room, she knew she absolutely couldn't let Zhang Rongfang discover that she had sneaked in.
Otherwise, she would have no face to live in the manor in the future.
So he rushed back in, enduring the pain in his hands, face, and nose, and quickly gathered up all the things and put them back in their original places.
While tidying up, she quickly began her own search.
Splash!
A desk drawer was pulled open.
The room was empty except for some envelopes that looked quite private.
Lu Mei Sha immediately tensed up, realizing that she had finally found the key.
She reached out, picked up an envelope, opened the torn opening, and pulled out the Letter Paper.
The paper was unfolded, and a line of words was clearly written on it.
Lu Mei Sha was excited, knowing that her hard work had not been in vain, and quickly took a closer look.
This letter is poisonous.
Smack
She shuddered, and the Letter Paper in her hand flew out and landed on the table.
Soon, she felt her hands begin to itch and hurt, and the parts that touched the Letter Paper began to turn purple and swollen.
An intense itch spread from her fingers to her palms and wrists. Lu Mei Sha felt a sudden chill run through her body and panicked.
'How could there be poison on the Letter Paper in Zhang Rongfang's room?!?'
Her face turned pale instantly. She felt an itchy pain moving rapidly across her hands, and for a moment she felt lost and helpless, not knowing what to do.
Suddenly, she noticed writing on the back of the Letter Paper she had dropped: 'The antidote is in the third drawer.'
A flame of hope ignited in Lu Mei Sha's heart, and she quickly pulled open the third drawer.
There was another letter in the drawer.
She felt a pang of panic, but still picked up the envelope and took the Letter Paper out of the torn opening.
There was a line of text written on the Letter Paper.
The antidote is in the bedpan at the foot of the bed.
"..." Lu Mei Sha flushed red.
But her hands started to itch and hurt more and more, and she couldn't care less about anything else. She turned around and ran towards the foot of the bed.
She quickly found the chamber pot there.
Fortunately, there was nothing inside, so it didn't smell bad.
There was a piece of paper in the chamber pot.
Lu Mei Sha quickly picked up the paper, unfolded it, and took a look.
There was only one word written on it: 'lick'.
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In an instant, Lu Mei Sha's face turned green.
She glanced at the chamber pot, then at the writing on the paper. Her whole body began to tremble with anger, and a dull ache settled in her chest.
Just as she was about to crumple the paper into a ball, she suddenly noticed that there was another sentence on the back of the paper.
"Just kidding, the antidote is the Water Vessel on the table; just drink the water inside."
Lu Mei Sha finally breathed a sigh of relief, rushed to the desk, and grabbed the Water Vessel.
This thing is a tool used to hold the water used for grinding ink when writing. The water inside is clear and very clean.
Lu Mei Sha and drank it down.
***As evening fell, Zhang Rongfang pushed open the courtyard gate and immediately realized that someone had entered his house.
He entered, closed the door, and then reached behind him to retrieve a piece of intelligence that a guard from the Golden Wing Tower had slipped into his hand through a hidden crack in the corner of the wall.
Zhang Rongfang unfolded the Paper Scroll and examined it. His expression remained unchanged. He casually crumpled it up and tossed it into the burning charcoal brazier in the corner.
After entering the room, he looked at the furnishings, which seemed to be the same as when he left, and smiled silently.
He knew this place too well; he lived here every day, and he could keenly perceive even the slightest change.
Just now, the Inkstone Screen on the table moved slightly.
The drawer's movable handle has changed its orientation.
The chamber pot at the foot of the bed had indeed been moved. It seemed that the little trap he had set earlier had been triggered.
Chirp chirp.
Xiao Hong Bird flew in through the window and landed on his shoulder.
After removing the bamboo tube and giving it some food and water, Zhang Rongfang finally had time to examine the information inside.
The intelligence is about Shadow in the Forest.
Inside the Golden Wing Tower, led by Bao Ning and leveraging the abilities of the newly joined members, a wealth of relevant information was quickly uncovered.
Picking up a magnifying glass, Zhang Rongfang carefully read through the contents, bit by bit.
As for Lu Mei Sha secretly entering her own house to check, that's nothing.
Since the last incident involving Jin Xiu, Zhang Rongfang has been setting up some prank traps at his residence.
Just like the poison that Lu Mei Sha with, it was actually an Itching Powder that could make people itch all over, and the effects of the medicine could only last for one day and one night.
This is just a small punishment for the thief.
Zhang Rongfang had already moved all the valuable items in the room to hidden compartments in the wall.
Moreover, the hidden compartment couldn't be opened without his special key.
Golden Wing Tower is a professional at doing these kinds of things, so this kind of arrangement is just a piece of cake for them.