"Waiting for someone?" Guan Fangyi asked curiously. "Waiting for whom?"
Niu Youdao smiled. "Can't tell you!"
Guan Fangyi immediately looked displeased and turned away...
Await orders? The two men at Purple Residence, having received news from Southern Prefecture, were puzzled. What exactly did Southern Prefecture mean? Were they not supposed to act before the western war settled into dust?
Jia Wuqun had agreed partly because of the war. After learning of Shao Pingbo's role in that battle, he had some intention of keeping him in check. None of the nations, Song Kingdom included, wished to see Jin Kingdom grow powerful so easily.
"Previously, there was a deadline for you to agree, sir. Now they are asking you to await orders, without even a definite word on how long that will be. Do you know Southern Prefecture's true intentions?" Zi Pingxiu could not help asking.
Seated opposite him, Jia Wuqun gave a slight shake of his head and wrote: Unfathomable!
There was no other way. They could only wait for now, and that wait stretched on for more than half a month...
While Jia Wuqun waited, Yun Ji had also finished the tunnel beneath the temporary lodging of the Thatched Cottage Manor group.
As Niu Youdao and the others entered the tunnel to inspect it, Yuan Gang arrived and presented a secret letter. "News has come from that side."
Niu Youdao accepted the letter and read it, then fell into deep thought.
Taking advantage of his distraction, Guan Fangyi suddenly reached out and snatched the secret letter away. She wanted to see just what these two were plotting behind her back.
Her action earned a cold glance from Yuan Gang. Guan Fangyi noticed, but ignored him and hurriedly read the letter first.
Before reading it, she had not known; once she