Check the Storage Tokens?
At first, Lu Wangji's request sounded perfectly reasonable. After all, Jiang Shi did have a Storage Token—and a very large one at that. It was entirely possible that she had hidden the murder weapon inside it after killing someone.
But Shang Xin Lei felt that something was very, very wrong.
Lu Wangji's tone and wording made it seem as though he had only just remembered that Jiang Shi had a Storage Token after discovering that everyone had brought out Blood Weapons as tokens.
Conversely, if Shang Xin Lei and the others had hidden their Blood Weapons, would Lu Wangji have forgotten about it?
Impossible.
Although she had only known Lu Wangji for two days, Shang Xin Lei was certain that he was an extremely meticulous person. The Left Xiaoqi Guard was the Imperial Guards, the emperor's personal guard. Besides, Lu Wangji had come to represent the imperial court in overseeing the situation in the Wandering Star Forest. How could he be so careless?
Yet he had waited until now to raise his suspicion about Jiang Shi's Storage Token.
After Jiang Shi handed over her blade, Lu Wangji finished inspecting the White Iron Straight Blade but made no move to return it. Instead, he handed the blade to the people behind him. Although this could be explained as him planning to return everyone's weapons together after completing all the inspections, it could also mean that he had never intended to return it at all—he had not planned to find bloodstains on the White Iron Straight Blade. He had only wanted to disarm Jiang Shi!
First the blade, then the Storage Token.
Shang Xin Lei suddenly remembered a book she had once read. It recorded the business experiences of a group of merchants and was titled Silver Blood