After a hectic day, Qian Yuya and the others left the Imperial Academy after having dinner with Ming Shuiyun in the cafeteria.
At the entrance, Qin Yueshi parted ways with them. Qian Yuya and the others lived in the more distant Shangjing District and needed to take the public shuttle, while Qin Yueshi could walk straight home.
The place where they waited for the shuttle was called the Announcement Pavilion, located near the Imperial Academy entrance. Its function was somewhat similar to a bulletin board, used specifically to post court announcements and wanted notices. However, ordinary people were not allowed to reply on it—of course, if you said they couldn't, would they not lose face?
It was common for wanted criminals on bounty notices to be drawn with three heads and six arms. It was even more routine for people to draw lines beneath court announcements, point out the key parts, and curse them viciously. Most of the time, Imperial Academy students did it casually while waiting for the shuttle. And because Cha Huan could not control what happened outside the school, they naturally acted even more recklessly.
While Qian Yuya and the others were waiting for the shuttle, they saw several male students crowding around the Announcement Pavilion and blocking everyone's view, allowing the people inside to alter the wanted criminal's appearance. Li Ying took a careful look and saw that the burly criminal had been forcibly drawn as a kind-looking old man. And that old man looked a little familiar...
Damn, wasn't that Grand Secretary Ling Jiangli?
Although rumors among the people claimed that Ling Jiangli could not escape responsibility for the late emperor's death, and that the Statistics Department's backer in Yan Capital was Grand Secretary Ling, so he probably already had a place on the list