[Fortune +35.] [Letter from the White Tiger Guard Pavilion Master. General Star, Luanfeng, Harrier Eagle, Female Tiger, and the others each have their own itineraries. Reward: qin score Toward Chang'an.] [The person has arrived, the voice is heard, but the scene remains unseen...]
A flash of golden light streaked past.
Chen Yi no longer hesitated and silently slipped out of the residence.
The letter the White Tiger Guard had received tonight contained a great deal of information.
Some of it was clear.
For instance, Lou Yuxue had set out north for the Capital Prefecture, while Harrier Eagle Ge Laosan was keeping a close eye on troop movements in the three towns of the Dingyuan Army.
Some of it, however, was not so clear.
For example, the death of "Little Daoist Lord" Hua Huiyang.
The White Tiger Guard's intelligence network might have been well-informed, but they likewise had no way of uncovering the full truth in such a short time.
The matter concerning Cui Qingwu and the Qinghe Cui Family visitor was equally vague.
It seemed the White Tiger Guard harbored suspicions toward the people the Qinghe Cui Family had sent to Shuzhou.
Visitors?
Chen Yi's thoughts stirred.
Based on his earlier deductions, the policy question Ma Shuhan had set had been a spur-of-the-moment decision. Someone must have been directing him from behind the scenes.
Lou Yuxue had already confirmed this—on the night before the annual examination, Ma Shuhan had met an outsider aboard the Quchi Painted Boat.
He must have received instructions aboard that boat, which was why he had tampered with the examination question the following day.
And anyone who could make Ma Shuhan take his entire family to their deaths was undoubtedly someone whose identity and power were beyond Ma Shuhan's ability to resist.
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