Given the current circumstances, the Commander's Office, the Vermilion Bird Guard, and Tiebi Town Commander Li Changqing all needed close attention.
With Chen Yunfan, the newly appointed Deputy Commissioner of the Commander's Office, beside him, Li Fu ought to exercise some restraint. Unless certain things he might previously have been plotting had already reached a stopping point, he would certainly have reservations.
The same applied to the Vermilion Bird Guard.
Since the White Tiger Guard had noticed something unusual about them, they could not possibly remain unmoved.
As for the latter-
Besides being of the younger generation of Li Fu's family, the Commander-in-Chief of Shuzhou, Li Changqing was also a student of the Xiao Family Old Master and highly valued by him.
At such a young age, he was already the Tiebi Town Commander.
Even after making such a grave mistake before-neglecting precautions despite Xiao Jinghong's warning and allowing Black Tooth and his men to burn Tiebi Town's granary-he had not received a particularly severe punishment.
It was not hard to see the place Li Changqing held in the Xiao Family Old Master's heart.
Presumably, even Xiao Jinghong had not guarded against him.
Or rather, she treated the Regional Commanders of the Three Towns equally. So long as Li Changqing and the others made no major blunders, she would not take particular precautions against them.
That was normal, too.
After all, the Regional Commanders of the Three Towns had all been promoted by the Xiao Family Old Master. By both sentiment and reason, Xiao Jinghong would give Li Changqing and the others important responsibilities.
It was probably driven by the notion of "never doubt those you employ, and never employ those you doubt."
In short, for the time being, the members of the Xiao Family believed their control over the