After racing to the Inner City, Lin Hui failed to find Big Brother and could only have several people from his hall pass along a message.
To prevent anyone from stirring up trouble, he sought out people from several Yugong branches, paid them a fee, and asked them to relay the message.
Unless Big Brother's reputation was truly dreadful throughout all of Yugong, someone would surely be able to deliver it.
On his way back to Xinyu Town in the Outer City, Lin Hui did indeed spot some unfamiliar faces from out of town.
The local people of Xinyu Town possessed facial features and that mild temperament in the way they walked that nowhere else could compare with.
On one hand, Qingfeng Temple stood guard here, and no gangs that harassed commoners were permitted in the surrounding area. Public order had been excellent for the past two years.
On the other hand, these outsiders dressed in a completely different style, mostly the open fashion of the Inner City. Yet beneath that openness, there was a trace of vigilance in their every movement, making them easy to recognize.
Upon returning to Qingfeng Temple, Lin Hui summoned Wang Hongshi and instructed him to arrange for some people to investigate. Only then did he return to the rear courtyard, meet up with Han Xiaoyue, and head with her to Wild Wind Plain to train.
Perhaps they really were well matched. After training at Wild Wind Plain for a while, the two ate. Once they had finished, each read and studied on their own—one learning the study of pills, the other musical theory and operatic plays—as a form of rest, before beginning a new round of cultivation that afternoon.
Other than their initial conversation, the two had not exchanged a single word for the