After Zhang Yu emerged from the mountain plains, he encountered no further obstruction on the road ahead. However, they did not take the man-made canal dug by the Protectorate Office and return to Ruiguang by boat. Instead, they went once more to Xiaoshan Town.
After arriving in town, he sought out Chen Zheng and entrusted him with sending a letter to the Academy, roughly explaining what had happened on this journey.
The reason he did not write it himself was that he was unsure what the present situation truly was.
How were the Wen brothers doing? Would they betray him like Cai Weng? Had anyone returned to the Profound Residence ahead of them? And what attitude did the Profound Residence now hold toward him?
None of this was certain.
But if Chen Zheng delivered the letter, there was originally no connection between them. Furthermore, he was in the midst of a transfer. Even if someone saw him, they would at most assume he was seeking a higher position. This would avoid most unforeseen complications and allow the truest circumstances to be conveyed to the Profound Residence.
Yet by coincidence, it was precisely because he had come here that he learned from Chen Zheng that the people who had attacked him bore many similarities to the barbarians who had appeared before Xiaoshan Town half a month ago.
Moreover, those people had appeared not long after they left Xiaoshan Town. They had come suddenly, and vanished just as suddenly.
After considering it, Zhang Yu concluded that those people might truly have come for that golden tablet. Otherwise, the timing could not have been such a coincidence.
Ever since leaving Auspicious Light City, he felt that danger had followed them without end. But he knew these successive events had not arisen by accident.