"Grand Secretary, Young Grand Secretary, save me!" With a wailing cry, a man pushed straight through the doors of the Yan Family's main hall, staggered to the dining table, and dropped to his knees with a thud, knocking his forehead against the floor again and again.
"Longwen?"
It was evening, when three generations of the Yan Family were dining together. Yan Song, Yan Shifan, and Yan Shaoting were all startled by Luo Longwen's behavior, then realized something disastrous had happened!
Composure in the face of great events was essential for a man at the pinnacle of officialdom. A flicker of alarm crossed Yan Song's aged face, but he quickly recovered and calmly addressed Luo Longwen on the floor. "What happened? Get up and speak."
As expected of a chief grand secretary who had controlled the government for over a decade, Yan Song spoke with tremendous authority.
A sliver of hope rose in Luo Longwen's heart. He hurriedly climbed to his feet and, after finally steadying his breathing, said in a panic, "Cao Jinxing-Cao Jinxing captured Shinto-ryu's young master, Kitahara Ryusei, alive in Black Jade Studio's rear courtyard! Our dealings with the Wokou may... may be exposed..."
"What?!"
Yan Shifan's eyes flew wide, and his fury blazed up. He left the table and paced back and forth, stirring the air as he ground his teeth. "How is that possible? Who tipped him off? How could those people be so careless as to get caught red-handed! Useless! Every last one of them!"
He was berating one person to strike at another.
Luo Longwen dared not argue. However the information had leaked, their partners had been careless, which naturally meant that he, as the intermediary, had failed in his duties. He hurriedly appealed to Yan Song. "Grand Secretary, if Zhu Lu confesses and