When Wen Qingkong woke the next day, Jiang Asheng and Zeng Jing came to visit together.
Li Lan served them tea and pastries, then took little Shuang'er into the courtyard to play.
Neither Wen Qingkong nor Zeng Jing particularly wanted Li Lan to know anything about Dark Stone.
After all, the more one knew, the greater the danger.
"I've noticed Dark Stone people appearing throughout the city recently."
"Some of them were personally trained by me."
Zeng Jing's expression was grave. As one of Mingzhou Dark Stone's top assassins in the past, Zeng Jing had also been responsible for cultivating and training Mingzhou Dark Stone assassins.
As a result, she recognized quite a few of them.
Over the past few days, she had discovered that Dark Stone assassins who had previously not been in Mingzhou City had all gathered there.
That meant the Ninth Prince in Yujing City had already sent a new King Runner.
Wen Qingkong nodded slightly. Duke of Pingnan had succeeded as the new King Runner while also rushing to prepare the transport of one million taels of silver. With the Dark Stone assassins in Mingzhou City having been wiped out by Wen Qingkong and Zeng Jing, it was only natural for Duke of Pingnan to summon Dark Stone assassins from the other prefectures and counties of Mingzhou to Mingzhou City for his use.
Even Wen Qingkong was rather surprised when he considered Duke of Pingnan's plan.
The summoned Dark Stone assassins would secretly protect the transport convoy, while the Ming Army would openly guard the silver.
As a member of the Ming Emperor's imperial clan, Duke of Pingnan was qualified to mobilize up to five hundred Ming Army soldiers.
The five hundred Ming Army soldiers Duke of Pingnan had placed in open view to guard this