Yusui Chang'an

Chapter 1082: Reward for Finding Someone
On the outskirts of the city, Qingxu Temple.

Taoist Li boiled some medicine for the man and fed him the medicine. He then found a bowl without any cracks, washed it clean, poured some tea into it and handed it to the man:

"Are you really an official?"

The man picked up the cheap tea, diluted the taste of medicine in his mouth, and nodded.

"A few days ago... there was indeed a wealthy family looking for someone everywhere. It was a very pretty young lady. They said that their brother was missing and offered a reward of three thousand taels of silver to find him. The nearby villagers even helped to look for him for a while in order to get the silver. It seemed that the person was called Yun. Could it be you?"

Hearing the three thousand taels, the man's expression was moved:

"My name is Lin Jinyun, and I do have a younger sister... May I ask, Taoist Priest, is the woman who is looking for someone her surname Lin?"

Taoist Li looked thoughtful, clapped his hands for a while and said:

"Yes, her last name is Lin. I heard that she is General Gu's granddaughter. If she is your sister, then you are General Gu's grandson, right?"

Seeing Taoist Li's face full of reverence, Lin Jinyun avoided his gaze:

"I can indeed call General Gu my grandpa...Apart from this young lady, is there anyone else looking for me?"

Taoist Li stood up excitedly:
"Oh, if I had known that you were General Gu's grandson, I would have let Niu Er enter the city today. Why wait until tomorrow? There were many people looking for you during that time. It seemed that there was a second master and a second mistress who went back after just two days of searching. No reward was offered. They must be relatives of your family, but they are not as sincere as your sister and the people of the Gu family. After all, they are brothers and sisters."

Hearing that he was General Gu's grandson, Taoist Li's attitude became better. Considering that Lin Jinyun was too weak to get out of bed, he fetched water for Lin Jinyun to wash his face, and found a set of his cleanest clothes and gave them to Lin Jinyun. He then hurried out to find the coachman Niu Er and urged him to go into the city to deliver the news today.

After the people left, Lin Jinyun changed his clothes and washed himself, staring at the reflection in the basin in a daze:
I am considered young and promising, how come I ended up like this...
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The Duke's Mansion of the State of Qin.

Xue Ren reported the information he had obtained to Qin Zongliang.

He traced the words Shunyi had carved on his body and found a house. When he went to the house to investigate, he felt that it looked very familiar:
This is not the place to end Chun Jiao. He pretended to fight with Song Yi here a few days ago...

"Since Chunjiao is Chu Chengyao's, she hid there after escaping from the Marquis' Mansion, so that house must be Chu Chengyao's. I didn't expect that he had already started to insert people around my aunt, which is interesting. As soon as Pingnan's matter was exposed, he was killed by Pingnan. Do you really think I'm a fool?"

Xue Ren: "Prince Jin is pretending to be unconscious in his own palace, so we can't succeed."

Qin Zongliang: "Even if we can succeed, we can't do it. Although His Majesty despises him, he won't allow others to kill him. If he wants to faint, let him faint. Even if he faints until the day after tomorrow's wedding, we have to find a way to carry the cheap princess of the Zhou family to his Jinwang Mansion. He can't deny it. Have you made the pass for the assassins who assassinated His Majesty at Shanchuantan?"

Xue Ren: "We have made them. To prevent people from finding out, we only send out one or two every few days. We were very careful to ensure that the source could not be found. We also found a place under the jurisdiction of King Jin that could send out road passes and exchanged them with the same number. Now, all these road passes are made in the name of King Jin."

Qin Zongliang narrowed his eyes in satisfaction:

"Put it away safely, and take it out after using Chu Chengyao to overwhelm the King of Qin. Why is there no news about Zhu Dianhua recently?"

Xue Ren: "The people we sent to keep an eye on him reported back that he has been staying near the inn recently and seems to have taken a fancy to the princess of Yeliang."