Chapter 58 - A Small and Narrow Carriage (2/2)

The moment Yuwen Tong left, that intense aura about him disappeared. Ling Zhang involuntarily felt relieved and all his muscles also fully relaxed.

“Where did Elder Brother Yuwen go?” Ling Maomao opened the curtain to look outside out of curiosity and was amazed to discover that Yuwen Tong had disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Ling Zhang had no idea where Yuwen Tong had gone either. That man had superb lightness skills and was able to appear out of nowhere and disappear into thin air, which was really horrifying.

“Forget about him. Be careful. Don’t crane out of the carriage,” said Ling Zhang.

However, while making these remarks, he couldn’t help wondering where Yuwen Tong was heading.

That extremely faint scent left by Yuwen Tong still lingered in the carriage. This scent was not that of some kind of incense but an inexplicable smell, which was still affecting his thoughts.

He couldn’t understand. Given what had happened in his last incarnation, Yuwen Tong wasn’t supposed to be in Tanyang. How come the butler so coincidentally encountered him…

Wait… In his last life, the butler didn’t go to the capital city, which meant that by no means could Yuwen Tong have met the butler even if he went to the capital city at that time!

Ling Zhang’s face briefly changed. He suddenly realized that maybe his breaking off the engagement ahead of schedule was the exact reason why the butler met Yuwen Tong, which caused him to change his mind and come to Tanyang.

So it was his decision which led to all this?

While Ling Zhang was annoyed with himself, Yuwen Tong quietly returned to the station of Prefecture Guard after leaving the horse-drawn carriage. Ling Zhang had told him that Zhang Chong had been purchasing ore. He decided to come here and see it with his own eyes. Around the station of Prefecture Guard was vast emptiness, and the top of that hill in the herb farm of Ling family was the only spot suitable to observe the station.

Standing on the hilltop, he could see the whole station of Prefecture Guard. There was a forest of tents in it, along with several large-scale drill fields. As he saw the defense disposition in its main areas and the large quant.i.ty of troops walking around, the look in Yuwen Tong’s eyes went cold. Every year, local authority of Tanyang submitted reports on bandit suppression to the Imperial Court, which contained the number of casualties Prefecture Guard suffered. Zhang Chong requested additional fresh soldiers to supplement his army in every report. There must have been some dirty tricks. Were the casualties really that heavy? Not necessarily. The scale of this station was far larger than that of the station of any other army in any other prefecture. It was almost as large as the one in Sheng Zhou. Sheng Zhou was a border city, so its Prefecture Guard deemed a defense line. But why were there so many troops in Tanyang?

It was merely because of some people’s ulterior motives.

But he had fought so hard to defend this country. He wouldn’t allow those people to steal the fruit.

…

After two hours, the carriage returned to Tanyang.

Before they entered the city, Yuwen Tong suddenly materialized again and sat back into the carriage.

“Wow, your kung fu is so good, Elder Brother Yuwen.” This time, Ling Maomao saw Yuwen Tong come back by performing lightness skill, his eyes wide open with amazement.

“This is lightness skill. Do you want to learn it?” Yuwen Tong said.

“Yes!” Ling Maomao answered aloud in haste.

Ling Maomao’s reaction gave Ling Zhang a headache, who then rubbed his temples to ease it. Seeing that Ling Maomao was fixedly staring at Yuwen Tong with expectant eyes, Ling Zhang couldn’t help thinking, ‘This brat doesn’t worry that Yuwen Tong might be a bad guy. He’s bold enough to agree to anything.”

The carriage slowly entered Ling Family where Ling Xingzhong and Ling Zhaowen had already been waiting in anxiety.

In the morning, Yuwen Tong told them that he was going out for a walk, but he disappeared in the blink of an eye, which terribly scared them. Fortunately, Yuwen Tong was thoughtful enough to send a man back to tell them his whereabouts. Otherwise the two of them would have searched the whole Tanyang.

But after being informed of Yuwen Tong’s whereabouts, they had their hearts in their mouths.

There was a wide range of choices open to him. Why did he have to go to the herb farm?

Yuwen Tong must really have a plan for Zhang’er, didn’t he?

While Ling Xingzhong was considering the possibility of Yuwen Tong and Ling Zhang working together, Ling Zhaowen had begun to worry about Ling Zhang. As the only one who knew about the dreams that Ling Zhang had been having, Ling Zhaowen was well aware of Yuwen family’s att.i.tudes in Ling Zhang’s dreams, so he was not at all as optimistic as Ling Xingzhong was.

The carriage stopped in front of them. Yuwen Tong was the first one to get out of it. Then they saw Ling Maomao jump off. Ling Zhang was the last one to get off.

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