Chapter 354 - Easy Peasy! (1/2)

After receiving the map, Lin Jian and Yao Ying quickly searched for those two men. Fortunately, it wasn't that hard. No matter how many shadow guards there, it would be hard to control so many people at once. They were able to find a few loopholes and found those two men in a flash.

Besides, their tent wasn't really that far from their place, so it made it easier for them to find those two men. When they were going to talk to them quietly, coincidentally, those two men also came out of their tent stealthily. They made a secret gesture and it seemed like no one in their tent knew about their intentions.

They loudly yelled inside the tent that they needed a place to relieve themselves, before they came out and behaved like thieves.

Those two men were also roaming around, seemed to search for something or someone's whereabouts. Yao Ying and Lin Jian decided to follow them --- to find out their purpose of coming into the palace. Maybe they could use this as blackmail material. Besides, they needed to investigate them before offering them a cooperation opportunity, right?

From the way they saw it, it seemed like they were indeed hired ȧssassins. The way they moved was a good proof. They could blend into their surroundings and could bypass several hidden guards easily without batting eyelashes --- they even treated those hidden guards as a joke. Their breathing was almost non-existence! This was the first requirement as an ȧssassin --- to cleverly hide their presence and blend with their surroundings.

Hopefully, they had the same goal --- the Han Emperor and the wicked concubine. If they were ordered to kill them, it was better ah~! They didn't need to work hard but they would add some spices to fire it up. Thus, they were able to have a happy cooperation. Or else, they needed to kill those two men to protect their own identities.

Before they set off, Yao Ling told Yao Ying that there was a way to guarantee their cooperation even without needing to convince those two men and wasting words to them... Yao Ling provided them with poison. Once the cooperation had finished, she would give them the antidotes. Of course, she would need to see their performance whether they were good partners or not.

Easy peasy!

Yao Ying felt that having a clever wife was so convenience sometimes --- she really helped and made his job easier with her skills by a lot. There was a great Chinese idiom that really portrayed this matter. 'Nán-nǚ dāpèi, gànhuó bù lèi' which meant that when men and women worked together they didn't feel tired. This idiom could be applied to their relationship and Yao Ying felt so grateful for having Yao Ling as his wife.

Yao Ying looked at the people that they followed and he still wanted to see what those two men were planning to do, but those two were very careful when moving around.

Lin Jian whispered softly, ”What do you think they want to do?”

Yao Ying shrugged his shoulder off helplessly. ”How should I know? There are so many possibilities ah~!” The fight inside the palace was quite messy, so he didn't know who sent those men. The Han Emperor had many princesses and princes because his harem was quite full with many pretty ladies and he didn't seem to plan to stop collecting new beautiful ladies any time soon.

The fight between those people would be crazy enough --- they tended to kill each other to achieve their goal and there were a few attempts of ȧssassinations towards the Han Emperor himself. So many people wanted to kill others...

Thus, he couldn't really guess ah~!

Yao Ying sighed. ”However, we can't be out for too long because we still need to prepare a few things for our performance ah~!”

Lin Jian nodded his head. ”If they don't reveal their purpose sooner, we should use the hard way.”

Yao Ying smirked but agreed with Lin Jian --- the sooner they finished this task, the better.

Finally, they saw that the two men were meeting up with a man --- a eunuch, to be exact. They started to realize it from the way that eunuch talked with a high-pitched voice. Even though he wore a commoner outfit, he couldn't cover up his lack of masculinity.