83 A Promise (2/2)

Nonetheless, no matter how he tried to engage Zhou Sheng, the other person only responded in monosyllables or didn't deign to give him a reply at all.

This further infuriated Ning Fu and in the end, he dropped the boy at the gates of The Imperial Palace and left for his manor.

Soon enough it was the day when Zhou Sheng would have his name entered into the genealogy book of the Ning Clan. Since only clan members were allowed inside the Ancestor Hall of a manor, Su Li asked the Head Commander of The Shadow Guards to send someone to go and have a look.

The Head Commander had also spent an inordinate amount time with Zhou Sheng when the boy had been living in the palace and had become friends with him.

Therefore, he himself had been worried when he had realised that the monarch was planning in having Zhou Sheng enter the Ning Clan.

Hence, as soon as the verbal decree was given, he took his fellow brothers and went to the Ning Manor and see if the boy was being short-changed on anything. He also had the brilliant idea that he would go and snoop around Nung Fu's room and see if he was having any secret conversations with anyone or if he was amassing soldiers in secret.

After all, no matter what had happened in the last few months, the Head Commander hadn't forgotten the fact that Ning Fi had once tried to plan an assassination of their liege. So as soon as he saw that the ceremony ended without a hitch, he sent his subordinates to report back to His Majesty and he himself climbed the tiled roof of Ning Fu's courtyard.

Meanwhile, Ning Fu had already retired to his room. After the ceremony, his parents would spend some time with the newest addition into the family and he himself didn't have the patience to listen to everyone's double-speak and probing of each other's thoughts.

Just as he was about to remove his outer clothes and take some rest, he heard. a faint breathing sound and he knew that an intruder was nearby.

Since today was the day the emperor's favourite was added into his own clan, Ning Fu feared that the intruder might be a spy from one of the opposing families, so he activated his own inner force and went onto a different roof.

What he saw left him feeling perplexed.

The Head Commander of Shadow Guards was lying on the roof of his room while trying to view the ongoing's inside the room by removing a single tile from it and was even muttering to himself.

”Ning Fu, I won't put this tile back in place. I hope it will rain tonight and that your room will be filled with water and your belonging spoiled. I will leave this hole open.”

The Unit Commander didn't know whether to laugh or cry at the absurdity of the other person. Though he was loyal to the monarch, Head Commander really wasn't the brightest person to have grazed the Imperial Palace.

Ning Fu also wondered how the monarch put up with someone who was essentially a loyal but idiotic puppy. He also wanted to find out what the other person was doing on his roof. Hence he decided to play a trick upon the said person.

Unit Commander Ning Fu covered his face with a black cloth and went to lie next to the other man on the roof of his own room. Trying to change his voice to be more gravelly, he asked, ”Head Commander, what are you trying to do here?”

The other person didn't realise that the one asking him the question was the very person he was trying to spy upon.

After all, who would come up to an intruder and ask this question in such an amicable manner, right?

Our dear Head Commander thought that it was one of his own subordinates who had returned after reporting to the monarch and replied, ”This one is trying to find if Ning Fu has any unnecessary thoughts about our liege and dynasty.”

Ning Fu went rigid as soon as those words entered his ears and he realised their implication.

He knew this person wouldn't do any unnecessary thing until and unless the monarch ordered them.