Chapter 135: Jade Ink

In the dim room, Chen Ji slowly opened his eyes.

Inside the dim room, the window was tightly closed. The moon could only cast hazy light shadows through the white paper window.

He heard light footsteps outside the door gradually approaching, then gradually moving away, finally going downstairs.

Chen Ji lay flat on the communal bed, slowly stuffed the short knife back into his sleeve, and slightly exhaled: at least those guests with knives were not here to assassinate them.

No wonder Jing Wang, this kind of "old hand," didn't discover the problem with this inn.

No wonder Jing Wang, even if ill, still had to travel incognito.

Originally, everything was for tonight's meeting.

But Chen Ji's heart suddenly lifted again: who was Jing Wang meeting? What matters did the other side want to discuss with Jing Wang?

Rebellion.

Besides this, Chen Ji couldn't think of any other matter that would require a powerful prince to hide his name and come to a small county town, making a meeting so secretive.

He sighed lightly in his heart, rebellion, ah.

Once involved in this kind of matter, probably Jing Wang's entire family, from top to bottom, would face unpredictable life and death.

Take Ning Shi as an example. A civil official defying the emperor might still have a way to live, but a prince had no way out whatsoever.

Some princes were steamed to death in steamers, some were sealed in rooms and starved to death.

The death methods were strange and bizarre, especially cruel.

If the matter failed, the heir, Bai Li...

However, Chen Ji was now more doubtful, who exactly did Jing Wang want to see?

Liu Gun, Liu Ge Lao?

Or, the director of the Jing Dynasty military intelligence department...

He let out a long breath of turbid air, slowly sat up, and carefully examined all the guests.

Mr. Wang, the heir, and others were weary from travel and had gone to sleep early.

The remaining guests slept even deeper, their snoring shaking the sky.

Chen Ji sat on the communal bed and hesitated for a moment, but finally, he still got up lightly, quietly came to the window side, and shifted the window open a slight gap to look outside.

He didn't dare open the gap wide, only changing angles to scan the courtyard through the gap.

Outside the window was the backyard. In the backyard, there was one carriage, several ox carts, and boxes of goods on the ox carts.

Several black-clothed people were scattered in the courtyard, vaguely guarding something.

Chen Ji looked to one side and saw that under the thatched roof eaves of the stable, there was actually one person wearing a black robe quietly standing still. Waiting without being anxious or impatient.

This was the person Jing Wang wanted to see?

Chen Ji changed his angle to look, wanting to see the other's appearance clearly.

But the other's upper body was blocked by the thatched roof eaves, so he couldn't see the face and couldn't distinguish the age.

At this time, there was a faint light reflecting from the waist of the black-robed person, which was a jade pendant.

Ancient people said, a gentleman without reason, jade does not leave his body.

Ordinary literati, officials, and nobles all wore jade objects at their waists. But generally, people wore either white or green jade.

However, this person wore an ink jade.

The so-called gentleman is like jade, always used to describe a gentleman's pure character.

What kind of person would wear an ink jade?

While thinking, Jing Wang followed a black-clothed person out of the inn and came to the front of the stable.

Jing Wang's posture was straight. The person under the stable was also neither humble nor arrogant, not showing the slightest intention of bowing.

The two people spoke in extremely low voices, so low that Chen Ji on the second floor couldn't hear anything at all.

In the courtyard, one black-clothed person's gaze casually swept over the second floor window.

Chen Ji was startled in his heart and leaned back slightly to avoid being discovered by the other.

In the gap, he saw that after the other's gaze swept over, he didn't react. He just patrolled other parts of the courtyard as if nothing had happened.

Chen Ji slightly exhaled.

However, the next moment, he felt something was wrong... there was one less black-clothed person in the courtyard.

Chen Ji retreated rapidly without hesitation and lay flat on his bed, pretending to be asleep.

In just a few breaths, he heard the wooden door of the communal bed creak and slowly pushed open by someone.

A black-clothed person held a long knife in his hand and examined the room inside with a serious face.

He saw that everyone was sleeping, but he bent down slightly and used the dim moonlight to observe everyone's eyelids.

If a person was not sleeping, their eyelids would inevitably tremble, absolutely unable to fake it.

Chen Ji didn't expect that the followers brought by the black-robed person downstairs were actually so alert.

Just by opening the window slightly, they could detect an anomaly.

Not only that, but after detecting the anomaly, the other person didn't make a sound but calmly and quietly signaled people upstairs to check.

Chen Ji didn't even know when the other person transmitted the message to his colleagues.

The black-clothed person hung the long knife on Chen Wen Zong's neck and bent down to quietly gaze at Chen Wen Zong's eyelids.

If there was any sign of trouble, the blade would probably immediately cut open Chen Wen Zong's artery.

After dozens of breaths, the black-clothed person slowly stood up, shifted one step to the right, and again bent down in front of Chen Wen Xiao to repeat what he had just done.

The other person was extremely serious and focused, not planning to let go of anyone possible.

Time passed bit by bit. Seeing that he would check Chen Ji in two or three more people, Chen Ji immediately controlled the ice flow in his body to spread out from his dantian, pulling himself into a dark cloud sea, above a green mountain.

After a moment, the black-clothed person bent down to check Chen Ji. The knife emitting cold air stopped at Chen Ji's neck, as if it could fall at any time.

However, Chen Ji's eyelids didn't move at all, with no abnormality.

After another dozens of breaths, the black-clothed person relaxed his heart and continued to check the nearby heir.

There were more than ten people sleeping in the room, and every single one was checked.

Until everyone was checked, the black-clothed person, holding the knife, quietly retreated out of the room.

He said to the colleagues waiting outside the door: "All sleeping. Did you just see wrong?"

The other person's face showed doubt: "I clearly remember, the second floor windows were originally all tightly closed and seamless. But now that window is open a gap, and furthermore, in this midwinter month, who would open the window to sleep?"

"Also."

The black-clothed person responsible for checking said in a low voice: "Or should we kill them all? The matter of Jing Wang meeting with the adult tonight must absolutely not be leaked."

The other person slightly narrowed his eyes: "I cannot decide this matter. You wait here, I will go ask Jing Wang. No, I cannot ask Jing Wang, I must ask the adult separately."

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