Published at 17th of January 2021 10:35:25 AM
Chapter 113
Sneaking Into the Outer Study (Part One)
The outer study was in a separate courtyard and had many guards patrolling around it .
Below the wall of the courtyard was a row of dwarf evergreens . The branches rustled slightly, as a person’s head popped up .
It was Kun WuShang .
“Strange, I clearly followed Gu HuaiJiang over, so where is he?”
Aside from the patrols, nobody else could be found in the surrounding area .
He had calculated when the patrols would change and leaped out from behind the trees . With just a few quick moves, he scaled the wall .
This was a good chance . Since he had come, he might as well go and visit the outer study .
He looked around then got low to the ground and ran next to the wall toward the inside . With a few quick moves, he arrived at the door of the study .
…
Yin Shuo casually walked around but did not see any sign of Kun WuShang . He cried out internally .
The seventh prince of Western Kun had a sensitive status . If not Gu ShuBai needing to apologize for the fight between them, he might not have been able to enter Marquis Gu’s Manor .
With this rare chance to come in, where would he go?
He walked past the stage and suddenly remembered something . While nobody was paying attention, he headed toward the small path surrounded by bamboo .
After he left, Gu ShuBai came out from behind the stage, his expression calm .
“Eldest brother, what should we do now?”
Gu HanMo held his sword, his eyes looking unkindly in the direction that Yin Shuo had departed in .
That was… the direction of the manor’s outer study .
What he saw was a wall of bookshelves . On them were all kinds of books . Two or three shelves had works that were turning yellow, and there were signs that they were flipped through often .
Kun WuShang looked through them one at a time . They were on the topics of military tactics, Western Kun’s records, and Northern Li’s records .
“He’s a smart man . Not only does he research our Western Kun, but he’s also researching Northern Li . ”
Northern Li had previously kept from interacting with the two southern countries . Even when the war between Western Kun and Eastern Ling dragged out for many years and burned like a raging fire, Northern Li did not even bother looking into it .
He randomly flipped through one of the records on Northern Li . In it were many records that he had not seen even in Western Kun’s records, yet Gu HuaiJiang often flipped through them .
It was no wonder he could become the undisputed head general of Eastern Ling . Just how many people in the entire world could have all of this information?
After a quick glance, his eyes quickly turned to the desk next to the window .
Aside from the four treasures of the study, there were no unnecessary items . * The drawer below contained quite a few official documents .
Kun WuShang looked through tall of them one by one then put them back .
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They were all common documents . There were neither documents relating to the troops garrisoned at the border nor were there any related to the military strategies employed by the Gu family . To him, these were of no value .
“Could it be that Gu HuaiJiang’s study also has some sort of hidden area or concealed compartments?”
There was such a possibility .
He tapped along the wall, and the wall made some dull sounds . These were all solid sounds .
He had practically tapped his way around the entirety of the large study, yet he did not notice anything of value .
He momentarily became disheartened .
“Plink . ”
It was the sound of something . It sounded like a pebble hitting a window, and Kun WuShang instantly became on edge .
Had he been found?
It was completely silent outside, and not the faintest sound could be heard . If someone had found it, he would have been surrounded long ago .
For a moment, he was puzzled . Slowly walking to the back window, he opened it just a crack to look outside .
There was nothing there .
Outside the window was a partially withered hardy banana . During the winter season, it was unable to bloom, but it would return to its verdant self once spring arrived . **
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Just as he was about to close the window, his body suddenly froze in place .
Atop a nearby building, there was a tall and slender figure that was looking straight at him .
Seeing that he was about to close the window, that person faintly sneered and tossed another pebble . It struck the window .
“Plink . ”
It was precisely this sound .
Through the window, the eyes of the man on the other building looked accurately at him . He would not be allowed to escape .
It was Yin Shuo .
If Yin Shuo was able to find him, it was very likely that the people of Marquis Gu’s Manor would be able to find him too .
He hastily closed the window and stopped paying attention to Yin Shuo . He then turned around and walked out through the door .
Atop the nearby building, though the window had suddenly been closed, it did not cut off Yin Shuo’s line of sight, and he paused for a moment .
When ordinary people were caught doing something criminal, they would become embarrassed or ashamed . Kun WuShang, however, did not mind in the slightest .
He knew that because he had not exposed him earlier, he would not do it now .
His face sure was thick, and his actions sure were decisive . This seventh prince really was a talent .
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Unfortunately…
Western Kun’s eldest prince already had a firm grasp of the position of crown prince .
He fiddled with the pebbles in his hand and looked like he was thinking about something .
“Young sir Yin, what are you doing here?”
An old servant had come up with a bamboo broom to do some cleaning . Seeing that there was someone there, he was given a fright .
“Oh, I saw that the manor was quite lively today and that there were all sorts of things laid out for the banquet, thus I wanted to find a high place to see just how many people had come . I ended up here unintentionally . ”
This should be an abandoned building . It was filled with random items, and there was a layer of dust on them .
So it was like that .
The old servant smiled, “It’s fine . This building is too close to the outer study and has been left unused . It’s not a particularly important place . But this place is dirty . If young sir Yin has finished looking, how about going down to rest for a while?”
Yin Shuo nodded to him and slowly descended .
The old servant began sweeping the area where he had just been standing . In the thin layer of dust, he had left behind his footprints .
In this place, they were facing in the direction of the outer study .
He became pensive but did not stop moving his hands . Suddenly, he felt his broom sweep past something on the floor .
Lowering his head to take a look, there were a few pebbles rolling around on the floor .