Chapter 179: Infiltration (3)
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
“Understood.” Ye Jingtang took out a folded face cloth from under his clothes at the chest and put it on his face. He first got the bird to fly into the trees by the river and then plunged into the river at a calm place. His body was like a swimming dragon as he moved toward the riverside observation tower.
The heir of a vassal prince was like the heir of a vassal state. The weight of their position was self-evident. The defense of the prince’s mansion was rather tight. Even on the river, there were still a few boats patrolling and checking the bottom of the river from time to time.
Ye Jingtang held his breath and swam to the deep end of the river first. After making a big circle, he returned to the riverside and looked up at the sky from the bottom of the water. After seeing that there was no abnormality with the bird’s circling, he quietly stuck his head out from under the stone platform outside the observation tower.
Tread, tread…
Above the stone platform, he could hear two sets of footsteps walking on the stone ground and vaguely hear a conversation.
“When His Highness goes to the palace to attend the banquet, he will inevitably be instigated by the imperial relatives to perform ‘three mouths and one pig’ again. The dignified heir of a vassal prince is humiliated like this…”
“It can’t be considered humiliation. It’s just having fun at the banquet. His Highness only did it to please Her Majesty and the Prince of Jing. Under someone else’s roof, people have no choice but to lower their heads. If His Highness doesn’t make Her Majesty happy, who knows when we will be able to return to Wu Province…”
Ye Jingtang leaned against the stone platform and listened carefully. He could confirm that the two of them were King of Wu’s personal guards. After they circled around the observation tower, they gradually left.
“Chirp-” The chirping of the bird resounded in the forest.
After confirming that there was no one around, Ye Jingtang silently went up the stone platform, ducked under the eaves, and listened. There was no movement in the observation tower. It seemed that no one was there.
He was about to continue sneaking in, but when he moved his feet, he found a few dark marks on the white stone bricks on the ground.
The marks seemed to have been made when moving things. He touched them with the tip of his foot and found that the stained part was quite brittle. With slight force, there was a soft crack, as if he had stepped on charcoal dregs. There were actually cracks on the stain.
Ye Jingtang was slightly alarmed. He held his breath and condensed his qi on the spot for a moment. After confirming that there was nothing unusual, he lowered his head and continued to observe the marks. He felt that this stone had clearly been corroded by something. He thought for a moment and looked inside through the crack of the door. The observation tower looked to have been abandoned long ago. It was empty and had an old wooden floor. There were no suspicious objects.
Ye Jingtang couldn’t figure out the reason for this for the time being, so he recorded this matter and bypassed the observation tower to arrive at the back of the prince’s mansion.
Only the heir, Dongfang Yin, lived in the huge mansion. There were some maids and servants, but not many. It was raining, and the master had left, so the servants were slightly idle and resting in a secluded place.
Ye Jingtang hung upside down under the roof of the corridor, passed through the corridor like a gecko, and quickly landed outside a large building.
The environment around the building was extremely good. There was even a small garden with a few small dogs inside.
These kinds of dogs were usually used for competitions. It wasn’t strange for an idle heir to raise them, but dogs were dogs. They still had the ability to look after the house. As soon as Ye Jingtang arrived in the corner, two sleeping dogs raised their heads and looked around.
Ye Jingtang frowned. He felt that this place was quite heavily guarded and was definitely not the residence of an ordinary silkpants. He raised his hand slightly to signal.
As a bird, it was much easier for the bird to pass through the mansion than Ye Jingtang. It immediately landed on a large banyan tree near the courtyard and looked at the dogs.
The dogs were all distracted and looked up at the bird on the tree.
Ye Jingtang quickly moved to a window of the building. When he found that the window wasn’t locked, he opened it and jumped in silently.
Inside the window was a study that was adjacent to a bedroom. It was wide and clean, and there was nothing special about it at first glance.
Ye Jingtang listened carefully for a moment before going to a bookshelf and looking at the books placed on it: The Secret History of the Romantic Empress, The Secret Records of Joy, Tears of a Heroine Sequel…
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