Lu Renjia suddenly panicked and angrily said, "Shen, what are you doing? I’m a public official of the Liushan Division, you... back off... let go... whoever dares to search , I’ll get angry!"
Shen sternly shouted, "Lu Renjia, if you do not cooperate, we will throw you into prison right now!"
Lu Renjia and Zhang Yunwu were still struggling.
But in front of so many people, the two were eventually pinned to the ground and the letter was searched out.
"What is this?"
Shen, holding the letter in his hand, stared grimly at the disheveled pair.
"That... that is..."
Lu Renjia stamred and couldn’t speak.
At this mont, Shan Dongchuan exclaid, "Huh? This envelope... it looks very similar to those we searched out from the shopkeeper’s room."
Yuan Anjiang’s pupils contracted, and his heart sank.
Having been in the bureaucracy for many years, he was no fool; the situation was indeed too coincidental, clearly manipulated by an unseen hand behind the scenes.
And it seed that Shen had been used as well.
He suddenly glared at Shan Dongchuan, his eyes full of suspicion.
Hearing Shan Dongchuan’s words, Shen stared fixedly at Lu Renjia, his gaze sharp as a knife, "Speak! Where did this letter co from? Were you here to deliver it? Who gave you this letter?"
"This letter was originally mine! Give it back to !"
Lu Renjia shouted loudly.
Shan Dongchuan then said, "Lu Renjia, do you know that the pawnshop shopkeeper is a spy from Nanjin Country.
The envelope of the letter you are holding looks very similar to the ones we found in the shopkeeper’s study.
Tell us, where did this letter co from? If you had it earlier, you should have delivered it yesterday. And now that you’re delivering it... is it possible it was given to you by Jiang Mo? Did you et Jiang Mo last night?"
Lu Renjia was bewildered and furiously said, "You bastard, you’re trying to fra Jiang again, aren’t you! It’s just an envelope; they’re all over town, I can go to the study right now and buy hundreds exactly like it, believe it or not?"
Shan Dongchuan sighed and said no more.
Seeing Shen preparing to open the envelope, Lu Renjia beca desperate and jumped up trying to snatch it but was again pinned down by several guards.
"That’s the letter I wrote to Qing Niang! You can’t read it! Shen, you can’t look at it!"
Lu Renjia’s eyes were blood red.
Shen ignored him, opened the envelope, pulled out the paper, but found it was blank.
However, as an expert in intelligence, he was not ignorant about covert communications, sniffed the blank paper, and instructed his subordinate, "Go, bring a candle here."
A subordinate found and lit a candle.
Shen unfolded the blank paper and held it above the candle fla to heat it back and forth.
Soon, so black characters started appearing on the paper.
Yuan Anjiang, realizing the gravity of the situation, clenched his fists with sweating palms and couldn’t help but step forward to look.
Shan Dongchuan also stepped closer.
One of the deputy leaders recited almost unconsciously:
"This letter is for Qing Niang’s eyes only, anyone else who looks at it will curse their entire family with no skins on swallows. Qing Niang, your laughter is the most beautiful scenery in my world, it gently sweeps over my heart, like a spring breeze for ten miles, asking not when it may end..."
As he recited, the deputy leader beca dumbfounded, looking utterly perplexed.
The expressions of the others also turned odd.
Yuan Anjiang was stunned for a long while before he ca back to his senses, barely suppressing a smile, then felt depressed again.
Damn, I should not have looked.
My whole family’s in trouble now.
Lu Renjia continued to curse and struggle, but occasionally he would glance at Zhang Yunwu with a hint of smugness.
It turned out that last night, not only Zhang Yunwu felt sothing was off; Lu Renjia also noticed the anomaly.
But he feared soone was watching nearby, so he had always pretended to be deceived, ignoring Zhang Yunwu’s warnings; in fact, he secretly switched the letter.
Heh, to think they really thought I, Jia, was a fool.
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