NOVEL NEXT Chapter 1586 - 1586: Three Keys
Chapter 1586: Three Keys
Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Then, he drove the carriage and pretended to leave the city, only to return to Stone Village.
It was not until midnight that the people on duty at the government office started to doze off. Only then did Xue Yan and Jiang Yue reach the government office.
Jiang Yue was pregnant, so Xue Yan did not let her do it herself. Instead, he let her stay in a corner. The corner was very dark and could cover her while he knocked the guards unconscious.
Before coming with Jiang Yue, he came to the government office almost every night. He was very familiar with the government office and was also very familiar with the guards who patrolled the area. He knew which rooms they lived in and who were on duty. In addition, he was very skilled. Therefore, in less than 15 minutes, he had already quietly knocked everyone unconscious.
The last ones to be knocked out were the two officers guarding the entrance of the government office. The entrance of the government office was closed. The two officers were sitting on the steps behind the entrance of the government office with spears in their arms, dozing off. Once he knocked them out, he directly opened the door of the government office and ushered Jiang Yue in.
Jiang Yue was in the corner. When she saw the government office door open from the inside, she knew that Xue Yan had knocked everyone unconscious. Only then did she walk out of the darkness.
No one would pass by the government office in the middle of the night. After Jiang Yue entered the government office, Xue Yan closed the government office door from the inside just in case.
In this way, even if someone passed by the government office, as long as they did not knock on the door and let the people from the government office answer to enter, basically no one would notice that something was wrong with the government office.
After closing the door, Xue Yan took Jiang Yue to Fan Jianxi’s room at the back. As he went, he said, “He probably doesn’t feel safe here. Even if he has a wife and a concubine, I haven’t seen him living in any of these rooms recently. He’s always living alone. When I came to check on him two days ago, I heard two servants talking about this matter. It seems that he’s always been like this.”
“Being such a paranoid person, there must be something on him and in his room,” Jiang Yue said.
Xue Yan nodded. He also felt that it was so.
The guard at the door of Fan Jianxi’s room had been knocked unconscious. In the room, Fan Jianxi, who was sleeping soundly, had also been knocked unconscious. Xue Yan pushed open the door and walked in with Jiang Yue.
Although the moonlight shone in, they still could not see it. Xue Yan took out a lighter and lit up the two lamps on the lampstand in the room. After the lampshade was covered again, he went to the bedside and searched Fan Jianxi’s body.
Fan Jianxi was in his forties and had a mustache. It was hard to tell that he was not a good official from his appearance.
The room decorations were done very simply, even more so than the other rooms. There were even two chipped teacups on the table.
When Xue Yan was searching for Fan Jianxi, Jiang Yue looked around the room to see if there was anything out of place. She felt that there was something wrong with the room, but she couldn’t find out what it was yet. While she was looking around, Xue Yan had already found three keys from Fan Jianxi.
The key was in the innermost part of his clothes.
In the innermost part of his clothes, where it was close to his flesh, there was a pocket sewn. The key was placed inside, and his body could feel it. If it were lost, he would immediately notice it.
Now that Fan Jianxi was knocked out, he wouldn’t be able to notice the difference.
However, it was enough to show the importance of these three keys.
He continued to search Fan Jianxi’s body but found nothing else.