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244 Commander’s Seal and Emperor’s Order

The commoners discussed softly as they lined up to leave the city.

“Why are you suddenly investigating the people who are leaving the city? Did something happen?”

“Don’t you know? Last night, a thief entered the Prefectural Governor’s Mansion and lost something. The county governor’s wife was very angry. She sent someone to keep an eye on the city gate at dawn today. Everyone who leaves the city has to be interrogated. It seems that she has to catch that thief!”

“Which thief is so bold to sneak into the County Governor’s Mansion to steal something?”

“I heard there were three thieves, a man and two women. Look, there’s a portrait of them beside the city gate!”

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The chatter of the commoners entered the carriage.

Yu Niaoniao knew what was going on. Catching the thieves was a fabricated excuse to nab the three of them.

She said to Shen Xu,”We’re counting on you later. Don’t let them find out about us.”

Shen Xu tidied his clothes and puffed out his chest proudly. “Just wait!”

As an outstanding playboy, pestering and bullying others was his specialty!

The team advanced bit by bit. When Prince Min’s carriage reached the front, the officials asked everyone in the carriage to get out. They wanted to interrogate them one by one.

Shen Xu pushed open the car window and looked down at the soldiers.

“Who do you think you are? How dare you ask me to get out of the carriage? Do you believe that I’ll strip you of your positions now?!”

Only then did the soldiers notice the emblem of Prince Min’s Mansion on the carriage. They immediately hunched their shoulders in fear and did not dare to retort.

Shen Xu scolded angrily, “What are you standing there for? Get lost. I’m leaving the city!”

One of the soldiers mustered his courage and said.

“But the county governor’s wife instructed us to interrogate everyone who leaves the city…”

Shen Xu seemed to have heard a funny joke and laughed bluntly.

“Not to mention the county governor’s wife, even if Lu Yaoguang himself came, he would have to be polite to me. This is my father’s fief. From now on, I’m the owner of this place. Don’t you know whom you should listen to?”

The officers looked at each other, not knowing what to do.

Be it the county governor’s wife or the heir, they did not dare to offend them.

Shen Xu’s face darkened. “You asked for this!”

He instructed the coachman, “Charge out directly. Whoever dares to stop me will be unlucky. I won’t pay for anything!”

With that, he slammed the window shut.

The coachman flicked his whip and urged the carriage forward.

The soldiers who were originally blocking the middle of the road were frightened out of their wits and hurriedly hid to the side.

The carriage raced past them and straight out of the city gate.

The soldiers complained in their hearts. They blamed themselves for not looking at the almanac when they went out today. They had actually encountered such an unreasonable person.

Due to Shen Xu’s attitude, no one dared to chase after him. They could only watch as the carriage quickly left.

In the carriage, Shen Xu shook his head. “Wasn’t my performance just now great?”

Yu Niaoniao praised sincerely.

“That was a good performance. Don’t do it again, or you might get beaten to death.”

Shen Xu was speechless.

Xingning was very close to Xiangtai. It took only half a day for the carriage to reach Xiangtai.

As the base of the Eastern Expedition Army, most of the people living here were military families. Dang Gui had lived here for many years and was familiar with everything.

She was too concerned about her father’s safety to reminisce about the past and located the bank as quickly as possible.

Yu Niaoniao helped her into the bank. Immediately, a clerk came forward and asked if they wanted to save or withdraw money.

Dang Gui’s head was still wrapped in thick gauze. Her face was pale and she sounded short of breath.

“I saved something here three years ago. I want to take it out.”

The clerk asked, “Can you show me the deposit slip?”

‘The deposit slip was destroyed when I was being hunted,’ she said weakly.

“I lost the deposit slip.”

The clerk asked again, “Then do you remember your secret order?”

When a bank deposited something, they would leave a string of secret orders for the client. As long as the client could write the right secret order and have the same handwriting, they could take it out without a deposit slip.

Dang Gui nodded. “I remember.”

“Please follow me.”

The clerk led them to the second floor and invited them to sit down. Then he took out a pen and paper and asked Dang Gui to write her name, time of deposit, and secret order.

Dang Gui quickly finished writing.

The clerk took the list into the storeroom to search. It was a long time before he returned.

He placed a square box on the table.

“Take a look. Is this what you saved?”

Yu Niaoniao helped open the box and took out a heavy five-colored pottery horse.

She could not help but look at Dang Gui for directions.

...

Didn’t they say the Commander’s Seal and Emperor’s Order? Why had they become a decoration?

Dang Gui nodded. “It’s this thing.”

The clerk placed a list in front of Dang Gui.

“Please sign here.”

Dang Gui signed her name and left the bank with Yu Niaoniao.

They returned to the carriage.

Shen Xu was also surprised to see the pottery horse ornament they brought back.

“Is this the Commander’s Seal and Emperor’s Order you’re talking about? Are you kidding me?”

Dang Gui said weakly, “Smash it open. The things are hidden inside.”

Shen Xu immediately found a small hammer specially used to smash walnuts and said to them.

“Stay away.”

...

Yu Niaoniao and Dang Gui moved back and used soft pillows to shield themselves from the flying debris.

Shen Xu waved his small hammer and knocked on the pottery horse.

When the pottery horse was broken into pieces, the Commander’s Seal and Emperor’s Order were revealed.

Yu Niaoniao picked up the Commander’s Seal and Emperor’s Order and wiped them clean with a handkerchief.

Shen Xu was very curious. “How did you think of hiding them in the pottery horse?”

Dang Gui said, “It was on a whim. I saw someone doing pottery, so I spent some money and made a pottery horse ornament myself. In the process, I hid the items inside. This way, as long as the pottery horse did not shatter, no one would know about the Commander’s Seal and the Emperor’s Order.”

And she had paid a high price to keep the pottery horse in the bank. No one would touch it.

Shen Xu clicked his tongue. “As expected of the daughter of a tiger. She’s smart!”

Yu Niaoniao said, “Now that we have the Commander’s Seal and the Emperor’s Order, the plan is half completed. Next, we had to find some people to sneak into the camp.”

There were 100,000 troops in the Eastern Expedition Army. Du Tao could only control the generals above. There were so many soldiers at the bottom and he definitely could not control them all.

We have to find a way to rope these low-level soldiers in and get them on our side.

“With the troops, the Commander’s Seal, and the Emperor’s Order, we’ll definitely win this game.”

Dang Gui thought for a moment and had an idea.

“I’ll take you to someone. He might be able to help us.”