Chapter 65: Alert Beauty

The old shopkeeper was still keeping his head down and recording the bills. He only glanced at his hands on the counter and answered without raising his head.
"The sun rises in the east and the rain falls in the west. All the upper rooms are booked today. Would you like to consider the northern wing?"

"The north wind is howling and the wild geese are flying. Shopkeeper, please help me take another look. I only live in the upper room."

When the two of them met, the old shopkeeper finally raised his head, glanced at Mo Juren, and then answered,

"Okay, okay, let me check it out first."

After saying that, he picked up an account book from under the counter and checked it carefully.

These few sentences of response were actually the secret codes used by the Jingjiao Society to contact each other secretly. Mo Juren was very pleased that these codes remained unchanged after so many years.

The three fingers of his left hand clicked twice, and the three fingers were facing east. In fact, it corresponded to a set of highly authorized secret commands. After the old shopkeeper found the corresponding hidden commands from the account, he looked up with a little surprise and asked,

"Sir, do you really want to book these upper rooms?"

Perhaps because he saw that the visitor was only a teenager of sixteen or seventeen years old, but he directly gave a secret order of the highest level that could only be handled by the highest leader of the Dark Rudder, he couldn't help but ask another question.

Mo Juren smiled slightly and inadvertently touched a ring that he had already worn on his right ring finger. The dragon-shaped mark on it was both rare and unique.

In the Jingjiao Society, this dragon-patterned ring is an identity mark that can only be worn by high-ranking officials above the helmsman.

The old shopkeeper took a glance, and his pupils shrank involuntarily. He immediately said respectfully to Mo Juren,
"Sir, please sit in the lobby for a while while I go inside to confirm something."

Then he left in a hurry.

Mo Juren found a table by the window in the lobby and admired the scenery on the river while relaxing his five senses and listening to the movements around him.

After a while, the sound of a carrier pigeon flapping its wings was heard in the backyard; then someone opened the dog hole in the backyard and threw a package out.

The beggar on the roadside hurriedly picked it up, took out the food inside and started eating it on the street, and threw the oil paper wrapping the food to a follower.

The follower picked up the oil paper, walked to the other side of the street, and threw it into a small courtyard.

After a while, a government horse rushed out quickly, making the sound of clattering hooves, and galloped out of the ferry.

Hearing these noises coming one by one as expected, Mo Juren nodded with satisfaction, picked up the tea brought by the waiter and drank it all in one gulp.

It’s like a child taking out a toy that he hasn’t played with for a long time and seeing that it can still run smoothly. That feeling of happiness and contentment is just like this moment.

The old shopkeeper had been paying attention to Mo Juren who was sitting in the hall and waiting silently, until it was almost night, when several horses came galloping from outside and stopped in the backyard of the inn.

Just as the person sent by the superiors was about to enter the lobby, in the blink of an eye, the old shopkeeper discovered that Mo Juren, who had been sitting by the window, had suddenly disappeared.

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Of course, Mo Juren would not leave directly with the people from the Dark Rudder Sect who came to support him.

The reason why he used the inn as an information outlet to send out the highest secret order was actually just to mobilize the secret rudder thoroughly and ensure that the Fifth Madam could return to Changping Town.

As the supreme controller of Dark Rudder, I believe she would also be very curious about who triggered this secret order that has been rarely seen in many years, just in time for Mo Juren to give her a surprise.

After leaving the inn, under the cover of the gradually darkening sky, Mo Juren quickly changed his appearance in a secluded place, put on Mo Juren's mask, and changed into the white tight-fitting robe that he often wore in his early years. With a sudden change of appearance, the leader of the Jingjiao Society, who used to dominate Lanzhou and control the entire Jiayuan City, returned again.

With the help of the Wind Controlling Technique, Mo Juren ran more than ten miles at a speed faster than a horse and arrived at a secret manor on the outskirts of Changping Town.

From the outside, the manor looks like just dozens of ordinary houses put together, but in fact, there is a different world inside. It is the headquarters of the Jingjiao Society.

Mo Juren floated gently from the roof into the inner courtyard, and skillfully avoided the patrol team in the manor.

Although some of the secret sentry positions that he had personally arranged in the past had been changed, he avoided them one by one and easily sneaked into the back of the meeting hall.

Behind the main hall, there are only two ordinary rooms, but they are where the leader of the Dark Rudder lives.

Mo Juren sneaked into the main room and saw that the furnishings were simple and the layout was ordinary. There were various utensils and clothes, and the colors were mainly plain.

If it weren't for the makeup boxes, dressing tables, bathtubs, screens and other items commonly used by women, it would be hard to imagine that this was a woman's boudoir.

Mo Juren walked gently to the bed, picked up a corner of the quilt, and sniffed it. A faint feminine fragrance came. It had been more than ten years, and although the smell was not familiar, it seemed to evoke some memories in him.

So he sat cross-legged on the bed, practicing his skills silently, while secretly waiting for his beloved's return.

In the dark rudder meeting hall.

Bad news was brought back from Changping Ferry. The mysterious man who delivered the heavenly secret order disappeared out of thin air!

This incident caused a stir among the top leaders of An Du. Is this person a friend or an enemy? Is he trying to alert the enemy or put his own people in danger? It is hard to predict his true intentions.

In the tense and confusing atmosphere, no one could come to any conclusion, so the final decision had to be made by the Fifth Lady, the leader of the Dark Rudder.

She decisively formulated a series of countermeasures, and as the instructions were passed down, the people in the dark helm were quickly mobilized and went out to perform their duties.

Even the security in the manor has been upgraded several levels since then, making it watertight to the outside world.

What they didn't know was that Mo Juren had actually been lurking among them for a long time.

At midnight, the people who had been busy for a long time gradually dispersed. The Fifth Lady, accompanied by a maid, walked into the backyard with light steps.

The maid walked forward, opened the door of the main house, and stepped aside to let her master in.

After the door opened, a beautiful woman in her twenties was seen standing outside.

She had a slender figure and pretty face, but her face was as pale as frost, without any emotion visible. Only the cold light flashing in her beautiful eyes showed her outstanding martial arts skills.

This is Mo Juren’s fifth wife, Wang He. She is now the Lord of the Dark Rudder, but she is only wearing an ordinary martial arts uniform of the same style as a maid. Only a dark blue cloak on the outside shows her noble status.

She stepped in, first glanced inside the room, then paused for a moment, then said to the maid as if nothing had happened,

"Qiao'er, go to the kitchen and find 'Master Ding' and ask him to make a pot of ginseng tea. Go ahead!"

The maid was stunned when she heard this, then she answered yes and left with her head down.

There is no Chef Ding in the kitchen at all, only a deputy captain named Ding. The Fifth Madam must have discovered something and is asking her to call for help!
(End of this chapter)