Chapter Thirty-One: Clues Below

  Ao Yuan looked at her and smiled: "How are you so sure I have something to say?"

  "If I still can't see it, then I won't go out to collect things anymore." Xiaoyan suddenly stood up and started collecting things, "What?"

  "My old friend said she had a clue, and would bring it over tomorrow to give to you." Ao Yuan helped her carry the things to the kitchen, and after hearing this, Xia Yunfei looked at him strangely and asked: "How did you get in touch with him?"

  "I didn't contact her, she found me." Ao Yuan said slowly, as if thinking about how to explain the whole thing clearly. "This person... isn't an ordinary person."

  Xia Yanfei wiped his hands while seemingly perfunctorily responding: "I suspect whether she's human or not is still hard to say."

  "Don't say that in front of her, although I don't know if she'll take it to heart. But she's not like you, her ability to hold grudges is probably on par with your ability to deceive people... Can you please just keep quiet and not make a move?" Ao Yuan quickly dodged out of the way, knowing that Xiaoyan's slap would leave his face swollen for at least a day or two.

  "Who's deceiving people? I call that reasonable exaggeration." Xia Yu Fei thought to herself that she should have a good chat with Ao Yuan, "By the way, the thing Zhang Xuan gave me, I just took a look at it in the study. Just one sentence, 'Jade rises from water'."

  "Jade rises from water......" Ao Yuan savored these four words carefully, "Could it be the East Sea?"

  "Huh?" Xiaoyan didn't quite catch what he said, so she handed him a cup of tea and asked, "What did you just say?"

  "Jade comes from water, and dragon jade was originally a thing in the East China Sea." Ao Yuan explained to her, "Are you going to dive into the sea this time?"

  "It's uncertain." Xiaoyan looked at the printed picture and studied it, "Zhang Xuan said he originally planned to go to that sea fight, it was a ship. When he found me at that time, I was lazy and didn't go, now thinking carefully, it seems a bit suspicious."

  "What's wrong?"

  "Yes, Zhang Xuan said that the boat was originally discovered by local fishermen who went out to sea and only one came back alive. Zhang Xuan is knowledgeable about Gu poison and he said that based on the description, it's definitely a Gu. There have been legends about this in the local area for a long time." Xia Yunfei took out a packet of Chinese medicine from her bag and began to brew it, she had been accustomed to taking Chinese medicine since she was young and had started drinking it again after returning home. Ao Yuan crossed his arms and looked at her, "Are you planning on going?"

  "It's better to go and take a look, after all it's better than nothing." She rummaged out a leather-bound notebook, where she usually kept her contacts, her phone's address book was almost empty. "Get me paper and pen."

  Ao Yuan helped her dig out a relatively clean piece of paper from the messy pile on the coffee table, and saw her flipping through a book while writing several names on the paper. However, after thinking for a moment, she crossed out half of them: "What are you doing?"

  "Jalama." She didn't even lift her head. "After this incident, I have to consider who can be trusted and who cannot."

  Ao Yuan watched her busy on one side, thinking of the few lines on the note in his pocket.

  Old friend from afar, seeing your words is like seeing your face.

  It's been years since we last met, and I heard that you've finally got your divorce. Tomorrow, I'll definitely bring the gift I've been looking for to congratulate you.

  Those words are as elegant and powerful as the killings and decisions made on the battlefield, written with such great penmanship that I have only known one person who can do it so far.

  He whispered to himself, but the smile and nostalgia in his words couldn't be hidden: "After parting for many years, I wonder if my good friend is still safe."