Gu Jinli: "Hmm?"
Qin San Lang explained: "In Great Chu, there are only two kinds of people who wear tall military leather boots: one is those in the military, and the other is the Shadow Guards."
The so-called Shadow Guards are guards who lurk in the shadows to protect their masters.
"The pair of leather boots were covered in mud, obviously freshly worn. Elder Mi, being a hunchbacked poor old man, couldn't possibly wear such boots for work." Qin San Lang looked at Gu Jinli and asked, "Did his son really die of illness? Or could it have been a feigned death?"
Faking death to join the Shadow Guards as a spy is not a new thing in the Capital.
But in this remote and impoverished area, it's something novel.
"The Mi family is not simple. You'd better not ask him to check on the manor just yet. Wait until I've looked into it," Qin San Lang said worriedly, not wanting Gu Jinli to get too close to the Mi family before finding out more about them, for fear of her being in danger.
