Chapter 34 Visit
Before Li Shiming could visit Gu Jia, on the morning of the third day, Mo Yan sent an invitation card to him.
Seeing the name of Royal Tributor Gu Jia on the invitation card, Li Shiming promptly ordered Steward Zhang to open the central gate wide and hurried out to greet his guest.
"I have seen Brother Daoist!" Indeed, standing outside the gate was the very Gu Jia who had stopped his carriage that day, bowing in salutation.
Gu Jia came alone, still wearing the same plain, blue Daoist robe as before.
As for how Gu Jia found this place, Li Shiming was not surprised at all. Gu Jia, who could mobilize royal resources, could easily find someone in Central Capital, not to mention within the whole of Great Xia.
"Mr. Li, we meet again!" Gu Jia said with a smile, nodding his head.
Li Shiming welcomed Gu Jia into the hall and dismissed everyone else.
"Mr. Li, the investigation of you has been passed, and both the reasons for your cultivation and your background are well-documented!" Gu Jia began by telling Li Shiming this news as soon as they sat down.
The intelligence system of Great Xia was more comprehensive than Li Shiming had imagined. Every major and minor incident that happened in Nanling Prefecture would be reported and collected in Central Capital.
Gu Jia accessed several months of intelligence from Nanling Prefecture and was able to cross-reference the events that occurred with Li Shiming’s account, verifying each detail one by one.
In particular, the ancestor of the Weiyuan Escort Agency was indeed a cultivator who returned to the secular world and left descendants, so it was not odd for the cultivation lineage to be passed down.
According to the intelligence, Chief Escort Wang of the Weiyuan Escort Agency had indeed been pursued by cultivators and had hidden in the garden of the Nanling Government Office, where Li Shiming fortunately obtained the hidden cultivation lineage.