Chapter 266 - 210, Sell official positions, Buy official positions
Who was surveilling him? It wasn’t Wang Gui nor Mrs. Liang.
In this era, raising homing pigeons was no easy task; it required extremely professional training starting from when the pigeons were young, with the training objectives progressing from simple to complex, from nearby to distant, from daytime to nighttime.
Only forces with tight organization and abundant manpower, material resources, and financial power could own homing pigeons; it was beyond what Wang Gui and Mrs. Liang could achieve.
Was Bai Long surveilling him? Impossible, as this surveillance had started several years ago, at which time Bai Long had no idea who he was.
That left only two possibilities, one being his high-ranking uncle in the Jing Dynasty, and the other his missing biological mother.
As for the person who manipulated the Taotie last night...
Chen Ji stood inside the house, watching Xiao Man bustling about outside. Barely having placed the kettle on the stove, she took advantage of the water heating to sweep the yard’s dust and fallen leaves into one spot.
Chen Ji asked softly, "Wu Yun, do you think she looks like an executive officer?"
Wu Yun meowed, "No... do you believe she’s an executive officer, or believe I’m an Immortal?"
"That’s true," Chen Ji mused to himself, "Would a dignified executive officer willingly perform menial tasks?"
From the right ear room, the sound of the kettle steaming came, and Xiao Man, swift as the wind, dashed back into the ear room and brought out a basin of warm water, "Young Master, time to wash up! I’ll tidy up your hair in a bit, as we have to attend the promotion banquet at Zhang Mansion this noon!"