The Killer's Cleansing Manual

Lin Shanjuan looked down at the clothes he was wearing, and then thought about the one thousand taels from Bai Shu...

After all, I borrowed a lot of money from others. Now that I have been seen, I will feel guilty if I don't do anything about it.

Hey, how come you feel guilty about lending someone a little money?

She thought about it over and over but still couldn't stand the torture of guilt. Just as she was about to go in, she suddenly caught a glimpse of a cleaning boy coming over with a broom.

The two looked at each other, and before the servant could shout out, Lin Shanjuan had already landed lightly in the inner courtyard.

She slapped the cleaning boy unconscious, thought for a while, took off his coat, covered her face with a piece of cloth, and returned to the room where she had just eavesdropped.

The two people in the room had already stood up and said goodbye to each other. As they were saying farewell, Lin Shanjuan didn't consider himself an outsider and jumped straight into the room through the window, which really scared all three of them.

The person on the left reacted the fastest. Just as he was about to shout "Help come here", Lin Shanjuan quickly grabbed all the pastries on the table and stuffed them into his mouth.

The adult was choked and rolled his eyes, and the madam was knocked unconscious almost at the same time, leaving only the man sitting on the right trembling.

"You...who are you!"

Lin Shanjuan looked at him with contempt, and without warning, he raised his foot and kicked the man in the crotch.

She kicked him without any restraint, and the pain made the adult lose his voice. He fell to the ground, covering his lower body, and could not even scream.

Lin Shanjuan took the secret letter that "cannot be known to outsiders" and left the room. As he walked, he took off the cleaning boy's coat and threw it on the ground along with the mask. Then he quickly went to the lobby to find Bai Shu, who was tense all over.

She quickly passed by Bai Shu and patted his shoulder gently. Seeing that it was her, Bai Shu quickly followed.

Yue Liu on the roof had not yet recovered from the shock of her subduing three people in just a few breaths, when she saw her escape operation so smoothly.

She glanced at the two officials below, memorized their appearance, and followed Lin Shanjuan again.

As soon as the three of them left Shanwufang, they were surrounded by guys holding sticks. It was extremely dangerous.

Bai Shu followed Lin Shanjuan all the way to the inn where they were staying. After closing the door, he asked in a low voice.

"Boss, did that girl see that you were a girl and kick you out, so you ran so fast?"

Lin Shanjuan, who had just taken out the secret letter and had a lot of secrets to tell, said:

Unable to bear it any longer, she hit Bai Shu on the head with a secret letter: "Is your mind full of dancing girls? I ran away because I took someone else's things. I should have left you there!"

Bai Shu held his head and groaned, and only when Lin Shanjuan sat down did he go over to him.

"What's written on it?"

He was so eager to poke his head around that Lin Shanjuan simply unfolded the secret letter and showed it to him: "How about you come and see it?"

Bai Shu refused embarrassedly: "I...ah, I haven't read much."

Lin Shanjuan smiled slightly and took it back to read again. Bai Shu's head moved closer again, almost replacing Lin Shanjuan's own head.

"Boss, what's written on this?"

Lin Shanjuan gave a forced smile: "It says on it - the person reading this is a puppy."

Bai Shu was stunned and retreated with a pout. Lin Shanjuan glared at him and he suppressed his grievance.

There were only a few words in the letter.

[Things are pressing in the capital, so salt transportation is temporarily suspended. We will resume operations when things ease up. Please be cautious.]

Lin Shanjuan focused on the word "salt". Could it be that the salt in this dynasty was also in the hands of the state and distributed uniformly?

Since this letter was kept so secretly, could it be that these people were also involved in smuggling salt?

If this is true, wouldn't her secret letter become someone's handle, a hot potato?

These three questions stumped her. Bai Shu couldn't bear to see her lost in thought, so he got anxious and leaned over again, "Boss, what are you thinking about?"

Lin Shanjuan gave him the letter. There were no complicated words in it, so he just let him read it himself.

As a genuine ancient person, Bai Shu naturally couldn't see any tricks.

"What does this mean? Who's asking who to buy salt?"

Lin Shanjuan no longer wanted to say anything more to this simple-minded tree root, so he stood up and said:

"We have to leave now. I stole this from an official. He's probably going to put the city gates under martial law soon. If I try to leave then, I'll definitely be investigated."

The best option is to leave the city quickly before he can react.

Although Bai Shu was confused by what he heard, he was obedient and immediately jumped on his horse and left the city.

Yueliu wrote down everything that happened in the evening, sent a pigeon to send the letter to Xihe, and then mounted his horse to catch up.

The three horses ran eastward after leaving the city gate. They ran for three hours until they were exhausted and stopped in a forest to rest.

Bai Shu tied the horse to a tree, went to a nearby stream and caught two fish to roast. When he returned to the cart, Lin Shanjuan had already lit a fire and started roasting them.

The spring night was still a bit chilly. Seeing this, Bai Shu happily leaned over and said, "Boss, you really know a lot. It's just right for us to grill the fish."

Lin Shanjuan took it over, and the two of them each held a small stick and turned it around on the fire. Bai Shu was just waiting to eat, but Lin Shanjuan had an idea.

If this matter is related to the eldest princess, she might be able to remind her, and also try to get close to her, cultivate her favorability, and be a close sister or a caring confidant, so as to complete the task and leave here as soon as possible.

But with Bai Shu's "femme fatale story" in mind, she was worried that the palace was full of dangers and she would go in upright and come out sideways.

Moreover, it was a secret letter without even an official seal, so no one knew who wrote it. Even if Xihe was willing to see her, this line of words would probably not have any effect.

It would be better for her to follow the clues, resolve the matter, and give it to her as a gift. Maybe they can get closer then!

Having made up her mind, she grabbed Bai Shu, who was reading the secret letter from head to toe, and said, "How about we just sort this out?"

Bai Shu had just vaguely noticed something, but was frightened by her words!

"Boss! You...you are so brave! You said you stole it from an official. But there are only two of us. We will be caught and killed before we can even sneak into the mansion!"

Lin Shan rubbed his lips wearily as he pondered a countermeasure: "What you said makes sense, and we've already come this far. Going back now would be like walking into a trap. We can't target the officials."

Bai Shu had been nodding in agreement with the first half of her words, but when he heard the second half, which suggested attacking from another direction, he quickly caught her:

"Boss, stop! This is not something we can handle. At most, we can deliver this secret letter to the palace. You, you want to find out the mastermind just by the two of us? This is just a joke..."

Lin Shanjuan took a deep breath and looked at him: "What can these two lines of words really prove? Even if they were sent to the palace, they wouldn't be very convincing."

Bai Shu suddenly looked around, his expression cautious and serious. Lin Shanjuan looked at him in confusion as he took out the piece of straw paper and passed it over the firelight twice, and suddenly several lines of brown words appeared!

"You're really good, kid!" Lin Shanjuan patted Bai Shu's shoulder, "You can even find this?"

Bai Shu felt a little embarrassed by the compliment: "Oh, it's just a little trick. I just don't recognize this word. Boss, take a look!"

Lin Shanjuan held it in his hand. There was only a simple place name written on it, a password, and a distorted mark.

[Hewang Mountain, Xiongfeng Stronghold. 100,000 jin of salt. Trading password: "Once you have the world."]

The mark looked very much like a snake, but when Lin Shanjuan looked at it for a second time, she thought it looked like a word. She couldn't remember what it was exactly.

Bai Shu was so shocked after reading it: "One hundred thousand jin?! Oh my god! That's enough to buy the entire Jingguo!"

Lin Shanjuan looked at his miserly appearance with amusement: "How many of you can I buy then? Tell me about it."

Bai Shu listed his price as extremely low: "If you want to buy me, you can buy a hundred or eighty of me for a penny."

Lin Shanjuan smiled and patted the back of his head, having already made up his mind.

"Rest for a while first. Tomorrow morning, we will ride directly to Xiongfeng Village."

Bai Shu agreed and stood up, almost hurting his back halfway through. "Where are we going???"

Didn’t you just say that if there is credible evidence, it should be sent to the palace?

Lin Shanjuan was receiving a letter: "Xiongfeng Village, what kind of spell did I say that you don't understand?"

Bai Shu was so upset that he wanted to cry - why did this ancestor insist on going to the meeting alone!

He is at most a scabbard and can't help in any way. Why does he have to get involved in this mess?

But he dared not say anything, so he swallowed his anger and went to find a flat place. He spread out the monk's robe that he was reluctant to throw away and made a temporary bed for Lin Shanjuan.

Yue Liu was also shocked by Lin Shanjuan's decision - although this was an unexpected gain, how could this man dare to go to the tiger's den alone with only a straw bag?

After thinking for a moment, she hurriedly wrote another letter. While Lin Shanjuan and Bai Shu were riding away, she stuffed the secret letter into the pigeon's mailbox and released it. Then she leaned against a tree branch to rest.

Early the next morning, Lin Shanjuan was awakened by the chirping of insects.

She rubbed her eyes, sat up and turned on the camera. Everything that happened yesterday began to play at double speed like a movie.

This is her habit.

Bai Shu rolled over and hit his head against a rock. He cried out in pain and sat up, groaning and holding his head. He turned to Lin Shanjuan and said, "Boss, are we leaving now?"

Lin Shanjuan slowly opened his eyes and shook his head thoughtfully: "We can leave, but there's no rush."

Bai Shu: “Ah?”

Lin Shanjuan had already stood up, patted the grass leaves on his body, stretched, and climbed onto the horse.

Bai Shu hurriedly caught up with him. The two walked at a moderate pace, asking questions in front of villages and farmers along the way. Lin Shanjuan even got a breakfast thanks to his "pretty boy" looks.

As for Bai Shu, even when he spent money to buy a rope and a hatchet, people were still hesitant and didn't want to sell them to him.

Bai Shu gritted his teeth in grievance.

After learning that there was only one way to Xiongfeng Village on Hewang Mountain, Lin Shanjuan simply stopped, asked Bai Shu to hide the horse, and then chose a river beach to guard, as if waiting for something.

Bai Shu was tired of being bitten by mosquitoes, and after giving himself a big slap in the face for nothing, he couldn't help but ask:

"Boss, aren't we planning a surprise attack? Why aren't you heading to Xiongfeng Village? What are you doing hanging around here? I'm afraid the county magistrate's men will be searching here soon!"

Lin Shanjuan smiled meaningfully, "No, since he's secretly reselling, he definitely wouldn't openly interact with a transit station like this. But we do have to wait for his men to come."

Bai Shu was even more confused and scratched his head, saying, "What's a transit station? Why are we waiting for his men?"

Lin Shanjuan was quite patient. He picked up a blade of grass and chewed it in his mouth, then explained his theory to him.

"I stole the secret letter. He knew exactly what was inside and the amount. If he was smarter, he would have guessed we were going to buy salt under his name."

"So he most likely sent someone to Xiongfeng Village to deliver a letter saying that the secret letter was lost. We just happened to borrow his letter to give ourselves an identity. Otherwise, how could we deceive others?"

Bai Shu suddenly realized: "Boss, your brain is really amazing. You can even come up with such an idea!"