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"Hey! Are you angry?" Leng Yixuan nudged Ouyang Tianyu with his elbow, his tone seemingly provocative.

"Let's get down to business. How's the investigation on that batch of government silver going?" Ouyang Tianyu didn't answer his pointless question and cut straight to the point. If he continued to chatter nonsense with Leng Yixuan, he would be driven crazy!

“But…” Leng Yixuan glanced at Shen Jie warily, then looked at Ouyang Tianyu with slight surprise. What was going on? Why would Tianyu speak so frankly about his identity in front of a stranger? And the other party was a woman?

"It's alright. She knows everything about me!" Ouyang Tianyu stated the fact calmly.

"Are you crazy? How could you tell her this?" Who exactly is she? Even Tianyu's parents and brothers don't know his identity, so how could she know everything?

"Hey, you sissy, don't look down on me." Shen Jie looked up from her food. Listen to that tone! What's wrong with her? How is she inferior to these young masters?

"Sissy? Who are you calling a sissy?" Leng Yixuan shouted, as if he had been greatly insulted. This wretched woman, how dare she speak to him like that!

"I'm talking to you, you sissy!" Shen Jie shouted back, trying to see who could yell louder. This damn sissy dared to yell at her, "I'm being lenient by not calling you a transvestite."

"A transvestite?" What's that? Is it a kind of monster? Ouyang Tianyu and Leng Yixuan looked at Shen Jie in confusion and asked at the same time.

"A ladyboy is someone whose upper body is a woman and whose lower body is a man," Shen Jie explained to them with "diligence." Seeing their nauseous expressions, she was secretly laughing her head off. "So, if someone as handsome as Young Master Leng were to become a ladyboy, many people would definitely come to see his 'beauty'."

Leng Yixuan was so angry that his face turned blue. He kept calling Shen Jie a witch, and if he hadn't been so celibate, he would have torn her to pieces long ago. Ouyang Tianyu couldn't help but burst into laughter at his friend's discomfiture. It was so funny. It was rare to see Leng Yixuan like this. He wondered what the Grand Commander would think if he saw his son like this.

"Have you laughed enough?" Young Master Leng grabbed a full glass of wine from the table and splashed it on Ouyang Tianyu's face. He was in a bad mood and really wanted to vent his anger on someone.

Ouyang Tianyu nimbly dodged the oncoming wine without spilling a single drop, and leisurely pointed to the spilled wine on the ground, saying, "You wasted a cup of fine Daughter's Red wine."

Damn it! Leng Yixuan glared at his friend, furious. That bastard Ouyang Tianyu was still making sarcastic remarks. He was determined to beat him to a pulp.

So the two of them started fighting, exchanging blows, while Shen Jie continued to sip her wine and eat her food, enjoying the live "martial arts movie"—it was truly spectacular. She knew this wasn't their first time "fighting each other," so she wasn't worried at all that they would actually hurt each other; she could just sit there and watch the show for free.

"Great, great. Tianyu, your movements just now were absolutely brilliant!" Shen Jie clapped her hands happily, applauding Ouyang Tianyu's smooth and flawless performance.

After exchanging forty or fifty moves, Ouyang Tianyu and Leng Yixuan sheathed their swords, smiled at each other, and returned to the table. Leng Yixuan poured two cups of wine, handing one to his friend and keeping the other for himself.

"Dry!"

"Dry!"

They clinked glasses and downed their drinks heartily. It seemed their friendship had deepened, and Shen Jie was truly happy for them.

"Alright, let's get down to business." Leng Yixuan sat down opposite Ouyang Tianyu. He no longer cared about Shen Jie beside him. Since his friend had revealed his true identity to her, it meant he completely trusted her, and he had no reason to doubt his friend's judgment. He knew that Ouyang Tianyu never did anything without being sure of success.

"Hmm, have you found out where the government silver went?" Ouyang Tianyu asked. He had just finished a case in Yangzhou a few days ago when he received a message from the Grand Commander via carrier pigeon, asking him to come to Xijing to investigate the case of the missing government silver with Leng Yixuan. He had only arrived here today.

"We haven't been able to find out where the official silver went, but we did hear something that you'll definitely find interesting," Leng Yixuan said mysteriously.

"What is it?" Why keep me in suspense? Just tell me directly!

"Lei Shuangxue, the second young lady of Lei Family Fort, is getting married." Leng Yixuan deliberately picked out the less important parts to talk about first, intentionally trying to whet people's appetites.

"What does this have to do with him?" Ouyang Tianyu thought to himself, without saying a word.

"She is going to marry into Green Jade Manor."

"What?" Could it be that he's being asked to marry? How could this be? Has his father gone mad? Is Lei Family Fort no different from a cult in the martial arts world? But why hasn't he received a letter from his father telling him to go back and get married yet?

"Why are you so agitated? I haven't finished speaking yet." Leng Yixuan smiled nonchalantly, knowing he would be interested in this matter. "Besides, it's not like I'm asking you to marry me!"

Huh? It's not asking him to marry? Thank goodness, Ouyang Tianyu finally breathed a sigh of relief. Then... "Could it be that my father is going to take another concubine?"

"What are you thinking? It's not your father, it's your older brother!" Leng Yixuan finally revealed the answer.

"Big brother?!" Ouyang Tianyu and Shen Jie exchanged a glance. What happened? "Are you mistaken? My big brother loves my sister-in-law very much. He wouldn't marry someone else only a year after she left." Ouyang Tianyu couldn't believe Leng Yixuan's words. He had once thought his big brother would never marry...

"A mistake? How could that be?" Leng Yixuan said seriously, "As far as I know, Lei Shuangxue looks a lot like your deceased sister-in-law. Your elder brother fell in love with her at first sight, which is why he decided to marry her. However, this matter has not yet been announced to the martial arts world."

"Really?" Is my brother really experiencing transference? "This news hasn't even spread yet, how do you know?"

"Wasn't I investigating the case of the missing official silver? I felt that Leijiabao was the most suspicious. I did some investigation in the vicinity of Leijiabao and overheard this story by chance." He remembered that it took him a long time to confirm it.

"Is the disappearance of government silver also related to Lei Family Fortress?"

"Yes, but it's still under investigation."

“Young Master Leng, if you want to get accurate first-hand information, you should go deep into the enemy's territory, instead of just ‘wandering around nearby’,” Shen Jie said with dissatisfaction, deliberately ignoring the matter concerning Ouyang Tianyun.

"You know about this too?" Leng Yixuan looked at Shen Jie in surprise. How could she know how to handle cases?

"Yixuan, don't underestimate her. Shen Jie is very capable," Ouyang Tianyu said from the side. He had already experienced her abilities firsthand; she was indeed very formidable.

“Hey! Don’t forget your identity, please call me ‘Miss’.” Shen Jie reminded him earnestly, which made Ouyang Tianyu and Leng Yixuan burst into laughter.

"Then, Miss Shen, what are your thoughts?"

Shen Jie beckoned to them, and the two immediately understood and came to her side. The three of them whispered among themselves in the room all afternoon, and a plan finally took shape…

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Chapter Eighteen

After three days of research and waiting, they finally got an opportunity to legitimately enter Lei Family Fort.

Early in the morning, Ouyang Tianyu and Leng Yixuan came to Shen Jie's room to make final arrangements for their plan to enter Lei Family Fort. Shen Jie had already changed into a set of coarse cloth clothes covered in patches.

"How is it?" She twirled around in front of the two young masters, showing them her "brand new" look.