He Zhiran and Mo Jiuye changed into their night clothes separately, and left the tent.
Without any clear target, Mo Jiuye hugged He Zhiran by the waist using Qinggong to shuttle around randomly.
After a long time, their eyes were focused on a brightly lit painted boat on the lake surface.
From afar, the sound of singing and dancing on the painted boat could still be heard.
The painted boat slowly traveled on the lake, estimated to be at least a thousand meters away from the shore.
In order to determine if the adults they were curious about were on the ship, He Zhiran decisively bought a night vision telescope.
It had to be said that technological products like night vision telescopes were really overbearing.
He Zhiran just randomly looked around for a while, and her gaze stayed on the central location on the second floor of the painted boat, where two men were sitting.
One of them looked to be in his early thirties, with fair skin, upturned eyebrows, and gave off the first impression of being a little mean.
Judging from his luxurious clothing, this person was most likely the "important person" the dock foreman had mentioned.
This person was holding a scantily clad woman in his arms, holding a wine glass, and his eyes were still lecherously staring at those dancing maids.
While the man sitting on the other side had a full beard, a thin figure, and his hair seemed to be deliberately draped over both sides to cover half of his face.
Under the telescope, He Zhiran basically couldn't see the appearance of this person at all.
These two were very unfamiliar to He Zhiran.
Mo Jiuye looked at the thing in her hand and asked, "What is this?"
He Zhiran directly handed the telescope over to him.
"Aim it at here, try it yourself."
She felt that actual practice was more convenient than her explaining, and it would also let Mo Jiuye see if he was familiar with those two people.
He Zhiran stared at Mo Jiuye closely, and saw his originally relaxed eyebrows instantly turn into a crease.
From Mo Jiuye's expression, it wasn't difficult to see that he must recognize those two men, or at least recognize one of them.
She eagerly asked,
"Who are they?"
Mo Jiuye didn't answer immediately, but continued to watch for a while before retrieving the telescope.
"It's Nan Heng."
"Nan Heng?"
He Zhiran continued to ask, "Do you recognize the other one?"
Mo Jiuye frowned, "Seeing the figure, it looks familiar, but I don't dare to confirm it now."
He Zhiran surveyed around, and said softly, "Why don't we go check on the painted boat."
Even if she didn't say it, Mo Jiuye also had this intention.
Not to mention whether Nan Heng was related to the Salt Gang, just based on the point that he had sent so many assassins to assassinate himself, Mo Jiuye didn’t plan on easily letting him off.
And the bearded man, although he hadn't seen his appearance clearly, he felt a sense of familiarity in his heart for some unknown reason.
No matter what, he would have to take the risk and find out what's going on on that painted boat today.
"There are Nan Heng’s guards all around the painted boat, I’ll swim over alone to check things out, you can just wait here for me."
He Zhiran knew that Mo Jiuye was worried about her safety, however, waiting safely here was not her style at all.
"You take me along, we’ll buy a rubber dinghy on Taobao and row over there, then we can take action as the opportunity arises. And in case those people find us, with me there, I can still bring you into space to hide temporarily. Besides, as you know clearly, I can take out some good stuff here anytime to deal with emergencies."
Through understanding over this period of time, Mo Jiuye also knew her temperament. Whatever she wanted to do, he simply couldn’t stop it.
"You must follow me closely and cannot leave my side.”
"Don’t worry!”
As the two spoke, they had already reached the lakeside.
He Zhiran carefully checked the surrounding movement again, and feeling that there was no abnormality, her consciousness swiftly entered the space and bought an inflatable rubber dinghy.
In order for the dinghy to not be noticed by people in the salt lake, she specifically selected a dark night black color.
He Zhiran quickly inflated the dinghy with an air pump, and then placed it into the lake.
Mo Jiuye held her hand and boarded it together.
In order not to startle the snake in the grass, the two didn’t dare to row too hard, for fear of raising splashes that would expose them.
When the distance to the painted boat was about a hundred meters, Mo Jiuye picked up the telescope again to check.
Then he handed the telescope to He Zhiran.
After He Zhiran took a look, she whispered, "Are you going to shoot and kill the nearest few guards and board this ship from here?"
Mo Jiuye nodded, "On the stern where we can see, there are a total of six people guarding, relatively sparse compared to other positions.”
"Okay, I'll take the three on the left."
As He Zhiran spoke, she raised her arm at the same time as Mo Jiuye in tacit understanding, as the dinghy gradually approached the painted boat. The mini crossbow arrows had already aimed at the center of two guards' eyebrows.
It had to be said, the cooperation between the two was extremely tacit, with every arrow hitting its target.
In just an instant, after a few arrows were shot out, the six guards that could clearly be seen with the naked eye fell to the ground.
Without a doubt, Mo Jiuye hugged He Zhiran by the waist and directly leapt onto the deck using Qinggong, while at the same time, He Zhiran also put away the dinghy into the space.
On the deck, the six guards had completely lost their voice.
Looking ahead, there were also guards on patrol duty, and not only that, a group of on-duty guards had just passed by here.
He Zhiran whispered a suggestion, "For convenience, let's change into the guards' clothes."
Mo Jiuye nodded, first stripped off the clothes of a slightly smaller guard and threw them to He Zhiran, then found a guard uniform similar to his own stature and put them on.
Just as the two tidied up, a team of patrolling guards came straight towards their faces.
The guards saw that there were only two people here and asked, "Where are your other men?"
Mo Jiuye calmly replied, "They ate something bad and all have upset stomachs, so they went to the toilet."
The guards did not doubt much further and routinely passed them to continue patrolling.
Seeing those guards walk away, Mo Jiuye and He Zhiran went one after the other up the stairs leading to the second floor of the painted boat.
In comparison, the second floor was much livelier, with not only guards on duty, but also many people dressed in ordinary civilian clothes sitting at small tables drinking and playing dice.
Mo Jiuye judged that these people dressed in ordinary civilian clothes should all be members of the Salt Gang.
So obviously, even if Nan Heng was not the real person behind the Salt Gang, he was also inextricably linked with them.
Moreover, judging from the behaviour of those Salt Gang members, Nan Heng was very familiar with them.
Mo Jiuye observed for a while, then directly took He Zhiran and leapt onto the top of the painted boat.
He found a position close to Nan Heng and poked a small hole in the ceiling to look down.
Just then, they saw a small boat drifting over not far from the painted boat.
In the moonlight they could see someone standing with hands behind their back at the bow, judging by the figure, it seemed to be a woman.
Soon guards came to report,
"Reporting to Prince Heng, the Imperial Tutor has arrived."
Nan Heng pushed away the woman in his arms to the side, got up to tidy his clothes of creases.
"Take this prince to personally welcome her."
