The two of them changed into different outfits, applied simple makeup, and put on masks before driving the carriage at a leisurely pace all over the city to collect their gold and all the items they had ordered that morning.
Sure enough, as soon as they finished loading everything and headed out of the city, the people tailing them grew increasingly obvious. Out of the six money shops where they had collected gold, four had sent people to follow them.
Li Lianhua tied up all fifteen pursuers and began interrogating them. Upon confirming that out of the four families who sent trackers, three were utterly lawless while the fourth was motivated purely by curiosity, Li Lianhua decisively knocked everyone unconscious. Watching Yun Qingyun store all the belongings away, he tossed the heap of sprawling, disorderly bodies into the carriage, and then boldly re-entered the city.
Chapter 36