“What kind of way?” Sang Hong quickly asked.

“I’m not sure yet.” Zu An said in a low voice. “I need to make a trip right now.”

“Alright. I will stay here to oversee this place, or else those Cloudcenter Commandery people might come here and find out that something happened to Zuo Su.” Sang Hong harrumphed. “I want to see for myself who will immediately rush over now that Zuo Su has died.”

Even though he had given the order that no one who knew what happened was allowed to leave the official residence, that obviously didn’t include Zu An.

“I’ve troubled respected uncle.” Zu An cupped his hands, then secretly left through the back door. He made sure to shake off anyone trying to tail him as usual, then headed to the Civil Affairs Manor.

The Civil Affairs Manor had no leader, so it was quite the mess. Fortunately, Xu Yu was there to watch over things, thus barely maintaining the normal operations of Cloudcenter Commandery. When Xu Yu saw that Zu An had come to visit him, he quickly came out to greet him. Then, he indirectly tried to ask about how their investigation of Zuo Su was going.

Zu An obviously wouldn’t tell him the truth. He found some excuses to answer the questions with, then told Xu Yu why he had come.

“The commandery duke’s recorded materials? We do have some. When the commandery...