Ma San quietly meditated and treated his injuries in the small courtyard Zhang Lie had arranged for him, while waiting for news from Flying Dragon.
In fact, Flying Dragon didn't need to make any complicated preparations for that batch of large-scale transactions. Naturally, someone helped him get the paperwork from the granary, and then he'd make contact, covertly taking the grain from the other party.
On the surface, this seemed like yet another collusion and smuggling case, but in truth, the key steps were all recorded within the Xuanqing Guard as "confidential operation."
Of course, the Xuanqing Guard would never investigate this themselves, and the Local Government Office wouldn't meddle either, nor would they be sensitive enough to notice anything amiss.
However, other people were already taking action.
