Above the Galaxy
Chapter 358 - 230, Evening Snow Approaches, Care for a Drink?

Chapter 358: Chapter 230, Evening Snow Approaches, Care for a Drink?

Ye Shenyi personally cooked, he cut up a plate of beef, fried some peanuts, and whipped up some scallions scrambled with eggs, then the two of them set up a table under the eaves and began to drink.

"Come, I’ll take this first drink to toast to Old Ye, I thank Old Ye for, despite his status as a Grandmaster, getting mixed up in these trivial matters of our Monitoring Bureau," Yan Wenli raised his glass and said aloud.

"Even a Grandmaster has to eat. I’m supported by your Monitoring Bureau, you all pay me a salary every month. If I don’t do work for you, who am I going to do it for?" Ye Shenyi was polite in his words, but still clinked glasses with Yan Wenli, and the two men downed the strong spirits in their glasses in one go.

"You can’t talk like that. If you wanted to make money, where couldn’t you earn it? Countless people are fighting and scrambling to keep you fed," Yan Wenli refilled the empty glasses for both of them and said, "I know, you’re doing this because of my old face, willing to stoop to work at the Monitoring Bureau. Otherwise, you could’ve been leading the carefree life of an immortal..."

"Why bother with all these pleasantries?" Ye Shenyi took the initiative to pick up his glass and said, "Let’s drink."

"To drinking!" Yan Wenli said with a chuckle, "This second glass, let’s toast to tonight’s heavy snowfall. The snow makes everything look pleasing to the eye, everywhere looks beautiful..."

"To the snow," Ye Shenyi raised his glass and drained it.

Yan Wenli poured a third glass of wine but was intercepted by Ye Shenyi, who said, "Aren’t you going to eat something to line your stomach?"

"Let’s finish this glass first," Yan Wenli insisted, "After the first three drinks, we’ll slow down."

"Agreed," Ye Shenyi didn’t mind at all.

He had already stepped into the Grandmaster Realm; this ordinary wine could not harm him in the slightest.

He liked it, so it was wine.

He didn’t, and the wine could turn into water.

After three glasses, Yan Wenli put down his glass and devoured the meat with great bites, looking extremely hungry.

Once he had finished the plate of beef and eggs all by himself, he let out a satisfied burp and said, "That hits the spot. To eat food cooked by a Grandmaster, there aren’t many in Phoenix City who have this honor, right?"

Ye Shenyi glanced at the doorman inside the gatehouse and said, "It’s not such a rare thing, my uncle gets to eat it every day; sometimes he even complains that the meat’s not stewed soft enough and he can’t chew it."

"But that’s different, your uncle is your own family."

Ye Shenyi, holding his wine glass and not even having touched the chopsticks on the table, looked at Yan Wenli and asked, "Speak up, what’s the matter? You didn’t come to drink with me in the middle of the night just for the sake of it, did you?"

"As long as we haven’t caught the assassin, I can’t close the case with my superiors," Yan Wenli looked at Ye Shenyi and said, smiling, "I wanted to hear from you what exactly happened..."

"Why do you think that Tang Fei is working with those assassins? I’ve had his background checked, it’s clean, like a blank sheet of paper..."

"But, you see, this person is a bit special. He hasn’t been on New Star for many days, yet he’s a close friend of the Princess, a student of White Crane Academy, a direct disciple of the Great Grandmaster Xuanyuan Mingjing, and I heard he’s been getting quite close to the Finance Minister’s house lately. He even specifically visited the Finance Minister’s house before the new year, and Sheng Jing, that old miser, actually let him stay for a meal..."

"Right, he also has a younger brother named Gong Shulei, and the kid is the direct disciple of Shang Xiulin, the head of Imperial First Military Academy..."

"If it was somebody else, just based on your suspicion, I could have someone drag him to the Monitoring Bureau for a good chat. But, this person is untouchable. Once we move on him, it would be like stirring up a hornet’s nest..."

"If he weren’t Xuanyuan Mingjing’s disciple, I’d have slapped him flat long ago," a fierce and wasted air emerged in Ye Shenyi’s eyes; his impression of Tang Fei was very bad.

"So, I wanted to come and listen to what exactly happened during the process of your arrest, and why you think this person is so suspicious..."

"Intuition." Ye Shenyi spoke in a grave tone, "We all saw him coming out with two people, but later he stubbornly refused to admit it, which was infuriating."

"Did everyone see it?"

"A lot of people did."

"Zhong Jiayuan said they weren’t sure if the person was brought out by Tang Fei." Yan Wenli held up his wine glass and took a small sip, smiling and asking, "Is there a problem with Zhong Jiayuan?"

After pondering for a moment, Ye Shenyi said, "Zhong Jiayuan’s loyalty is not in question, nor his ability. However, whether Zhong Jiayuan is willing to take on such a big risk, that is a question."

"Indeed," Yan Wenli nodded and said, "Looking at the files, I too find this lad troublesome, and asking him to take on such a big risk, he must have his hesitations... after all, his last name is Zhong too."

"Then what do we do?" Ye Shenyi looked towards Yan Wenli and asked, "If we can’t catch the assassin, you won’t be able to solve the case, nor complete your assignment. All the responsibility is on you alone."

"The case needs to be solved, and the person needs to be caught. As for how the case should be solved and the method of catching the person, that’s still up for discussion."

"Do you already have a plan in mind?"

"Let’s wait a bit," Yan Wenli said. "Now that he’s come into our sight, he shouldn’t think about escaping easily."

"Drink."

"Let’s drink," Yan Wenli raised his glass and said, "This fifty-year-old Phoenix wine of mine is good, isn’t it? This has been genuinely buried underground for fifty years. I can’t bear to drink it alone; today you’re getting a bargain."

"It is indeed good." Ye Shenyi drank the wine in his glass in one go, licked his lips, and said, "It’s just too little in quantity."

"You find two large jars too little?"

"If we drink today, what about tomorrow?" Ye Shenyi said, "After drinking such good wine today, how can I bring myself to drink anything else tomorrow?"

"You..." Yan Wenli pointed at Ye Shenyi with his finger and said with a laugh, "Greedy."

"Actually, there’s one thing I also can’t figure out," Ye Shenyi looked at Yan Wenli and asked, "Why?"

"Why what?"

"Tang Fei," Ye Shenyi said, "Why would he do these things? For someone like him... who ascended from Hell to Heaven in one step. If he just followed the routine steps, he would reach the pinnacle of life, with a bright future ahead... Why would such a person do this kind of thing?"

"So, everyone hopes it’s not him," Yan Wenli said with a laugh, "But if it really is him, then things get interesting..."

"You suspect he has hidden motives?"

"Let’s drink. What can a child plot?" Yan Wenli said with a laugh.

Ye Shenyi didn’t ask any further, knowing that his friend was a deep thinker, and it was useless to ask about things he was unwilling to talk about.

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