Shen Hao stayed in Tu Kui City until October 28th before returning to Fengri City. Tang Qingyuan took the personal guards from the Thousand Households Station and left one day earlier.
The reason for staying so long was that Shen Hao wanted to personally oversee the construction of a fixed outpost on the stone wall at Caiyuan Village. He waited until it was finished and confirmed that Liu Kuan himself had taken charge of the task before leaving.
Upon arriving in Fengri City, he didn't even go home—he went straight to the Thousand Households Station. They said someone from the Governor's Office had come, and he needed to report for a briefing.
Only after he arrived did he learn the matter was not trivial.
The visitor was a Households Officer from the Governor's Office, surnamed Lin. Shen Hao knew him; he'd met him once in Jiang Cheng's Public Office. The man was courteous and always smiling.
But the news Households Commander Lin brought was quite telling.
