The few people closely followed behind Chen Shi's wooden cart, keeping a keen eye on him. Among them, a woman wearing a red top and a Huanhuan skirt was activating a Thousand-Mile Communication Talisman, contacting someone unknown.
Their tailing was cleverly done. When they reached a fork in the road, one person left the main road and entered the side path, while in front of Chen Shi's wooden cart, a woodcutter resting there stood up, picked up his bundles of firewood, and continued on his way, his gaze still on Chen Shi.
At the next fork, beside a town, a scholar who was eating noodles at the market saw Chen Shi's wooden cart passing by. He didn't bother to finish the noodles in his bowl but slurped the noodles at the corner of his mouth, stood up while taking out money, left it on the table, and quickly headed towards the provincial capital's post road.
