Teach Us a Thing or Two

"Yes, he was attacked. Our men arrived too late. He was dead by the time we arrived."

Li QIngcang snickered. The situation was getting more interesting.

"Did you find out who the man opposite the building that night was?"

Li QIngcang remembered that the man had many opportunities to kill Li Bai that night, but he didn't; he was waiting for them to arrive.

"No."

He Yiyan explained, "I checked the area. The building belonged to a teacher and his wife. They had gone overseas for a holiday. The house was left in the care of a nanny. The nanny had been working for them since high school and was very trusted. She was unaware that someone had sneaked into the room. There was a gun at the scene, but we could not find any fingerprints on it or anything else. The person must have cleaned up the place and left the gun as a declaration of war."