After the Prince and the Lord leaves, Hu LI watch them from a distance. Officer Zhou is healing fast however the other man is still not awake. Hu Li lean over and whisper by his ears that she knows where his sister is at. She will bring her out. Hu Li see that his finger move. He hear that and he understand. She sits up and look at Officer Zhou.
"Brother, since you are awake, i will bring you some porridge."
"No need, just go take care of my mother and don't talk nonsense to her."
"I did not. Just to build up her will to live. I don't want to see her cry everyday."
"By the way, any new clues?"
"There are some... I need some men to help out but no one is wiling to listen to me."
"Tell me what you find out and what you want to do."
Hu Li tell him what she find out and what she had done thus she needs some men to help to round them up.
"I don't understand what are the children and those explosive materials are related?"
"Those children are probably belonging to the ones who are working for them. Like ... him."
She look at the prison guard and Officer Zhou sigh.
"How many children?"
"Roughly there are seven of them. Adults is unknown."
"Ask Prince Wang Cao to deploy ..."
"No we can't ..."
"Why?"
"He might be involve in this."
"He cannot be..."
"Who knows. Now i know his sister a Princess is involved with the explosive and the children living in the residence. There is a prince mentioned that she writes letter to. I have to find away to get hold of those letters."
"How did you... don't tell me those rats give you these info?!"
"Yeah they are smart and go around everywhere. They only whisper to me."
"This is impossible!"
"Officer Zhou do you know how many rats live in this capital? How many rats are running around listening to what is going on?"
He stare at Yu Bing and wonder why he got this ability to listen to rats language. While Hu Li look at Officer Zhou and wonder why is he so simple. He will get trick in life the hard way.
"So what are you planning to do?"
"I need to get the letter that is deliver out. Who is the prince they are talking about and rescue the little children. That's all."
"I think both have to execute at the same time."
"Yes at the same time without letting Wang Cao and the Lord Gong Plus the Princess to know. If not these all will be under the drain."
"I want to know where will they get the materials for the explosive from?"
"Probably somewhere near the capital for easy transportation."
"Oh right but which thing should we do first?"
Hu Li look at her little friends on her palm. She smile at them and pat their heads.
"My little friends what do you think we should do/"
"Master put us in the place for the children. Once the men inside is asleep, you can round them up!"
"What a good ideal! You hear that Officer Zhou?"
He stare at Yu Bing as if he should hear a grand plan from some rats. He look at them which he swear that one of them is waving to him. He swallow his saliva and sigh.
"Repeat please."
Hu Li tell him what they plan to do and he admit to himself it will be safer to arrest those dangerous man asleep. Both of them plan out for three days later after she put the rats in the residence. Meanwhile, Officer Zhou insist to be fine and he wants to go home. The physician have no choice but to ask him not to move too much. Packing up a lot of medicine, Hu Li and the rats bring him home slowly while walking down the busy street. Even though he is injured, he keep talking non stop. Finally he reach home and release his arm around Yu Bing. He tidy himself up. Yu Bing help to clean up his face and push back his hair. He breath in and smile before pushing the door to go in. His mother who is siting on the porch rush up to him. She hug him tightly while Hu Li see mister Zhou standing in a distance looking at his son.
In the night, Yu Bing tells Office Zhou he goes to put some rats in that residence. She goes off in the silence of the night. The night patrol is walking around the city with the gong in their hands to signal the time of the night. She avoid them as much as possible. Once they are out of sight, she carefully take out her little friends. They give a nod to each other and leap into the ground. They find a dog hole and goes inside. As agree Hu Li will give them three days to observe the routine how they change shift or who comes and goes. Quietly she sneak away once she sees them leaving.
As she walk pass the medical hall to Officer Zhou's home. She sense there is something wrong. She see the lights are off but the door is open. She peek in and smell the air, something is not right. She reach out for her bells and before she can fully put on her bells, a body is throw towards her she roll away as fast as possible. That body is the prison guard, someone had murder him. She hurry towards the back room and the person had already run off. Just in time the night patrol come walking into he back alley. She ask them if they see anyone running pass them. Both of them shake their head. She ask them to go to the Yamen to in form them of a murder. She start to run the opposite direction. She run and search through the night eventually lands on a rooftop but still she see no one. She smell the air for blood or any other kind of smell. There is nothing that can lead her to it. However she see a bright fire raging in a distance she wants to ignore it but something tells her she needs to go there. She leap from rooftop to rooftop finally when she is near, she realise that it is the residence of Officer Zhou. Before she can do anything, Fei comes flying down and hold her back.
"You have done enough for him. He have extended his life, he needs to go."
Hu Li look at the raging fire and cry for her friend. Her tears rolls upwards into the sky and it starts to rain. The sparks in her eyes got weaken and she is temporally blinded again. Fei sit with her on the rooftop watching the fire and the rain fighting each other. He shelter Hu Li with the long sleeves of his gown. A price to pay for a friend of a mortal being.