Dong dong dong.
Chen Ji stood in front of the door, taking a big gulp of wine, before he knocked on the Chen Mansion's gate.
As he rapped the beast head knocker on the vermilion gate, it echoed with a dong dong sound.
With a creak, a servant peered through the crack in the door, "Third Young Master?"
Chen Ji exhaled a breath full of alcohol fumes, "Open the door."
The servant, catching a whiff of the alcohol, exclaimed in surprise, "Third Young Master, how much have you had to drink?"
Chen Ji pushed past the servant, squeezing through the door's crack, "Not much."
The drinking was to disguise his whereabouts, so that if asked where he had been that evening, he would have a plausible excuse.
Just as the servant was about to close the gate, he heard the dense sound of iron hooves galloping from afar, drawing closer from Cuiyun Lane. Peeking out stealthily, he caught sight of the Jiefan Guards passing by in hats and straw raincoats.
