This news was indeed a bolt from the blue.
Rumor had it that the National Master had recently calculated that the Great Han's national destiny was greatly tied to a child born under a heavenly omen.
The National Master was now heading south, intending to take this child as his disciple.
County Magistrate Wu had known all along that the child born under a heavenly omen four years ago lived in Upper Ling Village, Baiyun Town, Xun'an County.
He had barely enjoyed a few days of relief after learning this news when a tragic incident occurred in the area under his jurisdiction: a mass disappearance of children overnight.
As if that wasn't enough.
Damn it, he fumed internally. And now someone was telling him that the Blessed Bag, the child of great fortune, was among them?
County Magistrate Wu couldn't even recall how he had managed to persuade the commoners to go back.