Chapter 92
"You good-for-nothing!"
The First Madam spat fiercely and ordered the two guards outside the gate to go and check outside the city.
"It would be better if he died out there. The Wen family can't tolerate such a jinx!"
The two guards went to Guangfu Temple but didn't find Wen Shu. Instead, they found the unconscious Han Xiang in a secluded corner of the river behind the mountain.
Late at night, the Wen family mansion became noisy again.
The First Madam looked displeased as she stared at Hanxiang, who was kneeling on the ground and had already woken up.
Where is your fourth wife?
In the autumn, the river water was icy cold. Hanxiang had been soaking in the river for who knows how long before she was washed ashore. She didn't even have time to change her wet clothes.
Supporting his throbbing head, he knelt on the ground, crying out, "Madam! My wife... my wife is missing!"
Hanxiang had no idea what had happened. She only remembered that she was guarding outside the palace when someone suddenly knocked her unconscious. She hadn't even seen what the person looked like.
When I opened my eyes, Wen Shu was nowhere to be found.
Hanxiang burst into tears, repeatedly kowtowing to the First Madam, "Madam, please have mercy and go find my wife!"
A red welt and a blood blister appeared on his forehead, and crimson blood trickled down his temple.
Hanxiang's face was ashen, and several servants in the courtyard silently looked away, unable to bear to look any longer.
"Disappeared again?!"
The First Madam chuckled, "If she's really that capable, she should just die out there and never come back, so she won't have to torment me in the middle of the night. She's just like her mother, both unlucky!"
However, complaints are just complaints.
After venting his anger, he still dutifully sent people to look for them.
However, most of the day has passed. If Wen Shu hadn't been as lucky as Han Xiang, she would probably be a corpse by now.
However, good fortune never comes in pairs, and misfortunes never come singly.
Before the Wen family could find Wen Shu, a few days later, even worse news came from Tongqing Road in the north.
Wenquan has disappeared.
These successive blows left the First Madam bedridden, and the Wen family seemed to have lost its last pillar, teetering on the brink of collapse.
The children of the Wen family have all met with misfortune one after another; there must be something unusual behind this.
Despite his illness, Wen Tao traveled north.
At that time, in the Jingqu Canal, far to the north.
The ship swayed and rocked forward, and the person in charge of escorting the silver for the birthday celebration was a confidant of Nguyen Minh Nguyen, the transport commissioner of Tongqing Road.
At this moment, he was holding a waterway map in one hand and standing on the deck looking into the distance.
After passing one more city, he would reach Jijing. Once he handed over the goods on the ship to the contact person, his mission would be complete.
Just then, a series of hurried footsteps came from the deck.
Fang Lue lowered his eyes in displeasure and looked over; it was his subordinate.
"My lord, a secret message has arrived."
"Oh?" Fang Lue was quite surprised. How could a secret message be sent from this delivery station?
Upon seeing the familiar markings on the seal, he no longer hesitated and unfolded the letter to read it.
It was sent from Beijing.
They said the previous location was no longer suitable and that they needed to temporarily store their belongings in a courtyard in Feixian County.
Beneath the letter was a familiar black eagle emblem.
So suddenly?
Fang Lue's expression was not good. The sudden change of location at this critical moment always made people uneasy.
He carefully examined the handwriting on the letter, and it was exactly the same as the previous one, which put his mind at ease.
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