Chapter 166: Blocking the City Gate
Steward Wang swallowed his saliva and said incoherently: "Your Highness... Your Highness, your face..."
Helian Chen looked at Butler Wang irritably, seeing him staring at his face
Steward Wang pointed guiltily, "Your Highness... there's something on your face..."
Helian Chen couldn't help but touch his face: "Is there something dirty on my face?"
Steward Wang nodded and said, "I will fetch a mirror for Your Highness."
"No need, it's just a little dirt, I can just wipe it off, why bother looking in the mirror!"
Helian Chen looked impatient. He was angry about the theft of the Prince's Mansion, so how could he have the mood to look in the mirror?
I thought that I had just gotten some dirt on my face, so I just wiped it off. I reached out and wiped it on my face.
"Gone?"
"Your Highness, there is still... Your Highness, please wait a moment. I will go get you a clean towel!"
After Wang Guanjia finished speaking, he ran away. If he did not remind His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, he would definitely be punished by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. After all, he was the only one in the room who saw it. However, the thief had written "son of a bitch" on His Royal Highness's face and a turtle on his forehead.
If he said it directly, wouldn't it be like he was scolding His Royal Highness the Crown Prince again? So even if he had ten times the courage, he wouldn't dare to say those words out loud.
What a mess every day is going on...
After a while, a group of guards came running over, sweating profusely.
"Your Highness is not well... Your Highness is not well..."
"What's going on?"
The guard didn't dare look at him, and tremblingly lowered his head and said, "Reporting to His Royal Highness, the Prince's Mansion's warehouse has been completely emptied by thieves!"
Helian Chen's pupils trembled, and he asked again in disbelief: "What did you say?"
"Your Highness, the thieves have stolen everything from the warehouse! Your Highness, you'll know when you go and take a look..."
Helian Chen's eyes were about to burst with anger, but he still looked incredulous. He pointed at the guards standing in a row and shouted: "So many things in the storehouse were stolen overnight? And with so many guards in the Prince's Mansion, no one noticed?
Am I a three-year-old child? You made up such a lie to deceive me? Do you all want to die?
The guards all knelt down and begged for mercy: "Your Highness, even if we were given a thousand guts, we wouldn't dare to lie to you.
Your Highness, go to the storehouse and you will know!"
Helian Chen's face was as black as the bottom of a pot. He waved his sleeves and walked out without caring about his disheveled clothes.
When we got to the gate of the courtyard, we saw Wang the housekeeper and a group of maids, some holding mirrors, some holding towels, and some holding washbasins, rushing towards us.
"Your Highness, please wipe it quickly..."
Butler Wang handed the cotton cloth to Helian Chen. Helian Chen was about to get angry when he saw himself in the mirror.
Furious: "Gu...Gu's face! How dare you! Who did this!"
The guards and maids knelt on the ground
"Your Highness, we don't know either..."
"Your Highness the Crown Prince is not us"
Everyone begged for mercy, and then Butler Wang said
"Your Highness, this must have been done by the thief from last night! It must be that thief's prank!"
Helian Chen glanced at everyone coldly
"You keep saying it was the thief from last night. The entire storeroom was robbed, and my bedroom was emptied out. What kind of thief could be so powerful?
How could such a big commotion go unnoticed by anyone in the Prince's Mansion? Do you think I'm a fool?
Steward Wang, call everyone in the Prince's Mansion over here!"
"Yes! I obey your command."
Helian Chen took the cotton cloth in his hand, dipped it in the water in the basin, and wiped it in front of the mirror, but no matter how hard he wiped, the stuff on his face could not be wiped off.
"Ah... I must find the person behind this rebellion. Even if I cut him into pieces, it will not ease the hatred in my heart."
After that, he threw the cotton cloth hard
"Go to the palace and send the imperial physician to me!"
"Yes! I obey your command."
When he arrived at the warehouse, he saw that it was empty with only four walls left. Helian Chen thought he had entered the wrong room. He came out and looked around. It was indeed a warehouse.
Outside the warehouse, everyone in the Prince's Mansion knelt on the ground, lowered their heads and trembled.
"The guards in the warehouse, and the guards who were on patrol last night, come out!"
About twenty people came out and knelt in front of Helian Chen.
Helian Chen stared at them with a gloomy expression and asked:
"How was the warehouse robbed? How did so many things get transported out of the Prince's Mansion without anyone noticing?"
Dozens of people looked at each other, not knowing how to answer, because they really didn't see it, but they knew how big the warehouse was and how many things were in it.
It's unbelievable that so many things disappeared overnight right under their noses.
There are so many things in the warehouse. If we use horse-drawn carriages to move them, I'm afraid it will take dozens of carriages to go back and forth several times to move them all.
The problem is that they didn't see any movement or anyone...
Everyone lowered their heads and shook their heads, indicating that they didn't know.
Seeing these people's reactions, Helian Chen wanted to vent his anger even more. He felt that if everything in the warehouse could be moved away overnight, it must be because of the collaboration between the people in the Prince's Mansion.
Otherwise, who has such a supernatural ability? But on second thought, even if someone worked together inside and outside to move the contents of his entire warehouse, how big a commotion would that make? It is impossible that no one in the Prince's Mansion saw it.
This is really unbelievable. When he woke up this morning, he and the guards of the main courtyard were lying in the yard. They must have been drugged.
Therefore, this thief must have come prepared and was very familiar with the Prince's Mansion.
He drew the long sword from the waist of the guard on the edge and pointed it at the leader of the guards.
"I'll give you one more chance. If you don't tell me, then die!"
"Your Highness, we really don't know..."
"Your Highness, please spare us. We really didn't see anyone break into the Prince's Mansion..."
"Your Highness, if the thieves have taken away so many things, I'm afraid they haven't left the city yet. Your Highness, seal the city gates and search every house in the city. You will definitely catch them both red-handed!"
Helian Chen thought about it and felt that there was some truth to it. It was just that the noise he made was a bit loud, and his father might blame him. But his father's blame was nothing compared to the many treasures he had lost.
A whole warehouse full of stuff, this is his years of hard work.
"Notify Lord Li of the Dali Temple and pass on my orders. Lock down the entire city and search every house for me!"
"Yes! I obey your command!"
"All of you, go investigate! All of you! If I can't find anything, you all go die! You're a bunch of trash! What's the point of me raising you all these years?"
"Yes! Yes! I obey your command!"
Helian Chen was so angry that his head felt dizzy. Butler Wang quickly helped him back to the yard.
At this time, several doctors from the palace also arrived at the Prince's Mansion and were led into the backyard by the guards at the door.
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