"What's wrong?" Sensing his unusual behavior, Mi Li couldn't help but ask.
Now, Mi Li floats lightly in mid-air, and no matter how fast the horse gallops, she can always keep up with Zu An. No one knows how she does it.
Zu An thought to herself that it was fortunate that no one else could see her, and that it wasn't nighttime. Otherwise, seeing a woman in red floating in mid-air in the middle of the night would have scared them sick.
“Nothing,” Zuan replied. “I’ve been thinking about the case, and something just feels off about it.”
“It is a bit strange.” Mi Li nodded, and the two seemed to have thought of something, so they didn’t speak.
They quickly arrived at Ou Wu's residence, and a group of embroidered-robed messengers rushed in like wolves, but they did not find Ou Wu, nor his wife and children.
"The lady took the young master out of the city for a trip a few days ago."
"Isn't the master on duty in the palace?"
...
The servants and maids in the mansion all gave the same account.
Zu An frowned: "This is going to be difficult. Last time we couldn't find Xin Rui's family, and this time we probably can't find Ou Wu's family either."
“That’s not necessarily true,” Mi Li said in a deep voice. “Ou Wu is the Palace Gate Commander. His family members would not be allowed to leave the capital easily, given how important that position is. At least in my time, the court would never allow such a thing. I imagine the emperors of this world would be much the same.”
Zuan hurriedly asked his subordinates, and they confirmed it.
He then immediately left some people to continue searching the Ou residence, while leading the others towards Chongwen Gate.
The capital city was divided into the outer city, the inner city, the imperial city, and the imperial palace. The imperial palace goes without saying. The imperial city had royal gardens, ancestral temples, government offices, inner court service institutions, various warehouses, and some military garrisons, etc. The inner city was often inhabited by various high-ranking officials and wealthy and powerful people in society, while the outer city was mostly inhabited by ordinary people.
Comparatively speaking, the inner city was more heavily guarded, while the outer city gates had a larger flow of people and were less strictly guarded.
Therefore, the only way to check the entry and exit records of Ou Wu and his family is through the inner city gates.
Although the inner city also had many gates, each gate had its own specific function. For example, some gates were reserved for the emperor's carriage, some were mainly for transporting grain and water, some were for bricks, stones, and timber, some were for the army, and some were for prison carts...
Most people mainly used Chongwen Gate to enter and exit the inner and outer city.
A group of people arrived at Chongwen Gate, where soldiers had already raised their spears in defense: "Who dares to ride a horse here..."
However, they quickly recognized the embroidered-robed envoy's attire, and their expressions changed drastically. They hurriedly put away their weapons and bowed, saying, "Greetings, esteemed sirs."
Zu An asked in a deep voice, "Who is in charge here?"
The soldiers replied, "Sir, the Commander of Chongwen Gate is Lord Murong."
"Murong?" Zu An frowned slightly. Could it be from the Murong family?
At this moment, Mi Li said with a half-smile, "Interesting, interesting. You just slept with someone else's wife yesterday, and today your own wife is with another man. Tsk tsk tsk, karma comes so fast?"
Zuan: "???"
He hurriedly looked up and sure enough, he saw a familiar figure on the city wall. She was wearing an ice-blue dress and her back was graceful and charming. Who else could it be but Chu Chuyan?
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Sigh, life's been a bit dull lately, and I'm feeling really listless. Do any of you readers have any ideas on how to get my energy back?
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