Lu Jin glanced at the young and old in the courtyard with a stern expression. He stared at Zhou Yun and Madam Zhou and said, "Tell us the whereabouts of Zhou Li."
Mrs. Zhou had never seen such a scene before. She was at a loss at the moment. With a knife pointed at her, she said tremblingly, "The master said he had official business to attend to in the evening, so he stayed in the study all the time." If the officials had not come to her house, Mrs. Zhou would not have known that Zhou Li was missing.
The Zhou family's study had already been searched by the Embroidered Uniform Guards, and no one was there.
Lu Jin frowned, and seeing that Mrs. Zhou didn't look like she was lying, he shifted his gaze to Zhou Yun.
Zhou Yun also shook his head repeatedly: "I don't know anything, Lu Tongzhi, what happened to my father? Why did you Jinyiwei break into Zhou's house at night? Even if you want to arrest someone, you should at least give a reason!" He had been drinking outside before returning home today. At this moment, he was awakened by the knife on his neck. After all, he was the only male in the Zhou family and was much calmer than Mrs. Zhou.
Lu Jin ignored Zhou Yun. Wang Huaizhi was taken to Zhaoyu in broad daylight. Since Zhou Li could not be found, it was very likely that Zhou Li got wind of the news and hid himself.
I thought they were fast enough, but I didn't expect they were still a step slow.
At this time, a Jinyiwei who was searching Zhou's house came over with a servant and said, "Boss, this man is the Zhou family's doorman. He just took advantage of the chaos and hid in the firewood room. He said Zhou Li left the house."
Lu Jin glanced at the gatekeeper and pressed him, "When did Zhou Li leave the house? Where did he go? If you dare to hide anything, I will kill you without mercy!"
The doorman collapsed all over and fell to the ground. He swallowed nervously and said tremblingly, "Just...just before you came here, the master had someone prepare a car and left the mansion. Manager Zhang followed him. I don't know where the master went..."
Hearing this, Lu Jin ordered his subordinates with a stern look, "Take your men to the west city gate immediately and ask the city defense department whether Zhou Li has left the city. If you can find any trace of him, chase him!"
"Yes." The man who received the order was called Chen Ping. He was as good as Lu Jin in martial arts and the two had always been good friends. Before, Lu Jin was framed and imprisoned, and Chen Ping had spoken up for him and offended Gao Jian. After Lu Jin was promoted to Tongzhi, he transferred Chen Ping to his side as an assistant.
Shen Ping ordered a team of people to rush to the west city gate, and Lu Jin arranged for someone to go back to the Dali Temple to report to Yu Qizhe, while he stayed at Zhou's house to keep an eye on the Zhou family.
Lu Jin didn't think that Zhou Li would abandon his wife and children and flee the capital alone. He stayed behind in case Zhou Li did not leave the city and had other plans in secret, and would find a way to secretly contact Zhou's family.
Yang Jiyan was hiding among the female family members. When she saw Lu Jin had someone move a chair for her to sit down, her face turned extremely ugly. If Lu Jin stayed at the Zhou family to guard it, wouldn't the Zhou family be guarded like an iron barrel by the Jinyiwei?
She thought that the Jinyiwei would leave if they couldn't find Zhou Li, leaving only a few people to guard the Sun family, so that she could find a chance to escape.
Yang Jiyan cursed Zhou Li, the old man who only cared about his own life and death, over and over again in her heart, frowned, and considered whether to use Liang Wushuang to get close to Lu Jin.
Because she knew it too well. In the previous life, the Zhou family was wiped out and that old villain Zhou Li never showed up at all.
In her previous life, a few months after she was taken back to the Yang family by her father, she heard from her father that Yu Qizhe had somehow found out the whereabouts of Zhou Li and took great pains to capture him in Jiangnan.
It turned out that Zhou Li had a concubine in Jiangnan, who gave birth to two sons and a daughter. The eldest son was only one year younger than Zhou Yun. When he fled from the capital, the old man abandoned everyone in the Zhou family.
Zhou Yun's dissolute and ruthless character was probably inherited from Zhou Li.
Yang Jiyan glanced at Zhou Yun's embarrassed and uneasy appearance, and felt annoyed. He was really useless. Without Zhou Li as his father and Zhou family background, Zhou Yun was simply useless! He was not even comparable to Yu Qizhe!
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