After Huo Wuyou brought Fu Zixian to deliver the batch of goods to the Chai family, he was entrusted by the Chai family to take another batch of things to the mountains in the western suburbs of the city.
As soon as they left the city gate, Fu Zixian started yelling for the antidote. Huo Wuyou was annoyed and just stuffed the braided ring into his lapel and knocked him unconscious.
He was really curious about the things shipped out from the Chai family.
After handing Fu Zixian over to his men, he opened the contents of the car compartment and took a look.
There was some grain inside, but it was sealed with imperial seals.
"This is..." Huo Wuyou was stunned: "Disaster relief food?"
It turned out that the lost relief grain was embezzled by the Chai family.
Not only that, judging from the depth of the ruts, there was something else on the cart that was heavier than the relief food.
He had the truck unloaded and checked, and sure enough, he found a batch of weapons hidden under the relief grain.
The Chai family asked Fu Zixian to escort these people, probably because they were ready to set a trap and accuse the members of Prince Gong's party of treason.
When he returned to the Tang family with the news, the family was in chaos.
Jiang Xu's arrow was hastily bandaged, and he was obviously injured. His face was flushed at the moment. If Tang Lin hadn't had someone stop him, he would have almost attacked Chai Yue.
"Those villains stopped dead in their tracks when they saw you. How dare you say they had nothing to do with you?! Taking a good family's child is a crime punishable by exile. You're unwilling to reveal the whereabouts of those villains. If anything were to happen to someone, taking a good family's child and causing harm would be an even greater crime, punishable by execution. Miss Chai, you might as well give it a try!"
Chai Yue was only concerned with crying. She was protected by Madam Chai. "Master Jiang, how could Yue'er know what the villain had done? How could you slander him like this?"
As soon as Huo Wuyou walked in, everyone looked over at him.
"What's wrong?"
He didn't know what had happened, but he saw that all the Tang family members except Tang Zhining were there, as well as the Chai family mother and daughter, and the siblings Shen Qingtang and Shen Qingwei. Even Jiang Xu and Sui Yunlang were there, but there was no sign of Xue Zhiyi. He had a bad feeling.
"Sui Yunlang, what happened to Zhiyi?" he asked again.
Sui Yunlang looked troubled. He pondered for a moment before saying, "Today, Miss Xue was kidnapped by some bad guys in the market..."
Then he quickly said, "But we're already thinking of a plan. At worst, we can search the city. Now that the official road is destroyed, she's still in Jiangzhou anyway. Besides, she's close to the Queen Mother. Maybe they're just holding her hostage to pursue something. She won't hurt her life..."
Although Tang Lin disliked Xue Zhiyi, he was, after all, a guest of his mansion who had lost his life in the area where he was working, and he still had to save the face of Marquis Lin'an, so he said, "Marquis Lin'an, Doctor Sui is right. Miss Xue's life may not be in danger."
But Huo Wuyou couldn't hear anything at the moment. For a moment, it was as if something had been taken away from him. His mind was blank, and he felt as if his back had been struck by lightning... He had only been away for half a day, how could this happen...
"Marquis of Lin'an... Marquis of Lin'an!"
It wasn't until Shen Qingtang's tearful cries rang out that he regained some consciousness: "It's all because I insisted on inviting her out that this happened. Zhiyi wore my clothes and a mask today, and those thieves must have mistaken her for me... I'm the one who implicated her. I'm sorry... Please find a way to save her! I've already told my father, and he will do his best to help. Even if he has to turn Jiangzhou upside down, he will definitely find Zhiyi!"
Her eyes were already swollen like peaches, tears were streaming down her face, and she almost fainted from crying.
Shen Qingwei was holding her shoulders. He wasn't familiar with Xue Zhiyi, so he wasn't as worried as Shen Qingtang at the moment. He just calmly said to Huo Wuyou, "Marquis Lin'an, I was supposed to go with you today, but before I left, someone sent a message saying that Brother Tang wanted to see me urgently. He said it was urgent, but in the end he took me to a waterside pavilion to wait. I waited for a long time, but the servant disappeared without a trace. But when I asked Brother Tang just now, I learned that he hadn't sent anyone to look for me. I think this is very strange."
Tang Jinglei nodded in agreement, "Qingwei described the messenger to me, and he certainly doesn't look like someone from the mansion."
At this moment, Huo Wuyou's eyes were red. These fragmented information were intertwined in his chaotic mind, and seemed to form a big net that bound him tightly.
"Jiang Xu." Huo Wuyou's voice was a little hoarse: "Is what you just said true?"
He had no time to ask about Jiang Xu's unusual concern, he just wanted to get a quick answer to his question.
Jiang Xu sneered, "Every word is true. Everyone present is a witness."
"Okay." He lowered his eyes, and his brows were filled with cumulonimbus clouds with thunder rolling in them, filled with intense anger ready to erupt.
Huo Wuyou said coldly: "Yan Gui, have someone capture Chai Yue."
Yan Gui obeyed the order and took the officials from the Dali Temple to arrest the man on the spot.
Both the Chai and Tang families were shocked upon hearing this. Madam Tang was unwilling to let her niece suffer, so she quickly stood up and said, "How can the Marquis of Lin'an arrest someone without any evidence? Even the Dali Temple can't handle cases like this!"
Mrs. Tang didn't know the true identity of the Chai family, but Tang Jinglei did. He grabbed Mrs. Tang and said, "Mother!"
Mrs. Tang was anxious and pushed him away: "Xue Zhiyi caused Ruoyu to be bedridden. Do you also agree to wrongly accuse your cousin for such a person?"
In order to avoid alerting the enemy, Tang Jinglei did not tell anyone what happened that night. He looked at Xue Ruoyu with a guilty conscience, but saw that Xue Ruoyu just lowered her eyebrows, her eyelashes trembling, and she seemed to have a lot of entanglements in her heart.
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