Chapter 44 (2/2)
“Already? Alright. If I stay out any longer, it might make Uncle Yuan worry,” Fei YuXing replied to the maidservant before she turned back to Qin YiJun. “This brother, I am sorry to have troubled you. Maybe when you are free, you can come and vi—”
“Young miss, it is not appropriate for you to invite another man home. What would other people say?” the maidservant reminded Fei YuXing.
“…” Fei YuXing was speechless and can’t help but start to feel that this servant was placed by her side to make sure she doesn’t do anything that can bring shame to the Xia family. ‘But I only want to invite him so he can go and see brother Lin, ah!’
In the end, Fei YuXing can only apologize to Qin YiJun. She bowed her head slightly before leaving the plaza to make her way back to the Xia residence.
“An Yi,” Qin YiJun called out in a low voice. He waited for a while before a person finally appeared before him. This person is wearing a simple attire, but his eyes were void of any emotion.
“Your slave is here, Your Majesty,” the man, An Yi answered.
“Follow that young lady and find out where she lives. Report to Zhen later.”
“This slave received his order,” An Yi saluted Qin YiJun before he walked away. It didn’t take long for him to disappear from the crowd and Qin YiJun finally turned away.
“Your Majesty, is it really worth to send An Yi over to follow that young lady?” suddenly, another person appeared from the crowd beside Qin YiJun. “If Your Majesty wants her…”
“An Liu,” Qin YiJun called out the person’s name. “As the shadow guards, you only need to answer to Zhen’s command. Consider this your first warning.”
“This slave was wrong. Thanking His Majesty for his magnanimous heart,” An Liu quickly replied before he once again blends into the crowd, protecting the Emperor from the dark.
Time passed, and at You Shi, Meng Chen finally returned to Qin YiJun’s side. “How was it?” Qin YiJun asked, and Meng Chen can only lower his head, unable to meet Qin YiJun’s eyes. “Zhen assumes that you didn’t find the thief. Later, go to the office of the Minister of Justice. Get someone to sketch the composite image of that thief,” Qin YiJun said after a while.
Not long after, General Bai also found them and when Qin YiJun saw that he had come empty-handed, he can’t help the frown that formed on his face. “General Bai… did you not find the shop?”
“Your Majesty, this General did find the shop but… we were a step too late. The owner had already sold it to a young man,” General Bai replied with a regretful tone. “I tried to inquire who the young man he sold the items to, but he said that he didn’t know him. All he could tell me was that the young man doesn’t seem to be from a prominent family since he even bargained with him.”
Hearing this, Qin YiJun let out a heavy sigh. Today, he went out for two items. One, the dagger that belonged to Li FangMing. The dagger was given to the Li family for safekeeping but when he asked to look at it, he found that they had sold it to the pawn shop. And just when his men got the dagger, it was stolen by a thief.
The second item is actually a set of weapons. His father once told him about this set of weapons that were made especially for Li FangMing. The weapons were all designed by Huo Shuren, Li FangMing’s own master. They were supposed to pick it up this year but now, they were told that it was already sold away? Qin YiJun’s heart was full of dissatisfaction. Unfortunately, there was nothing that he can do.
“Since things has gone like this, there is nothing that Zhen can do. Zhen will return to the palace first,” Qin Yijun said with a disappointed tone. With that, Qin YiJun and his men made a journey back to the Imperial Palace. Little did he know that the person who bought the set of weapons, and the person who stole the dagger from Meng Chen was the same person. Not only that, this person is none other than the one that he had been looking for, for the past two years.