Chapter 491: Her medical pouch (2/2)

“Fine, 30,000 taels and not one less. Come to the Duke of Qin’s estate to claim them,” Han Yunxi replied loudly.

Mu Linger wasn’t an idiot and knew that Qi gege was simply making things up, but she wasn’t smart enough to gauge the situation or understand the consequences of her words in such a public setting. She was about to speak up when Gu Qishao glanced at her with a heated look. “Shut up!”he muttered under his breath.

Mu Linger immediately shut up. Although her crush was embracing her right now, she only felt like he was a stranger, distant enough to make her afraid. After Gu Qishao gave his explanation and hugged Mu Linger, both the soldiers and civilians had nothing else to say. You couldn’t get any rumors out of this. Chu Xifeng never once thought things would improve so easily. He rejoiced and quickly called out, “Xu Donglin, escort esteemed wangfei back to the estate. The rest of you, go on with your business. His Highness Duke of Qin said that he wouldn’t spare a single assassin!”

Han Yunxi quietly mounted the carriage and had hardly sat down when she realized that she forgot her medical pouch. But instead of going back to get it, she simply glanced towards the upstairs level of the brothel before murmuring, “Let’s go.”

Chu Xifeng didn’t know whether she was heading to the Duke of Qin’s estate or the Han Estate, but he hoped that Xu Donglin would take her to the former. Afraid to waste any more time, he doubled back to the inside of the brothel, still worried for his injured master.

Once Han Yunxi had left, Gu Qishao and Mu Linger dispersed as well. Everyone’s focus shifted to capturing the assassins since His Highness Duke of Qin was still in the building. Currently, Long Feiye, Long Tianmo, Mu Qingwu and the rest were all assembled in a single room. Just then, a bunch of people had asked Qin Wangfei for details regarding the assassins, but she’d left without a word, leaving many of them dissatisfied. Still, nobody dared to voice their objections out loud because His Highness Duke of Qin’s expression was truly horrific.

At this moment, Long Feiye was sitting on the disordered bed, organizing Han Yunxi’s medical pouch. A mess of gauze, cotton swabs, and the like were all scattered over the bed, but he organized them all neatly before placing them in the pouch. His movements were very, very slow, his entire form silent as if he’d been utterly abandoned. While everyone else was impatient to chase after the assassins, none of them dared to even move a muscle.

Finally, Long Feiye cleaned up everything into the pouch and stood up. He said simply, “Gu Qi Sha lured the assassins away. Judging by the hour the gates were shut, those archers must still be inside the city…” At this point, his voice turned absolutely frigid.

“Search through every single house for your lordship!”

“This soldier obeys!” Mu Qingwu was the first to accept the orders and leave. The crown prince followed quickly in his wake, with the rest leaving in hasty succession, all afraid that the others would catch the culprits first. His Highness Duke of Qin’s words were right. Soon after the incident at the Gu Estate, Mu Qingwu had sent orders to lock down all the gates. Straight afterwards, there was another incident in the red-lantern district, which meant that the archers were still within the city when the lockdown came into effect! As long as they were sure the culprits were still around, it wouldn’t be long before they smoked them all out!

Once everyone was gone, Long Feiye told his guards, “Take care of the items on the bed.”

The guards looked doubtful. Aside from the covers and sheets, what else was there on the bed? But once they moved forward for closer scrutiny, they discovered a large black cloak hidden within the covers, as well as a set of lifelike gloves. The giant cloak was completely soaked in blood, a terrifying sight. Without a doubt, Gu Qishao had left this behind.

Long Feiye had just come out the room when Chu Xifeng arrived.

“Where is she?” Long Feiye asked.

“This subordinate had Xu Donglin escort her back,” Chu Xifeng replied. He really didn’t want to finish the sentence with ‘to the Han Estate!’

“Let’s go back first,” Long Feiye murmured. He was walking very slowly, one hand holding the medical pouch while the other rested against his scabbard. Chu Xifeng was frightened by the sight, but didn’t dare to voice his feelings out loud. He could only follow close behind.

After Long Feiye got into the carriage, his energy finally gave out, leaving him to lean listlessly against the seat with closed eyes. When the carriage was gone, two of the young officials from the justice courts were just emerging from the brothel.

“Looks like it’ll be up to us to man the search!”

“Heheh, the Duke of Qin’s anxious to go home and comfort his woman, how could he go off to catch assassins?”

“Don’t you think there was something strange about the Duke of Qin today?”

“Even if there was, it’s none of our business. Hurry and keep looking. This case will definitely fall into the hands of the justice courts, so we better crack it if we want easy days ahead!”

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When they were almost at the Duke of Qin’s estate, Chu Xifeng finally peeked into the carriage, only to see the Duke of Qin clutching the medical pouch while seemingly asleep. Unwilling to wake him up, he could only continue to lead them forward. He had no idea who was still left at the brothel, but he knew that nobody could know the extent of the Duke of Qin’s current injuries. Leaving aside the obvious risk from the assassins, there was also Emperor Tianhui, who would undoubtedly come to find trouble. Right now the city was in a lockdown, so those archers had no choice but to hide without an escape route. They could leave the searching to Emperor Tianhui for now.

His Highness needs to treat his injury first!

Chu Xifeng was also more worried over whether esteemed wangfei had gone back to their estate. His trip back was full of perturbed thoughts, but his heart settled in his chest at the sight of Xu Donglin and the carriage by the Duke of Qin’s gates. Unfortunately, Xu Donglin ran over as soon as he saw him to report, “Leader, esteemed wangfei went to the Han Estate. I couldn’t stop her, what do we do?”

Meanwhile, inside the carriage, Long Feiye’s eyes suddenly flew open!