Chapter 352: Chapter 286 He Was the Conspirator All Along_3
Prince Rong slammed the table: "Go find him! Go find him immediately!"
The servant quickly turned and retreated!
Prince Rong also didn’t know why Zhe Yu left, but even a fool would know that it must be related to tonight’s events!
Zhe Yu either stole the fan or was harmed by the one who did; this matter must be investigated thoroughly!
...
Xu Yin sat in his room all night. It wasn’t until the fifth watch bell rang that he lifted his head from the chair.
"Master," Lian Rong walked in, pushed open the tightly shut window, and then returned to the desk, saying: "We lost fourteen people last night, and six are seriously injured. Including those who were gone earlier, we’ve lost more than half of our people so far."
Xu Yin’s voice was dry: "Have the families of those who passed been attended to?"
Lian Rong nodded: "Arrangements have been made for all of them."
Xu Yin pressed down on the desk, slowly standing up: "This unexpected defeat is truly surprising. Who knew everything, and who intercepted us from behind the scenes? Even though I acted with such concealment, how could it be that someone seems to know my thoughts so clearly? I’ve always been the one laying the traps. Why have I become a captive in someone else’s net?"
Lian Rong, too, couldn’t hide the worry from his brow: "All these years, Master, you’ve been hiding well, dealing with matters with great discretion. Logically speaking, it shouldn’t be possible for someone to be watching you.
"Could this just be an accident? Maybe the other side was only keeping an eye on Prince Rong, and that’s why they started paying attention to you, Master?"
Xu Yin tightly pursed his lips, gritting his teeth: "Of course not. There are already quite a few people watching me, such as Pei Zhan, for instance, isn’t it?"
Lian Rong paused: "That’s true, but how could Pei Zhan get to know you so well, Master?"
Xu Yin couldn’t come up with an answer either.
Turning, he lowered his gaze and stepped toward the door: "Let’s go check on the brothers first."
Just as he stepped out the door, a guard ran toward him, one who usually stayed by his side: "Master, there’s news from Prince Manor!"
"What news?"
Having sat dispiritedly all night, news of how Prince Rong’s Mansion was handling the funeral for Princess Rong would occasionally reach him since he was the son-in-law, and as Yongping was still alive, her biological daughter was only confined to the backyard, not deceased. Rightfully, once the memorial hall was set up, the two of them should have gone to the Prince Manor to pay their respects.
Of course, the actual situation didn’t allow for that.
So Yongping was still confined, and he had to be ready to receive messages from the Prince Manor at all times.
"Zhe Yu is missing!"
"What?"
Xu Yin had thought the news would be about the funeral, but unexpectedly, it was this!
His almost stagnant mind began to whirl rapidly again: "How did he disappear?!"
"No one knows how they left. It was only after Princess began handling the funeral affairs, and the servants went to deliver a message that it was discovered there was no one in his room! Lao Wu was also missing!"
"His injuries hadn’t fully healed. How could he disappear so silently and quickly? When was the last time he was seen?"
"He was still there during last night’s dinner, about an hour after the meal. Lao Wu went to get hot water for him to wash, and at that time, there was still his voice coming from inside, so he was definitely there then!
"Moreover, it was last night, right after Prince Rong came back and blocked the ancestral hall entrance, that Prince Rong immediately targeted you, Master, deploying a large force to surround the Prince Manor and the Xu family. But during that time, on the eastern side of the Prince Manor, someone used a thunder bomb to fend off the guards and forcibly broke out, and no one could see clearly who it was through the smoke. Now it seems, Zhe Yu probably took advantage of that time to get out!"
"A thunder bomb?!" Xu Yin’s eyes, which had been dark all night, suddenly became sharp, "Injured as he was, how could he manage such a deadly feat? So someone helped him? ...The person who secretly stole the fan took him away in passing?!"
Upon saying this, Xu Yin couldn’t hold it back anymore, "Who did he conspire with? He’s of little significance; how could he have connected with someone so mighty—"
At this point, he couldn’t continue speaking!
Someone so incredibly skilled, whom he had just thought of!
And who had previously saved Zhe Yu not long ago!
"It’s Pei Zhan...the person hiding in the dark last night was Pei Zhan!"
This realization made his entire body go rigid, and he immediately asked: "Has the Zhe family been visited?"
"Yes, we went there! Zhe Yu and Lao Wu didn’t go back!"
"Then that’s it!"
Xu Yin clenched his molars: "He’s joined Pei Zhan. What else is there that he couldn’t give up? "It really was them!"