nycdaug Chapter 301 Xie Yuze is missing? The Xie family is in a panic!
Chapter 301 Xie Yuze is missing? The Xie family is in a panic!
Jun Lanjin's lips curled into a straight line, his gaze coldly fixed on the group.
"You mean, with so many of you, you can't find a single woman who can't even kill a chicken?" His voice was authoritative without being angry, so much so that the guards below dared not utter a word.
"Your Highness, we found this in the back mountain of the General's Mansion."
At this moment, a guard took down a piece of Xie Xing's clothing that had been torn off by a wolf's claws when he fought with the wolf in the back mountain and showed it to Jun Lanjin.
"Look at this fabric, it looks like the fabric worn by the maids in the General's Mansion. I wonder if it's Miss Xie's fabric."
As the guard spoke, he noticed Jun Lanjin's increasingly cold gaze, his voice grew weaker, and finally he simply dared not speak anymore.
Jun Lanjin snorted coldly.
What's with the bloodstains on this?
The guard replied, "Your Highness, when I arrived there, there was a pile of wolf pelts left on the back mountain of the General's Mansion, and several pieces of fabric from this garment were also found nearby. It seems that someone had wandered into the back mountain by mistake and fought with the wolves."
"It seems the wolf is dead and the man has escaped."
Jun Lanjin stood up, took the cloth from the guard's hand, and looked at it for a long time.
"Your Majesty!"
Just then, Hua An rushed in, holding a letter in his hand. He hurriedly handed it to Jun Lanjin: "Your Highness, it's a letter from Xie Tong to you."
Would Xie Tongchen write him a letter?
Junlan accepted the letter.
Upon seeing this, his pupils widened slightly.
The letter contained few words, but it conveyed the message that Xie Yuze might have met with misfortune, and hoped that the prince could check on him.
Did Xie Yuze suffer a misfortune?
Jun Lanjin frowned, pacing back and forth in the hall twice, holding the letter in his hand. He couldn't understand why Xie Yuze would be met with disbelief.
The letter contained nothing but Xie Yuze's information; it simply expressed the hope that Jun Lanjin would check on Xie Yuze's fate.
This is not a trivial matter that can be ignored. After all, Xie Yuze is a key figure who can hear Xie Xing's thoughts. No matter what, he is the third young master of the General's Mansion.
The General's Mansion's charges have not yet been decided, and the Xie family's tiger tally has not been found. If Xie Ansheng were to learn of his son's death, who knows what kind of madness he would go through.
This matter must be taken seriously.
"Someone come here," Jun Lanjin said coldly. "Go to the Xie residence and investigate."
The people from the Prince's Mansion immediately got up, gathered their troops, and quickly marched towards the Xie Mansion in a grand procession.
Jun Lanjin also put on a thick light blue cloak, tucked his hands into his sleeves, and walked quickly outside, his steps swift.
The soldiers behind him also followed behind Jun Lanjin.
General's Mansion.
Madam Xie and the others hadn't seen Xie Yuze all day, which made everyone in the mansion feel a bit strange.
Where did Yuze go?
At the dinner table, Madam Xie looked at the empty seat next to Xie Yuze and asked in confusion.
The Xie family members looked at each other, none of them knowing where Xie Yuze had gone.
With such a big incident as the small kitchen fire last night, Xie Yuze, as the only legitimate son in the family, had to step in and take charge.
However, even last night and today, Madam Xie has not seen Xie Yuze.
If Xie Yuze hadn't been besieged, he would have just gone out to play. But now the entire Xie family compound is sealed off, with people inside unable to get out and people outside unable to get in.
Where can Xie Yuze go?
Madam Xie frowned, put down her chopsticks, and said in a deep voice, "Yuze is so inconsiderate!"
"What time is it now, and he's still out there messing around."
"Someone, go and fetch him for me."
After a long and difficult recovery, no one in the Xie family dared to disobey Madam Xie, for fear that she would get angry again.
Madam Xie quickly looked at the people below and said, "Why aren't you going to find them yet?"
"Yes, Madam and Madam, we have searched, but we have not found the Third Young Master."
"What?" Old Madam Xie was taken aback.
"The Xie residence is only so big, how could he possibly run away?" Old Madam Xie had already sensed something was wrong. Her fingers trembled as she said repeatedly, "Go look again, go look again quickly!"
If Xie Yuze were to escape, that would be a capital offense!
The reason the emperor has not yet sentenced the Xie family is precisely because the Xie family is still useful to the emperor.
But what if the third prince gave the emperor a pretext at this time?
If the emperor makes an example of him and beheads him first, then he'll have nowhere to turn to cry.
The servant obeyed the order and immediately went to find Xie Yuze again.
Meanwhile, at the entrance of the Xie residence.
Jun Lanjin had already arrived at the Xie family with his men. Just as he was about to enter, he was stopped by the head of the Imperial Guard.
"Your Majesty..."
The warlord was about to speak when he saw Jun Lanjin raise his eyes and glance at him without any emotion: "How dare you."
"You dare to stop me?"
Upon hearing this, the warlord who had stopped Jun Lanjin pulled his hand back.
He immediately turned to the side and said with a smile, "Your Highness, please, please."
Jun Lanjin didn't even bother to say a word to him. He lifted his foot and walked into the Xie family's gate. His movements were so fast that he had already walked two or three meters into the Xie family's gate in the blink of an eye.
His robes slid gracefully with his movements.
"Search."
A single word escaped from his thin lips.
In an instant, more than a dozen figures ran out from behind him and darted around the Xie family's residence.
Upon seeing this, the warlord's heart skipped a beat, fearing it was a mistake on his part.
He hurried over to Jun Lanjin's side and asked in a trembling voice, "Your Highness? Has something happened?"
Jun Lanjin turned to look at him and asked coldly, "Was there any commotion at the General's mansion yesterday?"
The warlord paused for a moment, then said, "There really is one. A small kitchen in the general's mansion caught fire. I don't know which careless servant was careless."
"A fire broke out?" Jun Lanjin repeated.
The warlord nodded fearfully: "Your Highness, but... but has something happened at the General's Mansion?"
Jun Lanjin did not reply to him, but simply said, "Take me to see."
The warlord dared not say anything and quickly led Jun Lanjin to the place where the fire had started.
The fire was just extinguished yesterday, and the small kitchen area is still a charred black. The house is burned down to just a rickety frame that looks like it could collapse with the slightest breeze.
Jun Lanjin stood there for a while, seemingly lost in thought.
"Your Highness!" Just then, one of the guards who had gone out to search earlier knelt beside Jun Lanjin and said, "The third young master of the Xie family is missing. The entire Xie family is looking for him."
"What?!" The warlord's expression changed drastically. He instinctively exclaimed, "Could it be that he escaped from the general's mansion?!"
Upon hearing this, Jun Lanjin gave him a calm look.
"The general's mansion is heavily guarded. How did he, a spoiled brat, escape from the general's mansion?"