NOVEL NEXT Chapter 708 - 708: An Opportunity
Chapter 708: An Opportunity
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The attendant stood beside the carriage and pretended to draw the curtain for Shao Zhongxi. When Shao Zhongxi got into the carriage, he quickly handed the letter in without leaving a trace.
Sitting in the carriage, Shao Zhongxi opened the letter and frowned coldly when he read the contents.
Shao Shuting only now told him about these two major matters.
Something big could have almost happened and he might not have known.
Fortunately, he did not lure his spies back to Pingan Town.
Shao Zhongxi handed the letter to Qi Yin, who had boarded the carriage with him. Qi Yin quickly took out a lighter and blew on it, burning the letter to ashes.
Shao Zhongxi was deep in thought as he watched the letter burn to ashes.
Xue Yan… It was also very likely…
He definitely could not return to Pingan Town. Since the Ji family and Consort
Yi’s Deoole now knew that the route was from the Imperial Caoital to Lingshan Town, they must have sent people. Then, he would slowly pretend to look for someone from Lingshan Town to the Imperial Capital. This way, he could help find if there were other children who might be his nephews. If anything happened in the Imperial Capital or Changyu, he could also rush over faster.
Also, it made the Ji family and Consort Yi more convinced that he knew a lot of clues about his nephew, so they were more likely to find his nephew if they followed him.
Naturally, he would not go to Pingan Town for the time being.
Moreover, Changyu was a large area, and the distance from the capital city to
Lingshan Town was not small either. They had probably found some clues in Changyu, but Consort Yi and the Ji family had not expanded their search and were still searching along this line.
Of course, the premise of all this was that the secret guard was still a fool. Even if he was cured, he will not explain anything to Consort Yi and the Ji family.
He hoped that his brother would be able to save that guard as soon as possible.
Shao Zhongxi stopped thinking about this. Instead, he gave the order that their route from now on was not to wander around in the South, but to follow the route from Lingshan Town to the Imperial Capital.
On the morning of the 21st of October, Shao Boqi was shocked when he learned that the fool in the Ji family’s dungeon was the secret guard who had escaped with his nephew.
Previously, even if Zhongxi didn’t send a message, he had planned to think of a way to save the person. Now that his brother had sent an urgent message saying that it was actually that hidden guard. He was even more shocked.
However, the Ji family’s dungeon was heavily guarded and had many traps. It would be a little difficult to save him.
If someone tried to save him and failed, it would alert the enemy. The Ji family’s dungeon would definitely increase their manpower and might even transfer the secret guard to somewhere else. At that time, it would be even more difficult for him to send people to save him.
This was not something that could be attempted many times.
He had to think of a foolproof plan and wait for an opportunity to save the person in one fell swoop.
In the Imperial Capital, in the Duke’s residence, Shao Boqi was thinking of a way to save the guard in one try. At the same time, in the Minister of
Revenue’s residence, because the daughter of the Minister of Revenue had reached adulthood and was about to hold a wedding ceremony, the wife of the Minister of Revenue had set up a banquet and invited the wives and daughters of some officials to attend the ceremony.
The family members of people who were more senior than the Minister of Revenue could come and go as they pleased, and the Minister’s wife had no qualms about anything.
If the family members of people who were younger than the Minister were invited, they would naturally come. They weren’t given a choice to refuse or come and go as they please. They were afraid of offending people, so they definitely had to come.
There were many high-ranking officials and many low-ranking officials in the capital city. As such, there were many madams and young ladies who came.
Although Pei Dongyu was now a minor official in the Imperial Academy, the Emperor remembered him and would ask about this year’s top scholar from time to time. His future was limitless..