Chapter 706 - Seriously Injured
Zhu Junyang turned around to look at the patriarch of the Chen Family, who was standing at the threshold, smiling. He sneered and said, "Even the most well thought out plans will have their holes. We only didn't find what's wrong here!"
Zhu Junyang was willing to bet everything he owned that there was something off about the Chen Family's patriarch. With his ability to read people's minds, he only saw a blank white space in the other man's head. This man either had a natural gift or had been carefully trained by someone else. Ordinary people would always have something appear in their heads when they were talking to others. Thus, it was likely that the latter was true for this man!
Hou Xiaoliang felt his spirits lift at the sign of a breakthrough. He asked excitedly, "Master, does the Chen Family really have something fishy?"
"The patriarch of the Chen Family is not a simple man!" Zhu Junyang mounted his horse in an easy movement and followed the officers as they headed down the road. He coldly commanded, "Ming Xin, Ming Ding, keep an eye on them!'
"Yes!" Two voices could be heard from the street in the area where there were the most people. immediately, a pair of beyond ordinary men disappeared into the crowd.
The Chen Family absolutely had something going on in order to have his master say that they were 'not simple'. Hou Xiaoliang wanted to cry with joy. They finally had a clue of where his mistress and his Wutong had gone. Wutong, just wait, this older brother will save you soon!
However, for the next few days, the news from Ming Ding and the others only told them that nothing of note had occurred at the Chen Family's residence. If it weren't for the fact that this involved his own wife, Zhu Junyang would have praised them for having nerves of steel!
Five days had passed and they still had no leads. Hou Xiaoliang was so frantic that he was running around in circles, "Master, since there's something wrong with the Chen Family, isn't it better to make a show of force and take the patriarch out? With Chief Steward Su's abilities, I'm sure he'd be able to crack that nut!!"
"No! Currently, no news is good news. This means that they need something from my princess consort. Otherwise, I'm sure they would have leaked something regarding her in order to make a nice trap for us to fall in!" Zhu Junyang frowned heavily. The only thing that his lass had that other people might covet was her medicine concocting skills. Was it possible that these people had heard the rumors that he was looking for materials to a life prolonging pill? That was also good as it meant that the lass was at least safe for now.
The thick smell of medicinal ingredients wafted around the secret underground room in the Chen Family's warehouse. Eunuch Yuan watched as the rare and valuable medicinal ingredients were placed into the medicinal stove one after another. They slowly dissolved into a thick medicinal extract that looked incredibly astounding. A strange, eerie smile appeared slowly on his pale face. The reason why it looked odd was because it looked like someone had drawn the caricature of a smile on a stiff mask as it didn't have any true emotion to it.
Time had passed and they were getting closer and closer to the forty-nine day mark. Xiaocao and her servants had worked until their eyes turned red and all of them had become markedly thinner. They looked incredibly sallow and wane. In order to reach his goal of obtaining twenty more years, Eunuch Yuan naturally wouldn't treat them poorly.
However, concocting pills, especially the ones from the recipes that the little divine stone had given her, was not that easy. In the past, when she made pills, she had the little divine stone next to her, helping her to control the flame. Thus, Xiaocao had a much easier time. Only once it left her side did Xiaocao realize just how much she relied on it.
