The back hill of Biluo Manor.

"Master, please punish me. I lost the person."

Gong Chenyu felt a chill all over his body. "Where was he last seen?"

"The backyard of the manor next door."

Ying Yi lowered his head and continued, "When my subordinates chased after him, there was no trace of him, but his scent remained in the room."

The air pressure around Gong Chenyu dropped even lower. "With your skills, even if he has left first, you can still catch up with him based on his aura. What went wrong today?"

Ying Yi was actually very depressed. "There was no trace of him within two kilometers, except for that room. It felt like he disappeared out of thin air in that room."

"Take the king with you."

Gong Chenyu followed Yingyi to the high wall separating the two villages and was just about to use his Qinggong skills to climb over the wall.

Unexpectedly, his sharp eyes discovered a dog hole in the hidden corner.

He kicked the weeds away and stared at the dog hole, with a powerful aura spreading all over his body.

Countless possibilities flashed through his mind, especially that the woman was very likely to have escaped from here that day, or to have entered the bamboo forest in the back mountain from here.

It seemed as if he vaguely knew how to find that woman.

After jumping into the village, he came to the house in the backyard.

The tables, chairs and benches inside were all in tatters, but the bed was clean and tidy.

Gong Chenyu just glanced at the remains of tables, chairs and benches, then stood in a place in the room and slowly closed his peach blossom eyes.

Based on the scene, I have already pictured in my mind how Chu Yunzhou used his internal force to shatter the tables and chairs because of his anger.

When he opened his eyes, his peach blossom eyes were full of inquiry, his dark pupils were deep, and there seemed to be a faint undercurrent surging.

"He should have been taken away by someone he knew."

Ying Yi's pupils trembled. "I checked immediately and found no trace of the second person's breath."

“Just because it hasn’t been discovered doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened.”

Gong Chenyu moved his feet, and now he was standing at the place where Chu Yunzhou fell.

He lifted up his robe and half squatted down. After a careful inspection, he asked Yingyi to come over and stand here.

He circled around Yingyi.

Finally, it stopped behind Yingyi, which was also the place where Nan Mo had stood at the beginning.

He closed his eyes and restored the scene in his mind based on his familiarity with Chu Yunzhou.

"master……"

At this moment, Gong Chenyu was holding a dagger and placing it on Yingyi's neck from behind.

After a while, he retracted the dagger and said, "With Chu Yunzhou's ability, the only one who can approach so closely is either me, or a master who is more powerful than me, or someone I know."

Ying Yi was shocked. "Looking at the entire Great Xia Kingdom, there are almost no people with more profound skills than the prince."

“There are always people better than you, and there are always people better than you. There are too many hermits and great people that we have never known about.”

After a pause, he walked to the bed, where it was obvious that someone had sat there.

"Chu Yunzhou was taken away by the drug without any warning. And..."

He suddenly turned around and looked outside, "Is this the manor that Gong Zhan used to live in?"

"Back to Master, yes."

In a flash, many possible scenes appeared in Gong Chenyu's mind.

He flashed out of the room and returned to Biluo Manor in a few jumps.

Songzhu saw his prince coming back and was just about to report the series of events that happened at the banquet.

Unexpectedly, Gong Chenyu asked first, "Did you capture someone from the house in the backyard of Gong Zhan's manor last time?"

Songzhu was stunned for a moment, then quickly replied, "Yes."

"Why did Chu Yunzhou disguise himself as a beggar that day?"

"I remember Mr. Chu casually said someone needed this identity. It just so happened that we also needed Chu Yunzhou as bait that day, so I didn't think much about it."

Gong Chenyu was silent for a moment, then asked, "The person you personally went to arrest that day, was there anything unusual in the room where Chu Yunzhou was?"

Songzhu didn't know why his master suddenly asked about this matter, and he hurriedly recalled the specific circumstances of that day, not daring to miss any details.

Gong Chenyu did not urge him, but just stood quietly by the window. He looked calm, but in fact, he did not even notice that his hands hanging on both sides were trembling slightly.

Thinking about everything that happened last time and this time, it seemed that he had sensed something incredible. His pupils suddenly contracted and his eyes became dark and deep.

"There should have been some kind of incense burning in that room before."

This answer made Gong Chenyu suddenly close his eyes, and his fists hanging at both sides were clenched tightly, with his nails digging into the flesh.

"Tick tock..."

"Master, your hand...are you injured?"

Songzhu didn't know what had happened. When he saw blood dripping from his master's fist, he thought he had been injured.

He hurried to get the medicine box to bandage the wound.

Gong Chenyu seemed not to feel any pain. His mind flashed back to when Chu Yunzhou said in the dark prison that Gong Zhan was not a good person. What good thing could happen in his manor?

It now seems that Gong Zhan drugged a woman on the farm, and the woman must have escaped from the dog hole. In order to remove the effect of the drug, she had no choice but to enter his carriage, which led to what happened afterwards.

The housekeeper had clearly brought portraits of all the women who had participated in the spring outing, as well as the personal maids, but that woman was not among them.

Chu Yunzhou knew that his secret guards had been hiding in the dark and watching him, but he still tried every means to leave the city today.

His purpose was to go to that room to meet someone, someone who would not let him be on guard at all, and this person was also coming to attend the flower-viewing banquet today.

Chu Yunzhou's solemn vow in the secret cell that he and Nan Mo loved each other and had decided to spend their lives together echoed in Gong Chenyu's ears once again.

"Has Nan Mo left Hibiscus Garden today?"

"Master, let me bandage you..."

"Answer me, has Nan Mo left?" Gong Chenyu's sudden angry voice scared Song Zhu so much that he trembled.

"No...no...no, Miss Nan has never left Hibiscus Garden today."

Gong Chenyu's heart suddenly relaxed and cold sweat broke out on his back. For a moment, he was really afraid that Song Zhu would say words like "unclear" or "leave".

He felt that he must be crazy to have such a ridiculous idea in his mind that the woman who took his virginity might be Nan Mo.

After making sure Nan Mo did not leave, his tense body finally relaxed.

Then he slowly stretched out his hands, his palms already bloody.

"Bandage it!"

Songzhu cleaned the wound carefully, not daring to breathe.

In the past, he thought he understood his prince best, but today he couldn't understand him at all.

Ever since leaving Biluo Manor last time, his prince's thoughts have become increasingly difficult to guess.

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