Reborn as a concubine's sister, the eldest lady went crazy

"Yes, yes, yes..." She had said these words to different people more than ten times since she woke up this morning. She was already dry-mouthed and exhausted. But rather than being afraid, she wanted to know where the lady had gone.

"Your Highness, the lady must have been kidnapped by criminals. You must find her!" Si Qin grabbed Lu Anyuan's sleeve tightly, her face flushed, and her lips turned dry and white.

"I know, don't worry." With his patience exhausted, Lu Anyuan stood up and looked around the room carefully. Nothing was missing. Even the private money he had given her for safekeeping was still in the box.

If he was escaping, it would be impossible for him to leave his clothes and money behind. If he was kidnapped, how could he have knocked Siqin unconscious and changed her clothes?

Qin Li knocked on the door outside, but Lu Anyuan didn't let him in. Instead, he walked out of the bedroom. "Hello?"

"Yes, it is said that yesterday evening, the maid in the Crown Princess's room took the token and went out through the back door. As for whether she came back..." Qin Li did not say anything further, the meaning was self-evident.

"She was alone, no one was forcing her, and she got out safely?"

"The guards at the back door only saw one person. She didn't have a bag, but her arms were bulging, so she must have hidden something. But they didn't dare to ask more about the main courtyard. They checked the token and let her go. No one knows where she went after she left."

"We were chasing Chao Jianyi this morning, and the city gates haven't been opened yet?" Lu Anyuan gritted his teeth. He didn't understand why they treated him like this?

"Indeed, but if the Crown Princess was fast, she should have left before the door closed yesterday..."

Lu Anyuan suddenly felt deflated. He had a feeling that he had no place to vent his anger. The rule of guarding the tokens was set by himself, and the time of closing the city gates at night was also the law of Daxia. Every step was in compliance with the regulations. Who could he vent his anger on?

"Ah Er! Where are Ying Jiu and Ying Wu in the mansion?"

"My Lord, we can't find them all. Ying Wu is the maid from yesterday... Uh, before the Crown Princess left, she asked him to get the account book from Si Wen, but he never came back. I don't know when Ying Jiu left..."

“Excellent.” Lu Anyuan showed a nearly perfect smile. If someone was not familiar with him, they would definitely think that this smile was kind and beautiful, but these few people in front of the hall... I guess this is what people call the Smiling Devil, right?

"Go, seal up all the shops under her name, and put all the employees in jail. No matter who comes to redeem her or to seek mercy through the back door, arrest them all, regardless of whether they are men or women. Also, send the Weiwei army to the southern border, the northern border, and the East China Sea. We don't seek to win a big battle, but to station 30 miles at the border of each country. I don't want to see which small countries dare to move without permission. The city gates are still sealed, and search everywhere in the city for me. You must find out where she went after leaving the Prince's Mansion!"

Ah Er and Qin Li opened their mouths at the same time. Are they planning to arrest the Crown Princess as a fugitive?

"Also, post Xu Yiwen's paintings and search everywhere for him!"

"Xu Yi... Wen?" Didn't he leave the capital to travel a long time ago? Ah Er's head skipped a beat and he immediately understood that His Highness was planning to capture all the people close to the Crown Princess and use them as bait!

"Also, remember, the Crown Princess is not lost. She will follow me into the palace to receive the emperor's greetings later."

Qin Li quickly lowered his hands. He understood that this was a temporary expedient. After all, the new emperor's coronation ceremony was imminent. If he said that the future queen was missing at this moment, it would definitely cause another big storm. It would be better to keep it to oneself and search for her slowly and secretly later.

"Your Highness!" Ah Qi was panting. His body was exhausted from the trip up and down the mountain.

"How?" A gleam of light flashed in Lu Anyuan's eyes.

"No one is here. They've all left. But, I can't tell if they left a long time ago or just left temporarily."

The light faded, and eventually this last glimmer of hope was shattered.

"Master, do you want to post the portraits of Ying Wu and Ying Jiu as well?"

"Don't you know that they can disguise themselves? Don't you know that those people are highly skilled in martial arts? If they really get out there and get caught by someone, who do you think will die? Don't you know that those people will definitely break up into small pieces and scatter? Don't you know that large group of people..." Lu Anyuan really didn't know. Until now, he didn't know how many shadow guards Xu Yixing had.

So I don’t know whether to ask them or myself these questions.

"Forget it, go ahead and do it. Qin Li, let's go back to the palace. Go and invite Commander Bai and his wife and children to the palace. Let them live in the late Queen Mother's Yi'an Palace."

Lu Anyuan sat in the carriage with his eyes closed. After a while, he took out two plums from his purse, chewed them and swallowed them. He had lost the habit of eating plums in recent years, but the servants didn't know about it and still packed them for him every day.

When he took out the third one, he didn't rush to eat it. Instead, he held it in his hands and examined it carefully: "Why did you lie to me? You didn't want me to be the emperor from the beginning, right? You pretend to be looking forward to the future every day, but that's because you know that there is no me in your future, right?"

In the past few days, he had been focusing on the palace. Now that he had calmed down, he could naturally think of some insignificant details in his daily life. Now that there was such a series of things, he had figured out everything. He had even sent people to guard the place where his second brother's poor widow was in the cold palace, but he had missed his own house.

"Xu Yixing, you are really amazing." Lu Anyuan crushed the plum in his hand into pieces and threw it out of the window, his eyes as cold as a devil.

Today, the capital is in chaos, and the common people and businessmen are all panicking. The reason is very simple. They saw the white lanterns hanging high on the city gates early in the morning. In addition, the city gates were locked. This is the capital of the gods. Even in wartime, they were not completely closed. So everyone tried to lower their heads and hold their breath, and obediently opened their bags to be checked by those soldiers who were obviously here with bad intentions. However, it seems that these soldiers not only require pass checks, but also face checks.

After a busy afternoon of investigation, he finally reported it to Lu Anyuan who was keeping vigil over the late emperor in the evening.

"Your Highness, Madam...she went to Fengxing Carriage and Horse Shop to hire a carriage after leaving the mansion yesterday and went to Xiaoxi Town."

"What is that place?"

"It's in a small town about a hundred miles north of the capital. But the people from the carriage and horse company said that the place she wanted to go was called Jingdie Township. There was a lot of mountain roads to walk after getting off the bus in Xiaoxi Town. The carriage and horse company didn't have a branch in that small place, so they could only send her to Xiaoxi Town."

"Hmph, don't pay any attention to it, it's all smoke and mirrors. But so, she went north?"

Ah Da continued, "Did he go to the North? After all, I heard that the Xu family has its roots in Miaozhou, maybe..."