Xiao Shuihan silently watched this scene, and suddenly thought back to when he was young.
At that time, he was just as high-spirited, confident and daring as Xiao Yi. However, time flew by and in the end, he lost his way in his youth.
All these years, the clan had always been taking a compromise with the Hongmen. He did not dare to fight, did not dare to fight with the whole family. Thus, he could only retreat. Now, looking at the confident Xiao Yi, a trace of hope suddenly emerged in his heart.
Xiao Yi turned his head and looked at Xiao Shuihan: "I don't know when I will return to this trip. So in this period of time, I still hope that grandpa will help me take good care of my father. Don't let the quack see you, don't let strangers near you, and don't take medicine. I am Li Taibai's disciple, my master had taught me all of his abilities, so I am extremely familiar with my father's situation. "
Xiao Shuihan lightly nodded, and said: "Grandfather, I trust you. After you leave, I will take good care of Rene. "
"However." Xiao Yi paused for a bit, and then, a glint flashed across his eyes: "I'm leaving the SH tomorrow. Before I leave, I need to do something to uncover the Xiao Family's spy. Otherwise, I'm afraid these worms will be playing tricks on me after I leave. If the Hongmen did not know about the incident on the Bat Island, then my father would not be lying on this bed, unconscious. "A traitor is just like the worm of the family, they will consume the entire family within a day."
"Sigh …" When Xiao Shuihan heard Xiao Yi's words, he immediately sighed and spoke slowly, "When did I not know that the Xiao family had a spy from the Hongmen? However, after years of scouting, I still haven't discovered anything. The spy that the Hongmen had infiltrated was too cunning. I thought it was Mo Yu's doing, but now he's no longer part of the family. However, news of the gold mine on Bat Island spread like wildfire. It's too difficult to uncover the truth overnight. "
In response to Xiao Shuihan's nagging, Xiao Yi only smiled slightly and said: "I already have an idea, as long as Grandfather is willing to cooperate with me."
"Really?" Xiao Yi's words gave Xiao Shuihan a huge surprise, and he quickly asked.
Xiao Yi nodded, and said with certainty: "I'm serious, but grandfather needs to cooperate with me a little …"
The sky darkened. In this somewhat dark room, the grandfather and grandson duo did not turn on any lights. They chatted in low voices in the room.
Then, the night went by quietly. The entire villa of the Xiao family was calm and peaceful. Nothing had happened. Xiao Yi accompanied her father in his room, quietly hoping to see her father more.
Xiao Shuihan also did not do anything, as if the matter of finding the traitor was already behind his mind.
On the second day, in order to send Xiao Yi off, the Xiao family held a rich breakfast banquet. He invited all of the higher-ups of the Xiao family to a banquet. Firstly, he had to welcome the young master Xiao Yi back to his clan, and secondly, send him off.
After all, Xiao Yi was going to the Thousand Poison Land. In front of him was an unknown place. Before leaving, he would drink some wine to strengthen his courage.
After eating such a rich breakfast, Xiao Yi leaned slightly on his seat, looked at the densely packed Xiao Family's higher ups, and loudly said: "Thank you for your graciousness today. It is really inappropriate to call everyone over early in the morning. However, he didn't know when he would return from this trip. Before leaving, he wanted to meet with everyone in the clan. After all, this is the first time I've returned home. Towards uncles, they all felt tremendous longing. "
When the Xiao Family higher ups heard Xiao Yi's pleasantries, they immediately responded with small talk.
After the pleasantries were over, Xiao Yi changed the topic of the conversation and started to talk about official matters, "This time on the Bat Island trip, father was unconscious because of a little accident. Today, I'm going out to find medicine for my father. I had intended to leave my father at home to take care of him, but I couldn't bear it any longer, so I wanted to take my father with me. If you find the medicine, take it quickly. These days, my father is not in the family, and I hope that all of my uncles will work together to lead the family to glory. "
Xiao Yi's words were spoken in a very friendly and polite manner. His uncles finally had a favorable impression of this young master who had just returned to the clan.
However, Xiao Yi's eyes were like daggers right now, he did not bother looking at the densely packed crowd.
Originally, if Xiao Chaoran stayed in the clan, then Hongmen would have definitely seized this opportunity to assassinate him. And now, Xiao Yi wanted to bring Xiao Chaoran away, and accompany him throughout the journey. Then, the Hongmen had to change his plan and assassinate Xiao Yi and his son on the way.
To others, this sort of change might not be important. However, it had a great deal to do with the decisions made by the Hongmen. Moreover, if there was a traitor within the family. He would be shocked upon hearing this news. Then, he had to think of a way to spread the news as soon as possible. This way, it would be convenient for Hongmen to keep his eyes on Xiao Yi and his son the moment they stepped out of the door, so as to avoid losing his target.
However, what made Xiao Yi disappointed was that when he looked over. Everyone had a calm and composed expression. Towards Xiao Yi's words, they were all secretly polite, not showing the slightest signs of anything fishy.
Xiao Yi was slightly disappointed. Seems like finding a traitor this easily was not realistic. However, at the same time, this also aroused Xiao Yi's competitive spirit.
As long as you are a traitor, you will naturally be exposed. We will wait and see if I can catch you today.
After exchanging a few more pleasantries, Xiao Yi got ready to go up the stairs and carry his father out of the villa.
However, when Xiao Yi walked to the stairs, he purposely made a strange sound. Puchi, puchi. It was clearly the sound of farting.
"Aiya, looks like I can't eat too much in the morning. My stomach isn't feeling well, so I need to go to the toilet." At this time, Xiao Yi's low voice came from the stairs.
Although Xiao Yi kept his voice low, everyone in the hall could hear him clearly. Then, when they thought back to how Xiao Yi had wolfed down the food in the morning banquet, all of them smiled playfully, as if they understood what he meant.
Thus, Xiao Yi was late on his journey.
And at this time, Xiao Shuihan sat in the main hall, as if he had thought of something, and spoke: "afur, there was a few claps of thunder in the middle of the night, so there's no electricity in our house. Moreover, was the lightning rod on the roof broken? Why was there no signal anywhere in the house? Go find a few people to take a look today and fix all of them. "Although we have our own generator in the backyard, but we've been dealing with it for the whole morning, I'm afraid we can't hold on much longer."
It seemed like it was just a trivial matter.
The Xiao family's butler, afur, quickly bowed and nodded his head. "Alright, I'll send someone to do it later."
This matter was just a small episode. However, they had already cut off all contact from inside the mansion. Now that he couldn't hold on to his generator and the villa was out of power, he wouldn't be able to send a message over the internet. But when it comes to lightning rods, there is no signal. The lightning rod and the cell phone's signal had little to do with each other. However, when Xiao Shuihan said this, no one tried to understand these scientific principles. Since there was no signal from his home after the thunderstorm, there was no hope of him sending any messages over his phone.
It was just a casual remark, but it cut off all avenues for the traitor to send out messages.
When Xiao Shuihan talked about these things, he was also inadvertently looking at the entire audience. He wanted to see whose expression was different. However, what made Xiao Shuihan disappointed was that when he looked within the great hall, he couldn't find anyone who wasn't alarmed. It was as if he did not care about the trivial matter that Xiao Shuihan had mentioned at all.
Everyone had come to send Xiao Yi off. Xiao Yi had gone upstairs and would not come down. Everyone could only sit here and wait.
However, they didn't come, nor did they come. It was as if Xiao Yi had already eaten his fill and was in the midst of a storm in the toilet. These people understood in their hearts, so they didn't rush him.
However, Xiao Shuihan seemed to be a little impatient. He stood up and said: "I'm going up to take a look. Take a look around. Although it's late winter, there's a patch of winter chrysanthemum behind my villa. afur, bring them on a tour around. "
After explaining everything to him, Xiao Shuihan hurried upstairs. It was as though he was extremely anxious to see what was going on with his grandson. After making a ruckus for so long, everyone was waiting. You, on the other hand, went to the toilet for a twenty-five-thousand-mile long march.
The high ranking members of the Xiao Clan were extremely busy searching.
At this time, it was rare for him to sit down and take a break. Now, he had drunk one cup after another of morning tea. It seemed like he had been waiting for nothing. As a result, a large group of people majestically followed afur to the back garden to watch the winter chrysanthemums.
They all knew that their Old Master Xiao Shuihan liked chrysanthemum flowers and it was a rare opportunity. Everyone was full of enthusiasm as they looked at the patch of winter chrysanthemum that the old man had kept in the back garden.
Immediately, someone began to recite a poem, and the poem became extremely excited, "The blooming of flowers is not the same as the opening of flowers; "I'd rather die with a stick of incense in my hand. Since when did I ever land in the hands of a northern wind?"
There were also people in the chrysanthemum garden, sunbathing with their faces towards the sun. It was as though he wanted to compete with the winter chrysanthemum for sunshine.
The back door of the Xiao family's villa was right behind the main gate of the Winter Chrysanthemum Garden. He only needed to walk five meters west from the chrysanthemum garden to leave the villa.
This short path was paved with pebbles. The two sides were planted with rich bamboo, making the entire winter look spring.
This extremely large ancient villa only had the front and back two doors. The front door was always in and out, and the back door was rarely used. At this moment, it was very quiet. Not a single sound could be heard.
The sunlight shone down onto the cobblestone path that led out of the villa. Xiao Yi sat at the exit of the road and patiently waited there.