Chapter 45

Fourteen arrived at the tea house in roughly the time that it took for the tea to cool. He addressed Luo Wei, "Young master, everyone in the city is looking for a young noble from the capital, they're going around with a portrait of you."

"We're not from the capital, remember?" Luo Wei didn't seem bothered.

The three guards present all applauded Luo Wei's foresight in their minds. They'd checked in as merchants from Xi Nan, Shang Xing at the inn. Yu Zhou's magistrate would never find them if they were looking for a young noble from the capital.

The other source of Luo Wei's certainty was that the inn they were staying in happened to be backed by Qi Lin Villa. That outwardly honest but internally clever owner wasn't about to sell them out like this.

Not too long after, Thirteen also arrived with news, "Young master, they're not asking about nobles from the capital anymore, they're just using the portrait to search now."

Luo Wei offered Thirteen a seat for some tea. Zheng Jing Feng was a smart man, it's natural that he'd suspect Luo Wei might falsify some information.

"Young master," Ten said, "Are we just going to sit here like this?"

Luo Wei still looked deep in thought as he watched the market streets outside, but his command was clear, "Ten, tonight, you're going to capture Zheng Jing Feng for me."

"Understood," The secret guards responded in unison.

"There must be some highly skilled martial artists guarding him, you have to be careful," Luo Wei knew that Ming Jian Villa would send someone to Zheng Jing Feng.

"Then perhaps it'd be better to do it on the road," Fourteen suggested, "What does the young master think?"

Luo Wei thought for a moment, "If we did it that way, do you think we'd still be able to leave?"

Eleven added, "The roads are numerous around this area, the little inroads and alleys are especially deep and densely laid. It wouldn't be hard to catch someone."

"Then do what you guys think is best," Luo Wei trusted the skills of these secret guards, so he delegated.

Zheng Jing Feng had been nervous the entire day. He's heard Luo Wei's name many times. He was the senior chancellor's lazy son and the only skill he had was driving his family to ruin. However, recently, news had arrived that Luo Wei had become the emperor's disciple, serving at his Imperial Majesty's side. Luo Wei had even taken up residence in the Hall of Eternal Light, and has become deeply favored by the emperor. Luo Wei had also broken it off with the second prince, and ceased their interactions. Zheng Jing Feng's instinct on the matter was that Luo Wei wasn't a simple person. If this new Luo Wei who'd gotten the emperor's favor was the real Luo Wei, then the Luo Wei before could only be something he put up as a pretense in order to gain the second prince's trust. If a thirteen year old could do something like this, he must be devilishly clever. Heaven knows how much of the second prince's business he'd been privy to, and besides that, how much of it was related to his, Zheng Jing Feng's business?

Just before dusk, a servant of the Zheng family arrived to report that the Zheng family home had caught fire.

Zheng Jing Feng became even more anxious, but it was his home that'd caught fire, he'd have to go and see if the elderly and the children were safe no matter what. So Zheng Jing Feng could only rush out of Yu Zhou's magistrate and hurry towards home.

"Faster," Zheng Jing Feng was worried, and kept asking the porters carrying his sedan to move faster.

The porters also wanted to go faster but the roads were busy with people while the walkway itself wasn't terribly wide. How much faster could they go in these conditions?

As they moved along, a five or six year old boy suddenly started crying in the crowd, followed by a woman screaming. It seemed as if there was a thief in their midst. So the rubberneckers rubbernecked, and those who helped as thief catchers tried to catch the thief. Thus, the already busy street became even more chaotic.

Zheng Jing Feng was just about to get out of the sedan so he could survey the situation when he felt the whole vehicle tilt to one side, as if someone had run into it. He opened his mouth to ask what was going on, but the curtains on the front of the sedan was pulled open from the outside, and a stranger appeared before Zheng Jing Feng.

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