Song Yichun stood under the eaves of the upper house, watching the guards rushing around in the courtyard, and felt a chill all over her body.

  Song Mo has gone missing!

  Where did he escape from?

  Who saved him again?

  If he had known this earlier, he should have sent someone to guard the house.

  But this son of his is clever and resourceful to say the least, with a silver tongue to boot. Even if he really did station someone in the house, it's possible that person would be won over by him instead.

  Thinking of these things, he felt a sharp pain in his temples.

  Chang Huwei walked over with a gloomy expression.

  "Your Excellency," he said with a bow, "Nothing has been found!"

  "What's going on here?" Song Yichun suddenly burst into rage, "Can't he even fly to the sky?"

  As soon as he finished speaking, both of them were invigorated, exchanged a glance, and hastily entered the inner chamber together.

  The ceiling of the inner room has several blocks with obvious signs of being lifted.

  "Come quickly!" Song Yichun's face showed surprise and delight.

  Before long, Chang Weidong led a few people up.

  "Imperial Uncle," soon, the eunuch's head stretched out from the top of the roof, "the tiles on the roof have been removed, and there are also marks left by iron claws - someone climbed in from the small alley to the east and rescued the young master."

  East alley, next to it is Yi Zhi Tang.

  Song Chunyi's eyes narrowed, and he said in a deep voice: "Surround the Yi Zhi Hall for me! Dig three feet underground, I want you to find the person for me!"

  "Yes!" Chang Dai waited for the guard to take him to the Yi Zhi Hall.

  Song Yichun sat listlessly on the large kang by the window in the inner room.

  What should I do now?

  He had originally planned to beat Song Mo half to death, then leave him hanging in the inner chamber overnight, and by tomorrow morning when the ancestral hall opens, he would drive him out of the house... At that time, someone would definitely come to persuade him, but as long as he delayed for a few days, it would be equivalent to bringing Song Mo back home, with Song Mo's injuries, he might not live for a few more days, and there was no need to report to the Emperor.

  If Song Mo was rescued by someone, this road would be impassable.

  He was able to capture Song Mo so smoothly completely because of his deliberate and unintentional calculations. When Song Mo caught his breath...

  Song Mo had killed Japanese pirates in battle at the age of ten!

  Song Yichun couldn't help but shiver.

  Damn Jiang Meihua, it's all because of him, he taught his own son to be like this!

  This is not his son Song Yichun, but rather his son Jiang Meihua!

  He was muttering curses against his late elder brother in the house, when a guard walked in with trepidation: "Your Excellency,..."

  Song Han!

  Song Yichun was quite surprised, thought for a moment, and said: "Let him come in!" Then he lightly sighed.

  Song Han rushed in with red eyes, saw that there was only his father in the house, and quickly pulled his father's sleeve: "Dad, I want my older brother! I'm scared to be alone with mom!" As he spoke, he burst into loud sobs.

  Song Yi Chun couldn't help but frown and scold his second son loudly: "How old are you now? When something happens, all you know is to cry! Your older brother was helping your father with things at your age, can't you learn from him?" Mentioning his eldest son made him even more furious, "It's all because your mother spoiled you!" He said, and with a flick of his sleeve, he pushed his son aside, "If you cry again, go kneel in the temple!"

  Song Han stared blankly at his father, his mouth agape in shock, having forgotten to cry.

  In the past, although Father would scold him, he wouldn't show such dislike for him as today.

  Song Yichun felt even more annoyed in his heart and loudly shouted at the guards: "Who brought Second Master here?"

  The guard hastily replied: "It's Li Bai from Second Master's side."

  "Bring her in for me!" Song Yichun's face turned iron-gray as he scolded Li Bai: "....If you can't take care of Second Master again, I'll break your legs!"

  Li Bai was so frightened that he couldn't say a word and only knew to keep kowtowing to Song Yichun.

  Song Yichun lifted her foot and kicked Li Bai's chest: "Still not rolling for me?"

  Pears turn white with pain, and sweat breaks out on their foreheads. They fled in disarray from the inner room, embracing the frightened Song Han.

  Song Yichun felt a little comforted in her heart.

  He asked the guard: "Is there still no news from the other side of the pass?"

  The guard was very quick-witted and immediately said: "I'll go take a look!" He bowed to Song Yichun with his fists, and quickly exited the inner chamber.

  Song Yichun let out a long sigh and sat down to take a sip of tea.

  Song Mo should be hidden in Yizhitang.

  Several people around him who could be used were either not in Kyoto or had been arrested. Even if there were a few who were loyal to him, they were all insignificant figures who had long been taken care of by him, and even with them, they did not have the ability to rescue Song Mo out of the house. Even if he was rescued from the house, there was no place to settle Song Mo...

  An idea flashed through his mind and he involuntarily straightened up, secretly calling out that something was wrong, a layer of cold sweat seeping from the back of his heart.

  How could I have forgotten about Gu Yu!

  If Song Mo escapes, the most likely thing is that he will seek help from Gu Yu, and only Gu Yu, that idiot, would recklessly take him in.

  "Come in!" he shouted, and a guard entered with a bow.

  Song Yichun ordered him: "You immediately send someone to have the eldest son of Yunyangbo's house, Gu Yu, monitored for me." Before he had even finished speaking, he felt it was not suitable and changed his words, saying, "No, send four people! Follow from a distance, once you discover the young master, immediately send someone back to report."

  The guard went away at the sound.

  Song Yichun felt slightly at ease in her heart and couldn't help but think of this matter again.

  Besides Gu Yu, who else could have taken in Song Mo?

  Zhang Xiuming, Lu Jia, or that whatever Shen Zhuoying deputy general Ma Youming... what kind of friends has he actually made?

  Song Yichun's heart was burning like fire.

  The guard hastily came over, looking anxious: "Duke Guo, we haven't seen any trace of Young Master. However, a clerk named Chen Bo from the Yi Zhi Tang is missing, and we also found iron claw marks on the east wall."

  "What?" Song Yichun's face suddenly turned white as paper, and he jumped up from his seat, "What did you say?" His voice had changed.

  The guards were acting suspiciously and strangely.

  Why does Guo Gongye seem somewhat afraid of Shiziye?

  He quickly repeated what he had just said.

  Song Yichun was stunned and sat down on the kang with a thud.

  "How could this be? How could this be?" He muttered to himself, looking flustered and at a loss for what to do, so much so that the usually composed bodyguard saw him repeating this phrase over and over again there, waiting for half a day without seeing Song Yichun come up with a plan.

  The guard could only say in a low voice: "Your Excellency, shall we apprehend and interrogate the two young servants who attended to Chen Bo?"

  "Want... want, want!" The constant guard's words brought Song Yichun back to his senses. He seemed to have been awakened and hurriedly said, "Not only do we need to carefully interrogate those two little guys, but also the others in Yuizhitang, you all need to be carefully questioned, and send someone to investigate if there are any suspicious people entering or leaving the alley." When he got to this point, his tone paused, saying, "And Chen Tao's place. Also need to thoroughly investigate, see who Song Mo usually associates with, those people also need to be watched, maybe Song Mo will go to them for help..." As he spoke, he again looked regretful and said, "Forget it, no need to ask about Chen Tao's place, even if we ask, we won't get anything out of it, and might even alert that little guy, causing him to discover that Song Mo has escaped. A bunch of nonsense, leading us astray."

  Chang Huwei thought of Chen Tao, who was beaten to the brink of death but didn't make a sound. He felt uneasy in his heart and responded with a "yes" before retreating.

  Song Yichun was walking around in circles inside the house.

  Sometimes he clenched his fists tightly, sometimes he grasped them into fists, until the sky turned white and the maids came in to ask him to wash, only then did he realize it was already the second day.

  Song Yichun hastily shouted for Chang Huwei and ordered the maid: "Quickly go and bring him to me!"

  The maid didn't know what had happened and nervously put down the washing utensils, telling the guard outside to call over Gong Shu.

  "What's going on?" Song Yichun hastily asked. "What did those two young men say?"

  One day and one night without sleep, the guards on his face had a greenish tint, and his expression was even more haggard: "The two young men only said that they were ordered by Yan Chaoqing to serve Chen Bo. Chen Bo did the same as yesterday, after dinner he took a stroll in the courtyard, then said he wanted to go to the front yard to see the excitement, telling them not to follow him, so they stayed in the study to clean up and tidy, until the hour of hai Chen Bo had not returned, the two men searched around the front and back yards but couldn't find anyone, just as we were wondering, we went to look for them... They didn't know anything!"

  "How is this possible?" Song Yichun burst into a rage, "Get me the torture tools, let's see if they still dare to speak!"

  "They said so." Thinking of the two little servants, they would cry and howl as soon as they were tortured, but when asked what they knew, they would repeat the same few sentences over and over again. Although it was completely different from Chen Tao's silence, nothing could be gotten out of them either. Constable Huo felt a strong sense of fatigue emanating from his bones, "The two of them insisted that they didn't know where Chen Bo had gone!"

  Song Yichun slammed the teacup to the ground with a loud "bang", his handsome face twisted and ferocious, shouting: "Beat me, beat me hard! If you don't speak up, I'll have all of you beaten to death! And that Chen Tao, if he still says that jade pendant isn't Song Mo's, have him beaten to death along with the rest!"

  The usually reticent guard responded in a low voice, just as he was about to retreat, the guard who had been sent to monitor Gu Yu walked in: "Duke, just now Chen Zhanggui from the antique shop on West Main Street came with a letter from Young Master, saying that Young Master wants to see the Emperor and asks for your help to facilitate an audience as soon as possible."

  The antique shop on West Street is owned by the Song family.

  The guards stopped in their tracks, and from behind them came the furious roar of the British officer: "Are you all idiots? Hurry up and bring back the young master!"

  The guard explained in a low voice: "We've already asked Chen Zhanggui, and Chen Zhanggui said that it was He San, the little groom from the mansion's stable, who had him deliver the letter - he didn't know what happened at all, and the young master wasn't even in his shop."

  "A bunch of idiots!" Song Yichun was furious, "Why aren't you tying up He San for me yet? What are you standing there stupidly for?"

  "Master Guo!" The guard said stiffly, "Huo San hasn't returned since he left the mansion."

  "Fools, fools, all of them are fools..." Song Yichun was jumping up and down, scolding loudly. Another guard who had been sent to keep an eye on Gu Yu came back and saw the scene in the room. He reported cautiously, "Your Excellency, Young Master Gu has left for the palace by sedan chair."

  Song Yichun's eyes glared fiercely: "Then why don't you block him for me!"

  Two guards lowered their heads, although they didn't speak, they exchanged a glance with each other.

  What right do they have to block Gu Yu's sedan chair!

  Song Yichun also realized that he had misspoken, and scolded Song Mo: "......all of you are just a bunch of cowards!" Then he scolded Song Han: "......he can't do anything except eating and drinking!"

  If Song Han were a few years older, he could help him block Gu Yu.

  Everyone in the house huddled together, as if doing so would reduce the amount of anger that fell on them.

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  Sisters, today's update!

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  Tomorrow's update is also a bit late...

  Chapter 150 revised a bit, but it doesn't affect anything. If you're interested, take a look; otherwise, you can skip it.

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