IHOEAYSTTTIW Chapter 76

Chapter 76: Chef Yun, who had been busy for n days, finally lost his wife…

Chapter 76: Chef Yun, who had been busy for n days, finally lost his wife…

The carriage stopped after only two steps. Lin Yan straightened up and reached for the curtain, wanting to lift it.

The person stopping the carriage shouted sternly, “What are you doing going out of the city? The city gates are about to be locked. If you leave the city now, you won’t be able to return.”

Lin Yan withdrew his hand from the curtain and slumped back into his seat.

No need to worry, he was riding in the imperial family’s carriage. Naturally, he didn’t need to worry about exiting the city gate.

“My lord is…”

An Tan pulled the guard aside and whispered something.

The carriage started again, speeding up, getting farther and farther away from the Capital City.

Lin Yan suddenly sat up straight.

He pulled open the curtain, wanting to take one last look at the Capital City, but only saw the dark gate tower. Lin Yan disappointedly lowered the curtain and sighed deeply.

Anyway, he wouldn’t be coming back, so there was no difference whether he looked or not.

Past memories began to attack Lin Yan.

Lin Yan gave up and pulled out his cellphone, trying to distract himself.

A big liar who didn’t tell a single truth, what was there to miss?

The road became bumpier and the carriage swayed more and more. Lin Yan couldn’t play any longer.

His heart ached, his eyes were dry, and his stomach was churning…

Lin Yan put his cellphone aside and weakly leaned against the carriage frame.

His mind was a mess. He didn’t even notice when a carriage brushed past them.

Yun Qi in the other carriage suddenly felt a pang in his heart. He abruptly opened his eyes and yanked open the carriage window.

The dust from the passing carriage hadn’t completely settled, and the carriage’s appearance was unclear, but it was speeding south.

Seeing Yun Qi open the curtain, the guard next to the carriage quickly leaned over, “What’s wrong, Prince?”

“That carriage…” Yun Qi pointed in the direction of the carriage, but found that it had already been swallowed by the dust and couldn’t be seen. Yun Qi shook his head and lowered the curtain again, “It’s nothing, let’s continue.”

The carriage continued towards the Capital City. Everything just now was just an insignificant interlude.

Yun Qi didn’t know what was wrong with him. He just felt irritable and uneasy, and felt like he should chase after that carriage, but couldn’t say why.

He wanted to close his eyes and rest, but he couldn’t calm down no matter what. Various thoughts popped up like bamboo shoots after a rain.

Yun Qi sighed, letting his thoughts wander.

The wheat problem in the Capital City suburbs was nothing. He had seen the Gibberella zeae in Lin Yan’s phone. He could solve it easily.

The things he needed to do were almost done. After taking his brother to see the National Teacher, he could prepare to leave.

He had no real power, and the new Emperor wasn’t willing to give him any. There wouldn’t be any major events during the inspection tour. When the time came, he could first take his brother to the hot spring villa in the Capital City suburbs for two days, and then…

Yun Qi’s travel plan stretched from the south to the north, becoming more and more excited, more and more thrilled, rubbing his hands together, eager to try, ready to spread his wings and fly…

The carriage slowly stopped. Yun Qi was pulled back to reality by the voices of the Wang Residence people inviting him to get out of the carriage.

“Your Highness, you’re finally back.” The Wang Residence steward respectfully greeted him, his waist bent like a shrimp.

Yun Qi told them to dispense with the formalities, his eyes searching through the crowd for the person he had been longing for.

The steward directed the people to pull the carriage to the back yard. The Wang Residence servants performed their duties. Everything was as usual. Lin Yan hadn’t come to pick him up.

Although he knew that Lin Yan was just like that, and might have slept in, Yun Qi was still a little disappointed.

He followed the steward inside, listlessly asking, “Brother… Where is the Wang Consort?”

The steward respectfully replied, “The Wang Consort’s mood hasn’t been very good since returning from the Imperial Palace. He’s still resting in his room.”

Brother went to the palace?

A bad feeling grew stronger. Yun Qi lifted his foot and walked towards the back yard, “I’ll go see him.”

Lin Yan had ordered that no one was allowed to disturb him, so the servants were naturally happy to have some free time. So when Yun Qi arrived in the courtyard, he found that there wasn’t even a single servant attending.

The steward following behind Yun Qi secretly thought something was wrong. He stole a glance at Yun Qi’s expression.

Yun Qi’s face was a little displeased, but he just waved for him to step back, not intending to pursue the matter.

The steward was relieved, and quickly scurried away, respectfully waiting not far from the door.

Yun Qi secretly noted these lazy people in his mind, his attention quickly returning to the courtyard.

The room was dark, without a single sound. He was… asleep, right?

Yun Qi took a deep breath and gently knocked on the door twice, softly asking, “Brother, are you awake?”

The room was still quiet, without any response.

The ominous feeling grew stronger.

Yun Qi knocked on the door twice again, his eyes sweeping over the inside and outside of the courtyard.

There were only fallen leaves, no lazy cat.

If White wasn’t in the courtyard, he must be in the room.

Lin Yan slept soundly, but that cat would wake up at the slightest sound. If there hadn’t been any sound for so long, it could only mean that neither the person nor the cat were in the room.

“Brother, I’m coming in.” Yun Qi raised his voice a little. Seeing that there was still no response from the room, he pushed open the door. He took two steps inside, using the faint light coming in from the window to look into the inner room.

As expected, there was no one in the room. There were signs that things had been rummaged through everywhere. The hidden compartment where Lin Yan kept his precious bag was open, and the things inside were gone.

His brother cherished that bag very much, and only his brother knew how to open the hidden compartment. Now that it was so carelessly open, Yun Qi’s first reaction wasn’t that it had been robbed, but that Lin Yan had left of his own accord.

Yun Qi looked around the room, becoming more and more certain of this guess.

None of the valuables were missing, but most of Lin Yan’s personal items were gone.

Yun Qi turned to leave, but was stopped by the half-open box on the dressing table.

Why was this box outside? The things inside…

Yun Qi took three steps in two and walked to the dressing table, his hands trembling uncontrollably.

Did someone say something? Why did his brother even take this with him?

No, that couldn’t be. His brother might have just taken it out to look at it, and then threw it aside when he got bored. His brother was just like that, he knew it.

Yun Qi trembled as he opened the box. The sound of the lid colliding with the box was grating. Yun Qi took out the purse in the box, his heart sinking even further when he saw the open bag.

There was only a strand of hair left in the bag.

Yun Qi rubbed the hair in his palm twice, and his icy heart warmed slightly.

His brother couldn’t tell the difference between these two strands of hair, but he could.

The strand of hair left in the bag was his brother’s.

In a multiple-choice question with two options, Lin Yan chose the wrong answer.

Yun Qi cut another strand of hair, put the two strands of hair together, carefully put them back into the purse, and put it away again.

Why did his brother suddenly enter the palace, and why did he suddenly leave? Where did he go after he left…

Confused thoughts filled his mind, and his headache started to flare up again.

Yun Qi picked up the teapot on the table, poured a cup of cold tea, and drank it all in one gulp.

The cold liquid entered his stomach from his throat, and his stomach contracted physiologically, clamoring to accuse Yun Qi of his evil deeds.

Yun Qi ignored the discomfort in his body and poured another cup of cold tea.

Random thoughts continued to flow, and Yun Qi tried to calm himself down, sorting out what he should do now from the complicated thoughts.

No matter why his brother left, the most important thing now was to find him.

His brother didn’t have a house in the Capital City, so he should have gone to the Gu family, or back to Xiangwei.

Yun Qi got up and rushed out, but stopped at the door, turning back again.

These clothes wouldn’t do, and there were still people in the Wang Residence…

The steward waited tremblingly at the door for a quarter of an hour, finally waiting for the prince’s order, “You may leave, no one is allowed to disturb me without my order.”

The steward nodded obsequiously as he closed the door, feeling that these words were very familiar, as if he had just heard them…

That’s right, the Wang Consort said these words this afternoon.

The prince and the Wang Consort’s relationship was really good. Once they saw each other, they only had each other in their eyes, and they hated that these people were annoying and an eyesore.

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