TPATTHU Chapter 58

Chapter 58: I’m Late, I’m Sorry

Chapter 58: I’m Late, I’m Sorry

The carriage horse sudden death case was not just Zhao Jianji’s doing alone; Yang Shihui was also complicit!

Government officials colluding with merchants, embezzling the national treasury, this is outrageous!

Xiao Zhinian’s fingers gripping the roof beam gradually tightened. With a soft crack, he actually snapped off that small piece of wood.

Powdered dust fell.

“Who?!”

Zhao Jianji turned his head alertly in an instant, but saw that the room was the same as when he had entered. He looked around the room but still found nothing. Just as he was about to look up –

“Young Master! You’re back! Why are you running so fast? Be careful!”

A servant’s slightly anxious voice came from outside. Hearing this, Zhao Jianji quickly stuffed the ledger back under the bed, replaced the floorboard. At the same time, Zhao Xiaosi pushed the door open and entered.

Seeing his father in his room, Zhao Xiaosi was stunned for a moment, surprised, “Father, why are you here?”

Zhao Jianji casually patted the dust off his clothes, walked around Zhao Xiaosi, and cleared his throat, “It’s nothing. Yesterday, Father drank too much, and I haven’t had a chance to ask you if you had fun playing?”

Zhao Xiaosi happily said, “It was so fun! Father, take me again next time!”

“Okay! Recently, Luo City has been plagued by rampant thieves. The government is catching people, so don’t run around anymore, understand?” Zhao Jianji smiled and rubbed his son’s head. His gaze fell on the greenish bottle in Zhao Xiaosi’s hand and asked, “What is this?”

“This…” Zhao Xiaosi nervously hid it behind him, lying without blushing or skipping a beat, “This is a thing I brought back from Wu City. I was originally going to give it to the teacher, but I didn’t see him.”

Zhao Jianji didn’t suspect anything. He chatted with Zhao Xiaosi for a couple of words, then found an excuse and hurriedly left.

Xiao Zhinian on the roof beam silently put his short knife back into his sleeve, hid the killing intent in his eyes, jumped down, and steadily appeared in front of Zhao Xiaosi.

Zhao Xiaosi was so frightened that he took a big step back, “You scared this young master to death!”

Xiao Zhinian ignored his words, held out his hand, and said with a cold face, “Give it here.”

Zhao Xiaosi placed the small bottle on it, and said with a face full of disdain, “Here! Take it!”

“Thanks.”

He coldly threw down a sentence.

Xiao Zhinian found a place to sit down, put away the small bottle, planning how to act tonight, and no longer paid attention to Zhao Xiaosi.

“You’re very strange,” Zhao Xiaosi trotted over, not daring to get too close to Xiao Zhinian, so he stayed two steps away from him. “By the way, this young master saw many government yamen runners on the road. They were catching fugitives from door to door. Could that fugitive be you?”

“The more you know, the faster you die.”

“…Aren’t you going to ask how this young master guessed?” Before Xiao Zhinian could answer him, Zhao Xiaosi had already continued on his own, “You have blood on your clothes. Are you injured?”

He pointed to the bleeding abdomen of Xiao Zhinian.

Xiao Zhinian looked down and realized that the wound had split open. Even he himself hadn’t noticed.

Zhao Xiaosi didn’t know what he was thinking. His little face wrinkled, “Didn’t your mother tell you that you have to take care of yourself when you’re out alone? If you turn yourself into this, you’ll definitely be scolded when you get home.”

“Little brat, mind your own business.”

Tsk, so annoying.

Xiao Zhinian didn’t bother to give him a look.

“This young master is not a little brat! This young master is already a grown man! I can even recite the Preface to the Tengwang Pavilion!” Zhao Xiaosi slammed the table and stood up, then became sad, “If Mother were still here, she would definitely be happy. Mother used to teach me, but before I could memorize it, she was already gone.”

Thinking about it this way, Xiao Zhinian hadn’t met Zhao Jianji’s wife. According to Zhao Xiaosi, she probably already died a long time ago.

No wonder Zhao Xiaosi was thinking about his mother in his dreams. So that was the reason.

Xiao Zhinian finally raised his eyes and glanced at him.

–

In the middle of the night, in the dead of night.

A black figure leaped out of Zhao Xiaosi’s room, using the night as cover. In less than a quarter of an hour, he appeared at Yang Shihui’s residence.

Xiao Zhinian was lying on the roof, gently lifting the tiles. A bright light shone from inside, illuminating his face.

Along with it, what entered his eyes was a vivid and gaudy erotic scene.

Governor Yang was pressing a naked man against the dressing table. The table was shaking, quite intense.

“…”

Impressive, Yang Shihui is an old bone, yet he can still move like an earthquake. He is truly vigorous even in old age.

However, why does the other person look more and more familiar?

Xiao Zhinian recalled carefully and suddenly remembered that wasn’t that Zi Yun from Chunyi Brothel? It turned out that these two had been having an affair for a long time.

“This is a South Sea Night-Shining Pearl, worth a thousand taels. This Governor is giving it to you today, let’s see if you can swallow it.”

“Mmm… ah…”

Filthy words.

In Shen Zhejiang’s words, they were shameless and disgraceful.

Xiao Zhinian didn’t come here in the middle of the night to watch this. He took out the small green bottle and poured three pills from it into Yang Shihui’s room, landing in inconspicuous places.

Aromatic Sleeping Pills, which can silently blend into the air and cause people to fall into a deep sleep after inhaling them.

Xiao Zhinian waited for a while, but there was no more sound. He peeked inside and, as expected, Yang Shihui and Zi Yun were both limp and unmoving on the table.

Seeing this, Xiao Zhinian expressionlessly closed the tiles and turned to leave.

The same thing happened in the prison. Once the guard on duty fell, Xiao Zhinian immediately covered his mouth and nose and broke in. He didn’t know which cell Shen Zhejiang was in, so he had to search one by one until the very end.

“Sir!”

Xiao Zhinian saw at a glance the man lying on the straw mat covered in wounds. His heart was torn apart. He quickly unlocked the chains and hugged Shen Zhejiang into his arms.

“Sir, wake up!”

Shen Zhejiang was already on his last breath, thinking that he was having a hallucination before his death. So he opened his eyes and saw that familiar face. The corner of his lip, covered with blood scabs, twitched slightly.

“…You’ve come.”

“I’m late, I’m sorry.”