Chapter 523: Chapter 523 Forced To Stop

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

After a while, Mingyu followed Consort An in. With her company, Zhou Ying finally had someone to chat with.

Soon, someone from the Zhou family arrived, and it was only Madam Zhou.

The two looked at each other, nodded politely, and then went about their things.

Although everyone was curious about their attitudes toward each other, no one said anything when they remembered what had happened at the palace banquet.

Next, the Yang family’s group of four walked in.

Everyone looked at them in surprise.

Food was scarce these days, and every family would try their best to attend all kinds of banquets with as few people as possible. No one here expected that four of them would be attending this banquet.

After they bowed to the Empress Dowager and sat down, someone asked curiously, “Madam Yang, I heard your residence was robbed. Did you find any clues regarding the culprit?”

“Not yet, but the government is helping us to investigate.” Madam Cui replied with a dry smile.

“This is strange. You mentioned that so many things were stolen, yet none of you heard anything?”

“Not really. Have you heard of the Five Ghosts’ Manipulation Technique? I heard that ghosts won’t make a sound when moving things around.”

“If they can’t hear anything, someone should have at least seen something.

“The same is for Mother Goddess. Although she could put things down silently, there would always be something that could be seen or touched.

“Say, with so many patrolling your residence and so many servants on duty, how could no one notice anything when that many things are stolen?”

“Yeah, everything about this is just strange. No matter how you think about it, it’s just creepy.”

Madam Cui was disgusted after hearing this. What did they mean by saying their residence was strange? How could their residence be creepy?

If this continued, everyone would probably think their residence was haunted.

She quickly changed the topic and said, “Oh, right. When did the wedding envoy leave? Would they be back soon?”

What she didn’t know was that many people in the capital firmly believed that the Yang family’s residence was haunted. Moreover, they must have done something wrong and were suffering retribution.

Of course, some others felt that Yang Shicheng was just acting. Otherwise, how else would they explain that everything in their residence had been emptied overnight?

This group of people included the Emperor.

The Emperor had begun to suspect that he had taken many bribes and started investigating.

“No, they won’t be back that fast. Our two places are located at opposite ends of the city. At the very least, the envoy must traverse half the city.” Consort Xian replied.

The capital’s streets were particularly lively because the wedding envoy was forced to stop halfway.

They were stopped because there were five strong men pulling on an old man and a young girl.

The best man, Zhou Huaiming, quickly dismounted and walked over. “What’s going on?”

When the young girl saw Zhou Huaiming, she immediately turned around and kowtowed. “Sir, please save me. 1 don’t want to get sold into a brothel!”

When she kowtowed and begged for mercy, the five men chasing her saw King Rui and the others on their horses. They looked at each other and turned to run.

“Capture and detain them.” Zhou Huaiming saw this and immediately ordered the officer who had rushed over.

When the officer heard this, he chased after them. The two sides quickly fought, but only two of the five men were caught, and the rest ran away.

Zhou Huaiming said to the young girl, “You two follow them to the government office. I’ll go over in the afternoon.”

Before the young girl could return to her senses, the old man had already pulled her to the side.

Zhou Huaiming saw that the path had been cleared, so he immediately got on his horse and continued their trip..