After sending away the madam, Mrs. Chu immediately sent out all the servants in the house to look for someone.
Although searching for someone aimlessly is like looking for a needle in a haystack, if she just waits at home without doing anything, Mrs. Chu will always feel uneasy.
Everyone from the government office and the Chu family went out to search for a day, but they didn't get any news.
The Chu family has not received any blackmail messages from the kidnappers.
At this moment, Mrs. Chu finally couldn't calm down, so she dressed up early the next morning and went to see Li Zian.
"What, Mr. Chu was kidnapped?" Li Zian was shocked when he heard this, "Who has the courage to kidnap a court official?"
"Your Majesty, please save my master." Mrs. Chu cried so hard that she was out of breath.
"This is natural." Li Zian stood up and said, "Mrs. Chu, don't worry, I will arrange for the whole city to search for Master Chu's whereabouts.
"When you just learned that Mr. Chu was missing yesterday, you should have called someone to inform him, so that I could send someone to help find him earlier."
Mrs. Chu now doesn't know what to do except cry.
Li Zian called Fan Yuru in front of her and gave him the responsibility for finding someone. He also said specifically: "All the people in the palace are at your disposal. I don't care what means you use, as long as you can get Mr. Chu safe and sound."
Just find the place where it happened."
Madam Chu thanked Li Zian tearfully and then said goodbye and went back.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he got home, he heard that the kidnappers had sent a letter, asking the Chu family to prepare five hundred taels of gold to buy Chu Yichen's life.
When Mrs. Chu heard this, her eyes suddenly darkened and she almost fainted.
The maids on the left and right quickly helped him.
Seeing this, the housekeeper quickly comforted him and said, "Madam, think on the bright side, as long as the kidnapper is willing to make a request, it means that the master's life is not in danger. Let's raise money quickly!"
"Now that the master is away, you are the head of the family, so you must be steady!"
Mrs. Chu drank a cup of ginseng tea to calm herself down, and then she weakly ordered: "First, open the warehouse and count how much cash the family has now, and exchange it for gold, as well as gold and silver jewelry, whatever you can get.
Let’s all pool it together and calculate roughly how much is left, and if it doesn’t work, sell a few of the shops or shops to make money quickly!”
While the Chu family was busy collecting money to redeem people, Chu Yichen had just woken up.
Before he could fully open his eyes, he smelled a musty smell caused by a lack of ventilation for a long time, which made his stomach churn as he hadn't eaten for a long time.
Chu Yichen raised his hand to touch the back of his head, which was still aching, thinking it was the sequelae of a hangover.
He slowly opened his eyes and saw the dark roof and an extremely narrow skylight on the wall near the roof.
It was dark all around, except for a beam of light coming from the skylight.
With that beam of light, Chu Yichen tried hard to distinguish where he was.
The ground beneath him was cold and damp, and there was no furniture in the room except for a pile of hay placed in the corner.
The familiar combination of three rough walls and a wooden fence made Chu Yichen's originally groggy head suddenly wake up.
Why does this place... look like a prison cell?
Could it be that he caused trouble while drunk and was thrown into the government prison?
It shouldn’t be!
Just when Chu Yichen was wondering, a voice suddenly sounded outside the wooden fence: "Hey, wake up, just in time, our master is waiting to interrogate you!"
"Who are you?" Chu Yichen asked without getting a response, and then said, "Do you know who I am? I am an official of the imperial court, and you dare to arrest me because you have the heart of a bear but the courage of a leopard!
"If I have any shortcomings, neither the court nor Prince Rui's Palace will let you go!"
"Hey, do you still have the strength to threaten people?" The person who came to mention Chu Yichen smiled and said, "If you have anything to say, I will meet my father later, you can tell him yourself."
The visitors picked up Chu Yichen, put wooden shackles and shackles on him, and then took him to a room specially used for interrogating prisoners.
The room is not big, with bare walls. Although there are not many windows, the ventilation is good and there is no peculiar smell.
But as soon as Chu Yichen stepped into it, he seemed to smell a strong smell of blood, which made him want to retching uncontrollably.
His captors took him to the center of the room, locked his shackles on the iron rings on the ground, and kicked him in the crook of his legs.
Chu Yichen's knees softened and he fell to the ground with a plop. His kneecaps hurt so much that he almost burst into tears.
He was secretly angry, and if he had the chance to go out, he would cut these people into pieces.
Just when he was secretly feeling cruel, he heard the sound of footsteps.
Someone came in.
The person who escorted him said respectfully: "I have seen the prince, Chu Yichen has already brought him."
Prince?
These three words exploded in Chu Yichen's mind like thunder.
Which prince?
He suddenly raised his head and looked up, just in time to see Li Zi An sitting calmly on the chair above.
"Your Majesty, what is going on..." Chu Yichen couldn't help but struggle, "I did something wrong, why did you do this?"
"You still want to ask me what you did?" Li Zian said expressionlessly, "You did it yourself. Now that you have reaped the consequences, do you still want to complain?"
"Chen..." Chu Yichen was choked by the question, remembering what he had done to Mrs. Tong before.
After Mrs. Tong escaped that day, he was indeed in fear for several days.
However, he found that both Prince Rui's palace and the medical center were quiet. In addition, he was very confident in his arrangement and felt that even if he did not succeed, it would not involve him. So he quickly relaxed his vigilance and even started going in and out again.
Qin Tower and Chu Pavilion are a place of entertainment and entertainment.
Unexpectedly, Li Zian was still young and the city was quite deep. He kept his troops stationary for several days before finding an opportunity to capture him.
Thinking of this, a layer of cold sweat suddenly broke out on Chu Yichen's back.
Li Zian didn't even bother to cover up, he just appeared directly in front of him.
What does this mean?
It shows that he has no intention of letting himself go back alive!
"Master Shizi, I...Ms. Tong..." Chu Yichen wanted to explain, but after he opened his mouth, he realized that what he said now was very weak.
"Okay, you don't need to explain why you sent someone to assassinate Mrs. Tong." Li Zian interrupted him, "I just want to know what secrets there are between you and Qian Poxin."
Chu Yichen's heart trembled. His suspicions that day were indeed correct. Madam Tong had indeed caught him having a secret meeting with Qian Poxin.
He immediately regretted that he should not have sent only four people there just to put the blame on others.
If Mrs. Tong could be dealt with directly on the road that day, the following things would not happen!
After thinking wildly for a long time, Chu Yichen finally regained his sense and bit the tip of his tongue hard. The pain and the smell of blood spreading in his mouth allowed him to temporarily calm down.
Thinking of what Qian Poxin told him, he felt that he might be able to use this as a bargaining chip to negotiate terms with Li Zian.