Moments before, inside the brothel...
A guard rushed to Zha Gang, his face was pale and hardly he could gasp for air. It wasn't the lack of strength that had absorbed his stamina... It was terror.
"They burned the interrogation department and took Xiao Wei with them."
He uttered, not knowing what would be the outcome of this neglect.
"Stop staying here, follow me." The princess's guard decreed and the sergeant stormed after him.
Going inside the room for the emergency stairs, they saw the princess who was sitting there, waiting for the man to speak.
Zha Gang neared the princess and whispered words into her ear. Her expression dimmed and she stood up.
"Lady Wang Min and Fu Liu, I leave this to you."
Turning to Chaoxiang said, "if he resisted, you know what to do! We must catch that woman."
Chaoxiang bowed his head and watched them leave.
Hurrying out of the room, the princess waited for the sergeant of the Interrogation department to speak.
"Your highness, while fleeing that Xiao Wei we heard them saying that they would want to hunt down the merchant."
The princess felt that her heart crumbled, what? The merchant?
"Where is the merchant?"
"They were talking about Kun smithy."
Without proceeding on her path to that interrogation building to see interrogator Lin Fei, she thundered outside. She was in debt with that man, he helped her and she didn't mention his name and didn't even bother to ask if he ever needed help in exchange.
Back to the building, Wang Min peeked at Fu Liu who was now beside her. Taking her place on the chair that the princess was sitting on it a while ago, her pale leg was exposed. Fu Liu did not like that she was showing off her body while nasty eyes were strolling on her.
She caught Fu Liu's eyes on her leg, and the guy snorted. Oh, so jealous! He didn't show that shade of him before!
"Well, let's start!" She extended her hand to the eunuch and he placed the piece of fabric on her palm.
"Feng family textiles pattern, you might have stolen so many silkworm cocoons from their farmlands."
Her complexion changed from tenderness and the amusement. It was a shame that a tailor charred the morality and would do such low-mannered actions. Even if the princess spare this, she wouldn't, this man dared to encroach on something that belonged to great kin.
"I don't understand you!"
The man quickly denied but she sighed. Fu Liu pointed to Chaoxiang, "perhaps your sharp dagger recalls him what we talk about!" He approached the man and drag out the tailor's collar, it had the same emblem on that textile.
Yan Yuxi shook her head, "my mother once had the dresses made by this textile, this emblem is too cheap that old one was made by golden high-quality threads."
The tailor flinched under her hands, it was not for his condition as his soberness had wholly returned. It was fear that was invading his blood and confiscating it under his skin. That was princess Wu Xiuying, they wouldn't spare his life. But who was the young man over there? He was peering at him the whole time!
The cold steel's tip rested on his left hand, "you use them to weave these textiles right?"
Chao menaced, he was fascinated that eventually, someone related to the thieves appeared under his hands.
The tailor shivered, now it was time to plead with them but subconsciously he was peering at the good-looking man who kept staring at them all.
"Why are you looking at me? Looking for mercy? Am I similar to someone who gives charity? Sorry, like this man, I would appreciate cutting your hand off if you don't speak!"
Before even uttering the words, Yin Yuanjun swallowed. The man studied his mind immediately.
"Prince Xing Bolin is speaking to you, fool!" Yan Yuxi stated.
The man became more terrified, the royal family came here, they took him for this!
"I swear I have nothing to do with them, they just gave me one hundred gold and asked me to make this textile!"
The prince jumped up from his chair, appearing beside him, "you disgusting rat just confessed that you knew they are assassins."
The man's face tinted, yes, he knew but to make a decent comfortable living he would do this, no one else would refuse this.
Wang Min and Fu Liu exchanged a glance.
"The machines! As long as I know, the family had exclusively made machines from their ancestors."
The woman knew a lot about that family, once she could beg to use their facilities and bring Yu state back to its golden days of making high-quality textiles.
"To do this, I had to make a rumor, people fear things that they can't see, poisoning their mind is easy!"
Chao pressed the dagger on his hand but didn't let it cut more than the skin, "if you scream, the next part will be the one you love the most."
The man swallowed his burning pain while his timid eyes fell on his bleeding hand and crooned faintly.
Biting his lips said, "there is a place where we make our deals but it is always them who come after me to take the orders. I have no access to my customers."
The prince drew back, walking away! He looked back over his shoulder, "customers? How many and which type of customers?"
The man pressed his eyelids, if he could survive this night, those trashy thieves definitely were going to make him rest in an unknown no-named grave. Feeling the sharpness of the blade on his middle part, his eyelashes fluttered up.
"Road rubbers and assassins of Da mountain."
"You will work for us from now on if you want to stay alive. We will guarantee your safety." The prince stated.
Chao gazed at Fu Liu, waiting for the order when the eunuch smirked devilishly.
The knife danced and made a slight cut on his shaft, the man shrieked in pain and at the same time the sky poured and the music did not allow anyone to hear the roar of the tailor.
Gasping for the air, he looked down! It was bleeding and the woman got up from the chair and tossed the fallen robe at the man.
"Take him to a healer." She asked Chao and walked to the door.
"Can we see each other, again, Lady Wang?"
The prince asked and the woman snatched a look at Fu Liu, mischievously smirking, "perhaps, who knows what comes tomorrow?"
She left the room when she saw the tightness of Fu Liu's jaw.