"Find quickly!"
"Move smoothly, don't let me be lazy!"
“Look inside and outside the backyard several times, and you can’t miss any corner!”
"If you can't find it within half an hour, look at your heads!"
"..."
In the Taishi Mansion.
A group of servants were trembling and looking for something in the yard.
Behind them, a skinny old man was holding a whip, frowning, and watching everyone with angry eyes.
"Lao Zhang, how's it going?"
"Did you find it?"
Jiang Lin had just gone to Taichang Temple to deliver a message for the Grand Master. After finishing, he immediately rushed back to the Grand Master's Mansion and went straight to the backyard without stopping.
Seeing that Jiang Lin was back, Lao Zhang immediately changed his fierce look and put on a smiling face.
"Steward Jiang, you are back!"
"The slaves are mobilizing everyone to look for it together. Don't worry, Butler Jiang, the slaves will definitely find the jade pendant before the master returns home!"
Jiang Lin nodded, and just took a few steps forward, but suddenly turned back.
"Old Zhang, this jade pendant was personally given to me by the Grand Master many years ago."
"To me, this jade pendant is extremely precious, so I have carried it close to me for many years and never taken it off."
"If the Grand Master knew that I accidentally lost this jade pendant..."
Lao Zhang is such a good person, he immediately understood what Jiang Lin meant.
"Steward Jiang, don't worry!"
"It's human nature to lose things!"
"I will definitely not say anything nonsense in front of the Grand Master, causing discord between the Grand Master and Steward Jiang."
After hearing this, Jiang Lin turned around and left with satisfaction.
However, as soon as he reached the door of his room, Jiang Lin instantly stayed where he was.
Because the person standing outside his door with his hands behind his back was not someone else, but Shangguan Yi, the grand master who was supposed to be attending the banquet in Changchunfang!
Jiang Lin was so frightened that he subconsciously blurted out: "T-Master!"
"Why are you here?"
Shangguan Yi smiled, but looked meaningfully at the somewhat flustered Jiang Lin in front of him.
"This is my mansion. Why, shouldn't I be here?"
Realizing that he had said the wrong thing in a hurry, Jiang Lin quickly changed his words: "No, no, no!"
"My subordinate means..."
"Weren't you invited by the fourth prince to go to Changchunfang for a banquet?"
"Why are you back so soon?"
"But what happened in Changchunfang?"
Shangguan Yi did not answer Jiang Lin's question directly, but looked at Jiang Lin's face carefully.
It seemed that he wanted to read more other emotions from the panic on his face.
"How do you know it was the Fourth Prince who invited me to go?"
"I remember that when I came back from court this morning, I was talking about the third prince's invitation, right?"
Shangguan Yi's eagle eyes seemed to have a pair of hooks, and they were about to rip out the head in Jiang Lin's heart!
Jiang Lin swallowed hard: "Yes...it is true."
"But now the news in the capital has spread, saying..."
"It's said that the Fourth Prince made such a big move. He took over Changchunfang in one fell swoop and hosted a banquet for the Grand Master and the General. Only then did my subordinates find out..."
Shangguan Yi did not comment on Jiang Lin's answer, but took the initiative to change the topic.
"That day, I asked you to go to the Zheng Mansion and bring Xing'er back..."
"You came back very late, and you came back empty-handed."
"Where did you go that day?"
Jiang Lin's heart trembled suddenly, and he felt that his heart was almost jumping out of his throat!
He quickly knelt down and bowed his head in front of the Grand Master.
"After my subordinates discovered that the second young lady had been taken away that day, they rushed to the residence of Guo Tiande, the right minister of the Ministry of Justice, to discuss countermeasures with him!"
"It is true that my subordinates did not do things well that day. Please calm down, Master Taishi!"
Could it be that the Grand Master has discovered that he deliberately delayed that day, so he failed to report the news that Shangguan Hanxing was taken away by the Ministry of Punishment in time?
Jiang Lin lowered his head to the ground and did not dare to raise his head, so he did not know what the Grand Master's expression was at this moment.
I don't know how much time passed before the Grand Master asked again: "A few years ago, I gave you a jade pendant as a reward."
"Why is it missing?"
Jiang Lin deliberately concealed the matter, but unexpectedly, the Grand Master discovered it at a glance.
Helpless, Jiang Lin had no choice but to sigh.
"My subordinates went out yesterday to buy medicinal materials for Master Taishi's hangover soup."
"Maybe I was walking in a hurry and accidentally lost this jade pendant!"
"My subordinates are searching everywhere in the mansion!"
"This subordinate is guilty of death. Please don't get angry. Anger will hurt your body!"
Shangguan Yi didn't speak for a long time. After a long time, he personally leaned down and helped Jiang Lin up from the ground.
"I'm just asking you a few innocuous questions. Why do you say 'forgiveness' on the left and 'death penalty' on the right!"
"It seems like I want to do something to you!"
Jiang Lin was already extremely frightened.
It’s not like he hasn’t seen the Grand Master’s methods before!
As long as it is an abandoned child that is no longer useful to the Grand Master, no matter who it is, the Grand Master will definitely discard it without any mercy.
Even if that person is the grandmaster’s daughter or grandson!
If you want to achieve great things, you can also kill your closest relatives.
What this sentence describes is a ruthless character like Taishi!
As the powerful right-hand man beside the Grand Master, Jiang Lin can be said to live in fear every day.
If you are not careful, you will be abandoned by the grand master like a pair of worn shoes!
The Grand Master naturally noticed Jiang Lin's nervousness, smiled and comforted him: "It's just a jade pendant, if you lose it, just throw it away."
"After some time, I will give you a better one!"
"I'm usually a bit harsh on you, but this is all for your own good."
"I broke off one of your fingers that day. You won't blame me for being cold-blooded and ruthless, right?"
Jiang Lin subconsciously looked at his left hand.
It was a pair of hands that held pens all year round, so delicate that they didn't even look like a man's hands.
It's just the vacancy in the little finger position that makes this hand a little weirder and scary.
"Of course not! It's all because of the incompetence of my subordinates. I should be punished by you!"
"This subordinate is willing to follow you to the death for the rest of your life, and I will never dare to complain at all!"
Jiang Lin's reaction made Shangguan Yi nodded with satisfaction.
"It's getting late, let's take a rest early."
"yes!"
Seeing Shangguan Yi finally turned and left, Jiang Lin breathed a sigh of relief.
Although it was a late autumn night with a cold north wind, the clothes on Jiang Lin's back were completely soaked with sweat.
Being with you is like being with a tiger, that’s how it feels!
Jiang Lin reached out and wiped the sweat from his forehead, thinking that the incident had passed without any danger.
But what he didn't see was.
The smile on Shangguan Yi's face quickly disappeared as his back was turned to him.
Instead, there was endless biting coldness!
A person who knows too many secrets is destined not to live long.
Only the dead can keep secrets. This is Shangguan Yi's way of life!
