Don't Worry About That Worry About This

Xiao Qi had come to the Crown Prince's manor, in another disguise to report Zhao Xing's disappearance.

Her master had been silent for a long time now, he hadn't said a word since she had told him the news.

"It's this servant's fault for not being careful enough." Still no answer. Xiao Qi kept kneeling, her master must be very angry at the moment so much that he couldn't thought. Xiao Qi didn't dare raise her bowed head, for fear she'd see an expression that would scare her.

"Don't worry, get up." After a while that seemed to last ages, the Crown Prince finally opened his mouth.

"…?" This wasn't what Xiao Qi was expecting, she thought she was hearing things and didn't dare stand up. "This servant knows her wrong and is willing to accept punishment."

"That's not important right now, you go back first, no one must know about the Noble Princess' disappearance."

Only then did Xiao Qi look up, "Yes…Master…" She quickly got up bowed and left.

After leaving, only Xiao Chen and the Crown Prince were left.

Xiao Chen had been surprised when he heard the news just now, how could the Noble Princess disappear in to thin air? Not taking money, clothes or jewels? Could she have been really kidnapped?

"Master…" what he couldn't understand was why his master was so calm.

"Mmh?" Zhang Zhengyang read the letter that had just been delivered to him, but Xiao Chen's call distracted him, making him put the piece of paper on the table.

"What is it?" Seeing that there was still silence, and no more talking Zhang Zhengyang asked once more.

Xiao Chen hesitated, hoping the Master wasn't really angry and just masking it with a smile like he'd normally do.

"About Grand Tutor..?"

"What about her?"

"…"

Zhang Zhengyang seemed to understand what was in his mind.

"Don't tell me you also believe the Grand Tutor was kidnapped."

Xiao Chen was a bit confused, if she really wasn't kidnapped then could it be that she had ran away?

Zhang Zhengyang observed him with a smile. "No need to panic, if she was kidnapped, with Xiao Qi's ability, she would have been able to find at least one clue that such a thing had taken place, even if the Grand Tutor ran away, it would be the same, it wouldn't go without notice. In fact, with the way Grand Tutor is, she isn't smart enough to have such elaborate plan to leave. Her belongings are still there, she didn't take her favorite things nor did she carry money along. Isn't it claire what happened?"

The more his master said the more Xiao Chen began to consider another possibility. His eyes widened.

"Could Grand tutor have returned to her world?" He said in a low surprised voice.

His Master remained silent, and didn't deny. "Master, how could that happen at such a crucial moment..?"

Xiao Chen couldn't believe the Crown Prince's master would play tricks on them. He had seen the old man many times, he was such a honest man, now he brought them such an unreliable help, he couldn't understand why.

'What if..?'

"Master what if she really was kidnapped?"

Zhang Zhengyang's brows furrowed, and shook his head confidently. "The Fourth Prince likes to do his things under cover, he would never expose himself easily. At a time like this, if anyone hears that the Grand Tutor was missing, he would be the one to suffer. Why would he bring so much problem to himself?"

"But the time of the assassination was the same, what if he did it again?"

"I think you should be one of the people who know Xiao Qi the best, do you think she couldn't have noticed something?"

What the Crown Prince said wasn't wrong. But Xiao Chen felt it really wasn't the right time. Just now, he had been trying to persuade the Crown Prince to urge the Grand Tutor to help with investigating the Third Prince, but his Master had refused the idea. He was worried that something bad might happen to Zhao Xing if he did so.

Zhang Zhengyang indeed thought like this. If anything happened to Zhao Xing and she could never used her ability anymore, she would become useless, and he would have to get rid of her. But his master was nowhere to be found, once he met some difficulties in the future who would help him with those tricky matters. Right now Zhao Xing was his trump card, he couldn't use her casually. They weren't even sure if the Third Prince was really colluding with the Fourth Prince at all. This was only a matter of investigating, If he couldn't handle this small matter by himself, what would become of him once he had to rule the empire?

What he didn't add was that the Fourth Prince wouldn't play these types of dirty tricks, there was nothing in it for him to provoke him with Zhao Xing's disappearance.

"Instead of all this arguing and complaining why don't you tell your people to hurry and give me some clues concerning the Third Prince?"

"This..." He and General Yang's people had joined to investigate the Third Prince but to no avail. Either the enemy was too powerful or the Third Prince was indeed innocent in this case.

"We already sent people to check the owner of the brothel the Third Prince often visits, the lady boss there is indeed working for someone. But when we checked it turned out to be owned by the son of a merchant from the north surnamed Yuwen. We also checked him out, there was no connections found between him and the Third Prince."

Zhang Zhengyang held his chin in contemplation. This whole thing was so tricky that it was funny. He wondered if he had been checking the wrong person. But if that was the case...

"Investigate further, this time don't just focus on the Third Prince, send men to watch the Fourth Prince's every move. No matter how minute. I don't believe we can't find that person behind him."