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Chapter 361: Thief
"You! Where were you just now? What were you doing?!" A guard with a fierce face pointed at Yan Daoxin and asked in a loud and rude voice.

Yan Daoxin looked up at the man, whose fair and handsome face held a faint mockery.

"Everyone has to go to the toilet, I'm going to take a dump." Yan Daoxin raised his eyelids and looked the man up and down. "What? Interested? If you want to see, then go ahead."

Hurry up, or it'll get cold.

His words almost made Zhu Yu vomit. Although she knew that Yan Daoxin was deliberately teasing her, the way he killed eight thousand enemies while losing ten thousand of his own still made her want to glare at him.

Clearly, Zhu Yu wasn't the only one disgusted.

The guard probably hadn't expected that a clean-cut, handsome, and refined-looking man would speak with such a reckless and unruly air. He was momentarily speechless and could only glare at him fiercely, let out a heavy snort, and turn to stand behind the old steward.

They acted as if they were afraid that if they were even a little slow, they would be suffocated by the stench emanating from Yan Daoxin.

After a while, all the guards who had rushed in to look for things returned to the courtyard. The old steward's gaze swept over their faces one by one, and everyone who met his eyes shook their heads at him without exception.

When the old steward came in, his face was covered with frost. Now his brows were furrowed, and he didn't even bother to maintain his air of mystery. He asked, "Have you searched everywhere? You haven't found it?"

The guards all nodded.

The old steward frowned even more deeply: "We haven't even seen Hui'er?!"

The guards all nodded again.

"This..." This result was probably unexpected for the old steward. After confirming it several times, the expression on his face inevitably became somewhat awkward.

He had stormed in with his men, thinking the problem must lie with these foreign merchants who had come from afar. But after entering, everything seemed normal in the courtyard. The guards had searched the entire place, but found nothing. This left him unsure how to handle the situation.

Just as the old steward was struggling with how to leave and gloss over the matter, Lu Qing spoke first, asking, "I wonder what brings you here so early this morning, old steward, with so many guards?"

"Could it be that your lord has returned, and we have to go through this whole screening process just to see him?"

"You flatter me, esteemed guest!" Upon hearing this, the old steward immediately put on a smiling face, a stark contrast to his previous icy expression. "You may not know this, but last night, a thief broke into our Immortal Fortress. The guards searched everywhere throughout the night, and they came here without any intention of disturbing you, esteemed guest."

We couldn't find it anywhere else, and we were worried that the thief might disturb our distinguished guest or do something bad to him, so we hurriedly brought people over.

We made quite a commotion just now, but ultimately it was all to catch the thief. We apologize for disturbing our distinguished guests and hope they will forgive us and not hold it against us country folk.

"I see. It seems I misunderstood the old steward and the guards' good intentions." Lu Qing pretended to realize something and raised his hand to bow to the old steward. "Then I thank you all on behalf of everyone."

Please, everyone, make sure to catch that scoundrel, otherwise we won't be able to sleep peacefully tonight!

Upon hearing this, the old steward subconsciously glanced at the small pond beside him. He saw the pond was calm, the leaves on the surface lush and green, and he could vaguely see tiny white flower buds clustered together beneath the leaves. He gave a soft hum, then looked up again with a smile on his face: “Rest assured, esteemed guests, we will not disturb your sleep tonight. Since the thief is not hiding here, we are relieved. We apologize for the disturbance. Please rest for a while, and I will have someone bring you the prepared breakfast shortly.”

When Zhu Yu noticed the old steward's gaze sweeping towards the small pond, her heart tightened, and she subconsciously held her breath, while trying her best to maintain a calm and relaxed expression.

She only breathed a sigh of relief after the old steward and the guards left. Her heart was pounding wildly in her chest, and it took her a few breaths to calm down a little.

The reason she was able to breathe a sigh of relief so easily was that when the old steward and the others left, she had already slipped back to the second floor by herself and stood on the veranda looking down.

From this vantage point, she could clearly see the old steward and the guards' every move, including their departure after they hypocritically reminded Lu Qing and the others to be careful.

After these people left the courtyard, Zhu Yu, standing under the eaves, could hardly see their complete figures, but could vaguely make out the appearance of a large group of people.

Those people left with very brisk steps; it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say they strode away.

Zhu Yu tried his best to remember everything he had just seen. Only after the old steward and his group had completely disappeared from sight did he slip back downstairs.

"You really threw it in the latrine?" She found an opportunity to get close to Yan Daoxin and asked him in a low voice.

Yan Daoxin didn't say anything, but just grinned back at her.

His smile startled Zhu Yu, who looked at him in surprise and asked, "Where are you?!"

"It's hidden close to my body." Yan Daoxin said with a mysterious expression. "Even if they searched me just now, unless they caught me completely naked in broad daylight, they shouldn't expect to find anything."

"You..." Zhu Yu felt a wave of fear wash over her, and was at a loss for words.

“Such a rare thing, I really can’t bear to part with it.” Yan Daoxin tilted his head and asked in a low voice, “If you were to stumble upon someone who had died from a rare and deadly poison, I don’t believe you wouldn’t want to use your tools to dissect the person and see for yourself.”

These words left Zhu Yu speechless.

Yan Daoxin had really asked her that question.

If such a corpse were placed in front of her, and she couldn't figure out what kind of state that strange poison would create in a person's body after death, she would probably be in agony.

"We still need to be careful, play it safe, and be wary of them launching a surprise attack," Zhu Yu reminded Yan Daoxin.

Yan Daoxin nodded to her: "Don't worry, I know what I'm doing."

I'd only ever heard of this stuff before, but I'd never actually seen it. I always thought that even ash might come in handy, and I'd never know until I tried!

dont you agree? "