Yu Rong couldn’t help but burst into tears and then told everything in detail.
Yu Yi listened to her with a cold face and rebuked, “You should have said this earlier. Why did you delay for so long?!”
If something has happened to Han Xiao and he’s waiting to be rescued, a delay of even one hour could mean… And you, you’ve been hiding this until now!”
Yu Rong, full of regret and fear, sobbed softly, “Daughter-in-law did not dare to conceal it. Han Xiao had instructed her a thousand times not to tell.”
Yu Yi said coldly, “You were just hoping that if Han Xiao returned by himself, you could secretly send someone to look for him, and only speak up if you couldn’t find him, right?”
Yu Rong fell to her knees with a thud and begged, “It is daughter-in-law’s fault. Please punish me, Mother-in-law! However, Han Xiao has not yet returned home. Daughter-in-law begs Mother-in-law to send more people to search for Han Xiao!”
Yu Yi said, “Of course we will go look for Han Xiao first.” As she spoke, her eyes softened, though Yu Rong kneeling on the ground couldn’t see this.
A Zhu leaned forward to look, then inhaled a cold breath and stammered: “Young, young master, there are rob, robbers…”
“What?” Xu Hanxiao lifted the carriage curtain to look outside while reprimanding: “This is an official road, in the capital’s jurisdiction, in broad daylight, how could…” Before he could finish speaking, he saw several large men standing in front of the carriage, faces covered, holding gleaming large knives, staring at him menacingly.
His legs went weak, and he sat back in the carriage, too scared to say anything.
The lead bandit shouted: “Everyone get out!”
Xu Hanxiao came to his senses and hurriedly got out, pulling silver notes from his chest: “Gentlemen, all my valuables are here, please take them. As long as you let me go, I promise not to report this to the authorities.”
The lead bandit signaled his subordinates to take the silver notes but did not release them, ordering his men to tie up Xu Hanxiao, A Zhu, and the driver: “Is this all the silver the second young master of the Xu family brought?”
Xu Hanxiao secretly groaned. These people clearly knew his identity and were prepared.
