Detective Ghost Empress

170 Warehouse on fire

Zhai Tianyu and Zhai Heng would have attacked the warehouse next to the one they raided as well if they had the time but as soon as they turned their attention to the next warehouse that was beside the one from which they have already stolen, the guard who was in charge of patrolling arrived.

At first, neither of them moved but then the guard snapped out of his daze and shouted, ” Thieves! Thieves are attacking the warehouse!” As he shouted, he fished out the bell that he was carrying with him, which was tied to his waist and started ringing as frantically as he could.

No sooner did he start ringing the bell, the servants and guards of the Liu family woke up and rushed out of their rooms.

Seeing that the Liu family was awake, Zhai Tianyu and Zhai Heng glanced at each other, they shared a nod before they signed the guards who came with them to leave, they waited until the guards left before they turned around and threw a string of bombs over the warehouses, only then did they hop over the wall of the house that belonged to Minister Liu.

The warehouses that were raided immediately burst into fire as soon as the bomb exploded, sending the guards who were chasing after the two people to stop and be thrown into chaos. The guards were all thrown into chaos but there was someone who did not flinch in the slightest as Zhai Tianyu and Zhai Heng jumped over the wall, the man chased after the two while ordering the guards to douse the fire.

And then the shadow closely chased after them.

Minister Liu who was peacefully sleeping was woken awake by the noise that was going on outside, he frowned before he slipped down from his bed while clad in a loose robe, his portly belly causing him to almost stumble on the floor because he was still feeling sleepy.

But after flailing for a few minutes, he straightened up and then wore his slippers before he rushed out of his room. As he ran out of his room, he saw that many guards including the ones who were under his adopted son were also running towards the place where he has built his warehouses. Seeing them run towards the warehouses, Minister Liu blinked his eyes and then hurriedly trotted over to the guard who was carrying a bucket as he rushed towards the warehouse.

” What’s going on?” Minister Liu asked as he panted while chasing after the guard who was dragging a huge bucket of water. ” Why are you dragging such a big bucket of water?”

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The guard turned to look at his master who looked like he has just woken up and was speechless, the house was on fire and his master was still asleep.

Though the guard was speechless and was scolding his master, he still replied respectfully, ” There were thieves who snuck inside the house, master... they stole everything from the main warehouse and set it on fire, I am carrying this water bucket to douse the fire–cough, cough.” The guard was still speaking but minister Liu who heard that his main house was raided immediately rushed towards the backyard of his house leaving a storm of dust behind him.

When the guard saw that his master was rushing towards the backyard, he too rushed after him.

Minister Liu as soon as he saw that his warehouse that had all his precious things were on fire, he immediately let out a broken-hearted scream as he turned to look at his guards and then scolded them fiercely, ” You all, what were you all doing? How can you all allow something like this to happen? Do you even know that the warehouse held at least a hundred thousand gold taels? Now, what am I going to do? Huh?”

As he thought about how he lost more than a hundred and thousands of gold taels, he clutched his heart and then stumbled back, if not for the guard who stopped him from falling on the ground, there was a chance that he might have broken his back tonight.

” Oh my money!! Those bastards! They could have stolen anything but they took my Hui Ying’s money!” Minister Liu sobbed, his voice full of remorse as he leaned against the guard who was helping him up.

” Master, don’t worry.” The guard tried to hold the mini boulder that was leaning on him and consoled his master while his legs were shaking. ” Young master Yuyang chased after the thieves, as long as nothing goes wrong, he will be able to catch those thieves.”

Only then did Minister Liu stop crying as he wiped his eyes and nodded. “That’s right, I still have Yuyang...that boy will not let those who have harmed his father off so easily.”

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Liu Yuyang chased after the two figures who were running if he wanted he could have chased after the others but from the way these two men were commanding the others, he was sure that they were the leader which was why he decided to chase after these two instead of chasing after the others who were running in different directions.

While chasing after the two men, he realised that the two of them were deliberately turning into the narrowed and confusing lane to make sure that he wouldn’t be able to chase after them, what they did not know was that before he became the young master of the Liu family, he was someone who played in small streets like these.

It was with ease that he was able to chase the two men and as they tried to turn another corner, Liu Yuyang took a sharp dagger from his sleeves and threw it at the man who was running right in front of him.

The dagger was aimed precisely at the back of the man’s head, if it was a normal thief, he would have been dead by now but the man was not a naive and rookie thief, he turned on his heel and immediately dodge the dagger with the precise aim only losing a bit of the cloth of his sleeve.

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