Chapter 260 - A "Thief" Entered the Mo Manors Backyard at Night (2/2)

“Do it,” Mo Xuetong said, covering a sneer on her lips.

Mo Ye, standing at the window, gestured outside. Getting the instruction, Mo Feng jumped up to a tall tree nearby. He dressed in black, covered his head and face, like the man in black, who Mo Xuetong had seen in the Cloud City the other day.

Mo Feng in black punched Yu Mingyong. Yu Mingyong, who was a real dandy, couldn’t stand being beaten, and spat out a mouthful of blood. Before he saw the figure clearly, he fainted uselessly.

Mo Feng picked Yu Mingyong up like a pocket and ran across the roof to the inner yard.

Mo Huawen went to bed late. Because he did not think of a way to let Mo Xuetong not to attend the palace banquet, he was tossing and turning in bed. With the approach of late night, he finally felt sleepy. Just as he was falling asleep, he heard someone outside shouting, “Stop the thief! Stop the thief!” The silence of the night was suddenly broken by shouts accompanied by the shocking gong and drum.

The Mo Manor was immediately boiling up; someone was calling, and someone was shouting…

As soon as Mo Huawen got up, he saw Mo Xuetong stumbling over with Mo Lan and Mo Yu.

Mo Xuetong looked fl.u.s.tered and pale, as if she had been frightened. She held Mo Lan’s hand and faltered. “Tong’er, what’s the matter?” Mo Huawen asked, stepping forward to help her.

“Father, father, there’s a thief in the backyard. The old maids said he was going to grandmother. I was afraid, so I came to you.” Mo Xuetong panted. She was pale and could not calm herself. There was fear in her eyes, and Mo Huawen felt her hands trembling.

The thief went to the Old Madam?

Mo Huawen was also worried, but from the way Mo Xuetong walked, Mo Huawen knew that she must have sprained her ankle. He immediately took her to his own study, arranged for outside guards, and then took the others to the inner yard.

The butler had told Mo Huawen what had happened.

The butler said that an old maid in the Old Madam’s yard was the first to notice something unusual when she saw someone climbing into their yard. The old maids were so frightened that they took up their brooms and struck the man. And someone saw a man in black walking by outside and immediately cried out in fear.

It was said that more than one servant saw the man in black. One of the old maids spoke eloquently of seeing the man with a package of gold and silver jewels in his bosom, which was taken out from the Old Madam’s house. Mo Huawen did saw a string of beads on his way to the Old Madam’s yard.

Someone robbed his house!

Mo Huawen just thought his nose was out of joint. He was the official in charge of security in the capital but he was robbed today. It was like punching him in the face!

After inquiring whether all the yards were safe, the servant reported that thieves had appeared in the yards of the first miss, the third miss, and the fourth miss, but those young and old maids in the yards had beaten them away. The two concubines lost a lot of ornaments and were crying at the moment. Mo Huawen asked the butler to send someone to placate them and then headed to the Old Madam’s yard.

There were many thieves this time, but only the one who went to the Old Madam’s yard was caught. Mo Huawen was determined to find out who challenged him anyway.

“What is the matter with the third miss’s feet?” Because the Old Madam’s yard was still some distance away, Mo Huawen asked the butler beside him while walking.

The butler was a man in his fifties. He had to jog to keep up with Mo Huawen and was now a little breathless. Hearing Mo Huawen’s question, he said simply, “After the man in black, who went to the third miss’s yard, was beaten away, the third miss worried about you and ran out of her yard with the maids. When they pa.s.sed the second gate, a branch of the tree fell across the road. As it was dark and they walked fast, the third miss didn’t see it and tripped. She went to your study without a rest.”

Tong’er was hurt? And it was because she was worried about him. Mo Huawen’s heart clenched in pain.

The thieves had entered the yard of his other daughters, but Mo Xuetong was the only one who cared about him. The other two just knew to protect themselves and didn’t care about him. The butler also told Mo Huawen that his two other daughters were asleep. His two concubines were even more useless. They were crying. In the middle of the night, everyone knew they were crying.

Mo Huawen completely favored Mo Xuetong, forgetting that he had forbidden Mo Xuemin to go out a long time ago. He thought only of the fact that his favorite daughter had broken her foot for him, and he did not know how it was.

He stopped so suddenly that the butler, trotting after him, almost ran into him.

“You don’t have to go to the Old Madam’s yard. Arrange someone to see the injury of the third miss. Have someone to boil some hot water. See if the injury is serious. If it’s serious, bring a doctor,” Mo Huawen ordered urgently.

“Yes.” The butler turned and trotted back. He knew that Mo Huawen was worrying about the third miss. If there was something wrong with the third miss, it would be a big deal.

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