Peaceful Farm Life

Chapter 1653: Chapter 1654: Who’s Got the Nerve

Gong Juechen saw this situation, exchanged a glance with Ye Zhi, and then said, ”Taking three is the same as taking seven; just focus on finding Jingjing. Your seven children, Zhizhi and I will take care of them, nothing will happen to them.”

Although Gong Juechen seemed unreliable, Xiao Changyi still trusted him deeply. Seeing Gong Juechen make such a promise, Xiao Changyi nodded in agreement.

Gong Juechen and Ye Zhi stayed a while longer before taking their five-month-old daughter home.

Because An Jing had been captured, the entire mansion of the King of Xiyun was enveloped in a particularly oppressive atmosphere.

At dinner, Xiao Changyi could hardly eat.

Jing Xingqingyun was also worried about An Jing and hardly ate much.

At night, Xiao Changyi couldn’t sleep. Whether he closed his eyes or opened them, his mind was filled with images of An Jing. Thus, he didn’t sleep and instead sat by the edge of the bed, gently rocking the cradle.

He didn’t talk to the three beautiful babies in the cradle. Because of the rocking, they grinned at him, and he only looked at them without any expression on his face.

The three beautiful babies didn’t understand why he was like this. They merely closed their eyes and fell asleep as they were rocked, sleeping soundly.

Even when the three beautiful babies were asleep, Xiao Changyi still gently rocked the cradle, with his eyes fixed on them, though his thoughts had long drifted into memories.

In his memories, they were full of An Jing.

Here, Xiao Changyi couldn’t sleep, constantly thinking about An Jing.

Meanwhile, Gong Juechen took advantage of Ye Zhi being fast asleep and secretly went to a small grove not far from where he lived.

Seeing his subordinate kneel before him, he commanded, ”Find out who kidnapped An Jing. I want to see who has the audacity.”

”Yes, Building Master!”

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A sleepless night.

Before dawn, Xiao Changyi walked out of the room.

The Imperial Capital was searched again by Qin Yi and his men, yet they still hadn’t found any trace of An Jing.

It was evident that An Jing had already likely been taken out of the Imperial Capital.

Yesterday, Xiao Changyi had already given orders as the King of Xiyun to search the entire Xiyun, but the distribution of orders across regions took time, and it wasn’t possible to conduct a swift search throughout Xiyun.

Not knowing An Jing’s whereabouts was like searching for a needle in a haystack, and it could be said Xiao Changyi had done all he could.

”Keep searching.” Apart from saying these two words to Qin Yi and his men, Xiao Changyi didn’t know what else to say.

”Yes, King!” Qin Yi and his team immediately set out house-to-house to search.

At breakfast, Xiao Changyi still couldn’t eat.

Ye Zhi and Gong Juechen moved in when Jing Xingqingyun was having breakfast.

As soon as Ye Zhi and Gong Juechen moved into the mansion, Liu Buli and Liu Feifei arrived.

”King, these are portraits of An Jing that Feifei had painted overnight with some skilled artists,” Liu Buli handed a large stack of An Jing’s portraits to Xiao Changyi.

The portraits bore a striking resemblance to An Jing.

Xiao Changyi took the portraits, looked at one, then kept one and gave the others to Meng Zhuqing so he could dispatch them across Xiyun with orders to use the portraits to find her.

Meng Zhuqing quickly sent people to handle it.

Su Chengyu had also already ordered many portraits of An Jing to be painted, posted across Xiyun in the form of royal decrees, just to find her.

After searching the Imperial Capital three times, still without finding her, Xiao Changyi finally couldn’t stay in the Imperial Capital any longer.