"Secretary, what is it...?"
Seeing Wei Siqi standing there in silence for so long, Chu Hejun and the others sensed something was off and ventured a quiet question.
Wei Siqi snapped out of his thoughts and burst out laughing. "Now we're not missing a single thing!"
He could vaguely understand how Jian Wanyan felt now.
It was like pointing his riding crop at Zhao Yongbin, surveying his assembled generals, and calling out, "Who will slay this fiend for me?"
Then a young general in white robes spurred his horse forward and answered loudly, "I will go!" With that, he rode off, saber in hand.
Then the drums thundered and battle cries rose. The white-robed young general galloped back into camp, tossed Zhao Yongbin's severed head to the ground, and cupped his hands in salute. "I have fulfilled my mission!"
Seeing the three men's bewildered faces, Secretary Wei continued, "Wen Wan reported that Zhou Yi led a team to the Haitian Building. On the grounds that Zhao Xuanwen might have hidden evidence there, he searched Zhao Yongbin's lair!"
Fei Zhihong, Chu Hejun, and Kang Fujun instinctively wanted to ask whether Zhou Yi's move might alert their targets. Then they suddenly remembered the secretary's words-"We're not missing a single thing!"-and their hearts jolted.
No way. No way! Had they actually found something?
"In Zhao Yongbin's Buddhist Hall, inside the belly of that solid-gold Buddha statue, they found ledgers, discs, and other crucial evidence!"
Unable to hide his excitement, Secretary Wei swept his arm emphatically through the air.
Part of it was because the case was finally settled; the other part was the satisfaction of venting his pent-up resentment.
That old bastard Sun still wanted Zhao Yongbin to go to Capital City to celebrate his birthday?
Dream on!
*Now Zhao Yongbin could only