Chapter 403: Requesting an Office
"The Director has been missing for some time. Should we seek the Eighth Prince's help again?"
One of the Hidden Intelligence Bureau agents spoke up. After the rebuff they had received the first time, none of them had dared trouble Li Musheng with the matter of the Director again.
But the longer this went on, the worse the Director's situation was likely to be, and they were growing anxious.
The inn proprietor had also happened to overhear something in the main hall one day and knew that the reason the Great Xuan Seventh Princess had been able to ascend the Great Xuan throne was that Li Musheng, the Eighth Prince, had made it happen.
If the Director truly was trapped somewhere in the Great Xuan imperial palace, a single word from Li Musheng would likely be enough to free him.
But coming up with enough to make Li Musheng act was a problem they still had not solved. Some among them even suspected that since the Hidden Intelligence Bureau had previously backed the false Seventh Prince claimant, Li Musheng was well aware of it and would be even less inclined to help them.
If they went and bothered Li Musheng again, it might very well backfire and make the Eighth Prince actively hostile toward them. At that point their own lives might be in danger.
After all, Li Musheng had shown he would kill his own imperial brothers without hesitation. Killing a few intelligence agents would cost him even less thought.
"Wait a few more days. I have heard something to the effect that the Eighth Prince's reason for staying in Taixuan City is that he is waiting for someone."