Chapter 1623: He Wrote What?!

Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The date of returning to the capital had also been confirmed — which was the following day.

He planned to take a good look around Lizhou today. He had been here for so long and had been extremely busy every day. During his time here, he never had the chance to look around.

The four attendants dressed up as ordinary people with him and then began to stroll around the streets of the government office.

Although the weather was breezy, there were stalls selling specialty food from Lizhou. The food was steaming hot. Shi Che chose the one with the most hot food and sat down. He then began to taste the food.

It was pretty good.

Just as he was about to take a second bite, he noticed a piece of paper pasted on the wall beside the stall. Perhaps it was due to the weather, but the edges of the originally sturdy paper were blown up quite a bit. When the wind blew, the piece of paper fluttered in the wind.

After it caught his attention, he saw the words ‘Missing Person Notice’ written on the top of the paper.

He had seen a lot of missing person notices lately. Oddly enough, this writing looked the same as his brother Shi Yuan’s handwriting. This made him very surprised and he quickly got up to read it.

Below the four words were a string of names, such as Xue Dafu, Liu Guixia, Xue Yifu, Xue Erfu, and Xue Sanfu. They did not specify who they were looking for, so he was not very clear about what this poster was about.

The only clear indicator was that the Xue family of Stone Village, Yaoshui Town, Dianhe County, was looking for someone.

Although Shi Che often rode a horse to deal with matters in Lizhou and a few of them knew he was a Prince, there were still people who had never seen him before. The stall owner did not know Shi Che. When he saw Shi Che looking at the paper on the wall, he asked with a smile, “Sir, are you interested in that? Lizhou is filled with them. I was also given one before.”

When Shi Che was riding his horse, he saw many pieces of paper pasted around Lizhou. However, he had been too preoccupied with the matters of Lizhou to notice what was written on the paper. Now, it seemed that it was all about the missing person notice.

Shi Che smiled. “I’m not interested. This handwriting just looks the same as my brother’s.”

“Don’t tell me this was written by your brother,” the stall owner said immediately.

Shi Che smiled. “My brother is in the capital. It can’t be written by my brother. The thing is, the more I look at it, the more it looks strange. It isn’t directly saying who it is looking for.”

“Everyone says it’s strange.” At that time, someone even asked the person who posted the missing person’s notice. That person said that he wasn’t sure either. He said that he was only hired to paste them. He only knew that if the person on the missing person notice saw it, he would know that they were looking for him.”

“I see.” Shi Che smiled and nodded.

After he finished eating at the stall and left, Shi Che felt that it was quite interesting. He asked a servant to take down the notice. He wanted to bring it back to his brother to see that there was someone in this world who looked exactly like him.

Due to the bad weather, the journey from Lizhou to the imperial capital would normally take a few days on horseback. However, Shi Che’s trip back to the imperial capital took a full ten days.

After returning to the Imperial Capital, the first thing he did was to return to his residence to change into his clothes before entering the Palace to meet his brother.

Although he had already reported a lot of things in Lizhou in the letters, they were not as detailed. Now that he was back, he could go into more detail.

The sky had turned dark by the time he was done talking. Shi Yuan asked Shi Che to stay in the palace tonight and have dinner together. Shi Che agreed.