Guo Shuhan handed over a confession. Zhao Yi and Prince Jing leaned in to examine it simultaneously. The document stated that Xie Wenyuan had been secretly manufacturing arrows, with Zhou Tiesan serving as the person in charge of producing the arrow shafts. To date, he had already manufactured nearly one hundred thousand shafts for Xie Wenyuan.
This confession immediately brought to Zhao Yi’s mind the arrows used to wound the Fourth Prince at Dulong Stronghold. According to Mu Siqiao, that batch of arrows had been handed to him by Guo Xi. Thinking about it now, it was highly probable that those arrows had originated from the Xie clan. Why the Xie clan would privately manufacture arrows remained unknown, but there was surely some machination by Guo Xi at play. It was truly unexpected that the arrows used to wound the Fourth Prince back then were still proving useful now.
The game of chess being played by Prince Jing and Guo Xi was indeed a long-term one. Unfortunately for them, for all their meticulous planning, they could never have foreseen this case falling into his own hands.
Chapter 450