Chapter 597 Miss Du in the Sack

It was already dark, and Lu Yunjue had chosen this time to deliver the charcoal in order to prevent anyone from discovering the relationship between the two families and thus causing gossip.

He nimbly climbed over the wall, but as soon as he stepped into the Du family's yard, he found something wrong.

Several men in black looked at him in confusion, their clothes rustling in the cold night wind.

The leader was carrying a sack on his shoulder, and there seemed to be something struggling slightly inside the sack.

Lu Yunjue couldn't help but narrow his eyes.

Hu Xiner didn't want to leave her husband, so she slept with him in Lu's mother's room. However, the conditions in Lu's mother's room were simple after all, with only a small couch. She couldn't sleep well, and any slight movement could wake her up.

"What happened?" Hu Xin'er was awakened by the noise outside.

I seemed to hear the shouts of Hu Laosan and others: "Catch the thief, catch him quickly!"

"How is Senior Sister?"

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Mu Qing frowned, a trace of worry rising in his heart, but he walked over to Hu Xin'er and said to her, "It's nothing serious. It seems that there was a thief in the Du family's yard."

"There's a thief?" Hu Xin'er leaned against his chest, breathing a sigh of relief. "That's Miss Du's new house. What's there to steal? Besides, Miss Du is a skilled martial artist... Hmm? Wait."

She suddenly came to her senses: "Miss Du thinks the servants are too annoying, so she and Xiao Cui are the only ones in the yard. Judging from her strong personality, something must have happened to alarm our guards!"

The couple put on their clothes and hurried out, only to see Lu Yunjue coming towards them holding a sack.

"Someone from the Zhou family wanted to assassinate Miss Du, but I chased them away. Hu Lao San and the others are chasing them." Lu Yunjue said concisely.

Hu Xin'er was stunned and terrified: "The Zhou family...how dare they be so bold?!"

"The leader seems to be Zhou Chenghe." As Lu Yunjue said this, he put down the sack in his hand, took a look inside, and his expression changed slightly.

Hu Xin'er pointed at the sack and asked, "Could it be Miss Du in here?"

Lu Yunjue nodded: "When I went there, she was already inside."

"If I had known that the Zhou family would be so bold, I would have persuaded Miss Du to live with us no matter what." Hu Xiner said with some annoyance.

After going through so many things, she has already regarded Miss Du as her friend.

Moreover, it was precisely because she wanted to win back the game for Miss Du that the conflict between Miss Du and the Zhou family intensified.

In the dead of night, several men kidnapped a beautiful woman. It is hard to imagine what would happen.

If anything really happened to Miss Du, Hu Xiner would probably blame herself for the rest of her life.

Mu Qing adjusted the fur collar on her cloak and asked, "What should we do now?"

"Of course we should take her home first," Hu Xin'er said decisively. Then she asked curiously, "Why is Miss Du so quiet in the sack? Is she poisoned?"

She wanted to take Miss Du to her home mainly because Miss Du really had nowhere else to go.

If she were to return to the Du family martial arts gym now, all her actions during the day would be exposed. But if she were to stay alone in the house, there was no guarantee that the group of people would come back.

"Sister-in-law, you guessed right. She was indeed poisoned by the smoke. I will take her to the east wing to detoxify her." Lu Yunjue directly hugged the sack in his arms and walked towards the east wing.

Hu Xiner chased after him: "No, no, there's a tunnel in the east wing."

Lu Yunjue said without even turning his head: "Don't worry, sister-in-law, I can keep watch."

"You're guarding it?" Hu Xiner suddenly stopped.

She looked at Mu Qing, who had a calm expression behind her, and then looked at the back of her brother-in-law, and always felt that something was wrong.

Isn't it a bit against etiquette for a single man and a single woman to be in the same room?

Besides, didn't Lu Yunjue really dislike Miss Du? Why did he seem so anxious when Miss Du was in danger, and even offered to feed her the antidote and find her a place to live?

Lu Yunjue's back was getting farther and farther away. Hu Xiner paced slowly in place, and then stood on the steps with Mu Qing to watch the moon.

"Come to think of it, why did Yun Jue run to the Du family's yard in the middle of the night?" She thought for a long time and finally asked in confusion.

Mu Qing was slightly surprised: "Didn't you ask Yun Jue to bring two baskets of charcoal over at night?"

Hu Xin'er wanted to scratch her head, but felt her hand was cold, so she retracted it and twisted her fingers inside her sleeve. "I did say I'd bring two baskets of charcoal, but I didn't say it had to be at night. Besides, it's okay if I don't deliver it in person. I was just being polite."

So why was Lu Yunjue so attentive in delivering the charcoal?

Mu Qing showed a rare thoughtful expression: "Does he like Miss Du?"

As soon as this thought came to Hu Xin'er's mind, her husband said it out loud. Her first reaction was to stand on tiptoe and cover Mu Qing's mouth: "Hey, hey, don't say that. We have worked so hard to dissuade Miss Du from having such thoughts. If, if..."

As she was speaking, she suddenly stuttered and couldn't think of how to express her thoughts.

Their attitude when they rejected Miss Du before was so firm. If they change their mind now, although the Du family will not do anything on the surface, they will inevitably feel a little uncomfortable in their hearts, as if the Lu family is playing a trick on them.

Mu Qing looked at her conflicted look, and a warm smile suddenly appeared in his eyes. He held Hu Xiner's hand and kissed her palm.

Hu Xin'er quickly moved her hand away and said angrily, "I'm thinking about something, why are you disturbing me?"

Mu Qing took her hand and walked inside: "There's nothing to worry about. If Yun Jue really likes Miss Du, then they are in love with each other. We can just save up the dowry."

"That's true, but Yun Jue seemed to be very resistant to being a son-in-law before. Could it be that this is why he rejected Miss Du?" Hu Xiner guessed.

Mu Qing thought for a moment and said, "It's possible."

"Then go and persuade him," Hu Xin'er said decisively, "Just like we said before, each family can have one child."

Mu Qing also hoped that his brother would be happy, and a smile appeared in his eyes again: "Let the child have the surname Jiang."

"Hmm?" Hu Xin'er tilted her head.

Mu Qing explained, "It's unlucky to follow that old man's surname Lu."

The old guy refers to Prime Minister Lu.

Lu Yunjue had no idea that his small action had allowed his brother and sister-in-law to arrange everything for him.

At this moment, Miss Du was only wearing a white undershirt with a somewhat messy collar.

Lu Yunjue thought about what he saw when he opened the sack just now, so he was extra careful when he let her out.