Chapter 1069 Meng Yunzheng's Hometown

Shu Yu turned to look at the map on the table. "Huajiang Prefecture?"

“Miss may not know, but Huajiang Prefecture is my hometown.” Yingxi smiled bitterly. “Ever since I was sold off, I have never returned to Huajiang Prefecture.”

Shu Yu was stunned for a moment, then she remembered.

She said it herself, the name Huajiang Prefecture sounded somewhat familiar.

She gestured for Ying Xi to sit down opposite her. "Is the Ying family the escort agency that operates in Huajiang Prefecture?"

When Shu Yu bought the Ying siblings, the broker mentioned their original place of origin. However, at that time, Shu Yu had bought many people and only heard a little bit, but didn't remember them all.

Later, when Meng Yunzheng met Ying Dong, Shu Yu learned that the Ying siblings originally had the surname Lin, and that their father had previously worked as a bodyguard in Meng Pei's escort agency.

Before the Meng family's misfortune, the escort agency was located in a place called Tianning County, which was under the jurisdiction of the prefectural city.

Shu Yu suddenly looked down at the map on the table, "Will we pass through Tianning County on our way to Huajiang Prefecture?"

Yingxi shook her head. "No."

but……

"But they're very close."

Shu Yu also saw that going to Huajiang Prefecture City would not pass through Tianning County, but Tianning County was nearby, about forty li away according to the map, which was really close.

Shu Yu was considering whether or not to go to Tianning County. She looked up at Ying Xi.

But her eyes also revealed a longing.

"Yingxi, do you really want to go to Tianning County?"

Yingxi paused for a moment, then lowered her head slightly and said, "My father is buried on a mountain outside Tianning County."

Although Lin's father went to Huajiang Prefecture and joined the Ying family's escort agency after Meng Pei's agency disbanded, his hometown was still in Tianning County. He died two years after going to the prefectural city and was still sent back to the county town for burial.

“I was only five years old when my father passed away,” Yingxi said softly. “Although I was young then, I remember that he loved me very much. Later, my mother remarried, and my brother and I had an awkward status and changed our surnames, so it was not easy for us to go out. Therefore, we only had a chance to go back once every two years. Before we were sold, we had only visited him twice.”

Not to mention what happened after the sale. In the four years following the sale, they didn't return to Tianning County or even Huajiang Prefecture.

She and her brother both felt that they would probably never be able to return to their hometown again and see their parents again.

Who would have thought that she would accompany her to such a far place, even so close to her hometown, after only a little over a month of following the young lady?

Therefore, Yingxi was somewhat unable to control her emotions.

She knew that her mistress was on her way to the capital and wouldn't have time to linger in these places.

“Miss, although I want to visit my father, we must hurry on our journey. If we pass through Huajiang Prefecture on our way back, Yingxi would like to beg you to let me go back and pay my respects to my parents.”

Shu Yu tapped her fingers lightly on the table, thought for a moment, and said, "How about this, we'll see how things go. After all, taking a boat to Huajiang Prefecture depends on timing. If there are no boats when we go, we might have to wait a day or two. In that case, we'll go to Tianning County. If we happen to catch a boat to the capital, we'll go there on our next trip back."

She thought that by the time they returned from the capital, the matter of Gongqiu would be resolved.

Tianning County is where Meng Yunzheng lived for ten years, and he probably wants to go back and visit it.

Upon hearing this, Ying Xi nodded repeatedly, "Okay."

(End of this chapter)