Chapter 523

"Madam, Madam! Are you inside?"

It was Chen Zongwen.

Madam Chen pressed her temples, silently cursing in her heart: "Get up first, and don't let Xi'er notice anything unusual when we get back."

Le An breathed a sigh of relief and quickly got up from the ground: "Yes."

As she pushed open the door to leave, she couldn't help but give Chen Zongwen a grateful look as she passed by.

Chen Zongwen was baffled by that glance.

However, the next moment, upon seeing his wife, he put everything else out of his mind and strode into the house: "Madam, the prefect of Jizhou is truly capable. He has arranged the private school very well. If you have time, why don't you go and take a look?"

"What are you looking at? What's there to see!"

Seeing Madam Chen's unpleasant expression, Chen Zongwen was taken aback and subconsciously softened his tone: "Madam, what's wrong? Did someone offend you?"

Remembering the maid who had just left, Chen Zongwen said, "Is it that maid? I'll go find her!"

After Chen Zongwen finished speaking, he was about to leave when Madam Chen called him back.

Chen Zongwen looked at Madam Chen with concern and asked, "Madam, what exactly happened?"

Madam Chen frowned, and after a long while, she said, "Have you maintained contact with those people in Luoyang these past few years?"

“No,” Chen Zongwen’s face was a little stiff. “We’ve been away from Luoyang for so long. Those people are all very busy. What is there to contact?”

“Then let’s get in touch again,” Madam Chen said. “Let’s find out what Xi’er has been through since she entered Luoyang!”

Chen Zongwen frowned: "What's wrong with that girl?"

“I’m just wondering if something bad happened to this girl after she arrived in Luoyang,” Madam Chen tried to suppress her unease, but her voice still trembled slightly. “But these are just guesses. You should write a letter and have someone investigate first.”

Chen Zongwen immediately straightened his expression: "Okay, I'll write the letter right away."

Without hesitation, Chen Zongwen immediately ground ink and picked up his brush, and soon wrote several letters in a long and flowing style.

"I'll go with you to mail the letter."

After the couple left the house and walked a little further, Madam Chen lowered her voice and said, "When you get back, don't give anything away in front of Xi'er. I always feel that this girl is hiding a lot of things."

Chen Zongwen nodded: "Then why don't we ask Huai Chuan?"

"Him?" Madam Chen sneered. "Don't you know what kind of person that child is?"

When they were children, the two of them were bullied outside. When they came back, Yunxi said it was nothing, and Duan Huaichuan also said it was nothing. If Madam Chen hadn't discovered the bloodstains on Yunxi's clothes when she was washing them at night, the couple would still have been kept in the dark!

Therefore, Duan Huaichuan would always keep secrets from Yunxi if she told him in advance that something couldn't be told.

Chen Zongwen sighed: "These two kids are really getting more and more opinionated."

Madam Chen also sighed heavily.

That's right.

It's really worrying.

——

Several days have passed.

Recently, Yun Changliang, who was already more favored by the Crown Prince, has suddenly attracted even more attention.

Not only Yun Changliang, but the Yun family received many invitations to pay their respects, and all of them were relatives of important officials.

This surprised the couple greatly.

"Even the wife of Grand Secretary Wang, who never likes to attend banquets, has sent a visiting card to our family!" Madam Yun placed a simple visiting card in front of Yun Changliang. "My lord, what's going on? Why are so many important figures suddenly coming to our house?"

Yun Changliang picked up the visiting card and examined it carefully, saying, "This is not surprising. After all, His Highness the Crown Prince has been very fond of me recently. These people are, after all, his subjects. How could they not follow their master's lead?"

"Please take care of these guests, Madam."