Chapter 38 Tsunezaburo? ◇
After Zhou Yu left, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and slumped over on the kang. Zhou Jin became even more puzzled and asked:
"What the hell is going on?"
Zhou Luo told Zhou Jin everything that had just happened, and concluded:
"Boss, your sister is so scary, even scarier than you!"
From now on, he would rather offend their leader than that girl Zhou Yu!
Zhou Jin...
Well, he also thought it was scary when his sister got angry, but that wasn’t the point. The point was who made his sister angry!!!
As a protective brother, Zhou Jin always felt that it was okay for him to bully his sister, but if someone else bullied him... hehe...
After hearing Zhou Luo say that the young man he rescued yesterday actually wanted to hit his sister, he looked at Zhu Xi with cold eyes...
Zhu Xi's heart trembled at the look in his eyes. He thought, "Do you understand? Why are you glaring at me? I clearly hit your sister but missed, and instead she slapped me and gave me several injections, okay? I'm the one who suffered the loss, okay?!"
But considering that Zhou Jin's gaze was too scary, and the look in his eyes was exactly the same as that of the naughty girl just now, Zhu Xi was afraid that he would be beaten by Zhou Jin after being beaten by Zhou Yu, so he forced himself to hold back and did not speak!
He thought to himself, a strong dragon cannot defeat a local snake, and a downtrodden phoenix is no better than a chicken. He had better endure it until his brother comes to find him!
But he had already restrained himself from speaking, but the black girl's brother was still looking at him seriously, and Zhu Xi could no longer bear it.
"Hey! If you dare to hit me again, even if you're my savior, I'll turn hostile to you!!"
After saying this, he saw Zhou Jin's face approaching him. Zhu Xi thought he was going to be beaten again, so he closed his eyes and screamed, while screaming and swinging his hands and feet randomly...
"Hey, don't go too far! I, my master, also have kung fu skills...ah!!..."
Zhou Jin...
Seeing the young man lying on the kang like a turtle, waving his limbs and screaming, his behavior was simply shameless!
No wonder his sister wanted to hit him when she saw him!? He's also feeling a bit itchy right now, okay?!
"Hey! Don't you recognize me?!" Zhou Jin felt that he couldn't hit this kid while he was sick, because that would make him look like a bully. So he helplessly held down the boy's waving arms and stood in front of him, looking down at him.
"Huh?" Zhu Xi stopped moving after hearing that. He opened his eyes and looked up at Zhou Jin above him. He thought to himself, he really looks familiar. It's like I've seen him somewhere before!
But where have you seen it before?
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"Oh, oh, I remember," Zhu Xi tilted his head and looked at it for a long time, and suddenly remembered that the young man in front of him was the one who saved him in the pawnshop that day?
So he excitedly jumped up from the kang and pointed at Zhou Jin and shouted, "You're the one who saved me in the pawnshop that time! Really you?! I never thought I'd be in trouble twice, and it was you who saved me!"
"Last time at the pawnshop, it was just a small favor. There's no need to mention it again. This time, it was mainly my sister who saved you, so I don't dare to take the credit."
Zhou Jin didn't want others to know about the last time he went to the pawn shop to sell the mirror, so he changed the subject and asked why the boy ended up wandering in the deserted mountains and getting bitten by a snake.
"By the way, why did you run into the mountains alone this time? And you were bitten by a snake. If my sister and I hadn't also lost our way and happened to run into you by chance, you would probably be in great danger now!
Your accent doesn't sound like a local. Where do you live now? Do you have any family around? Do you want us to take you back?"
The young man was startled when he heard this, and after a moment he spoke hesitantly.
"My father and mother are both dead, and my eldest brother is also dead. Now, besides my grandfather, there are only my stepmother and my half-brothers in my family. My stepmother treats me badly, and my grandfather doesn't like me either. I have no choice but to escape and come to Liaodong to seek refuge with my relatives..."
When I finally arrived, I discovered that my relatives had already moved away, my money had been stolen, and my grandma's brother, who had been accompanying me, had become separated from me. That time I met you at the pawnshop was because after we were separated, I had no food to eat, and I was thinking of pawning the jade pendant my mother left me for some money, but I ended up running into a shady shop..."
"Let's not talk about the past. Let's talk about what happened next. Why did you end up in the mountains? And how did you get bit by a snake?"
Seeing him mention the pawnshop again, Zhou Jin hurriedly stopped him.
"Alas!" Zhu Xi was filled with fear as he recalled what had happened a few days ago. He lamented, "I'm also unlucky. Not only did I miss the jade pendant that time, but after I separated from you, I ran into the people my grandfather sent to capture me. To avoid them, I panicked and headed into the mountains. I ended up getting lost as I walked further and further. Before I was bitten by the snake, I had already been in the mountains for more than ten days, relying entirely on wild fruits to satisfy my hunger. If I hadn't come across a hunter's trap that once left me with a dead fawn, I'm afraid I would have starved to death long ago!"
"You've been in the mountains for more than ten days? Doesn't that mean you went into the mountains right after we separated?" Zhou Jin asked in surprise, "And you ran into a trap? You caught a deer? Then why are you running around?
Since you are lost, why don't you find a place to hide near the trap, so that when the hunter comes to collect the prey in the trap, you will be saved?"
Zhu Xi...Huh? Yeah! Why didn't he think of that?
Just as he was about to reply, a young man of about sixteen or seventeen suddenly asked,
"You said you came to Liaodong to look for your relatives? What's your name? Where's your hometown? Could you show us the household registration documents you used along the way? And where are your relatives' addresses? Please tell us that, too."
The person asking the questions was Zhou Luo's brother Zhou Po. Ever since Zhu Xi was rescued by Zhou Jin and his sister, Zhou Po always felt that the young man looked familiar, but he just couldn't remember where he had seen him, so he couldn't help but ask.
Zhu Xi remained calm after hearing Zhou Po's question. He reached into his tattered clothes and fumbled around for a while, then pulled out a piece of oil paper folded into half the size of an envelope and handed it to Zhou Po.
Zhou Po opened the oil paper and saw that it was the boy's household registration.
"Are you from Zhongli, Haozhou? Chang Sanlang? Are you from Haozhou? Why don't you have any Haozhou accent?" Zhou Po asked again while looking at the household registration.
"Oh, my household registration is in Haozhou, but I grew up in Kyoto, so I can't speak the Haozhou dialect." Zhu Xi answered very frankly, thinking that since the household registration obtained by his grandfather was real, he was not afraid of being checked.
"Then where did you live in Kyoto?" Zhou Po asked again.
"When I was in Kyoto, I lived in Wangjia Hutong, East City, the second to last building," Zhu Xi fluently reported the address of his wet nurse's home. He then asked Zhou Po, "Judging from your accent, you are also from Kyoto, right? Where did your family live in Kyoto before?"
This time Zhou Po was at a loss for words. His grandfather had been sentenced to death by the Emperor, so he couldn't possibly say that he had lived in the Mansion of the Grand Councillors before. Instead, his brother Zhou Luo answered for him frankly:
"My family did move here from Kyoto not long ago, but we used to live in West City, which is quite far from where you are."
Zhu Xi was surprised. The people living in the west part of the capital were all powerful and influential, ranging from dukes to high-ranking officials. Who would suddenly move their entire family from the capital to Liaodong? And live in such a shabby mud house?
Zhu Xi couldn't think of any other possibility except that they were exiled because their family had committed a crime. As far as he knew, the only family whose entire clan had been exiled recently was that old scholar Zhou Ge Lao's family!
And he just heard the conversation of everyone in the room, it seemed that the family's surname was Zhou.
Could it be that the person who saved him was actually a member of Lord Zhou's family? Zhu Xi couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat at the thought of this. Suddenly, he remembered that the young man who kept asking him questions seemed to be Lord Zhou's eldest grandson who was almost chosen to be his brother's study partner, but was unable to enter the palace because of his brother's sudden death... Zhou Po!
Zhu Xi couldn't help but look at Zhou Pu a few more times, and felt more certain in his heart!
Yes, that was him! His brother had introduced him to him a few years ago! But a few years had passed, and the boy had changed into coarse clothes and looked much darker, so he hadn't remembered him for a moment.
No wonder he kept asking him questions, it turned out that he looked familiar too!
Zhou Xi thought to himself, luckily his grandfather had used potion to change his complexion before he went out, making him look darker, and also changed the shape of his eyebrows. He had grown taller in the past few years and looked a lot different than when he was a child, so he was not recognized by this guy, otherwise he would have been exposed today!
But since Zhou Po is here, then the old scholar Zhou Ge Lao must be here too. Zhu Xi was secretly worried and thought that he had to hide well. The longer he could hide, the better. He didn't want to be forced to endorse by Zhou Ge Lao when he arrived in Liaodong!
Zhu Xi shuddered when he thought of the old scholar who used to be so disappointed with him that he glared at him and wanted to grab him and spank him.
It wasn't that he was afraid of the old scholar, but he simply couldn't stand his nagging. If you said you wouldn't listen to him, he'd kneel down and cry about his deceased elder brother, kowtowing while crying, his head bouncing loudly, as if he was about to die! But if you listened to him, he'd really annoy you to death!
At first, when Zhu Xi heard that Lord Zhou was going to commit suicide by banging his head against a pillar, he was not surprised at all. He thought that the old stubborn man was probably suffering from his old illness again. If he didn't bang his head against something every day, he would feel uncomfortable all over!
Why does that old scholar always have such a hard time with his own brain?!
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In order to prevent Lord Zhou from recognizing him, Zhu Xi thought that starting from tomorrow, he should try to keep his head down while walking and try not to get close to the old scholar. The old scholar's eyesight was not very good, and there were so many children in the family, so he might not be able to recognize him.
"Haha, that's really far away!"
Zhu Xi was thinking about his own things while answering Zhou Po. Afraid that Zhou Po would ask further questions, he pretended to be uncomfortable, humming and saying that he was dizzy and wanted to sleep for a while.
Zhou Po felt that Zhu Xi's answers were quite honest and there were no loopholes in the household registration, so he felt relieved. He thought he was just being too suspicious and stopped asking any more questions.
Zhu Xi was about to close his eyes and take a nap when he heard a voice from the side.
"Tsusaburo!"
Because it was a fake name, Zhu Xi was stunned for a moment before realizing that Zhou Jin was calling him, and hurriedly responded:
"Uh, hey, what?"
"Haha, it's okay. I just wanted to call you because I was afraid I'd forget." Zhou Jin said with a smile. ...
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