Finally, the matter of the Yu family's pledge of allegiance ended with the Yu family giving 200,000 taels of silver in exchange for Zhuyuan's protection.
As for the matter of having Zhu Yuan marry Miss Yu as his secondary wife, Yu Xin didn't dare to mention it again.
Fortunately, their most pressing matter now is not marrying off their daughter, but how to evacuate Mingzhou City safely without the King of Yang's notice.
After Yu Xin left, Zhen Wanwan followed Zhu Yuan to the inn where he was currently staying.
Previously, in order to fit the persona he had created, Zhu Yuan directly bought an inn.
When the innkeeper saw Zhuyuan return, he grinned from ear to ear.
Because his inn was in a bad location, far from the market, few people came except for regular customers.
He never expected that the person he had unintentionally recruited would turn out to be a wealthy individual.
They booked his entire inn, and the income from that month is almost equal to his annual income.
"Oh! Master Zhen is back! May I ask if this is Madam?"
The shopkeeper looked at Zhen Wanwan with a smile. The two were so close and looked so well-matched standing together. What else could they be but a married couple?
Zhu Yuan gave a faint "hmm" and said, "Have the kitchen send some hot water over."
The two went upstairs side by side, while A-Yue was personally led to her room by the innkeeper.
As for hot water, the observant waiter had already gone to the kitchen to give the order.
Zhu Yuan was usually very generous, and the waiters also benefited from him quite a bit.
Now that Master Zhen's wife has arrived, we must be quick to curry favor with her.
Back at the inn, Zhen Wanwan looked around; this was her first time staying at an inn.
Unlike the inns I've seen in movies and TV shows, the inns here are smaller.
Zhu Yuan led Zhen Wanwan to a chair and said, "Madam, you shouldn't have come out to look for me yourself. There are bandits everywhere outside. What if you got hurt?"
Zhu Yuan frowned slightly. Ever since he learned that Zhen Wanwan was coming to find him, he had been worried that something unexpected might happen on the way.
Zhen Wanwan smiled and said, "The parchment is of utmost importance. I don't trust anyone else to give it to you. Didn't you say you have a spy by your side? My father, elder brother, and I discussed it for a long time before deciding to deliver it to you personally."
"Besides, I'm not as weak as you think. Don't forget, my husband, I have a small pistol on me, and A-Yue and the bodyguards you arranged for me are all here. I wasn't injured."
Mentioning this, Zhu Yuan's tightly furrowed brows did not relax.
"I smell blood on A-Yue. Did you encounter anything on the way?"
Actually, when he encountered Zhen Wanwan and the other person, he had already smelled the blood, but he could tell that the blood did not belong to Zhen Wanwan.
That's why he was able to remain so calm and hold back until now to ask.
Thinking about what happened to them yesterday, Zhen Wanwan felt a tightness in her heart, her hands and feet went cold, and she rubbed her arms with lingering fear.
Zhu Yuan keenly noticed Zhen Wanwan's change in mood, and a cold glint flashed in his eyes: "Did someone bully you?"
Zhen Wanwan shook her head and sighed, "It's not that, it's just that we weren't vigilant enough and the bear attacked us."
The bear was even taller and stronger than the ones I'd seen on TV in my previous life, like an insurmountable mountain.
Their strength was no match for it. If it weren't for A-Yue and the others' desperate protection, Zhen Wanwan, even with a pistol, probably wouldn't have escaped unscathed.
Zhu Yuan's expression changed. He had heard that a bear had come out and eaten several people in the past month.
It is said that the bear was extremely difficult to deal with, even more intelligent than a human. The Mingzhou government sent people to capture it, but the bear turned out to be even more ferocious.
Many people now dare not go into the woods for fear of encountering a bear.
He never expected that Zhen Wanwan and the others would run into him so coincidentally.
Thinking of his wife's helplessness when she encountered the bear, he felt a pang of pain in his heart, and a sense of guilt and heartache.
"Were you frightened?" Zhu Yuan asked in a hoarse voice.
"It was a bit scary at the time, but don't worry, my husband, we've killed it. There's just one thing I need to tell you!"
"Actually, we didn't encounter the bear ourselves that day; someone lured it to our side."
Thinking of yesterday's scene, Zhen Wanwan pouted and said with dissatisfaction, "You won't believe it, but that person looks exactly like Yu Xin. I was wondering if they were brothers?"
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