Zhou Sanfu: "?" Chen Yueru used to be a very well-mannered and refined lady. When did she become so fierce and unreserved?
"How can a young woman like you brazenly ask a man in the street if he wants to marry you? Don't you have any shame?"
Chen Yueru's face flushed red again. She pouted, glared at Zhou Sanfu, and this time she really turned around and ran away.
At this moment, Dafu and the others gathered around and criticized Sanfu for being too blunt in his rejection. They said he should have been more tactful. After all, Ruru was a young woman, and how could he bear to hurt her feelings when she had mustered up the courage to express her love to him?
"Shut up, all of you. If she wants to be with me, why can't she find a suitable place and tell me in private? Why does she have to ask me so urgently in the street?" Zhou Sanfu laughed in anger.
"So, do you actually have feelings for Ruru?" Zhou Dafu asked, posing a crucial question.
Everyone else stared at him, wanting to know what he was thinking.
Zhou Sanfu wiped his face and said expressionlessly, "I don't know. I've never thought about this before."
“I never thought about it before, but now I can. So do you think there’s a possibility between you and Ruru?” Zhou Erfu leaned over and asked with a gossipy look on his face.
"No comment." Zhou Sanfu pushed him away with a sour face.
“Hey, Third Brother, if you don’t tell me now, I’m going to Anyang Prefecture in a couple of days. When you make your decision, you must write to me and Fourth Brother!” Zhou Erfu shouted exaggeratedly.
"Alright, give Third Brother some face, stop bothering him." Zhou Dafu patted Erfu's head.
“Brother, I’m nineteen already. Stop patting my head all the time. It’s embarrassing for me if people see me like this,” Zhou Erfu shouted again.
Two days passed in the blink of an eye. Zhou Erfu and Zhou Sifu, along with several guards, traveled by water to Anyang Prefecture. These guards were originally arranged by Xingxing to escort them back to Nanyang Prefecture. The guards also had to report back to the princess.
Ah Hui went with them. Ah Hui's home was in a fishing village under Anyang Prefecture. Everyone in the village was dead, and now she was the only one left alive. She was determined to go back and take revenge.
Ah Hui grew up by the sea. Since there were no boys in her family, she started going out to sea to fish with her father when she was ten years old. She developed great strength and her skin became tanned. However, in the past few months in Nanyang Prefecture, she has been helping out in the kitchen of a restaurant every day and has not seen the sun all day long, so she has become much fairer.
However, since she has been exposed to the elements since childhood, her skin tone will never be very fair no matter how much care she takes. Her skin is still wheat-colored. However, she has thick eyebrows and big eyes, which makes her look very heroic. Her skin tone looks healthy and not bad.
“My brothers and I can swim, but we learned in the stream and later swam in the river. We’ve never swum in the sea.” Zhou Erfu and Ahui stood on the deck, looking at the boundless sea.
"As long as there are no sea breezes or storms, you can swim just like in a river. However, there are big fish in the sea, so be careful not to get eaten. Human strength is limited, and you can't swim for too long. You still need a boat at sea, otherwise it's hard to survive." Ahui has been explaining the situation at sea to Zhou Erfu and the others for the past few days, so that they can learn more.
Zhou Erfu didn't dare to be arrogant. He knew that if he wanted to go to sea, he would need to practice his swimming skills a lot, otherwise he would drown if he fell into the sea, let alone fight the Japanese pirates.
The weather was extremely hot at this time of year. Every now and then, Zhou Erfu and Zhou Sifu would take off their clothes, wear only their underwear, and jump into the sea for a swim, mainly to practice diving. They would practice for an hour or two every day. By the time they arrived in Anyang Prefecture, their swimming skills had improved even more.
Knowing they were coming, Xingxing had been sending people to the dock to wait for them for the past few days. On this day, Zhou Erfu and his group arrived at the Anyang Prefecture dock, where only Qingyan and Qingluo came to pick them up.
"Where's my sister? Why didn't she come to pick us up?" Zhou Erfu asked, somewhat dissatisfied.
"Miss had urgent business to attend to, and besides, she didn't know exactly when you would arrive, so she asked us to come and pick you up." Qingyan led them away from the dock, and then the group rode back on horseback.
What are the stars busy with right now?
It turned out that the guards had found the house in the forest, but they didn't get there through the secret passage; they came on horseback.
The house was empty and unattended. Everything inside had been moved out, and what remained was damaged. The house was now both empty and chaotic.
After searching high and low, all they found were some scrap metal pieces; nothing else.
"Looks like I've made another wasted trip. This forest isn't far from Prince Cheng's residence, but it's not close either. What is Prince Cheng doing having someone set up a residence here?" Xingxing was completely puzzled.
A few days ago, after Prince Cheng recovered from his illness, he sneaked into this forest in the middle of the night. At that time, the passage was blocked, so he took a long detour. He even searched around the mansion, as if he was looking for someone. That's how the guards discovered this place.
"Why haven't I received any visual cues lately? Have I lost this ability?" Xingxing said with some regret. If she didn't have the ability to foresee the future, she would really feel very uncomfortable.
"No, it's probably not at a very dangerous point yet, which is why there was no warning. Don't worry," Zhu Lin calmly reassured her.
"Five fishing villages were massacred! I never even predicted it. Those fishermen died so tragically." Xingxing felt a pang of sadness as she thought about the scene when she went to check on the fishing villages a few days ago.
The villagers were slaughtered, and the houses in the fishing villages were burned down. Now, those fishing villages are just piles of graves. The government didn't go through the trouble of identifying the dead one by one. They only knew roughly who the head of the household was, and then they just buried each family in one pit and that was it.
However, one thing is certain: all the able-bodied men in each household have disappeared. Their bodies have not been found. The government sent people to search the sea, but they were nowhere to be found.
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