Jiutian immediately put a finger to his lips and said, "Shh~"
Her actions were so cute that Yin Jin'an chuckled and twitched the corners of her mouth.
The two remained silent. The young man in purple robes thought that "Your Highness" was being paranoid. He searched inside and outside the room but found no one else.
"Young Master Bu Nu, that woman is here again."
Just as the purple-robed youth and "Your Highness" were frantically searching for someone, someone at the door replied.
Your Highness slowly breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "Let's see what surprises your beauty can bring."
Chu Bu Nu smiled wickedly: "Your Highness, just you wait and see."
"She wouldn't ask you to have a one-night stand with her, would she?"
"She's dreaming! But if she can really provide His Highness with useful information, then taking a nap with her isn't out of the question."
"Chu Bu Nu, you really are... tsk tsk tsk."
"Tsk? Do you want me to bring her to your bed?"
"roll!"
Yin Jin'an and Jiu Tian looked out the window and saw a woman enter the inn.
Red jacket, green headscarf.
She is Zhang Xiangliang's wife, Ye Ting.
Ye Ting used the excuse of looking for Zhang Xiangliang to come in again, but she did not go to the stables. Instead, she went straight to the second floor of the inn, looking around furtively as she walked.
Chu Bu Nu gestured to "Your Highness" and left.
The door was open, and clearly, "Your Highness" wanted to hear how Chu Bu Nu was seducing Ye Ting.
Ye Ting sneaked up to the second floor, wondering how she could bump into the handsome and generous young man from yesterday, when she suddenly heard a surprised voice: "Oh, Aunt Zhang, you're here to see Brother Zhang again?"
When Ye Ting looked up, she saw the man who looked like a painting, the red mole between his eyebrows so beautiful and so sacred.
Her face flushed instantly, and she lowered her head, saying, "I... I came to find you..."
"Looking for me?" With a hint of surprise mixed with a smile, she said, "Does Aunt Zhang need my help? You've come at just the right time; I was almost leaving."
"Leave? Where are you going?" Ye Ting said in a panic. "Why, why are you leaving so soon?"
Chu Bu Nu walked up to her, bent down, tilted his head and looked into her eyes, looking at the panic and greed in them, while pretending to be innocent and pure.
"I've been in this town for several days looking for someone to help me, but I haven't been able to find them. I'll have to go back and deal with the family matters from head to toe."
"Family, family rules?"
"Yes, family rules mean getting beaten. If you don't do things right, you get a severe beating, because I can't find anyone to help you."
"Who...who are you looking for?"
"Sister Zhang, don't worry about it. You just married into this family; you probably wouldn't even recognize her..."
He originally thought that after saying this, the other party would immediately ask, "Who is it? What's your name?", but Ye Ting was even more embarrassed than he had imagined. She bit her lip and her eyes were red.
Chu Bu Nu gently tugged at her sleeve and whispered, "Aunt Zhang, Sister Ye, don't be sad. It's my fault for being useless. I deserve to be beaten."
"Who are you looking for? I'll try to find out for you; I might know them."
“You probably wouldn’t recognize him even if I told you. There was a man named Jinyi who was sent from the capital to the Cui family. The Cui family members are all dead. We’ve been asking around for days and heard that he lives in a small alley, but we’ve searched for him several times and still haven’t found him.”
Upon hearing that they were looking for Jin Yi, Ye Ting immediately mustered her courage, bravely looked up, and said, "I know this person."
"Ah, you know them?" Chu Bu Nu seemed very excited and said, "To be honest, I asked your husband a few days ago, and he said he wasn't familiar with Jinyi."
He looked into her eyes, which were full of genuine smiles.
"Aunt Zhang, if you can help me find him, no, find out his details, I'll agree to whatever you ask for."
Ye Ting's face turned bright red.
She couldn't resist the advances of a seasoned lover like Chu Bu Nu; her heart was completely captivated.
“I can find out… he is currently living with his niece, Jiutian.”
"She's a fortune teller in the Nine Heavens; she's practically a little sage in the whole county..."
“He used to live next door to my mother-in-law’s house. My mother-in-law always helped him and was very kind to him. He said he would repay her forever… to repay the Zhang family.”
I meant to say I was repaying "my mother-in-law," but what came out was "repaying the Zhang family."
"Sister-in-law, may I come up and have some water so we can talk slowly?"
"good."
Ye Ting felt that Chu Bu Nu was a sincere and harmless person, so she lowered her head and followed him into the room next to "Your Highness".
Chu Bu Nu poured her a glass of water in the finest white jade cup, brewed some fragrant tea, and said apologetically, "We don't have any good tea here, only these ordinary fragrant teas. Sister-in-law, please try them and see if you can get used to them?"
Poor Ye Ting had never tasted fragrant tea before, let alone this fashionable scented tea.
She held the teacup, took a few sips, and then began to pour out everything she knew about the Embroidered Uniform Guard—
"Very beautiful"
"He's not very bright."
"His leg is lame and he can't move, so Ma Chenyang carries him in and out."
"The young man he was taking care of was named Ma Chenyang. He was originally a waiter at Shenglong Inn, but he was later hired by him at a high price, and he was paid 600 coins a month."
"He doesn't have much money on hand; it's all from the fines he received from the Cui family."
"He was closest to Landlord Wang because his niece, Jiutian, was a fortune teller and had saved Landlord Wang's life. Landlord Wang would help him with anything."
That courtyard belongs to Landlord Wang.
...
The information she unearthed about the Embroidered Uniform Guard completely betrayed her.
Chu Bu Nu was sweating profusely as he listened, but he didn't interrupt her. He listened to her slowly, a smile on his face, looking at her as if she were a beloved lover.
In a moment of impulsiveness, Ye Ting said everything she should and shouldn't have said, especially—
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