Su Xingze looked at Su Rong. His younger sister was wrapped like a dumpling, her eyes and eyebrows tender, her heart decisive and sharp, even outdoing his own decisiveness.
He sighed, "You’ve always been independent since you were young, but when it comes to matters of your own future, you must be cautious."
Su Rong grumbled, "Brother, I’m very cautious, when did you start dilly-dallying?"
Su Xingze, "..."
He was silent for a while, then reached out and rubbed Su Rong’s head vigorously, "I’m leaving, you better take care of your injury."
Su Rong nodded cheerfully, urging him with a carefree manner, "It’s getting late, you should set off now!"
In other words, go, go now! Stop dawdling!
Su Xingze gave a laugh and turned to leave.
However, he didn’t leave immediately, but went to see Xie Yuan.
When Xie Yuan saw Su Xingze, he gave him a letter of recommendation and an address, "When you arrive at the Capital City, go meet the Minister of Personnel Shen Xian. He and I belong to the same generation, we had some friendships back then. If you encounter any trouble in the Capital City, you can seek his help."
Su Xingze was astonished, "Minister of Personnel, Master Shen?"
"Yes, his temperament is somewhat quirky, but with my letter, if you approach him, he won’t idly sit by."
Su Xingze carefully put the letter away, "Thank you, Master Xie."
Xie Yuan waved his hand, "Go, be careful on the road!"
Su Xingze nodded and left the Xie Residence.
As Su Xingze left Jiangning County with Xie Lin, an imperial decree was also sent to Jiangning Governor’s Residence, commanding Governor Su to go to Jiangzhou immediately to take over Jiang Sheng’s position, and received the title of Inspector of Jiangzhou.
Xie Lin congratulated Governor Su with a smile, "Congrats, Uncle Su."
Governor Su was feeling quite complicated, he had stayed in Jiangning County for many years, he didn’t plan on moving, even if it was to Jiangzhou. He originally thought he would retire from his position as the Governor of Jiangning, but didn’t expect to suddenly receive a promotion. Although he had heard about it from Su Rong in advance, he still didn’t know how to feel when he received the imperial decree.
In response to Xie Lin’s congratulations, he could only laugh heartily, "Thank you, nephew. The next time you want to visit, come to Jiangzhou."
"Sure thing." Xie Lin nodded with a smile.
Upon leaving Jiangning County, Xie Lin looked back, "Jiangning County is truly a great place."
Su Xingze asked him, "Don’t want to leave?"
"A little bit." Xie Lin had been enjoying himself for several days, he had never been so leisurely, he almost didn’t want to leave. After all, upon returning to the Capital City, he had to face the control of his family and prepare for exams, and he would also have to compete in the gold autumn tournament.
Su Xingze, on the other hand, didn’t feel any reluctance to leave. This time, he was determined to stay in the Capital City as an official to help his seventh sister in the future.
After the two of them had traveled for a day and arrived at Jiangzhou, they thought that Zhou Gu had already left, and did not expect to see him still in Jiangzhou.
Xie Lin immediately asked, "Why didn’t you leave earlier?"
"I just finished dealing with some things, so I thought I’d wait for you." Zhou Gu looked at Su Xingze, "Big Brother Su, why are you three days late?"
"My mother was not well, so we stayed for a couple more days." Su Xingze replied calmly.
Hearing this, Xie Lin glanced at Su Xingze, thinking to himself that Mrs. Su had been spiritedly jumping around in the past few days, wasn’t she fine? The one who was not well was Su Rong. He didn’t know why Su Xingze wanted to hide it from Zhou Gu. Was he afraid that Zhou would worry?
Xie Lin, who was unmarried, didn’t quite understand the situation, but he knew enough about basic etiquette to not expose Su Xingze.
Zhou Gu immediately asked, "Is Aunt Su okay?"
"It was nothing serious, just that she was tired from preparing for Xiaoqi’s coming-of-age ceremony, so she got a bit worn out. The doctor prescribed her some medicine. She rested for a couple of days and she’s much better now." Su Xingze answered with a straight face.
Zhou Gu nodded, "That’s good."
He didn’t suspect anything, mainly because he didn’t think that Su Xingze would lie to him, especially using his mother’s health as an excuse.
Xie Lin thought to himself that he had gained new insights into Su Xingze. He had thought that Su Xingze was a straightforward person, but he didn’t expect that he would even use his mother as an excuse.
Therefore, the three of them traveled together to the Capital City.
Zhou Gu didn’t bring up Su Rong, and naturally, Su Xingze didn’t mention her either. For several days, their journey was uneventful.
One day, they arrived at Yuquan County, which was exactly where Duanhua Princess had been intercepted by Ziye under Zhou Gu’s orders. Despite being detained by Zhou Gu and crying with frustration, Duanhua Princess was stubborn, refusing to return to the Capital City, insisting on waiting for Zhou Gu. In the end, Ziye and his men had no choice but to stay with her here.
When Zhou Gu and the others arrived at Yuquan County, it was noon.
Upon seeing Zhou Gu, Ziye was almost moved to tears, "Young Master, you’re finally back."
He hadn’t seen Zhou Gu for many days, and not being by his side, not being able to accompany him, especially being stuck with Duanhua Princess here, made him feel frustrated and bored. He missed Zhou Gu terribly.
Zhou Gu didn’t waste any words, and he didn’t want to see Duanhua, "Take her with us, let’s go."
Ziye blinked, "How do we take her?"
"You go ask her if she wants to go. If she’s willing to return to the Capital City, she can come with me. If she’s unwilling..." Zhou Gu paused, "she still has to go back, bring her back by force!"
Ziye immediately said, "Princess Duanhua has been waiting for you, she will certainly be happy to go back to the Capital City with you."
He went immediately to ask Duanhua Princess.
Upon hearing that Zhou Gu had returned, Duanhua Princess’s face lit up with joy. However, when she heard that Zhou Gu wanted to bring her back to the Capital City, she immediately felt unhappy, withdrew from her joy, and put on a stern look, "I won’t walk with him and I won’t go back."
Ziye was taken aback by her refusal and asked, "Why won’t the Princess go back?"
"None of your business!"
Ziye also toughened up, "The Young Master has ordered that the Princess will return to the Capital City with the Young Master. If the Princess refuses to go back, the Young Master has ordered to take you back by force."
Duanhua Princess was furious, "What right does Zhou Gu have?"
Ziye kindly reminded her, "Because you are the one who chased after the Young Master, and he needs to make sure you get back to the Capital City safely."
"I don’t care, I won’t go back, I want to go to Jiangning County." Duanhua made up her mind. She wanted to see just how good Zhou Gu’s low-born fiancee was that Zhou Gu went so far as to protect her, even preventing her from going to Jiangning County, was he afraid that she would bully that low-born girl?
She was going to bully her to death!
A plain girl from the Governor’s Residence in a place like Jiangning County, she didn’t believe that she couldn’t deal with her.
Ziye saw that he couldn’t reason with Duanhua Princess and directly said, "The Young Master has given the order. If you don’t obey, I will have to use force."
"You brazen servant, you dare!" Duanhua Princess screamed.
Ziye said seriously, "I dare!"
Anyway, it was the Young Master’s orders. If he had to use force on Duanhua, the Young Master would have to accept the consequences.
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