Chapter 1543 shows great favor towards the shop.
Shu Yu took Ying Xi back to the backyard, and then went out to the street to buy things.
Just as they rounded a street, a person suddenly appeared in front of them, speaking urgently in a low voice, "Lu Xiangjun, something's happened."
Shu Yu looked up and saw that the other person was an unfamiliar face.
But she herself was an expert in cross-dressing, so she could tell at a glance that the person in front of her had deliberately altered his face.
After taking a second look, he immediately recognized her, and then his brows furrowed and his expression changed slightly. "Did your sister-in-law send you?"
This person was none other than Lu Tong, the maid who should have been protecting Xiao Shi at Dongqing Temple at that moment.
The moment she saw her, she said something had happened, and Shu Yu's heart skipped a beat.
Xiao entrusted her to Wei Nan; if anything were to happen to her, she would be too ashamed to face anyone.
Where is my sister-in-law?
"It's the Yuelai Inn over there."
Shu Yu breathed a slight sigh of relief upon hearing this, knowing that the person was still there, and her heart calmed down a little.
"Let's go to Yuelai Inn."
Lu Tong then led Shu Yu toward the Yue Lai Inn, but they entered through the back door. As they entered, Lu Tong looked around cautiously, as if afraid of being discovered.
The two went upstairs and came to the best room at the very end of the second floor.
Lu Tong knocked on the door, and a wary voice inside asked, "Who is it?"
"Madam, it's me."
The door was quietly opened a crack, and upon seeing Lu Tong and Shu Yu following behind her, the guards behind the door quickly opened the door completely.
Shu Yu entered the house and found that the guards protecting Xiao Shi were all there.
Shu Yu was startled. "What happened? Why did you leave Dongqing Temple?"
Madam Xiao was overjoyed to see her, "Ayu, I didn't expect to find you in the prefectural city."
She looked a little nervous and, without bothering with pleasantries, pulled Shu Yu to sit down beside her. She then said, "Shu Yu, I might have been found out."
"We've been discovered?"
Madam Xiao nodded. "I met someone at Dongqing Temple, a member of the Xiao family."
Shu Yu's expression instantly turned serious. "How could this be? Tell me properly, what exactly happened?"
Xiao steadied herself and began to speak from the beginning, “This morning, as usual, I went to the back mountain of the Taoist temple for a stroll. As you know, that area of the back mountain is considered the private property of the Taoist temple. Unless you climb directly up the steep slope at the bottom of the mountain, no one will come here. But I hadn’t gone far when I saw someone standing not far away, acting rather suspiciously.”
The other person probably heard the noise, turned around, and saw her.
Fortunately, after experiencing a life-or-death ordeal, Xiao Shi became cautious and always wore a veil. Not only would she not leave the Taoist temple to walk around in the back mountain, but even if she left her room to walk around in the courtyard of the Taoist temple, she would cover her face so that no one could recognize her.
Fortunately, she was so cautious that the other party did not recognize her.
But Madam Xiao saw his face through the gap in the veil. She didn't need to look closely; with just one glance, she knew who he was, and her heart skipped a beat.
The other person was probably feeling guilty; as soon as they realized they had been discovered, they disappeared in a flash.
Xiao dared not wander around the back mountain and returned to the Taoist temple.
However, she felt increasingly uneasy and immediately sent Lu Tong, who was skilled in martial arts and good at hiding, to check on him.
Lu Tong went out to inquire and returned shortly afterward, saying that the person seemed to be looking for someone in the Taoist temple, but was discovered by a Taoist nun and was being harassed.
(End of this chapter)
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