Chapter 25 I'm coming
Chunzhi took the things off the cart and washed them. Without even looking up, she said, "I guessed."
"Guess?"
Huo Zheng found this answer somewhat unexpected.
Chunzhi was cleaning the tofu basket while saying, "I wasn't called Chunzhi before, but I forgot what it was. They called me Chunzhi the moment they came. This is obviously a problem."
Huo Zheng asked, "Didn't they change their name to calling you Xiaoyu?"
"Yes, I'm sure you can tell that they changed their words at the last minute."
Chunzhi worked very skillfully and in no time she washed the tofu basket clean and placed it in the yard to dry.
She turned around and said to Huo Qi, "Please close the gate behind you."
Huo Zheng was ordered by Chunzhi to do many small things, and now he was quite used to it. He turned around and closed the gate without saying anything.
There were only him and Chunzhi in the small courtyard. Once the gate was closed, it seemed as if all the noise was blocked out.
Chunzhi watched Huo Qi slowly approaching with his cane and said to him, "I've been in Linshui Town for so many years, and my biological parents haven't come to me yet. How come someone came to me right after I got married?"
Huo Zheng said: "It could also be a coincidence."
"When I heard Aunt Li say that my family had come to visit, I thought it might just be a coincidence."
At that time, Chunzhi still thought that it might be someone from her family who came looking for her.
But when she saw the family of three, she knew it was not the same at first sight.
Chunzhi said, "Some say that blood relatives have a special connection, but when I saw those three, I didn't feel any of that."
Huo Zheng asked: "Is it because of this?"
He didn't know whether to say that the girl was wary of others or that she acted casually.
"Of course it's not entirely because of this." Chunzhi said: "That Feng cried too much, it seemed a bit fake."
Huo Zheng was silent for a moment.
After a moment, he spoke, "But they know you have a peach blossom birthmark on your lower back."
"That's the weirdest part," Chunzhi said, "My lower back..."
She was just about to say that she did have a peach blossom birthmark on her lower back.
But it seemed a little inappropriate to say this in front of Huo Qi.
So she swallowed her words back halfway through.
Huo Zheng was still waiting for Chunzhi's answer, so he kept staring at her.
Chunzhi said, "He's not a relative, but he knows the birthmark on my body. That's the problem."
The only people in Linshui Town who knew that she had a peach blossom birthmark on her lower back were Madam Lu and Lu Jingyun.
And she recently had a falling out with these two people.
Not to mention whether the Lu family would deliberately recruit people to impersonate her family.
The fact that the three members of the Su family were thinking of taking her back and marrying her off to someone else was a big problem.
Chunzhi told Huo Qi about the several things she had discovered that were not right. "I finally found my daughter after ten years of searching, but instead of wanting to reunite with my family, I wanted to find a new husband for me. Don't you think this is strange?"
Huo Zheng said nothing, but just looked at Chunzhi with eyes as dark as ink.
It seems that this girl is not completely defenseless.
It can even be said to be meticulous.
Then she had already used up all her kindness by letting him stay and recuperate.
When Huo Zheng thought of this, he suddenly found it a little funny.
Chunzhi didn't know what Huo Qi was thinking, and she continued to say to him, "If they were really my biological parents, when they came looking for me, they should at least ask me how I've been doing these years and what kind of person I married, right?"
Over the years, she has also thought about what the scene would be like if she could find her biological parents.
Thousands of fantasies.
No scene is like today.
Chunzhi said slowly, "But they didn't ask me anything, they just told me to go with them. It didn't seem like they wanted to take me home to live a good life, it seemed more like they wanted to trick me into selling me off."
Huo Zheng was amused by her, "You are quite vigilant."
"What can I do if I'm not alert?" Chunzhi said, "After all, I'm not bad looking. If I were to trick someone into selling me, I could be worth quite a bit of money."
Huo Zheng found a chair in the yard and sat down, putting his cane aside. "Just get to the point, why are you praising yourself?"
Speaking of this, Chunzhi suddenly remembered that the man had previously said that she "only had distinct facial features but an ordinary appearance."
Yes.
Huo Qi didn't think she was pretty at all.
Chunzhi didn't bother to argue with him about this and said with a smile, "But why didn't they cheat you? With your looks, if you were cheated and sold, you'd be worth more than me."
Huo Zheng sneered, "Is being cheated a good thing?"
Chunzhi said: "Of course not."
She just thought her family had come to see her, but it turned out to be a scam. She felt a little disappointed and wanted to talk to someone.
But the man obviously didn't like to hear her say this.
Chunzhi then consciously shut up and took the pork and pigeons off the cart before speaking again: "Today we're making four-happiness meatballs and pigeon soup. Huo Qi, come and help."
Huo Zheng had just sat down when he heard Chunzhi calling him and slowly stood up with the help of crutches.
In fact, everything Chunzhi asked him to do was unnecessary. She could handle it on her own without him.
But the girl liked to have him involved.
Huo Zheng was born into a noble family. When he was in the capital, he was surrounded by servants and never had to deal with these mundane affairs.
After recuperating for a few days at Chunzhi's place, I also felt the touch of everyday life.
Chunzhi couldn't bear to kill the pigeon, so she used the knife to gesture at it. Without even looking up, she said to Huo Zheng, "Start the fire first."
Huo Zheng sat in front of the stove and quickly lit the fire.
He learned how to make a fire by watching Chunzhi make a fire these two days without realizing it.
The fire burned for a long time and boiled the water in the pot, but Chunzhi still didn't attack the pigeon.
Seeing this, Huo Zheng said, "Me?"
Chunzhi turned around and asked him, "Have you ever killed a pigeon?"
Huo Zheng said: "I have never killed anyone."
As the sage said, a gentleman should stay away from the kitchen, let alone killing a pigeon. Before being picked up and brought home by Chunzhi, His Royal Highness the Prince of Chang'an had never even been to the kitchen, let alone light a fire in front of the stove. He even had to kill a pigeon himself.
Chunzhi asked worriedly, "Will you kill me?"
Huo Zheng said calmly, "Probably."
Killing a pigeon is no harder than killing a person.
Huo Zheng has never killed a pigeon, but he has killed a person.
In this assassination attempt alone, he killed more than twenty assassins.
"Then be careful." Chunzhi handed the pigeon to Huo Zheng, "Be quick when you do it, don't let it suffer too much, and don't let blood splash on your clothes..."
Before he finished speaking, Huo Zheng had already raised his knife and killed the pigeon.
The pigeon hadn't even had time to flap its wings before its throat was cut and blood gushed out.
Huo Zheng casually picked up a bowl to catch the blood, and no blood leaked out, even his hands were clean.
And his movements are extremely efficient, even faster than those of those who specialize in killing chickens and ducks.
Seeing this, Chunzhi immediately said: "..."
She couldn't help but think: Who on earth did I rescue?
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