Chapter 50 She scratched me
Last night, Huo Zheng mobilized the secret guards to find out in time that Chunzhi was put in a sack by Zhou Rong's men and taken to the Zhou family's old house.
Zhou Rong is the son of the prefect of Nanzhou. Because the fake Prince of Chang'an is in Nanzhou, Prefect Zhou is afraid that his son, who has always been a troublemaker, will be targeted by Prince of Chang'an, so he lets him return to the old house in Linshui Town to stay for some time.
Huo Zheng originally asked the secret guards to follow Zhou Rong, hoping to find a breakthrough from this person and rectify the officialdom in Nanzhou.
As a result, when Zhou Rong came to Linshui Town, he set his sights on Chunzhi, and she fell into his hands.
Chunzhi doesn't know his identity yet, so Huo Zheng doesn't want to tell her much about how he found Zhou Rong.
He made up an excuse and said to her, "I have a close friend who works for the Prince of Chang'an. He happened to be in Linshui Town these days, so I asked him for a favor."
Chunzhi didn't doubt him and asked, "Then isn't your best friend an official?"
Huo Zheng said vaguely: "I guess so."
"You have friends who are officials." Chunzhi muttered in a low voice without asking any more questions.
She vaguely remembered that when Huo Qi broke in last night, he confronted several people and asked worriedly, "You weren't hurt last night, were you?"
"I wasn't injured at the Zhou family's old house." Huo Zheng showed her the scratches on her back. "These were all from you."
Chunzhi suddenly: "..."
She couldn't help it and covered her head with the quilt.
Huo Qi was not injured outside the house, but after he came back, he was scratched by her on the bed.
Chunzhi felt ashamed to face anyone when she thought about it.
Huo Zheng reached out and pulled down the quilt covering Chunzhi's face. "It's summer now, don't get a heat stroke."
Just as Chunzhi was about to speak, her stomach started growling.
I didn’t eat last night.
Another night of tossing and turning.
She was extremely hungry now.
Huo Zheng glanced at her, then reached out to lift the red gauze curtains and got up from the bed.
Chunzhi thought he might be getting up to make breakfast, but she wasn't sure, so she asked him, "What are you going to do?"
Huo Zheng didn't answer but asked, "What do you think I should do?"
Chunzhi asked tentatively, "Make breakfast?"
Huo Zheng didn't answer.
Chunzhi thought to herself: Not denying it is just acknowledging it. "Can you cook anything else besides porridge?"
Huo Zheng said: "No."
"Then let's cook porridge."
Chunzhi could only tell herself that if there was something to eat, don’t be picky.
Huo Zheng did not hang up the curtain, but instead let it down to block out the light outside.
Chunzhi blinked, thinking that this might be Huo Qi's intention to let her sleep a little longer.
So she closed her eyes and fell asleep quickly.
On the other side, Lu’s house.
Lu Jingyun came back last night to spend the night, but did not touch Ji Ruzhen.
Ji Ruzhen became increasingly dissatisfied, and she didn't even smile when she and Lu Jingyun went to pay their respects to her mother.
Mrs. Lu gave Lu Jingyun several glances, asking him to coax his wife well.
Lu Jingyun pretended not to see it and had breakfast with his mother before leaving.
At this moment, the servant Ji Ruzhen had sent to the Zhou family's old house to inquire about the situation came running back in a hurry, "Oh no! Madam is in trouble!"
Ji Ruzhen was annoyed when she heard this, "Why are you panicking?"
The maid also scolded the servant: "Madam is fine, watch out for your bad mouth! Tell me what happened!"
The servant said in panic, "There are deaths in the Zhou family's old house... There are many deaths in the old house. Even the eldest son of the Zhou family has been kidnapped!"
"What?"
Ji Ruzhen knew that Zhou Rong had kidnapped Chunzhi yesterday, but she didn't expect it to cause such big trouble.
Lu Jingyun knew that the prefect of Nanzhou was Ji Ruzhen's uncle, and that Zhou Rong, the eldest son of the Zhou family who was famous for his lust, was Ji Ruzhen's cousin. In the past few days, the prefect asked Zhou Rong to stay away from Prince Chang'an, and then sent Zhou Rong back to the old house in Linshui Town.
Given the Zhou family's status in Nanzhou, how could anyone dare to go to the Zhou family to kill people and kidnap Zhou Rong?
What did they want to do by kidnapping Zhou Rong?
Lu Jingyun was thinking in his heart.
Ji Ruzhen was clearly getting anxious, and she said to the servant urgently, "Then what are you still doing here? Why don't you hurry to Nanzhou City and report this to the prefect?"
Lu Jingyun said, "Madam, don't worry. I'm going to Nanzhou City. Why don't you come with me?"
Ji Ruzhen thought about it and decided that she must not let Lu Jingyun know that she had asked Zhou Rong to defile Chunzhi. It was indeed most appropriate for her to go along with him, so she nodded and agreed, "I will listen to my husband."
Lu Jingyun and Ji Ruzhen, a couple, went to Nanzhou City with their servants and maids.
What happened in the Zhou family's old house soon spread throughout Linshui Town.
No one knew who had wronged Zhou Rong. The son of a prefect was actually kidnapped!
At this time, Zhou Rong was being tortured by a group of secret guards, who forced him to confess the illegal deeds he and his father had done in Nanzhou over the years.
Chunzhi, who was completely unaware of all this, slept soundly on the bed and slept until noon.
She dragged her sore body up and saw Huo Zheng practicing boxing in the yard.
The man is heroic and has an extraordinary aura.
Chunzhi stood by the door and looked for a long time.
Until Huo Zheng stopped and turned to look at her, "Didn't you say you were hungry? Why don't you eat?"
Chunzhi was wearing a new dress today, a bamboo green one. She used the leftover fabric from making a robe for Huo Qi, and she made herself a small shirt.
It just so happened that Huo Zheng was wearing that bamboo green robe today.
The two of them wore the same clothes, which made them look even better together.
"I'll get it right away." Chunzhi walked to the stove and opened the lid of the pot. Only then did she discover that Huo Qi had not only cooked porridge, but also made egg pancakes.
It has been kept in the pot and is still hot.
Chunzhi was a little surprised and asked, "Huo Qi, you can also fry omelets?"
"Seeing you've fried it a few times, you should be able to do it by watching."
Huo Zheng spoke casually, wiped the sweat off his face, washed his hands, and then walked to Chunzhi and started serving porridge.
He filled two bowls and brought them to the eight-immortal table.
Chunzhi took two salted duck eggs from the jar, put the omelet on a plate and brought it to the table.
The two sat together and ate lunch.
Chunzhi ate an egg pancake and drank half a bowl of porridge. When she was no longer so hungry, she remembered to ask, "Do you know who kidnapped me last night?"
Huo Zheng said in a deep voice, "The son of the Nanzhou prefect, Zhou Rong."
When he thought about how Zhou Rong almost defiled Chunzhi, he wanted to tear him to pieces and grind him to dust.
"What? He's the prefect's son? Will we be unable to stay in Linshui Town?"
Chunzhi was a little scared. The only officials she had seen were the county magistrate and Lu Jingyun.
She could never meet an official as high as the prefect.
Huo Zheng said, "Don't be afraid. Have you forgotten that my best friend is also an official?"
Chunzhi didn't know who his best friend was, so she asked him, "Is his position as high as that of a prefect?"
Huo Zheng said, "Even if his position isn't high enough, isn't there still Prince Chang'an in Nanzhou?"
Chunzhi felt that a figure like Prince Chang'an was too far away from her. "But what kind of person is Prince Chang'an? Will he help us?"
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