Lu Zheng smiled helplessly: "Alright, alright, you're right! But if he was threatened, after all these years, with the Prince of Qu gone and Prime Minister Lin gone, he could have just said it. Even if that woman from the Lin family knew about what could threaten him, he wouldn't have to feel so aggrieved."
“A mistake is a mistake. Many things can’t be undone. I just hope that they can behave themselves in the future and that they won’t bother us.”
Gu Xin pulled the stool closer and asked, "Brother Yuanyuan, do you really have no feelings for the Duke of Zhenguo at all?"
Lu Zheng shook his head: "Yes, how could I not? I hate him!"
Gu Xin sighed, pursed her lips, and didn't say anything more.
Lu Zheng didn't want to talk about the Duke of Zhenguo anymore, so he started talking about other things.
As midnight approached, a maidservant came to call Gu Xin and Lu Zheng to the front, saying that everyone was going back to rest, and the young crown prince was also to be taken back to the palace.
...
After washing up, Gu Xin lay in bed tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep. After thinking for a while, she got up, put on her clothes, and went to the bedside to call Bai Er.
Soon, Bai Er appeared.
"Is Bai Yi in the capital?" Gu Xin asked.
"Third Miss, the eldest brother isn't in the capital; he's gone to Kunzhou. What are your orders, Third Miss? I'm in charge of things here in the capital now," Bai Er replied.
"I want to know about the Lin family's past. To be precise, about Madam Lin's past. Especially, in the years before Madam Lin married the Duke of Zhenguo, who did she associate with at home? After the Lin family was executed, do you know where the servants of the Lin household were sent?" Gu Xin asked.
“Those important ones were beheaded along with their master. The less important ones were all sold by the government to Jiangnan,” Bai Er replied.
"Go and investigate, see if you can find any servants who were with the Lin family at that time. Regardless of which master they served. Of course, it would be best to find servants who were close to Madam Lin. Also, investigate the servants who are currently serving Madam Lin," Gu Xin said.
"Yes, Third Miss, I will give the order shortly." Bai Er replied.
After giving her instructions, Gu Xin went to sleep, and now she could finally sleep peacefully.
She wouldn't have thought about these things before, but ever since she returned to the Great Zhou last year, traveled around, and came to the capital, she has fallen in love with reading Gu Ren's novels.
She missed out on two years of storytelling while she was in the west.
Gu Ren could come up with a new idea every day, and Lu Zheng even found his own bookstore to help Gu Ren write stories. There was a huge stack of them, and Gu Xin hadn't finished reading them yet.
Lately, I've liked to read this when I'm bored, and after reading it for a while, Gu Xin starts to overthink.
She didn't just have random thoughts out of nowhere.
Take the Zhenguo Duke's Mansion as an example. Gu Xin had never met the Zhenguo Duke before. She believed whatever Lu Zheng said. In addition, her uncle, grandmother Xiao, and grandfather Zhou all thought the Zhenguo Duke was a heartless man. Therefore, in her mind, the Zhenguo Duke was a heartless man.
As she gets older, Gu Xin has learned to see things for herself, and she does so calmly and without any emotional bias, treating herself as an outsider.
Then, after meeting the Duke of Zhenguo several times, she felt that the Duke of Zhenguo was not as they said, and that he had his own reasons.
She also saw the Duke of Zhenguo buy food for a little beggar, and she saw the Duke of Zhenguo scold a spoiled brat who wanted to bully a stray dog on the street.
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