"Big brother, Yuanyuan, hurry up and eat! What are you looking at?" Gu Xin noticed that her older brother and sister weren't eating properly, so she followed their gaze.
She saw an old lady and her sister looking at them kindly, and she could only smile back.
The old woman finally saw Gu Xin clearly, and even though the shock in her eyes lasted only a moment, it did not escape Lu Zheng's notice.
Lu Zheng frowned; he suddenly felt that the old woman and the girl looked somewhat familiar.
Gu Xin whispered, "Why are that old lady and the older sister looking at us and laughing? Is it because we didn't dress up as men well?"
Lu Zheng: "Maybe! But it's okay, there are a lot of girls who dress up as boys to go out. Maybe they just think you sisters are pretty."
Gu Xin was delighted. She glanced at the old woman and the girl again, her smile radiant. "Grandma, you have such good taste!"
What she didn't see was that the old woman's hands, tucked into her sleeves, were clenched tightly, and her body was trembling slightly.
Seeing how agitated she was, the girl following her poured her a cup of tea with concern: "Granny Shen, have some tea."
The old woman, called Granny Shen, picked up her teacup, took a sip, and slowly calmed down.
Gu Xin and the other two quickly finished their meal, paid the bill, and left. As they reached the door, Lu Zheng bumped into a burly man wielding a large knife.
The burly man, in a hurry, clasped his hands in apology after bumping into the person: "Sorry, young man, I had some urgent business to attend to. Did I hurt you?"
Lu Zheng snapped out of his daze and shook his head.
Gu Xin quickly asked him if he was in pain, mainly because the big man was too strong and burly enough to block three of her.
Lu Zheng smiled to indicate that he was fine. He glanced back at the burly man who had bumped into him and noticed that he had sat down at the table with the old woman who was inexplicably watching them and smiling.
He was somewhat surprised.
He recognized the big man; he was one of the Empress Dowager's men, named Shen Feng.
Not long after the Third Prince ascended the throne in his previous life, he was asked to find a way to get close to Shen Feng. At the time, he didn't ask why he needed to get close, only knowing that Shen Feng was someone who worked for the Empress Dowager.
The surname Shen is not common in the Great Zhou Dynasty. The most intimate nanny of the current Empress Dowager is surnamed Shen, and she is Shen Feng's aunt.
So, the girl he just heard calling the old woman "Granny Shen" was Granny Shen, who served the Empress Dowager.
Why did she look at Xinxin like that?
Lu Zheng investigated in both his previous lives, and Xin Xin is definitely a family-oriented child; she couldn't have been switched at birth and abandoned.
Lu Zheng stood with his hands behind his back, watching Gu Xin happily buying things from various stalls with Gu Hui. He was a little worried!
The most unfathomable person in the Great Zhou Dynasty is the current Grand Empress Dowager.
The Great Zhou Dynasty is currently ruled by its fourth emperor. The first emperor was the current Empress Dowager's maternal uncle. The empress dowager's cousin married her uncle's cousin; they were childhood sweethearts and had helped the first emperor conquer the empire. After the second emperor ascended the throne, she became empress and gave birth to a son, who was immediately made crown prince. Unfortunately, the crown prince was frail and fell seriously ill at the age of ten. He was barely saved, but died at the age of twenty after another serious illness. When the second emperor passed away, she chose a kind-hearted prince from his fiefdom to return to the capital and ascend the throne—this was the late emperor.
She assisted the late emperor, who always put her first.
She personally educated the late emperor's son, who is now the emperor.
It wasn't until ten years ago that she stopped interfering in court affairs, because the emperor she had personally groomed was indeed capable.
This Empress Dowager is over seventy years old. In her previous life, she lived to be ninety, making her the longest-lived person in the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Why is her personal nanny in Liangzhou? And why is she smiling so strangely at Gu Xin?
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