The two sisters waited for a long time before Meng Meng finally arrived.
"Brother Meng, where is Brother Yuanyuan?" Gu Xin rushed over.
“Miss Xin, Miss Hui, let’s buy some food and a carriage. A-Yuan is waiting for us up ahead,” Meng Meng said.
Gu Xin was about to ask another question when Gu Hui stopped her.
Gu Hui took out the silver and bought a carriage at the post station, then bought some cakes and several bamboo tubes of water.
After getting on the bus, Gu Hui asked Meng Meng to go into the carriage while she drove.
Meng Meng stopped her: "Miss Hui, I'll handle this. If anything happens later, you take Miss Xin and run forward."
Gu Hui frowned, then handed the whip to Meng Meng.
Neither of the sisters entered the carriage; they leaned against the door. After passing the post station, Gu Hui asked, "Where's A-Yuan? Why are you all alone?"
Meng Meng: "He went through the woods beside the official road to scout ahead and see if there were any people ahead. We'll meet up ahead."
Gu Xin: "Brother Meng, is Brother Yuanyuan injured?"
Meng Meng: "The injury is not serious, just a scratch, nothing serious."
The three fell silent again, and for a moment, only the clatter of horses' hooves could be heard.
After walking for about fifteen minutes, they heard the sounds of fighting coming from the woods beside the official road. Meng Meng stopped, and several screams came from the woods. A moment later, Lu Zheng emerged from the woods carrying a sword.
His hair was a bit messy, with two strands falling from his eyebrows, and his brocade robe was covered with specks of blood.
With the hand that wasn't holding the sword, he wiped his forehead, and as he lowered it, blood began to flow down.
He saw Meng Meng and the others and smiled, "We're safe for now!"
Those white teeth looked especially clean against the backdrop of his blood-stained face.
For some reason, Gu Xin felt a pang of sadness in her heart, and tears streamed down her face. She jumped off the carriage, ran forward, and grabbed Lu Zheng's bleeding hand: "Brother Yuanyuan, how could you be so careless! Didn't you say you were very capable? How did you still manage to get hurt?"
Lu Zheng subconsciously withdrew his hand.
He remembered how, when he returned from the battlefield, Xin Xin had cried and asked him, "You braggart, you always said you were amazing, but you still got hurt. I'll never believe you again." Lu Zheng was just a braggart, a liar.
Gu Xin snatched his hand, took out a handkerchief, and wiped away the bloodstains.
Lu Zheng's eyes were full of tenderness as he looked at Gu Xin, his lips always turned up in a smile.
Gu Hui: "...Xinxin, don't wipe there, get in the car, there's still water in the car."
Gu Xin looked up at Lu Zheng, but Lu Zheng had already looked away and pulled Gu Xin toward the carriage.
After getting into the carriage, Gu Xin rinsed Lu Zheng's wounds with water inside, while Gu Hui and Meng Meng drove the carriage outside.
Gu Xin pursed her lips, her face serious: "When I get back, I'm going to tell Dad that you're terrible, Yuan Yuan. You injured two groups of assassins. Humph, let's see if you still dare to brag about your kung fu! You even look down on Second Brother Xue! I bet Second Brother Xue always carries a sword with him, he would never try to steal a weapon like you and get hurt."
Gu Hui and Meng Meng outside: ...Girl, those are two groups of assassins, not two groups of cabbages, not just sitting there for you to chop up!
Lu Zheng said in a serious tone, "Yes, I'll remember to bring the precious sword that General Yan gave me next time I go out!"
Gu Xin continued to nag, "Your stepmother is so mean, it must be her. It's all my fault, we shouldn't have gone shopping yesterday, she must have seen us."
Lu Zheng shook his head: "It's not your fault."
However, Gu Xin also reminded him of his stepmother, Lin.
Didn't you say you already believed it? Du Ruo also said yesterday that she hadn't found anyone suspicious, so how did the Lin family know that?
Lu Zheng was unaware that Li Shan hated him to death. When she overheard the Duke of Rongguo and his wife that the Duke of Zhengguo's mansion was going to establish an heir, because the late Duke of Zhengguo's son, Lu Zheng, had died, the couple were still lamenting the death of Lu Zheng.
Li Shan immediately devised a way to send a letter to the Lin family of the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion in the capital.
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