Lu Zheng had no choice but to accept this.
In his previous life, when the King of Donglin died, the news of his death was reported directly to the imperial court. There was no such thing as Bai Baozhu insisting on investigating this matter. Therefore, Lu Zheng was unable to provide Gu Xin with any more clues.
Lu Zheng was reborn at the age of fifteen, and seven years have passed. In these seven years, he has seen many things that are different from his previous life, and he has gotten used to them.
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Gu Xin went home and asked Dong Xue to pack a few changes of clothes. She then said goodbye to Grandpa and Grandma Gu and left.
Gu Shouxin was still at the yamen, and Cai Xiaolian was at the commercial center; neither of them were home. She was afraid they wouldn't allow it, so she didn't go looking for them.
Cai Xiaolian's commercial center has been under construction for several months and is expected to be fully completed in August, at which time the expansion of the capital city will also be completed.
Therefore, Cai Xiaolian has been very busy lately.
Gu Shouxin is also working on the women's academy. He is the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Rites. The Minister of Rites doesn't handle affairs and is just waiting to retire so that Gu Shouxin can take over his position. Therefore, no one in the Ministry of Rites dares to disobey Gu Shouxin. So, Gu Shouxin has been very busy lately.
Gu Xin, along with Dong Xue, Bai Yi, Bai Er, and Zheng Qiu, joined them.
She had Zheng Qiu ride in one car with her and Dong Xue, while He Gang, He Qiang, and Officer Gao rode in their own car. They set off before dark.
"White Robe, do you know this Prince of Donglin? He's also from Yunzhou." It was getting hot, so Gu Xin didn't close the carriage door and just sat near the door chatting with White Robe.
“I know him; we’re actually from the same village. However, I left the village when I was very young and have never met this prince. I’ve only heard about him from the villagers,” said the man in white.
"I heard that Princess Donglin lived in the village with her four sons until Yunzhou was stabilized, at which point they were brought to reunite with their family. Does anyone in your village know anything about the personalities of the mother and her four sons?" Gu Xin asked again.
Bai Yi was a few years older than Lu Zheng. He was born just a few years after Yunzhou had stabilized. At that time, the Princess of Donglin and her sons had just been taken away, and people in the village often talked about them.
Baiyi didn't know much either, so she tried her best to recall the things she had heard when she was a child.
"The Princess of Donglin was a hunter's daughter, and quite feisty. Because of her personality, she raised her four sons alone, without any help from her in-laws, and lived a fairly comfortable life. Furthermore, the Prince of Donglin was serving in the army in Yunzhou, so no one bullied them. It is said that their eldest son, Bai Jiaxing, was very talented in his studies, but he was frail and sickly from a young age and rarely went out. Their second son, Bai Jiawang, and third son, Bai Jiachang, were twins. They looked alike, but their personalities were completely different. The second son was quiet, while the third was active. However, if they wanted to, they could even fool their own family by impersonating each other." The third son often impersonated the second son when he was being mischievous, causing the Princess of Donglin to accidentally hit the wrong person whenever she wanted to punish him. She wondered if they could still do that now that they were older. The villagers often talked about this. As for the fourth son, he was young when he left, so not many people in the village knew about him. It was said they had a daughter, but she wasn't born in the village, so no one knew about her either.” After saying this, the woman in white thought for a moment and added, “By the way, Third Miss, there's another matter, which I don't know is true. When the Bai family left the village, their eldest son fell seriously ill; some say he didn't survive, others say he did.”
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