Inside the inn, Gu Xin, Gu Si, and Huo Junhao all had neck pain from being twisted, so they couldn't hear what was being said next door. There were voices all the time, but they just couldn't make out what they were saying.
Lu Zheng sat at the table, slowly sipping his tea, looking at the three idiots pasted on the wall, and the more he looked, the more he wanted to laugh.
Suddenly, his ears twitched, and he was so startled that he quickly put down his teacup, walked over, and carried Gu Xin and Gu Si away from the wall.
Gu Xin and Gu Si: "?"
The two girls stared at Lu Zheng with wide eyes, blinked, and looked completely bewildered.
"I was worried you were tired, so sit down and have some water." Lu Zheng flipped over the upside-down cup and poured water for the two of them.
He glanced at Huo Junhao again, and sure enough, the silly boy's eyes widened, his mouth was agape enough to eat an egg, and his face was flushed red from his ears to his cheeks.
Gu Si turned to look at Huo Junhao: "Huo prodigy, what's wrong? Why do you look like that? Did they say something over there?"
Huo Junhao quickly ran over, shaking his head: "It's nothing, it's nothing. Just like before, I can't hear you!"
Gu Si: "Oh!"
Gu Xin: "But I can clearly see something! No, I have to go listen to it!"
Startled, Lu Zheng grabbed her immediately. Gu Xin turned around and looked at Lu Zheng with confusion.
"Ahem." Lu Zheng coughed awkwardly twice. "Junhao, you and Xinxin and Sisi go down to the entrance and wait for Sister Huihui and the others. When they arrive, bring them up. I can manage on my own."
Huo Junhao nodded repeatedly, like a chick pecking at rice: "Okay, okay."
Gu Xin: "Yuanyuan, can you manage all this by yourself? I just heard the doors next door opening and closing, it sounds like there are so many people."
Lu Zheng smiled and said, "I can manage, you guys go ahead!"
So the three of them left the room.
Gu Xin suddenly stopped and glanced curiously at the next room: "Sisi, did you hear a girl screaming? It was really loud and horrible. Is a girl being bullied?"
Huo Junhao immediately pulled the two downstairs. Luckily, the walls of Yuan Ge's inn were reinforced with bricks on both sides; otherwise, with such poor soundproofing, these two silly girls would have gone next door to rescue the girl.
After going downstairs, Huo Junhao pulled the two of them outside the inn, just in case they could hear the noise downstairs!
The September evening breeze was quite refreshing, and the blush on Huo Junhao's face slowly faded away, allowing him to breathe a sigh of relief.
Lu Zheng covered his face with a handkerchief, leaving only his eyes exposed.
His hearing was better than the three younger ones, and he had already figured out who was next door.
Xie Nanfeng, the son of the prefect of Yuzhou, had met him several times when he was at the Lu family's ancestral home.
Moreover, the prefect of Yuzhou was from the maternal family of Lady Xie, the wife of the Duke of Rongguo. Back then, when the Duke and Duchess of Rongguo were escorting the late emperor back to the capital to ascend the throne, their daughter was lost and their son was injured on the way. During the late emperor's reign, out of remorse, he bestowed many rewards upon the Jiang and Xie families.
The patriarch of the Xie family, the elder brother of the wife of the Duke of Rongguo, has already risen to the position of Minister of Works, and many members of the Xie family also hold official positions in the court.
The Prefect of Yuzhou, Xie Liang, was the son of the Minister of Works and also the nephew of the Xie family. By all accounts, Madam Li and the Prefect of Yuzhou were first cousins, and Li Muyan and Xie Nanfeng were also cousins.
Lu Zheng was just wondering if Xie Nanfeng knew that his great-aunt had gone to Qingzhou to search for her relatives.
He wanted to steal the Gu family's business, so Lu Zheng didn't care who he was related to. He beat him up first and then talked things over!
He was a little hesitant. His second uncle and Aunt Lian weren't home. Should he tell Gu Nian about the Xie family's kinship with Madam Li and her son?
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