Jixiang was the only one guarding the door; the other four had gone inside.
"Brother Jixiang, did my parents go to talk to your young master again?" Gu Nian asked when no one was around.
"Yes, Miss Gu. The young master instructed me to stay here." Jixiang glanced at Grandma Gu suspiciously.
Didn't they say they were asking their uncles to come and help? Why did they bring an old lady along?
Grandma Gu glanced at Jixiang, said nothing, and went forward to check on him.
"You two sisters wait here for your fourth uncle, I'll go in and take a look!" After confirming that the wild boar was definitely dead, Grandma Gu went into the house with peace of mind.
"Brother Jixiang, I always thought Master Zhou only had one daughter. Why is he entrusting things to a distant relative now?" Gu Nian decided to probe for information.
Let's see if we can get anything useful out of Jixiang.
Anyway, Zhou Yuan is extremely abnormal.
"Hehe, Miss Gu, you think too highly of me. How could we juniors possibly understand my master's decisions?" Jixiang scratched his head, looking rather simple and honest.
“I used to go to town often, and I always heard people say that Master Zhou lived alone. Why did he suddenly think of bringing his distant nephew to live with him? Doesn’t Master Zhou also have a granddaughter and a grandson?” Gu Nian asked again.
She remembered that the male lead, Lu Zheng, had an older sister who should have been married by this time. Later on, the male lead's sister and brother-in-law provided him with a lot of help.
“Yes!” Jixiang nodded.
He didn't suspect anything. It was no secret in Zhoujia Town. Everyone knew that their master only had one daughter. She was chosen by a nobleman in the capital because of the chili pepper incident. She married into the capital, gave birth to a son and a daughter, and later died of illness.
"So now Zhou Yuan is taking what should have belonged to the Lu sisters, isn't he?" Gu Nian asked with a gossipy look on her face.
"Hey! Miss Gu, don't talk nonsense!" Jixiang glanced into the room in fright, then said, "Miss Gu, although the young lady and young master of the Lu family have never come to Zhoujia Town, our master visits them every year. If you say this, people will think that our master doesn't have a good relationship with his granddaughter!"
“But Zhou Yuan is clearly in charge of the Zhou family! Does that mean that just because the young lady and young master of the Lu family don’t have the surname Zhou, they can’t get anything from the Zhou family?” Gu Nian asked again.
"Miss Gu, please don't make things difficult for me. This kind of thing is not something a lowly servant like me should know," Jixiang said with a wry smile.
He really suffered!
Such rumors are circulating in the Zhou household as well!
He, who knew the truth, really wanted to stand up and curse, but the master and young master said to let them talk, the more they talked, the better, as long as no one knew that Zhou Yuan was Lu Zheng.
I wonder what the master and the young master are thinking. What is there about the relationship between the maternal grandfather and grandson that cannot be made public?
Does that mean that if I tell him, his father will come all the way from the capital to arrest me?
Gu Xin looked at her sister and then at Ji Xiang. She didn't understand why her sister was asking this. Did the Zhou family have anything to do with their family?
Seeing Jixiang's troubled expression, Gu Xin tugged at Gu Nian's sleeve: "Sister, I want to drink water."
"Okay, go ahead!" Gu Nian nodded.
"Sister, would you like some? I'll bring it to you," Gu Xin asked again.
"Okay! Bring a bowl out for Brother Jixiang too, he's sweating!" Gu Nian said.
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