"Young master, aren't you going a bit too far by doing all this?"
Zhang Tingyu didn't think so. In any case, neither Wang Lin nor Zhang An were innocent people, and Zhang Tingyu didn't see anything wrong with using their strength against them.
"Do you think I went too far?"
Of course not: "This servant just feels that young master is doing a bit too much?"
After all, Miss Qiu and the young master had no connection whatsoever. The young master was doing good deeds so quietly, which made him, a servant who knew the young master well, feel that something was amiss.
Zhang Tingyu: "Why do you say that?"
Zhang Tingyu didn't think he had done anything wrong.
"May I ask if you have the audacity to ask, young master, have you taken a fancy to Miss Qiu?"
Zhang Tingyu was startled and somewhat lost in thought.
That can't be... right?
Is Zhang Tingyu becoming uncertain?
The servant looked at his young master and saw that he was clearly in love. He thought to himself that this was not good. It wasn't that being in love was bad, but that the object of his affections was wrong.
He was involved in the investigation of Qiu Wen from beginning to end. There was nothing wrong with Qiu Wen, except that she was not a suitable match for his young master in terms of social status.
If it weren't for Qiu Wen's other identity, but simply because she was a merchant's daughter, the madam wouldn't have allowed her to enter the house.
The Zhang family has a strong sense of family values and does not allow concubines to be taken without a valid reason. Besides, Miss Qiu might not even want to be a concubine.
The servant was thinking a bit too far ahead; Zhang Tingyu was still struggling with his own feelings for Qiu Wen.
This was the first time he had ever acted this way towards a woman; he had never done it before, so it was very novel to him, and he didn't know whether he liked Qiu Wen or not.
What does it feel like to like someone?
The servant couldn't really say; he was just guessing. After all, the young master had never shown such concern for any woman before.
"This servant does not know."
Zhang Tingyu dismissed the servants, but he couldn't stop thinking about the matter until he went to sleep that night. Then he had a dream. Dreams are not unusual, but what was unusual was that there was a female protagonist in the dream. The next day, he had his servant change his quilt and his undergarments.
Bobo looked at Zhang Tingyu, who seemed a little absent-minded, and asked, "Tingyu, what's wrong with you today?"
Zhang Tingyu snapped out of his daze and said, "It's nothing, I just caught a chill last night and have a bit of a headache."
Seeing that nothing serious had happened, Bobo said, "Then you should go back and rest. Nothing serious happened today."
Zhang Tingyu then went back. He had indeed been acting strangely today, and it was inappropriate for him to be on duty like this.
Zhang Tingyu went back and thought carefully about his feelings for Qiu Wen, but he still couldn't figure it out, so he decided to stop thinking about it.
I picked up a book at random and saw that it was a new storybook published by Wensi Bookstore.
"Master, someone has reported that Miss Qiu has leased a piece of sea area from the government office for fifty years."
Zhang Tingyu asked curiously, "What is she going to do?"
"This servant is not quite sure, but I have heard that Miss Qiu has been looking for fishermen recently, but I have not found out the specifics of what she is going to do."
Zhang Tingyu asked, "Where is it?"
The servant gave me an address.
Zhang Tingyu nodded, then became lost in thought.
After a while, he said, "You can go out now!"
Zhang Tingyu knew he shouldn't ask so many questions, but he couldn't help but inquire. Now that he knew Qiu Wen's address, he wanted to go see her, but he had no reason to go and didn't know whether he should go or not.
Although he is the second son of the legitimate wife, his elder brother is in poor health, so the Zhang family's future still depends on him. Therefore, the selection of his wife cannot be taken lightly.
According to the family's arrangement, she should be a girl from a scholarly family, gentle and virtuous, capable of managing the household affairs and the family business.
He understood all this; it was his fate. He had received kindness from his family, so naturally he had to endure these things, but he just couldn't help it.
Zhang Tingyu kept this to himself until Bobo asked him about it.
"Tingyu, how's the matter with Wensi Bookstore going?"
Zhang Tingyu said, "I've inquired a bit. Does the First Prince want it now?"
Bobo: "No need for now. Write it down and we'll send it back to the capital together later."
Zhang Tingyu asked in surprise, "Send them back to the capital?"
Bobo didn't think it was a big deal, so she told him, "I once sent a book from Wensi Bookstore to my mother. She found it interesting and asked me to find out who wrote it."
Zhang Tingyu understood: "So that's how it is."
"This servant will write it as soon as I get back."
However, Zhang Tingyu had another question: "Does Her Majesty the Empress also read folk tales?"
Zhang Tingyu thought the Empress didn't seem like the kind of person who would read storybooks.
Bobo thought of her mother. Then she laughed: "Why don't you think my mother looks like her?"
Yunrong usually presents herself to the outside world with the demeanor befitting a national mother, but as for her inner self, only those close to her know the truth.
"It was I who misunderstood." He shouldn't have made such a presumptuous assumption.
Bobo said, "It's no wonder you thought it was wrong. Everyone thinks that Mother is elegant and refined, but Mother also came from a young lady's family. Mother has naturally done what young ladies do."
Bobo himself found it somewhat amusing. He had heard others say about his mother in private, praising her for being different from others, which was why she received special treatment from his father. Of course, some people also said that his mother was a femme fatale and that he didn't know how she behaved in private. He had dealt with such people before.
However, almost no one knows that apart from having some whimsical ideas, Mother seems to be no different from anyone else.
Zhang Tingyu suddenly couldn't look the Empress in the eye. Yunrong was indeed extraordinary in the outside world, otherwise the Emperor wouldn't have been so infatuated with her. But the Empress was secretly reading novels, which made him feel somewhat disillusioned.
"Why has Her Majesty the Empress suddenly become interested in writers of storybooks?" Zhang Tingyu asked, puzzled.
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