"Huh?" Mu Run suddenly had a bright idea. "Then can I get a ride?"
"You'll have to ask the head manager."
"Okay, go ask. I'll wait here."
Shi Xuan came out of the building, with Yue Ze in a gorgeous fur robe beside him.
Xiao Liu nodded secretly to Mu Run, indicating that the head manager agreed to let her hitch a ride.
Mu Run lifted her skirt and gave Shi Xuan a half-bow, "Thank you, Manager Xu. Now I can go home sooner."
Shi Xuan said, "As long as you don't mind traveling with us."
Indeed, it was against the proper etiquette of men and women not touching each other in a carriage, as it was considered inappropriate for a woman to ride with two men. But Mu Run didn't care. If she followed the rules of etiquette between men and women, she would never go out again, let alone look for Fu Yunchen.
"Of course I don't mind. If I did, I wouldn't be hitchhiking." Mu Run walked to the luggage rack at the back of the carriage and prepared to sit on a suitcase. That way, she wouldn't have to face them awkwardly.
Shi Xuan grabbed her arm. "If you don't mind, why don't you go inside the carriage?"
"I'm so sorry, I'm just hitchhiking, how could I possibly take your seats?"
"Yuesawa, go to the back." Shi Xuan pulled Mu Run into the carriage.
Tsukizawa stared wide-eyed, “…Hey! You ungrateful bastard!”
What did he do to deserve this?
Sitting in the carriage, Mu Run felt the atmosphere was awkward, so she wanted to talk to him.
"If I ask you questions now, will you accept payment?"
"That depends on the problem."
"That's right. While I was eating, I overheard other guests saying that Princess Pingyang and the Seventh Prince both have spiritual roots. Is that true? What kind of spiritual roots do they have?"
Shi Xuan glanced at her and replied, "It's true that they have spiritual roots. Princess Pingyang is water, while the Seventh Prince is earth and fire."
"This Consort Rou is quite fertile, having given birth to a prince and a princess, both of whom have spiritual roots," Mu Run said, glancing at Shi Xuan.
Shi Xuan didn't speak, but reached into the corner of the carriage and pulled out a book, flipping through it casually.
Mu Run leaned closer, "Um, could you teach me a few words?"
Shi Xuan looked at her and said, "It wasn't for nothing that I taught you."
Mu Run pursed her lips. "Then forget it." She was short of money right now, already owing him six hundred taels of silver, and there was no need to make things worse.
Shi Xuan closed the book and pointed to the three characters on the cover: "Tai Zhong Lun".
Mu Run moved closer to him, inhaling the faint, cold fragrance of plum blossoms emanating from him, and was momentarily lost in thought.
"The Middle Way?"
Sitting on his suitcase with his legs crossed, Tsukizawa listened to the teaching sounds in the carriage and yawned boredly. "What a guy who values women over friends." Then he casually grabbed a straw hat and covered his face.
There was only one oil lamp in the carriage, making the light dim. In addition, the words in the book were small, so Mu Run had to get very close to see them.
I really want to grab a fluorescent light from my spatial dimension and say, "Say it again, what's this sentence?"
“If someone steals a town and rebels against the ruler in order to seek great profit, the nameless and greedy people will devote their efforts to it.”
"Let's say it one word at a time." Mu Run squinted at the words on the book.
Shi Xuan closed the book. "I'm tired."
Mu Run: "..."
"A woman's virtue lies in her lack of talent. In fact, it doesn't matter if you can't read or write; it won't affect your ability to eat or dress."
"That makes sense." Anyway, she didn't plan to stay here long. After avenging Su Xiao, she would leave.
Right now, she needs to investigate what attribute Su Xiao's spiritual root is, and also find a way to obtain Emperor Wende's DNA sample so that Gudong can do a paternity test to confirm Su Xiao's true identity.
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