“If you don’t agree, we won’t follow you back to the capital.

When you came, someone tried to stop you on the road. Do you think it will be peaceful on your way back?

There's no one around me who knows martial arts, so if anything happens, I'm counting on you to protect us.

You are sick and need someone to take care of you. You can't even lift a sword. If bad guys come, they can chop us like winter melons.

I don’t want to die!”

“……” Zhan Shisan was dumbfounded.

This is absolutely true!

He was too anxious, but he was right to be anxious! What if he was late? Then the prince...

Zhan Shisan didn't even dare to imagine that kind of outcome.

However, the consequences of an accident on the road are more serious.

Gao Miao knew that most of the nobles in the capital would secretly keep assassins or secret guards.

Prince Zhan's Palace should be no exception.

"Guard Zhan, is there anyone you can notify who is closest to here and has martial arts skills that can protect us as we enter the capital?

If so, please write a letter or send a message and I will find a way to inform him."

Hearing this, Zhan Shisan was shocked by Gao Miao again.

How could he think of this?

"Yes! I wrote a letter immediately, and the little doctor knew the original manor.

Just send the letter there and the people there will take care of it.”

Now Gao Miao felt more at ease.

Gao Zhi thought about getting some medicine, "Then I'll go back to get some paper, pen, and ink, and bring some herbs home."

Gao Miao nodded.

When Gao Zhi returned home, Xie immediately went into the house to find her.

"Jiaojiao, are you awake?"

Gao Zhi nodded and said, "I'll bring him some things and grab some medicinal herbs.

Mother, I will get you some herbs later, and you can kill an old hen and stew the herbs into soup."

"good!"

Gao Zhi packed up his things, gave the medicinal materials for the soup to Xie, and went out carrying the bamboo basket.

Not long after she left, Gao Yunting arrived.

"Aunt, where are Gao Miao and Jiao Jiao?"

"They said they had something to do outside, but they didn't tell me the details." Gao Zhi had reminded Xie that the fact that Zhan Shisan was recuperating over there should not be told to anyone else except the three of them, mother and son.

"Ah?" Gao Yunting looked disappointed and felt very unhappy.

After the visit, when he returned to the village, he felt that Gao Miao and Gao Zhi never took him with them when they did anything, and he felt isolated from the small team of three.

"Then I'm going back!"

"Okay! When they come back, I'll tell them you came to see them."

"good!"

Gao Yunting left the Xie family with his head hung, feeling aggrieved. He met villagers on the way, who asked him where he had been. He said he had not found Gao Miao.

The villagers looked at Gao Yunting's back, couldn't help but shook their heads and sighed.

This matter has spread everywhere.

Everyone was still hiding it from the village chief's family and Xie's family. Now seeing Gao Yunting like this, they thought they had to tell them.

Maybe it can be corrected in time!

The villagers left as soon as they said they would and went directly to Xie's house to find Li Mei and Xie.

"Sister-in-law, I have something to talk to you and Li Mei about. Why don't you go to the workshop and call Li Mei so that we can go to your room and talk for a while?"

Xie picked out the bad soybeans and put them into the bamboo tube.

"Okay! Then you wait here for a while."

Xie hurriedly called Li Mei over, and the three of them went into the house.

The villagers looked at them and sighed.

Xie and Li Mei were confused, "Sister-in-law, have you encountered any difficulties?

If you have any problem, just tell us. We will definitely help if we can.”

The villagers felt heartbroken when they heard this, but as they only had one son, and thought about that kind of thing, they sighed again.

"I'm fine! You are the ones who are in trouble."

"Ah?" Li Mei and Xie looked at each other, and they looked at the villagers in surprise, "What do we want?"

Villager: “A few days ago, people were talking about your two boys. We thought it was completely false, so we kept it a secret from you.

I just met Yun Ting on the road. That guy was in a bad state. I asked him what was going on?

He said he came to find Gao Miao, but Gao Miao was not at home.

When I saw him like that and thought about the rumors outside, I was so anxious that I came to find you quickly.

Ouch!

These two children are both successful candidates in the imperial examinations and have bright futures. You must try to persuade them well.

Let them correct it, don’t let it go astray.”

Li Mei and Xie became even more confused after hearing this.

Their child is kind and righteous, how could he be crooked? It's impossible for him to be crooked?

The villagers looked at their expressions and felt anxious, thinking: Their character is not crooked, but their butts are crooked.

Xie asked the villager to sit down and poured her a cup of tea.

"Have a cup of tea and then tell us what happened. Did these two kids get into trouble outside?"

The villagers didn't even have time to drink water, "It's said outside that the two boys in your family grew up together and went to the academy together.

At their age, neither of them wants to get engaged.

The main reason is not what they said, it is not for the purpose of concentrating on studying and taking exams.

But, but, but…”

"And what is it? It's so frustrating."

"It's that they both like each other, and they both don't like girls, now you understand.

Oh, you all have only one son, and he has a bright future.

Even if you have to talk to them nicely and persuade them, you can't have that kind of thought.

When they become officials, they will have to expand and pass on the good deeds from generation to generation.

Don’t you think this is true?”

"!!!" Xie and Li Mei were shocked!

The two of them stared at each other with their eyes wide open, like cross-eyed roosters, looking at each other.

The two thought about the same excuses given by the two boys and couldn't help but wonder, could it be true?

Xie asked the villagers, "Do they have any basis for talking about this?"

"Yes, yes, yes!" The villagers told Xie and Li Mei all the rumors outside.

When Xie and Li Mei heard this, they felt like the world had collapsed.

The rumor was first spread by the two matchmakers, and then became more and more outrageous, with many versions.

This rumor reached the ears of those who were interested, especially those who were jealous of Gao Miao and the other two, and who knew about their life in the academy. Then, more half-true and half-false rumors spread.

Gao Miao and Gao Yunting are like brothers, and many of their actions are indeed very intimate.

But being given that role, that closeness between brothers, it’s colored.

Small yellow chrysanthemums one after another.

A bright yellow piece!

Good boy! If it weren’t for the fear of offending the two scholars, the storytellers in the teahouse would all want to tell this story.

The villagers looked at Xie and Li Mei's expressions and knew that it would be difficult for them to accept the situation for the time being, so they gave them a few words of persuasion and then went back.

Li Mei pinched her thigh hard.

Hissed.

Damn, it hurts!

The words I just heard were not words from a dream!

Li Mei anxiously grabbed Xie's hand and said, "Sister-in-law, what should we do? If the two of them are really like this, then... let alone having children and carrying on the family line, even their future... will be ruined."

Xie was also panicked.