"Mother, I overheard this secretly, please don't tell anyone."
Hongzhou acted as if 'only I know this secret,' but Geng Youran didn't give him that face.
"Then don't tell me, I'm not curious."
"Mother, how could you do this!"
Qianxue, Xiao Anzi, and the others turned around and covered their mouths to chuckle. Their own brother had never gotten the better of their master, and their master loved to tease him.
"What's wrong with me? If you don't tell me, I won't ask. Isn't this a win-win situation? Or... did you have to tell me because you couldn't hold it in anymore?"
Hongzhou scratched the back of his head awkwardly:
Is it obvious?
Geng Youran looked at her son speechlessly, thinking to herself that he wasn't this stupid when he was little.
"It's not enough for your son to lose. Mother, please listen to me. I heard that Grandfather the Emperor is coming in a few days."
"Stop joking. If anyone should know about this, it was your father who found out first. You can't possibly be faster than him."
"It's true. I heard it from Eunuch Wei, who serves my grandfather, once."
"Wei Zhu?"
"That's right."
Hearing that Wei Zhu had said this, Geng Youran was somewhat inclined to believe it.
Wei Zhu was no ordinary eunuch; like Liang Jiugong, he was a capable assistant to the emperor.
"Come on in, it's my son's residence. What's so special about it?"
"Mother, that's the current emperor, aren't you nervous?"
Geng Youran looked at her son speechlessly, but still patiently explained:
"Have you forgotten what happened in the palace before I married your father?"
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