Black Crow sighed, beating his chest and stamping his feet, saying, "Oh, look at you. In the past, at your age, you would have dated for two years, then agonized over whether to get married for another six months. Now, in another six months, you'd be engaged, married, and on your honeymoon. By the time you're around 26, 27, or 28, you'd have a baby for everyone to enjoy. How wonderful it would be."
Tang Chen asked coldly, "You mean, I look very old now?"
Black Crow counted on his fingers and said seriously, "Look, Shuyi seems to be younger than you, and she's already a mother. She got married late, otherwise her children would be around by the time they get married."
Tang Chen couldn't help but complain: "I say, the topic has gone off track, big brother."
Black Crow was stunned for a moment before explaining, "...Sorry, I got infected by their urging for marriage and childbirth."
Tang Chen snorted coldly: "What contagion? He just wants to harm me."
"Um."
"Oh."
After a few rounds of onomatopoeia, Black Crow asked a serious question: "Let me confirm, we are not the two generals Heng and Ha, right?"
"Forehead……"
After finishing the boring game, Black Crow suggested, "Then don't be so childish. We are all adults now, let's discuss some topics that only adults can discuss."
Tang Chen held his hands behind his back and said to Hei Ya seriously, "Oh, my suggestion is to wait and see."
Black Crow seemed to disagree with her and asked, "Are you sure that person will show up? This Qingliang Valley is heavily guarded. He can enter the valley quietly, but there is no way he can sneak into the mansion quietly."
Tang Chen raised his eyebrows and said, "So, if the person we hypothesized really exists, then he must have found an insider before coming."
Black Crow looked up at the sky. Why did he seem to have seen this routine before? Oh, all stories are like this. Even the most loyal servants will always have one or two who are "different": "...it's a waste of your talent if you don't write detective novels."
Tang Chen clasped his fists and took Hei Ya's words as praise without hesitation: "Thank you very much!"
Black Crow picked up the food box at his feet and said, "We've been walking around for quite a while. If we don't go back, aren't you afraid that you'll get jealous?"
When it comes to her family's jealousy, Tang Chen's forehead twists up: "In fact, besides Xihe, Wang Yanzhou's recent state also makes me very concerned."
Black Crow said, "I think it's normal. There's nothing strange about it."
Tang Chen shook his head and waved his hands, then sighed and explained, "You don't know, after he came back from Lin Qinghui's thatched cottage in the middle of the night a few days ago, he has been absent-minded and mumbling all day long. Today he even took me to his mother's secret room. Isn't that strange?"
The other black crows didn't notice much, but this secret room, the palace actually had a secret room that she hadn't taken herself to: "What secret room?"
Seeing Hei Ya suddenly interested, Tang Chen remembered Wang Yanzhou's instructions and his own solemn oath, and asked seriously and solemnly: "...Can you lose your memory?"
Black Crow rolled his eyes at her and then politely changed the question: "Oh, maybe something happened in the thatched cottage?"
"Isn't that nonsense?" Tang Chen said, just as he was about to land a fist on Hei Ya's shoulder to make him face his problem. Hei Ya was a famous assassin in the black market. He dodged and Tang Chen's punch was empty.
Black Crow scratched his ear and asked, "What else do you want from me?"
Tang Chen said, "Go to the thatched cottage quietly for me to see if there are any strange things or strange people walking around Lin Qinghui recently."
Black Crow thought about it. This guy was suspicious all day long. If he went crazy one day and blamed him for not helping him today, wouldn't that be a big loss? "Since you trust me so much, I'll help you this time with reluctance. I'll give you a 50% discount. That's quite considerate."
Tang Chen raised his hand and threatened: "I broke your legs, and you still dare to ask your boss for money!"
Black Crow returned the food box and said helplessly, "What a stingy person you are!"
Seeing the way he looked down on people, Tang Chen had no choice but to untie the purse and hand it over: "This is for emergencies, I can't have more!"
After weighing the purse, Black Crow swung it and said, "This is only enough for the journey, okay?"
Hearing this, Tang Chen took two steps back and said, "...I refuse to bargain with you."
Black Crow had been on the road for many years, but this was the first time he'd received such a small salary. He'd originally intended it as a joke, but who knew she'd actually give it to him? It was a little, but he couldn't refuse it. After pocketing the purse, Black Crow taunted, "Only women and villains are hard to keep."
"What did you say!"
Black Crow smiled and said, "Nothing, I'll leave now. Xihe, just give me an explanation. I'll be back by tomorrow night at the latest."
"Okay, okay, no problem, no problem."
After their separation, two days had passed since the agreed time, yet there was still no news from Black Crow. Having exhausted all his excuses for Xihe, Tang Chen finally lost his patience.
"Something happened, something serious happened!"
Wang Yanzhou saw her look like she had seen a ghost and rushed in anxiously. He thought she might have smashed the kitchen again, so he casually asked, "What's wrong?"
Tang Chen snatched the account book from Wang Yanzhou's hand and slammed it on the table: "Hei Ya is missing. He has been missing for three or four days!"
Wang Yanzhou said, "Maybe he went out to take on a mission. Didn't he tell you when he left?"
Tang Chen sat down on the stool, his head drooping as he said, "Yes. But according to what we agreed upon at the beginning, he should have been back two days ago!"
Wang Yanzhou recalled that Black Crow seemed to be very punctual when it came to both missions and their completion. He usually returned home later than expected. Sometimes, when asked, it was because he was out buying local specialties, or perhaps just stopping by to see a friend.
"Maybe something happened to delay him again?"
Tang Chen shook his head and said, "No, that's impossible. Something must have happened. I was the one who asked him to go out this time, and it was urgent. There's no way he would be delayed on the road for so long."
Wang Yanzhou followed up on her words and asked, "Where did you ask him to go?"
Tang Chen was stunned. After a moment of mental struggle, he decided to tell Wang Yanzhou the whole story: "It's all because of you. You didn't tell me anything I asked you, so I asked him to go to the thatched cottage to get information..."
Tang Chen's voice became increasingly quiet. Wang Yanzhou, who had been very calm just now, suddenly jumped up, almost scaring Tang Chen: "What did you say!"
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