Upon hearing this, Liu Yong also joked, "Aunt Zhang just said that we can't come and go as we please. You still have such fresh fish. You are really capable!"
Aunt Zhang put her hands on her hips and smiled, saying, "These vegetables, rice, oil, salt, ginger, vinegar, and tea are all essential. You can go in naturally. Do you want to fight your way out?"
"kill."
Liu Yong took the processed carp and was about to go back, but when he passed an alley, he couldn't help but stop and hide aside. If he was not mistaken, the woman was the one who mentioned Zhou Weiyong just now.
After Lin Qinghui and Zhou Xiao'e finished selling their fish, they met at the pre-arranged location. They had originally thought they could get some information out of the crowded Qinghe County, but now it seemed they had oversimplified things at the beginning.
Zhou Xiao'e looked at the address Old Lady Zhou had written down for them with some disappointment and said, "Strange! According to what we found out earlier, he should live nearby."
After Zhou Xiao'e finished speaking, she didn't hear Lin Qinghui's response. When she looked up, she saw that he seemed to be in a daze, so she gently tugged at his clothes: "What's wrong?"
Lin Qinghui calmly pointed to the alley entrance and said, "We have a tail. Let's find an inn first."
"good."
After changing out of their rags, the two men looked for an inn and planned to stay in Qinghe County for a few days while gathering some information.
As Lin Qinghui expected, the little tail really followed them to the inn. However, the man acted as if he was just passing by the inn and came in to chat with the innkeeper.
Lin Qinghui stood in the guest room upstairs. After the man left, he went downstairs and asked casually while ordering food, "Boss, who was that person talking to you while carrying a fish? He looked a bit strange. It's interesting that he came to the inn with food."
"He's the shopkeeper of Chunzaitang, his name is Liu Yong." After saying that, the shopkeeper motioned Lin Qinghui to come closer and lowered his voice, "He's now a member of Tianshu Tower. He's very powerful and you can't mess with him."
Lin Qinghui was quite shocked and asked, "Really?"
The innkeeper also loved to chat with others. Intending to show off how much he knew, he continued, "That's right. Don't be fooled by Manager Liu's honest and dutiful appearance. He's quite shrewd. Back when the eldest princess was around, he had a good relationship with her adopted sister, the former Princess Qingliang. Now that Tianshu Tower is here, he's taking advantage of the situation again. Isn't that impressive?"
Lin Qinghui also agreed with the shopkeeper with a look of disdain, saying, "I see. It's quite impressive. By the way, shopkeeper, please keep your voice to yourself. We may have to stay for a few more days. Let's settle the bill when we leave."
Ever since Qinghe County was completely surrounded by the imperial guards under Tianshu Tower, the inn business has become increasingly difficult. Finally, they met a big customer, and the innkeeper was overjoyed: "Sir, you are too polite. If you need anything, just let me know!"
After Lin Qinghui returned to his room, Zhou Xiao'e hurried over to ask, "How's that? Who does that little tail belong to?"
Lin Qinghui whispered, "The person who just followed us is the owner of a study. According to the shopkeeper, he should be the owner of the small study that Ah Chen mentioned earlier."
Zhou Xiao'e was a little confused. They hadn't made any contact with the owner of the study before, and he hadn't told Qingliang Valley about their current location. Why would the owner of the study follow them all the way here? Could he have some ulterior motive? "Well, how about we go check out the situation later?"
Lin Qinghui shook his head and said, "We are here to look for someone. To avoid unnecessary complications, let's just forget about it."
"Too."
...As a gossip star, Aunt Zhang finally met a stranger in her neighborhood, so she had to have a good chat with the neighbors. When Liu Zhong went out to look for Liu Yong and came home, he originally wanted to hear if they had been talking about his family behind his back again today, but he ended up hearing something even more shocking. He didn't even look for his father or buy food, but hurried back home: "Mom, something bad has happened!"
While helping her daughter-in-law sort out the silk threads, Mrs. Liu said unhappily, "Why are you so flustered? Your father and I are not dead yet. What's wrong with that?"
Liu Zhong hurriedly said, "It's really bad. When I went out, I heard the neighbors casually mention that someone was looking for Zhou Weiyong!"
Upon hearing this, Madam Liu stood up abruptly and asked, "What did you say? Do you know who is asking about this?"
Liu Zhong replied, "I don't know. They say it's a stranger. Mother, do you think it could be someone from the Zhou family who came to visit?"
Madam Liu said they weren't really afraid of the Zhou family, but rather those with ulterior motives. They'd finally enjoyed such a long period of peace and stability, and it would have been fine the rest of the time, but unfortunately, they received news a year ago that Zhou Weiyong was the only one left of the Wei generation. God help me, I hope it's not someone from Tianshu Tower or Lin Feng.
"We're not afraid of them coming to our door. We left the Zhou family in a fair and honest manner, and we didn't take anything that didn't belong to us. We're not like that Zhou Xiao'e who seduced the eldest lady's fiancé and was kicked out."
Even so, Liu Zhong still said uneasily: "Mom, I'm still worried."
Madam Liu said calmly, "Don't be afraid, I'm here. We've lived honestly and in hiding for so many years. If any enemies really come looking for us, it's just a matter between your father and me. I will never let anyone harm you or the daughter-in-law of our Liu family."
"Mother..." With Mrs. Liu's words, Liu Zhong's heart gradually settled down. However, the Liu family's wife was confused. When did this family have any previous experience? Now it sounded like she had no idea.
But thinking about it, it was all in the past. As long as their family could live happily together now, that was all that mattered. Right now, her only hope was that the child would be born safely, giving the family another sibling. She wondered if the child she had sent away overnight before the accident was doing well now.
Madam Liu glanced at Liu Zhong, coughed dryly, and ordered, "Go, find your father, and tell him that I forgive him."
"Hey!" Liu Zhong knew that the old saying was true: a couple never harbors grudges overnight. His parents had always had a very good relationship, and it was just a few words of bickering. Every couple argued, and it was good enough that they could still chat and laugh and eat at the same table afterward.
Just as Liu Zhong was about to go out and continue his unfinished task, Mrs. Liu instructed him, "By the way, buy some carp when you come back. I don't know why, but I really want to make braised carp today."
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