Tang Chen thought for a moment before nodding and saying, "That's right. I want to go to the thatched cottage in advance to wait for them. Is that okay?"
"Of course, with Qiu Liang and Miss Jiang helping me, I'm very confident in your safety." Wang Yanzhou knew he couldn't stop her. Anyone would rush to see an old friend who had returned from the dead.
"Then it's a happy decision!"
As he spoke, Tang Chen casually pinned up his neatly combed hair with a hairpin and said, "By the way, I've been thinking about all sorts of trivial things these days and forgot about my uncle and Aunt Zhou. I remember their letters went directly to you, right? Did they say when they'd be back?"
If Tang Chen hadn't asked, Wang Yanzhou would have forgotten about it. "Uncle Lin heard that his thatched cottage was occupied by someone, and he also thought about how long it had been since he had taken Aunt Zhou back to her family home. So, at Old Madam Zhou's kind invitation, he decided to stay at the Zhou family's. I might have to stay for a while, but don't worry."
Tang Chen couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth and asked, "A cordial invitation? Could it be your idea?"
Wang Yanzhou smiled and replied, "The Zhou family is very safe. I just don't want him to come back and hold us back."
"Come on, don't I know you?" Tang Chen said as she rummaged through the closet, searching for clothes. It was just the two of them at home, so anything was fine. But they couldn't stay at home forever. Little Bean and the others would be coming over soon, and she couldn't be disrespectful in front of the wet nurse and Jiang Wanying. After all, she and Jiang Wanying looked so much alike, and if she didn't dress herself up, she'd feel a strange sense of unease.
Tang Chen found some clothes for Wang Yanzhou and threw them at him furiously. Wang Yanzhou pushed the clothes off his face and suggested, "It's a rare opportunity to be so blatantly lazy. How about going to the villa to soak in the hot springs together?"
Tang Chen burst out laughing when she heard this. They had been going to the hot springs one after another these past few days. She hadn't realized they were quite good at enjoying themselves. She was overthinking it, worried that they were running around and exhausting themselves physically and mentally. "Pfft, so you guys are taking turns coming back? It was Nianqing and the others the other day, and it's your turn today?"
Wang Yanzhou stood up and hugged Tang Chen from behind. He rested his head on Tang Chen's shoulder and said contentedly, "That's right. I've always been fair."
"Just brag."
Tang Chen didn't expect that Wang Yanzhou was not joking with him again. When Jiang Wanying and the others came over with their two lively children, Wang Yanzhou waved his sleeves and said that the two children were grown up and he wanted to take them out to see the world. He then asked someone to pack their luggage and planned to spend the next two or three rare days of leisure time in the hot spring villa.
After everything was ready, Tang Chen went out with the little kid in his arms. After waiting at the gate for a long time and not seeing Wang Yanzhou come out, Tang Chen called out loudly, "Yanzhou, let's go! Did you forget anything?"
Wang Yanzhou in the room responded loudly: "Nothing, I'll just change my clothes. You take the children first, I'll catch up with you soon!"
"Okay, then hurry up!" After saying that, Tang Chen led a large group of people to the hot spring villa without any doubt.
Wang Yanzhou listened to the noise outside gradually subsiding, and he breathed a sigh of relief. He looked at the clothes on his chest that were accidentally stained with dark red blood, frowned and said, "If it were before, I would have thrown this clothes away."
After changing his clothes, Wang Yanzhou was in a dilemma again. If this were in the military camp, he could just quietly burn it, but the problem was that he was in the palace now, and burning anything would definitely alert the secret guards. If the Qilin Guards found out, it would be impossible to hide it. "Well, I'd better find a place to hide it first. I hope I won't forget it when I come back."
Originally, Wang Yanzhou suggested that Jiang Wanying go along as well, but there was no way around it. Jiang Wanying was the kind of person who understood the atmosphere very well. She knew that it was a rare occasion for the young couple to get together, and that others were just being polite, so she couldn't "press any further".
After seeing Tang Chen and the others off, Jiang Wanying's smile gradually faded. With Tang Chen gone, she suddenly didn't know what to do in this vast palace. She could go find Wang Nianqing, but if she was busy, she'd probably be disliked if she went there rashly. She could wander around, but there didn't seem to be anything in this palace that could attract her anymore.
After thinking about it, Jiang Wanying suddenly felt that she was bored to death, so she simply returned to her room, ready to take advantage of the fact that everyone was away to have a good sleep for a few days, live a decadent life, and enjoy the luxurious life of having clothes to wear and food to eat.
Jiang Wanying had coaxed a good portion of snacks from the kitchen by playing the cute trick and was about to enjoy them when she heard a knock on the door. After opening it, the maid waiting outside respectfully handed her a letter. "Miss Jiang, there's a letter for you. We delivered it right away after arriving at Qingliang Valley this morning."
Jiang Wanying was very surprised when she saw the letter. She didn't have any friends outside of Bugui Peak with whom she could exchange letters. After thinking about it, it seemed that it could only be that person: "Hey, mine? Thank you very much."
The maid bowed and said, "You are so polite, young lady. If you have no other instructions, I will go and get busy."
"Yeah, thank you."
"Let me see who has the magical powers to save me from this sea of suffering." Just when Jiang Wanying was still holding on to a glimmer of hope when she opened the letter from the stranger, she opened the envelope and found another envelope inside. The moment she saw the handwriting on the inner envelope, this glimmer of hope was gone. "Hey, it really is Jiang Wangjiu. Am I really such a failure? I've been out for so many days, and apart from this letter, no one else wants to say hello to me? Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, no matter how I think about it, I feel that the contents below are definitely not good."
Just as Jiang Wanying had guessed, Jiang Wangjiu's letters to her never had any good news. Judging from the signature on the letter, it should have been sent a month ago, and it was clear that Jiang Wangjiu didn't seem to be in a hurry.
The contents of the letter were what Jiang Wanying had always wanted to know: the second thing Tang Chen wanted to get rid of her, the agreement that bound her to Qingliang Valley. Jiang Wangjiu was still Jiang Wanying's brother, after all. No matter how much they quarreled, he still cared deeply for his sister.
After making inquiries from many sources without success, Jiang Wangjiu activated his associative ability. Although it was called associative, the guesses he made about Jiang Wanying's life in Qingliang Valley in the letter were basically correct, except for a few unexpected deviations.
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