Wang Wu smiled and said, "Use these few taels of silver to buy some wine. If you hear anything interesting later, you can tell me more. People should be busy, but they also need to find some entertainment, right?"
"I didn't expect that the adults also like to talk about these irrelevant things like us." As he spoke, Guard C stuffed the heavy purse into his arms with a servile look on his face and put it away.
Originally, Wang Wu had gone to see Xiahou Jun today, simply to report on his recent work situation and see if he'd been feeling any better over the past three days. However, after hearing what Guard C had just said, he felt that some things couldn't be put off any longer. If he put it off any longer, he feared he wouldn't have the chance to say some things.
After making up his mind, Wang Wu came to Xiahou Chun's courtyard. As soon as he entered, he saw that the house seemed much more deserted than usual. "Sir, why didn't the insect master come today?"
Xiahou Jun said that despite her young age, the girl was decisive. She had said she wouldn't come back and hadn't come since. Sometimes, after sitting for a long time, he'd go out for a walk and still not run into her. "Why is she here? She interrupts me while I'm working, and then complains to the Pavilion Master after a few words. I don't want to be associated with such a troublesome person. What did you come here to report today?"
Wang Wu bowed his head and said, "Sir, I have something very important to discuss with you. I wonder if you would be available to meet me in my room at midnight tonight."
Xiahou Jun frowned slightly. How important must it be to have to run to Wang Wu in the middle of the night to talk? "Where are you going? What's so important that we have to wait until the dead of night to talk? Can't we talk now?"
Wang Wu said firmly, "Sir, this matter concerns my life, and more importantly, it concerns morality. Walls have ears, and we must be on guard."
Xia Houjun put down his pen, thinking back to what he had said earlier, and couldn't help but speculate: "...Is it related to the reason you couldn't tell me for the time being?"
Wang Wu nodded and replied, "That's right."
Xiahou Jun thought Wang Wu was also an old man who had been with him for a long time. Apart from anything else, he could trust him. It was rare for Wang Wu to ask him for help, and he hadn't been busy lately. It would be a bit inappropriate to refuse his request. "Then you can go back first. I'll go to the appointment when the time comes."
That night, before the hour came, Xiahou Jun packed up and left. When he walked over to Wang Wu like a thief, Xiahou Jun said that since he arrived at Tianshu Tower, he had basically been walking around without a care in the world, and there was no time for him to sneak around like he was doing today. After entering the house, Xiahou Jun couldn't help but complain, "You're so secretive. No one's following me, so don't worry. What on earth do you want to tell me that makes you so worried?"
Without waiting for Xiahou Jun to finish his words, Wang Wu closed the door and knelt down in front of Xiahou Jun without saying a word, as if he was ready to die heroically: "...What are you doing!"
Wang Wu said nothing, but pleaded, "Master, please accept my greeting first."
Seeing that Wang Wu was wearing a white plain dress, a rare sight today, Xiahou Jun thought it might be an important day for someone important in the family, so he didn't think much of it. Reluctantly, he withdrew his hand from helping him up and said, "It's really confusing. If you want to bow, then do so. I'm a little confused by you."
Wang Wu bowed deeply to Xiahou Jun, but didn't seem to want to stand up. He started by saying something that left Xiahou Jun a little confused: "Master, I asked you before if you still remember the time when the Pavilion Master brought you back. I wonder if you remember anything now?"
Xiahou Jun looked at Wang Wu's expectant eyes. Although he didn't know what he wanted to say, he couldn't bear to tell him that he still couldn't remember anything. He could only say, "...I do remember some things, but it's been a long time, so they're very vague."
Wang Wu said, "If the master still has a vague impression of what happened in the past, then let Wang Wu tell the master."
Next, Wang Wu, whether he had heard it from someone or witnessed it himself, told Xiahou Chun how Xiahou Chun was abducted by Xiahou Qing as a child. Afterward, Wang Wu carefully pulled out a jade pendant from his bosom and handed it to Xiahou Chun, saying it was a token of his identity. Although it was called a token, Xiahou Chun was completely unfamiliar with it, and even the engravings on it were new to him, making it completely worthless.
Furthermore, Xiahou Qing was the one who raised Xiahou Jun, and was far more important than Wang Wu's brief five years. Therefore, Xiahou Jun was still very skeptical about the truth of Wang Wu's words, and even felt that he had ulterior motives to sow discord between him and Xiahou Qing: "...Why do you know so much about these things, when I've forgotten so much?"
Wang Wu had mentioned earlier that, based on his investigation and Xiahou Jun's reaction, Xiahou Qing had likely fed him some memory-affecting drug after taking him away. He hadn't yet determined what it was. "Master, perhaps you no longer remember me, but after you were taken away by Xiahou Qing, I was ordered to search for you. But when I found you, your attitude towards Xiahou Qing was truly unacceptable. And with my mistress passing away, I'm afraid I would have gone mad if it weren't for her instructions."
Wang Wu's ramblings were a bit confusing, and the more he spoke, the more confused Xiahou Chun became. "Wait, I still don't understand. If that's what you say, then who are you? My childhood friend, or a brother? We don't seem to have any obvious similarities in appearance or temperament."
Wang Wu explained, "I'm just a little orphan who was taken in by the Madam back then. She treated me like her own son, but for various reasons, the Master had to keep me in the courtyard, away from the public. I could only stand in the corner and watch from afar, so the Master probably didn't have any impression of me."
"So what you said before was also because of this?" The "before" that Xiahou Jun mentioned was not just now, but a long time ago when Wang Wu told him that he wanted to leave Tianshu Tower and set up his own business.
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