The first thing Wang Yanzhou did when he returned from his trip was to rush back to Liuxiang Tavern to see the person he had been thinking about day and night. But when he rushed back without stopping, Chen Xin told him that Tang Chen had been released. Wang Yanzhou didn't bother to blame Chen Xin. After all, he couldn't stand the look in Liang Shuyi's eyes. He also wanted to look at his sweet orange in the same way.
Wang Yanzhou had just arrived at Tang Chen's door when he heard bursts of laughter coming from inside. As expected, as soon as he entered the house, he saw her friend who she had met from nowhere. Lin Feng was already quite annoyed. Was she trying to piss him off to death and murder her husband?
Tang Chen was discussing the minor black spots in their lives with Hei Ya when he glanced back and happened to meet the eyes of a travel-weary man in the courtyard. "Hey, you're back!"
Seeing the young woman running out of the house with a smile on her face, Wang Yanzhou's jealousy was slightly relieved. "Well, I'm back. I brought you a gift. I came in a hurry, so I left it at the tavern."
When Tang Chen saw Wang Yanzhou talking, his eyes were completely focused on Hei Ya who followed him out. He took his hand and walked over: "Put the gift aside for now. I'll introduce it to you. This is my little brother, Hei Ya. You've seen him before."
Wang Yanzhou nodded slightly and said with a smile: "I heard Chen Xin mention Your Majesty, my Tang Chen's brain is not very good sometimes, please bear with me."
"Naturally, naturally."
"Thank you very much."
A familiar scene played out before her eyes again. Tang Chen was puzzled. Even if she wasn't very successful, she was still a successful young woman in her twenties, a boss who could support her family. If she were in school, she would be an outstanding graduate who had started her own business; the kind of person who was called back from school from time to time to give small performances and lectures. Why did they always feel like she was a mentally retarded girl? Did they misunderstand something?
"Stop! You guys are really slandering my intelligence. Let me tell you, if I were to act in a palace drama..."
Before Tang Chen could finish his words with a confident look on his face, he was interrupted by Black Crow: "If you were to act in a palace fighting drama, you would definitely not survive half an episode."
So, in this joyous little courtyard, without waiting for Wang Yanzhou to ask, Tang Chen basically told him everything that had happened between him and Hei Ya. After Wang Yanzhou's alarm was lifted, he calmly took the teapot to the kitchen to boil water for tea.
Wang Yanzhou came out of the kitchen carrying a full pot of fragrant tea. He stood in the corridor and looked outside the wall for a while before entering the house and asking, "I noticed when I came back that there are a lot of secret sentries outside who don't know their origins. Have you gotten into trouble again?"
Tang Chen quickly swore and said, "...It's him, it has nothing to do with me!"
Black Crow said with a smile: "Don't you want to be the big brother? Can you sit back and watch your little brother in trouble?"
"Uh, yeah."
"Six, you!"
...That night, after dinner, everyone went back to their own homes and their own mothers. Tang Chen followed Wang Yanzhou directly to his room. Of course, she definitely didn't go to sleep.
Tang Chen looked at the boxes and crates in the room, stretched himself, and after stretching his muscles, he rolled up his sleeves and began to pack up with Wang Yanzhou. As Tang Chen helped him fold his clothes, he deliberately or unintentionally asked, "Look at the clothes you brought back. Are you going back to Qingliang Valley this time?"
"Um."
Tang Chen felt relieved when he heard his response, and his movements became more swift and smooth. "Then why did you hide it from me? It's not a big deal. Could it be that you're hiding your mistress in Qingliang Valley and you're afraid I'll find out?"
After Wang Yanzhou sorted out the books from the boxes and put them away, he flipped through them one by one as if looking for something, saying, "I have good news and bad news. Which one do you want to hear first?"
After thinking for a while, Tang Chen decisively chose the good news: "Uh, good news."
"Aunt Zhang's child has been found."
"Tsk!", after a subconscious sound of disdain, Tang Chen suddenly turned around and rushed to Wang Yanzhou with his clothes in hand: "Wait, what did you just say, you found it, really?"
"Yes, you've seen that child too, the little girl named A Yuan."
Tang Chen was stunned. She needed to wait a moment. Didn't Aunt Zhang say before that she lost a son? How come she found a daughter now? Was she so eager to find her son that she made a mistake? "...Isn't this a boy?"
As Tang Chen finished speaking, Wang Yanzhou found the snacks he had carefully placed in the box. "It's a long story. This is a bite-sized pastry I bought from outside. It tastes good. Eat it while I tell you."
"Okay, okay!"
Aunt Zhang's story had a part of the truth she had intentionally or unintentionally concealed. Consequently, she had searched for years, yet still had no news. The child she had given birth to was actually a daughter. However, for various reasons, she had been forced to lie and claim the girl was a boy. She had originally planned to reveal the truth to the child once she was older and more understanding. She hoped, without asking for anything, that the child would understand.
But before the child could even remember, he was abducted by kidnappers. According to the Dong couple, they had been married for a long time but had no children. Seeing that Ayuan was adorable and a boy, they simply bought him from the kidnapper. Shortly after they discovered Ayuan was a girl, Dong Lin discovered she was already pregnant.
The child, destined for abandonment a second time, was saved thanks to a glimmer of kindness from Dong Minghui's father. While his subsequent life was unproductive for child labor, at least he survived. It was also through a chance encounter that Aunt Zhang was able to confirm that A Yuan was her own child.
After Wang Yanzhou finished his story, Tang Chen simply put down the snacks in her hand and sighed softly: "Being a woman is so difficult, life is full of twists and turns. What's the difference between boys and girls? The palms and backs of the hands are all flesh and blood. Aunt Zhang has had a hard time. Because of other people's prejudice, she has to let her daughter disguise herself as a boy. A Yuan is also pitiful. Just because she is a girl, should she be treated like that?"
Tang Chen's words had their own reasons, but they were still somewhat biased. Not everyone favored boys over girls. Wang Yanzhou saw a hint of disappointment in her words and slapped her across the face, "Do you think everyone is like you, able to meet a banished immortal like this Valley Master?"
Tang Chen gently hit the back of Wang Yanzhou's hand, pried his hand away from his face, and asked with a smile, "How can you praise yourself like this? What's the bad news?"
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