Tian Shu was diligent in practicing martial arts, but he hadn't yet reached the point where he could hear the person breathing inside the room through the door. He hesitated, wondering if he could push the door open a crack to see if she was in bed, but in the end, he didn't do it.
I carefully opened the door and asked the waiter for water. After washing up, I looked down and found that my robe was all wrinkled, so I quickly went back to my room to change.
Then, Tian Shu squatted in a horse stance in front of the window.
As the street outside grew busier and noisier, there was also movement coming from inside Hong Xiaoduo's room.
Now Tian Shu was even more certain that Hong Xiaoduo's visit to this place was probably not for anything particularly important, since she still habitually slept in late.
Come to think of it, after she arrived yesterday, she still had the leisure to listen to gossip.
Tian Shu straightened up and went to fetch her some hot water. Just as he returned to the room, Hong Xiaoduo's door opened.
"Tian Shu, you got up very early? It's okay to sleep in sometimes." Hong Xiaoduo stretched and walked to the washstand as she spoke.
"I'm used to waking up early, and once I'm awake, I can't stay in bed." After saying that, Tian Shu habitually went into her room and quickly folded the quilt.
After he came out, he saw that Hong Xiaoduo's high ponytail was already tied up. When Tian Shu had been traveling around begging with that villain, he had seen many women from the martial arts world, but he had never seen anyone like her who took the easy way out by not tying her hair up.
The only thing she liked to wear was this silver hairpin, the head of which was shaped like half a fan and the edges were inlaid with pearls.
Even though she has a lot of money now, the only hair ornament she wears is this one hairpin.
"Alright, let's go, let's have breakfast first." After making sure the hairpin inserted at the base of the ponytail wouldn't come loose or fall off, Hong Xiaoduo called to Tian Shu and walked out.
I decided what to have for breakfast last night while I was out shopping: dumplings with beef and shredded radish filling.
As Tian Shu ate, he thought to himself, "Now that I've finished the dumplings, it's time to get down to business!"
When they were almost finished eating, Hong Xiaoduo asked the waiter if he knew where the Chen scholar lived.
The waiter told her it wasn't far, just a few hundred meters from the alley ahead, there was a courtyard with a wooden fence.
"I want to buy a big bowl of dumplings to take away. Can you sell me the bowl too?" Hong Xiaoduo asked again.
"Young lady, are you buying this for Scholar Chen?" the shopkeeper asked quickly.
Hong Xiaoduo nodded: "Do you know what kind of filling he likes?"
"He's always given mutton and cabbage by Brother Dayong," the waiter told him with a smile.
Hong Xiaoduo asked with a smile, "Did Pang Yong even get him dumplings to eat?"
"Well, before, I was afraid of getting scolded if his maternal grandparents found out, so I would change the items secretly. Now, there's nothing I can do about it, so I just let him be."
If the young lady sells the food to that scholar Chen, there's no need to buy a bowl; Dayong will return it after she's finished eating.
"Then I'll go cook it, young lady, please wait a moment." The waiter didn't even have time to ask Hong Xiaoduo's relationship with Scholar Chen anymore.
The last few dumplings on the plate were eaten, and the takeout was also cooked by the waiter. He even thoughtfully used a small bamboo basket so that Hong Xiaoduo could carry it without burning her hands.
Tian Shu got up, paid the money, picked up the bamboo basket, and followed Hong Xiaoduo.
He was becoming increasingly curious: what exactly was she doing here?
Following the directions of the dumpling restaurant waiter, we quickly found Chen Juren's house. Of all the houses in that row, only his house had a wooden fence around the courtyard, which was actually just a fence made of straight pieces of firewood cut from the mountain.
Standing outside, you can see into the yard through the gaps. It's very clean, with neatly stacked firewood on one side.
There was no one in the courtyard, but the door to the house was open.
"Hello, is Scholar Chen home?" Hong Xiaoduo asked loudly from outside the courtyard gate...
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