However, considering that he was the main guide for this trip, if these two people were lost here without him taking any action, their parents would probably tear him apart if they were investigated in the future.
So although Xu Tianyi was eager to return home, he just remained silent for a moment and then said, "How about we wait a little longer!"
Zhou Yaoniang has always been Xu Tianyi's yes man.
Upon hearing Xu Tianyi's words, she immediately said, "I listen to Brother Xu."
Seeing this moment, he was almost on fire. These two people were still here taking their time. Zhou Xintian couldn't help but angrily said, "If we keep waiting like this, they will be fine! We have to go to Wuhoupu!"
Xu Tianyi naturally understood Zhou Xintian's irritability. If he was not today's guide, he would not want to care about the life and death of those two people. After all, he had already explained this issue repeatedly.
So at that moment, Xu Tianyi had no choice but to comfort Zhou Xintian with kind words, "How about we wait for another five minutes? Waiting for these five minutes will not affect our return home. If they still don't come back, we have at least waited for them. If they still don't come back, we have waited for them." Come back and we’ll leave immediately! We won’t wait any longer! Is this okay?”
Seeing that Xu Tianyi had said this, Zhou Xintian naturally stopped saying anything, but he was also sulking in his heart.
But now that no one spoke, the silence became even more deafening.
Xu Tianyi just said quickly, "I'll get out of the car and go look around!"
Zhou Xintian said, "What's there to look for? If such a big tree comes back, they should have come back long ago."
Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, Zhou Yaoniang just opened the curtain and looked out the window.
However, outside the window are pedestrians and vendors hurriedly returning home and packing their things.
As soon as the five minutes were up, Zhou Xintian almost updated the information to five minutes. He immediately said to Xu Tianyi impatiently, "Five minutes are up, let's go!"
Although it was an inquiry, his tone could actually be regarded as urging.
At this moment, Xu Tianyi felt that he had fulfilled his responsibility. Seeing that there was still no familiar figure outside, Xu Tianyi couldn't help but said to the coachman, "Then let's go!"
However, just as he finished speaking, Zhou Yaoniang, who had been silent, suddenly said, "Wait a minute!"
Hearing Zhou Yaoniang's words, "Wait a minute," Zhou Xintian immediately said angrily, "What's going on?"
At this moment, even Xu Tianyi looked at Zhou Yaoniang with disapproving eyes.
Seeing everyone looking at her like this, Zhou Yaoniang, who was already shy, couldn't help but whisper, "I thought I saw the boy who followed my cousin just now. He is running over!"
After hearing this, everyone finally stopped saying anything!
Then the boy came over panting as expected.
Before he could catch his breath, Xu Tianyi, who was standing at the front of the car, couldn't help asking the young man, "Where is Master Zhou! Why did you come back alone! Where has he gone? Why don't you look at him now?" What time is it!"
Xu Tianyi's series of questions only made the boy unable to breathe. And his face was even red from running just now.
Seeing this, Zhou Yaoniang said gently, "Brother Xu, don't scare him, he can't breathe right now."
After saying this, Zhou Yaoniang only said to the young boy gently, "Chen Wang, get in the car first! If you have anything to do, we'll talk about it later."
After hearing Zhou Yaoniang's words, Chen Wang dared to take a deep breath again.
And climbed into the carriage silently.
At the stall where Chen Wang was breathing steadily, Zhou Yaoniang said to Chen Wang in an unhurried manner, "Chen Wang, where is my cousin?"
Facing Zhou Yaoniang's question, Chen Wang, who was breathing evenly, dared to whisper, "Master Zhou said he won't go back today, and he will stay in the flower building tonight."
When everyone heard this, they naturally felt more relieved and let the carriage drive home.
Zhou Yaoniang then asked carefully, "By the way, what's the name of the flower building you mentioned?"
Chen Wang naturally responded in detail, "It's the Huayue Building on Yangliu Street."
Upon hearing Chen Wang's words, Zhou Yaoniang couldn't help but silently write down the address Chen Wang mentioned.
After writing down the address, Zhou Yaoniang said to Xu Tianyi, "When I go back later, it will be easier for us to explain the whereabouts of my cousin if she asks about it. However, we have not seen the whereabouts of this cousin until now." The daughter's house is no better than the man's, and there aren't many places to go. She can't be found now, and I don't know what happened. We won't look for her today, but will have to look for her tomorrow."
Although Zhou Yaoniang didn't like Zhou Ruyu, she obviously didn't want anything to happen to Zhou Ruyu, so at this moment she couldn't help but worry about Zhou Ruyu's safety.
However, when the two people heard Zhou Yaoniang's words, they seemed to be awakened.
Zhou Xintian, who knows the eldest aunt of the Zhou family best, could not help but speak first, "I don't know where Zhou Ruyu went this week? My eldest aunt will definitely make trouble for us soon, so in order to avoid being troubled by her, let's make a confession first!"
Hearing Zhou Xintian's suggestion, although Xu Tianyi did not agree, he still curiously asked, "How to string it together?"
Zhou Xintian also whispered to the people in the room, "My aunt can stir up trouble even if she is ignored, so we can't say that she went shopping for clothes and jewelry alone. We have to change the explanation! "
"What's another way of saying it?" Xu Tianyi continued to ask curiously.
Zhou Xintian immediately whispered, "Naturally, let's put it in a way so that she doesn't have time to find fault with us. My eldest aunt is the person she is most afraid of, and my eldest uncle is the most invisible person on weekdays." Zhou Ruyu hooks up with men everywhere. After all, when Zhou Ruyu hooked up with the eldest young master of the Zhu family during the funeral for her grandmother, the reputation of the entire unmarried female family members of the Zhou family was damaged, so how about we use this as an excuse this time? "
"Let's just say that we go shopping together. During lunch, Brother Xu went to order food, and I went to the toilet. My cousin and Zhou Ruyu were the only ones in the room."
"At this time, an aristocratic man walked outside. Zhou Ruyu lied to her cousin that she had met an acquaintance and wanted to say hello. Her cousin couldn't resist her, so she let her go. But she didn't expect Zhou Ruyu to just leave like this. Returned. After that, we searched everywhere for her but couldn't find anyone!"
After finishing speaking, Zhou Xintian only said in an expectant tone, "What do you think of this excuse?"
Before Xu Tianyi could speak, Zhou Yaoniang immediately said unhappily, "How can that be okay! If you do this, you are not slandering her innocence. Do you know how important a woman's innocence is!"
Upon hearing Zhou Yaoniang's words, Zhou Xintian curled his lips in disappointment. He was kind-hearted and just found a way to excuse everyone, but in the end, his kindness was regarded as a donkey's liver and lungs. It doesn't matter if people don't appreciate it, they actually stand on the moral high ground and scold them in the face.
Zhou Xintian immediately ran out of ideas. He looked at Xu Tianyi, but Xu Tianyi obviously also cared about Zhou Yaoniang.
So he just smiled gently and said, "This suggestion from Nitta is actually very good. I also know that Nitta is doing it for everyone's good, but a woman's reputation is also very important."
Hearing Xu Tianyi also said this, Zhou Xintian couldn't help but sighed and said, "Other women's reputations may be important, but hers are definitely not important. Back then, if she cared about her own reputation or the reputation of others, Then she wouldn't have done something scandalous like that, and besides, we're not slandering her, she might have really hooked up with a man and had a happy relationship with him."
Upon hearing Zhou Xintian's words, Zhou Yaoniang was even more reluctant to speak.
Perhaps Tianyi could see that Zhou Yaoniang was not in a high mood, so he only said to Zhou Xintian, "Okay, Xintian, I know you are doing it for our own good, but even if we tell the truth, then the eldest aunt will be angry with us." , she can't do anything to us! Firstly, we have reminded her, secondly, we have waited for her! Thirdly, we are worried about their safety and only sent a maid to follow her!"
"In this regard, we have actually done our best. So we really don't need to be secretive."
Hearing Xu Tianyi's words, Zhou Xintian sneered, "Okay, since you said that, I won't say anything else, but you two don't regret it then."
After the words fell, Zhou Xintian just stopped talking, and the silence in the carriage was deafening.
Deaf.
Everyone stopped talking at this moment, there was only the sound of wheels rolling.
The coachman was anxious to get home, so he drove the carriage very fast, but even so, his speed could not keep up with the speed of darkness. At this time, the watch drum sounded, as if urging people to run quickly.
Fortunately, the driver's driving skills were pretty good, and there were no other accidents along the way, so in the end they were able to get home before dark.
As soon as they returned home, the Zhou family, who had already completed their recruitment, were eagerly waiting for their children to come home.
After the argument just now, Zhou Xintian remained silent and walked at the back.
As soon as the servants in the mansion saw them coming back, they immediately came over to greet them.
One of them even took the initiative to tell Zhou Yaoniang and Xu Tianyi, "My dear, you are finally back. Madam was worried about you just now."
After hearing what the servants said, Zhou Yaoniang immediately took a few steps.
It seemed that she wanted to see her mother as soon as possible.
When a group of them arrived in the courtyard, they could see that the flower hall was indeed full of people, and almost everyone was there at the moment.
And among these elders, she actually saw a figure who shouldn't be here.
However, Zhou Yaoniang still suppressed the shock in her heart. She just paid her respects to her elders in the family first.
After saying goodbye, Zhou Yaoniang turned to look at Zhou Ruyu. She said expressionlessly, "Cousin, why didn't you tell us in advance since you came back? Do you know how worried we were about you on the road just now?"
After hearing Zhou Yaoniang's question, the cousin obviously didn't think there was anything wrong with what she did.
She just said nonchalantly, "I met the second young master of the Xi family on the road today. He insisted on sending me home. What can I do? Besides, aren't you all back?"
