When we returned to Lu Mansion, it was almost midnight.
After giving Chu Yue a little scrubbing and putting him on the bed, Lu Xinghe sat on the edge of the bed and looked at her for a long time. When he thought of what she had said before, he felt no sleep at all.
After kissing her on the forehead, Lu Xinghe walked out the door quietly. After asking Ningdong to keep an eye on what was going on in the house, he led the horse out of the house and headed towards the Baiyuan Garden.
…
The next day, Chu Yue woke up before Lu Xinghe.
She looked sideways at the man lying next to her with a slight smile on her face.
Because she was afraid of disturbing his rest, she just looked at him quietly without making any movement.
I don’t know how long he had been watching, but Lu Xinghe suddenly opened his eyes.
With slightly bloodshot eyes, his expression softened when he looked at Chu Yue, who was smiling at him.
"woke up."
"Well, I'm awake." Chu Yue hugged Lu Xinghe's arm, "Mr., was it you who carried me back last night?"
Lu Xinghe raised the corners of his lips slightly, perhaps because he had just woken up from sleep, and his magnetic voice was filled with laziness.
"After hugging me all the way, my arms were numb."
Chu Yue smiled, stepped forward and kissed Lu Xinghe on the face.
"Thank you for your hard work, husband. I'll try to eat less in the future so that it won't be so strenuous for you to hold him up."
Lu Xinghe smiled and stretched out his hand to scratch her nose.
"You believe whatever I say. With your small body, it's effortless for me to hold you in my arms."
"You are exaggerating." Chu Yue looked at him with a smile, "Ms. sir, when will Mom and the others arrive in the capital?"
"The letter from Nanping Town said that around the end of this month, grandpa, grandma and grandma all want to come to the capital for a visit. The speed on the road may be slower." As if thinking of something, Lu Xinghe looked at Chu Yue, "By the way, teacher I sent someone to Nanping Town, I didn’t want to tell you, for fear that you would think I was hiding something from you again.”
Chu Yue frowned.
"What did he send people to Nanping Town for? To investigate you?"
Lu Xinghe lay on his back, looking directly in the direction of the roof beams with a calm expression.
"I guess he wants to investigate both of us."
Chu Yue looked confused, "He is your teacher, why is he investigating us?"
Lu Xinghe said softly, "Maybe he felt that the fattened prey suddenly lost control. I went to Yuan Mansion once after the imperial examination. According to his intention, he originally wanted to marry Yuan Xueer to me, and let me send you away by the way. I lost you, but I didn’t know you had your current identity.”
Chu Yue understood.
"No wonder you said that he changed a lot after you came out of Yuan Mansion."
Lu Xinghe turned his head and looked at Chu Yue.
"Afraid?"
Chu Yue shook her head without thinking.
"When the soldiers come, they will cover up the water and the earth. There is nothing to be afraid of."
Lu Xinghe smiled, he knew that the little girl was smarter and braver than he thought.
"Over at Niutou Village, although your parents and brother are unkind, they are truly your blood relatives. I plan to transfer them elsewhere."
Chu Yue looked at him.
"Where do you want to move them?"
"Don't you have so many Zhuangzi under your name? Just arrange for them to go anywhere, far away from Nanping Town."
"My husband moved them away because he was afraid that someone would threaten me with their lives?" Chu Yue asked.
Lu Xinghe hummed.
"Although you didn't belong here before, in the eyes of outsiders, they are your natal family after all. If others really use them to threaten you, if you don't care, you will be criticized. If you do, you will have to be controlled by others. In the end, If they are troublesome, it is better to send them far away."
"Another one, after sending them to other places, you can ask people to watch them and prevent them from saying bad things about you."
Chu Yue smiled and leaned into Lu Xinghe's arms.
"Then just listen to your husband."
Suddenly thinking of something, Chu Yue looked up at him again, "Did I say something I shouldn't have said to my husband last night?"
Lu Xinghe turned his head and looked at her, "Is there anything Yueyue can't say in front of me?"
Chu Yue shook her head.
"That's not true."
After a moment of silence, Lu Xinghe continued to speak.
"You did say something to me last night that you hadn't said to me before."
It was also because of those words that he couldn't sleep last night. After pulling the reluctant Zhang Zheng out of bed in the middle of the night and questioning him, he didn't return home until the early morning.
Only then did Chu Yue realize that the scene she had just thought of was not a dream.
"Will you think I'm a monster?"
"No." Lu Xinghe hugged her tightly, "On the contrary, I am very glad that you came."
Chu Yue breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.
"I originally didn't want to tell anyone this secret because I was afraid that others would treat me as a monster. Maybe I was drunk last night and my husband is someone I trust, so I told it out unknowingly."
Lu Xinghe hummed, "If I'm not around from now on, drink less wine."
Chu Yue’s eyebrows were curved.
"knew."
"Last night, there was a fire in Xiaoxiang Garden of Yuan Mansion, burning most of Yuan Xueer's yard. Can Yueyue relieve her anger?"
Lu Xinghe suddenly said such words, leaving Chu Yue a little confused.
"Yuan Xue'er? Did she ask someone to set off the fire in the medical center?"
Lu Xinghe's eyes flashed with disgust.
"Perhaps it was the day before the imperial examination that I went to the medical clinic to look for you and was bumped into by her people. It was me who got you involved."
Chu Yue raised the corners of her lips, "I really didn't expect it to be her. Last time the medical center caught fire, fortunately Uncle Lu saved it in time. Only the woodshed was damaged. Uncle Lu's arm was also burned at that time."
Lu Xinghe touched his nose, "Yuan Xueer is not much better. She probably won't come out again for a long time."
Chu Yue's face was full of curiosity.
"She was also burned? What does she look like now?"
Lu Xinghe's eyes were full of smiles, "Want to know?"
Chu Yue nodded like garlic, "Curious."
"That's probably it..."
Lu Xinghe made some gestures to Chu Yue, which made Chu Yue laugh.
"Hahahaha... Her hair and eyebrows were really burned off?"
Looking at the smiling little girl curled up in his arms, Lu Xinghe had a hint of endearment in his eyes.
"Well, not a single one is left."
Chu Yue laughed even louder when she heard the four words "Not a single word" left.
…
After Lin Haonan returned to Shangshu Mansion, he found his father and repeated what Zhang Zheng said to him.
At first, Shangshu Lin found it unbelievable, but in order not to be deceived by the Chen family, he still sent people to investigate the matter of Chen Yiliu falling into the water.
Even though so many years have passed, Shangshu Lin's people still found some clues.
At that time, Miss Chen Yiliu of the Chen family accidentally fell into the water while playing in the suburbs of the city. There was also a maid who fell into the water with her.
The maid's name was Xiaohuan. She was one of the three maids who went out to play with Chen Yiliu that day. After Chen Yiliu fell into the water, the maid named Xiaohuan completely disappeared from everyone's sight.
Just because she is a nobody, no one pays attention to her.
After Lin Shangshu learned the news, he did not alert the snake and immediately asked people to continue investigating along this clue.
…
After Lin Haonan learned the news, he immediately went to Xingyue Medical Center to see Chu Yue.
Chu Yue was a little surprised to learn about Lin Haonan's arrival.
"I haven't seen you for five days, Mr. Lin. I hope you are well."
Lin Haonan entered the medical clinic with a smile and looked around.
"The style of Princess's medical clinic is quite different from other places."
Chu Yue smiled and said, "It is done like this for the convenience of patients and doctors. Mr. Lin, please follow me to the backyard. There are many patients upstairs and it is not convenient to talk."
Lin Haonan nodded and followed Chu Yue to the backyard.
"I left without saying goodbye that day and stayed here with the princess."
Chu Yue's face was indifferent, "It doesn't matter, Mr. Lin's matters are important."
Lin Haonan followed Chu Yue as he sat at the stone table, looked at her and said, "My father found some clues about that year."
"It's been so many years since the matter was discovered. It's a good thing that we can find out." Chu Yue smiled half-heartedly, "It's just that Mr. Lin told me about this matter. Are you not afraid that I will reveal it?"
Lin Haonan shook his head.
"Although I don't have much contact with the princess, I trust her character. Furthermore, the princess knew about this when we were in Baiyuan Garden. I have nothing to hide."
