Wishful Things

Xu Mingyi hastily put down the carriage curtain.

She was afraid that Wu Chao would reveal her identity subconsciously, attract the attention of others, and affect the plan——

But Wu Chao still saw it.

Even just a quick and hazy glance was enough for him to be sure that the person sitting in the carriage was indeed Xu Mingyi.

But why is she afraid of being like this?

The boy frowned, and quickly thought of the reason.

Is it because he is afraid that he will misunderstand that she is deliberately creating an encounter with him here?

Just like when he was in Ningyang, he was really terrified by those girls' various methods, so Miss Xu is also terrified by him now.

This point was indeed his fault before, and it is normal for her to be more on guard now.

But he infers that things have always been reasonable. The reason why she misunderstood before was because she repeatedly showed her affection first, but he misunderstood her motives—and today he was forced to go out by his mother. A temporary decision, and Miss Xu has no ability to predict the future, how could she wait here early for him to come?

He is much more prone to think, but he is not crazy.

Wu Chao was in a complicated mood, and his eyes fell on the too inconspicuous carriage.

So they were doing business?

The boy's eyes moved slightly, thinking of the corpse in the woods outside the city that night.

Then she looked intently at the carriage, thinking of the people sitting in the carriage, there was only one thought in her mind - did she bring enough guards?

"What is A Yuan looking at?"

A dignified and beautiful woman stepped down from the carriage with the help of a maid, followed the young man's gaze, and asked curiously with a smile.

Wu Chao immediately looked away.

"Go back to mother, it's nothing."

This is his mother, Mrs. Xu, the wife of Prince Dingnan.

"Then let's go in." Xu said with a smile.

It's probably impossible to expect her son to enlighten himself, and now she can only hope for the blessing of the gods, so she dragged him to Qingyu Temple to offer incense.

"...Mom, let's go in first." Wu Chao said, "I'll go in and look for mother later."

Mrs. Xu nodded with a smile, turned around and walked towards the temple with her maid.

Wu Chao raised his eyebrows unexpectedly.

Mother is so happy, why doesn't she even ask him a word?

I always feel that this is very unlike my mother's style.

Maybe it's because he stayed in Ningyang for a long time and didn't get along with his mother for a long time.

Wu Chao walked under a luxuriant linden tree, and after making sure that there was no one around, he summoned the dark guard to show up.

"Secretly follow Miss Xu in the green cloth carriage. If she encounters trouble, help her in time."

The dark guard should come down.

Keenly aware of the gaze from behind, Wu Chao suddenly looked back.

At the corner behind the temple gate, a purple-clothed maid was startled and hurriedly covered her figure.

Wu Chao: ...Mother let the servant girl take a peek.

His mother was indeed the one who 'said the most dignified words and did the most indignant things'.

"Didn't you talk too much in front of your father about the night before?" Wu Chao suddenly looked at the dark guard suspiciously.

The secret guard hurriedly said: "Young Master's confession, how dare the subordinates disobey it."

The young master fell in love with Miss Xu, and showed courtesy in front of Miss Xu, but he didn't want to be known by the elders in the family because of his face - he also came from the age of seventeen or eighteen, so how could he not understand the young master's feelings.

Wu Chao glanced at him, then nodded slightly to signal him to back down.

"Who is he talking to? Can you see clearly?"

In the temple, Mrs. Xu asked the maidservant who had run back in a low voice.

Ever since her son didn't come home the night before, she had doubts—couldn't the brat pretend to be clueless on the surface, but secretly already has a sweetheart?

But I always feel that such a good thing is too unrealistic.

"It's a man in black..." The purple-clothed servant girl said with difficulty: "Besides, the young master seems to have noticed that the servant girl is peeping."

At that moment, she even suspected that the reason why the young master never let people close to him, maybe it was because the young master didn't want people to find out the secret that he has eyes behind his back, right? !

Seeing Wu Chao striding into the monastery from the corner of his eye, Xu's expression straightened, and he regained his dignity and composure, and continued walking forward with the maidservant.

Wu Chao followed blankly, not bothering to poke his mother.

Outside the temple gate, another carriage slowly approached.

"Girl, it's Zhan's carriage." Ah Zhu said in a low voice.

Xu Mingyi raised his hand and pushed down the slightly raised carriage curtain under Ah Zhu's hand, signaling her not to make any noise.

After the carriage came to a complete stop, the mother and daughter of the Zhan family were helped out of the carriage by the mother-in-law.

Mrs. Zhan asked her mother-in-law to hand a money bag to the coachman, and ordered: "Send these silver coins to Zhuangzi."

Zhan’s family has a small village outside the city. Mrs. Zhan’s wet nurse has been sent to the village to raise her since she fell ill a few years ago. People go to visit and send some silver.

Zhan Yunjiao is also used to this.

Seeing the coachman took the purse, she urged: "Mother, let's go in quickly before there are many people."

"Okay..." Mrs. Zhan nodded, and took a last look at the coachman.

The coachman was dressed in a coarse cloth robe, his face was covered by a messy beard, and his eyes were downcast so that people could not see his face clearly.

Inside the green cloth carriage, Xu Mingyi listened attentively to the movement.

She didn't open the corner of the curtain to look until the sound of wheels rolling reached her ears.

The seemingly unobtrusive middle-aged man was driving the car with both hands holding the reins, and his white-washed sleeves covered most of his hands.

Under such circumstances, it is extremely difficult for even Xu Mingyi to tell whether the other party has a problem with his right hand.

Besides, the person in front of her must be hiding her face with a beard, and she has long been vague about the appearance of that Uncle Zhou, only remembering that his wonderful knife skills are impressive——

"Follow him from a distance."

Xu Mingyi whispered instructions to Zhu Xiu, who was pretending to be a coachman.

At this time, I would rather make a mistake than let go of a possibility.

As for whether the other party is that person, you will know after a try——

Two quarters of an hour later, Zhan's carriage stopped in front of a Zhuangzi.

The coachman got out of the carriage, knocked on the door, and went in.

"The master said, I told you to stay away for a while, and come back to Beijing after a few years... You can use these silver taels as coils on the road..."

A middle-aged man of his stature and age whispered.

The 'driver' silently tore off his fake beard and took off his robe.

Seeing him collect the money and leave, the middle-aged man sighed in his heart.

The master took in this person back then because he liked the ability of the other party. He thought that he could stay in the mansion forever, but who knew that the other party was careless this time and left a clue.

Now they can only send people away from the capital.

And it's hard to say whether the other party will come back after leaving...

He changed into the clothes left by the other party, bowed his head and left Zhuangzi, and drove the carriage towards Qingyu Temple.

The previous person left from Zhuangzi's back door and walked eastward along a deserted path.

After walking a certain distance, he slowly slowed down his pace and finally stopped, uttering a hoarse voice from his chapped lips.

"Stop following, come out—"

There are not many people on the other side, so they should be settled as soon as possible so as not to delay his journey.

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