It was already dark when Zhu Ziwen came out of Zhu's house. Zhu Ziwen was ordered to escort his cousin back. As soon as he opened the door, he saw someone waiting outside, and it was a familiar face.
He couldn't help but raise his eyebrows when he thought of what his grandmother told him secretly before he left. Without being told explicitly, he knew what his grandmother asked him to see. Just such a person wanted to take his girl away
"Why are you here?" Hua Zhi walked forward with a chuckle.
"I'm here to pick you up."
Zhu Ziwen was stunned when he saw his cousin's smiling face. He had already known the taste of love and knew why a tough person would soften. His cousin's subconscious behavior explained too many things.
Looking at the man again, although he had a scar on his face, he was not ugly. On the contrary, he was a very imposing man. And such a man looked so gentle towards my cousin. How could he not be so fond of her
"Cousin, please go back. Nothing will happen in this city."
Zhu Ziwen shook his head and said, "I'll give it to you."
Hua Zhi did not object. The two of them escorted the carriage across the street back to the Hua family. Zhu Ziwen returned home without staying for long. Not surprisingly, his grandparents, father and second uncle were all there.
Without waiting to be asked, he made a move, "The man is here to pick her up."
"The one with the scar on his face?"
"yes."
The old lady hurriedly asked, "What do you think?"
"I dare not reply to that." Zhu Ziwen smiled and sat down at the bottom. "But it seems that he is very concerned about it. When he walked in and walked up the stairs, he bent down to lift the hem of his cousin's skirt. If he was not concerned about it, he would not do this."
After a pause, Zhu Ziwen continued, "It's not that I can't do it, but I can't think of doing it. At least I haven't thought of doing it to anyone. It's thoughtful to remind you to be careful."
The old lady's expression relaxed a little, but she still looked a little worried.
Zhu Haodong heard something else, "Did that man enter the Hua family?"
"yes."
"What time is it now?" Zhu Haodong glared at his nephew, "Don't you know how to stop him?"
"Uncle, I wanted to stop her too. My cousin told me that she and Mr. Lu had something to discuss. What can I do? Stop people from coming in? I dare not delay my cousin's business! If I delay her, who of you will beat me up?"
What he said made sense, but no matter how he thought about it, it was still not good. Zhu Haodong looked at his father and said, "Dad, look..."
"Zhi'er doesn't need us to point fingers at her. Just pay more attention to her. She has a righteous mind. She doesn't need us to tell her what to do and what not to do." The old man looked at his wife, "Zhi'er is not someone who is easy for people to get close to. It seems that the person she is talking about is this Mr. Lu."
The old lady nodded, "I guess so, but he was thoughtful to accompany me to the north twice. But... why did he get disfigured? From now on, even if our Zhu family wants to lift him up, we won't be able to do so!"
"Okay, maybe they have their own ways and don't need us. We should do more when they really need us." The old man thought of Zhier's source of information. If it came from Mr. Lu, it means that even if he is not an official, he is not necessarily a commoner. Only this makes sense.
And what kind of vision does Zhier have? How could she look down on ordinary people? This person must have something special to make her look at him differently.
"Donger, pay more attention to your business, keep the accounts clean and don't eat from the bowl and look at the pot. I won't tolerate your ugly eating manners."
"yes."
"And Boss, please stop thinking about that. I think Zhi'er has seen through everything. Don't apply your official tricks to your relatives. I know that tricks better than you."
Zhu Haocheng's face turned red from being scolded, and he couldn't help but defend himself: "I didn't mix those messy things with Zhi'er. Isn't it normal for me to protect my own niece? Who do you think your son is!"
"You are just trying to fool yourself with these words." The old man raised his brows. "I am not against the marriage between the two families because I think the Berlin family is good and the Hua family has a good tradition. With your sister's personality, she has not suffered any harm by marrying there, and they will not treat Shan'er badly. Don't think of other things. To put it bluntly, if Shan'er really marries there, she will be a member of the Hua family. No matter how great the benefits are, she will not be able to move to the Zhu family. If you keep holding on to those ideas, it is better not to get married, so as to avoid enmity."
Zhu Haocheng lowered his head and accepted the scolding submissively. Zhu Haodong felt very happy in his heart. He was also disgusted when he saw what his elder brother was thinking. If he hadn't seen that he was really protecting Zhier, and if he hadn't pretended not to know and never blamed Ziwen for the fights he had had with others for Zhier, he would have had to fight with his elder brother first. One shouldn't be so shameless!
It was not until he received his mother's look that he slowly spoke to help, "Shan'er is my eldest brother's daughter. As a father, you always think too much and inevitably think in a biased way. Dad, please calm down. It's not that serious. Zhi'er is such a perceptive person. If my eldest brother really has something on his mind, she will be able to see it, don't you think?"
Zhu Ziwen also spoke for his father, "Father is the eldest son in the family, it is normal for him to think more about his grandfather. If he doesn't miss his grandfather at all, you should be worried."
The old man snorted, but didn't say anything else. He was just angry and forgot that Ziwen was here. He couldn't do such a thing as embarrassing his son in front of his grandson.
While she was scolding her son, the atmosphere over there was unusually warm. Hua Zhi was serving food to Yan Xi and said, "Why didn't you eat by yourself when you knew I would eat at Zhu's? They definitely wouldn't let me go back alone after dark."
"It's different." Yan Xi took the bowl. He liked this kind of young couple's life very much. The smile in his eyes became softer. "He sends it, and I receive it. It's different."
Hua Zhi didn't argue with him. She scooped half a bowl of mushroom soup and drank it slowly.
"Haoyue replied this morning, saying that only the right horoscope can predict the right person. Chen Qing gave her the fake horoscope of the Fourth Prince as you said yesterday. She knew it was wrong, but the Fifth and Sixth Princes didn't see it. She knew it was a test from us, so she cooperated with us in a good temper."
Hua Zhi had a feeling that it was just as expected. What kind of person could know the Fourth Prince's birth date? Either an elder or someone close to him. Someone of a lower status was impossible. By elimination, the most likely person was the person next to him.
"What was the result? Did she figure it out on the spot?"
"I figured it out on the spot. Putting aside all the pretentious talk, the gist is that the fourth child will have a fatal disaster, there is no solution, the fifth child will have a bloody disaster, and the sixth child... will die young."
"Bang!" Hua Zhi put down the bowl of soup with such force that the soup splashed out. "Did she realize that she wouldn't live long?"
Gu Yanxi quickly moved her hand away, "Just listen casually, there's no need to get angry."
Hua Zhi took two deep breaths. She couldn't tell Yan Xi that these things had to be taken seriously. The Fourth Prince might really be dead, the Fifth Prince was injured, and Little Six... might really be gone.
PS: Three updates to make up for yesterday’s.