Ah Liu had clearly gone outside to watch the door, and this was when he had just moved into his new home, and the neighbors were quite far away from the study, but at this moment, there was a clear noise of someone outside, so how could Zhang Shou not know who it was? After all, the only person who came was Zhu Ying, whom he tacitly allowed Ah Liu to let in most of the time.
He thought for a moment, but finally didn't pretend he hadn't heard the voice, and strode to the door. As expected, as soon as he opened the door, he saw the pretty lady in front of the door staring at him with a look of astonishment on her face.
"Yingying, when did you come?"
“Ying… Yingying?” Zhu Er also stuttered.
Zhu Ying glanced at Zhang Shou, then at her second brother, and then said unhappily, "I didn't want to eavesdrop on your conversation. It was Ah Liu who said it was okay and urged me to come. I didn't expect you to talk about this! Second brother, I didn't expect that you have never been strict in doing anything since you were a child, and you are always afraid of wolves in front and tigers behind. This time you are so bold!"
Zhu Er's face turned red with anger because of what Zhu Ying said. Just when he was about to argue for himself, he saw Zhu Ying actually started to laugh. "But you have made a good decision this time. Besides, Ah Shou trusts you, so I will help you this time! I will try to find a way to help your parents and grandmother, but you must bring enough guards with you. Otherwise, who can you defeat alone? At the critical moment, you may even have to fight the eldest prince!"
At the critical moment, I have to fight the eldest prince... Sister, I am going to Cangzhou to investigate those things that Emperor Taizu dreamed of but I have never heard of in the Ming Dynasty, and to see if I can follow the clues to find the whereabouts of Emperor Taizu, not to fight! I am not like you and my elder brother, and I will definitely stay as far away as possible if I meet the eldest prince!
Until Zhu Ying dragged him on horseback to go home, Zhu Er's mind was still spinning with Zhu Ying's words. When he got off the horse at the door of his house, he was about to walk in in a daze, but was suddenly stopped by the doorman.
"Second Master, this horse of yours doesn't seem to belong to us?"
"If it's not ours, whose is it? Could it be that Second Brother is stealing horses?" Zhu Ying said jokingly, but when she looked back, she found that the mount was indeed listless and not at all like the majestic horses in her own stable. She turned around in surprise and stopped Zhu Er who was distracted, pointing at the horse and asked, "Second Brother, did you get the wrong horse?"
Zhu Er finally woke up from his dream. After taking a look at the horse, he slapped his forehead and said, "I wanted to go to the market at noon, so I borrowed a horse from the carriage and horse shop near the Imperial College. Later, I ran into Ah Liu while walking around, and then went to my brother-in-law's... cough cough, I went to Zhang Garden and completely forgot about it."
After learning what happened, Zhu Ying was relieved, and immediately ordered a servant to help Zhu Er go to the carriage and horse shop to return the horse, and then dragged him inside. The servants of the Zhu family knew that the brother and sister had been getting along like this since they were young, so most of them looked at Zhu Er with sympathy, thinking that the second young master had offended the eldest young lady again.
Zhu Er really didn't dare to offend Zhu Ying - Zhu Ying knew the reason why he ran away from home. Even if he had a very plausible excuse, if she exaggerated it in front of his father, brother and grandmother, he would definitely not escape a beating. Even his stepmother, who had always been nice to him, might not come forward to plead for him.