Chapter 2291: Chapter 2291: What Did You Find Out?
“City Lord, with all due respect, there are over a dozen dicinal herbs listed here, and all of them are highly toxic. Are you truly comfortable letting Mada use these?” he asked.
“Don’t worry about it. This list was given to
by Tianfeng, so it’s definitely fine,” the City Lord said dismissively.
Even if more than a dozen herbs are poisonous, so what?
He figured it might be Lu Tianfeng himself who needed these herbs, but since there was no other way to obtain them, he probably took this opportunity to have them procured.
Lin Baizhong: “…”
He really wanted to say that precisely because they were given by Lu Tianfeng, they were even more dangerous.
They didn’t know about the things Lu Tianfeng was involved in within the Ziyan Kingdom—venomous corpses, the child of darkness, and Yin Baiqing, his son-in-law’s involvent. All of it connects back to Lu Tianfeng.
Yet this was sothing he couldn’t directly bring up to Lu Tianlan, the City Lord.
What could he do then? He felt utterly helpless!
“City Lord, do you think the Junior City Lord will return?”
His gaze lingered on the list in his hands, striving to morize it thoroughly, while casually posing the question to Lu Tianlan.
“He… won’t return, will he?”
The City Lord’s face froze, his response sowhat faltering.
Perhaps he once harbored feelings for this son, but after all, he hadn’t seen him since his full-month celebration.
No matter how deep the bond between father and son, it couldn’t survive the erosion of so many years.
And now, his wife was expecting his child. If he continued to dwell on his lost son, wouldn’t he be doing his wife a grave disservice?
His wife had already co to terms with it, so how could he keep dwelling on it?
“But what if he truly cos back?” Lin Baizhong asked again.
“This…”
The City Lord couldn’t fathom why Lin Baizhong kept ntioning his eldest son.
Could it be that his eldest son truly might return one day?
Or was it that Lin Baizhong knew sothing but was unwilling to share?
And if so, what could that possibly be?
“Baizhong, are you… hiding sothing from ?”
“City Lord, you misunderstand .”
Lin Baizhong imdiately laughed and shook his head.
“I rely overheard people outside saying that Mada is pregnant with the Junior City Lord, but I feel it might be too premature to assu that now.
Perhaps City Lord could encourage the common folk to remain quiet for a period. If things continue to progress as they are, it would be highly disadvantageous to both Mada and yourself.”
He explained.
“What do you an…”
The City Lord’s expression darkened as he uttered half a sentence.
“What if Mada’s child turns out to be… a girl?” Lin Baizhong asked.
“Though saying this might displease you, until the child in Mada’s womb is born, there’s no way anyone can definitively determine whether it’s a boy or a girl.
If people rashly proclaim that Mada is carrying the Junior City Lord now, but when her child is born, it turns out to be a girl…
City Lord, how would you and Mada silence the wagging tongues then?”
He broke it down analytically for Lu Tianlan.
“I heard the Second Young Master and Young Master Tianfeng’s households have similar tilines with their pregnancies, and there seem to be several, isn’t that right, City Lord?”
He added another point.
“Hiss!”
Hearing his words, the City Lord sharply drew in a breath.
Lin Baizhong’s remark brought him to imdiate clarity.
If the montum surrounding the Junior City Lord truly built up too much, and his wife ended up giving birth to a little girl, how would he explain it to the citizens of Sky City?
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