Chapter 1498: 315. Great Show (Second Update)
Hearing Lin Yuan complain that soone was spreading rumors wildly, Xia Zheng also cursed angrily, “Isn’t that so? I’m perfectly fine, how could I be injured by soone? Besides, injuring people is sothing I should be doing, right? It would be more normal if they said I hurt soone else one day!”
Lin Yuan glared at him and scolded, “Is injuring people sothing to be proud of? Not knowing how to restrain yourself at all, no wonder people wish you were hurt!”
The two of them cooed over each other as if no one else was around, not bothering to even glance at others.
Xia Zheng urgently grabbed Lin Yuan’s hand to warm her up and turned to walk towards the carriage driven by Lin Yi.
“Brother Zheng…”
As Xia Zheng was about to leave, Su Qiuyu couldn’t help but choke up and call out. From his appearance to his departure, Xia Zheng hadn’t said a word to her. He was about to leave, an eye contact would have been nice!
Not sure if he heard Su Qiuyu’s call, but after helping Lin Yuan up to the carriage, Xia Zheng suddenly turned around with a smile.
Su Qiuyu’s heart imdiately surged with excitent, watching Xia Zheng with full anticipation.
Unfortunately, this ti, his gaze still did not fall on her.
“Stinky fox! Let’s have tea together again soday, and continue that chess ga, I must beat you next ti!”
Watching his little sister turn from joy to disappointnt, Su Tianrui quietly sighed, with a bitter nod, “Alright! I shall invite you for tea and a chess ga another day!”
After speaking, he also led the slightly stiff Su Qiuyu back to their mansion.
The two carriages left one after the other, the noble ladies at the entrance of Yue Lai Tavern looked at each other, realizing that the rumor about Xia Zheng being injured and passing out was indeed just a rumor! Didn’t they all just say he was playing chess and drinking tea with the Second Young Master Su.
A few of them sneered, ready to head ho.
But just as they dispersed, they saw Yao Mansion’s carriage hurriedly arriving.
A few noble ladies looked up and glanced at the room with the windows now closed, a trace of schadenfreude crossed their minds—Capital city’s number one talented woman secretly having an affair with a lover, this was definitely the biggest gossip in Capital city in the last decade!
As soon as Lin Yuan got into the carriage, she couldn’t help but burrow into Xia Zheng’s arms, hugging his waist tightly.
Xia Zheng was stunned, his lips pursed tightly; although Lin Yuan didn’t say anything, he knew that she was truly frightened today.
“Yuanyuan, I…”
“Xia Zheng, don’t talk, just let hug you.”
Lin Yuan’s muffled voice ca from his chest, causing Xia Zheng’s heart to tremble, and indeed, he shut his mouth and just held her tightly.
Not sure if Lin Yi also felt the atmosphere in the carriage, but the carriage was driven very slowly.
There was a long silence in the carriage, just when Xia Zheng thought Lin Yuan had fallen asleep, she suddenly sniffed, pushing Xia Zheng away from her embrace, and huffed angrily, “Alright! Co clean now!”
Xia Zheng was shocked by Lin Yuan’s sudden change of face; how did the person who was just about to cry from gloominess suddenly beco so furious?
Xia Zheng rubbed his eyes hard. If it weren’t for the slight pain in his chest where Lin Yuan had pushed him, he would have thought he was dreaming.
“Cough cough.”
With an embarrassed cough, Xia Zheng squinted and asked, “Confess, confess what?”
Lin Yuan’s expression darkened, she grabbed Xia Zheng’s body and looked straight into his eyes: “Confess what? Of course, it’s about your entanglent with Yao Hanai.”
“Entanglent?”
Upon hearing this word, Xia Zheng bristled imdiately and hurriedly corrected her: “It’s not entanglent, it’s complications, complications!”
Lin Yuan secretly snickered, nodding repeatedly: “Alright, complications, complications. Now can you explain, what kind of complications?”
Xia Zheng rolled his eyes and pondered for a mont, as if thinking about the best way to explain.
After a while, he cleared his throat and began: “It all started at the gambling house.”
“These few days I have been making bets in the gambling house, and it was fine at first. But later, I always felt soone was following . Luckily today Su Fox showed up, and I seized the opportunity to stage a play.”
“While talking in the tea house, I spotted Yao Hanai’s carriage and confird that she was the one trailing . I pretended to bump into her and also found she had slipped dithyltryptamine into my pocket while falling down.”
Dithyltryptamine?
Lin Yuan narrowed her eyes, though she anticipated that Yao Hanai would play tricks, she didn’t expect her to use sothing as dirty as dithyltryptamine.
Xia Zheng also felt the fluctuation in Lin Yuan’s emotions, seeing her jealousy made him sowhat pleased, he chuckled and continued: “However, as they say, the crafty fail against the wise. How could that little maid outsmart ? As soon as we left the city, I pretended to faint and surely, I saw Yao Hanai, and followed her to the Yue Lai Tavern.”
“Weren’t you afraid that she would…” Lin Yuan anxiously nearly lost her voice.
Xia Zheng quickly comforted her: “Don’t worry, don’t worry, I naturally had a backup plan. If sothing happened to , Su Tianrui wouldn’t get off casually! Yes, you guessed right, Su Tianrui has been following . Like I said, we two have grown up together, one look and he understands what’s happening. In fact, he never left the tea house, he was always following behind !”
Lin Yuan nodded. Although she didn’t have a good impression of Su Qiuyu, as Xia Zheng’s friend, Su Tianrui was reliable.
“And the man in Yao Hanai’s room?” Lin Yuan’s eyes narrowed slightly, although she had guessed who that man was, she hadn’t seen him with her own eyes and so didn’t rashly say his na.
Hearing this, Xia Zheng’s lips twisted into a smirk, and he sneered: “That woman brought to the Yue Lai Tavern indeed planning to take advantage of , trying to trap to force her way into the General Mansion. However, she didn’t anticipate one thing.”
Lin Yuan blinked: “What thing?”
Xia Zheng humorously tapped her nose, enjoying her curiosity: “Her servant, Mo Zhu. That little Maid colluded with that white-eyed wolf, Zhao Hongsheng.”
“Ha.” Lin Yuan laughed and clapped her hands: “No wonder I felt that Mo Zhu seed to know sothing, turns out, she’s quite formidable!”
Xia Zheng caught her small hand and placed it in his palm, smiling: “Mo Zhu knocked Yao Hanai out and sent her directly to the room next door, which saved and Su Tianrui a lot of trouble. The two of us took the chance when the little Maid was not paying attention, jumped out of the window, and also watched a good play.”
Xia Zheng lifted the corner of his lips, his face full of a smug smile.
Lin Yuan slightly squinted her eyes, feeling that the play Xia Zheng saw must have been very interesting, because it was certainly a very good leverage.
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