Lu Yuzhi and Hongxian have not gone far. They are now settling in a small inn more than a hundred miles outside the city.
"How long have they lived here?" Xu Chunjun asked the Lu family.
It turned out that Mrs. Lu had already sent people to watch around, but Lu Yuzhi didn't know.
"It's been more than a day," said the Lu family.
"Why don't they leave? Are they going to live here?" Xu Chunjun felt puzzled.
Normally, if two people want to elope, they must be exhausted in the first few days and run as far as possible.
But they settled here only a hundred miles away from the capital. Aren't they afraid that the Lu family would catch up?
"It seems that the girl is sick and can't go on her way." The Lu family only knew a rough idea, and they didn't dare to get too close.
"Okay, let me go in and take a look." Xu Chunjun nodded and said.
She didn't let anyone from the Lu family follow her, but just brought a few servants from her own family into the inn.
This inn is a mom-and-pop shop. The couple are in their thirties and forties, and there is a girl who is thirteen or fourteen years old to help. An old man in his sixties or seventies is responsible for leading and feeding the horses. There is no one else.
"Madam, are you staying in a hotel or working in a hotel?" the landlady hurriedly came up to us and asked diligently.
"Sister, I'm looking for someone." Xu Chunjun smiled lightly and asked her, "Do you have a sixteen or seventeen-year-old young master living here?"
The lady boss has been running the store for so many years, so she has met a lot of people.
Looking at Xu Chunjun's clothes and the few servants he brought with him, we knew that he was not from an ordinary family.
The young man living upstairs clearly came from a wealthy family, no matter how he dressed, talked, or looked good.
So he said: "There are a few customers staying in our store. There is a young man upstairs. I wonder if he is the person you are looking for?"
"Can you please take me to meet him?" Xu Chunjun smiled slightly, his eyes moved slightly, and the man next to him immediately took a piece of silver and handed it to the boss's wife.
"You're too polite, I'll take you up right now." The landlady led the way and led Xu Chunjun upstairs.
"This is the room." The landlady said and knocked on the door. "Sir, are you awake? Please open the door."
There was a response from inside, and after a while the door opened.
As expected, it was Lu Yuzhi who opened the door. When he saw Xu Chunjun standing outside the door, he couldn't help but be surprised, then blushed and lowered his head.
Seeing this, the landlady knew that the two of them knew each other, so she went downstairs.
"You can stay outside." Xu Chunjun said and entered.
The room of the inn is not big, it only has a bed, a table and a chair.
There was only one person in the house, Lu Yu, and there was only one bed.
It's obvious that he and Red Line don't live together.
"When I met, why did you come out without telling your family? My aunt is now seriously ill, and she didn't dare to tell others, so she sent me to find you." Xu Chunjun's tone was gentle, just stating the facts without any intention of blaming.
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Lu Yuzhi lowered his head and muttered: "My... mother, is she okay?"
"If you go back well, she will be fine." Xu Chunjun said, "Can you tell me what is going on?"
"Then...will you believe me?" Lu Yuzhi glanced at Xu Chunjun and quickly lowered his head.
"I believe you." Xu Chunjun answered quickly and firmly.
"Why?" Lu Yuzhi couldn't believe it, but he was also very curious.
"What I know about you is that you are gentle and kind, and you will never lie." Xu Chunjun said.
Her attitude made Lu Yuzhi relax a lot.
"Hongxian is a poor person," Lu Yuzhi began. "Her father died of illness, the bookstore she relied on for survival was burned down, and her mother also passed away, leaving her alone."
"This girl's life experience is indeed pitiful." Xu Chunjun did not retort, not even showing the slightest displeasure.
Lu Yuzhi seemed to be encouraged and spoke more smoothly: "I gave her money so that she could bury her mother alive. She is a girl and has no relatives in the capital. She probably thinks that I am a reliable person, and she also wants to
To repay the previous kindness, he took the initiative to come to our house and wanted to be a slave."
"In this way, she is very grateful for her kindness." Xu Chunjun praised.
"Yes!" Lu Yuzhi was even more encouraged. He already had a great liking for Xu Chunjun, but when he saw that her and his mother's attitudes were completely opposite, he couldn't help but let down his guard even more, and expressed all his grievances.
"But my mother didn't think so. She thought Hongxian had other agendas, so she wanted to drive her away. Hongxian refused to leave and insisted on repaying her kindness.
She wants to go to Zhuangzi on the red line. Those people in Zhuangzi are very vulgar. If she, a weak and weak girl, gets there, in a year or two, she will most likely be pointed out to the servants in Zhuangzi." Obviously Lu Yuzhi was very unhappy.
Be patient.
"When I meet her, I take the liberty to ask, are you interested in this girl?" Xu Chunjun asked.
"It's nothing." Lu Yuzhi's face suddenly turned red, "I just can't bear it."
"What can't you bear?" Xu Chunjun asked with a smile.
"I can't bear for a well-educated woman to marry a vulgar man. Although she was not born into a wealthy family, she is still the apple of her parents' eye. Doing menial work on the farm is really too much for her," Lu Yuzhi said, "let alone stay with her for the rest of her life.
over there."
"But didn't my aunt say that she would be sent to her uncle's house? Isn't this road also impassable?" Xu Chunjun asked.
"I originally thought it was okay, after all, she went to live with her relatives. But then Hongxian came out to find me and said that my mother didn't want to send her to her uncle at all, but wanted someone to sell her on the way."
When Lu Yuzhi mentioned this, he couldn't help but shook his head, "It's really inappropriate for my mother to do this."
Xu Chunjun understood what was going on when she heard this. She originally thought that Hongxian was a little girl who was inexperienced in the world, and she was in love with Lu Yuzhi, so she chose to elope.
But now it seems that this person has a very deep scheming mind.
Of course she wanted to find someone to rely on. Lu Yuzhi was of noble birth, young and handsome, and what was even rarer was a kind heart.
It's not surprising that the red line identified him.
She took retreat as an advance, saying that she wanted to repay Lu Yuzhi's great kindness, so she wanted to become a slave in the Lu family to repay.
In fact, he just wanted to use this method to enter the Lu family and stay with Lu Yuzhi, so that he could make further plans.
Mrs. Lu wouldn't let her enter the house, so she would give her a hard time.
So Mrs. Lu asked her to go to the farm. In fact, she just wanted to send her aside, out of sight and out of mind.
But of course this red line would not stop there. She went to Lu Yuzhi and said that she did not want to go to the farm to do menial work and work with rough men.
Lu Yuzhi naturally felt pity for her when he helped her, and of course he hoped that the people he had rescued would live a good life in the future.
So I told my mother not to send the red thread to the farm.
