Teaching a disobedient woman a lesson is just a simple task for Zhou Yu.
As for what the woman thought of him, Zhou Yu didn't care.
He has no mind to worry about this now.
Returning to the study, the steward of the Zhou Mansion followed him.
Zhou Yi was busy trying to take care of his son, and was busy giving orders in the kitchen.
The reason why Zhou Yu returned to the study was because the steward of the Zhou Mansion had something important to tell him.
"What's the matter?"
He slowly sat down and picked up a military book on the table.
"Um?"
"Who has been in my study?"
Zhou Yu keenly noticed that there were obvious signs of someone coming to his study, such as this military book——
"The Art of War" - This is a bamboo book.
The large characters on the bamboo book came into view, but what Zhou Yu noticed was... there seemed to be something hidden in this bamboo book.
Ignoring the steward's hesitant look, Zhou Yu just slowly opened the bamboo book and took out a piece of paper.
The moment I saw the note.
Zhou Yu was in a daze.
He was a little confused, wondering why someone would put a note with such content in the bamboo book in his study.
Shocked...shocked is that after figuring out that such behavior was definitely not the fault of one's own family, one wonders how and when the visitor sneaked into one's house——
The sudden realization at the end, and the sneer that followed, made the steward in front of him confused.
"Home...owner...what is written on the paper...on the paper?"
Seemingly ignoring the steward's inquiry again, Zhou Yu suddenly started laughing for some reason.
That enchanting laughter made the steward's body goosebumps.
I don’t know how much time passed.
Zhou Yu finally stopped laughing, and then handed the small piece of paper to the steward.
The steward couldn't wait to take the piece of paper, but was even more confused by the contents on the paper——
"Three days later, the winner will be known."
"Master, this is...?"
"Haha... This is someone who is overconfident and blatantly challenging my bottom line..."
When Zhou Yu said this, the anger in his chest had long since dissipated, and was replaced by a happy mood.
Yes, he soon understood who wrote this string of words.
"ah?"
The steward shrank his head, as if he was afraid that he would be confused and let Zhou Yu down, but Zhou Yu didn't care about this:
"Have you ever heard of the name Lu Qinghou?"
"Lü Qinghou...oh! Is it...the foreign businessman who was rumored to have taken away the Princess of the Sun family?"
The steward suddenly realized this, patted his head and said quickly.
"Not bad...haha...this is what he wrote to me."
Zhou Yu crossed his legs and said quite relaxedly.
"Sure enough, he also knew it when I came back - well, thinking about it, maybe he did so much and everything just to compete with me?"
"If that's the case, ah...that makes sense!"
Zhou Yu suddenly started talking to himself. Just looking at his excited posture, the manager would definitely not be able to interrupt him.
We can only wait for Zhou Yu to calm down alone——
It was probably time for another cup of tea. Zhou Yu shook his head and muttered quite proudly:
"That's fine. I haven't found a decent opponent for a long time. The courage to challenge me is worthy of a commendation."
"Uh-huh…"
As he muttered, he turned to look at the steward:
"You don't need to tell father and the others if you have any extra words. In the past few days, the arrangements in the mansion remain as usual. When the banquet starts, I will go to Zhu Ran and ask him to send some more guards to the mansion. Although this boy is very brave, but
He broke into my house so blatantly, he must be impatient..."
Zhou Yu certainly did not lose his mind.
It would be better to say that he is very awake now - his proud and sober state makes his brain very active.
Just kidding, someone broke into his house silently and he could do nothing, then he was really panicking.
Save your home first, then...
"By the way, what were you going to say just now?"
Zhou Yu suddenly asked.
The steward seemed to be frightened and became a little panicked when asked by Zhou Yu.
But soon——
"Last night, the concierge of the Lu family came to the house——"
"I said that when the head of the family returns to the city, we can make an appointment to talk about the matter of the Sun family's daughter..."
"Well done!"
Suddenly, Zhou Yu slammed the table and stood up.
The steward was so frightened that he trembled. Zhou Yu didn't care so much and said with a smile:
"I was just looking for them!"
"But... well, don't be anxious yet. You can finish the things I just ordered first. After tonight's banquet, we can send someone to the Lu Mansion to negotiate."
"Lu Xun? It seems that he returned to Wu County for this trip, right?"
Zhou Yu muttered to himself, and finally leaned on the desk and wrote something.
——
In fact, Zhou Yu didn't know that Lu Xun's seemingly coincidental invitation was actually a step ahead of the plan.
A designed trap has now been placed over Zhou Yu's head. As long as he completely relaxes his vigilance and the trap tightens, Zhou Yu will be completely bound in place. But now, he thinks that he is the hunter.
.
——
Time flies.
In Yi Xiaotian's multi-line plan, those who were well prepared were already on standby, just waiting for the trap to be launched against Zhou Yu. All parts of the plan, like a sophisticated machine, began to operate rapidly.
Similarly, the day after Zhou Yu came back, the pressure on Zhu Ran doubled.
He first found out in the middle of the night that the Zhou Mansion was silently invaded by Lu Qinghou, which made him feel numb, so he directly sent hundreds of additional county soldiers to the Zhou Mansion for defense.
In addition...because of Zhou Yu's urging, his pursuit that made no progress was cast a shadow.
As mentioned before, he relied on some so-called clues to target Yi Xiaotian - at that moment when he was extremely close to the correct answer, the crisis was handled by Yi Xiaotian with full preparation.
After that, Zhu Ran could only grasp the only clue - Wu Jun's Zhang family.
He believed that the Zhang family of Wu County must be involved with the person who spread the rumors before, but when he went to the Zhang family's house in an aggressive manner, he realized that it was impossible to contend with such a family that had stood in Jiangdong for nearly a hundred years.
It's just an unrealistic thing.
Zhu Ran, who had not even met Zhang Zhaoren, was dizzy with all kinds of rejections from the Zhang family in just two days.
The importance of speaking skills is particularly important at this moment:
"We have indeed received the Lord Prefect's doubts. Now our Zhang family is conducting strict self-examination. If there are any problems, we will report them to you as soon as possible."
"What your Excellency suspects is indeed related to our clan. Please extend your grace for a few days. When the time comes, we will give you a satisfactory answer."
Basically, the Zhang family just repeated two sentences over and over again and interpreted them in various ways.
Zhu Ran only felt that he had punched cotton, and his hair turned a lot white from worry.
