Nobody noticed that in a nearby spot from the ridge, the usual subtle rattle of the wind was blowing through.
That was the sound of Huo Wujiu, who was holding Lou Wanjun in captivity.
He restrained Lou Wanjun’s hands with one hand and covered her mouth with the other. He watched coldly as the few thugs disappeared out of sight. Only then did he release her.
“Why are you dragging me?!” Lou Wanjun turned around and tried to hit Huo Wujiu. Huo Wujiu raised his hand lazily and blocked all her moves.
“Are you so fond of acting rashly and alerting the enemy?” Huo Wujiu asked.
“What enemy?!” Lou Wanjun snapped in anger.
“Have you ever thought about it? Why were there no secret guards around, and the minions were all street thugs?” Huo Wujiu asked.
Lou Wanjun blurted out, “What else can be the reason? It’s that kid surnamed Du who didn’t listen to my warning. He still has to suffer some more beating to remember it!”
Huo Wujiu’s expression remained indifferent, and the ugly expression on his face caused by being interrupted half an hour ago has not recovered until now.
He was already furious, and had little patience at the moment.
“Then why did they say he hooked up with a young girl just now?” Huo Wujiu asked, stone-faced.
Lou Wanjun still didn’t realize it: “Why else? Isn’t it just…”
After speaking these words, she realized that something was wrong.
She looked at Huo Wujiu in shock.
“The Crown Prince?” she asked in surprise. “The people present at the time, except that kid, was His Highness. … His Highness can’t do such a thing, right?”
“He dared to find these thugs to teach that little pretty boy a lesson. Isn’t it because of this?” Huo Wujiu glanced at her lightly. “If it weren’t for that thug’s loose tongue, who would believe that he found those people?”
Hearing this, Lou Wanjun scratched her head in doubt.
“It can’t be…” she murmured. “How could His Highness have that kind of thought about me?”
She looked embarrassed and a little unconvinced.
Huo Wujiu frowned.
He was dragged from Jiang Suizhou’s bed by Wei Kai because of this trivial matter, and he was already suppressing his stomach full of anger. It was another afternoon, and the sun was scorching, which made him even more irritable.
Now, he also had to explain to Lou Wanjun, this fool, that Huo Yuanyan had improper thoughts toward her.
All the annoying things gathered together in one day.
“I heard that Huo Yuyan touched your hair, did he?” Huo Wujiu interrupted her thoughts and spoke coldly.
“Yes,” Lou Wanjun responded.
“Then what if I touch your hair?” Huo Wujiu remained calm.
Lou Wanjun expressed disgust and almost jumped up: “You’re disgusting!”
Huo Wujiu looked at her indifferently.
Lou Wanjun looked back, and after a few moments, she gasped: “It’s really, ah…”
“So, when you stared at that little pretty boy a couple of times, Huo Yuyan made a move to get rid of him.” Huo Wujiu said indifferently, “If my inside man in the city hadn’t noticed it and asked Wei Kai to report it, that young man would have disappeared without a sound.”
Hearing the three words ‘little pretty boy’, Lou Wanjun snapped back to her senses.
“Leave this matter aside for now. Wait for me,” she said.
“What?” Huo Wujiu frowned in confusion.
He watched as Lou Wanjun leaped a few times from that three-story high pavilion and jumped into an alley with ease.
——
Nie Cong raised his eyes when he heard a sound, and saw her in such a posture.
The girl must have been standing there for a long time, because her pale face looked a bit sunburnt. Even the hair on her temples was wet with sweat and stuck to her cheeks.
Nie Cong was now bending down to pack the few bags on the ground. As for his blind grandmother, he had helped her to sit aside. When he looked up, he saw Lou Wanjun striding forward and trying to pick up the things on the ground for him.
Nie Cong immediately reached out to stop her.
“You don’t have to, Miss.” His voice was smooth and steady, a bit catchy, and was especially clear and pleasant to hear.
Lou Wanjun raised her head, brimming with apology, and said, “I’m sorry… I didn’t know it would cause you so much trouble.”
Then, before Nie Cong could respond, she then quickly added, “But don’t worry! I will never let him have his way, much less force you to leave home and wander about.”
Such a straightforward and sassy girl has always been unable to hide her thoughts on her face. Nie Cong took a closer look only to see that her eyes were dim. She was totally apologetic and didn’t know what to do, rendering her hands cramped together.
With her sincere eyes staring at him, Nie Cong felt helpless for no apparent reason.
He wanted to tell her that it was honestly nothing. He grew up in dire circumstances, but the elders at home desperately provided for his needs to study. He personally experienced more of the coldness and bullying of the world and gradually did not take it to heart. He knew that there were countless nobles in the world. It was easier to trample them under his feet than to trample an ant to death. In this way, he just did his own thing and never had any resentment, and it was easier for them nobodies underneath their feet than to trample an ant to death. Since the world was so, he just did his own thing and never harbored any resentment.
——Nor will I blame today’s incident on a young woman who encountered injustice.
Hearing her words, Nie Cong smiled lightly and said, “You don’t need to mind, Miss.”
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