Chapter 146 — Heavy Rain
Purple Streets of Chang'an · Page 4 of 4
This time Master Yan was absent, so he could look them over in his stead.
What Chen Yanzhou wrote was all idle household chatter: the flowers in the courtyard had bloomed, new guards had come to the Duke of Dingguo's household today whose faces were strange and would take some time to learn, and so on and so forth.
But Yizhi Hall was under lockdown, and the letter never went out. Wu Yi was interrogated again and again; if not for his quick wits, he would barely have made it back alive.
Chen Yanzhou drew a sharp breath.
If something happened to Song Yan, and he himself was living in Song Zhi's Yizhi Hall, might he drag Miss Dou the Fourth into it?
She was only a girl, and her lot had never been easy. If she lost the favor of the Dou elders because of this, what would become of her?
Chen Yanzhou gritted his teeth and gave Songluo low instructions: "From my experience, this rain will stop by midnight at the latest. Can you slip out of the mansion under cover of the rain? When the lady died, didn't they send word to the heir apparent? He's sure to enter the city by the Anding Gate. Wait outside the Anding Gate and find a way to intercept him—tell him everything that has happened in this house!"
Songluo's face went taut, and she nodded hard.
But a clamor came from outside.
"The heir apparent is back! The heir apparent is back!"
The sound spread through the Duke of Ying's and Duke of Dingguo's household in waves, striking Chen Yanzhou and draining the color from his face; he dropped into the grand master's chair.
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Sisters, brothers, I have revised this draft more times than I can count, and I have done my utmost. I do not know whether I have managed to convey the sense of tension.
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A glance at the clock: it is already April Fool's Day.
Happy April Fool's Day to everyone!
And thank you all for the pink votes you have cast for me.
Much appreciated!
o(n_n)o haha~
Also, I must explain to everyone the matter of updates.
I still owe you the extra chapter and the regular update for March 31; I can only make them up tomorrow. As you have all seen, after two months of extra updates in a row, I am thoroughly exhausted in both body and spirit. I plan to rest a little in April and then deal with some personal matters of my own. From the 1st to the 7th I can only post a single chapter a day; after the 7th I will readjust and strive, like with The Daughter of a Concubine's Strategy, to post extra chapters on weekends when I rest.
Sisters, brothers, let us press on together!
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