Chapter 168 — River Works
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He nodded and said, "Not all of them. Some were simply astonished."
Song Yan gave a faint "oh" and lapsed into a moment of blank abstraction.
Gu Yu asked him, "What is it?"
"Nothing," Song Yan said vaguely, while Dou Yan's face—composed to the point of seeming reserved and steady—rose again in his mind. "Just asking!" Yet something strange kept growing in his heart, beyond all checking.
Dou Zhiwei's guard had been involved in that affair; Dou Yan must long since have known the scene as it had unfolded.
Yet from first to last she had shown not the slightest trace of shock or terror.
What had she been thinking?
And what did she make of the matter?
Song Yan very much wanted to ask Dou Yan.
Gu Yu, meanwhile, once he had formally secured the commission for those four stretches of river works, said a word to Wei Fan, had him put up a token sum of silver, and then went off to Jining himself, where he spent several days wining and dining the prefect and the county magistrates before the river works were finally settled. Then he hurried on to Xuzhou... By the time Gu Yu returned from Jiangnan, he had already eaten the Laba porridge.
He washed and changed, then went to the Yingzhenguo Mansion.
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Today's update!
o(n_n)o~
Typos will have to wait; I'll fix them later.
ps: There's been another earthquake in the Sichuan area... I hope everyone stays safe and sound, and treasures what is right before their eyes.
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