the madam? I have never seen the young master before.”
“We
happened to meet each other in Brightmoon City,” Zu An replied, a bit
surprised. This maid was quite bold! Maid Xing’s fiery eyes looked him
up and down, as if she were examining a gigolo or something.
“Brightmoon
City… The Madam seemed to have encountered some danger and was saved by
a young man. So that was you!” Maid Xing patted her large chest. “No
wonder the madam appreciates you so much. After all, she has basically
refused all guests over these past few years.”
Zu An smiled and asked, “How many years has Big Sister Maid Xing been at the madam’s side already?”
“Oh
my, I really cannot accept your address of ‘big sister’,” Maid Xing
said. Despite those words, she was still all smiles and enjoying herself
greatly. “This servant has followed the madam ever since I was young.
It has been so long that I do not even remember too clearly anymore.”
Zu An thought to himself, Then she really is someone Yu Yanluo absolutely trusts.
Maid Xing then asked him all sorts of questions.
“Has the young master gotten married yet?”
“Do you have anyone in mind…?”
Zu An’s expression became strange. He replied, “Why, don’t tell me you plan to introduce someone to me?”
Maid
Xing shook her head with a smile, saying, “My goodness, I should forget
about that. With the kind of a person the young master is, you are not
someone a normal girl can be a match for. If the madam had not gotten
married, I could introduce her to you, but there is no chance now.”
Zu
An was a bit surprised. Isn’t this maid way too bold? She actually put
her own master out just like that! But judging from their interaction,
he could tell that Yu Yanluo must treat her subordinates extremely well,
which was why they were like this.
…
As the two of them
chatted with each other, Gong Pan came over. Maid Xing bowed and said,
“I won’t disturb the two of you then.” She withdrew after speaking.
“So it was young master Zu! May I ask what you sought me out for today?” Gong Pan cupped his hands.
Zu
An returned the greeting and asked, “Didn’t I ask you about where
Cloudcenter Duke’s personal guards were? I looked into them and found
that many of them died in their line of duty. That’s why I wanted to ask
you what kind of cases they were investigating back then, as well as
take a look at the things they left behind.”
He didn’t want to let
the other party know about his true suspicions, so he didn’t ask about
Chen Zhou alone, but rather asked about him together with the six other
people. The mastermind had gone through such great efforts to make a
fake corpse, so they definitely didn’t want him to find out the truth so
quickly.
“Oh? Could it be that there were some issues with their causes of death?” Gong Pan asked out of curiosity.
“It’s