A Western Doctor’s Happy Farming Life[1] 193

Not long after the two finally reached the root of the city wall, and they both raised their heads to look at the guards on the top of it.

Obviously, those guards were all well-trained by winds and storms, Song Qinghan could see from their appearances that they were rather stoic with their eyes firm and tough even though he couldn’t make it to see their eyes facial features clearly.

After that, he withdrew his sight on the roof of the wall, but took a glance at Lianyue instead. Seeing that Lianyue’s eyes seemed to have gained a light of excitement, he was rather curious. Yet, as he was about to get to a further observation into Lianyue’s expression, nothing strange could be found again.

Ha, it seemed that Lianyue was hyper-enthusiastic to greet… the Grand Coordinator?

After a short while of pondering, Song Qinghan uttered suddenly, “Let’s move on. We should go and purchase something we need. Probably we can go visit the Grand Coordinator the other day, and at that time we are able to greet him face to face.”

Hearing that, Lianyue was utterly stunned and he paused standing there, slowly withdrawing his gaze upward, and then responded hesitantly, “Isn’t it unsuitable for me… to go and pay a visit?”

His words seemed to remind Song Qinghan of something, he nodded and answered, “True, then I will get you informed about him after I pay a visit to him, well, if you want to know.”

Instead of being disappointed, Lianyue responded in a great gratitude while saluting to Song Qinghan, “Thank you so much, Mistress. A drop of water in need, shall be returned with a spring in deed. I will remember it for my whole life.”

“Alright.” Song Qinghan sounded and looked at Lianyue’s expression carefully, but he said nothing in return.

The following routine for them was nothing special but daily type. Lianyue did purchase some stuff for personal uses himself, and he didn’t bother Song Qinghan to help him carry his stuff at all. Everything he purchased was all carried by himself, which was totally mismatching his temperament of being soft and tender.

After they finally returned home and got their stuff unloaded, Song Qinghan summoned Lu Sen to come over and ordered, “I need your assistance, get me information about that Grand Coordinator, the more the better. If it is possible, I want to know his past, especially his childhood.”

Lu Sen was stunned and asked in surprise, “What… What is that for, Childe Song?”

No one in the Yueban City didn’t pay his respect to the Grand Coordinator here, after all. Investigating such a person with dignity of course required a reason.

Fortunately, Song Qinghan didn’t show his impatience over such a question. He quickly responded, “I have a speculation. That femina man who settled down abruptly yesterday came here for the Grand Coordinator. So I want to know whether he is an acquaintance to the lord or they had once met before.”

Lu Sen was aware of the Lianyue’s identity, so he just showed a face of astonishment when Song Qinghan said so. And then he asked hesitantly, “Do you… Do you mean that you suspect that the child he is about to give birth to… belongs to the Grand Coordinator?”

In fact, Lu Sen wasn’t the only one who would be astonished over doubting that, Song Qinghan wouldn’t believe that either. But no more speculations would be more reasonable than this one currently. In that case, he waved his hand and said, “Go and investigate first, everything will be crystal clear after that.”

Upon receiving the mission, Lu Sen nodded and quickly left the house. He acted so normally as if to greet his old friend.

On the other side, hidden in the dark and shadowy corner, Lianyue withdrew his gaze at the two, reaching out to pick the flower in front of him and murmuring himself, “It seems to be coming now, not sure if he…”

To Song Qinghan’s surprise, Lu Sen did not make it to come back even after the night fell.

Wu Dahu, who had already returned home, had already been informed by Song Qinghan about everything happened today, he then asked subconsciously, “Did he defect?”

It was indeed an unintentional question Wu Dahu asked, yet before Song Qinghan reacted to say something, Hualian who stood aside silently spoke suddenly, “No, that’s impossible.”

Noticing that both Wu Dahu and Song Qinghan fixed their gazes on him, Hualian became quite flustered all of a sudden, and he pinched the corner of his sleeves and fiddled with it, “Bro… Brother Lu isn’t that kind of person, probably he encountered something midway…”

In fact, he was rather regretful after he tried to explain away for Lu Sen. Well, Lu Sen was nobody to him, why should Hualian explain for him?

Furthermore, what if Song Qinghan and Wu Dahu misunderstood that he was disloyal to them?

At the moment he opened his mouth again attempting to make a further explanation for that, Song Qinghan laughed abruptly and said, “Well, spring is leaving, and you two caught the last carriage? Well done.”

What Song Qinghan meant in his words was rather vague, even Wu Dahu failed to fully comprehend it, let alone Hualian. Nothing but a puzzled look could be seen on Hualian’s face currently.

However, Song Qinghan did not intend to explain at all, but uttered, “It would be fine if Lu Sen encountered something midway himself, but if…”

Noticing that Song Qinghan’s sight fell on the direction where the triplets stayed, Wu Dahu came to understand immediately, he frowned and said, “Capturing Lu Sen to interrogate would be much more effective and faster than investigating alone.”

Hualian’s nerves strained suddenly after Wu Dahu said so, and he blurted, “Was Brother Lu captured by the other to have an interrogation? What, what should we do?”

Song Qinghan delivered him a comforting look, saying, “Don’t worry, the other party isn’t going to turn against us right now. So Lu Sen will finally come back anyway, it’s just about time.”

Even though Hualian had tried his best to keep himself calm, it still be could seen that he was quite nervous while his fiddling hands were still shivering slightly.

Nothing verbally to comfort would work currently, so Song Qinghan did not bother to say anything more. Instead of being a caring ‘mom’, he turned to Wu Dahu and delivered him a hint by eyes, “One hour later if Lu Sen doesn’t come back, gather your brothers in the Imperial Guard team to go on patrol, will you?”

Wu Dahu nodded and answered, “Alright, as long as they are still hidden somewhere within the Yueban City, we are able to find them.”

Upon hearing Wu Dahu’s promise, Hualian finally came to be at ease, he hurried to get the meal ready and gathered everybody to eat.

But just as they were ready to have their meal on the table, the door in the yard was knocked.

Hualian put down his chopsticks and bowl, rushed to the gate quickly with excitement. But the excitement altered to confusion as soon as he opened the door.

Song Qinghan came out in behind and reached the gate, at the moment he saw a stranger standing outside, he frowned and asked, “Do you mind me asking who you are…”

The man outside the house seemed to be rather polite himself, he made a bow with his hands folded in front and replied, “I’m Zhuxiu, the butler of the Grand Coordinator’s mansion. Sorry to bother, but is this the mansion of Lord Wu Dahu?”

Song Qinghan loosened his shoulder just at the moment he heard the words ‘Grand Coordinator’, and then he nodded, answering, “Right, I’m Song Qinghan, his husband. I wonder what your intention is to come here so late today?”

Zhu Xiu responded with a smile, “Oh, sorry for not informing in advance, hope that is not offensive to you. To clarify, I caught a man today who seemingly got a bad intention himself, and I found that he seemed to try to make an investigation on the Lord Grand Coordinator. Through a further inquiry, I found that he was active recently in your mansion…”

Song Qinghan’s heart tightened. Although he never expected that Lu Sen would be that kind of foolish to visit the mansion of the Grand Coordinator directly, he still confessed honestly, “Right, he was indeed sent by me to investigate the Grand Coordinator, but with no bad intention at all, I am just curious about the Lord’s past. The one who needs to be punished is me but not him, I hope the Lord would be generous to release him if that is possible.”

Zhuxiu was rather surprised as he saw that Song Qinghan was being quite straightforward. Yet the smile on his face was getting deeper, he saluted again in politeness, saying, “To be honest, when we caught him in the mansion, we discovered something which might be beyond what you’ve ordered to him. So instead of releasing him right away, I would recommend to keep him within the Grand Coordinator’s mansion. As soon as we finally figure out everything behind the background, we will come again to report to Childe Song and Lord Wu.”