Chapter 43: Second Update – He actually did that?

Pei Lan noticed the exchange of glances between the two and frowned imperceptibly. Just as she was about to ask, Meng Huan suddenly moved.

He threw the brush in his hand at the nearest guard. The guard instinctively dodged backward, leaving a gap for him to pass through, and then he ran away.

Because he was pregnant now, the guards who had been instructed did not dare to block him too much, allowing him to successfully run out the door.

Pei Lan frowned and chased after him.

Wen Xi was incredibly shocked. He also wanted to chase after them, but remembering the young husband’s expression just now, he finally gritted his teeth. Seeing that the surrounding buyers and craftsmen were all stunned, he quickly walked to the furnace, threw the token into it, and then picked up the tongs to cover it with charcoal.

A craftsman saw him moving the tongs and couldn’t help but walk over to remind him, “Don’t mess around, lest you get burned.”

Wen Xi nodded, somewhat guiltily putting down the tongs. Seeing that the craftsman went over to take a look at the furnace and didn’t suspect anything, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Then he took two steps at a time to the door to see if the young husband had run away.

In fact, for a moment just now, he was confused, thinking that the young husband was deceiving him, saying something about destroying the token when he just wanted to run away.

But then he remembered what the young husband said about attracting everyone’s attention and ultimately chose to trust the young husband, running to destroy the token.

“I say, what are you in such a hurry for? I just wanted to go to the latrine, so I ran out. Look at you, not steady at all.” Meng Huan was loosely surrounded by two people, talking without listening.

Pei Lan had already ordered someone to lift the carriage curtain, her face solemn as she invited him to get in the carriage. “Young husband, regardless of whether you really need to relieve yourself or not, please get in the carriage now.”

“What? What do you mean if I really need to relieve myself? I really do! We’ve only been strolling for a while, how come we’re going back now?”

Pei Lan didn’t want to say any more. She raised her hand to summon Wen Xi and scolded, “Why weren’t you by the young husband’s side just now? What were you doing standing far away?”

Seeing that he didn’t say anything, she also didn’t want to talk too much on the street and ordered again, “Quickly help the young husband into the carriage.”

The latter, hearing her say this, only then moved, walking over to support Meng Huan’s arm and walking towards the horse carriage. His head was always lowered, still very guilty.

“Hurry up.” Pei Lan frowned and urged. Immediately after, her sharp eyes noticed that the hand Wen Xi was using to support Meng Huan was black, as if stained with some dust.

What’s going on?

She didn’t figure out why this was the case. Seeing the two get on the horse carriage and ordering people to drive towards the Wen Residence, they soon returned to the Wen family.

The head of the household had entered the palace today and had not yet returned. She could only have people watch over Meng Huan and wait for the head of the household to return before dealing with the matter.

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Blacksmith Shop.

The shopkeeper was tidying up the brushes, ink, paper, and inkstone on the table. The young craftsman was sweeping the floor on the side, and someone was wiping the ink stains on the floor with a rag.

She sighed a little. She had thought that a big buyer had come today, but she didn’t expect it to be just a farce in the end. Not only did they not sell anything, but they also scared away the original buyers.

The losses outweighed the gains, truly the losses outweighed the gains.

“Shopkeeper.”

The called shopkeeper raised her head and, seeing the person walking in from the doorway, was stunned for a moment and subconsciously asked, “Why have you come back again?”

That person didn’t say the reason but instead walked around privately, asking what the young servant who was in the room just now had done.

The shopkeeper had been watching the excitement the whole time, with her focus not at all on Wen Xi, so naturally, she couldn’t say. But the craftsman sweeping the floor beside her suddenly spoke up, saying that the good-looking young servant had stayed by a furnace for a while and even moved the tongs.

The woman, upon hearing this, walked straight to the furnace the craftsman mentioned, picked up the tongs, and poked around in the furnace, discovering a mostly melted piece of metal.

“Is this something that was originally in your furnace?”

The craftsman shook his head repeatedly. “We don’t put materials directly in the furnace to burn.”

The implication was that this was not something from the blacksmith shop.

She handed the tongs to the woman. The woman pinched that piece of metal out of the furnace. Although the words on it could no longer be seen, some clues could still be discerned from the shape.

It was undoubtedly that token.

Unexpectedly, he actually did that? Strange, it was really too strange.

She threw a sum of silver to the shopkeeper, telling her to forget that she had come again today and to completely destroy that token before turning to leave.

After asking Wen Xi, Meng Huan thought he had succeeded. Although he was locked up now, he was still in a very good mood.

Thinking that when Wen Zhaoyin asked about this matter today, he would just insist that he was going to the latrine. At most, she would just not let him go out anymore, and there was no other impact.

To be honest, after going out this time, he was very disappointed and even a little unwilling to escape.

The outside world was also so ordinary, with no place that made him yearn for it. If Wen Zhaoyin were not so domineering, he felt that staying in the luxurious Wen family would be very good.

But there were no ifs. That woman Wen Zhaoyin’s temperament would probably never change in her lifetime. He still had to find an opportunity to run away. Only by running away could he avoid being forced by her.