"Lu Lang?"
Liu Qingyan also noticed Lu Zheng's action of collecting the copper coins and couldn't help but narrow her eyes.
Lu Zheng nodded.
On the other side, the old woman and the woman in plain clothes stepped out of Renxin Hall, and that woman whispered to the old woman, "Big sister, that guy who's fond of Miss Liu looks at us strangely."
The old woman nodded, then said with so confusion, "But I feel like my disguise was pretty good. How did he see through it?"
Just then, the two reached the entrance to Tongyi Lane and saw the doors of the Liu Family wide open, with Liu Qingquan hopping out cheerfully from inside.
The old woman, "..."
The woman in plain clothes, "..."
"Just now when you ca down, why didn't you check who lives around this alley?" The old woman sighed.
The woman in plain clothes felt helpless and thought to herself that she was only focused on Renxin Hall at the ti. Wasn't it that you also didn't notice that Liu Qingyan's family lives in Tongyi Lane?
No wonder Lu Zheng looked at both of us strangely; we erged right from his doorstep.
How could he not notice?
The woman in plain clothes helplessly asked, "What do we do now?"
The old woman also shook her head helplessly, "I just thought to make contact first, but it backfired."
"Should we be straightforward and explain?"
"Wouldn't that scare her?"
"Probably not? It's not a bad thing anyway."
"But after all... the events of that year..."
"It's all old history, and the old lady often regrets it; otherwise, we wouldn't dare to co out here on our own!"
The old woman thought for a mont, her eyes shifted, and she smiled softly, "No need to rush, since we've been exposed this ti, let's change our appearance and co back tomorrow."
The woman in plain clothes said weakly, "Is that alright? What if we're discovered again? That would be embarrassing!"
The old woman straightened her expression, "Don't you believe in my acting skills?"
The woman in plain clothes hastily shook her head, "No, no! I believe! I believe!"
"Then that's settled! Let's go find the third sister; with three of us, it'll be easier to dispel their doubts." The old woman's previously cloudy eyes suddenly beca exceptionally lively, devoid of any forr sense of agedness.
The two looked around, saw no one, and turned into a secluded alley, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
...
anwhile, in the back hall of Renxin Hall, Lu Zheng, Liu Qingyan, and Du Yueyao sat together, looking at the Cloud Palace Treasure Mirror in front of them.
In the mirror of the Cloud Palace Treasure Mirror, the old woman and the woman in plain clothes turned into a small alley, waved their hands, and set up a blinding technique, disappearing from sight.
Yet, this blinding technique was no match for the capabilities of the Cloud Palace Treasure Mirror, and the three of them could still see clearly as the two changed their appearances in an instant.
The old woman straightened up, her figure grew taller, and she quickly transford into a young girl in a scattered flower white lotus feather gauze skirt, with lively eyebrows, smart and charming.
anwhile, the woman in plain clothes shimred with flowing light, and from head to toe, she changed into an erald green bamboo patterned silk gauze lily skirt, with her brows like dark green, eyes like stars, her appearance delicate and endearing, stirring compassion.
"Wow, she's so beautiful!" Du Yueyao exclaid in surprise.
Anyone witnessing an old woman and an average-looking woman transform into beautiful young girls would inevitably be startled, and these two young girls indeed deserved Du Yueyao's exclamation.
Though their grace was different, both were exceedingly lovely.
"Such amazing illusion technique; I didn't notice at all." said Liu Qingyan.
Lu Zheng nodded, "I didn't see it either."
Du Yueyao marveled, then imdiately reacted and asked, "Why did they disguise themselves as ordinary people to co to Renxin Hall for a check-up?"
"They ca to find Qingyan." Lu Zheng frowned slightly, pondering, "It doesn't seem to be with malicious intent, and it seems to have sothing to do with Qingyan, maybe from long ago, or they mistook her for soone else."
"Huh?" Du Yueyao turned her head, puzzled, "How do you know?"
Lu Zheng raised an eyebrow with a smile, pointing at the lips of the woman in the feather gauze skirt in the mirror.
Liu Qingyan's eyes lit up, "Lip reading?"
Lu Zheng nodded, "They seed to plan to change their appearance once more before finding us again, intending to establish a connection with you first."
Liu Qingyan was utterly confused, "Why?"
"To acknowledge kin?" Lu Zheng shrugged, then asked, "They ntioned old matters and said that the old lady regrets sothing. Could it be that one of your ancestors, Qingyan, is from a prominent white fox family?"
"No way?" Liu Qingyan exclaid wide-eyed, "My father never ntioned anything like that? Besides, my mother's line is just ordinary white foxes; I heard my grandmother awakened on her own."
Lu Zheng inquired, "Then where did your Celestial Fox bloodline co from?"
Liu Qingyan: ???
Lu Zheng asked, "Have Uncle Liu and your mother cultivated the 'Celestial Demon Nine Transformations Blood Refining Technique'? How effective is it?"
Liu Qingyan's eyes wandered, lightly biting her lip, she said, "Only father showed any phenona, and it was just one tail."
"It seems to be Uncle Liu." Lu Zheng nodded, "Although I don't know how they found you, we might as well ask Uncle Liu first."
"I'll go get Uncle Liu!" Du Yueyao quickly said, then went to the front hall, dragging Elder Liu to the back hall.
"What's going on?" Elder Liu asked in confusion, "Even though there are no patients at the mont, we can't leave no one at the front!"
"I'll do it!"
Du Yueyao sported a look of sacrificing all, bravely heading to her duty, the unsatisfied curiosity and gossip brimming in her eyes.
Liu Qingyan stifled a laugh, while Lu Zheng smiled and said, "I'll keep an eye out, and we'll handle any patients that co."
"Yes, yes, yes!" Du Yueyao nodded fervently.
Elder Liu couldn't help but ask, "What exactly is going on?"
Then Lu Zheng began to recount what had happened just now, and by then, the mirror's view had followed the two won as they left, soon arriving at an abandoned temple outside Tonglin County.
...
"Hey? Where's the third sister?" the charming young girl looked around but saw no sign of their third sister.
The delicate young girl, however, had sharp eyes and saw a ssage in the corner of the temple wall. She read it aloud, "It's hard to co to the Central Plains, so the matter of finding relatives is up to you two. I've gone to the nearby state capital to have fun."
"That fox spirit who only knows how to play!" the charming young girl stomped her foot, "Every ti we need her, she disappears!"
The delicate young girl shrank her neck, "What should we do now?"
"Naturally, we would catch her..." the charming young girl started to say but then sighed, "Forget it, even catching her would be useless, it might expose us even quicker, let's handle it ourselves."
"Huh?" the delicate young girl blinked, helplessly saying, "Do we still have to act?"
"Of course, at least make friends first, then talk about it!" the charming young girl affird, "Let's think, what should we pretend to be this ti?"
The delicate young girl, "..."
...
anwhile, Elder Liu also listened to Lu Zheng recount the earlier events, and his eyes widened in disbelief, "What? I actually co from a big family?"
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