Hu Xiaotian said, "I wasn't the one who said it. The Imperial Court of Great Yong announced it publicly."
Huo Shengnan said, "You know perfectly well that they framed me, yet you still say things like that to upset me."
Hu Xiaotian smiled. "As the saying goes, wind blowing out of a hollow doesn't necessarily come without a cause."
"You..." Huo Shengnan's beautiful eyes widened, and she looked ready to turn on Hu Xiaotian.
But Hu Xiaotian abruptly changed tack. "Of course I know you're not that sort of person. The one you like is someone else."
Huo Shengnan flushed even more deeply and spat, "If you dare spout any more nonsense, I'll never speak to you again."
Hu Xiaotian said, "If the rumors were true, jealousy might turn to hatred, and I might just run off to the Yong Capital and kill Xue Daoming!"
How could Huo Shengnan fail to hear the implication in his words? She turned her slender body away and gazed at the surrounding scenery, pretending she had not understood him.
Just then, heavy footsteps sounded on the stairs. Liang Dazhuang came up with a newly recovered inventory of the family's property and presented it to Hu Xiaotian. "Young Master, I've just made a preliminary comparison. A great many things are missing. The Ministry of Justice has already sent people over with the goods confiscated back then, and we're checking them one by one. But we can already be certain that the officials who carried out the confiscation pocketed a lot of them."
Hu Xiaotian nodded and put the inventory away. He said to Huo Shengnan, "Feihong, come out with me."
Huo Shengnan now had an entirely new identity: Huang Feihong. Hu Xiaotian was no longer Huo Yuanjia, but she remained Huang Feihong.
Xu Zhengying, Great