The courtyard, which had once looked fairly tidy, was now piled with fallen leaves, and most of the wine jars in it had shattered.
An ominous feeling struck Du Yu. He hurried inside to take a look.
A layer of dust covered all the furniture, as though no one had lived there for a long time.
"Huh?!"
This turn of events made Du Yu blanch. It seemed he had miscalculated!
"Qianqiu! Where are they?!" Du Yu asked.
But Dong Qianqiu could not answer that question either. Neither Liu Ling's Wife nor the servant was a legendary figure, so the Legend Management Bureau could not receive footage of either of them.
"I don't know either..." Dong Qianqiu answered, looking troubled.
"This is bad!"
Du Yu took Xiao Nian and Xie Yujiao out into the streets to ask everywhere about the pair's whereabouts. What he learned left him utterly at a loss.
Apparently, several months earlier, the two had suddenly swaggered out into the streets together, telling everyone they met that they were having an affair. Before long, everyone knew. No one could fathom what they were thinking.
People had initially felt some sympathy for Liu Ling's Wife, but that soon turned to disgust. After all, Liu Ling's bones had barely grown cold, yet his wife had already paired up with a servant. The two instantly became rats crossing the street, with everyone in the city clamoring to beat them. Before long, they could no longer stay and had been forced to move away.
Du Yu stared blankly at the situation, unsure what to do. He could only send Xiao Nian and Xie Yujiao off separately to ask where the two had moved, while he also began gathering information in the streets.
This time, Du Yu's clever scheme had truly backfired.
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