I traveled back to ancient times, but I was able to lie down and relax.

Liu Nanjia had heard it but hadn't really paid it any mind, but she noticed that Song Chen froze after hearing those words.

She looked at the person who had just spoken; he looked travel-worn and was sitting at a tea stall, gulping down tea. He was clearly someone who had come from afar and had traveled a long way.

The two men were still talking when one of them said, "Marquis Yong'an? Judging from the name, he's a marquis. Isn't that a member of the royal family? What's wrong?" The other man answered the question from before.

Liu Nanjia first pulled Song Chen, who was clearly not in a good state, and gestured for him to cover it up, but it was too obvious.

Then, together with Song Chen, they parked their cart in a secluded spot by the roadside. For convenience, they had recently commissioned a carpenter, Fang, to make a custom cart. They kept all the items they needed for their daily stall on the cart so they wouldn't have to move them around. They had also arranged with Uncle Liu to borrow his ox.

They pretended to tidy up their things and continued listening to the two men's conversation.

"Oh, I just came back from the capital after a delivery mission." The man took a big gulp of tea before continuing, "I just found out that something big happened in the capital! The entire Yong'an Marquis's mansion was raided! Tsk tsk tsk, not a single person in the entire mansion was left alive."

"Ah, aren't marquises usually relatives of the emperor? How could their property be confiscated? What crime did they commit?"

"The Marquis of Yong'an is not a member of the royal family. He is a great general. I heard that his family has been a military family for generations. He was enfeoffed as a marquis because he made great contributions when the country was founded. Then, for several generations, every generation was a general."

"If that's the case, why were their homes raided?"

"Alas, by the time I arrived in the capital, the matter had already passed. I only heard about it from others. The punishment was so severe because he committed treason! He was about to rebel; how could the emperor tolerate him!"

Upon hearing the words "treason and collusion with the enemy," Song Chen clenched his fists so tightly that he could barely maintain his pretense.

Liu Nanjia naturally noticed his unusual behavior. At this moment, she disregarded the traditional boundaries between men and women, took his hand, and gently comforted him.

Otherwise, given how tense he was, he probably would have pinched his own hand until it bled.

The two men at the tea stall were still saying, "Why would a nobleman like you commit such a crime?"

"Who knows? Maybe it's just that people are never satisfied. It's just a pity for the other people in the household, but the Emperor is merciful." As he spoke, he cupped his hands towards the north. "He didn't exterminate nine generations of their families, but the direct descendants definitely won't escape. I heard that there was a young son who was studying outside at the time. They were supposed to bring him back to be executed together, but when they went to arrest him, he escaped and fell off a cliff and died. When they found him, oh my, his body was unrecognizable."

"It is said that those who made the arrest were not reassured even after seeing the person fall, and they searched in the mountains for a long time before finally finding the remains and confirming that the person was really dead."

"Sigh, still in school, so he's not that old."

"She's not very old, maybe in her teens? Anyway, she's not married yet."

Liu Nanjia listened to the two men sigh for a while longer. Only after they changed the subject did she let go of Song Chen's hand. Seeing that he had finally calmed down, they continued pushing the cart towards the city gate together.

When they arrived, Uncle Liu had already been waiting there for quite a while, and he was wondering why they were so late today.

Liu Nanjia casually mentioned that he had gone to buy some more things and that was enough to get by.

On the way back to the village, Song Chen remained silent, as if he had returned to the state he was in when he first arrived at their home.

With Uncle Liu around, Liu Nanjia couldn't easily talk about what she had just heard, so she chatted idly with Uncle Liu to cover up Song Chen's strange behavior.

When he got home, Song Chen silently went about his usual routine, tidying up and preparing the dough for tomorrow.

He would respond when Liu Yanxi and Liu Sirou spoke to him, but he would only say a few words.

So the brother and sister didn't notice anything wrong, just thinking he might be a little tired. After all, Song Chen used to be the quietest one at home.

But Liu Nanjia knew something was definitely wrong with him. Thinking of the news she had heard today, she sighed silently.

Sigh, I knew his identity was not simple, but I didn't expect it to be this complicated. Considering the scene when I first met Song Chen, I think he must be the youngest son of the Marquis of Yong'an.

He was young, being chased, and came out of the mountains, and everything came together.

She didn't know the truth, but perhaps Song Chen's father, the Marquis of Yong'an, really was a great villain.

But she also trusted her instincts; Song Chen himself was definitely not a person with impure intentions.

Having spent more than two months with him, Liu Nanjia felt that her judgment shouldn't be so unreliable.

After all, she wasn't a naive 12-year-old girl who had never seen the world. Her inner soul was already over twenty, and she had been struggling alone in the big melting pot of modern society for many years.

She can tell a lot about a person's character.

Besides, she's been doing business with Song Chen lately, and she's never avoided him when it comes to settling accounts and getting money. Plus, he's skilled in martial arts, so getting money from her is incredibly easy for him.

None of the three siblings could stop him.