Yue Linze nodded, and before he could speak, Tao Yu entered with a chubby child in her arms. The child was not afraid of strangers and quickly attracted everyone’s attention.
Zhao Daren, who was most drunk, said confusedly: “The city lord’s child is already this big?”
“Don’t talk nonsense, this is the innkeeper’s child,” Tao Yu laughed. “I just found him interesting and held him for a while.”
Yue Linze hurried to her side, frowned when he saw how fat the child was, and took the child from her: “I knew you’d be late coming back.”
His worry still looked sincere and true, without any flaws.
Tao Yu looked at him deeply and said with a smile: “I was going to the bathroom, but before I could go, I saw Zhao Daren fall. After talking to him, I heard a child’s voice and couldn’t help but go play with him. When I remembered, I hurried back. I haven’t even gone to the bathroom yet.”
Her voice wasn’t loud, but everyone in the room heard it. Others smiled kindly, while only Zhao Daren, in his daze, confirmed: “Right, I seemed to have forgotten something. I stepped on a thin iron round thing and fell, making the lady laugh.”
“It’s good that Zhao Daren is fine. I saw you fall before going to the backyard and was quite startled,” Tao Yu smiled, subtly glancing at Yue Linze, knowing her conversation with Zhao Daren had already shown the shell existed before she went out.
This somewhat reduced her suspicion, but not enough. Tao Yu calmly looked at the child in Yue Linze’s arms, pinched his little face, immediately making him giggle.
It was also her luck that while thinking about how to clear her suspicion, she happened to see a child playing alone in a corner of the inn, so she ran over, played with the child for a moment, then held him and spoke to his parents before bringing him over.
Yue Linze looked at the three-year-old child and forced a smile: “Was it you who was monopolizing my wife just now? What did she play with you?”
“Played a lot…” The three-year-old could clearly say some words, answered Yue Linze, then reached out to Tao Yu, obviously wanting her to hold him.
