After leaving the palace, Zhou Tieyi returned home directly.
In the Shouyi Courtyard, Mother Zhou looked at her son as he arrived. "Follow me."
Yesterday, Zhou Tieyi had informed Mother Zhou that he needed to retrieve a powerful artifact from the family collection, though he hadn't explained why. Had this been in the past, Mother Zhou certainly would not have agreed. However, over the past two months, Zhou Tieyi had become involved in so many complex affairs—many of which touched upon Rank 1 and 2 dignitaries, and even the Great Xia Emperor himself—that she assumed he had his own reasons for not disclosing the purpose. Since she had already decided to stop interfering in his official business, she felt it inappropriate to press him further.
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