Fu Mingcong didn't go inside but instead held a torch and carried herbs as he walked ahead, inviting Leng Meifang behind him: "Miss Leng, let's go."
Leng Meifang no longer maintained her composure, and after bowing to Fu Mingcong, she lowered her head and took small steps, following Fu Mingcong away.
The attendant at Doctor Shi's tent lifted the flap, watching the receding glow of the torch, then turned back to Doctor Shi inside the tent and said: "Master, they've left."
He added: "Master, isn't what Lord Fu did unfavorable to Miss Leng? How will we explain to the Leng Family when she's sent back? If we encounter a relative with a loose tongue, gossip might spread by tomorrow."
For a man, rumors about relationships may at most be considered romantic, but gossip about an unmarried woman being escorted home by a man in the dark could affect her prospects of marriage, or worse, risk her life.
