Chapter 43

Lu Desheng couldn't understand why his daughter looked like her father had died after snatching the pill? Bah, wasn't he cursing himself?

Before he could ask, someone came from outside the study.

The porter came to the study out of breath. After knocking on the door, he said eagerly, "Master, Miss Second, there is a decree coming from the palace. Madam calls you to go to the front yard as soon as possible."

The father and daughter looked at each other, got up without delay, and rushed to the front yard together.

Lu Songli was thinking as she walked. She didn't need to guess, she knew that this edict must be from the hands of the Empress Dowager of Changle Palace. Wouldn't the Empress Dowager be awake all night this early in the morning?

Lu Songli didn't know. She guessed the truth with a random guess.

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That night, the Empress Dowager of Changle Palace couldn't sleep. Early the next morning, she made two edicts with a bad look on her face after staying up late.

When Aunt Rong Qiu heard this, she was shocked, "Isn't this too unfair to Lu Songli?" She knew that the Queen Mother was angry, and she was deliberately torturing the Lu family. How angry the Queen Mother was, what happened yesterday

I was still worried about the decree I didn't dare to make, so I just ignored it today.

The Queen Mother had a cold face and said indifferently, "Who in this world is not aggrieved? Did the Ai family suffer too many grievances when they were young?" She hurriedly hurriedly last night, but she was still a step late, allowing Lu Desheng to general

The gold medal for immunity from death was taken out of the palace, which made her angry.

"Empress Dowager, I'm worried about you. Censor Lu De Sheng Lu is a troublemaker. I'm worried that he will impeach you for this matter and avenge his private revenge."

The Queen Mother sneered, "What a joke, the Yi family will be afraid of him? Does being an emperor mean death?" She is a majestic Queen Mother, one person is inferior to ten thousand people, so she still needs to be afraid of a mere minister?

"He doesn't dare to face you openly, but he dares to face Mr. Cheng'en's family."

"No need to say it! The Ai family has made up its mind."

The decree has been issued, so Grandma Rong Qiu simply shut up.

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In the front yard of the Lu family, people were kneeling on the ground. The three members of the Lu family knelt at the front to receive the order.

Eunuch Hai, the eunuch who came to announce the decree, saw that everyone had arrived and began to read the decree loudly.

"The Queen's decree: The son of Pingxi Hou Zhengxi General Qin Yue, who was then the Yunqi Lieutenant, Qin Sheng, has a strong sense of integrity, is young and promising, has excellent military skills, has good filial piety, and is not yet married. Songli, the second daughter of the Lu family, is the queen of capable ministers.

, well-behaved, virtuous, outstanding in appearance, and a golden lady in her prime. The two of you are a match made in heaven, and I will marry you now! I hope you will choose a good day to get married, be of the same mind, and respect the country to the best of your ability.

I appreciate this as a sign of mourning for my family!"

Lu Songli: "I accept the decree and thank the Queen Mother for her grace!"

Lu Desheng led everyone to kneel down and say, "Thank you to the Queen Mother for her grace!"

Lu Songli stood aside after receiving the decree. To be honest, the marriage decree really caught her off guard. She thought that exposing herself last night would make the Queen Mother have some scruples and give up her original idea.

Who would have known that she ignored the underground decree and granted the marriage early the next morning? She was really willful and did not care about the public opinion. It seems that her father's grant of a gold medal to avoid death really hit the mark of the Queen Mother.

Weakness.

After the eunuch who announced the decree handed out the decree, he looked at the three members of the Lu family and said condescendingly, "Master Lu, have you understood the Queen Mother's decree?"

Isn't it just a marriage? What else? Lu Desheng held back his anger and said, "Please make it clear, Eunuch Hai."

"The Queen Mother's intention is for your daughter and the Sixth Young Master of the Qin family to get married as soon as possible." Eunuch Hai emphasized the word "as soon as possible".

As soon as possible? Lu Desheng's heart suddenly thought, what does this mean?

"How early does it mean?" Lu Songli asked calmly.

Eunuch Hai looked at her with pity, "The Queen Mother has requested that Miss Lu Er, you and the Sixth Young Master of the Qin family must get married within two months."

Lu Songli asked again, "May I ask Eunuch Hai, did the Queen Mother also grant marriage to Xie Zhan and Zhao Yutan?"

When Lu Desheng and others thought that Hai Gong Gui would arrogantly refuse to answer this question, he replied, "Yes."

Eunuch Hai thought to himself that before leaving the palace, the Queen Mother told him that if anyone from the Lu family asked about this matter, let him answer directly. It seemed that the Lu family had offended the Queen Mother quite a lot.

"They don't have any requirement to get married as soon as possible, right?" Lu Songli said with certainty.

"Yes, Miss Lu Er is really smart." Eunuch Hai said in a long tone.

This was a clear target. As they asked and answered, both Lu Desheng and Jiang felt this.

"Thank you, Eunuch Hai, for clearing up the confusion. It's getting late, so Eunuch Hai should go back and resume his duties as soon as possible." Lu Songli began to see off the guests.

Not to mention how the three members of the Lu family were feeling at this time, Mrs. Jiang suppressed her mood and gave the eunuch who announced the decree a red seal. After Lu Desheng sent him away, Mrs. Jiang also asked his servants to disperse.

The Lu family cleared the place, and there were only three of them left in the entire flower hall, and the atmosphere was dull.

"Revenge, this is plain revenge." Lu Desheng was really angry, "It's too much to bully others!"

Jiang also couldn't understand, "How could the Queen Mother do this?"

Lu Desheng and Mrs. Jiang looked worriedly at their daughter who was silent.

Lu Songli was silent, slowly savoring the decree just now: forcing herself to break up her engagement with Xie Zhan, then forcing her to marry Qin Sheng, and finally forcing them to marry each other within two months.

Get married.

This was really a feudal dynasty where the king had to die if he wanted to, and the ministers had to die. After living in it for so long, she now truly felt what it means to have no control over one's own actions.

Lu Songli sighed, it was time and destiny.

Now the Lu family and the Qin family were really tied to death. She and Qin Sheng were married by the Queen Mother. Such an engagement is usually difficult to dissolve unless one party dies. But, who would want to die if they could live?

Queen Mother, everything in the world is loess, and on the shores of the earth, is it the king's ministers. Queen Mother, you are one of the highest examples of Dali. If you are not unreasonable, is there any room for reason in this big world? So,

, Queen Mother, don’t blame me.

She thought it was time to prepare for some things.

"Daughter, are you okay?"

Lu Songli smiled and said, "Mom, I'm fine."

At this time, Lu Songli was extremely calm. She felt that she was very good, as good as ever. She had never been a submissive person.

"I'm going to the study!" Seeing his daughter like this, Lu Desheng felt very uncomfortable.

"Dad, let's calm down first." Lu Songli grabbed her father. Needless to say, her father went to the study and wanted to draw the sword again. But this time they couldn't move, they had to endure it.

"His father, can you ask the emperor for help? Let the Queen Mother take back the decree?" Jiang asked.

Lu Desheng said nothing, as if he was considering this possibility.

Lu Songli answered for her father, "No, dad, don't go and beg the emperor." It would be possible for her father to go and beg the emperor before the decree was issued, but after the decree was issued, it was impossible for the emperor to disobey the queen mother for such a trivial matter.

.And she didn’t want her father’s little body of a hundred pounds to go against the Queen Mother. She felt that the Queen Mother should be eager for her father to make trouble and plead for mercy. It would be better if she could take the opportunity to take back the death-free gold medal she gave her father last night.

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"Mom and Dad, aside from the fact that the Queen Mother forced the marriage regardless of our wishes, it's not a bad idea to marry the Qin family, right? Mom, don't you really like Qin Sheng?"

Lu Desheng and Mr. Jiang nodded. Indeed, their daughter was right. There was nothing wrong with marrying Qin Sheng, but the Lu family felt aggrieved when they were forced to accept it.

Ms. Jiang forced a smile and said, "That's the truth. It's just for my mother's sake..."

Lu Songli understood that her mother just felt uncomfortable. To put it bluntly, her mother imagined the royal family too well and had filters and expectations for the royal family, thus allowing them to control her emotions.

I thought that after learning that she paid such a high price to save Xie Zhan, she would feel pity, give up her original plan, and stand on the side of fairness and justice again. However, the Queen Mother did not do this, so her mother used this filter

It broke, and then I felt uncomfortable.
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