She was wearing plain mourning clothes and stood in the middle of the corridor.

The drizzling rain outside fell for three consecutive days and was constantly washed. The beautiful and unparalleled facial features were reflected in a softer and softer way, like raindrops smashing into a jade plate, crystal clear.

Lu Zhaoyi raised her head and looked into the distance.

On the day when the three-day mourning period expires, the whole mansion has changed into mourning clothes. When the hour arrives, the old lady will be sent to the ground.

Among the crowd, Lu Chengye was at the forefront, holding the "Soul-Surprising Banner" in his hand, leading the Lu family's nephews and the funeral team slowly left the mansion.

Under this mourning terror, it gradually faded away, and in the empty marquis's mansion, Lu Zhaoyi stood alone, staring blankly at the funeral procession and returning to the courtyard with the shadow guards around her.

"The funeral of Taigong is over here. After that, we will be severed and mourned, and we will leave it to our elder brother. Let's clean up and prepare to leave Sili at any time."

Yingxue was by her side.

"Is there any response from the letter sent to the Fifth Grand Marshal?" Lu Zhaoyi asked in a slight manner.

Yingxue replied respectfully: "The Taiwei Army Order is already on the way to Youzhou. In less than a month, he can be sent to Youbeiping County, General Zhao Lin."

Within an hour, Lu Chengye's memorial to impeach her would be sent to Xia Pei's imperial case in the palace.

After returning to Yutangyuan, the shadow guards collected the whole item and moved it to the carriage parked outside the backyard door, waiting for the imperial edict in the palace to be heard.

All plans go smoothly.

The Lu family is still proceeding in an orderly manner.

At this moment, in the Luojing Palace and Taiji Palace, Xia Pei was furious and slapped the imperial case with his palm, wishing to smash the things that could be smashed in the house.

"Bastard!" Xia Pei was furious, "Marquis of Nanyang, Lu Qiniang, are you using me as a monkey? Why are you unfilial to the spirit? Isn't this brother and sister want to be demoted to Chang'an when they come to me? As for such a self-deprecating reputation?"

"His Majesty calms down."

The eunuch beside him reported tremblingly, "I have asked someone to inquire. During the days when I was guarding Lu Taigong, Lu Qiniang has been hiding in the inner courtyard. Except for the time when I had a small dispute with Mr. Yin, the memorial showed that the unfilial act of the Lu family Taigong was obviously a fabrication."

"File?! Is this still necessary to make it up?"

Xia Pei snorted coldly, "Do you think I don't know that all this is her Lu Qiniang's trick? I just want to go to Jingzhao, I will satisfy her, but if she wants to go to Chang'an City, she won't even think about it!"

As he spoke, his anger gradually faded away, but he still felt a breath of anger in his heart, and pointed to the eunuch beside him.

"You have someone to clean up the mess in the hall. I will issue an order to demote her official position!"

The eunuch trembled all over, "Your Majesty..."

Xia Pei angrily scolded: "What? Could it be that my order, you want to disobey?"

"No... I have no intention of this." The eunuch knelt down quickly, "Your Majesty calmed down."

"Get back!"

Sitting in the hall, Qiu Quzi frowned slightly, lowered his head and thought for a while, and then he stood up and knelt in front of the emperor, "Your Majesty, this memorial is a secret memorial for the Marquis of Nanyang. Such a move also gives His Majesty the room for choice."

"Qiu Quzi, don't keep it a secret. If you have anything to say, just say it bluntly!" Xia Pei waved impatiently, "I still want to use this trick to deceive me, there is no way!"

"I don't dare, Your Majesty!" Qiu Quzi smiled on his face, "If Your Majesty does not follow this, then there may be a storm. Your Majesty should know that Mrs. Lu is willing to abandon his reputation and make this bad decision this time."

Xia Pei was stunned and then reacted, his face gloomy and unstable.

"I understand. If you go on, I will think about it."

When he was the only one left in the hall, Xia Pei took a deep breath, closed his eyes and rubbed his eyebrows.

Although he has been following Lu Zhaoyi's every move in the past few days, Lu Zhaoyi has been hiding in the Marquis' Mansion and has never taken a step forward during this period. He occasionally just went to visit Lu Huaide and did not do anything beyond the rules.

Originally, Xia Pei also gave her love. As long as he didn't anger him, he would turn a blind eye for the time being.

But now, he realized that she was holding on to this energy and was about to leave Sili.

It was too late for him to regret it, so it would be better to force her to stay in Luojing at that time.

As if he had struggled for a long time, Xia Peicai picked up the red mark, wrote the edict in his own hand, and sent the internal officials to set off to the east suburbs of Luojing, at the foot of the Mangshan Mountains.

In the evening of that day, his handwritten imperial decree was sent to the Lu Mansion quietly.

When Lu Zhaoyi received the edict, he heard: I am ordered to be given a gift to share the worries of the king. Now that he is experiencing Longyan, it is a big mistake. He was demoted to the governor of Yongzhou, Shangluo County, Jingzhao County, and served as the county magistrate. He set off for his post today. I am honored!"

From the fifth-rank minister of the Central Secretariat to the seventh-rank county magistrate, from court officials to county officials, the gap between these is a world of difference.

Such punishment was better than she expected and more in line with her expectations.

Chang'an and Shangluo are 120 miles apart, while Lantian County is only less than fifty miles away. It is also a must-pass place for Chang'an to go to Wuguan and enter Jingzhou.

This makes it easier for her to implement her plan.

After the eunuch handed the imperial edict and the seal of the official award to Lu Zhaoyi, he gave a special reminder, "Seventh Lady, Your Majesty has ordered that the Yong'anli mansion is now empty, so Your Majesty will take it back. As for the Minister's Mansion in Yongpingli, it will be demoted to an ordinary official residence, and it will still belong to you, Mr. Lu."

Lu Zhaoyi was shocked when she heard this. She guessed that Xia Pei would be furious, but she never thought that she would leave room for her in the end and did not completely punish her.

She stood in the hall for a long time without making a sound.

Everything went smoothly as planned.

Lu Zhaoyi looked up at the direction of the window. The sunset was setting and night was approaching. The day passed quickly.

"Yingxue, are you all ready? We'll set off tonight."

Yingxue stepped forward and nodded, "Please rest assured, Qi Niang, I have already cleaned up."

She turned her head, looked toward the inner room, and sighed softly.

As night fell, the lights were already bright on the Mang Mountain. When the lights were just around the corner, the only silent Nanyang Marquis Mansion at the foot of the mountain gathered a group of people dressed in the same clothes and headed towards the back door of the Marquis Mansion.

Before leaving, Lu Zhaoyi wrote a letter and sent it to Lu Chengye's study. This was also a farewell to his brother. After that, he came to the backyard and got on the carriage.

Just as he was about to set off, a figure appeared at the back door. Seeing this, Yingxue turned around and looked at the carriage, but it was her second brother Lu Chengren who came here to see him off.

"Second brother? Why are you here?"

When Lu Zhaoyi opened the curtain, he looked at him. In a blink of an eye, Lu Chengren walked over and bowed slightly, "Seventh sister, thank you, my eldest brother, I promised me the position of the county magistrate of Qingzhou Pingyuan County. In another month, our family will go to Qingzhou."

"What did the second brother say?" Lu Zhaoyi said lightly, "Seventh sister went to Jingzhao first, and she would not be able to send you there at that time, but if you arrive in Pingyuan County, if anything happens, the Qingzhou army will definitely help you."

"Yeah." Lu Chengren nodded slightly, then said, "For several months, thanks to your care for me and my wife, and Fu Kang, I should repay you no matter what, how can I be shaded again?"

"Don't be so polite with Qi Mei. You and I are both from the Lu family. If you say this, you will be separated from each other." Lu Zhaoyi smiled and shook her head.

"Seventh sister, be careful on the way." Lu Chengren's eyes were slightly red, and he suddenly said, "By the way, this is what your second sister-in-law has entrusted me to bring for you. She said, she has never found a chance to give it to you."

"I understand, thank you for your concern." She looked at the bag and pursed her lips slightly, "Sister-in-law is in love."

"Second brother won't waste your time. Let's leave here. Be careful on the way."

"good."

She said, lowering the curtain while driving the coachman forward.

Yingxue stepped onto the horse's back, took the rope, and followed the team.

The group of people quietly drove away from the Lu Mansion.

Lu Chengren stood there without saying a word for a long time.

After a long time, he suddenly gritted his teeth and turned around and walked towards the back door.

Then he disappeared into the darkness and turned to the backyard. He was tall and tall, like a majestic sculpture in the night, wearing black clothes, which set off his body, becoming more and more tall.

Lu Zhaoyi stared at the tip of the hand, but felt a little strange, so she slowly lowered her eyes and looked away.

It was almost midnight that the team bypassed Luojing City and headed west.

On this trip, you must go west to Hangu Pass, pass through Xin'an, Jiaocheng, Hongnong, Huxian, and then enter Tongguan, and then reach the boundary of Jingzhao in Yongzhou.

However, the roads are rugged and mostly muddy roads, so we can't get through them all in a flat manner. It seems that it will take seven or eight days to reach Tongguan.

Once you pass Tongguan, you will face a dilemma again. One is to pass Qinchuan, go south to Lantian County, and take a mountain road to reach Shangluo County; the other is to go in Taihua and Shaohua, the distance between the two mountains, may be much smaller, but the mountain road is rugged, which will inevitably take a lot of time.

No matter how you choose, you can't change it. It will take at least one month to go on the road.

Just after passing through the western suburbs of Luojing, under the dark night sky, a team suddenly blocked their way forward, and the two sides had a vague possibility of confrontation.

"Who is it?"

"Return to Qi Niang, according to the scout's message, it should be... Your Majesty's ceremonial guard here!" Yingxue rode a horse and stared at the front of the carriage, "Will your Majesty come to see you late at night?"

After these words were finished, the surroundings were quiet, with only the sound of horse hooves and the cold wind blowing from time to time in the distance.

Lu Zhaoyi didn't say anything, but her expression was solemn and her eyes were deep.

She knew what the emperor meant, so she took a breath and said to Yingxue outside the carriage, "Go and tell Your Majesty that I will definitely resolve the matter in Yongzhou. Then I will return to Luojing and apologize to him."

Outside the carriage, a sound of galloping came, and then gradually disappeared into the distant night; inside the carriage, Lu Zhaoyi held the secret bag tightly and fell into deep thought.

Later, for about half an hour, the night was originally quiet, but the horse's hooves in the distance sounded again, making people's heart beat tense again.

She knew that Yingxue was back.

Sure enough, Yingxue returned to the carriage and pulled the reins, and the horse stopped and ran.

"Qianniang! Your Majesty said, you don't need to say anything else about your promise. You have said exactly the same thing before, Ruxu Zhongzhou."

Lu Zhaoyi in the carriage was slightly stunned. It was true that she said this to Xia Pei at that time.

"And, Qi Niang..."

"No need to cover it up, just say it?"

Seeing that she stopped talking, Lu Zhaoyi signaled her to speak directly.
Chapter completed!