"The woman we met accidentally today is Li Fei, right?" Mu Zhenghan said, "The woman who harmed your brother-in-law."
"Um."
"Then why are you so calm?"
Lu Shaoyu raised his eyes and looked at Mu Zhenghan: "Uncle, that is the palace. Even if your enemy is standing in front of you, you have to endure it."
Mu Zhenghan: "..."
He also knew, he just felt aggrieved.
"If you want to take revenge on a person, you don't have to kill him, but you have to take away the thing he cares about most." Lu Shaoyu said, "Why are you so anxious?"
At the gate of the palace, Xia Kun stopped there on horseback. When he saw the Lu family's carriage appeared, he rode closer.
"Brother Xia." Mu Zhenghan called Xia Kun.
Xia Kun nodded towards the two of them.
"Master Lu happens to be working nearby. Would you like the two young masters to wait here for a while and then go back together?" Xia Kun said.
"Okay!" Mu Zhenghan's eyes flashed, "Does my brother-in-law have a case?"
"Yes." Xia Kun didn't hide it, "It's a difficult case. I'm asking the soldiers guarding the city gate."
"Is this case related to the palace?" Lu Shaoyu guessed.
"That's right, an old nanny died in the palace. She happened to be someone close to the Queen Mother, so she handed it over to Dali Temple for thorough investigation."
Lu Shaoyu got out of the carriage, stood there and looked around, and finally found Lu Yi's figure in the crowd.
Lu Yi asked a few questions, and after getting the answers he wanted, he turned around and walked towards them.
"I came out quite early today." Lu Yi said to Lu Shaoyu.
"The fifth prince wants to make up for his homework. Let him do it by himself today. We are not accompanying him." Lu Shaoyu explained.
"If you don't want to be this companion, I'll tell the fifth prince."
"No, it's his fault that he doesn't read. I still learned a lot. Among other things, there are indeed many lost ancient books in the palace library."
"Okay, you have known what you want since you were a child. Dad respects all your decisions." Lu Yi said, "Let's go. Your uncle misses you. Let's go to his place to eat today."
Lu Xuan was dismissed from his official position. Although his body recovered well, his mood may not recover for a while.
After dinner, Lu Xuan took Lu Shaoyu and Lu Zhiyun to play for a while.
He was almost able to walk on the ground, but he couldn't walk too fast, so they played chess in the yard for a while, with Xiao Yun'er advising Lu Xuan beside him.
"Here...get down here..." Lu Zhiyun pointed to a location.
"You're a stinky chess player, and you gave your uncle some bad ideas?" Mu Siyu teased her from the side.
Lu Shaoyu didn't say anything. When Lu Xuan made his move, he moved to another position.
"Your house is really lively." Fan Yuanxi walked in swaggeringly, "Is there anything to eat? I'm starving."
"Zisu, ask the cook to cook some more dishes." Mu Siyu ordered.
"I don't want what the cook cooked." Fan Yuanxi looked at Mu Siyu, "I want what you cooked. Can what the cook cooks compare to what you cook? Don't even think about dealing with me."
"My lord, look at what time it is. I'm going to cook a few dishes for you now, so don't take a rest today." Mu Siyu said, "I won't cook."
"Give me a bowl of noodles. Is this the head office?" Fan Yuanxi was displeased. "You used to be afraid of me, but now you are no longer afraid of me. You are even more rude to me. Sure enough, I shouldn't be too polite to you."
Mu Siyu made noodles and came out. She learned that Fan Yuanxi and Lu Yi had gone to the study, and Lu Xuan and Xia Kun had also gone.
She approached the study with noodles in hand.
"The cause of death of this old grandma is very simple. She was poisoned to death." Fan Yuanxi said, "It is also simple to find out the murderer. But have you ever thought about whether this murderer is someone the Queen Mother wanted to see? The case involves
In the palace, the real murderer is never the most important, the most important thing is who the people in high positions want the murderer to be."
"It's another harem fight." Lu Xuan said, "These women fight and kill each other all day long, and the people who died in the harem are almost reaching the border."
"The harem is the small court." Lu Yi said, "From the degree of favor of the concubines in the harem, you can tell which ones the emperor will attack next."
"You mean..."
"The next person the emperor has to deal with should be the Chu family." Lu Yi said calmly, "So, the Duke of Chu betrothed his daughter to the legitimate son of King Fenyang just to win over King Fenyang."
"The son of King Fenyang is not a thing, but the old fox of King Fenyang is not simple."
Mu Siyu walked in with noodles in hand, showing no intention of avoiding it at all.
Fan Yuanxi didn't feel surprised to see her and took the noodles from her hand.
Others had just eaten, and smelling the noodles suddenly felt a little hungry.
Mu Siyu noticed their gaze and said, "There is still more in the pot."
"Then eat first, I'm greedy too." Lu Xuan said.
Chu State Duke's Mansion. Chu Ningzhu was lying on the bedside, silent.
Someone came in, the footsteps were getting closer and closer, and there was more than one person who heard the sound.
"Miss, madam is here." Hibiscus said.
"I heard that you don't have a good appetite today." Mrs. Chu Guogong sat beside the bed, "Is it because of young Prince Jun?"
"Mom, have you heard about it?" Chu Ningzhu said in a low voice.
"I heard." Mrs. Chu Guogong said, "Young Prince Jun must be unwell, otherwise he wouldn't..."
"Mom..." Chu Ningzhu sat up, "Do you know how embarrassed I am today?"
"Zhu'er, this kind of thing is an accident!" Mrs. Chu Guogong held her hand, "Who doesn't have a headache and a fever?"
"Is this a headache? Let me tell you the truth. I don't like him, I don't want to marry him, and I want to break off the engagement." Chu Ningzhu looked at Mrs. Chu Guogong, "You tell dad, if you don't break off the engagement
, I will become a monk and become a sister-in-law."
"How can you say such nonsense?" The Duke of Chu said angrily, "You can't talk nonsense."
"I'm serious." Chu Ningzhu looked at Mrs. Chu Guogong, "It's not nonsense, it's the truth. It's the truth that I wanted to say for a long time."
"If you don't want to get married, just don't get married!" A voice came from outside.
It is the Duke of Chu.
Mrs. Chu Guogong was shocked and quickly stood up and walked out.
But at this time, the Duke of Chu left those words and left without coming in to see Chu Ningzhu.
"Zhu'er, I'm going to see your father. Stop talking nonsense." Mrs. Chu Guogong left.
Chu Ningzhu looked at Mu Jin blankly: "My father won't marry if he says he won't marry?"
"Yes! Miss." Mu Jin was also surprised, "But looking at the Duke's appearance, has something happened?"
"Anyway, my father agreed." Chu Ningzhu said, "Tomorrow I will ask my mother when to break off the engagement."
Mu Jin felt that the young lady was happy too early. Listening to the Duke's tone just now, it seemed to be quite heavy. She didn't know what happened.
Mrs. Chu Guogong found Chu Guogong.
The Duke of Chu went to his concubine.
The concubine wanted to serve the Duke of Chu well, but she didn't expect the Duke of Chu's wife to come. She held her breath but didn't dare to say anything. She could only watch the Duke of Chu being called away by the wife of the principal wife.