At dawn, Gu Qingning went out of the door, since she entered the Ministry of Industry, she was the first one to get up every day, not to mention that she actually didn't close her eyes this night, after washing and tidying up, the sky was not completely bright, she walked to the front yard, but saw that there were few unburned candles in the study in front of her, and it was expected that Gu Qingxuan also stayed awake all night. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

She walked to the study, pushed the door in, and saw Gu Qingxuan reading the chess game alone, "Father......"

When Gu Qingxuan saw her coming, he raised his head and said, "Qingning, today is the period of rest, why don't you sleep more?"

She said: "I can't sleep anyway, so I got up, but my father, why didn't I sleep? It's almost dawn, so my father should go and lie down for a while." ”

He continued to flip through the paper: "It's okay, I'm waiting for news over there." ”

Gu Qingning was surprised, and then she heard a knock from the direction of the door, and she smiled: "It's really a coincidence, father, don't you see that this news is coming? After she finished speaking, she walked quickly to the door of the house, but when she arrived in the front yard, she saw Gu Qinghuan walking inside, the person who knocked on the door had already left, and the letter sent was in his hand.

"Qinghuan, but the news from over there?" Gu Qingning walked up and asked.

Gu Qinghuan finished reading the letter, and looked up with a disappointed expression, "Hmm......"

"How?"

He said: "It is true that as expected in advance, the matter of Lu Yuanze sending people into the palace to remove the corpse has been revealed, but ...... But the emperor did not blame him, but only dismissed the second lieutenant of the Criminal Department and the Imperial Forest Army, and the Lu family's father and son were clever and covered up with merit, not only were they not punished, but they were also praised by the emperor......"

"This emperor is also mediocre enough!" Gu Qingning inevitably got angry and complained, but after thinking about it, he saw it, and comforted Gu Qinghuan and said: "Forget it, it's nothing, it's not realistic to ask the emperor to punish them now The Lu family is not realistic, as long as you can take advantage of this matter to let the Yushitai entangle the Lu family, so many people's eyes are staring at them, and everyone knows what is right and wrong, the more the Lu family is not punished, the more arrogant they are, the more they can arouse the resentment of others. ”

"No......" Gu Qinghuan's expression became more and more lonely, and he shook his head and said: "While being rewarded, Lu Yuanze was still punished, and he was punished by the court staff and fined, which can be regarded as blocking the mouths of the imperial historians...... And it is the ...... of the queen's advice"

They walked to the door of the study, Gu Qingning heard him say this, he smiled in surprise, shook his head and said: "It turned out to be Sister Ye, heh, it's really ridiculous, the smartest person in the Lu family is still this eldest daughter who was forced to marry into the royal family......"

Lu Yuanye is two years older than Lu Yuanze, and he has also known the Gu family since childhood, when the two families have frequent contacts, the eldest daughter of the two families also has a friendship, no matter what else, Gu Qingning really admires Lu Yuanye, Lu Yuanye treated Gu Qingning much better than her sister Lu Yuansi in the past, and often commensurate with her sisters when she was young, but now, Gu Qingning is unwilling to involve her hatred and resentment against the Lu family.

After Sangu talked about the incident in the palace last night in the morning, he didn't worry about this matter anymore, this road is so bad, how can everything go well? Fortunately, he found trouble for the Lu family, Lu Yuanzhi will not harm the Gu family for a while, and the three of them will take advantage of this time to secretly plot things, and if they can't make a plan, they naturally have other plans.

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In the Xiangguo Mansion, the father and son of the Lu family returned home on the fourth watch, and the whole family was also waiting for them to reach that time. Lu Yuanze was beaten with a cane, returned injured, and was helped into the house by Lu Yuanzhi, which immediately alarmed the whole house, only Lu Yuancheng disdained to watch.

Mrs. Huang was so distressed when she saw that her son was injured like this, and she was looking up and down to treat him, and the doctors invited a bunch of them, and he was not allowed to have any opinions. The whole family was panicked, but he comforted them.

Lu Yuanze lay on the lean, seeing that his family was busy with him, he was uneasy, but he couldn't, so he finally persuaded his parents to go back to the house to rest, and his sister came again.

Lu Yuansi saw that his face was bloodless in pain, and there were beads of sweat on his forehead in the cold weather, and he cried urgently, "How can the eldest sister be so ruthless? I really let Your Majesty punish the eldest brother! Twenty court staffs, how can I stand it? The next time I enter the palace to see the eldest sister, I must ask her ......?"

Lu Yuanze waved his hand: "Silly sister, eldest sister, this is to protect me and let His Majesty punish me, otherwise it will be more troublesome...... Do you think my sister really endures? She has no choice, if she doesn't take the initiative to plead for me, others will not let me go, and when the time comes, the ministers will admonish and even impeach, and I will definitely suffer more than these twenty court rods...... I was beaten, and the eldest sister was also distressed, and before I left the palace, she asked the imperial doctor to prepare a lot of medicine for me, how could I not know her hard work?"

She understood and wiped her tears: "I see. The eldest sister still prefers the family. ”

"This is natural, she entered the palace for us to ......" Lu Yuanze fell weakly on the lean, his eyes were sad, and he groaned: "But she suffers herself, before her sister goes out of the cabinet, she is strong and heroic and close to men, she is familiar with poetry and books, and can ride horses and shoot arrows, often hunting and visiting the garden, and once said that she hates not being a man can go to the battlefield and enter the rivers and lakes, so many times, how comfortable and cheerful, but now she is often depressed and unhappy, and she is not comfortable in the deep palace...... After all, it's just a cage of gold......"

Lu Yuan thought about the old appearance of the eldest sister, and recalled the scene when Lu Yuanye knelt down and begged her father not to marry her into the royal family, she locked herself in the ancestral hall for seven days and seven nights, and finally couldn't resist her father, and forced her sick body to put on the most beautiful wedding dress and marry into the most noble family in the world. Lu Yuansi nodded with tears in his eyes: "Yes, for the Lu family, the eldest sister has sacrificed too much, and you have all sacrificed too much......"

She pursed her lips and looked at Lu Yuanze, paused for a moment, and asked hesitantly, "Big brother...... Give up Gu Qingning...... Is it also a pain in your heart?"

Lu Yuanze choked for a while, stagnated for a long time, and then admitted to his sister: "How can I not be heartbroken......?

"I don't mean guilt. She said, "Big brother, in addition to guilt, you still have her in your heart, right?"

Lu Yuanze replied: "I don't know. ”

"That's what you have!" Lu Yuansi was a little angry, and hurriedly persuaded him: "Big brother, you can't do this. I listened to your coachman yesterday and said that you still have a relationship with Gu Qingning, right? You personally sent her home a few days ago? I know all about it. Big brother, you can't do this anymore, whether you feel guilty or are in love, you have to break off with her completely, so that sooner or later you will get into trouble! You have to think about it, you are now married to the county lord! This is not an ordinary woman, you can be half-hearted, if she knows about you and Gu Qingning, it will be a big deal!"

Lu Yuansi persuaded him, but he couldn't explain anything, so he could only make perfunctory promises for the time being.

What their brother and sister didn't know, this conversation had been heard by the person they wanted to hide the most.

The county lord of Chengshuo came to deliver porridge to Lu Yuanze, and after listening to their words, he did not directly push the door in and reason with Lu Yuanze, but turned around and left, discarded the porridge he made with his own hands on the stone table at will, and went back to the room alone, just as if nothing had happened.