Chapter 16: Dog Eats Dog
Lu Yuanzheng returned from the early dynasty and went directly into the study. Sitting behind the desk, Lu Yuanzheng couldn't help but feel a little distressed when he thought about the emperor's choice of a concubine for the crown prince mentioned by the emperor this morning. The emperor has already put the matter of choosing a concubine on the bright side, so that means that he is about to make a decision on which daughter to send to the palace.
Lu Zhiyao's last proposal to Lu Yuanzheng was not unthinkable, but looking at Lu Zhiqing's current appearance, he knew that Lu Dao's method would not work. But if he really wants to send Lu Zhiyao to the palace, the consequences will also give him a headache......
Lu Yuanzheng, who was in a dilemma, could only sigh secretly. His eyes inadvertently saw the white paper at the door of the room, Lu Yuanzheng was stunned for a moment, walked over and bent down to pick it up.
After reading what was written on the paper, Lu Yuanzheng's mood plummeted. Crumpling the piece of paper into a ball and holding it in his hand, Lu Yuanzheng slammed open the door and strode towards Ye Lianrong's room.
Lu Zhiyao, who had been hiding not far from the study, smiled with satisfaction after seeing such a scene, and hurried back to his courtyard, pretending not to know anything, waiting to watch the show.
Ye Lianrong had just found out that her money had been stolen, and she was in a state of being extremely mad when there was no fire. rummaged around, but Ye Lianrong still didn't find those silver tickets. Just as she was looking at the house that she had made a mess in a daze, thinking in her heart that someone might have stolen the silver ticket, the door was suddenly kicked open.
Ye Lianrong turned her head suddenly, but unexpectedly saw Lu Yuanzheng with an angry face.
"Master......" Ye Lianrong opened her mouth with an unnatural expression, watching Lu Yuanzheng walk in front of her violently, she just wanted to ask "What's wrong", but before the words could be spoken, she was slapped by Lu Yuanzheng and couldn't speak.
Ye Lianrong covered her beaten face incredulously, looked at Lu Yuanzheng with wide eyes, and after a while, Ye Lianrong opened her voice tremblingly and said, "You...... You hit me?! ”
She has been married to the Prime Minister for so many years, even if she has quarreled and been cold in the middle, he has never done anything to herself!
"You actually hit me!?" Ye Lianrong's amplified voice felt very aggrieved.
"That's right, I hit you!" Lu Yuanzheng didn't seem to be easily discouraged, he looked at Ye Lianrong's somewhat distorted face, and casually threw the unformed letter that had been rubbed by him onto Ye Lianrong's face. "Look what this is!"
Ye Lianrong lowered her head and opened the paper in confusion to look at the contents on it. After she finished reading it, her mind went blank, and she didn't know what was going on.
"Master, I didn't, you have to believe me!" Ye Lianrong shook her head again and again, showing her innocence. "I really don't, I really ......"
"None? So what's going on in your room? Do you dare to say that you didn't lose something? Ye Lianrong, I have been thinking about you and my husband and wife for so many years, and I have been putting up with you, do you really think that I don't know about the things you do in private! Why didn't I find out earlier, it turns out that your heart is so vicious. She's just a child, and you can actually do it! ”
"Master, I'm wronged!" Ye Lianrong's legs were weak, she sat on the ground, hugged Lu Yuanzheng's legs and cried. "Sir, think about it, how could I possibly recognize that flower thief? Someone must have framed me, yes! Maybe, maybe it's Lu Zhiyao's letter written by herself, deliberately trying to frame me, master! ”
After listening to Ye Lianrong's last words, Lu Yuanzheng stretched out his hand and pushed Ye Lianrong aside. "You still dare to quibble, she hasn't read since she was a child, how can this word come from her! It's rare to have a good heart, I want to give Zhiqing the opportunity to enter the palace, let Zhiqing become the crown princess, I don't want you to be so vicious, I don't know what to do, Ye Lianrong, I warn you, if you dare to do these vicious things in front of me in the future, don't blame me for not sparing you! ”
Lu Yuanzheng beat Ye Lianrong, scolded her angrily, and then turned to leave, leaving Ye Lianrong crying and falling to the ground, still holding the letter written by someone who didn't know who wrote it.
When Lu Yuanzheng trained Ye Lianrong, his voice was very loud, so the people in the courtyard naturally heard it. Soon, the second lady was beaten by the master because of the eldest lady, and it spread almost throughout the entire Prime Minister's Mansion.
After Lu Zhiqing heard Yuechan talk back, she hurriedly ran to Ye Lianrong's room in a panic and asked what was going on. Listening to Ye Lianrong's crying, she said breathlessly: "The thousands of taels of silver I took back from your uncle yesterday are gone, I don't know who stole it, your father received such a letter this morning, and beat me indiscriminately." Qing'er, how do you say your mother will live in the future! ”
Ye Lianrong said that she was sad, and tears flowed down again. Lu Zhiqing, who was watching, was also very impatient.
"A few thousand taels? Mother, what are you doing with so much silver? Where did you put it? Have you looked for it? ”
"I've found it, I've found it, I've found it, I'm gone." Ye Lianrong was bowing her head and crying, when she suddenly raised her head and stared straight at Yuechan. "Yesterday you went to fetch the money for me, and no one else knows about it. Say! Did you steal the silver from the inside and out? ”
As soon as Yuechan heard Ye Lianrong say this, she was frightened and immediately knelt on the ground. "Madam, how could Yuechan steal your things, so much silver, even if you give me eight hundred guts, I won't dare! What's more, I left yesterday after handing over the things to Madame, and I don't know where Madame Lu Dao put it. ”
"Just because you don't know the road doesn't mean you won't look for it!"
Lu Zhiqing didn't care so much, and shone her backhand on Yuechan's face all of a sudden. The sharp nails left blood-red marks on Yuechan's face, which was very painful, but Yuechan didn't dare to cry. "Miss and Madame treat me so well, how could I steal your things, and I have nowhere to spend the money I take!"
Yuechan tried hard to clear her suspicion, and after several people tossed for almost an hour, they all calmed down and began to sum up the matter.
The general meaning of the letter was that he agreed to help Ye Lianrong and completely ruined Lu Zhiyao. So he took the deposit first, but he was only interested in the woman who became a relative, so he would talk about it after Lu Zhiyao got married.
The whole letter was written in a mocking tone, and the last sign of the letter was an unacceptable "Qian" word.
"Mother, this 'Qian' can't be ......" Lu Zhiqing swallowed her saliva and asked Ye Lianrong cautiously, "It can't be that Chu Ziqian, right?" Are you really looking for him? ”
"How can I find him, don't you even believe me?" Ye Lianrong said to Lu Zhiqing angrily: "That flower thief, the court has been arrested for so many years and has not been caught, if only I had the ability to find him!" Besides, if I found him, why did he send the letter to your father? ”
"So who wrote this letter? Lu Zhiyao? She can't write such good words. Lu Zhiqing looked at the lines of vigorous and free handwriting on the paper, and guessed: "Could it be the helper she found?" ”
"This person obviously wants to frame me, even if Lu Zhiyao didn't do it, it definitely has nothing to do with her! But we don't have any evidence now, and your father is adamant that I did it, so we can only swallow this loss ourselves. Although Ye Lianrong was angry, she also knew that she couldn't do anything to Lu Zhiyao at this juncture, otherwise Lu Yuanzheng would definitely not let her go. What's more, she still cares a lot about the words that Lu Yuanzheng said at the end of the expedition.
Lu Yuanzheng said that the opportunity to enter the palace was given to Lu Zhiqing by Lu Zhiyao, which ...... What's going on?
Lu Zhiyao stayed in her yard all day, but there was no shortage of people to tell her about Ye Lianrong. Seeing Wanyue and Yudie coming over with a happy face, Lu Zhiyao pursed his lips and smiled, and asked, "What good happened, you are so happy?" ”
"You don't know what to do, do you? The second lady was beaten by the master today, ha, ha. Wanyue sat down beside Lu Zhiyao and said openly: "I also saw Yuechan just now, I don't know if she was beaten by the second lady or by the second lady, anyway, there are nail marks on her face, this is simply a dog eats a dog, haluha." ”
"Nonsense, be careful of being heard, you can't eat and walk around!" The rain butterfly warned Wanyue sharply, so that Wanyue had to restrain a little. Yudie raised her eyes and looked at Lu Zhiyao's pursed lips and smiling expression, she thought for a while and asked, "Do you know Lu Dao, why did the master beat the second lady?" ”
"How can I know the truth?" Lu Zhiyao shook his head, not intending to tell them the truth of the matter. These two weren't her own people yet, and she hadn't trusted them to that extent. "But whatever it is, it's a happy thing."
Lu Zhiyao chose to write such a letter purely on a whim. Lu Zhiyao really can't write, but Xia Yao can. For Xia Yao, who used to like to dance and write, all kinds of fonts are no problem for her. As for choosing to write the letter in Chu Ziqian's name, there is also a reason.
The name Chu Ziqian will make many people afraid, especially rich people and women. He is a well-known thief in the country of Charlai, not only stealing money, but also having fun. Lu Zhiyao had heard his father and eldest brother talk about this person more than once before, and he also knew that people had two extreme evaluations of this person. Some say he's a thief, others say he's a damn flower thief. In short, this Chu Ziqian is both righteous and evil, and he is a topic of conversation in many people's mouths. And Lu Zhiyao thought that Lu Yuanzheng, as the prime minister of the DPRK and China, should not be ignorant of the name Lu Dao.
The contents of the letter were enough to make Lu Yuanzheng dizzy, and he had no time to think about anything else. And Ye Lianrong did lose a lot of things this time, so Lu Zhiyao also decided that she didn't dare to look for it with great fanfare. Otherwise, when the time comes, she will really be asked by Lu Yuanzheng, the use of her taking so much silver, Ye Lianrong is not easy to explain.