Su Yixing, who was sleepy because of drunkenness, leaned on the slightly swaying carriage, and only wanted to return to the Xiangyang Mansion as soon as possible, but he did not expect that he would meet Lu Ruhui who was about to return to the Dingguo Mansion on the way back. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

On the night of April 23, Lu Ruhui followed his grandfather Lu Xiaoqing to the Rong camp outside the South City Gate to witness Lu Shaoyun and Xia Shuanghan getting married.

It's just that unlike Lu Xiaoqing, who went to Shuanghe Lane with the Xia family father and son after returning to the city because he had too much joy to share with Xia Jingzhi, Lu Ruhui, who was later than his father and eldest brother who left the camp first to return home because they were not accustomed to the Rong diet, went directly to the Dingguo Mansion without being accompanied by their family.

In the sound of the wheels turning, Lu Ruhui, who was originally tired, was leaning against the wall of the carriage and was drowsy, but the sudden shaking of the body woke her up from her daze.

"Miss, the carriage is broken down, we can't go for the time being, and now it's close to curfew, what do you think we should do?"

In the carriage, Lu Ruhui, who stabilized her body and leaned forward sharply because of the sudden stop of the carriage, and regained her seat with the support of her personal maid, raised her hand and lifted the curtain of the car.

Judging from the street scene outside the window, Lu Ruhui, who was far away from the Dingguo Mansion, if it was a woman who did not bind her feet like Xia Shuanghan and was used to running and jumping since she was a child, then she could have asked the coachman to park the carriage that could not be repaired in a short time on the side of the street, and then ordered everyone to run home with her. As for the carriage, you can wait until tomorrow morning's curfew is lifted, and then arrange for people to come and handle it.

It's a pity that as a foot-bound girl who doesn't go out of the door on weekdays, don't say that she ran away, even walking back to the Dingguo Mansion from here is a big test for Lu Ruhui.

So, when she confirmed from the coachman that even if she immediately sent the nursing home with the car back to the mansion to call someone immediately, it was impossible to send a spare carriage to take her back to the mansion before the curfew, Lu Ruhui, who was helpless, made up her mind to hire a carriage on the street.

In the vast majority of the people in Great Xia, they did not have horses or carriages at home, and they generally relied on their own legs to walk on their own on weekdays, and even in the capital, when the time was approaching curfew, it was difficult to hire a carriage on the street.

Therefore, Lu Ruhui, who got off the carriage wearing a veil and a personal maid, even though she had been waiting on the side of the street for a long time, still failed to get into the hired carriage smoothly.

"Miss, if we really can't hire a carriage, why don't we go to Xu's Mansion to borrow it for one night?"

The Xu Mansion that the personal maid said was the maiden home of the Xu family, which was very close to their current location. It's just that even if the Xu family was not abandoned by Lu Shijie from the Dingguo Mansion, Lu Ruhui was unwilling to go to the Xu Mansion.

Lu Ruhui remembers very clearly that when she was young, she liked to play with her cousins and cousins, and she often followed her mother to Xu's Mansion as a guest. It's just that when she grew up, because of her relationship with her third cousin, who didn't learn and didn't know how to eat, but had been chasing her with a toad who wanted to eat swan meat, she didn't want to be entangled by him, and she couldn't pull her face down and tore her face and scolded him, so she reluctantly chose to stay away from Xu Mansion.

"No, I'd rather be captured by Jin Wuwei patrolling the city after the curfew than go to the Xu Mansion to face the third cousin."

Lu Ruhui replied categorically, although it prevented her personal maid from continuing to say some proposals that she didn't want to hear again, but it didn't stop her from meeting her third cousin tonight.

"Megumi? Yo, isn't this Megumi? A carriage with rolling wheels passed by Lu Ruhui's master and servant, and the one who poked his head out of the open window was the third son of Xu who Lu Ruhui was extremely unwilling to see.

"Megumii, why are you standing on the street with the maid on a big night?" Xu Sangongzi, who shouted to the coachman to stop the carriage, and then quickly jumped off the carriage, walked in front of her with a smile on his face that made Lu Ruhui feel disgusted and cold.

"Looks like your carriage is broken!" After greeting Lu Ruhui, he bent down and looked at Xu Sangongzi, who was looking at the wheel bearing, and then straightened up again and said: "In my opinion, your carriage can't be repaired in a short time, and now the time is on the verge of curfew, in order not to cause trouble to your fifth brother, I think you should get into my carriage and go back to Xu's house with me for one night!" ”

"Thank you, third cousin, for your kindness, but don't bother, one of the people in the nursing home assigned by my grandfather to escort me home has already gone home to report the news, and I believe that after a while, the spare carriage will come to pick me up."

Facing the third cousin in front of her who wanted to take her to the Xu family, Lu Ruhui lied without blushing and heartbeat, just hoping to send him away as soon as possible. It's a pity that it backfired, and Xu Sangongzi, who heard her words, chose to stay.

"In that case, let my cousin stand here and wait with you! After all, if I can't see you safely in the carriage, then I'm going home, and I can't let go of you in my heart! ”

Xu Sangongzi, who has been touching the soft nail here with Lu Ruhui for nearly three years, how can he not know Lu Ruhui's attitude towards him, just like his brother and younger brothers told him, he is simply afraid of it. But so what? The iron pestle can still be sharpened into an embroidery needle, as long as Lu Ruhui doesn't get married for a day, he still has a chance, doesn't he?

"No need, third cousin." Lu Ruhui, who screamed in his heart and begged Xu Sangongzi to leave quickly, but still had a smile on his face, said: "You see, even if I go to one nursing home, I still have two other nursing homes left for me by my grandfather, so you don't have to worry about my safety, just go home first!" ”

"No, if I can't see you on your way home, then I won't leave anything." Xu Sangongzi, who was resolutely unwilling to miss this opportunity to get along with the beauty, stayed in vain, and when he accompanied Lu Ruhui and waited for a while but never saw a carriage coming, he suddenly understood that Lu Ruhui was most likely lying to Xu Sangongzi, so he put away the smile on his face.

"Megumi, what do you mean by that? Didn't you say that the spare carriage would come to pick you up soon? But seeing that the time is about to run out, you rushed back to the Dingguo Mansion from here, but the carriage still didn't come, isn't it, the words you just used to politely reject me are actually all lies to prevaricate me? ”

Now that the lie has been discovered, there is no need for the ...... to continue to disguise it." Third cousin, whether I just told the truth or lied, in short, you don't need to worry about my affairs, and instead of wasting time with me in this place, you might as well go home as soon as possible. ”

"Huihui, how can you talk to me like this, no matter what, my act of inviting you back to Xu's Mansion for one night is for your safety, even if you don't like me, you don't need to say so ugly words to break my heart, right?"

"Third cousin, I think that in the past three years, because I have taken into account your mood and don't want to hurt your heart, I have been trying to speak more nicely. But it wasn't until recently that I really realized that thousands of nice words to say to you don't work as hard as a bad word. ”

In the past month, she has often interacted with Xia Shuanghan, so she has learned from her pungent words and deeds that blind patience and concession are not virtues, but a manifestation of incompetence and cowardice, although Lu Ruhui, although it is impossible to live as chic and wanton as Xia Shuanghan, but at least in the face of people and things she doesn't like, she has learned to say "no" to them firmly and straightforwardly.

"Megumii, you've changed, I don't know you anymore! Are you really the Megumi I used to know? "I have been pestering the beautiful woman for three years, and only now I finally touched a hard nail here in Lu Ruhui, Xu Sangongzi, who couldn't accept it for a moment.

"It's better not to know each other, third cousin, I hope that after you see through my essence today, you won't come to pester me again in the future." Leaving behind Xu Sangongzi, who was looking at her with wide eyes wide open, and at the same time staggered back two steps because he was too shaken, Lu Ruhui, who didn't want to be entangled with him anymore, just wanted to leave this place of right and wrong as soon as possible.

It's a pity that she just turned around, and before she even had time to take a step, Xu Sangongzi, who stabilized her body and changed her face, suddenly reached out and grabbed her.

"Lu Ruhui! You fucking don't want to be here with me, putting on a face and giving a shame, do you think you are still the young lady of the prince of Dingguo? Phew! You're not for a long time! ”

With contempt and disgust on his face, Xu Sangongzi, who tightly grabbed Lu Ruhui's wrist, narrowed his evil triangular eyes slightly, and shouted loudly with spittle: "You were divorced by your husband's family before the wedding date, and then you left Liaodong for your own marriage but were kidnapped by the mob and taken up the mountain as a hostage, your reputation has long been ruined!" Now you are just a broken flower and a willow that can't be married, and you dare to look down on Lao Tzu?! What the fuck do you think you are?! ”

"You...... You ......" Lu Ruhui, who was escorted aside by a guard arranged for her by her grandfather in the shouting and scolding of Xu Sangongzi, was so angry that the corners of her forehead were beating with blue tendons, and she didn't care about her faintly aching wrist at all, and only raised her hand and pointed at the two nursing homes and said loudly: "You guys go up and beat me up, beat hard!" What the hell is he talking about in that mouth?! You beat me, don't beat him to his knees and beg for mercy, don't stop! ”

"......" glanced at each other with a look of surprise, the two nurses who had never thought that they would hear such an order from Lu Ruhui, who had always been quiet and virtuous, were slightly stunned. It wasn't until they saw on each other's faces that the expressions that could prove that the words they had just heard were not hallucinations, and the two of them, who had completely come to their senses, rushed forward with their fists.

The nursing homes of the Dingguo Mansion were all cultivated by Lu Xiaoqing in a down-to-earth manner, so it is conceivable what the martial arts of the two nursing homes are.

As the subordinates who followed Xu Sangongzi, who was like a wine bag and rice bag, they had already been cleaned up by Xia Shuanghan effortlessly two years ago, so they were naturally not the opponents of the two nursing homes.

Therefore, just a pillar of incense, Xu Sangongzi, who was still holding his head high and looking condescending, and his nostrils were pointing to the sky and saying evil words to Lu Ruhui, was subdued by two nurses and his little servants in the blink of an eye.

"Lu Ruhui! How dare you do this to me?! You wait, Lao Tzu won't let you go! Xu Sangongzi, who was twisted his arms by a nurse and pressed against the carriage on the outer wall of the carriage of the Dingguo Mansion, was still twisting his neck and shouting at Lu Ruhui in disbelief.

And Lu Ruhui, who stood silently on the side, understood the comfort of using violent means to punish the person she hated from the process of beating people in the two nursing homes, and finally understood why her fifth sister-in-law Xia Shuanghan liked to whip people with a horsewhip so much.

"Oh? Don't let me go? What can you do if you don't let me go? ”

The veil that half-covered her face couldn't stop Lu Ruhui's hearty smile, and for a moment, she only felt that she had broken free from the shackles that had bound her for so many years, and she curled the corners of her mouth and said: "Third cousin, there is a sentence that I have really endured for many years, and I can't bear it anymore today." That is, you are a cowardly and incompetent gentleman, who can't even be an upright man, and marry you? I might as well marry the butcher who sells pork in the West Market! After all, the bad guy still has a sturdy body, doesn't he? ”

"Lu Ruhui! You-"

"What are you?" The nursing home of Xu Sangongzi, who was subdued, inherited Lu Xiaoqing's temper and integrity, so he couldn't say anything and couldn't allow the shameless people in front of him to insult his own young lady, so he stepped on Xu Sangongzi's ankle and snuffed out his insults that had not yet been spoken.

"Little ...... Miss ...... "I followed Lu Ruhui by my side, and I never thought that my young lady would do such a thing tonight, and slowly moved to Lu Ruhui's side with a trembling voice and said: "Miss, forget it if you breathe, there is really no need to continue to delay time here, after all, it looks like a curfew is coming soon!" ”

"You...... What you're saying is. After being reminded by the maid, Lu Ruhui, who had no time to stay on the street any longer, quickly suppressed the feeling of comfort in her heart.

Then, just before she could figure out what she should do next, a carriage with the mark of Xiangyang Wangfu slowly drove up and stopped in front of her.

"For the sake of you letting me watch a good show tonight, come on, I'll take you back to Aunt Xie and ask her to arrange a place for you to live."

Su Yixing, who was sitting in the carriage with the window wide open, was originally driving on the way home in a sleepy mood. It's just that when the carriage he was riding turned onto the current street, Li Qinglan, who was accompanying him outside the carriage, suddenly raised his hand and gently knocked on the window of the carriage.

"Shizi, Miss Lu's carriage is broken, now standing on the street in front of her with her personal maid, seeing that the time is approaching the curfew, do you want to help Miss Lu?"

Qinglan...... Exactly since when. Your master, I, have actually become a helpful person in your eyes? ”

Su Yixing, who lifted his eyelids tiredly, knowing that only Lu Ruhui, the favorite of the Xie family, would be called "Miss Lu" by Li Qinglan, said in a low tone with majesty: "You also know that I hate those cowardly women of the family the most, not to mention that she is still Lu Shaoyun's sister, so why do you think that it is possible for me to be compassionate and go over to help her?" ”

“...... Qinglan knew her mistake. Li Qinglan, who resolutely bowed his head and admitted his mistake, knew very clearly that he didn't want to die, so he wouldn't say his true words no matter what-" Back to Shizi, Qinglan overheard what the Loyal and Righteous Township Monarch said to you on the night he left the Xiangyang Palace. And Qinglan thinks that she is right, Miss Lu is indeed very suitable for you and is fully qualified to be your princess. So now I want to bring you together and bring you together. ”

"Hmm...... It's good to know what to do. Su Yixing, who leaned back on the wall of the carriage and told the coachman not to take care of Lu Ruhui and his party, just continue to walk forward, but in the end he could not pass the street smoothly before Lu Ruhui gave the order to beat people.

"The way of the world has become too fast, right? In the past many years, even if someone or something provokes her, she will only smile at most Lu Ruhui, who makes people touch a soft nail, and now she has actually learned to support her subordinates to beat people! Isn't it because she went to the wedding tonight and accidentally drank high, so she was so drunk and bold that she did such a thing, right? ”

“...... Miss Lu, she doesn't look like she's drunk! Li Qinglan, who had to accompany her master to stop temporarily because of the riots in front of her, said: "Maybe before, Miss Lu was suppressed by his dogmatic mother, so she didn't dare to show her deviant side!" ”

“...... In my opinion, it should be that she has been in frequent contact with frost and cold in the past month, so she has been imperceptibly affected! After all, Frost Han regarded the three beauties that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince rewarded Lu Shaoyun as a rough envoy, and it was spread quite widely, wasn't it? ”

Raising his eyes through the car window, Su Yixing, who was high-spirited and calling Lu Ruhui who was beating people in the courtyard not far away, after the riot over there subsided, he turned to Li Qinglan and said: "Qinglan, you went to the Dingguo Mansion, and said that because the carriage broke down and it was getting late, Aunt Xie, who was not worried about Lu Ruhui's stay on the street, took her back to our Xiangyang Palace." ”

...... "Shizi, has this changed his mind?" Li Qinglan, who was silent on her face, but felt that this was a good omen in her heart, quickly hugged her fists and left.

And Su Yixing, who ordered the coachman to stop the carriage in front of Lu Ruhui, soon embarked on the return journey back to Xiangyang Palace with Lu Ruhui, who boarded the carriage.

On the rattling carriage, because of Su Yixing's sentence "I let you come up, it is already considered a lot of mercy, what, you still want to bring your girl with you", and Lu Ruhui, who had to let her personal maid and the coachman squeeze on the board outside the carriage, is now in a nervous mood and a deer in her heart.

"I actually sat alone in the carriage with Su Zhechen? Oh, my God! It's unbelievable. I never thought that my unrequited sweetheart would suddenly appear when she needed help and helped her in time, Lu Ruhui, who prayed silently in her heart with a flushed face: "If this road never ends, if this carriage never stops, it will be good!" ”

"Do you know why I hated you so much before?" Su Yixing, who could deduce how nervous and excited she was from Lu Ruhui's breathing when she closed her eyes and recuperated, took the initiative to break the silence in the carriage: "What I hated most about you before was that you had a temperament that didn't speak directly. ”

"Aunt Xie has always treated you very kindly since you were a child, but even in the face of her, you always can't make a sound, and you never dare to express what you are really thinking. You said that every time you say a word like this, you have to repeatedly consider the feelings of everyone around you, don't you feel tired? Or is it as the saying of Frost and Cold that even a bodhisattva cannot be loved by everyone, and you want to take care of everyone? It's impossible to die at all. ”

"......" It turns out that what you like is not a submissive echo worm, but a girl who dares to express her thoughts? I understand.

From Su Yixing's words, Lu Ruhui, who understood what he lacked, made up her mind to change herself little by little. At the same time, Su Yixing, who recalled what he had just heard, the conversation between Xu Sangongzi and Lu Ruhui, quickly had doubts about something.

"The incident that happened in the Qibaoshan area of Liaodong, for the sake of your reputation, I remember that I did my best to block the news, but Xu San, how did he know that you were once abducted to the mountains by the mob?"

Considering that Lu Ruhui and Mrs. Lu Wu were not locals in the Qibaoshan area, it was impossible for the mob and local officials to know their true identities; And, when Mrs. Lu Wu returned to the capital halfway, she sent a letter to her mother's family, "Because I heard that there was a mob making trouble, in order to prevent being involved in trouble, Hui'er and I turned back halfway", Su Yixing had doubts for a while that Xu San actually knew about it.

Judging from Xu San's lack of learning and skills, and his connections to hear the news are not open enough, even if he knows about it, it should be when the news spreads widely in Beijing. So now, when there are no such rumors in Beijing, who did he learn about it?

Su Yixing, who had doubts about this in his heart, and then sent someone to investigate on the second day, so on the evening of the second day, he had the feeling of "stepping on the iron shoes and finding nowhere to find it, and it takes no effort to get it". (To be continued.) )