After dinner, Shen Ze sat under the lamp, holding a book in his hand, but his thoughts drifted to somewhere, and he didn't turn a page for half a day.

At this moment, there was a soft knock at the door.

"Who?"

"The slave maid is the housekeeper mother next to the eldest lady of the Lu family."

It's her? Just as soon as she heard the housekeeper mother next to her come to her, her heartbeat couldn't help but start to speed up. Shen Ze shook his head weakly, he was really in the magic barrier.

After opening the door, Han's mother did not enter the house, but only bowed and reported straight to the point: "My young lady is waiting for her son in the study, and she has important matters to discuss, I wonder if my son can move to talk about it?" ”

Mother Han actually disagrees with Miss choosing to find Shen Ze at this time, no matter what, if she sees a foreign man late at night, if she accidentally spreads it, it will damage Miss's reputation after all. It's no wonder that Shen Gongzi's schedule was set in a hurry, and he was going to leave tomorrow, and the young lady had no choice but to invite this person at night.

Unable to wait for a reply, Mother Han couldn't help but raise her head and secretly glared at Shen Ze, who was like a goose: "Shen Gongzi? ”

"Ahh So I went with my mother. Shen Ze finally came back from his stunned stupor, and his face turned red.

Walking to the door of the study, Han's mother stopped: "Son, go in by yourself, the slave and maid will be at the door." This is a tactful reminder not to have any crooked thoughts. After listening to the words learned by the two silly girls, Han's mother also understood Shen Gongzi's character, and the gentle reminder was just out of prudence.

Shen Ze nodded, took a deep breath, and pushed the door in.

The figure he had in mind was sitting behind his desk at this time. The dignified goose egg had a faint smile on his face, and the lamp was softer and softer, and the bright and energetic almond eyes were coming with his visit at the moment, with a smile in his eyes but not frivolous. "You're here." It was just three words, and there was no extra polite greeting, but Shen Ze felt very cordial after hearing it.

He nodded, and said simply, "Looking for me?" "I didn't dare to say a word, for fear of revealing half of my thoughts.

"Childe is in a hurry this time, is there anything important to do?"

"Something's true." Shen Ze really had no intention of implicating Zhihua, and he didn't plan to talk about it deeply.

Zhihua became more and more appreciative of his character because of this, and took the initiative to say: "But for the sake of Lingzun? ”

Shen Ze looked shocked, "How do you know?" ”

Zhihua made a gesture of "please sit", motioned for him to sit opposite, picked up the teapot on the table, and personally made him a cup of tea, and then raised his eyes: "Can Childe promise me?" ”

Shen Ze raised the tea and sipped lightly, "Miss Lu, please speak." He didn't ask her what she wanted, but just accepted it.

"No matter what I say next, don't question where I got the news from, just know that the little girl is not a liar."

Everyone has secrets that they don't want others to know, and since she doesn't want to say it, Shen Ze doesn't ask about it, so she agrees. "Since Miss Lu already knows, I don't really want to hide it, this time I really came to save my father."

"So dare to ask what Childe is going to do? Is it just going to go straight to the door? Zhihua wanted to hear his plan, and if he was more thoughtful than himself, he didn't need to mention his plan.

Although Bi Tuo's bad old man acted out of tune, he was very accurate in his eyes, Shen Ze did have inexplicable trust in Miss Lu's family, and he didn't hesitate to tell his plan and plan at the moment: "I plan to pretend to be a thief, take that wicked woman away when she goes out, and force her to hand over her father." ”

Zhihua didn't expect him to plan it like this. "I had the fate to see the Guardian of the Patriotic Mansion, and judging by its posture, it is not an idle person, right? Is Childe absolutely sure that he will be able to take people from them? Even if Gongzi really did it, Mrs. Shen was willing to hand over Wei Guogong, where did Gongzi plan to take Lingzun to? Wei Guogong is a dignified member of the imperial court, if there is no approval from His Majesty, how can you take him away? If Gongzi plans to pretend to be a thief to the end, when the time comes, the court will definitely issue a document to hunt down, will Ling Zun's body be able to withstand the pain of hiding in these places? ”

Shen Ze couldn't imagine that she was a boudoir daughter, but she saw things so sharply. sighed, and said dejectedly: "How can I not know that I am acting recklessly? But now that the situation is urgent, I really can't do anything better. I can't just watch my father suffer at the hands of that wicked woman, and his life is in danger, but he continues to lurk in the shadows and cultivate power, right? How is this different from an animal? I can have this meager foundation today, all supported by the belief of rescuing my father, if my father is gone, what is the point of what I have done? ”

"If the son can be trusted, I have a plan here. Although this plan will take a little longer, it is more thorough than Childe's original plan. However, there are still certain risks. Zhihua wanted to speak and stopped.

"Miss Lu, but it doesn't matter, no matter what the price is, I will rescue my father!"

Seeing that his expression was firm, Zhihua didn't go around in circles, and directly said his plan: "On the first day of the eighth month, there will be assassins at the Queen Mother's birthday banquet, and I don't know who sent these assassins, but I know that they are all dead soldiers." As long as Shen Gongzi can seize the opportunity at the birthday banquet, save the queen mother or the emperor, capture the assassin alive, and when His Majesty is rewarded for his meritorious deeds, you can openly and honestly propose to take the Duke of Wei Guo out of Beijing to recuperate. However, these assassins have the will to die, and they have no scruples about using their hands, and their combat power is much stronger than that of the Patriotic Guard, which is easy to say, but in fact it is extremely dangerous, and I hope that the prince will think twice before acting. This is already the best way that Zhihua can come up with in an afternoon.

After listening, Shen Ze stood up and solemnly bowed to Zhihua: "Thank you, Miss, for your advice!" Regardless of whether Shen Ze can rescue his father or not, this grace is unforgettable! Miss has helped again and again, Shen Ze has nothing to repay, if there is an order in the future, he will never give up! ”

"Childe is serious. I just helped you think of a plan, and the rest is up to Childe. The little girl has nothing else to ask for, and she will help you today, just because she empathizes with Childe's heart of wanting to save her loved ones, and Childe really doesn't have to take it to heart. ”

Shen Ze shook his head: "The eldest lady's words are wrong. You have been kind and have helped me again and again, and you have been kind enough to repay your kindness, and I have repeatedly received your favors, how can I not always keep it in mind in order to repay you? ”

When Zhihua heard the words "always keep it in mind", and suddenly remembered the words he confided in his heart behind his back, she couldn't help blushing, cleared her throat, and changed the topic uncomfortably: "By the way, I have some doubts, I don't know if Gongzi is willing to answer?" ”

"Miss Lu, please say, I will know everything."

"In the early years, everyone in Beijing knew about the deep love between Wei Guogong and his wife, and I never seemed to have heard of Wei Guogong's remarriage, and Mrs. Guo should be the biological mother of Gongzi, right? I don't know why, this is the case with the Patriotic Mansion now? These questions have been haunting Zhihua's heart since they were discovered, and they are really unhappy.

Shen Ze's face showed a sad look, and he groaned for a while before he spoke.

It turned out that it was true that Wei Guogong and his wife were deeply in love, and Shen Ze was indeed the eldest son of Wei Guogong's relatives, but Wei Guogong married two wives. The two ladies went out of the same door, and this steproom was personally selected by the original wife, and she personally asked them to get married within 100 days of her death. Shen Ze's biological mother is the eldest daughter of Fei Ning, the left minister of the dynasty, and the husband and wife love after marrying the Duke of Weiguo, which can be said to be a good match made in heaven. It's a pity that when Shen Ze was three years old, his mother suffered from an incurable disease. Worried about her stepmother's mistreatment of her son, the Duchess Fei, painstakingly decided to select one of the unmarried sisters in the family and marry to the Weiguo Mansion to fill the house. After careful consideration, Fei Shi chose the seventh sister in the family under his mother's advice. This sister is soft by nature, and Fei's mother and daughter chose her for this reason. However, Mrs. Zuo Xiang always felt uneasy after thinking about it, for fear that this concubine would marry in the future and deal with her own grandchildren when she had her own children. The idea of taking precautions made her finally take action, coaxing the concubine, and after seeing her drink the medicine of the heir, she was relieved to let her out of the cabinet. Mrs. Zuo Xiang always thought that the concubine didn't know about it, but she didn't expect that she knew that it was a bowl of poison and gritted her teeth and drank it all. How can a woman who is so good at forbearance have a supple temperament? Because it was a marriage that was held within 100 days of the original match, the wedding was done in a hurry and simply, and even the guests were not invited. Therefore, the fact that Wei Guogong married two ladies is rarely known in Beijing.

After becoming the Duchess of the Kingdom, the step-room Xiao Fei did not show the slightest resentment towards herself. This woman, who is the best at forbearance, began to lay out little by little. She respects her husband, Shen Bin is not in good health, at least half of the year is sick in bed, every time she is sick, Xiao Fei is undressed and personally serves in front of the bed, wiping her body and feeding medicine, never fake her hands; Shen Bin has too few heirs, and as soon as her sister's mourning period passed, Xiao Fei raised her maid with her face and raised her aunt, and often persuaded her husband to be wet with rain and dew, and the heirs were important; treats children, whether it is the son Shen Ze or the two concubines born by the maid later, she treats them all as her own and takes them with her side to raise them personally. Food, clothing, housing and transportation are all personally cared for, never the slightest harsh, not only that, if the children make mistakes, Xiao Fei never tolerates, should be taught, should be punished, it can be said that the real mother is nothing more than that. It took only five years for such a perfect Duchess to win the respect of everyone up and down the Weiguo Mansion. From this time on, she began to plant her own hands in the Weiguo Mansion bit by bit. After another seven years, almost all the subordinates in the Weiguo Mansion obeyed her orders, and all the properties under the name of the Weiguo Gong were also taken care of by the people she arranged, so it can be said that she has become the invisible Weiguo Gong. After all the situation was brought under control, this terrifying woman gradually revealed her true colors.

Xiao Fei's first target was his mother-in-law, who he hated the most. It is conceivable what kind of life a lonely concubine lives in the hands of a shrewd and stern mother-in-law. Under the circumstances at that time, no matter whether she was willing to fill the house in her heart or not, her eldest sister and mother-in-law, who had already taken a fancy to her, would not give her a chance to choose at all. That bowl of heir medicine, if she exposes it on the spot and is unwilling to drink it, her grandmother will also pour it. With such a deep hatred, how can Xiao Fei's not take revenge? She activated the inner line that had been buried by her mother's side for more than ten years, and the blow was fatal. After killing his mother-in-law, Xiao Fei even took the initiative to talk to his father and admitted that he had done it. In the face of this daughter, who has mastered all the visible forces of the Weiguo Mansion, the left minister, who has been in the officialdom for many years, compromised, not only no longer pursued the death of his wife, but also formed an alliance with his daughter, acquiescing in her decision to attack her grandson.

Xiao Fei's enemy is not only her mother, but the eldest sister is her second enemy. Since childhood, whether it is clothes and jewelry or the gifts received when entertaining guests, all the money they get from these concubines is not what the eldest sister picks up. That's it, when she grew up, she married a man whose eldest sister was sick and dying, and gave it up for the sake of her son. Even the only wedding in his life, because it was the eldest sister's funeral, was as humiliating as a concubine, how could Xiao Fei not complain in his heart? The eldest sister is dead, and this hatred has been transferred to the two men she cared about the most in her life. In order to take revenge on these two people, Xiao Fei first opened his face to his maid and raised him to be his aunt. Shen Bin is not a good woman at all, he rarely even touches the steproom personally chosen by his deceased wife, let alone a maid who was inexplicably brought up? No matter how hard Xiao Fei persuaded him, he just didn't want to enter the aunt's house. In order to seize the title that should have been inherited by the eldest sister's son, Xiao Fei could only use a trace of incense. After the first success, Shen Bin had a concubine, Shen Pei; In order to ensure that the future of winning the title is foolproof, she is not satisfied with having only one concubine, and she repeats her old tricks, so Shen Pei's younger brother Shen Hao was born. It's really ridiculous to say, other people's housewives are trying their best to beware of concubines, only this little Fei, who was blinded by hatred, used incense to send her husband to her aunt's bed. Xiao Fei had two concubines, and after easily cleaning up their biological mother, they raised them by their side and taught them attentively, and they grew up no worse than Shen Ze.

Mrs. Zuo Xiang has been a housekeeper for decades, and it is impossible not to have a servant who is faithful to her. A secret conversation between Xiao Fei and Fei Ning was overheard by an old servant who had been tracking down the cause of his wife's death. This old servant is also a very capable person, he managed to receive the envoy of the Zuo Prime Minister's Mansion to send a gift and took the opportunity to sneak into the Weiguo Mansion. Shen Bin and Shen Ze, who learned the truth, couldn't believe that the perfect Duchess of Wei Guo in their hearts was actually such a vicious heart! In order to confirm what the old servant said, Shen Bin forced his sick body to investigate in person, only to find that there were almost no more people in the mansion who were loyal to their father and son, and the property managers outside the mansion were all people he didn't know. I have to say that Shen Bin's move was really a mistake, not only did he startle Xiao Fei's and let her simply tear her face and put her husband under house arrest, but also caused Shen Ze to lose the best chance to escape, if he hadn't met Zhihua in this life, Shen Ze would not have been able to escape from the pursuit of the nursing home sent by Xiao Fei's family.