I don't know how long it took, Qiu Tang heard that Lu Zhu tiptoed back to the house, gently climbed into bed, she turned around, leaned on Lu Zhu's ear and said softly, "Sister, goodbye."

A tear slid through the corner of his eye and melted into the night.

The sky in the east was white, Qiu Tang wrung out the last piece of clothing in the basin and dried it, and when he turned around, he saw Xu's mother standing on the corridor on the second floor of the small building next to them and looking at them.

"Say hello to Mom." Hearing Qiu Tang's voice, the girls found that Mother Xu was watching them from above, and hurriedly fluttered to say goodbye.

"Well, the rules are good. Grab an extra snack this morning. Mother Xu was extremely satisfied with the girls' reactions.

"Thank you mom for the reward." All the girls are blessed.

"Luzhu, let's have breakfast later, let's go to the front hall." Mother Xu nodded slightly.

"Yes." Luzhu Wanfu responded.

"Why don't you Aiqing speak" Above the court, Mu Jianyu was not angry and arrogant, and his momentum was overwhelming.

The courtiers, look at me, I look at you, I don't dare to breathe. Since the ancestors ascended the throne, the wind and rain have been smooth, the country and the people have been peaceful, and the peaceful days have passed for too long, so long that people almost forget that there is still war.

Everyone was silent for a long time, and then an old minister stood up tremblingly and said, "Holy Saint Shengming, General Zuo Tiandong will definitely pacify the frontier and triumph."

"What I'm asking is what if General Zuo is unfavorable?"

"If it's not good to be out of school, then let's negotiate peace." The old minister trembled and fell to his knees.

"Just a clan of the Qimu clan wants to negotiate peace, what a group of spineless waste!" Mu Jianyu was furious. It was a great shame for him to negotiate peace.

"It is said that raising troops for a thousand days is a while, and the court supports you with tens of millions of taels of silver every year, and now that the frontier has been violated, you actually want to negotiate peace! What do I want you to do? ”

"The Holy One is angry!" Mu Jianyu's thunderous anger shocked him to his knees in the court.

An old minister trembled and stood up and said: "Enlighten the saint, the old minister has a word, I don't know ......"

"Say!" Mu Jianyu interrupted the old minister's words, at this time he was not in the mood to listen to anyone's nonsense.

"The second prince can fight well and be strong in martial arts, if the second prince can lead the troops to fight on his behalf, he must be able to encourage the fighting spirit of the frontier soldiers and quell the rebellion."

"Ling Xi ......" Mu Jianyu didn't think of sending the prince to drive the expedition on his behalf, but Mu Lingxi is the queen's sister-in-law, and the queen has just been grounded for mutilating the concubine and the prince, if Mu Lingxi is sent at this time, I am afraid that the queen will take the opportunity to rise again, so that he will be ashamed of Zhang Wan and Zhang Wan's children who were mutilated by the queen, and in addition, he will not be able to handle the relationship with Zhang Guoshi. Mu Jianyu's brows furrowed tighter and tighter, and finally twisted a pimple in the center of his eyebrows.

"Stand down, Rong Zhen thinks." Mu Jianyu waved his sleeves and turned the screen to retreat.

"Blessed mother." After breakfast, Luzhu came to the front hall and looked at Mother Xu, who was sitting at the table of the Eight Immortals drinking tea, and bowed down.

"It's coming. Today, there's nothing else to do, I just want you to meet someone, and you see if you know each other. Mother Xu put down the bowl, glanced at the green bamboo and said, "Master Quan, bring someone up." ”

As soon as Xu's mother finished speaking, Quan Ye stumbled into the front hall with a man who was tied up with five flowers, and before the man could stand firmly, Quan Ye raised his foot and kicked it to the knee socket: "Kneel!" The man fell to his knees.

"Brother Shun!" Lu Zhu recognized the man at a glance, stepped forward half a step, and called out the man's name.

"So you really know each other." Mother Xu's cold voice came from behind Lu Zhu. Lu Zhu couldn't help but tremble, then turned around and knelt in front of Xu's mother, bowing his head and saying nothing.

"It's easy to get to know. Master Quan, since Luzhu knows, let's loosen the tie. Mother Xu glanced at the green bamboo and said lightly.

Quan Ye untied the rope on the man's body with three strokes and divided five by two, and took off the rag stuffed in the man's mouth.

"Green Bamboo!" As soon as the man's mouth was free, he couldn't wait to call out the name of his sweetheart.

"Okay, I'll give you back the block if you shout again." Mother Xu's voice was full of annoyance. Seeing that the kneeling two stopped talking, Mother Xu slowed down her tone and continued: "Luzhu, you raise your head, let me ask you, what is the relationship between this person named Brother Shun and you?"

"Yes......" Lu Zhu's face was flushed, unable to speak.

"Okay, I got it." Looking at Luzhu's appearance, Mother Xu had already guessed in her heart, "Then what he said about ransom you out, is it true?" Mother Xu squinted her eyes and stared at the green bamboo.

"Yes...... Brother Shun said that he likes me and wants to redeem me, I ...... I like him too......" Lu Zhu's voice became smaller and smaller, and she didn't dare to look up at Mother Xu at all.

"This old saying is not wrong at all, when the daughter is older, she will not stay, and she will stay to settle grievances. Mom, I'm trying to train you, hoping to find you a rich man to be a broad wife in the future, and I don't want you to have an idea of yourself and want to be with a poor boy. It's really in vain that I've been upbringing you for so many years. Xu's mother suddenly came to her sorrow, and when she was talking, she actually cried, and Luzhu secretly raised her eyes to see that Xu's mother was wiping her tears with a handkerchief.

Seeing Xu's mother crying, Luzhu couldn't help but wet her eyes: "Mom, my daughter knows her mother's good intentions, but my daughter knows that she is blessed, not the life of a rich and noble family, so many years of mother's careful teachings daughter has never forgotten half a point in her heart, Brother Shun and I really like each other, and I hope that my mother will fulfill us." After speaking, Luzhu kowtowed to Xu's mother three times.

"Get up, your knees won't be able to stand it after kneeling for a long time." Mother Xu leaned forward slightly, helped her to stand up, and let Luzhu stand up, "Luzhu, although you didn't give birth to me, but I raised it, people say that Sheng'en didn't raise Eren, and I don't want you to repay me in the future, but you must at least know that you are a girl from Linglong Pavilion." The girls of our Linglong Pavilion have rules when they go out, although they will not pave the ground with gold and silver, but there must always be happy money to take you away. Besides, you were bought back by me with money, and I also spent a lot of money to train you, and I also spent a lot of money, I asked him to take you away casually, this is not good to say, in the future, how can the girls of our Linglong Pavilion marry in a good family, you can't cut off the life of your sisters for yourself. ”

"Mom, I have the money here." As soon as he heard what Xu's mother said, Brother Shun hurriedly said, "I know the rules, I have to have money to redeem myself, and I have prepared this." ”

"Eh, I'm really a person who feels sorry for you. Green bamboo, good vision. Mother Xu smiled and bent her eyebrows and praised, "Brother Shun, how much silver did you bring?" ”

"Two taels of silver...... Plus seven copper coins......" Brother Shun glanced at Xu's mother, lowered his head and replied in a low voice.

"You want our girl from Linglong Pavilion for just such a little money?" Mother Xu's face changed instantly, and she turned her head to look at Lu Zhu standing beside her, "Lu Zhu, are you worth so much money?" Two taels of silver? It's not enough to even buy you a suit! ”

"Mom, we are sincere, this is all the money that Brother Shun has, please let my mother fulfill us." Seeing that Xu's mother was really angry, Luzhu knelt at Xu's mother's feet with a plop.

"How do you know it's all his money?" Mother Xu bent down, pinched Luzhu's chin, and stared at her condescendingly.

"I ...... I...... He...... He said, he said he would ransom me with all his belongings" Luzhu was so frightened by Xu's mother that she stammered.

"What did he say? Green bamboo, green bamboo, you really surprised me. Mother Xu let go of Luzhu's chin, "Listen to what you mean, you have already been in contact with each other and passed on the news." Green bamboo, the rules of Linglong Pavilion come back to me to listen! ”

"One, the girls of Linglong Pavilion are not allowed to hide money without permission. Second, the girls of Linglong Pavilion are not allowed to associate with any man without permission. Three, the girls of Linglong Pavilion are not allowed to make a private lifelong ......" Lu Zhu's voice became smaller and smaller, she knew that today's beating would never be able to escape. When she began to ask Zhou's mother to help her secretly sell embroidery for money, she knew that sooner or later she would be beaten by this beating.

"Please family law!" Mother Xu interrupted Luzhu, suppressed her anger, and ordered someone to ask for the family law, "Pearl, go and invite all the girls." ”

In a short time, a stool and a bucket were placed in the courtyard in front of the front hall door, and a whip was soaked in the bucket. The girls also stood beside Mother Xu, looking at the scene they had never seen before.

"Green Bamboo, let your sisters see how they will be punished for violating the family laws of the Linglong Pavilion." Mother Xu saw that everyone had arrived, and said coldly.

Luzhu resigned himself to the yard and climbed onto the bench, and the caretaker came over next to him and tied Luzhu's hands, feet and waist to the stool with ropes.

After tying up, Xu's mother walked to the stool and asked Luzhu, "Do you know why I beat you?"

"Yes." Green Bamboo replied in a low voice.

"Brother Shun, come here." Mother Xu turned around and beckoned, "You come and stand here, take a good look, and see what kind of price Luzhu has to pay for a private meeting with you!" Master Quan, tie him up again. ”

"Gotcha!" Quan Ye stepped forward, tied up Brother Shun's Wuhuanda again, pinched his cheeks, and stuffed a rag into his mouth.

Brother Shun knelt next to the green bamboo, his eyes full of distress.

"Hit!" With Xu's mother's order, a family member picked up the whip in the bucket and hit Luzhu.

"Ahh Green Bamboo let out a heart-rending cry, and the clothes on his body slowly soaked out a blood mark. Brother Shun let out a mournful cry of "woo" from his mouth, and his eyes were red as if they were about to drip blood.

The girls huddled around Xu's mother and shivered, and everything that happened in front of them seemed to them like hell on earth.

The whip whipped on Luzhu's body one after another, and the blood stained Luzhu's clothes little by little, and gradually became a piece of blood from a bloodstain, and then slowly became a piece, and finally the embroidered pants on the entire lower body of Luzhu were almost soaked with blood. The voice of the green bamboo became smaller and smaller, and finally there was no sound. Brother Shun was already frightened by the scene in front of him, and collapsed to the ground, his eyes full of fear.