In the New Year of the Lu Mansion, Mrs. Lu handed it over to Su Xi to manage, because Su Xi had to go to the room every day to listen to Mrs. Lu's teachings.

Fortunately, Mrs. Lu is really optimistic about Su Xi, not deliberately embarrassed, although her attitude is as cold as ever, she really teaches Su Xi a lot of things.

Holding a family banquet is a once-born and two-time cooked, Mrs. Lu asked Su Xi to do it twice, and this time the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet is also a small matter, and the difficult thing is how to give New Year's gifts to those relatives in Beijing who have complicated relationships.

Only then did Su Xi know that although the Lu family had left the capital, their contacts with the capital over the years were not as dull as Lu Youzhen said, and the New Year's gifts between the house and relatives in Beijing were still sent as usual.

Su Xi is familiar with the personnel of the capital these days, and she doesn't know why her mother-in-law suddenly asked her to see this, but she didn't dare to ask, so she conscientiously familiarized herself with the relatives of all branches and generations of the Lu family.

What kind of gift is given by relatives in what relationship, Su Xi drew up a new one and handed it to Mrs. Lu with reference to the gift list of previous years, and Mrs. Lu corrected a few inappropriate places for her to ask her to change them, and carefully told her where it was inappropriate and how to change it.

Mrs. Lu said in detail, so that Su Xi almost thought that she planned to hand over the Lu family to her, she even thought about how to politely refuse, until after the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet, Mrs. Lu did not mention this matter, as if she just wanted to teach her simply.

Lu Youzhen guessed after receiving the New Year's greeting letter from his eldest brother: "About my mother, she also wants us to go to the capital." ”

"Why do you say that all of a sudden?" Su Xi wondered.

"The eldest brother sent a letter asking us to go to the capital to help him," Lu Youzhen spread out the letter to her, "It's the first time I've seen the eldest brother's dedication to the title of Duke of Ningguo. ”

Su Xi glanced at the letter, Lu Youze was talking about the prosperity of the Ningguo Mansion almost all the time, and hoped that Lu Youzhen would get back "what belonged to them" with him.

The two were silent, they were not afraid of what outsiders said, but if their mother and eldest brother were to say it, could they really fight to the end?

This question didn't bother them for long, and fate had already helped make a decision......

This year, both of them didn't have a solid life, except for going to the Su family on the second day of the Lunar New Year to pay New Year's greetings, they almost didn't go out - after all, the Lu family didn't have many relatives here.

As soon as he stepped out of the New Year, Lu Youzhen received a letter from a shopkeeper in Linxian County, saying that there was a lawsuit in the shop and asked Lu Youzhen to negotiate.

The shopkeeper of the shop was an old man under his uncle, who was old-fashioned, and Lu You was a little strange how he could get into a lawsuit, but he still decided to take a look.

He accompanied Su Xi to go out after breakfast, and without Lu Youzhen's supervision, Su Xi couldn't think of practicing calligraphy at all, so he watched it with relish.

Mama Yu brought a bowl of walnut dew and said, "Second young grandmother, the slave maid specially made a bowl of walnut dew for you, please taste it." ”

"There is Mama Lao," Su Xi took it with a smile, this Mama Yu is indeed a good helper when she is not confused, some time ago Su Xi was busy with the affairs of the house, and Momei Yuan asked her to take care of it in an orderly manner.

Su Xi took a sip of walnut dew and praised, "Mama's craftsmanship is really good," and drank it all in small sips.

Mama Yu looked very happy, and the light in her eyes made Su Xi a little uncomfortable, but she only thought Mama Yu was happy because of her praise, and she didn't take it seriously.

After drinking the walnut dew, Su Xi planned to continue reading the book, but the more she looked at it, the more sleepy she felt, and her eyes were almost open, so she threw down the book and climbed into bed and fell asleep......

Besides, Lu Youzhen, from the moment he went out, he felt a little unsteady in his heart, he suspected that someone was making trouble, and deliberately tricked him into going out to set up an ambush, so he asked Lu Nian to lead people to follow in the dark.

However, he went all the way to Linxian, nothing happened, and he was thinking about whether he was too careful, but he saw that his shop was open normally to do business, and the shopkeeper who reported the news was in charge of things in the store, and he was surprised to see Lu Youzhen coming.

"Nothing happened in the shop?" Lu Youzhen asked coldly.

"Everything is normal, why did the owner come suddenly? But is there anything to explain? The shopkeeper saw that Lu Youzhen's face was not good, and he thought that he had made something wrong, and he was worried.

Lu Youzhen thought of something, his face changed greatly, he didn't care about talking to the shopkeeper, he got on his horse and rushed back. Lu Nian left a henchman here to investigate, and he took someone to follow Lu Youzhen back.

Lu Youzhen's face turned pale, the other party's target was not him, it could only be Su Xi, his round trip, even if he was fast, it would take him more than half a day, he could only pray that nothing would happen to Su Xi.

Suddenly, an arrow shot from the dark pointed directly at the horse under Lu Youzhen's crotch, Lu Youzhen sensed the sound of breaking the wind, swung his sword and slashed it, cutting the arrow into two pieces, and Lu Nian shouted behind him: "Protect the son." ”

The subordinates he brought stepped forward together, surrounded around Lu Youzhen, and there were many arrow feathers shot out in the dark, everyone waved their swords to block, the arrow feathers were not dense, and the target was everyone's horses, obviously the other party didn't want to hurt people's lives.

Lu Youzhen didn't have time to spend time with the other party, so he asked loudly: "Your Excellency, which way is a hero, you might as well show up and speak if you have something." ”

No one responded to him, Lu Youzhen immediately decided to rush over, he ordered his subordinates to cover, and he took the lead out of the opponent's range, and was about to continue to move forward, only to see a man in black flying over, raising his sword to stop in front of him, so that he had to restrain his horse.

"Who are you?" Lu Youzhen asked in a deep voice.

The man in black chuckled and said, "The one who stands in your way." ”

This person's voice was familiar, Lu Youzhen thought about it carefully, and then remembered that this person should be the black-clothed leader who wanted to kill Situ Xiaojing in the first place.

Lu Youzhen had heard Situ Xiaojing's negotiation with him, and knew that this person valued the rules, so he didn't bother to talk nonsense with him, and directly stabbed him with his sword.

Lu Nian wanted to come to help, but saw more than a dozen black-clothed people rushing towards them from the surrounding haystacks, and the two sides instantly scrambled.

Lu Youzhen was in a hurry, and his sword moves became more and more powerful, so that the other party only had the strength to parry, and the man in black ate two moves one after another, shouting in his mouth: "It's really aggrieved, don't be complacent, if it weren't for the money that people only gave to stop you, you might not be able to beat me." ”

"Less nonsense, get out of here!"

Lu Youzhen slashed down with a sword again, and the speed made the man in black shout, "It's dangerous", and he scolded and said: "Okay, okay, let's go, next time if someone buys your life, I will beat you to the ground." ”

After the man in black finished speaking, he whistled and disappeared into the jungle on the side, and the rest of the men in black also left together when they heard the whistle, seeing that Lu Nian and the others were inexplicable.

Lu Youzhen didn't have time to think carefully, he rode on his horse and continued to hurry, and Lu Nian and the others also caught up. When they returned to the Lu Mansion, the sky was not yet dark, but there was silence in the Momei Courtyard, he rushed into the main house, and when he saw that there was no one inside, his heart suddenly cooled half.

He shouted Su Xi loudly, but no one responded, not even a maid, Lu Nian led people to search inside and out, and finally found all the maids serving in Momei Courtyard in the kitchen, including Lu Feng, all unconscious.

They woke people up, and when they learned that Su Xi was gone, they immediately cried and screamed, Lu Feng knelt in front of Lu Youzhen to plead guilty, recalling the memories before he fell into a coma, Lu Feng only remembered that he drank the walnut dew boiled by Mama Yu.

Lu You was really shocked, and sent people around to look for it, and sure enough, there was no trace of Mama Yu, and even the poplars were gone. Lu Youzhen went crazy and sent everyone out to find it.