Chapter 331: The Beginning and the End
Duan Shaoyou let Xiao Lu down, causing Xiao Lu to be sad and lose a child who had already taken shape. Although Xiao Lu's status in Emperor Chu's heart is not as high as Xiao Xuan's, she is also the first daughter of Emperor Chu.
Not to mention that after Xiao Lu got married, her temperament was much more restrained than before, and she gave birth to a well-behaved and obedient Rou sister, who was very pleasing to Emperor Chu.
After all, looking at the face of the Zhenguo Mansion and Sister Rou'er, Xiao Lu also relieved himself and stopped asking for Duan Shaoyou's life, but the capital crime was avoidable, and the living crime was unforgivable, Duan Shaoyou was beaten by a board and couldn't get up, and Emperor Chu didn't even leave him a chance to recuperate, so he ordered someone to escort him away from the imperial capital.
Although a few years ago, Emperor Chu was relieved and agreed to the request of the Zhenguo Mansion to send a few loyal servants to Funan to take care of Duan Shaoyou's food, clothing.
But Duan Shaoyou is just a reader who reads poetry and books, no younger than Duan Shaolan who practices martial arts and is in good health, he was almost stabbed by Xiao Lu with a sword, and then he was held down by Emperor Chu and beaten on the board, and his injuries were not healed and he was escorted to Funan all the way, and his body was already dead.
Funan is also a damp and cold place, even a healthy person will not be able to stay up for a long time in the past, let alone Duan Shaoyou.
Even if the servants sent by the Zhenguo Mansion rushed to his side and took care of him in all aspects, Duan Shaoyou still looked weak.
Two or three days after the queen's death, the news of Duan Shaoyou's death reached the imperial capital.
In fact, two months before the queen's death, Duan Shaoyou died in Funan.
It's just that Zhen Guogong's condition was already bad at that time, so the news was suppressed and not made public. Only Duan Shaoyou's brother-in-law silently left the imperial capital and went to Funan to pick up Duan Shaoyou's coffin and return to the imperial capital, after all, he is a descendant of the Duan family and is going to be buried in the ancestral grave of the Duan family.
Xiao Xuan suddenly mentioned Duan Shaoyou's matter, Xiao Lu lost his mind after hearing it, and only reacted after a while.
"He is Sister Rou's father in the end, even if I don't want to inquire about him, there are always good people who tell me his news." When it comes to Duan Shaoyou again, Xiao Lu's anger is not so heavy. "Sister Rou'er has never mentioned him in front of me for so many years in order to take care of my mood, but Sister Rou'er is a soft-hearted child, and when I knew about his death, I heard the maid who served Sister Rou'er say that Sister Rou'er secretly cried several times at night."
"Haha, am I not the one who does good things in my big sister's mouth?" Xiao Lu rubbed her hands embarrassedly and said. "Now that I've said that, I'll go into a few more ramblings. Shaolan told me that it was not only Duan Shaoyou's coffin that was taken back to the imperial capital, but also a pair of sons, mother and son. ”
"I know that at that time, the Zhenguo Mansion had chosen people to serve him, and one of them was taken by him, and the maid gave birth to a son to him last year. However, the Duan family still gave me some face, and did not take the maid and child back to the imperial capital with great fanfare. Xiao Lu said very calmly. This time, the people of the Duan family still had some eyesight, and said hello to me in advance. said that Duan Shaoyou who offended me is dead, although Sister Rou is Duan Shaoyou and my child, she was raised by me in Princess Nan'an's mansion, and they want to take back the child and go back to the imperial capital to raise it. ”
"Then the big sister agreed?"
"Hmm." Xiao Lu nodded lightly and said. "After all, even if the child is brought back by Duan Shaoyou's mother, it won't dangle in front of me. It's been so many years, and I'm honestly holding on to it, but it seems that I'm a little angry. ”
"Big sister is indeed much more generous." Xiao Xuan praised sincerely.
Xiao Lu raised her sword to kill Duan Shaoyou in a hurry, but she failed because of her weak body after dystocia. Later, she entered the palace to beg Emperor Chu to kill Duan Shaoyou, and was threatened by the queen with the fact that she had united with the prince of Ding'an to poison the old lady of Ding'an Hou, and finally gave up.
But after Xiao Lu calmed down completely, she also figured it out. If she really wanted Duan Shaoyou's life at that time, she only had the opportunity to be in Princess Nan'an's mansion that day, and if she missed that blow, she would have completely lost the opportunity.
Even if such a thing fell on Xiao Xuan's matter, no matter how angry Emperor Chu was, it would not be good to really kill him.
"At first, I couldn't think about it, thinking that even a child as young as my mother and Sister Rou would have to worry about me." Xiao Lu looked at the complicated expression on Xiao Xuan's face, and couldn't help but smile and said. "Besides, in the end, my wish was granted, no, he walked ahead of me."
"Then everyone else is gone, and Sister Rou has grown up now." Xiao Xuan seemed to suddenly remember something, and whispered into Xiao Lu's ear with a wicked smile. "I've heard some rumors from other places lately, and the big sister seems to have a blue-faced confidante who gets along well. I happened to meet the big sister today, and the big sister might as well talk to me. ”
"Tell me about you, where did you get so many things?" Xiao Lu looked at Xiao Xuan's expression on his face, and raised his hand angrily and funny to pinch Xiao Xuan's ears. "Is it appropriate for the two of us to discuss this on an occasion like today?"
"Big sister knows me, this day Shaolan is going to the military department, Brother Min is going to the palace to study, Sister Su and I are too bored to stay in the house, I will take her around, the more places I go, the more things I hear." Xiao Xuan saw Xiao Lu stretching out his hand, and quickly tilted his head to avoid Xiao Lu's attack. "Well, it doesn't seem to fit. Isn't that why don't you do this, is it convenient for the big sister to spend two days at home? How about I go to my big sister's house and talk to my big sister? ”
"You." Xiao Lu withdrew her hand and pondered for a moment. "Actually, I just happen to have something to discuss, so you can come to my house in two days."
"Okay." Xiao Xuan hurriedly responded, for fear that Xiao Lu would regret it.
"Then I'll go back today." Xiao Lu recalled Sister Rou'er. "Sister Rou has already incensed her great-grandfather, so it's inconvenient for us to stay here for a long time."
"Well, I'll let the big sister out." Xiao Xuan understood, and hurriedly recruited a maid to guide Xiao Lu. "She is the person next to my mother-in-law, and she will take her eldest sister out of the house by the small road."
"Thank you." Xiao Lu took Sister Rou'er's hand.
In order to let Sister Rou see her great-grandfather for the last time, Xiao Lu set foot in the Zhenguo Mansion again after many years. But Xiao Lu didn't let anyone report it when she came, and naturally she didn't want the whereabouts of her mother and daughter to attract the attention of others when she left.
Only then did Xiao Xuan support the maids under the Duansu County Lord to escort Xiao Lu's mother and daughter out of the Zhenguo Mansion without attracting attention.
A few days later, Xiao Xuan still remembered to go to Xiao Lu's house.
Duan Shaolan kept filial piety at home, Xiao Xuan simply threw Brother Min and Sister Su to him, and took the green forest and Dan Tang to Xiao Lu's Nan'an Princess Mansion by himself.
When the carriage was about to arrive at Princess Nan'an's mansion, the green forest sitting on the wheel outside suddenly lifted the curtain.
"Princess, take a look." Green Forest's eyes flashed with gossip, and he pointed to the front and said excitedly. "Is the person who just came out of Princess Nan'an's mansion the crown prince Zhan Shiwen?"
"What?" Xiao Xuan listened to Lu Lin's words, and hurriedly stretched out his head to look outside.
Dan Tang hurriedly ordered the coachman to stop the carriage, and Xiao Xuan, according to the guidance of the green forest, saw a young man hurriedly walk out of the Nan'an Princess's mansion, got into a carriage that had been waiting in front of the mansion for a long time and left.
Xiao Xuan saw the man's face clearly, and saw the eye-catching family badge of the carriage, and he was speechless in surprise for a while.
Xiao Lu heard the maid report that Xiao Xuan was coming, so she hurriedly changed out of the wrinkled clothes on her body, and asked her to comb her hair again before going out to see Xiao Xuan.
She walked to the front of the hall and found that Xiao Xuan, who was sitting in the hall, was sitting in a daze, not knowing what she was thinking.
Looking at Xiao Xuan's appearance, Xiao Lu suddenly realized that that person had just left her mansion, and he was almost a foot away from Xiao Xuan. Xiao Xuan was now in this overly surprised appearance, thinking that he had probably seen that person.
"Why don't you hurry up and serve tea to Princess Zhaoyue!" Xiao Lu thought about it again and again, thinking that it was originally for this reason that he had invited Xiao Xuan to come to the Zhenguo Mansion before, so he walked into the hall quickly. "Did you see something out there?"
Xiao Xuan was still thinking about how to talk to Xiao Lu in her mind, but she really didn't expect Xiao Lu to ask directly.
Xiao Xuan didn't react for a while, and slowly turned his head to look at Xiao Lu sluggishly.
Xiao Lu rarely saw Xiao Xuan look so unwitting, and she couldn't help laughing out loud.
"It turns out that those good women in the imperial capital are not false?" Xiao Xuan stumbled. "The eldest sister really has a head and tail with the crown prince Zhan?"
"I don't have a horse, he's a widower, don't say it so ugly, what does it mean to have a head and tail?" Xiao Lu raised her eyebrows and looked at Xiao Xuan.
"Big sister, can ..... But ......"
Xiao Lu and Duan Shaoyou have been separated for many years, and Emperor Chu and Concubine Chen have long wanted Xiao Lu to remarry.
However, Xiao Lu has always been reluctant to let go of Sister Rou'er because she is too young.
And that prince Zhan Shi, Xiao Xuan and him have also had several relationships.
His surname is Wen Mingbai, and he is the brother of the crown princess Wen, who is a few years older than Xiao Lu. Three years ago, Wimber's wife accidentally drowned when she went out on a trip, and Wynber and his wife had no children at that time.
The Wen clan has been urging Wen Bai to marry another wife and prolong the heirs, but Wen Bai insists on keeping filial piety for his wife who died unexpectedly for three years.
A while ago, Xiao Xuan met the crown princess when she entered the palace, and when chatting with her, Wen also mentioned that the elders in the family had begun to choose for Wen Baixiang to marry a new wife.
Wynber is not young, and he is still a widower who has lost his wife. But he can't stand his promising future, not to mention having a sister who is the crown princess, and her appearance is also extremely handsome, so she is still very popular in the wedding circle of the imperial capital.