Chapter 224: Family Affairs
Seeing that Lin Qianzhong seemed to be very interested in Mu Caiwei, Mu Dongru couldn't help but be interested.
Back then, Lin Qianzhong liked Caiwei's biological mother Li, he had also heard about it, and now he didn't mean to mention Caiwei, but he brought it casually, but he didn't expect it to attract Lin Qianzhong's attention.
He had a faint excitement in his heart, and felt that his thigh should not be held in vain, so he hurriedly leaned forward, probed his neck, and said mysteriously, "Lord Lin, if you can rescue the little girl and the little girl, I will be grateful, and I will help the adult realize your wish." β
"Wish?" A deep smile appeared on Lin Qianzhong's white face, his slender white fingers tapped on the table, and his feminine voice sounded a little crazy, "Oh, what can you tell me about this governor's wish to come true?" β
His smiling Danfeng eyes have been staring at Mu Dongru, Mu Dongru didn't know how to answer, after all, this is a very secret thing, he liked the Li family back then, but now he may not like Mu Caiwei.
It's really hard for him to answer.
Slowly, some fine beads of sweat oozed from his forehead, and he used the action of wiping to hide his panic, and sneered, "My lord, you are in a high position, what other wishes can I make for a small citizen like Shengdou?" It's me who is stupid and says the wrong thing. β
He felt that he might have figured out what he meant, but seeing that Lin Qianzhong's expression was faint, and he didn't look angry, he breathed a sigh of relief, took out the two yellowed silver tickets from his sleeves, put them on the coffee table, and pushed them forward.
"Lord Lin, this is a little filial piety, please accept it."
Who is Lin Quanzhong?
The big red man in front of the emperor, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, and the concubines of the six palaces in the palace, any one of them may be able to use him.
The reward is not a little bit, where will he put the two hundred taels of silver tickets in his eyes?
Even if the 2,000 taels of silver tickets were placed in front of him now, it was estimated that he would not blink his eyes.
He didn't even look at the two silver tickets, just picked up the tea and took two sips silently.
Mu Dongru sat there very ugly, wanting to leave but reluctant to go, after all, Lin Qianzhong had not yet agreed to save the Jiang family and Mu Caiping, if he left, it would be difficult to enter the door again.
But Lin Quanzhong's meaning of serving tea to the guests is very obvious, if he doesn't leave, waiting for others to say something ugly, it will be ugly.
After hesitating, he still stood up, took two steps back, bowed and saluted, "Lord Lin, I'll trouble you about the matter of the little girl and the little girl." β
Lin Qianzhong hummed almost imperceptibly and sat there without moving. Mu Dongru had no choice but to get up and salute and retreat.
When he went out, Mu Dongru found that there was also a layer of white sweat on his back, which was blown by the cold wind, sticky, sticky to his body, cold and wet, and uncomfortably tight.
He stood at the gate of the Lin Mansion and thought about it for a long time, and he didn't know what he said, whether it provoked Lin Quanzhong, but after thinking about it, there was no good way, so he had to get in the car and go home.
When I returned home, it was late at night, and after Mu Dongru washed up briefly, he ate something indiscriminately and went to sleep on the kang. A heart is like fifteen buckets of waterβseven up and eight down.
Early the next morning, the porter came in in shocked, saying that the wife and the girl had returned.
Mu Dongru was taken aback, put on a robe indiscriminately, put on his shoes and ran out, and sure enough, he met Jiang and Mu Caiping who were walking inside on the road at the gate.
The husband and wife father and daughter saw each other, but two days apart, and the family was like a world apart, hugging their heads and crying.
Jiang and Mu Caiping looked like ghosts, and they didn't know what happened to them in the past two days in the edict.
Mu Dongru pulled his wife and his daughter on the other, and the three of them cried and returned to the house.
Jiang and Mu Caiping looked frightened, their faces full of tears, and they couldn't stop choking.
Mu Dongru was afraid that these two people would cry again, so he hurriedly asked, "Who released you?" β
He felt that Lin Qianzhong would not do things for him so easily, after all, the two hundred taels of silver tickets were nothing in the eyes of others.
When Jiang Shi asked, he hurriedly wiped away a handful of tears, pulled Mu Caiping's sleeve, and signaled her to stop crying, and then raised his face and said to Mu Dongru, "I don't know who released me." It was a eunuch who took a piece of paper early in the morning and shook it around the edict, and those brocade guards obediently released our mother. β
Mu Dongru was very puzzled, Lu Ying was such a horizontal person, and he didn't even care about His Royal Highness King Cheng, who else could summon him?
Wait, just now Jiang mentioned a piece of paper?
"What kind of paper is that?" He asked Jiang with a frown.
Jiang thought about it and replied uncertainly, "It seems to be Zhang Minghuang's paper." Could it be a holy decree? She was also surprised and delighted, "Did it alarm the emperor?" β
Although she felt a little outrageous, Mu Dongru felt that this matter was reasonable, and she estimated that Lin Qianzhong was behind her back.
Otherwise, how can it be so coincidental?
Last night, he went to beg Lin Qianzhong, and the Jiang family mother and daughter were released early this morning?
Otherwise, how does the emperor know what the Jiang family mother and daughter are?
It's just that how could Lin Qianzhong help him?
It seems that it wasn't his own two hundred taels of silver tickets that played a role, I'm afraid it was my own words at the time, right?
Could it be that Lin Qianzhong is really interested in Cai Wei?
He wasn't sure, although Lin Qianzhong liked Caiwei's biological mother Li back then, but more than ten years have passed, and the Li family has become a piece of loess, even if there is a deep feeling, it has come to naught.
Men have never been something to love, let alone a rootless eunuch?
He wasn't sure about it, it was shocking after all.
However, Jiang's words made him know in his heart who was behind them.
He hurriedly instructed the Jiang family and Mu Caiping, "You should wash up quickly, and when you are done, follow me to the old lady's house, so that she can rest assured." The eldest girl of the Jiang family, Ju Xiang, had already come over to serve the mother and daughter to wash up, and changed into clean clothes, so she hurriedly followed Mu Dongru and went to Mrs. Wang's house together.
Mrs. Wang had already received a letter from the porter, and she was sitting in the Taishi chair in the main room drinking tea, waiting for the Jiang family to come over.
Jiang pulled Mu Caiping, and as soon as he entered the house, he howled and cried, knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Mrs. Wang, "Old lady, my daughter-in-law can be regarded as coming out, our mother and son almost didn't die in the edict prison, and we almost didn't see the old lady." β
She cried loudly, frightened and frightened, looking like she was sorry for the rest of her life.
Mrs. Wang had already hurriedly asked her roommate, Mrs. Zhou, to help the mother and daughter up, and slowly asked, "What?" Have they embarrassed you? β
"Old lady, don't you know what the edict is? Can there be a perfect person after entering? The daughter-in-law and Sister Ping were lucky to come out intact, so what else is there to talk about? β
These words were reasonable, and Mrs. Wang had no choice but to pat her knees, sighed and said, "Evil, it's all that wrongdoer!" I knew that I should have strangled her to death at that time, and if I left it until now, wouldn't it become a scourge? β
Mu Dongru also hated Cai Wei and Lu Ying's behavior, shook his head and sighed, "I thought that she married Lord Lu, and our family also had a backer, but unexpectedly, it was to lure the tiger into trouble and the wolf into the house." It seems that our family will have to find another way. β
Seeing that his wife, daughter, and mother couldn't understand this, Mu Dongru told him about going to see Lin Quanzhong for a long time.
Wang Lao Taijun and the Jiang family naturally thanked Lin Qianzhong for their kindness, "Don't look at him as a eunuch, he can speak in the palace." Even Lu Ying's rampant bastard bastard has to look at his face. β
"Mother, Lu Ying doesn't want to see his face, I'm afraid she wants to see the emperor's face." Although this sentence was not thorough, Wang Lao Taijun and the Jiang family also understood it.
Lin Qianzhong is a big celebrity in front of the emperor, much more popular than Lu Ying, saving them out is just a matter of one sentence, and Lu Ying has to be obedient.
Lin Quanzhong took the holy decree to save the Jiang family and Mu Caiping, and Lu Ying soon knew.
When the edict came to report, he was having breakfast with Cai Wei in the mansion, and when he heard this letter, he couldn't help but sigh, "Your eldest uncle is a capable person, and he actually asked Lin Qianzhong's head?" β
When Cai Wei heard this, it was the Mu family looking for trouble, so she could only sneer, "He's just jumping off the wall in a hurry, but Lin Qianzhong is also a character, how can he help him?" β
"I don't know what the deal is here, so let's take a look." Lu Ying put down her chopsticks and said coldly.
Although Lin Qianzhong is a big celebrity in front of the emperor, he has a very good personal relationship with King Cheng in private, and he has always been at odds with Lu Ying, but that is all in secret, only you know and I know. Now he is openly against him and takes people away from his prison, which can be regarded as tearing his face.
Cai Wei didn't know whether this was good or bad, but she didn't want Lu Ying to make too many enemies, so she persuaded, "For the sake of today, let's wait and see what happens, and see what else is going on on their side." β
Lu Ying also nodded, and said, "After going to court today, the emperor deliberately left me to talk for a while, but he didn't mention anything about the edict. Just say that if I arrest your mother's family, I will smear your face and make me treat you a little better. β
When Cai Wei heard this, she couldn't help but laugh, "It seems that I have heard the rumors outside, and I think that you are so cold to the Mu family because you look down on my background, how do you know that there are so many joints here!" β
"Let them go whatever outsiders say, let's be happy secretly." Lu Ying looked at Cai Wei with a smile, with a look of indifference.
The husband and wife talked again, and Lu Ying suddenly remembered something, "Seeing that it is about to reach the end of the year, the palace will hold a royal banquet every year, and the emperor has already said, let me take you to the palace to observe the New Year on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve this year." β
"Well, do you want to go to the palace for a good New Year?" Cai Wei is very unaccustomed, she is used to being free, but she did not expect to be an official wife, and she could not even live at home for Chinese New Year's Eve.
"It's good to go there, you can see more of the world and open your eyes, after all, you haven't tasted the royal banquet yet." Lu Ying comforted her with a smile, "There are too many delicious foods at the imperial banquet, but you haven't eaten them." He treated her like a child.
There is really no way, since she is the head of the house, she must come forward to participate in these grand events.
Of course, Cai Wei understood, she was not an inflexible person, so she nodded in agreement immediately, and asked, "What kind of clothes should I wear there?" β
She is not familiar with the etiquette rules in the palace, don't look at a royal banquet in the Chinese New Year's Eve, that can't be wrong.
Lu Ying also thought of this layer, and said busily, "You can wear the clothes of the lady who was rewarded by the emperor." Although it is two levels higher than mine, as your husband, I should follow you. Lu Ying teased Cai Wei.
Cai Wei couldn't help but sigh, "What Mrs. Yipin?" It's just a false name, there is neither a fief nor a fortune, how can it be compared to you as a three-grade Jinyi guard commander? β
"Hehe, what fief does the lady want? Isn't it better than anything else to have a husband and I raise you? β
"I don't want you to raise it, I have arms, legs, and medical skills, but I don't rely on men!"
Cai Wei pouted and said indignantly.
She hates to hear men say that they are raising her, and she always feels that this is very unreliable. Even if Lu Ying has this ability, but the mouth of eating people is soft and the hands of people are short, in this world, it is natural to rely on her husband to raise her, but once she is raised by him, then everything is based on him, and he is the first to look forward to him.
And he is also a new human being, if he follows the ancient woman, what fun will he have?
"Okay, good, my lady is the most powerful, my lady, will my husband rely on you to support you in the future?"
Lu Ying was reluctant to let her get angry and surrendered immediately.
The husband and wife were greasy and crooked, and after sitting in the room for a while, they were on the rise.
Lu Ying still has to go to the yamen to work, the New Year is approaching, and the defense patrol in the capital must be more careful and send more manpower.
He, the commander of the Jinyi Guard and the commander of the City Defense Department with thousands of soldiers and horses, naturally has no leisure.
Sending Lu Ying away, Cai Wei was bored in the house.
She had nothing to do, so she had to call Uncle Fu, the housekeeper of the Lu Mansion, to ask about the New Year and the accounts in the mansion.
Unexpectedly, Uncle Fu brought a stack of account books half a person high, happily came to Cai Wei, and replied through the screen, "Madame is finally willing to take care of the house, and the old man will bring all the account books today, and ask Madame to look at them." β
When Cai Wei saw those account books, her head was big.
She is usually the most comfortable, obsessed with medical skills, and has a headache for trivial things such as housekeeping.
There are only two masters in the house, a man and a woman, and the expenses are also fixed, and the expenses are the rules of the past years, why is there such a high stack of account books?
Is this to worry about her or do you think she's too idle?
But the headache is a headache, but she doesn't dare to show it, lest the people know that the lady is not a director, and since then she has been secretly and slippery, isn't it her sin?
"Let's leave it there for now. You're old too, just sit and talk. Cai Wei instructed slowly, and ordered someone to bring a stool to Uncle Fu and put it on the side of the screen.
She is still very polite to the old people in this house. I heard that Uncle Fu fought bloody battles with Lu Ying on the battlefield back then, and later was stabbed in the leg, and now that he is old, his leg injury has recurred, and he is limping when he walks.