The Imperial City of Chengtianmen

Four people came out of the palace with a shoulder. In the imperial city, except for the royal family who can travel without relying on two legs, five fingers can be counted, the Praetorian Guards guarding the door only bowed slightly when passing by on this shoulder, no one thought to stop, the person sitting on the shoulder was looking at the eyes, but walking on the side of the shoulder to accompany the person to laugh, but none of the guards in the imperial city did not recognize.

A bearded man dressed in an official's uniform held a scroll of bright decrees in his hand, walked beside his shoulder, and whispered to the white-haired old man sitting on it.

"Hehe, father-in-law, the emperor is still quite interesting." Cheng Zhijie, who was holding the holy decree in his hand, was very proud, his father-in-law already had the title of the Duke of the Kingdom, coupled with the gift of this decree, he dared not to give face if he stayed in Chang'an.

Lu Zhongzhi didn't answer him, although he was sitting on his shoulder, his body was still straight, his eyes were looking directly at the big open road in front of him, the holy decree - what those seals meant He knew very well, back then he would leave Chang'an to help the emperor protect his power, and the picture was not those useless names.

Any man has a desire for power. But he is already old, although his body is still healthy, but in the end, he lives for a year, and some things are more light, but now it is different!

He Lu has a grandson and a granddaughter now! Even if you don't plan for yourself, you have to think about those children, when you think of him who has worked hard for more than ten years, in the end he can't even save his own blood and bones, and even if he dies, he can't turn a blind eye to this old bone!

Those children are all excellent, and they deserve to have the blood of their Lu family on their bodies, since they have a heart, no matter what, he has to pave the way for the children before he dies, and watch them steady!

"Father-in-law, it's better for you to come to my house first, the house given by the emperor, I will send someone to repair it for you, and it will not be too late for you to move in."

"No, my father still has things to do these days, and you must not forget what I told you before."

"Alas!"

Passing by the vicinity of Shangshu Province, several officials who were about to go home for dinner saw their line, and although they did not recognize the people on the court, they stood on the side of the road and saluted respectfully.

Lu Zhongzhi nodded lightly, the look in his eyes was very cold, if it wasn't for the emperor who opened the golden mouth, he didn't want to show up as soon as he appeared. The eyeliner in this palace was even more messy than the outside, and it was almost noon. Presumably, many people will receive the letter after lunch.

***

Longquan Town Lu House

Lu got up early and went to the forest at the foot of her own mountain, and returned to the town at nearly noon, because the strawberries in the backyard were ripe, she bought two enamel jars in the grocery store and prepared to go back and pour some sugar juice to marinate them. She greeted a few acquaintances on the street and chatted a few more gossips before turning into the alley where her yard was located.

A carriage was parked at the entrance of the alley, she just glanced at it and recognized that the car style was the style in Chang'an City, and her heart was suddenly happy, just as her pair of children came back, a few days ago Mu Xiu she was happy to prepare snacks and dishes waiting for the two children to go home, but they were told by the grocery store that the two could not come back if they had something, and they were very depressed for two days.

Lu Shi walked into the wide open courtyard door with a smile on his face, lifted the curtain with one hand, and said in his mouth: "Why are you going back today-"

"Smack!" The cloth bag in Lu's hand fell to the ground, and the two jars contained in it shattered in response.

In the small living room, there were only three people, one was Xiao Man, who was standing there a little helplessly, the other was a young man standing by the wall with his sword scabbard in his hand, and an old man with white hair was sitting on a chair facing the door.

See her come in. Xiao Man hurriedly greeted her, leaned over to her and whispered, "Madam, this old man said that he was your father." ”

Lu Shi still maintained a stunned expression on his face, and he didn't react when he heard her speak, and his eyes looked at the white-haired old man in the seat with a little drift.

Lu Zhongzhi, who was sitting motionless on the chair, looked at Lu Shi standing at the door without blinking, his face was tense, but his heart was like a river and a sea.

It's been thirteen years, he hasn't seen this little daughter for thirteen years, this little daughter who has the most temperament for him and has always been the most loved by him!

Who would have thought that the letter of severance that day would separate their father and daughter for thirteen years, and make his child suffer for thirteen years!

"Lan Niang, you, do you still recognize your father?" Lu Zhongzhi's voice was hoarse and slightly trembling, revealing the hidden worry in his heart when he spoke.

With a "Lan Niang", the tears in Lu's eyes finally couldn't help rolling down, she looked at the old man's slightly nervous, and slightly red eyes, opened her mouth and wanted to speak, but she couldn't spit out half a word.

Lu Zhongzhi saw that Lu Shi didn't answer, just stood at the door and stared at him tightly with a pair of extremely effective eyes, and for a while remembered the news he sent someone to investigate.

His daughter, who has been raised since childhood, has been a peasant woman for nearly ten years, living on a few acres of land, living by selling manual work, and was almost robbed by someone in a local place-

With a "rattle", the armrest clenched by Lu Zhongzhi's big palm broke under his sudden force. An eagle's eyes were shining with cold light, his eyes stopped on Lu Shi's face, and his face was not good-looking, Lu Shi saw him like this, his face suddenly turned pale, and he knelt on the ground with a puff.

She still vividly remembers how her father, who loved her more than ten years ago, gradually turned a blind eye to her, and then cut off contact with her husband's family in such anger at the last meeting, and she still remembers her father's eyes at that time, just as angry and ruthless as now.

She didn't know how her father found here, just now she heard the old man call her maiden name, and there was a faint expectation in her heart, and she could see his eyes now, but she was not stunned just now, she was afraid, she was afraid that the three poor children would be implicated again.

When Lu Zhongzhi saw her like this, he knew that he was frightened by himself, so he quickly put away the coldness on his face, felt bitter in his heart, stood up from the chair with his crutches on the ground, dragged his legs to Lu's side, and slowly squatted down.

He put his crutches aside. Supporting the ground with one hand, he put the other hand on Lu's shoulder with a little trembling, trying to soften his tone as much as possible, "Lan Niang, what's wrong with you, I'm my father, you don't recognize me?" ”

Lu's body stiffened instantly, and he couldn't believe his ears for a while, this person who spoke softly to her was her father, and it was the one who snorted coldly. Don't you want to see her father again...

"Alas," Seeing that she was still silent, Lu Zhongzhi sighed deeply, turned his head to the young man standing against the wall, and said, "Take this little girl out." ”

The young man then stretched out his hand to Xiao Man, who was standing beside Lu Shi in a daze.

"Don't touch me! What the hell are you—" The young man stretched out two fingers and tapped twice under Xiao Man's neck, and with the little girl in his arm, he went into the courtyard through the back door of the living room, and closed the door from the outside, and now only the father and daughter were left in the room.

***

Xiao Man, who had been in the backyard for half an hour, because he could neither speak nor move, his little face was flushed, and from time to time he heard Lu's faint cry in the hall, and he stared at the young man who was squatting next to the flower garden and observing the strawberries.

In the living room, Lu Zhongzhi looked at Lu Shi, who was kneeling in front of his knee and carefully touching his left calf, his eyes were hot, he thought that it would be difficult for this daughter to forgive himself, but he didn't expect that after finding out that he was disabled in one leg, the child blurted out "Dad".

After that, he told her in detail what happened back then, but she didn't ask about the boy surnamed Fang, her face changed over and over again in shock and bitterness, and finally she cried bitterly before kneeling in front of him again.

"Okay, it's not that I can't move anymore, but it's a leg that can't be used." Roh Chung-sik reached out and helped Roh up and asked her to sit down on the chair next to him.

"Child, you cried and cried, and you were angry, give your father a clear word, have you forgiven your father?"

Lu Shi took out a handkerchief and wiped the tears on his face, and said with a wry smile: "Dad, you hide from me so hard, if the child says that he doesn't care about it in his heart, it's false, the three children have followed me for more than ten years, and my Yu'er has been a fool for four years in vain, but along the way, it is dozens of times more than the hardships I have suffered for more than 20 years in the past... But now I just want the children to be safe and happy. ”

Lu Shi was eighteen years old when he came out of the cabinet, she has two brothers and one sister in her family, because of her appearance and temperament Lu Zhongzhi, she has been loved by her father since she was a child. Later, he married his father's best friend's son, and his life was peaceful. It was only because he was involved in the party struggle between King An and the crown prince that he was regarded as an outcast by the two families by mistake.

Lu Zhongzhi nodded, knowing that Lu Shiken called him father, even if he didn't explain it on his lips, he recognized her in his heart, and while he was moved, he heard her mention those children, and a smile appeared on his face.

Lu Zhi and Lu Jun, the original names were Fang Zhizhi and Fang Yiai, but the words Zhi and Jun were given by him personally, when his old friend died, Lu was just pregnant, and he casually mentioned that if he gave birth to a daughter, it would be called a widow, but he didn't expect a few words, but in the end it became the name of his grandchildren.

"Those three children are all good, child, you are not ashamed that your father brought them up with his own hands, a woman actually raised two children to go to school in that country's prison, who has such a daughter in other people's families!"

Lu Zhongzhi kept his mouth shut and didn't talk about the Fang family, King An was powerful back then, and the Fang family, who was neutral in appearance, was actually the same as the Lu family, and the emperor who was still the prince at the time, the prince secretly sent Fang Xuanling to secretly vote for King An, and only three people knew about him.

King An is ambitious, because he has been a soldier for several years and has been on the battlefield for a long time, his heart has both the boldness of a soldier and the dark bloody side. In the fifth year of Wude, King An put Fang Xuanling's refuge in him on the bright side, and Lu Zhongzhi of the prince's family had to make a gesture of breaking off diplomatic relations with him.

If the two families only have the friendship of this father, it would be fine, but it is so good that Lu Zhongzhi's daughter is Fang Xuanling's wife. What would King An think, the hardcore daughter of the prince's faction turned out to be the wife of a general under him, and she still had two sons-in-law, how could he put his mind at ease.

Fang Xuanling is indeed a very talented person, not only helped King An come up with a lot of ideas to win the hearts of the people, but also helped him recruit a group of extremely capable and wealthy officials in the court, but this is what made King An even more uneasy, and even sent a few people to kill her when Lu was first pregnant.

In this case, the Fang and Lu families had to express their position, but there were only two ways, one was that Fang Xuanling took a leave of absence from the Lu family, and the relationship between the two families was cold, but the two sisters-in-law couldn't also throw them out.

Another way, that is, the old man Lu openly fell out with the Fang family, the situation at that time did not allow people to think too much, one more day, King An's suspicion was heavier, so in the fifth year of Wude, after King An deliberately shook Fang Xuanling out of the matter of becoming a person under his fence, Lu Zhongzhi took advantage of the situation to stage a scene of breaking off friendship in the eyes of everyone.

Lu Zhongzhi's upright temperament is well known to people in the court, and the prince's succession to the throne is regulated by the ancestors, and he is in the process of cleaning up his son-in-law for the sake of the prince.

However, after the two families fell out, King An only let go of half of his heart, and still sent people to monitor the movements of the two families, because he could not be stationed in the capital, so he had the idea of taking away the heirs of individual Beijing officials before leaving Beijing.

So, Lu Zhi was secretly marked on the list as a proton, and after Lu Zhongzhi got the news, he gritted his teeth and came out of the bottom of the kettle - the book of severance, the severance book between relatives and friends in this era is an extremely powerful kind of paper, some big families, only punish those who do a lot of evil and seek money and kill the clansmen will write this thing.

Sure enough, as soon as the severance book came out, King An had at least seventy percent of his trust in Fang Xuanling, and this seventy percent was enough for Fang Xuanling to gain a firm foothold in King An's faction, Rao was an emperor, and he was also wary of his most trusted courtiers and concubines.

Lu Zhongzhi wrote the book of severance, which was a blind eye, at that time, there were eyeliner everywhere in Beijing, and the slightest clue could also make people see that something was wrong, so he was ruthless, after the letter came out, he never saw his daughter again, although he did not contact Fang Xuanling, but he knew that his son-in-law could understand what he meant.

Later, it didn't take long for him to leave Beijing, go incognito to the south, and take the family business accumulated by the Lu family for several generations and began to recruit troops and horses everywhere to plan for the future battle for succession.

What he never expected was that half a year after he left Beijing, he received the news that his daughter had escaped from Fang's house, and then learned the specific story of the incident, he just wanted to take people and horses to the capital to copy the Fangfu, but after calming down, while recruiting troops everywhere, the north and south of the country began to find his daughter.

How can God be like punishing him for what he did that day, his wife became blind because the life and death of the most painful little daughter was unknown, and he cried every day and finally became blind, and he also broke his leg in an accident, and two sons and a daughter, even less than half of the child was not born. (！ )