Following.

Lu Heng and Li Mingyu went out again to make an appointment with Wu Zhao.

Still at that little wine shop.

As soon as they met, the two of them keenly sensed that something was wrong with Wu Zhao.

The girl's face was gloomy, and her mood was obviously very low.

Li Mingyu sat next to her and said in a low voice:

"What's the matter, did something happen after I went back yesterday?"

Wu Zhao nodded hesitantly.

Her voice was a little muffled.

"After I went back yesterday, my mother found out that I had not returned from the whole day, and she severely punished me."

"He also said that if this is the case again, he will directly grounded me and not allowed to go out again."

Lu Heng was a little puzzled when he heard this.

He asked:

"No, so you can usually go out during the day?"

"It's not that she doesn't go home at night, why is she so angry?"

Wu Zhao shook his head and sighed and explained:

"I can go out on weekdays, just like yesterday, because I have an excuse to go out and buy food from this store."

"My mother has said several times that if I want to eat, I will tell the maidservants at home to let them buy it, but I won't."

"The reason can only be said, because it is better to eat hot in the shop, otherwise there will be no way to go out."

"When I went home yesterday, I not only came back late, but also brought some more rouge gouache ......"

"It's normal to be punished."

There was silence.

Lu Heng was a little incredulous, the legendary empress in history actually lived so aggrieved in the early part of her life.

This is an open and fierce Tang Dynasty.

It's not the era when you have to bind your feet and close your door in the future!

Li Mingyu has a lot of rules as a princess, so forget it, Li Chengqian is also because his legs and feet were bad and his body was weak before, and His Majesty Li Er also wanted to protect these children, although it was very much, but the original intention was good.

But Wu Zhao is just the daughter of a fatherless prince, why is it so strict?

This just confirms their previous conjecture -

Wu Zhao's mother just wants to send her to the palace!

Half a day.

Li Mingyu thought of what he had discussed with Lu Heng before, touched Wu Zhao's hand, and spoke in a low voice.

"Xiaozhao, do you like this kind of life?"

Hearing this, Wu Zhao was stunned.

She frowned and said:

"That's ...... What kind of life is it? ”

"If you compare it with when your father was alive, it can't be compared."

"But compared to when I was bullied by my two heartless brothers after my father died, my life is much better now."

That's the truth.

Whether people live happily or not also need to be compared to have a gap.

It can be seen that Wu Zhao's father was very good to her when he was alive, so she will miss her previous life, otherwise for Wu Zhao, it will make no difference whether her father is not there at all.

Li Mingyu paused and said:

"That's it, that's how it's arranged."

"If you're not mistaken, your mother is going to send you to the palace, right?"

"You can deny it, and we don't mean to interfere with you or anything."

"I'm only mentioning this to you now because I happen to know you, and we can guess what happened to you."

"Where I can help, I can help you a little."

"But if you don't want to, we don't force it."

Wu Zhao was stunned on the spot and didn't speak for a long time.

She didn't expect that the other party would mention this matter so straightforwardly......

Although she already had the intention of borrowing strength, she would only propose it if she was familiar with these two people, otherwise it would be impossible to ask two people who only have one side to help her.

Moreover, it is still helpful for this kind of thing!

"Although I don't know which family you are from......

Wu Zhao was silent for a moment, and then slowly spoke:

"But if you want to help me, not only will you offend my mother and her sisters, but if the matter is known to the palace, we will definitely not be able to do well."

"The two of them are very smart, I think I have already guessed some of them."

"Although I'm still outside, the people in the palace may have made my existence clear."

"What's more, maybe the palace is ready to give me to Your Majesty next year."

"In that case, are you still willing to help me?"

Lu Heng and Li Mingyu glanced at each other and breathed a sigh of relief.

It seems that Wu Zhao still doesn't want to enter the palace.

After all, she is a young girl, if she follows her normal life trajectory, even if her father dies, Wu Zhao's background and appearance are there, and she can't marry a high-ranking family like Wu's surname Qiwang, and her future husband will not be much worse.

They hadn't said it explicitly before, and they were also worried that Wu Zhao wanted to enter the palace, and it was not good for them to make decisions on their own.

But now......

Li Mingyu smiled, not paying any attention to what Wu Zhao was worried about.

"It's okay, as long as you don't want to, I will definitely not let you in this palace."

"Your mother's side, there shouldn't be any relatives left, right? Although there are still many Sui clan officials in the court, they basically have little to do with your mother, just distant relatives. ”

"Don't think there's a big deal behind your mother."

"To put it bluntly, people like Xiao Yu are the real Sui Dynasty clans, and your mother actually has nothing to do with them."

As he spoke, Li Mingyu also touched Wu Zhao's head and said with a smile:

"It's not that I belittle your family background......

"The main thing is to reassure you that the forces you thought you couldn't compete with are actually not that scary."

Wu Zhao was dazed when he heard this.

She is not the kind of person who only knows the love of her children, and she will not refuse help from others for inexplicable self-esteem.

But as this beautiful sister said...... It's a bit more than she could have imagined.

Even if his parents' family background is not prominent, he is also a prince of the country and the daughter of a former dynasty.

The two people in front of them, so lightly said "can't catch up", and they left it aside? !

Hesitated for a long time.

Wu Zhao finally asked cautiously:

"Sister, can I know your name?"

Li Mingyu thought about it and was about to speak.

Lu Heng, who had been watching from the sidelines, suddenly spoke.

He smiled and poured a glass of wine for each of them, and said:

"It doesn't hurt to tell you."

"My name is Lu Heng, this is my wife, you can call her Sister Yu'er."

The doubts in Wu Zhao's heart deepened.

Surname Lu?

I haven't heard of any Gaomen surnamed Lu......

If it's the Central Plains clan, it's not right.

Yesterday, when I took them shopping, Wu Zhao asked tentatively, the couple is from Chang'an, or they came with their parents, the destination is not Luoyang, after a temporary rest, they will go down to Jiangnan after a while, and it seems that they are businessmen.

How can any scholar clan know how to do business!

"That's right."

Lu Heng suddenly spoke again, interrupting Wu Zhao's thoughts:

"Xiaozhao, do you want to practice medicine?"