The maidservant tried anxiously to stop them, but Lu Jinmi slapped her across the face.

The maid covered her hand and wept, feeling wronged.

Lu Yucheng walked outside, looked at Lu Jinmi, and coldly asked, "What's wrong with you now!"

Zhu Yu glanced at the three of them sideways.

When Lu Jinmi saw Lu Yucheng and Zhu Yu, she was so angry that her face turned red, and her tears were still wet on her face, obviously she had just been crying.

Her eyes were bloodshot as she stared intently at Lu Yucheng, tears welling up in her eyes again: "Brother, are you determined to kill my mother?! How can you be so heartless!"

The servants standing outside were speechless. Was the young master so heartless? It was clearly his mother who was vicious, poisoning and killing other people's mother and so many other lives!

Lu Yucheng didn't want to argue with her: "Someone, take the second young lady back to her room."

Several strong and burly servants stepped forward, intending to seize her.

Lu Jinmi suddenly pulled a sharp hairpin from her sleeve and held it to her throat: "Let's see who dares! If you take another step forward, I'll die right in front of you!"

She turned to Lu Yucheng: "By then, brother, you will not only have driven your stepmother to her death, but also your sister! I wonder how you will be able to stand firm in Shengjing City with such a reputation!"

The servants dared not approach.

The sharp hairpin was pressed firmly against his throat, and blood was already trickling down.

Zhu Yu watched this scene with a cold eye.

The Duke of Zhenguo strode out the door: "What nonsense is this!"

Upon seeing the Duke of Zhenguo, Lu Jinmi knelt down heavily: "Father, please save Mother, I beg you." Lu Jinmi kept kowtowing to the Duke of Zhenguo. She had just received news that her mother was to be executed at noon the day after tomorrow.

Lu Yucheng and Lu Xiaoyun, how could they be so vicious as to try to kill their mother! Mother has sacrificed so much for the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion over the past ten years, has Father never seen it?

Why does he only see that his mother killed Lin Shi, and why doesn't he see that his mother gave birth to three children for him?

While crying, Lu Jinmi said, "Mother married Father herself, and she has been guarding the huge Duke Zhenguo Mansion by herself for more than ten years without ever uttering a word of complaint. Father, don't you know how cold-hearted you are to Mother? Mother is also a woman, and she also longs for her husband's love, but every time you return to Shengjing, you never even look at Mother properly."

"Why? Why is this happening! Mother is about to die, why can't you save her? Why are you sending her to her death!"

Lu Jinpei and Lu Yuyi also knelt down, but they only lowered their heads and silently shed tears, unable to say anything like their second sister.

The Duke of Zhenguo's face turned ashen: "Your mother killed someone, and murderers must pay with their lives!"

"That's because Lin Shi is consumed by jealousy and won't let you go! If Lin Shi had been willing to let Father take her as a concubine back then, things wouldn't have developed to this point!" Lu Jinmi roared.

Zhu Yu, who had been leaning casually against the door watching Lu Jinmi's performance as if it were a show, now stood up straight with a slight smile on his lips. He knew there were shameless people, but he never expected there to be one this shameless.

"It was clearly her, she killed herself, why blame my mother? Why, why should my mother pay with her life!"

The Duke of Zhenguo shouted, "What are you all standing there for? Take the Second Miss back to her room! No one is to let her out without my permission!"

Lu Jinmi resorted to her old trick, pointing the hairpin at her own throat: "If you touch me, I'll die right now!"

The Duke of Zhenguo looked at Lu Jinmi with a livid face: "Send her back. If she really wants to die, don't stop her! I, Lu Zhongyi, will provide her with a simple coffin!"

Zhu Yu raised an eyebrow; his father had finally hardened his heart this time.

Upon hearing this, Lu Jinmi's face turned deathly pale. Her father really didn't care whether she lived or died, and he really wanted to force her to die! Her hand fell limply to her side, the hairpin in her hand fell off, and she was carried back to the backyard by the servants.

The Duke of Zhenguo looked at Lu Jinpei and Lu Yuyi, who were still kneeling, and asked, "What else do you want to say? Why aren't you going back inside?"

Lu Jinpei cried, "Father, we know Mother made a mistake, but she gave birth to us and raised us. Can you let my second brother and me go see Mother and see her off?"

A hint of resentment flashed in Lu Yuyi's eyes. He bowed his head and kowtowed repeatedly to the Duke of Zhenguo: "Father, I beg you, I miss Mother, please let us go see her."

The Duke of Zhenguo sighed softly and stepped forward to help them up, one in each arm: "Alright, go back and pack your things. Later, have the coachman take you to the prison to visit your mother. Give her some food and send her on her way properly."

The siblings wept uncontrollably, bowed deeply to the Duke of Zhenguo, and went back to pack their things.

Lu Yucheng said, "Father, let me take them there. If my third sister and second brother go like this, the jailers might not let them in."

Death row inmates are generally not allowed to be visited.

The Duke of Zhenguo looked at his eldest son and nodded after a long while: "Alright."

Lu Yucheng smiled faintly and instructed Luo Wang to hitch up the carriage. The person was about to die, and she had received her due punishment. Why hold onto past grudges?

That would only be torturing yourself.

Luo Wang pouted, looking somewhat reluctant.

Half an hour later, Lu Yucheng led Lu Jinpei and Lu Yuyi to the prison of the Jingzhao Prefecture.

Zhu Yu returned to his courtyard, thinking that nothing bad would happen since he was just visiting a dying person.

He received a message from Lu Xiaoyun that Ayan and Ruoling were already on their way back and should arrive by this evening. The two of them were also crucial to convicting Zhu Chen.

After half a month of treatment, Ruoling's injuries have almost healed.

Moreover, Physician Jiang and his companions also returned to the capital with Ayan and the other two. Add to that the man in black, Zhu Chen's deputy head bodyguard Xiao Shen, and the evidence of Zhu Chen's embezzlement in Ruoling's possession, and with so many crimes combined, Zhu Chen will have no place to be buried.

Xie Jijiu will never stand up for Zhu Chen again. Consort De has lost favor in the harem. Although she has not yet been banished to the Cold Palace, she is not even allowed to attend the funeral of the Crown Prince. She is confined to her own palace, which is no different from being banished to the Cold Palace.

The Duke of England is far away in the Northwest; this time, he will surely make sure Zhu Chen can't turn things around.

Two quarters of an hour later, Lu Yucheng led the two siblings to the prison of the Jingzhao Prefecture.

When the jailer saw that it was the young master of the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion, he quickly let him pass.

Lu Jinpei held a food box containing the peach shortbread cake that Fang loved the most.

The deepest part of the prison holds death row inmates.

When the prisoners saw the three well-dressed men enter, one of whom was carrying a food box, they stretched their dirty hands out of the bars like hungry wolves, squealing and yelling.

Lu Jinpei turned pale with fright. Lu Yucheng glanced at her, smiled, and walked to the side of the siblings: "Don't be afraid."

Lu Jinpei grabbed Lu Yucheng's sleeve.

Lu Yuyi lowered his head, his gaze falling on Lu Jinpei tugging at Lu Yucheng's sleeve.