Chapter 549 Letter from Miss Du

Looking at Erdong's receding back, the couple both had an indescribable complex feeling in their hearts.

The person in front of them was a close friend they had known since their time in Shuangxi Village, but his soul was Hu Xiner's fellow villager from another world.

"I wonder if the eldest princess is living well in the capital." She leaned her head on Mu Qing's shoulder and muttered to herself.

Mu Qing seemed to want to say something, but in the end he just sighed: "It's cold, let's go back."

Lu Yunjue was standing behind them. Seeing the couple looking back at him, a long-lost smile appeared on the corner of his lips: "Brother and sister-in-law, mother just woke up and kept saying that she wanted to see you."

In Lu's mother's room, she leaned back on the bed while Yun Jue fed her medicine one spoonful at a time.

She was in good spirits today. The sunlight coming in from the window illuminated her still charming face.

"I've been drowsy for three days now. Somehow, I keep thinking about the past days in my dreams." She waved for the couple to sit in front of her and spoke softly.

"Is mother feeling better?" Lu Yunjue couldn't help but feel happy when he saw her rosy face.

They have been busy with other things these days and have neglected Mother Lu. He was worried that Mother Lu would become thinner and thinner, but now it seems that he was worrying too much.

Mother Lu smiled and said, "I felt refreshed when I woke up today. I think the medicine I took is working. I just miss your aunt and the others especially."

She looked out the window and murmured, "It looks like it's going to snow, and the winter solstice is coming soon. Do you think they will be back for the New Year?"

The Winter Solstice was a major festival in that era, and even court officials had to take a holiday, so people often gathered with their families to eat dumplings at this time.

After hearing this, several people looked at each other, with a hint of sadness in their eyes.

The Taoist priest and his companions left in such a hurry that they didn't even leave any means of communication.

Mother Lu couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Thinking back on everything that happened this year, it really feels like a dream."

Those old friends who she thought she would never meet again appeared before her one by one.

Her injustice was redressed, her old dream was realized, and the bitterness and hatred that had been buried in her heart and had tormented her repeatedly every late night gradually dissipated.

She waved her hand to indicate that she didn't want to drink porridge anymore, then touched the heads of the three children in turn, her eyes full of love.

She said as if talking to herself, "Sometimes, I still dream about the days when I was in the Jiang family. I was so happy back then. I fell asleep and didn't want to wake up. But there was a voice in the dark telling me: You can't sleep, Madam Lu, your sons and daughters are still waiting for you."

Everyone was listening to her chatter quietly, without a trace of impatience on their faces.

"The days to come will get better and better." Lu Yunjue has always been by his mother's side, so he naturally knows what his mother has endured over the years.

Since he was a child, he often asked his father: "Where is my mother? Where is she? What kind of person is she?"

My father always had a stern face, looking very serious, but when he talked about my mother, a smile would break out on his face: "Your mother is having fun again. She is the best woman in the world."

I heard that my father was a poor man and both his parents had passed away.

But my mother was the eldest daughter of the Jiang family and she voluntarily married my father.

But sometimes, my father would turn cold and say that my mother was just a woman of the world, she didn't know etiquette and didn't know how to adapt.

He didn't understand, and he often secretly lay under the window to watch his mother.

Until that day, his mother opened the window and found him.

"I remember it was a beautiful winter day like this. I opened the window and saw you downstairs. I was really shocked." Mother Lu caressed Lu Yunjue's head lovingly. "Let me ask you, whose little kid are you? Are you the housekeeper's nephew?"

Lu Yunjue said in a clear voice: "I am your son!"

Until now, Lu Yunjue still remembers the tears that suddenly welled up in his mother's eyes after he said this.

"I swore at that time that I would protect my mother well." A smile unconsciously appeared on the corner of Lu Yunjue's lips, "Mom, now I have done it!"

Mother Lu gently removed the masks from the brothers' faces and gazed deeply at them, as if trying to imprint their features into her own eyes. "You are both good children. Once they have prepared the Wanxiang Pill, Mu Qing's face will return to its original state, and the poison in Yun Jue's body will surely be removed."

She looked at Hu Xin'er's bulging belly again: "Xin'er, it's hard for you to marry into our Lu family."

Hu Xin'er shook her head and smiled, "Having such a good mother-in-law and such a good husband, how could I have ever suffered any hardship?"

Mother Lu beckoned her to come closer, then took off the silver hairpin that she never took off from the back of her head. "This is a family heirloom. From now on, I give it to you. You are the true mistress of our Lu Mansion."

Hu Xin'er was shocked: "Mom, how can this be done? We are all young and inexperienced, and we still need your guidance."

Mother Lu, however, insisted on putting the hairpin into her hand and said, "Well, thank you for listening to all my nonsense today."

She was just about to ask everyone to leave when she suddenly remembered something and asked doubtfully, "Didn't we find a little beggar in the tunnel earlier? Where is he now?"

"He should still be locked up in the woodshed." Mu Qing replied.

If Lu's mother hadn't reminded him, he would have almost forgotten about this little beggar.

At this time, a servant came hurriedly: "Second Master, Miss Du sent someone to deliver a letter to you!"

"Miss Du?" Mother Lu asked in surprise. "Is she the one who often comes to visit me in the mansion these days?"

"Has she been to our house?" the three asked in unison.

Mother Lu nodded. "She lives next door to us. She looks gentle and playful. Just like Yaoyao when she was young, she's full of tricks. She even performed a set of swordplay for me."

Listening to this description, it is indeed something that only Miss Du can do.

Lu Yunjue frowned, "I was wondering why she was so kind, actually taking the initiative to find guards for us. Turns out she's still harboring evil intentions and is after my mother!"

"But Miss Du was also poisoned. She shouldn't be able to move around freely," Hu Xin'er questioned. "Besides, when I went to the clinic to see her, she was lying next to you."

"Lying together?" Mother Lu's eyes widened slightly, revealing a look of surprise. "Have you guys gotten to this point?"

"Sister-in-law, please be careful!" Lu Yunjue explained helplessly, "We were both poisoned, so we are both being treated in the same clinic."