Chapter 32 The Lu Family Never Defaults on Their Debts

"Your Highness, please don't make fun of me." Jiang Xu glanced at the maid from the Lu family who was present, signaling the eldest princess to stop talking nonsense.

Few people know that the first person to help him was not the eldest princess, but Fang Qianxue.

At a palace banquet a few years ago, he was stopped by Concubine Song and her cousin in the imperial garden and molested and humiliated. He was only fourteen or fifteen years old at the time and did not dare to resist at all.

It was the eldest daughter of the Fang family who stepped forward to confront Concubine Song and brought up her grandfather's identity, which scared the two women away.

Jiang Xu remembered this favor, thinking that he would repay it someday. However, he was just a hostage, and he would not feel better until he found the eldest princess and her husband to support him.

A few years passed in a flash. One day, they met the Lu family's carriage again on the mountain road. When the curtain was blown up by the wind, Jiang Xu realized that the girl who saved him had become a woman of the Lu family.

Later, he deliberately inquired about Fang Qianxue's news. When he heard that Lu Changqing was going to marry again, he was extremely indignant.

If his thoughts were known to people other than the princess and her husband, it would not only fail to help Fang Qianxue, but would harm her instead. Then Jiang Xu would be held responsible for his death.

"You begged me to bring you to see her, but you're too afraid to talk to her. Tsk tsk." Xiao Mingjie didn't understand what there was to hide. The Lu family could even talk about the concurrent succession openly, which showed that the atmosphere in Dayong was still very open.

Jiang Xu lowered his head and whispered, "Why don't I pay the five thousand taels and let the princess help her."

"No!" Lin Siyuan hurriedly stopped him, "Absolutely not. Qianxue and Lu Changqing haven't divorced yet. How can we outsiders interfere? After all, she and Lu Changqing have two children. As long as Lu Changqing gives up the co-heirship, maybe she will want to save the relationship..."

"No, I heard from the Madam that she wants to divorce her husband." Before Lin Siyuan finished speaking, the little maid next to him suddenly said.

These words were like a huge rock hitting the center of a lake, instantly causing huge waves in the hearts of the three people in the room.

"Hahaha..." Xiao Mingjie couldn't help laughing first, "As expected of my goddaughter, you won't let others bully you."

"Divorce her husband? Such outrageous words must have been taught by you, Princess..." Lin Siyuan frowned and looked at the eldest princess, his face as red as if a colorful dye vat had been overturned.

Whenever he and Xiao Mingjie had quarrels, the eldest princess would threaten him to divorce her.

"Although I didn't teach her that, it's not a bad idea." Xiao Mingjie said, "If she were my biological daughter, I would have told her to divorce that unfaithful man long ago!"

If Fang Qianxue was her biological daughter, she would definitely be given the title of a county princess.

Jiang Xu clenched his fists in excitement and asked the maid, "Did she really say that?"

"Young Marquis, please forgive me!" The maid thought Jiang Xu was angry and knelt down quickly, "This servant...maybe I heard it wrong."

"The Lu family bullied her too much." Jiang Xu frowned and looked outside the door. Just as she was about to step forward, she saw a man in a blue robe walking into the garden. It seemed that someone had stood up for her.

"Manager Wen."

"Hey, isn't this Master Yan?"

"Can you please give me some face today?" Yan Fenghua pointed in the direction of the flower hall and said, "The eldest princess is here too, so it's better not to make a big deal out of it."

"This," Shopkeeper Wen said in embarrassment, "but my master said that rules are rules. If I don't collect the money, my master will not forgive me."

"Five thousand taels of silver, I..." Yan Fenghua was about to put it on his account when he saw Cui Shuang running towards him breathlessly, holding a carved wooden box.

"Ma'am! I got the stuff!"

"Thank you, Lord Yan, for your kindness, but it is time to pay back the debt." Fang Qianxue shook her head slightly at Yan Fenghua.

"That's right, Brother Yan, this is my Lu family's family affair," Lu Changqing said with an unhappy look, "You, an outsider, should not interfere."

Seeing that Fang Qianxue had made up her mind, Yan Fenghua stopped trying to persuade her and had to step aside.

"It's the Lu family who owes the money. They won't deny it," Fang Qianxue said, smiling gently at Lu Changqing. "My husband, am I right?"

Hearing her say the long-lost "husband", Lu Changqing was stunned for a moment, then he held his head high and said, "Of course, my Lu family has a clear family tradition, keeps its word, and never defaults on its debts!"

"Sister Wanrou, what do you think?"

Lu Wanrou took Lu Changqing's arm and said disdainfully, "Need I say that? When did our Lu family ever fail to pay back the money they owed?"

"That's good," Fang Qianxue smiled and stretched out her smooth, white jade hand to Cuishuang, "Give it to me."

"Yes, ma'am." Cuishuang handed the wooden box to her.

Fang Qianxue's fingers gently brushed the carvings on the wooden box and asked Lu Changqing softly, "Second Master, do you still remember? This box was given to me by you personally when Yao'er and Yuan'er were born."

Everyone's eyes were fixed on the yellow pear wood box, and they were guessing what was inside.