It turned out that a few days ago, after Lu Lanqing had dealt with Lu Minghong's funeral, she wanted to take Lu Minghong's three sons to the villa. However, the old lady had always wanted to meet Lu Zifeng, so she directly opposed going to the villa.

This also made Mr. Lu Lanqing very angry. He thought, my title was given to the eldest son, and the third son is gone now. I only have these three grandchildren left. They no longer have a father. As a grandfather, I can't just ignore these grandchildren! So he was a little angry that the old lady didn't understand him. Now that the child has come to the capital, he is already 80% sure. Why is he still being so pretentious! He didn't come to visit him, his grandfather. Does he want him, his grandfather, to visit him?

So he got angry and took his grandchildren to the other courtyard.

Lu Zifeng didn't know about the old Duke's words and actions, and Lu Minghan couldn't tell him either, but this also made the old lady Kang's last bit of affection for Lu Lanqing disappear.

To be honest, Lu Zifeng didn't know, but even if he knew, he wouldn't take Lu Lanqing seriously. A tiger that had lost its claws was nothing. After recognizing him as a relative, he would just respectfully call him grandfather and secretly ignore him.

Lu Zifeng stayed at the Duke Dingguo's Mansion until the early afternoon and then returned home. He declined the old lady's invitation to stay overnight. Before his father came to Beijing and recognized his relatives, he would not have had too much contact with the Duke's Mansion. He came here today because he had no choice.

After returning home, he learned from Chang Lin again that his grandparents did not plan to come to Beijing, which made Lu Zifeng feel helpless. He asked the two old people to come to Beijing not because he wanted them to recognize each other and the Duke Dingguo's Mansion, but because he wanted them to live here in their old age. Otherwise, Lu Zifeng would not have bought such a big house.

From now on, this house will be occupied by their own family. Even if they really recognize each other as the Duke Dingguo’s Mansion, it will not affect their family living here.

After getting up the next day, Lu Chun came to report that Lei Ting had come.

"Master, I am here to say goodbye."

Lu Zifeng was very surprised.

"Chinese New Year is coming soon. Where should we go now?"

Lei Ting laughed.

"Master, the people of the Western Regions are not like us. They celebrate the New Year, but they don't. So this time when we go to the countries of the Western Regions, there is no New Year."

Lu Zifeng knew this, but people in the Western Regions did not celebrate the New Year. However, most of the people in the caravan were from the Dayu Dynasty. Would they be willing to follow you around during the New Year?

Thinking of this, Lu Zifeng asked the same question.

Lei Ting laughed after hearing this. "Master, they are merchants to begin with. For merchants, it doesn't matter whether they celebrate the New Year or not, or where they celebrate it. As long as they can make money, they are willing to endure any hardship."

After hearing what Lei Ting said, Lu Zifeng didn't say anything more and just gave some instructions.

"Lei Ting, I don't care about anything else. I just need you to come back safely. It doesn't matter how much money you make."

When Lei Ting heard his master say this, he was very moved and said.

"Master, don't worry! Our people are all good fighters. Besides, we are already very familiar with the route to the Western Regions. Master, don't worry!"

On the 29th day of the lunar year, Lei Ting left the capital with a caravan of several hundred people and headed towards the Western Regions.

After returning to the mansion, Lu Zifeng looked at the situations of the powerful families in the capital. Through these pieces of paper, the complicated relationships between the officials, families and powerful people in the capital were revealed one by one.

Lu Zifeng also saw from this that Prince Qing and Prince Rui were colluding with each other, and several powerful families had joined Prince Qing's camp. Lu Zifeng shook his head when he saw this. Those people were very smart, but their intelligence was not in the right place.

On New Year's Eve, Lu Zifeng went to the military camp again and brought Lu Ziqing and the other three back to celebrate the New Year together.

It was not the first time that Lu Ziqing, Lu Ziming, Lu Zikai and Lu Zizhen came to Lu Zifeng's place. The five brothers celebrated the New Year together. Starting from the first day of the New Year, Lu Zifeng first went to Prince Jing's Mansion with gifts and paid a visit to Prince Jing and his wife. The moment Lu Mingxue saw Lu Zifeng, her face was filled with tears of excitement. She could also confirm that the Lu Zifeng in front of her was her second brother's son, and he looked so much like her eldest brother.

Here, Lu Zifeng also met Lu Mingxue's two cousins, Situ Chen and Situ Xun.

Lu Zifeng only found out about Situ Yi being a concubine's son at this time. However, according to his observation, Situ Yi was very caring towards his two younger brothers, Situ Chen, who was seventeen years old, and Situ Xun, who was fifteen years old.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Lu Zifeng went to Prince Jing's Mansion again. His relationship with Prince Jing's Mansion began after he saved Situ Hao on the way to escape.

Speaking of it, Prince Jing and the current emperor are brothers from the same father and mother. Prince Jing is a concubine's son, but the old queen dowager has passed away. Because Prince Jing is of the same age as the emperor, they grew up together and have a deep brotherly relationship with the emperor. What's more, both Prince Jing and the emperor married two sisters from the Duke of Dingguo's Mansion, so their relationship is naturally even better.

Prince Jing is not in the capital all year round. He usually goes out to play with Princess Jing. Even his son Situ Hao was raised by the emperor.

Princess Jing said with a smile after meeting Prince Jing and his wife.

"Oh, I never thought you were from the Duke of Ding's Mansion. So, we're all relatives now. Hao'er, you should visit each other more often. You're cousins, too, after all."

What Princess Jing said was not wrong. The current Crown Prince and the Second Prince were also Lu Zifeng's cousins. The three people in Prince Jing's Mansion were also Lu Zifeng's cousins. Situ Hao was their cousin and also Lu Zifeng's cousin. However, before they were recognized by the Duke Dingguo's Mansion, these could not be confirmed. So when Princess Jing said this, Lu Zifeng just smiled.

"Brother Feng, you've been in the capital for a while now, and you didn't even come to see me. If you hadn't surrendered the captives a while ago, I wouldn't have known you were in the capital. You're really not a good friend!"

Lu Zifeng also knew that he had gone too far, but there was nothing he could do during that period. Lu Minghong had been secretly attacking him and his family, and he didn't have the time to come to Prince Jing's Mansion.

"I'm sorry, during that time, I couldn't go into the city frequently. I had no choice but to stay in the barracks, waiting for King Jing's army to return. Besides, the third prince of Tatar was in the barracks, so I had to keep an eye on him."

Situ Hao also knew that Lu Zifeng was helpless during that period. Princess Jing asked Tan Yunniang some more questions before letting Situ Hao and Lu Zifeng go.

The two of them came to Situ Hao's own courtyard. A prince's mansion is a prince's mansion. It is much bigger than the house I, Lu Zifeng, bought. It is at least twice the size of the house I bought.