It is really sad and pitiful that she has to rely on the mercy of men for her entire life.
"Xiaoqi, being a woman is so hard..." Lu Xuan sighed, despair slowly lingering in her heart.
Xiaoqi's eyes turned red. "Master, please drink the medicine first. The imperial physician said that your health is seriously damaged. If you don't take the medicine to heal your injuries, I'm afraid you won't live long."
Suddenly, a soft voice sounded, and Lu Xuan's two-year-old son ran into the room. Li Chengjue tilted his little head and said, "Mother, mother, take some medicine."
Lu Xuan's tears rolled down again, silently.
She touched her son's little face and said, "Okay, mother, take the medicine."
Lu Xuan knew that she could not save the Lu family at all. She only had a young son left.
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The Yunzhou riot was quelled, and Yunzhou officials were killed or demoted. Duke Lu realized that something was wrong, and at the suggestion of his staff, he went to Beijing overnight to meet Li Yuanjing and kowtow to admit his mistakes.
There is a price to pay for making mistakes.
Duke Lu suppressed his heartache and donated tens of thousands of acres of fertile land and several important ports and passes to the court, and also paid double the taxes for three years.
The act of cutting off one's own thigh flesh earned the emperor's temporary forgiveness.
Duke Lu came out of the palace sweating profusely, almost fainting. He took a carriage back to Yunzhou, almost gnashing his teeth with anger along the way. He carefully calculated that in order to save the Lu family, he had paid 600,000 taels of silver to the national treasury!
Duke Lu's eyes were red. Thinking of Li Yuanjing's condescending attitude, he said angrily, "You young brat, just when you have grown your wings, you actually swung your knife at your own family."
He was very dissatisfied with Li Yuanjing.
However, Li Yuanjing held military and financial power, and his position was stable. It was difficult for Duke Lu to pull him off the throne.
Lu Yun was also sitting in the carriage. She looked at her father with an angry face and knew that her chance had come.
Lu Yun said gently: "Father, my sister just lost her child and is in poor health. I want to go to the palace to take care of her."
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