Bai Wanyi looked at Xie Qing. This man looked so handsome even when he was jealous!
She suppressed the joy in her eyes, looking embarrassed. She bit her lip and said with tears in her eyes, "I can't help myself, but I also know that there are priorities. This is a matter of national importance. I think even if Lord Lu is unwilling, he understands."
Tsk, what's going on?
How did I fall in love with her and be fooled by her in the past?
Xie Qing really wanted to smash his head in his previous life to see if it was all pulp and paste. He trusted such a woman whose words were so illogical that he lost his life.
Xie Qing smacked his teeth, trying to calm himself down. He would wait until he got the steelmaking method...
After preparing himself mentally for a while, Xie Qing finally smiled at Bai Wanyi and said, "I'll send someone to tell Lord Lu."
Bai Wanyi watched Xie Qing stop a palace servant and ask him to go to the Ganqing Palace to pass on a message. A look of misery and helplessness immediately crossed her face. "Actually, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wouldn't have sent someone to deliver a message. Surviving in a place like the border is already difficult. The Marquis... he doesn't care that much about me, otherwise how could he have let me be nameless and without status for so many years... If not..."
Bai Wanyi's eyes were fixed on Xie Qing, but she tried her best to deny any connection with Lu Yan. Her words implied that Lu Yan had forced her.
Xie Qing became increasingly impatient to listen, and turned around and strode out.
Bai Wanyi was stunned for a moment and quickly followed, but she was smart enough not to mention those things anymore. It was true that the ancients valued women's reputation the most, but there were queens who married twice in history. She was confident that Xie Qing would fall in love with her!
Bai Wanyi encouraged himself and took a glance at the imperial study from a distance when passing by. Sooner or later, he would be able to enter there!
In the imperial study.
Lu Yan had no time to take care of Bai Wanyi's affairs at the moment, as his official position had been suppressed!
After eight years of fighting outside and going through life and death, he should at least be a second-rank official. At the very least, he can join the Beijing Guard Command and be a third-rank official.
But the Ministry of War insisted on giving him the post of assistant commander of the fourth rank of the Beijing Guard Commander!
Lu Yan argued: "This general has been through life and death for eight years, and I only hold a fourth-rank official position. Who are you trying to disgust?"
Qin Sheng didn't know at the moment that his daughter had divorced Lu Yan, so he disliked everything about him. Of course, if he knew that they were divorced, he wouldn't like him at all.
Qin Sheng glanced at him with disdain: "Didn't Lord Lu exchange his military merits for a concubine?"
Lu Yan subconsciously retorted: "That was what Wan Yi bought with her military merits!"
Qin Sheng glanced at him calmly: "Oh, so Miss Bai used her military merit to exchange for the future of the Marquis?"
Lu Yan paused and admitted that no matter what official position he was given, he would be criticized in the future. This was achieved at the expense of Bai Wanyi's military achievements.
If you don't admit it, then you have to accept a fifth-rank official position. Yes, the official position proposed by the Ministry of War is a fifth-rank official position.
When the dispute was at its wit's end, the emperor spoke up and said, "Just appoint him as the fourth-rank deputy commander of the Beijing Guards. There's no need to discuss it further."
Originally, he was supposed to hold a second-rank official position, but he was demoted four ranks. This was not only because Qin Sheng disliked Lu Yan, but the emperor also disliked him!
He lost face and forced Qin Wan not to divorce him, but he went into the palace just to divorce his wife!
He even slandered the prince in order to divorce his wife!
This is intolerable!
No matter how unwilling Lu Yan was, he could only kowtow and express his gratitude, because thunder, lightning, rain and dew were all the emperor's grace.
Lu Yan received his new official uniform and returned home. As soon as he entered the gate, he saw the huge pit in the yard.
He thought he had entered the wrong door, so he took two steps back and looked at the plaque. It was indeed the Pingyang Marquis Mansion.
Lu Yan frowned and called out, "What's going on?"
The housekeeper quickly arrived and saw Lu Yan pointing at the big pit. He replied, "Madam, oh, no, Miss Qin said she and the Marquis have divorced. She wants to move all her dowry and the things she bought for the Marquis's mansion."
Lu Yan tilted his head to look at the housekeeper: "I already promised to compensate her, why did you tear down the things in the mansion?"
The housekeeper felt a bitter taste in his mouth: "My Lord, you don't know, these flowers, trees, rocks, eaves and tiles are very expensive."
When Lu Yan heard that there were still tiles on the eaves, he had a bad feeling. He walked quickly inside. Everywhere he passed was bumpy and dilapidated, just like the courtyards on the border that had been robbed by the northern barbarians.
The housekeeper followed Lu Yan's footsteps, going from place to place and giving his price. Finally, he said, "Actually, these are just the small parts. The big parts are the rocks, the rare flowers and trees, and the beams. The rocks for the front yard decoration cost over 10,000 taels of silver. They were shipped all the way from the south, and with all the expenses added up, the rocks are worth over 30,000 taels of silver. All together, it's at least over 100,000 taels of silver."
"Miss Qin said that the Marquis' Mansion might not be able to come up with the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, so she didn't make it difficult for the Marquis to take all these things away."
Lu Yan paused. "And the beams? Do we need her to buy the beams too?"
The housekeeper bowed deeply and said, "After Miss Qin married, Madam Li's health deteriorated. Before she passed away, the beams in the main house of Qitongju were found to be worm-eaten. Miss Qin spent a lot of money to buy nanmu beams to replace them."
"This time when we were moving things, Miss Qin said that Qitongju was Madam Li's former residence and it would be difficult to enter and destroy it, so they left the things in Qitongju behind and took away everything that needed to be moved or demolished from the other courtyards."
Lu Yan's uncontrollable anger surged up, and he grabbed the housekeeper by the collar: "You just watched her tear it down without stopping her! It's my Pingyang Marquisate that's being torn down! Qin Wan said to tear it down, and she's tearing it down. Where's the face of my Pingyang Marquisate?"
The housekeeper was not only bitter in his mouth, but also in his heart. How could he stop her? Qin Wan had been in charge of the family for many years, and she had been clear about rewards and punishments. The servants in the Marquis' Mansion were convinced by her.
Not to mention that no one stopped her, some even wanted to lend a hand, and even the housekeeper wanted to follow Qin Wan. Unfortunately, his indenture was in the Marquis' Mansion: "Miss Qin's people came with the imperial edict, and the servants did not dare to stop them."
"And Miss Qin said that if you have any objections to the price, you can go to various shops and ask."
Lu Yan let go of the housekeeper: "Humph! I will definitely go and ask. If it's not worth that much silver, then Qin Wan is demolishing my Pingyang Marquis Mansion and trampling on the face of my Pingyang Marquis Mansion! I will definitely go and argue with her!"
The housekeeper breathed a sigh of relief and followed Lu Yan from a distance. When he saw him enter the inner courtyard, he breathed a sigh of relief and went about his own business.
Lu Yan walked all the way there, feeling indescribable as he looked at the ruins all over the yard. He arrived at Qitongju without knowing when, and pushed the closed door open as he walked in.
The maid guarding Qitongju heard the noise and came out. She was stunned when she saw Lu Yan and said, "My Lord."
Lu Yan nodded. He had great respect for this old woman. She was the maid who had grown up with his mother as a dowry maid. After she got married, she became his mother's housekeeper. She also raised him. "I'll come and take a look. You can go and rest."
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