"What do you mean by Marquis Chang'an? I don't understand." Lu Yan frowned and looked at Lord Qian, very unhappy: "What sin has our mansion committed? If you don't tell me the reason, don't blame me for being rude!"
He asked clearly about what happened yesterday. Except for Miss Wu San who was disfigured, the other young ladies and gentlemen were just frightened. What else could have happened?
Marquis Qian dropped a bombshell: "My daughter, the eldest daughter of the Qian family, the only daughter left by my first wife, was forced to drink by your fifth daughter at your Pingyang Marquis Mansion yesterday! She was... was..."
He gritted his teeth, his eyes wide open. "Anyway, this happened in your mansion, and you must give me an explanation. Otherwise, all the women in our Chang'an mansion will be hanged at the gate of your Pingyang mansion!"
Lu Yan was stunned, thinking he had misheard: "What?"
"If you don't believe me, go call the fifth young lady from your house to confront her!" Lord Qian snorted heavily.
Looking at his expression, Lu Yan knew that this was probably true, and immediately asked someone to call Lu Linglong over.
Lu Linglong was in Ci'an Courtyard. When she heard that they were going to the front yard, she was unhappy: "Brother, how can you let me meet a man from outside? I won't go!"
The servant was embarrassed: "Miss, please go. You don't have to meet in person, just stand behind the screen."
Lu Linglong rolled her eyes: "Then there's no need for me to go, let Sixth Sister go."
Lu Linglin looked at Lu Linglong and smiled faintly: "Fifth Sister asked me to go, so I went. But if you asked me to go, it must be because you want to ask something. I don't know everything about Fifth Sister, so if I say something wrong, Fifth Sister, please don't blame me."
Lu Linglong's expression changed, and she immediately stood up and walked out: "I'll go! You just know how to bully me!"
Arriving at the front hall, Lu Linglong stood behind the screen and reluctantly bowed to the Marquis of Chang'an: "Greetings, Marquis of Chang'an."
Lord Qian wanted to rush through the screen and strangle her to death, but he forced himself not to do it: "Did you coax my daughter into drinking a few glasses of wine yesterday?"
Lu Linglong nodded without noticing anything. "Yes, my sister-in-law made something called a cocktail that tastes like juice, so she asked Miss Qian to drink a little more."
"But you told her it was juice! How did it become wine?" Lord Qian continued to ask.
Lu Linglong couldn't quite remember: "I think so. This stuff won't make you drunk. I drank two cups myself."
"Do you know how many glasses my daughter drank?" Lord Qian asked again.
Lu Linglong was injured and reluctantly came out today. Now she was annoyed by the questions and her tone was a little bad: "How should I know how many drinks she had? She's not a child who needs to be taken care of. I just said a few words to her and that was enough. Why should I remember how many drinks she had?"
Lord Qian slammed the table and angrily said, "That's wine! Where did you go after you let her drink it?"
I went to find the prince.
Lu Linglong naturally couldn't say that. She said, "If His Royal Highness the Crown Prince calls me, I'll go over."
Lord Qian sneered, "I'm going to ask His Royal Highness to come over. Do you dare to confront His Royal Highness?"
Lu Linglong was speechless for a moment, stammering and not daring to speak at all.
Lord Qian was certain that Lu Linglong wouldn't dare confront the Crown Prince. When he was a teenager, the Crown Prince was a playboy, flirting with women everywhere in the capital. He didn't like to go to places of pleasure, but loved to climb over the walls and flirt with young ladies.
Although it's not necessary to do anything to the girl, a few offensive words can still be annoying.
He only restrained himself when he got older, but even though the prince said that, Lu Linglong still didn't dare to confront him.
Because the prince didn't call her at all.
She remained silent, and Lord Qian became even more convinced that she was guilty. He pounded his chest in grief and anger, "Marquis Pingyang! Look, this is the sin your mansion has committed! You must take responsibility!"
Lu Yan was speechless. He glared at Lu Linglong behind the screen and turned back to settle the score with her: "Since it was my fifth sister who did the wrong thing, we are willing to make amends. Lord Qian, please tell us how to make amends."
"You took my daughter as a concubine." Lord Qian's words shocked the two people in the room and left them speechless.
Lu Yan took a long while to find his voice and asked in disbelief, "You want your eldest daughter to be my concubine?! She's the legitimate daughter of your mansion. Even if your first wife died and your stepmother took over, you can't treat her like this!"
Lu Linglong also exclaimed, "She was just drunk! You want her to be my brother's concubine? Is the eldest daughter of your mansion so worthless?"
"Shut up!" Lu Yan yelled at Lu Linglong, then belatedly drove her away: "There's nothing for you to do here, leave first."
"Brother." Lu Linglong stomped her feet. Her sister-in-law was so good to her now. She didn't care about her at all. She forced her to study and learn etiquette without being forced. Many delicious foods and drinks were delivered to her every day. How could her brother take a concubine and hurt her feelings?
Lu Yan shouted sternly, "Take the Fifth Miss away!"
Lu Linglong's maid then tried to pull her out, but she refused to leave: "Why? Are the young ladies in your mansion precious? Everyone belongs to a marquis' mansion, right? Your young lady is precious, so you send her here to be a concubine? Why doesn't she marry into the palace and become a queen?"
"Stop talking, miss!"
"oops!"
The maid tried to cover Lu Linglong's mouth in a panic, but not only did she fail, the two of them bumped into the screen while struggling and fell to the ground.
Lord Qian looked at the two figures tumbling out from behind the screen, turned his head away and snorted, "You guys at the Pingyang Marquis' Mansion are really well-mannered!"
Lu Yan gritted his teeth and said, "I can't compare to your Chang'an Marquisate, who is so eager to give his concubines to others."
Lord Qian snorted coldly and said, "It's all your Pingyang Marquisate's fault! If it hadn't happened in your house, would we have let Zhangzhu become your concubine? This is ruthlessly rubbing the reputation of my Chang'an Marquisate!"
absurd!
Lu Yan stood up and said, "Daughter's matter is due to our inadequate supervision in the Marquisate. We can punish her as much as we want, but sending your disgraced daughter to be my concubine is absolutely unacceptable!"
"You're not afraid of Lord Su coming to your house, but I'm afraid I won't be able to face Lord Su in the court in the future!"
Miss Qian's grandfather, Lord Su, served as the Minister of the Ministry of Rites. Although he didn't know why Lord Su ignored his granddaughter after his daughter's death, he believed that if the other party did not discuss the marriage with the Su family and sent her to Lu Yan as a concubine, Lord Su would definitely come to his door to make trouble.
Lord Qian said coldly, "Now that things have come to this, if you refuse to accept this disgraced woman, then I can only let her die! lest she become a burden to the other women of our Chang'an Marquisate!"
At this point, Lord Qian smiled sinisterly: "Lord Lu, tell me, my daughter came to your house, attended a flower viewing banquet, and died suddenly the next day. What would outsiders think?"
Lost reputation?
Sudden death?
Lu Linglong, who had fallen to the ground, finally understood what had happened. She no longer dared to linger in the front hall. Enduring the pain, she hurriedly got up and ran to the backyard. She ran straight to the main courtyard, shouting, "Sister-in-law! Sister-in-law, something big has happened! The eldest daughter of the Qian family has lost her reputation in our house! Sister-in-law, sister-in-law..."
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