Tears streamed down Lu Yucheng's face as he gently patted his younger sister in his arms: "Sister is right. Father is too tired. This way, he can rest for a long time."
After Zhu Heng returned to his residence, Ren Yushan and his advisors anxiously asked, "Your Highness, how is it?"
As Zhu Heng removed his blood-stained white robe, he laughed and said, "He's barely hanging on. If it weren't for Lu Yuyan from the Fourth Prince's residence, the Zhenguo Duke's mansion would be holding a funeral by now."
Everyone breathed a long sigh of relief.
Zhu Heng asked Ren Yushan, "How is it? Were those people really arrested?"
Ren Yushan nodded: "Twenty people, twelve died, and the remaining eight were captured alive. But Your Highness, rest assured, they know nothing about our affairs."
Zhu Heng took the brocade robe handed to him by his attendant and put it on: "Hmm, this way even if people fall into their hands, we won't be afraid of them implicating us. They will only target the Chen Kingdom. The dog emperor has already sent an edict to Qi Shaocheng, instructing him to destroy Chen on this mission."
Ren Yushan laughed and said, "Your Highness, we should thank him properly for making this wedding dress for you."
The people inside the room laughed loudly. In just a few days, the country would fall into his hands. Qi Shaocheng destroyed the Chen Kingdom, which was just a stepping stone for him.
Prince An's Mansion
Feng Yan glanced at the princess sitting beside his master, deftly handling the account books, and hesitated, as if he wanted to say something but couldn't.
"What's wrong? What's the matter?"
Feng Yan pursed his lips, knowing that his master never hid his affairs from the princess: "Master, the matter you asked me to investigate has been clarified."
"Okay, go ahead and say it." Lu Xiaoyun looked up at Feng Yan.
"It's about the flowerpot that fell last time. That waiter was..." Feng Yan glanced at Zhu Yu again, then lowered his head even further.
Zhu Yu, who was about to put down his pen, paused upon hearing this. Lu Xiaoyun had actually discovered it and even asked Feng Yan to investigate.
He kept his head down and wrote; as long as he pretended not to know, then it wasn't him who did it.
Lu Xiaoyun crossed her arms and glanced at Zhu Yu: "Tell me."
Zhu Yu continued working on the ledgers, silently repeating to himself, "I didn't hear it, I didn't hear it."
Lu Xiaoyun tapped on his ledger with her finger: "Honey, tell me."
"Say what? How would I know? I don't know, I haven't checked, it's just a coincidence."
It seems he's unwilling to tell the truth. Lu Xiaoyun said to Feng Yan, "You tell us. Tell us everything you've found out, so that the Princess can hear it."
"No, there's no need for that. Maybe it's just a coincidence." Zhu Yu dug his toes into the ground and gave Lu Xiaoyun a dry smile.
Lu Xiaoyun ignored Zhu Yu and said to Feng Yan, "Speak."
How could he disobey his master's orders? So Feng Yan told him everything he had found out.
“It was Fan Chu, a new waiter at the Princess’s Lianfu Restaurant. He was ordered by the Princess to throw down the flowerpot at that time, intending to create a scene of beauty seeking a hero. However, Prince Lu appeared halfway through, and the Princess changed her strategy at the last minute.” After saying this in one breath, Feng Yan took a few deep breaths.
Lu Xiaoyun's brow twitched, and she raised an eyebrow to look at Zhu Yu.
Zhu Yu grinned at Feng Yan, realizing that the people he had taken in halfway through were indeed unreliable.
Feng Yan shrank his neck.
"Go on, I'll cover for you. Speak slowly, no rush." Lu Xiaoyun picked up the tea beside her and took a small sip, as if she was ready to listen attentively to the opera.
"This Fan Chu has some martial arts skills. Before you, he was ordered by the Princess to create several accidents, allowing the Prince Lu to save Miss Qi Wanting by chance. As a result, Miss Qi Wanting and the Prince Lu's relationship has grown better and better, and the Marquis of Nanyang is also very satisfied with the Prince Lu as his son-in-law."
Zhu Yu nodded in confusion. Something was wrong. His brother had told him that Miss Qi misunderstood and thought it was his brother's doing, and that she was ignoring him. How come even the Marquis of Nanyang was quite satisfied?
However, Zhu Yu's clever little brain quickly realized that Miss Qi probably already knew that these so-called accidents were all man-made, and probably had investigated and found out that it was his sister who did it.
Miss Qi had a great fondness for her brother, so she timidly and shyly leaned into his arms and devoted herself to him.
Well, it turns out that while the brother was enjoying the thrill of rescuing the damsel in distress and having a beautiful woman in his arms, he didn't want her to think of him as a lecher. So, his imposter sister was treated like a fool by her brother.
Thinking of this, Zhu Yu glared angrily at Lu Xiaoyun.
Hmph, why can't he hold a soft, fragrant woman in his arms?
Feng Yan pursed his dry lips. He hadn't expected that the princess would go to such lengths for the prince.
When they went to investigate, they discovered that Prince Lu's men were also investigating.
Lu Xiaoyun finally understood that Zhu Yu's original intention was to make Fan Chu repeat his old tricks, while he would play the damsel in distress.
Actually, the flowerpot didn't actually fall on her head; she now possessed martial arts skills and could have easily deflected it with a wave of her hand.
Suddenly, someone appeared in her arms. Plans don't always go as expected. Her brother was coming this way. So, in order to show her brother how much "Prince An" cared about his sister, Zhu Yu orchestrated the whole series of events that followed.
He also took the opportunity to criticize Zhu Dan.
After Feng Yan left, Zhu Yu smiled guiltily at Lu Xiaoyun: "Other people's heroes save the beauty and the beauty repays them with her body, why doesn't it work for you?"
Lu Xiaoyun gritted her teeth: "Because I am now a man, and I have martial arts skills, what do you think others would think if they saw me being saved by a delicate little girl?"
"No one else needs to see it. As long as you understand my feelings and then let the fifth brother back down, that's enough."
"Oh."
"Lu Xiaoyun, what's the deal with those plum blossom chopsticks? There were so many chopsticks on the table, why did you take the only pair of plum blossom chopsticks?" Feeling guilty, Prince An immediately changed the subject.
"It's just a coincidence. I didn't even look closely at the time." Sure enough, Lu Xiaoyun's voice immediately softened.
"Oh, what a coincidence. When Feng Yan was here earlier, why did you say there couldn't be so many coincidences?"
Lu Xiaoyun: "..."
"And another thing, how did you manage to grab the plum blossom chopsticks so conveniently without even looking carefully?"
Lu Xiaoyun gritted her teeth: "..."
"So, it's not a coincidence, but instinct?"
"No, it's all in the past."
Zhu Yu choked. Yes, it's all in the past. Why bring it up again? Bringing it up will only remind her of it again.
He was stupid.
So, is Lu Xiaoyun's refusal to mention Ren Yong'an in front of him also because she doesn't want him to remember his past with Ren Yong'an?
Therefore, Lu Xiaoyun always had him in her heart.
His droopy lips immediately perked up.
"Yes, it's all in the past."
Zhu Dan began preparing for the imperial examinations, and he was extremely busy during this period.
Lu Xiaoyun rested peacefully at home to recover from her injuries.
Rumors were rampant that Prince An, a man of such extraordinary bearing, would not only spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair, but would also lose an arm, and even his lower body would be affected, rendering him unable to have sexual relations from then on.
It caused countless young ladies to weep in their quilts, and it made countless people shake their heads and sigh.
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