Chapter 249 Sending them away
Upon hearing this, Old Man Luo was momentarily stunned and almost collapsed. Luo Yi's expression wasn't much better; she lowered her head and bit her lip tightly.
Lu Yunqi: "As for Miss Luo, I have never promised to welcome you into the family from the very beginning. I have never agreed to the things that the old lady privately promised you."
After returning to the capital, I told the old lady about my plans for you. I asked her to find you a good family to marry into, and my general's mansion would prepare a generous dowry for your marriage. I even considered finding you a promising young military officer in the army. Unfortunately, you didn't appreciate any of it.
Luo Yi choked back tears and said, "You know perfectly well that I love you, yet you still want to marry me off to someone else. How can I agree to that? General, have you never had any feelings for me?"
Lu Yunqi: "Never!"
Luo Yi's tears fell even harder.
Lu Yunqi remained unmoved, turning his gaze to Old Man Luo, who was pretending to be a quail, and continued:
"Now that you and your daughter have been reunited, it is a cause for celebration. As for Miss Luo's marriage, it is up to your father to decide. Here's what I'll do: I'll give you and your daughter a sum of money as a reward. You can take the money and return to your hometown, stay in the capital, or go elsewhere to make a living. That's all you have to do."
"If you wish to stay in the capital, I can even help you find a suitable house to settle down, and find Doctor Luo a job at a medical clinic. What do you think, Doctor Luo?"
Old Man Luo was filled with remorse at this moment. He raised his head and said:
"General, we didn't mean to extort you, we really didn't."
Luo Yi, frustrated by his father's lack of ambition, called out, "Father!"
She wiped away her tears and looked at Lu Yunqi again: "General, do you mean that the old lady's promise to let me into the family is no longer valid? General, don't forget that I came back with you. Everyone in the capital knows that I am your person. Now that you don't want me, how can I get married? Who in the capital would want me?"
If the general is truly so heartless, I would rather smash my head against the gate of the general's mansion and die!
Old Man Luo cried out, "Daughter, what nonsense are you talking about!"
Lu Yunqi ignored them and spoke to Xuan Bing, who was seemingly invisible to the side:
"Bring the things over here."
Xuanbing stepped forward and respectfully placed the medicine packet in her hand on the table in front of Lu Yunqi.
"Will you tell me yourselves, or should I ask you?"
Old Man Luo knelt down with a thud: "General, it's my fault, I shouldn't have done that."
Luo Yi: "Dad, shut up! We didn't do anything, so don't make up stories."
He then looked at Lu Yunqi and said, "This is just a packet of medicine powder. My father is a doctor. What's wrong with him giving me a packet of medicine powder to treat my illness? What does the general want me to say?"
Lu Yunqi: "What kind of treatment?"
Luo Yi's eyes darted around before she finally said, "Please don't be angry, General. It's just that the little maids who serve me are disobedient. They don't respect me, their mistress from the countryside. They're always slacking off and their words are often offensive. I just wanted to play a trick on them, so I made this... itchy powder."
Lu Yunqi: "Itching powder?"
Luo Yi said with certainty: Yes, it's itching powder. Drinking it will only make them itchy for a while, it won't kill them. Why is the general making such a fuss?
Lu Yunqi seemed to believe her words and ordered Xuan Bing, "Go and pour a bowl of water."
Xuanbing quickly brought the water over, and Luo Yi watched nervously as Lu Yunqi poured the powder from the paper packet into the bowl.
"Give it to Miss Luo."
The father and daughter turned pale instantly. Luo Yi looked at Lu Yunqi in disbelief and shook her head repeatedly.
"No, no, why are you so cruel?"
She tried to turn and run away, but before she could, Xuanbing grabbed her and made her unable to move.
Just as Xuanbing was about to pour the bowl of water into Luo Yi's mouth, Old Man Luo knelt on the ground and begged loudly for mercy:
"General, spare my life! To tell you the truth, this isn't itching powder, it's a poison that can... can disfigure someone! You can't just drink it!"
Lu Yunqi's cold, emotionless eyes fell on Luo Yi like knives, and his voice was chillingly icy:
"Who are you going to give it to? If you don't tell the truth, then you'll have to drink it."
Luo Yi's eyes were fixed on the bowl of medicine that was about to be fed to her lips. Her whole body was trembling like a leaf, and her lips quivered as she tried to speak several times but no sound came out. As the bowl of medicine got closer and closer, Luo Yi finally screamed in despair:
"I said! It was Yu Qingci! That's right, I prepared this medicine for that bitch Yu Qingci. Who told her to steal my position as the general's wife and steal the general's heart? I hate her, I hate her!"
Luo Yi's face was now contorted with madness, his expression twisted and almost grotesque.
"Why? Why does she always act so high and mighty? Isn't it all because she has that seductive face that has bewitched the general? Once I ruin that face, hehehe, let's see what she can use to seduce you then!"
The atmosphere in the study suddenly plummeted to freezing point.
Half an hour later, two dark figures rode away from the general's mansion, used the mansion's token to open the city gate, and sped away into the night.
As dawn broke, they had reached a point more than a hundred miles from the capital. The horses gradually slowed down, and the riders tightened the reins to stop.
The father and daughter, who were lying sideways on the horse, were put down. They collapsed to the ground, unable to get up. The bumpy ride all night had taken a toll on them, and they were so exhausted that they couldn't even vomit.
Xuanbing and Xuanying, however, sat to the side as if nothing had happened, drinking water and eating dry rations, while watching the horses graze on the roadside weeds, leisurely enjoying themselves.
Seeing that the father and daughter had recovered somewhat, Xuanbing stood up, took out a bag of silver from her bosom, and tossed it in front of Old Man Luo:
"The general is merciful. He will spare your lives because you saved him. From now on, we are even. Take the silver and go back to your hometown. As long as you don't squander it, this silver will be enough for you to live a good life."
This is the general's last chance. If you dare to show your faces in the capital again, you should be handed over to the authorities. The crime of plotting to murder the general's wife is not something you can easily escape.
Old Man Luo finally caught his breath and shakily picked up the silver. He felt a sense of relief, as if he had escaped from danger. The general's violent aura last night had been so intense that he had been terrified, thinking that he and his daughter would be killed on the spot.
Unexpectedly, they were let off the hook.
Old Man Luo was so excited that tears streamed down his face: "Yes, yes, we'll leave right now, we'll never go to the capital again, and we'll never appear in front of the general again."
After saying that, he pulled up the dazed Luo Yi, and the two of them staggered away.
Luo Yi's departure did not cause much of a stir in the General's Mansion. Only Old Madam Ning sighed a few times as she looked at the side room where Luo Yi had lived. From then on, she never mentioned taking a concubine to her son and daughter-in-law again.
More than ten days had passed before the Lady of Zhenbei Marquis and her sister-in-law, Madam Zheng, visited again.
This time, they even brought along official media, making the occasion particularly formal.
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