Although they didn't know what Wu Mingyu was up to, given his relationship with the Lu family, they didn't think Yu Zizhen would really establish a classmate friendship with him.
It was not advisable to stay at the city gate for too long, so Yu Zizhen made a prompt decision and ordered the coachman to leave the city directly.
Xiao Yuanjin was thinking about resolving Wu Mingyu's problem today, so he whispered to her, "Aren't you going to wait for Wu Mingyu?"
"He will get there by himself." Yu Zizhen knew why Wu Mingyu failed to make it to the gathering time, but she did not intend to lead everyone to wait for him at the city gate.
She instructed one of the attendants who had followed her, "Uncle Peng, please leave a message for Master Wu Mingyu, telling him that we shouldn't stay at the city gate for long. We've already gone to the temple fair."
The other party responded with a yes, rode his horse away from the team, and stood in a secluded corner where he would not hinder pedestrians and vehicles from entering and exiting, waiting for Wu Mingyu and his party.
What he didn't know was that Wu Mingyu wouldn't be able to come in the short term.
Why?
Because just before Wu Mingyu left, a clichéd and bloody mess happened in their Wu family that was closely related to him.
Wu Mingyu attached great importance to this trip to the temple fair. In order to quickly build a closer relationship with Yu Zizhen, he temporarily planned an old-fashioned drama: "The eldest prince was assassinated, he and Yu Zizhen fought side by side, and during the battle, he was stabbed by the assassin in order to protect each other."
The reason why he planned it as "fighting side by side and then blocking the knife for the opponent" instead of directly planning it as him saving Yu Zizhen was not because he did not want this "life-saving grace", but because he simply did not have that ability.
The Wu family was just an ordinary official family, and the people they used to guard the house were not professional guards with great skills, but ordinary young and strong servants.
There is no external force with a reasonable origin for Wu Mingyu to rely on, and Wu Mingyu himself is an ordinary scholar who has never learned martial arts. No matter how greedy or anxious he is, he still has to consider whether the plot is reasonable and credible when designing the plot.
For the same reason, the "assassin" Wu Mingyu could not choose directly from his own family.
After much deliberation, he finally decided to shamelessly ask his grandfather for help.
Although his grandfather was only from a side branch of the Lu family, he had always had a very harmonious relationship with the main branch because he was good at flattery.
Thanks to the main branch, his grandfather has benefited a lot over the years, and Wu Mingyu has won some favor from his grandfather by virtue of his good flattery and currying favor just like his grandfather.
He ran over and told his story, and his grandfather immediately agreed to lend him a group of people to pretend to be assassins.
But his legitimate uncles and cousins couldn't stand seeing him so proud. They were already very dissatisfied with the fact that his grandfather favored him and treated him better than other illegitimate grandsons. Now he even wanted to help him climb up the main branch of the tree. His legitimate uncles and cousins couldn't hold back any longer.
If Wu Mingyu really succeeded in this, wouldn't he be able to ride on their heads in the future? Would they, the legitimate descendants, still have a say in their family then?
His uncle was not in a position to personally confront a younger generation, so he sent one of his illegitimate sons to cause trouble for Wu Mingyu.
Naturally, his illegitimate son did not dare to express his opposition in front of Wu Mingyu's grandfather, but not opposing openly did not mean that he had no means to destroy Wu Mingyu's plan.
Following his father's instructions, he found a few other Lu family members who were also born out of wedlock, and under the pretext of visiting his aunt, they followed Wu Mingyu to the Wu family last night.
Then this morning, Wu Mingyu was beaten by one of his cousins for no apparent reason.
The reason was simple. He woke up in the bed of his cousin's maid.
The girl was his cousin's new favorite and had been taken everywhere by his cousin recently. Originally, this maid was supposed to be serving in his cousin's room last night, but somehow she ended up in Wu Mingyu's bed.
Wu Mingyu was forced to drink by his cousins last night. He didn't even know how he ran from the table to the bed, so naturally he had no idea how his cousin's maid slept with him.
But how could his cousins listen to his explanation?
Not to mention the one who had her own maid sleeping in someone else's bed, she was already angry. As for the others, most of them had known what was going on for a long time and even secretly pushed for it. A small number of them, although they didn't know it at first, immediately thought that this was something they could use directly.
Everyone pretended to persuade him, one after another, but every word they said made Wu Mingyu's cousin even more excited.
The more excited he became, the more violent his blows became. Before Wu Mingyu could even say a word to defend himself, he was already covered in bruises.
Wu Mingyu was depressed. He actually didn't want to drink with his cousins last night, but his parents were soft-hearted and didn't dare to offend these Lu family members. Even though they knew that he had important things to do today and drinking like this would delay things, his parents still didn't dare to show their strength as elders and forcefully stop these people from forcing him to drink.
Although he was fifteen years old, he was the youngest in front of his cousins. They surrounded him and urged him to drink. If he didn't drink, they wouldn't let him leave. He couldn't stay up all night, so in the end he had no choice but to drink with them under the pressure.
Wu Mingyu didn't expect that his parents didn't even have this much vigilance and were actually tricked by someone.
Yes, the Wu family’s house is small and there is no special guest house. When his cousins come, they always stay in his and his brother’s yard. But even so, his parents, his brother, and the servants in their house, there are so many of them, and they are in their own home. Can’t they take care of him alone?
Wu Mingyu felt a strong sense of powerlessness in his heart. This feeling of powerlessness that his parents and brothers were all lying down, while he was the only one who was dissatisfied with the current situation and urgently wanted to change his own situation was not the first time he had experienced it, but each time made him more tired and more heartbroken.
He closed his eyes and gave up on himself for a short while, until his cousin who suspected he was being cuckolded could no longer beat him and stopped panting. Only then did he open his eyes, grinning, and used his arms to support his body to sit up.
When he opened his eyes, Wu Mingyu was stunned for a moment.
This was not the room he usually lived in, and he was not in his room at all.
After a closer look, Wu Mingyu immediately determined that this was one of the rooms their family had vacated for entertaining guests.
What else doesn’t Wu Mingyu understand now?
This must have happened after he got drunk, when someone, avoiding the eyes of the servants around him, sent him to this room which was originally used by their family to entertain guests.
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