Meng Yuxiu held her small hand and said, "Not now. I'm a military general, and I don't speak much in court. The only place I'm needed is the frontier. Don't worry. But..."
"What's wrong?" Chang Lili asked anxiously.
"I think the Empress intends to arrange a marriage for the Crown Prince."
"Xiao Lingshou? Who will he marry?"
"Those who can neither threaten the Crown Prince nor help him should not be from powerful and established families. Ideally, they should have a clean family background and be newly rising elites."
With just this slight reminder, Chang Lili immediately understood and exclaimed in surprise, "Could it be Lu Ming?"
After speaking, Chang Lili thought of Xiao Lingshou, who had appeared at the Lu residence today, and everything seemed to be understood without words.
Meng Yuxiu tacitly agreed with her statement.
Chang Lili didn't know how to react. Lu Ming liked Xiao Lingshou, but given Lu Ming's personality, if she really married into the Eastern Palace, she would probably be left with nothing but bones.
"What does Vice General Lu think?"
"If His Majesty truly grants him this marriage, he can only obey the decree."
There will be no second person in Yun Kingdom who disobeys imperial orders. After all, not everyone has the achievements that Meng Yuxiu has, nor is he fortunate enough to have met someone like Chang Lili.
"Don't overthink it, these are all just guesses."
“But if Xiao Lingshou marries Lu Ming, then the Lu family will side with him, and then wouldn’t you be…”
Deputy General Lu is his subordinate and almost represents half of Meng Yuxiu's attitude. Meng Yuxiu, who has never participated in political struggles, will probably have to choose the position he wants to stand on.
Seeing her worried expression, Meng Yuxiu asked curiously, "What are you afraid of?"
"I don't want you to be bound by anything, nor do I want you to make any unavoidable choices in the future."
After understanding what she was worried about, Meng Yuxiu laughed heartily, his smile showing a touch of nonchalance, and said, "Don't worry, it won't happen. I am loyal to the country and the monarch, and naturally I will serve the current crown prince in the future."
Thinking about it that way, it makes sense. Xiao Lingshou is now the rightful crown prince, and with the imperial heirs in the harem dwindling, it's only natural that Meng Yuxiu would side with him.
Thinking this way, Chang Lili felt a little relieved, but when she caught a glimpse of the envelope Meng Yuxiu had placed aside, she became slightly suspicious.
at the same time.
On the other side, after Chang Lili left, Chu Moyu sat in the restaurant drinking. After finishing a jar of wine, the streetlights outside the window came on, the crowd was lively, and the guests in the restaurant were all drunk and in high spirits. No one paid attention to this exceptionally handsome young man.
A small wooden bird flew in without attracting anyone's attention and landed steadily on Chu Moyu's desk.
Chu Moyu put the wooden bird back in his hand, left a silver ingot, and strode out of the restaurant.
In a dark alley on the street, Chu Moyu took out a small piece of paper from the belly of the intricately designed wooden bird. It had a map-like pattern drawn on it.
He then walked out onto the street with his knuckles crushed in his hand, and after confirming that no one was following him, he carefully made his way to the location indicated on the map.
It was a pawnshop, and there weren't many customers at the moment. When he went in, the shopkeeper, who was holding an abacus, came up to him and asked, "Sir, what would you like to pawn?"
"Come and see the spring river."
Upon hearing him give the code, the shopkeeper calmly led him to the second floor, turned a vase to reveal a secret passage.
This is one of the many secret passages of the Three Pages Sect in the capital, and it is rarely used. I don't know why they are being so cautious this time and actually let him take this route.
Chu Moyu followed the secret passage all the way down. He was highly skilled in martial arts, and it took him almost the time it takes for an incense stick to burn to walk through the long passage. Finally, he arrived at a cave and saw torches flickering outside.
As soon as he stepped out, everyone else in the cave looked over warily. When they saw it was him, they respectfully said, "Master."
Where is Aunt Lu?
The person who said she wanted to see him appeared, dressed in a tight-fitting outfit, but it wasn't hard to tell that she was a woman.
The two walked out of the cave one after the other, and outside they found themselves in a wide-open plain, clearly far from the bustling city.
“Someone is investigating us,” Aunt Lu said definitively. “Our previous trips to the forbidden area aroused suspicion.”
Chu Moyu had already guessed, and said, "The time is not right now. Be careful in the future. Did you find out anything today?"
Aunt Lu shook her head and said, "Aunt Sun won't say anything."
"Is Chang Lili really just an adopted child?"
“Impossible!” Aunt Lu said firmly. “She must be the person we are looking for.”
Chu Moyu certainly wanted Chang Lili to be the one, but apart from the age matching, they had no evidence to prove that Chang Lili was the one. Moreover, so many people died in the fire back then, so who could be sure that the person would be lucky enough to survive?
He calmly said to Aunt Lu, "We should be prepared for the possibility that she really did die in the fire back then. We've been preparing for so many years, and whether she is or not, it shouldn't affect our plans."
“But I’m not reconciled.” Aunt Lu clenched her fist tightly and lashed out with her whip, snapping the surrounding grass and trees in half. The vicious whip lashed out again in mid-air. “Yu’er, how can you expect me to be reconciled? I can’t let down the late Empress! Those who were killed by treacherous officials and rebels, those who swore to protect her to the death, Yu’er, I dream about them every night. We who are alive have no other way out but revenge.”
Chu Moyu looked at those tearful eyes, remained silent for a moment, and then said, "Then let's try again."
“How should we test it? The defenses in the capital are obviously much stronger, we can’t act rashly. You also can’t expose yourself.” Aunt Lu closed her eyes. “I’ve thought about it all night, and I’ve decided to talk to Aunt Sun again when I have the chance. She probably doesn’t want that girl to have to bear these responsibilities right now.”
"Don't take the risk," Chu Moyu said. "I'll do it."
"you?"
"Chang Lili and I are friends, so I had the chance to test her. She was about six or seven years old at the time, which is the age when she can remember things. Even if she forgot something, she would still remember it."
Chu Moyu was right; the key to the matter still lay with Chang Lili, and hope rekindled in Aunt Lu's eyes.
But Chu Moyu said again, "Aunt Lu, have you ever thought that Aunt Sun is actually right?"
Aunt Lu was taken aback, then slowly nodded and said, "But no one is innocent. Some things are destined for her to bear. That's fate. Fate is arranged from the beginning, and no one can make that decision."
Standing on the plain, Chu Moyu thought of that carefree smiling face and sighed silently.
They all bear the hopes of countless people and the anxieties of countless wronged souls. That heavy burden, in his heart, is something Chu Moyu doesn't want Chang Lili to shoulder right now.
But Aunt Lu was right; fate is predetermined.
If she truly carries the blood of the late emperor, then she cannot escape this heavy fate.
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