Strictly speaking, the Wei family and the Lu family had no hatred, and there was not even any competition for military power, but sometimes it was not that you didn't provoke others and they would not bully you.
With Xiao Duye being crowned king, the ambitions of the Duke of Lu's Mansion began to expand. If they wanted to establish their prestige in the capital, they had to start with the aristocratic families. Is there a better stepping stone than the Wei family, which was once at the top but now has fallen? Fusu was a secret guard sent by the old lady Wei to the side of Wei Ting. After reporting to Wei Ting, he reported to the old lady Wei.
Wei Ting also went to see his grandmother.
He met his second brother on the way, and the two brothers were together.
"The Lu family?" After listening to Fusu's report, Old Lady Wei snorted coldly, "When your grandfather returned from the battle, the old Duke of Lu wanted to stand at the city gate and hold your grandfather's shoes! Now that he is old, he has become more confused and allowed his son to do such a despicable and shameless thing!"
"Grandma." Wei Ting said.
Old Lady Wei waved her hands and said, "Alright, you two don't need to worry about this. I'm not dead yet! I've just been silent for a few years. Everyone thinks the Wei family is a soft persimmon!"
The two brothers exchanged glances. The world is big, but grandma is the biggest. Grandma’s acting addiction is almost over, and it’s time for her to satisfy her desire to hold hands.
Early the next morning, Old Lady Wei and the women of the Wei family rushed to the Duke of Lu's mansion.
She was leaning on a tiger-head cane that was taller than her. She was still as vigorous as ever despite her age. Her grandchildren's wives were all very heroic, and the servant at the door was stunned.
"This, this, this... is this a member of the Wei family's female family?"
The crowd lined up in a row, murderous intent raging. If you didn't know better, you would think it was an army coming to destroy the Duke of Lu's mansion.
Old Lady Wei slammed her cane on the ground and said, "Tell Lu Zheng to get out here!"
Lu Zheng, the current Duke, is the eldest son of the old Duke and the biological father of Princess Liang.
The servant was frightened by her and became speechless, and left in a hurry.
Miss Lu San was rejected by Zhuge Qing at the palace banquet. The news had already spread throughout the capital, and the Duke of Lu's Mansion lost face. For the past two days, Lu Zheng has been staying at home and refusing visitors.
When he heard that the Wei family came to his house to cause trouble, he still came out.
Appearing with him were the wife of the Duke of Lu and his five sons.
Seeing the women of the Wei family lined up behind Old Lady Wei, each holding a knife or a gun, as if ready to kill someone, Lu Zheng frowned and asked, "Old Lady Wei, what do you mean by this?"
Old Lady Wei said disdainfully: "What do you mean? Humph! You have the nerve to ask me! You know exactly what dirty tricks you guys did in private!"
Lu Zheng's face darkened. "Old Lady Wei, I respect you as my elder and don't want to argue with you. However, don't take advantage of your age and come to Duke Lu's mansion early in the morning to throw dirty water on me!"
Old Lady Wei sneered: "Your door is dirty enough, throwing manure water is just cleaning your floor!"
After these words were spoken, the people who had come to watch the noise almost laughed to death.
In the past I only knew that the old lady was good at martial arts, but it turns out she was also so eloquent.
The old lady is so funny.
One of Lu Zheng's sons could no longer bear it and pointed at the old lady Wei and scolded her, "You stinky old woman, what nonsense are you talking about?"
Bang! Chen slapped him hard, sending him flying!
Lu Yan bumped heavily into the stone lions at the door, fell to the ground and spat out blood.
The crowd watching gasped. This was Prince Liang's brother-in-law, and the women of the Wei family beat him up without saying a word.
Who said before that the Wei family became cowardly after their sons died in battle? If this is true, wouldn't all men in the world become softies?
Seeing his youngest son being beaten, Lu Zheng was furious: "You are committing crimes under the emperor's feet. Do you still have the law in your eyes?"
"Son..." The wife of the Duke of Lu rushed over and held the injured youngest son in her arms. Among the five sons of the Lu family, the eldest and the youngest were her own flesh and blood, and the others were born out of wedlock.
She was so distressed that she looked at Old Lady Wei and her group with red eyes, "Why did you hurt my son? How did we offend you? It would have been fine if you had ruined our marriage with Mr. Zhuge in the palace, but now you've gone even further and come to our house to pick a fight with us!"
Everyone was stunned when they heard this.
According to the Duke's Mansion, Mr. Zhuge of the Western Jin Dynasty refused the marriage for some other reason? "I heard that the Seventh Young Lady of the Wei Family was Mr. Zhuge's doctor. She must have used her medical skills as a threat to force Mr. Zhuge not to marry a member of the Lu family."
"Why did she do that?"
"I don't want the Lu family to come and snatch Mr. Zhuge's big tree away!"
"If that's the case, it's too much."
When Old Lady Wei heard the criticism from the crowd, she was not angered. Instead, she sneered at Lady Lu and said, "Oh, you first went to the Queen to propose marriage between your daughter and Su Mo. The Queen refused, and you turned around and set your sights on Mr. Zhuge. What? Your daughter is a princess? All the good men in the world are up to your Lu family to choose! Is it only after you have chosen all the men left that it will be the turn of the real princess of the royal family?"
Bang! This invisible thing was another huge slap in the face.
The wife of the Duke of Lu was stunned on the spot.
No one expected that there was such an inside story. In this case, it is understandable that Mr. Zhuge refused the marriage proposal.
They came to me because others didn't want it anymore, and they thought I was a sucker? From this point of view, the Lu family is really shameless.
After all, Zhuge Qing was a strategist of the Western Jin Dynasty, and his reputation among the people in the capital was not well-known. However, Su Mo was the dream lover of all the women in the capital, and even such a shameless man had the nerve to set his sights on Master Su.
Fuck you!
The Lu family was suddenly in a difficult situation both inside and outside.
Seeing that the atmosphere was almost heated, Old Lady Wei struck while the iron was hot and exposed the scandal of Master Liu Wu and Master Qin San who made cages for the Li family. Of course, she omitted the part where Li Wan went to find them in person: "If our Wei family hadn't been careful, I'm afraid we wouldn't have found out about your Luguo Mansion!"
Everyone started pointing and talking again.
"Mrs. Li's body is still warm, and they have already set their sights on the Li family. How shameless!"
"How is this shameless? This is just a ruthless person!"
“…”
"We, the Wei family, cannot stand these shady tactics of your Lu family! I have only one purpose in coming here today - to seek justice for the Li family! And to let those scoundrels who want to suppress the Wei family through such means open their eyes and see that our Wei family has only one sap left, and even if there is no one left, we are not something that you cowards can bully!"
After saying this, Old Lady Wei pointed at the gate of Duke Lu's mansion and said, "Smash it!"
Lan lightly leaped forward and whipped down the corridor, breaking the plaque of the Duke of Lu's Mansion in two! The crowd cheered, "Well done!"
Lu Zheng was so angry that he was shaking all over, his fists clenched and rattled. "How can this be! How can this be! If that's the case, don't blame me for being rude! Come on! Come on!"
Countless guards rushed out of the mansion and surrounded Old Lady Wei, Li Wan, Chen, Lan and Jiang.
Swoosh! Old Lady Wei stood still, and Li Wan, Chen and others started fighting with the guards.
This group of guards were no match for the women of the Wei family and were badly beaten. Several of Lu Zheng's sons wanted to rush forward, but before they could touch the old lady Wei's clothes, they were knocked to the ground heavily by Chen one by one!
Lu Zheng glanced coldly, and his hand turned into a claw, and a hidden weapon fell into his palm.
Swoosh! An arrow flew in the air and knocked his hidden weapon away! Lu Zheng was shocked and looked up. He saw a woman in plain clothes and a veil standing on the high eaves opposite, drawing a bow.
Although they were fighting, Li Wan and the others did not kill anyone, and the guards did not draw their swords.
But if Lu Zheng wants to play dirty, then she doesn't mind giving Lu Zheng a real fight.
Su Xiaoxiao drew the bow for the second time and aimed at Lu Zheng's arm.
Lu Zheng's eyebrows jumped, and a strong sense of crisis surged in his heart. He grabbed a guard and stood in front of him.
Swoosh! Su Xiaoxiao shot the arrow out.
The arrow passed through the guard's armpit and pierced into Lu Zheng's right arm with a huge arrow energy.
Lu Zheng screamed and fell to the ground.
"Father!"
Prince Lu rushed over in a rage. He turned his head and looked at the roof opposite, but there was no figure on it.
Su Xiaoxiao was not afraid that the Lu family would report to the police or go to Emperor Jingxuan to complain. Old Lady Wei had said that the Wei family came here to fight, and it was open and aboveboard, and the onlookers could all testify to that.
As for her who did not show up, she had a perfect alibi.
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"What's going on? Isn't there an imperial physician in the palace? Do they have to ask you to come over? And it took you so long!"
In the Imperial Garden, Princess Hui'an looked at Su Xiaoxiao with dissatisfaction when she was sent back by Xiao Yunzi.
Su Xiaoxiao smiled slightly: "The Empress Dowager has abdominal pain due to menstruation. It is really inconvenient to ask the imperial physician for this kind of disease. I gave the Empress Dowager acupuncture. I am sorry to have kept the princess waiting for a long time."
Princess Hui'an asked proudly, "Did you come to me first, or did you go to Jingning first?"
Su Xiaoxiao said: "I haven't been to Princess Jingning yet."
The letter was sent to Princess Jingning first, Su Xiaoxiao added in her heart.
Princess Hui'an felt relieved and forgave her for going to treat someone's illness halfway. "Where is my letter?"
"Here you go." Su Xiaoxiao took out a thick stack of letters from her bag. "One letter every ten days, twelve in total. But because I missed the princess so much, I wrote five more."
The last sentence successfully pleased Princess Hui'an.
Princess Hui'an took the letter happily.
Su Xiaoxiao said, "Then, Princess, please read the letter first. I will go and greet Princess Jingning."
"Go ahead!"
Princess Hui'an agreed very generously.
Su Xiaoxiao went to Kunning Palace.
Princess Jingning just finished reading the letter: "Your handwriting has improved a lot."
As expected of a top student, Princess Hui'an would not notice my handwriting. She would only say that the little follower must care about me the most since he wrote so much for me.
Su Xiaoxiao smiled: "I was bored on the way, so Wei Ting forced me to practice calligraphy every day. I practiced hard for four months. If he knew that the princess praised me, he would definitely feel a sense of accomplishment."
Princess Jingning nodded and said thoughtfully, "No wonder the style of your handwriting looks familiar to me. I guess it's the handwriting of Master Wei."
Su Xiaoxiao: No way, have you seen Shen Chuan’s calligraphy?
Yes, Shen Chuan was the top scorer in Qingzhou and one of the best students in the Imperial College. Maybe Princess Jingning really read his articles.
Don't panic, it's not a big problem. When you go back, tell Shen Chuan not to let his calligraphy spread out easily.
On the other side, Princess Hui'an finished reading the letter and put it away with a feeling of unsatisfied feeling. She thought that the little follower was very good at writing letters and there was not a single word that she did not recognize. From now on, she asked the little follower to write to her every day!
“Happiness shared is worse than happiness alone.”
Princess Hui'an thought about it, then took the letter to Jingning with a proud look on her face to show off.
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