Chapter 106 Finding the Ring
He looked haggard.
His jade crown was slightly tilted, his hair was messy at the temples, and his jaw was covered with stubble, which was very different from his usual meticulous appearance.
This is indeed the case. After leaving Jiaotai Palace yesterday, Lu Yuanduo locked himself in the Six Ministries, forcing himself to immerse himself in official duties and not think about anything related to Yun Wan. As a result, he missed the news of Yun Wan leaving the palace and returning home.
It was not until this morning when the servant came to report that he hurried back on horseback, eager to see her.
Lu Yuanduo knew that if he missed today, the next time he would see Yun Wan would be at a palace banquet.
The identities are very different.
It was the first time that Yun Wan saw him in such a disheveled and anxious state. Where was the dignified, steady and calm Duke Lu that he usually was?
Standing not too far away, she looked at him with an indifferent gaze, without saying a word, looking at him indifferently, as if he were a stranger.
Lu Yuanduo was deeply saddened, and it felt as if a piece of flesh was cut out from his chest in an instant.
It hurts so much.
Seeing that the two seemed to have something to say, Fuling tactfully retreated to a distance and waited.
After a long silence, Lu Yuanduo said, "Your shoes are dirty."
His voice was hoarse, and his eyes fell on Yun Wanlu's pearl-embroidered shoes, the toes of which were covered with yellow mud, hanging outside her skirt.
That piece of yellow mud shouldn't have appeared on her shoes, it was particularly eye-catching.
He subconsciously took out a handkerchief and handed it to her, "Wipe it."
Yun Wan didn't take it, she glanced down and said, "No need, if they get dirty, just go back and change them."
Lu Yuanduo had no choice but to put it away and looked for another topic to ask, "Did you go to the stable?"
"Um."
Lu Yuanduo remembered something, and a faint smile appeared in his eyes. "Did you see the black horse that Asui likes? When he grows up and learns to ride, I will give it to him."
The horse was brought to the mansion by Asui when he was three years old last year. At that time, it was still a young foal, smart and cute, and captured Asui's heart.
From then on, he always cared about the foal's growth, and occasionally when he had time, he would ask someone to bring radishes to feed the foal himself.
After Lu Yuanduo learned about it, he ordered people to raise the foal carefully and then gave it to Asui.
Yun Wan: "I saw it, it looks very good."
She only answered the first question and didn't say the second half.
Lu Yuanduo's smile faded.
After the sky cleared, sunlight suddenly appeared and fell on Yun Wan. The pearl hairpins and gems on her head were dazzling and incredibly bright.
Lu Yuanduo looked at the pomegranate jade butterfly hairpin on her head and said, "This hairpin is very beautiful and suits you very well."
Not only that, but also her dress, shoes, and jewelry today... gorgeous clothes and jewels, but they cannot hide her beauty, as if everything was tailor-made for her.
Lu Yuanduo had only seen such a gorgeous and beautiful Yunwan when she married his third brother Lu Fenglan.
Yun Wan's eyes flickered slightly: "Thank you, he picked it."
They knew exactly who 'he' was.
Lu Yuanduo's breathing quickened, and he suddenly felt the hairpin was extremely dazzling.
"Did he force you to do that?"
He finally asked the question that had been lingering in his mind.
Yun Wan opened his lips and said decisively: "No."
Lu Yuanduo stared at her closely: "But I don't believe you will voluntarily enter the palace."
Yun pursed her lips and looked up at him, "Yes, I didn't do it voluntarily. I never thought about entering the palace."
Her eyes are clear and bright, like a mirror that can reflect into people's hearts.
"That night you asked me when I would be back and told me to have my yard cleaned up, so I believed you. I was looking forward to going home and returning to my old life."
At this point, a touch of emotion crossed her face.
Soon, it was fleeting and disappeared, turning into a cold smile: "But what is the result?"
She looked at Lu Yuanduo with a cold expression, "Your good sister, Consort Shu, sent me to His Majesty's couch with a glass of wine."
"She forced me to do that!"
Tears flashed in her eyes, which instantly turned into a sword and pierced into Lu Yuanduo's heart.
He was suddenly speechless, his heart was shocked and he felt at a loss.
"I'm sorry, I don't know..."
He opened his mouth to explain, but was interrupted by Yun Wan: "Duke, do you think I will believe it?"
"She is your sister, and you have spies in the palace. How could you not know what she did?"
Every word she said was full of wisdom, and she clearly didn't believe his completely unreliable claims.
Yun Wan blinked back her tears, but the sob in her throat was hard to conceal: "Well, your Lu family has always been like this."
"Your mother wants to keep me in your family forever for her own peace of mind."
"And your sister, in order to consolidate the Third Prince's position, wants to trap me in the palace for the rest of my life."
Her tone and expression were full of mockery, sarcasm, and disappointment.
This includes him as well.
Lu Yuanduo was speechless.
There are some things he knows.
Looking at the sharp ice spikes and the aggressive Yun Wan in front of him, he could only say weakly:
"Yun Wan,...I'm sorry."
Yun Wan scoffed, "What's the point of apologizing? Didn't the result turn out just as you wished? Why bother pretending to be so hypocritical in front of me?"
"I just didn't expect that you were the same as them."
She said something and floated away. Lu Yuanduo subconsciously reached out to grab her, but only touched a piece of silk scarf.
In a moment of distraction, the shawl disappeared from his fingertips.
Lu Yuanduo was stunned.
He knew that from then on, the only slight relationship he had left with Yun Wan was severed.
She was no longer the third wife of the Lu family, his brother's wife, or his sister-in-law, but Concubine Yun, the most favored lady in the palace.
The gap between them is like a chasm that cannot be crossed.
Sometimes Lu Yuanduo asked himself whether from the moment he chose to marry his mentor's daughter, he and her would no longer be destined to be together in this life.
Perhaps it was wrong from the beginning.
.......
Imperial Palace.
A ghostly figure appeared, completely covered, leaving only half of his honest face visible.
If Yun Wan were here, she would find him particularly familiar.
Emperor Jingxuan uttered one word, "Speak."
Xuan Yi: "I have fulfilled my mission and found your lost ring in Duke Lu's mansion."
"Where did you find it?"
"Horse, stable."
Emperor Jingxuan paused, and finally looked up at him, "Where?"
Xuan Yi: "As you expected, the Queen was anxious to dispose of the ring, and today, when she had the chance, she threw it into the stable..."
His voice became smaller and smaller, and after he finished speaking, he lowered his head, hiding the lower half of his honest face.
God knows how hard he worked during this period. He worked as a horse slave in the Lu family stable during the day and a thief at night. He searched the entire mansion but could not find any trace of his master's ring.
He guessed that the thing was most likely hidden in the master bedroom of Cuiwei Garden, but without the master's order, he would not dare to rummage through the queen's bedroom even if he had ten lives!
Fortunately, as luck would have it, he met the empress in the stable. He was careful and successfully completed the task.
"Horse...circle."
Emperor Jingxuan gritted his teeth, his face darker than the bottom of a pot.
Good! Very good!
She treasured Lu San's things very much, but threw his things into the stable.
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