Chapter 158 She's Going Crazy
Chang'an City, Lu Family
On this day, Lu Desheng received two letters, which were delivered via the post station.
One of the letters was clearly written by his youngest son, so he put it aside and didn't rush to open it. He took a look at the other one and saw it was from Zhang Xian, the magistrate of Tonghua County in Yanzhou.
Lu Desheng thought about it and remembered Zhang Xian, Yan Hua's disciple, the one he had badly tricked. But why would he write to him?
Also, the youngest son was with the youngest daughter, and the youngest son sent him a letter from Yanzhou. Does that mean the daughter and her friends have already arrived in Yanzhou? But the fact that they sent him a letter now, could it be that something unsolvable has happened?
As soon as he thought of this possibility, Lu Desheng hurriedly opened Zhang Xian's letter.
At the beginning of the letter, Zhang Xian talked about Lu Mingzhi's deeds and praised him again and again, saying that a tiger father will have a dog son, and that he had his father's style at such a young age.
Lu Desheng held the letter and raised an eyebrow. Was this letter really about his youngest son? Why did it sound so strange? It sounded more like the wording of his little daughter.
He continued reading until he reached the end where Zhang Xian tactfully mentioned that he would be the one to trouble him with the rest.
Lü Desheng: ???
What's bothering him? Could this little bastard Lu Mingzhi bring any trouble back to his father?
Once he opened his youngest son's letter, the truth was revealed. As for his daughter's promise to Zhang Xian? No problem, he'd do it!
There was just one thing he couldn't tolerate, so he picked up his pen, wrote a page of letter, and scolded his youngest son.
What's wrong with this little bastard taking the blame for his second sister? Why is he crying like this? He's so afraid of taking responsibility, so he can't be kept.
Whether a man is studying or working, he must be mentally prepared to take the blame for his direct superiors, otherwise he will never achieve anything. Who are you, a little Luo Luo, competing with your superiors for a clean position? Back then, how many times did he take the blame for Emperor Kang Cheng?
The second half of the letter was written in the younger sister's tone. He could understand that it was inconvenient for the younger sister, and it was okay for the two siblings to share a piece of letter paper.
The young girl first asked about the health of the two elders, then briefly explained the situation, and finally mentioned that she had taken on a troublesome matter for him and asked her father for help.
Of course that's possible, as he's just bored right now.
Putting down the letter, Lu Desheng thought about it and felt that it was not difficult to deal with Zhang Xian. He had eliminated Qinglongzhai and cleverly interrogated those thieves in front of the people of the entire county with great fanfare, thus making a great reputation among the people.
His return can be said to be a great achievement.
Lu Desheng picked up his pen and gave him a suggestion, asking him to go to pay homage to Yan Hua directly after returning to Chang'an without seeing anyone, and then visit the ministers who had been kind to him.
Now, the four regent ministers have begun to form alliances in pairs, because they have realized that if they continue to fight alone, they will be easily defeated by the new emperor one by one, and it will also be easy for the other three to take advantage of their misfortunes.
A three-party force will be formed in the court, and this situation is expected to last for some time.
The new emperor was in need of people. Zhang Xian, an official who had been exiled for more than ten years, had no connection with the four regents in Chang'an City and had no connections with them. In the eyes of the new emperor, he had a clean background and showed great ability, so there was a great possibility that he would be recruited.
Furthermore, his direct tribute to Yan Hua upon his return to the capital, demonstrating his vindictive nature, would increase his likelihood of being reused. His vindictive nature suggests a clear distinction between gratitude and resentment. The new emperor's promotion and reuse would be a favor to him, and what emperor wouldn't like a minister who remembers a favor?
Next, he had to figure out how to discreetly let the new emperor know about this person.
Later, Lu Desheng told his wife about the letters from his little daughter and youngest son, and said, "I'm going to be busy. These two children still need the help of their father." He looked contented when he said this.
Jiang just waved at him and told him to go away and not interfere with her settling the accounts.
Lu Desheng touched his nose and went aside.
In fact, Lu Desheng is not as free as he said.
Because of the example of Lu Desheng, everyone knows how high the upper limit of a capable censor is, and now the Censorate has become a battleground for military strategists.
Everyone remembered vividly how Lü Desheng rose to power and became a close minister to the emperor. Anyway, if someone showed up who wasn't one of their own, they would attack him.
There were even ministers in the court who secretly approached him and asked him to give them some guidance in private, offering good terms. But he refused. This led to many ministers looking down on him. But would Lu Desheng care?
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When Songli and his group left Tonghua County, the Xie and Zhao families had just arrived in Xiangyang.
At this time, the two families had suffered serious casualties. There were almost no children under the age of five and elderly people over the age of 45. The atmosphere in the team was both depressed and somewhat tense.
The bailiffs and the officers were divided into two factions. Four or five officers had died, and even one bailiff had died.
The current situation is the result of the game between the two sides.
At the beginning, these bailiffs and runners were very unfriendly to them. After only about half a month of departure, many people from the Xie and Zhao families died.
At that time, Xie Zhan felt that this could not go on any longer, so he used a beauty trap to divide the group of bailiffs and police officers. Those who were particularly difficult to deal with and liked to torture others were killed by his trick.
The girls he used as his honey trap were the more ordinary-looking ones from the Xie and Zhao families. He kept and protected the ones with extraordinary beauty, hoping to use them for his own purposes in the future.
Xie Zhan's strategy was undoubtedly successful, but he was actually in a bad mood the entire time. You know, these escorts and runners, people he wouldn't even bother with in the past, but now he was in dire straits and had to deal with them. He didn't want to bother with them, but it was frustrating, and even if he did, he wouldn't feel any sense of accomplishment.
Xie Zhan had the belief that he could return to the pinnacle of power. Even though he was tortured in prison, he was in good condition because of the care of his clansmen. His aura was restrained, like a famous sword that had fallen silent.
Zhao Yutan's condition was very bad, although she was not subjected to any torture in Dali Prison.
She now looked at Xie Zhan as if he were a stranger.
Because on the way to exile, she had another prophetic dream, which almost drove her crazy.
She dreamed of a rebellion against the Qin family, Qin Sheng becoming a respected young general, and Qin Heng marching westward, ultimately reaching Chang'an. She also dreamed of her current husband, Xie Zhan, leading the way among the officials and first opening the city gates.
Her dream came to an abrupt end here. She woke up, but she almost went crazy!
The Qin family had seized the Song family's throne, becoming the biggest winner! It wasn't the emperor's general amnesty she'd imagined, a grace that allowed the Qin family to return to Chang'an free of their guilt!
The day after she had this dream, she couldn't eat anything and stopped caring for Xie Zhan because she was going crazy from the regret she was feeling.
She knew exactly what this dream meant! It meant she had given up the gift of fate, the wealth and glory that was within her grasp! In reality, she didn't have to do anything, just quietly wait for things to happen and for them to end.
If this dream was true, then what was the point of all this trouble? The key point was that after all this trouble, she still couldn't escape the fate of exile! What she couldn't accept the most was that even if she could eat it, it would be useless!
Was God playing a trick on her? Why did he make her go through all this?! He might as well have stopped her from having this prophetic dream in the first place!
And along the way, there was no young man to protect her. At the beginning, because she was tired from walking all the time and the road was too difficult to walk, she walked slowly, and then the officers whipped her twice. The two whips landed on her arms, and it really hurt, but no one cared about her, and no one took the lash for her.
Her heart is really bitter.
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