Seeing the certainty in Gu Shouxin and Gu Dabo's expressions, the emperor naturally agreed. At the same time, he also demanded that if either Prince Kang or Duke Chengen failed to hold out for even a day, they would each have to present the emperor with a treasure.
Prince Kang and Duke Cheng'en had no idea they would lose and readily agreed.
So the five of them sat down again and drank together like brothers.
Uncle Gu was quite talkative, and he started talking about Zhou Yujia again, and even started cursing the Duke of Zhenguo.
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Meanwhile, Lu Zheng brought the Duke of Zhenguo, who was completely drunk, back to the Duke's mansion.
When they arrived at the door, Lu Zheng was about to get out of the carriage and have the driver and gatekeeper help the Duke of Zhenguo back to his room. However, before he could get out of the carriage, the Duke of Zhenguo grabbed his clothes.
"Zheng'er!" the Duke of Zhenguo murmured in his drunken dream.
Lu Zheng tried to slap his hand away, but he was very strong and she couldn't. She frowned.
“Father, we’ve arrived,” Lu Zheng said coldly.
"Jia'er, Jia'er..." the Duke of Zhenguo murmured softly.
Through the dim light inside the carriage, Lu Zheng saw tears in the Duke of Zhenguo's eyes.
Unmoved, he forcefully pried open the Duke of Zhenguo's hand one finger at a time, then quickly got out of the carriage and had the coachman and gatekeeper help him up.
"Zheng'er!" Lu Zheng walked to the gate, and the Duke of Zhenguo seemed to have woken up and called out to him.
"You're drunk, go home and rest. We can talk about it tomorrow!" Lu Zheng finally stopped and replied.
"I'm not drunk, I'm not drunk. Zheng'er, come with me to the study, I have something to show you." The Duke of Zhenguo shook off the coachman and gatekeeper who were supporting him and staggered toward Lu Zheng.
He grabbed Lu Zheng, but Lu Zheng shook him off.
As a result, the already drunk Duke Zhenguo was thrown aside, crashed into the door, and bled.
Lu Zheng closed his eyes and rubbed his temples: "Go and fetch a doctor, and have someone prepare hot water."
With only the coachman and gatekeeper around, Lu Zheng had to help the Duke of Zhenguo inside by himself.
He helped the man back to his study. Along the way, the Duke of Zhenguo kept saying that he had something to give to Lu Zheng and that he had many, many things to show Lu Zheng.
Lu Zheng escorted the man back to his study, helped him to the lounge next to the study, and laid him down.
As a result, the Duke of Zhenguo got up to get something.
"That's enough! Your head is injured and bleeding, don't move!" Lu Zheng pressed him down and said in a deep voice.
The father and son hadn't been this close in many years.
The Duke of Zhenguo stared blankly into Lu Zheng's eyes, then he laughed: "When I was drunk before, your mother was just as fierce as you."
Lu Zheng was taken aback, then released him and took a few steps back.
As soon as he released him, the Duke of Zhenguo lunged forward and almost fell to the ground, but Lu Zheng caught him with lightning speed.
The Duke of Zhenguo chuckled: "You're just like your mother. You say you're ignoring me, but you still care about me and have something to do with me."
Lu Zheng said coldly, "It's different. I once thought that if God insisted that my parents not both live, I would hope that my mother would be the one who lives, even though I have never met her."
The Duke of Zhenguo was taken aback.
Then he slowly stood up, holding onto the bed. Lu Zheng wanted to curse, "Are you trying to fall again?"
Then, he leaned on the bed and the cabinet, walked to the bookshelf, and came to a large white jade vase. He pointed at the vase, turned to look at Lu Zheng, sighed, shook his head, took out a scroll from it, and carefully unfolded it as if it were a treasure. He then turned to Lu Zheng and called out, "Zheng'er, I'm sorry, all these years, I haven't been able to let you see your mother. Come here, look, this is your mother."
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