The two soldiers who were supporting Lu Zhenzhi were sent away by him.
"Mother." He knelt down.
"You ordered her to go to Qi as a hostage?" Concubine Shu sat in the hall, with white hair on her temples.
"yes."
Concubine Shu said calmly, "Qi is plagued by constant wind and snow, and there are two opposing political factions. If she were to go there as a pregnant woman, it would be very dangerous."
There was calmness in Lu Zhenzhi's eyes.
The old woman spoke lightly, and the jade hairpin on her head made her look much older after losing the Duke of Dingnan.
"Mother is old," Concubine Shu continued, her eyes no longer holding the light she had when Prince Dingnan was alive. "She wants to hold her own grandson while she's still alive."
Lu Zhenzhi knelt on the ground, his hands on his legs, without saying a word.
"She's pregnant with your child," Concubine Shu said softly, "and it's twins. Mother took her pulse personally, as you instructed."
"She is the emperor's woman."
Concubine Shu said: "She was the woman that your brother took away."
Lu Zhenzhi raised his head.
Concubine Shu said, "His Majesty is unaware of her pregnancy. Perhaps he suspected it and ordered the imperial physician to see her. That old physician used to work in my palace. Today, he quietly told me to take Concubine Chen's pulse. He said her pregnancy was unstable and that there were signs of harm to both mother and child."
There were early summer showers outside.
"Lu Jin, Qi is a dangerous place. If you don't love her, my mother won't care about you. But you have to protect my two grandsons."
Lu Zhenzhi bowed his head and said, "My son is not interested in the child born to the daughter of a powerful man, and will not let her marry him."
"Really? She's the daughter of Prime Minister Fu of Dian. Would she covet your power and wealth?"
Lu Zhenzhi raised his head again, slightly startled.
"I don't know why she married King Hui so early in life, but she's pregnant with your child. You told me this yourself before you lost your memory."
"Son—" Lu Zhenzhi stood up, "I'll take my leave first."
Concubine Shu raised her eyes slightly, said nothing, and let Lu Zhenzhi leave.
She said those things not for the two of them, but only for her two unborn grandchildren.
Lu Zhenzhi returned to his inner chamber, walked to his desk, pulled out a drawer, and flipped through the topography of Qi State. By chance, he came across a contract.
He took it out and looked at it.
The date is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.
Half a year ago.
So I opened it and took a look.
"I, a commoner, Fu Tong'er, volunteer to serve the Regent Prince Chun for three years as the Ninth Master's personal maid. When this contract takes effect, my divorce from Prince Hui, Lu Qixuan, will also take effect. Otherwise, the divorce will be invalid."
It can be seen that these words were written by Lu Zhenzhi himself.
The handwriting is grand and coherent.
Below are three beautiful small words.
"Fu Tong'er"
These three characters, every stroke is clearly written by a little girl.
There was also a small thumbprint on the side.
At first glance, it was Fu Tonger's little finger.
So, when she divorced King Hui, it was Lu Zhenzhi who withheld the divorce letter and used it as a threat to force her to sign a three-year indenture to sell herself into slavery?
Thinking of this, Lu Zhenzhi flipped through the drawer again, and the jade pendant under his left ear trembled uncomfortably.
Under the envelope, there was indeed a divorce letter and a small portrait.
He took it out.
The small statue is Fu Tonger.
Judging from the brushstrokes, it was also painted by Lu Zhenzhi.
When Lu Zhenzhi looked at the divorce letter, he saw that it had both the emperor's imperial seal and his regent's imperial seal.
So, it was he who helped her get a divorce, and then used the divorce letter to threaten the daughter of the Prime Minister of Dian Kingdom to serve him as his personal maid for three years!
It looks pretty despicable.
She was just a little girl, bullied like that.
Lu Zhenzhi put all the things into the drawer, and at this moment, he found a book about sex between men and women in the same drawer.
The man raised his thick eyebrows slightly, took it out and looked at it, flipping through...
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