The first thing Zhou Qiongyue did when she returned to the courtyard was to vomit in a basin. She was no longer afraid of Yuan Bohua, after all, this man was still good to her.
After seeing such a bloody scene, she could hardly control her physical state.
Fortunately, Zhou Qiongyue had seen bloody things during the spring hunts in previous years. Although she still couldn't eat anything this time.
But after placing a few ice basins in the room and lighting some calming incense sticks, Gumei finally fell asleep.
Gulan and the others were relieved to see the princess fall asleep, so they stayed in Zhou Qiongyue's outer room. It wasn't that they didn't want to rest, but they were also a little sleepless, so they stayed together and chatted.
Among the four people including Gulan, only Gumei studied medicine and accepted this kind of thing well. The other three were listless.
So Gu Mei went to the inner room to check on the princess after a while. She was mainly worried that the princess would have a nightmare and also worried that she would have a fever. Only when they, the personal servants, paid more attention to such matters could the master suffer less.
Yuan Bohua took his people to the front yard, first washed, changed clothes and got himself ready, and then arranged the matters of the Lu Mansion.
He didn't really kill them all, he just asked his men to find a reason to send the demoted Lü Likun away. When the family left, he ordered people to spread the word that they were carrying a large amount of property.
Whether they can escape depends on the luck of Lu Likun's family. If they really escape, Yuan Bohua will send people to continue monitoring them.
And Lu Likun's handling of today's events was indeed the same as Yuan Bohua had guessed.
After Prince Fu'an and his wife left, everyone in the Lu Mansion said goodbye and left. The prince was not someone they could afford to offend. In the beginning, they agreed to come because they thought that Lu Likun was Prince Fu'an's uncle, so they would give him some face.
This result was something they had never expected. If they didn't run away quickly, what if the prince came back to settle the score?
Those who had initially pressured Yuan Bohua and tried to make him marry Lu Yiyan were now deeply regretting it.
Lu Likun watched as they were the only ones left here. He felt angry that these people were all fence-sitters, but when he looked at his daughter lying on the bed covered in blood, he deeply regretted his impulsive behavior over the past two days.
Mrs. Lu was even more angry and cried hoarsely, "Master, are we just going to let it go like this? Our Yan'er... Our Yan'er was so happy to call that ungrateful wolf "cousin..."
When Mrs. Lu's two sons heard their mother say this, they quickly scolded the servants at the door. They turned around and looked at their mother with pleading eyes. The eldest brother was the first to speak up and persuade her, "Mom, please stop talking. My sister is already like this. You don't want us brothers to go downstairs and accompany her, do you?"
Mrs. Lu looked at her two sons in disbelief. She didn't understand why they were so cowardly. "You...that's your own sister."
Lu Likun and Mrs. Lu's second son also questioned, "Mother, my cousin is a prince. What can we do? Do you know what crime it is to drug a prince? What do you think the crime is to assassinate a prince?"
Mrs. Lu’s two sons both felt that it would be best if the matter ended here. They all had families to support, and they couldn’t just let the whole family go down to accompany their dead sister!
When Mrs. Lu heard her second son say this, she fell to the ground beside her daughter's bed in disbelief. She also had a small imperial decree, so of course she was also "But... But aren't we relatives?"
"Ha, my sister is lying there, what do you think, mother?" Mrs. Lu's eldest son was so angry that he laughed at his mother's self-deception.
Lu Likun was also extremely angry, but after listening to his two sons' words, he quickly calmed down. He didn't dare to avenge his daughter when he was angry, let alone now that he calmed down.
Lu Likun quickly stopped his wife, "Alright, we'll listen to our son. Yan'er... Yan'er will tell everyone that she died of a sudden illness. Let her rest in peace!"
"Master..." Mrs. Lu cried even harder.
"My two sons are right. Our daughter is gone, but we are still alive! If people knew that we had a falling out with the prince, believe it or not, our Lu family would be finished without the prince having to do anything himself. So Yan'er could only have died of illness."
After Lu Likun finished this long string of words, he felt like all his energy and spirit had been drained away. If he had known that this would cause a falling out with Hua'er, he would never have gone this far.
Mrs. Lu was unwilling to compromise. After all, it was her daughter's life, and she wanted to avenge her daughter. She wanted people to know that Yuan Bohua was not what everyone saw, but a cruel and ruthless demon.
But she looked at her two sons' pleading eyes and thought about her young grandchildren, so she had no choice but to compromise. She was not just a mother to her daughters, so what else could she do?
Mrs. Lu made a decision in her heart and instantly fell crying on her daughter Lu Yiyan, her whole body filled with sadness and helplessness.
In the end, Mrs. Lu fainted from crying, and only then did the servants dare to clean up after Lu Yiyan.
Zhou Qiongyue didn't care much about Lu Likun's family afterwards. After all, the weather was getting hotter and hotter. She couldn't sleep well without ice every night. How could she have so much energy to care about those unimportant people?
When she thought about what happened that day now, she didn't even feel any physical discomfort.
Sometimes Zhou Qiongyue felt that a person's ability to adapt was truly limitless. In her previous life, she had never even killed a chicken, but now, watching Yuan Bohua kill a man up close, she didn't even get seriously ill.
Although Zhou Qiongyue was not sick, Princess Yongchun, the second prince and the fifth prince still came to see her in person with gifts.
This is also because the Lu family did not manage it so strictly, and Yuan Bohua did not specifically keep it secret. After all, this matter was not his fault. How could he plot against a prince without paying a price?
Even if the matter gets out of hand now, the emperor will only fine him a few months' salary. He doesn't rely on that salary to make a living, so he is not afraid at all.
If he keeps hiding it, it will be easy for someone with ulterior motives to bring it up and make trouble at an inappropriate time.
At least the matter was made clear to the emperor, who even ordered the secret guards to investigate.
The emperor looked at what the secret guards had found and didn't say Yuan Bohua was wrong. He just said that young people are impulsive. How could he do something like this himself? Even if he didn't want to waste those good ideas, at least letting his men do it would make his reputation sound better.
Now that Yuan Bohua has ruined his reputation, no woman would dare to have any extra thoughts about him in the future.
The emperor felt that Yuan Bohua would regret his impulsiveness sooner or later. However, he would not say it now, as it would be annoying. The emperor was also waiting to see the fun!
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