As the song ended, Qiao Zhen wiped away her tears and left Hua Manlou with a very sad expression.
As Lu Yuanliu watched Qiao Zhen get up and leave, he also suddenly stood up, accidentally knocking over a bottle of Biluochun tea.
Lu Yuanchuan looked at the distraught Lu Yuanliu and said, "A-Liu, don't think about things you shouldn't think about."
His tone was indifferent, so indifferent that you couldn't detect any emotion in his words. But these words weren't just for Lu Yuanliu; they were also for himself.
Lu Yuanliu hurriedly wiped the damp spots off his clothes. "Brother! I need to go find someone."
As Lu Yuanchuan watched Lu Yuanliu leave in a hurry, he lowered his eyes and took a few sips of tea, but his trembling eyelashes easily betrayed his turbulent emotions.
Zhuiyuan, the servant beside Lu Yuanchuan, had been with Lu Yuanchuan since childhood. The sudden drop in temperature around Lu Yuanchuan made Zhuiyuan feel that the second young master's departure must not have been a good thing.
Zhuiyuan suggested, "Young Master, if you're worried, why don't you go after them and take a look?"
Lu Yuanchuan, however, placed the teacup on the table with a blank expression. "He is only a year younger than me. If he still can't tell what he should and shouldn't do, then I, as his older brother, am powerless to help him."
Zhuiyuan hesitated several times before finally giving up in the face of Lu Yuanchuan's indifferent expression.
Lu Yuanchuan turned his head to look in the direction Qiao Zhen had just been, and instructed, "Go ask that man in the brown shirt what the woman sitting next to him said before she left."
Zhuiyuan: "Yes."
Zhuiyuan returned shortly after leaving and relayed the words, "The most tragic thing in this world is to give in to fate," to Lu Yuanchuan verbatim.
Lu Yuanchuan's breath hitched, and the hand he had been holding in front of him tightened abruptly. To him, that sentence sounded more like a veiled criticism, implying that he dared not defy Madam Lu.
"Zhuiyuan, send someone to bring Lu Yuanyu back."
Some things need to be put to rest.
Lu Yuanliu caught up with Qiao Zhen, panting heavily. He had long lost the composure he had when dealing with Shijuyi.
"Princess, when you said that your subject resembled your former husband, did you know his identity or not?"
Qiao Zhen's face still showed sadness. "At first I didn't know, but later I heard Ah Kuang mention it by chance, and I guessed a bit. It was only when I saw Young Master Lu at the birthday banquet that I dared to confirm my guess."
Lu Yuanliu then asked, "That day, the young lady left behind a silk handkerchief here. Could you send it to the princess tomorrow?"
Qiao Zhen had almost forgotten about this matter, but she couldn't show it. "No need, it's a pair of mandarin ducks, right? That's the one I embroidered for your elder brother. Please pass it on to Young Master Lu, and also tell him that I no longer need that handkerchief. Whether he keeps it or throws it away is up to him."
Lu Yuanliu replied in frustration, "Yes."
Qiao Zhen didn't want to say anything more to Lu Yuanliu, and she was in a hurry to return to the princess's residence, otherwise she would have a lot of items to choose from that night, and she was starting to have decision paralysis.
night.
Lu Yuanliu was in his study, facing the handkerchief. He was in a state of inner turmoil. Finally, feeling like he was holding a hot potato, he rushed into Lu Yuanchuan's study and handed the handkerchief to Lu Yuanchuan. "Brother, this was embroidered for you by the princess."
His tightly pursed lips swallowed the message Qiao Zhen needed him to convey to Lu Yuanchuan.
Lu Yuanchuan picked up the handkerchief and unfolded it, discovering two mandarin ducks with their necks intertwined on it. He smiled slightly.
Looking at Lu Yuanchuan's gentle features, Lu Yuanliu swallowed the bitterness in his mouth and silently left.
Lu Yuanchuan's initial desire to give up was rekindled. He couldn't believe that Qiao Zhen, who had liked him so much, could really give up so easily.
As for Lu Yuanyu and Madam Lu, it's time to deal with them.
Qiao Zhen instructed Xu Ruankuang to send people to keep an eye on the Lu residence every day, and to report to her immediately if there was any disturbance.
On August 18th, Lu Yuanyu, the third young master of the Lu family, returned to the capital, causing a great uproar in Qijing.
Qiao Zhen also caught a glimpse of Lu Yuanyu's face from the top of the Flower Pavilion, a Buddhist-like, abstinent, and handsome man.
On August 19th, Prime Minister Lu reclaimed control of the Lu family's internal affairs. Lu Yuanchuan and Lu Yuanliu formed one faction, Madam Lu formed another, and Lu Yuanyu remained neutral.
On August 20th, Lu Yuanchuan and Lu Yuanyu had a dispute. The person who was spying on them reported to Qiao Zhen that Lu Yuanchuan, who was usually expressionless, and Lu Yuanyu, who was usually composed, both had unusually bad complexions and their auras were very menacing.
On August 21st, Lu Yuanchuan seized control of the Lu family's internal affairs.
On August 22nd, Madam Lu was divorced, and the original Madam Lu returned.
The original Madam Lu was the biological mother of Lu Yuanchuan and Lu Yuanliu. The person who was secretly spying on the Prime Minister's residence returned to report that the original Madam Lu (Li Shi) was not actually dead, but had been imprisoned in a certain place by Madam Lu the First (Xu Shi) through a scheme.
As a result, Lu Yuanchuan was constantly manipulated by Madam Lu. When Lu Yuanyu learned everything, he couldn't believe that his kind biological mother would do such a thing. Shocked, he went to Guanlan Temple to practice Buddhism while still keeping his hair.
However, Madam Lu was unwilling to let her son leave Qijing because of this, so half a month after Lu Yuanyu left the capital, she threatened Lu Yuanchuan to send Lu Yuanliu out of the capital.
These past few years haven't been easy for Lu Yuanliu either. Even when he's sleeping, he has to worry that Lu Xushi will send assassins to attack him.
When the original Madam Lu, Madam Li, returned, she was already emaciated. When she returned to her parents' home, her carriage was intercepted by bandits on the mountain road. Seeing that her chastity was in danger, she jumped off the cliff, but luckily she was caught by a tree branch on the cliff face.
Xu was just a tea-picking girl at the time. She saved Li by chance and settled Li in her home.
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