Lady Li thought Lady Xu was a good person, so she asked Lady Xu to take her token to the capital to find a civil official surnamed Lu.
Little did she know that she had let a wolf into the house. Although Xu brought Li's keepsake to the capital, she fabricated that Li had died. Moreover, she had bizarre dreams day and night, and those dreams were all about the past that Li and Xu talked about in their spare time.
It's hard to say whether Lord Lu was foolish or too infatuated. After a superficial investigation, he actually believed it to be true and then married Xu.
Li remained in the thatched hut at the foot of the cliff. As a lady from a respectable family, she was neither capable nor able to do rough work. Even when she did some embroidery to earn some money, it was all taken away by Xu's parents.
Li always believed that Xu's misfortune was because of her, so she felt guilty towards Xu's parents. Until a landlord took a liking to Li, Xu's parents intended to marry Li off to the landlord for a good price.
Meanwhile, Xu sent people to where Li was, and brought her to a village. She was not allowed to leave the house and was kept locked in a small house day after day.
Although Li was extremely thin, her former beauty could still be seen in the faces of Lu Yuanchuan and Lu Yuanliu.
Moreover, according to Qiao Zhen, after learning that Li had become the wife of Prime Minister Lu, the Xu family elders actually dared to come to the capital and loiter outside the Prime Minister's residence. They even threatened Li with their past experiences, saying that otherwise they would reveal and publicize their past.
Shamelessness knows no bounds.
That day, when Qiao Zhen learned that Lu Li had gone to Fangfei Pavilion by Yu Lake alone, she keenly sensed a hint of gossip and knew there was something fishy going on!
So she went directly to Yu Lake with four maids and four servants. Qiao Zhen was a princess of the Qi Kingdom for several dynasties, and her status was naturally comparable to that of the empress. Even the Qi Emperor thought that bringing eight servants was not enough; at least twelve were needed to barely reflect Qiao Zhen's status.
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