271, Antidote
271, Antidote
When the palace banquet was over, Lu Mingfei, holding Zhang Lingxuan's hand, walked out of the palace and arrived at the palace gate. The back of his clothes was already wet with sweat.
I saw the second prince, the third prince, Fu Lianxin and others here.
Lu Mingfei asked Zhang Lingxuan to loosen his grip. He came over to thank the Second Prince and Fu Lianxin, "Thank you, Your Highness, and Brother Fu for your help tonight."
"You're welcome. It's just a small favor." The second prince looked at Lu Mingfei and said.
"Yeah, you're welcome." Fu Lianxin also said.
The Third Prince on the side did not ask any questions even though he knew the answer. What happened at the palace banquet tonight did not escape his eyes. He naturally knew that his good elder brother had someone attack this young Lord Lu.
Seeing Lu Mingfei's pale face, the Second Prince knew that he had suffered that night, so he said to Lu Mingfei, "Go back and have a good rest."
"Thank you, Your Highness." Lu Mingfei bowed to the second prince and the third prince, glanced at Fu Lianxin, and turned and left with Zhang Lingxuan.
Zhang Lingxuan hurriedly reached out to hold Lu Mingfei's hand.
Looking at the two people leaving, the third prince said: "Their relationship seems really good."
"Oh, I heard that they have known each other since childhood and both graduated from the same private school." Fu Lianxin replied.
"I see." The Third Prince nodded and said, "To have a top scholar and a third scholar from the same private school, their teachers must be very capable."
"It should be." Fu Lianxin responded.
Just as he was standing at the palace gate talking with the two princes, he met his grandfather coming out. After the grandfather and grandson saw off the two princes, they got on the carriage that came to pick them up.
When they were on the carriage back home, Old Master Fu said to his grandson, "How could you be so nosy tonight?"
"Grandpa, I'm not meddling in other people's business. The eldest prince was able to frame Lu Mingfei in front of so many people today, so he will dare to frame others in the future. If I don't save Lu Mingfei today, then Lu Mingfei's today will be our Fu family's tomorrow."
"Grandpa, the eldest prince is not a wise ruler."
"presumptuous!"
Old Master Fu scolded his grandson. Seeing that his grandson kept his head down and didn't say anything, he couldn't help but sigh and said to his grandson, "Xin'er, our Fu family has come this far because we follow the emperor. You must remember not to get too close to the princes."
"The affairs of the Heavenly Family are not something that we, as ministers, can discuss casually. Do you understand?"
"Yes, grandson understands." Fu Lianxin replied with his head down.
When Old Master Fu looked at his grandson, he knew that his grandson was only agreeing with him verbally but did not really listen to him.
***
The carriage stopped at the gate of his courtyard. Lu Mingfei got off the carriage and asked the horse guard to take Zhang Lingxuan home. Then he turned around and walked into his own courtyard.
As soon as he entered the courtyard, a hand grabbed his wrist, and the next second he fell into a familiar embrace.
At the same time, the door of the courtyard was closed from both sides.
The carriage drove away. Zhang Lingxuan, who was sitting in the carriage, didn't know that someone was already waiting for Lu Mingfei to return in the courtyard.
Lu Mingfei asked the person who carried him into the house, "Why did you come back so soon?"
"I just arrived too. Why are you sweating so much? Is it hot?" Zhao Lang felt sweat on his hands, so he touched Lu Mingfei's forehead and found that it was burning hot.
There was a bathtub in the room, filled with hot water. A man in black stood beside it and said to their master, "Master, please take off Lord Lu's clothes and put him in the tub. Soak for an hour, and the poison will be cured."
"Okay, you can go out." Zhao Lang waved his hand and asked the people in the room to leave.
The man in black saluted and walked out, not forgetting to close the door when he left.
Only after seeing the door of the room closed did Zhao Lang begin to take off Lu Mingfei's clothes and put the stripped Lord Lu into the bathtub to soak.
Lu Mingfei sat in the bathtub and looked at the person standing outside looking at him, "A Lang."
"Hmm? Are you feeling uncomfortable?" Seeing Lu Mingfei's flushed face and uncomfortable expression, Zhao Lang took out a handkerchief from his arms and wiped the sweat from Lu Mingfei's forehead.
Lu Mingfei grabbed Zhao Lang's wrist and looked up at Zhao Lang's face. Looking at the handsome face of Prince Zhao, he couldn't help but raise his hand to touch it, "You are so handsome."
"Do you like it?" Zhao Lang smiled a little, grabbed Lord Lu's hand, rubbed Lord Lu's hand with his cheek, and asked.
"I like it." Lu Mingfei climbed over the edge of the tub with one hand and leaned over to kiss Prince Zhao on the lips. "The imperial physician said there's another way to detoxify me..."
"Oh, what method?" Zhao Lang looked into Lord Lu's eyes and asked knowingly.
Crash——
Lu Mingfei's answer was to pull Prince Zhao into the bathtub where he was taking a bath.
The guards and secret guards outside heard the noise in the house and moved away.
***
The next morning, after seeing Lord Lu off, Zhao Lang allowed his subordinates to come into the room to talk.
"My Lord, last night the steward of the First Prince's Mansion sent someone to Huichun Hall to pick up the doctor from Huichun Hall and bring him to the First Prince's Mansion. The doctor who went there hasn't returned to the clinic yet this morning."
"Got it. Go on down."
"yes."
The guard responded and went out.
Zhao Lang sat on the chair in front of the desk, snorted and laughed, his eyes full of coldness.
At the same time in Kyoto Prefecture, the Second Prince and the Third Prince learned that their eldest brother had returned home at night and summoned three beauties to his house to have some fun.
When the Second Prince heard the news, he was a little confused, "Is this an accident, or did someone do it on purpose?"
"Who did that idiot? Could it be..." The third or the fourth? Or the fourth?
Similarly, the other princes also thought that their eldest brother was in trouble because of his brothers. No one suspected outsiders, and no one suspected Lu Mingfei.
Because they all knew that the young Master Lu came from a humble family and had no support behind him, so it was impossible for him to do such a thing to their eldest brother. Moreover, their eldest brother almost got himself into trouble by playing with women in their own house, so no matter how you look at it, this has nothing to do with Lu Mingfei.
Unless Lu Mingfei was recruited by one of their brothers, and in order to vent their anger for Lu Mingfei, their brothers attacked their stupid eldest brother.
However, no matter who did it, they were all happy to see their stupid elder brother get into trouble, so no one of them intended to report it to their father.
The emperor in the palace was not the kind of person who would ask about his son if he didn't see him for a day, so he didn't know that something had happened to his eldest son.
In order to cover up their master's scandal, the people in the eldest prince's mansion dared not tell anyone about their master's affairs, let alone report them to the palace. Otherwise, if the palace knew that their master was in trouble, all of these servants would be beaten to death.
So after several parties concealed the truth, the emperor in the palace knew nothing.
Lu Mingfei, who was working at the Hanlin Academy at the time, had no idea what was happening in the First Prince's Mansion. If he knew, he would definitely guess that this might have been the work of Zhao Lang.
Not long after he arrived at the Hanlin Academy that day, he received a letter from the second prince, asking him to meet at a place after he got off work.
Thinking about how the Second Prince had helped him several times and the other party had asked him to meet, if he didn't go, he would be too ungrateful. After thinking about it, he had no choice but to pick up a pen and write a reply on the back of the letter sent to him by the Second Prince.
Then he put the letter back into the envelope and gave it to the messenger, "Please help me deliver it to your master."
After receiving the reply, the visitor bowed and left.
After watching the visitor leave, Lu Mingfei couldn't help but sigh, stretched out his hand and pinched his brows, thinking in his heart, why not apply to go to the local area to become a small county magistrate? This would save him the headache of choosing which prince to be with in Kyoto Prefecture.
The emperor hasn't even died yet, but these princes are already forming cliques and scheming against each other all day long.
"What are you sighing about?"
Hearing Fu Lianxin's voice outside, Lu Mingfei put away the expression on his face and looked towards the door, where he saw Fu Lianxin standing. "Brother Fu, why are you here?"
"I came to see you. Are you feeling better?" Fu Lianxin walked into the room. The last time he came, the room was full of dust and cobwebs. This time, the dust and cobwebs were cleaned up, and the books on the shelves were neatly arranged.
"Thank you for your concern, Brother Fu. I'm fine now." Lu Mingfei replied.
When he met Fu Lianxin's gaze, he felt inexplicably guilty, as if the other party had discovered what he did last night.
No, no, this is absolutely impossible! He shook his head in his heart, shaking off this speculation and possibility.
"I'm glad you're okay." Fu Lianxin withdrew his gaze from Lu Mingfei and looked at the neatly arranged bookshelf. Seeing a note stuck on it, he asked Lu Mingfei, "Did you put this note there?"
"Well, yes, when I was organizing these books, I also classified them. In case someone doesn't know how to find the book, I put a note here to make it easier for people to find the book later." Lu Mingfei classified these books according to the book classification of later generations.
"That's quite good." Fu Lianxin nodded at Lu Mingfei's classification method, then looked at Lu Mingfei and said, "I seemed to see the people around His Royal Highness the Second Prince leave just now."
"……Um."
Lu Mingfei thought about it and decided to tell Fu Lianxin that the Second Prince had invited him to dinner outside and asked Fu Lianxin, "Brother Fu, do you want to go with me?" He thought that if there was one more person going together, if the Second Prince wanted to win him over and take Fu Lianxin with him, the Second Prince would have to be more cautious.
Or if something happened, he would have a witness present.
"Unfortunately, I also have an appointment to have dinner there tonight. If I meet him, I will go and say hello to the Second Prince." Fu Lianxin said with a smile.
Lu Mingfei didn't know whether Fu Lianxin's "unfortunate" situation was due to an appointment he'd already made, or if it was a last-minute arrangement after hearing what he said. But no matter which one it was, he was deeply grateful to Fu Lianxin for saving the situation.
"Okay, if we meet, we can have a drink together."
"good."
Fu Lianxin came to see Lu Mingfei, and after seeing that Lu Mingfei was fine, he left.
Looking at Fu Lianxin's departing figure, Lu Mingfei thought about Fu Lianxin's intention in his heart, and whether there was someone behind Fu Lianxin. But after thinking for a while, he didn't come up with anything, so he stopped thinking about it and concentrated on his work. Author's words: Thank you Bole 9492239 (9492239) for your support, mua! To know more exciting content, please leave me a message on Liancheng Reading
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