369, exciting
369, exciting
Two days later——
When the steward of Prince Ding's mansion saw the guards around their prince, he thought something had happened to the prince. After asking, he found out that it was not their prince who had been in trouble, but their eldest son who had been detained.
After finding out what was going on, the butler was speechless. He said to the guard who came to inform them to pick up the person, "The prince is not at home. I will report this to the princess."
After saying this, the butler hurried into the house to report to another master.
Not long after, Princess Ding learned about this from the housekeeper.
She only found out later that the magistrate of Li County had brought her eldest son's jade pendant to the palace, so naturally she knew that the magistrate of Li County was her eldest son's man.
Now that the Li County Magistrate had detained her husband's son, born by another woman, it was obvious that he was on the side of her eldest son. Princess Ding was no fool; she knew whose side she should side with at this moment.
If this was her own child, she might still care about it, but this is someone else's son, so she doesn't have the heart to do so.
"In that case, you can send someone to tell the prince and ask his opinion." Princess Ding said.
"Yes, I will send someone to inform the prince right away." The butler responded and bowed as he walked out. He also sent someone to tell the guards at the door to go back first.
The guard standing at the door heard the words conveyed by the butler and left.
It was a day later when Prince Ding learned the news.
"What?" When Prince Ding saw the steward sent by the palace, he thought something had happened in the palace. When he learned that his eldest son was detained by Lu Mingfei, he looked incredulous.
When the steward saw that their prince looked unhappy, he lowered his head and dared not speak.
Prince Ding was so angry that he almost laughed. He threw the memorial in his hand on the table and shouted, "Come here, prepare the horses, and go to Li County."
"I want to see how brave this kid is!" He even dared to detain his own son!
And that good-for-nothing son of his! When Prince Ding thought about what was going on here, his heart ached.
"Yes, General." The person outside responded after hearing this.
Not long after, Prince Ding changed into his regular clothes for going out, and rode out of the military camp with a team of personal guards.
When the other generals in the barracks saw their general leaving the camp, they thought that there was some movement among the Hu people and their general went to deal with it.
***
Lu Mingfei, who was in Li County at the time, had no idea that Prince Ding had brought people to his side.
He had just learned from the guards that Zhao Rui hadn't eaten for three days. He just sneered and said, "If you don't want to eat, then don't eat. Save some food. It's just a few meals. You won't starve to death."
"Yes, sir."
"...Forget it, I'll go with you to see him."
After all, Lu Mingfei was still a little worried that something might have happened to Zhao Rui. If this man died at his hands, he would be in trouble.
Even if he is going to die, this person must die outside and have nothing to do with him.
Putting down the pen in his hand, he stood up from his seat, walked out, and came to the yard where Zhao Rui was imprisoned with his guards.
After they caught Zhao Rui that day, he locked Zhao Rui in a room in the backyard of the yamen and sent people to guard Zhao Rui in shifts day and night.
So the backyard of their yamen has been very lively these days, because the people on Zhao Rui's side are not giving up and are trying every way to rescue their master every day.
However, the guards on their side were not pushovers either. So no matter how Zhao Rui's men made a fuss, they kept Zhao Rui locked in the room and did not rescue him.
When he brought his men into the house, he saw Zhao Rui lying on the bed in the room, tied with ropes, looking miserable.
Standing at the door and taking a look at the young master, Lu Mingfei felt that Zhao Rui was unlucky enough to fall into his hands again and again. He could have offended anyone else but him.
"Go and untie the ropes from him."
"Sir..." Guard Ma hesitated when he heard this.
"It's okay, go and untie it." Lu Mingfei wasn't afraid that Zhao Rui would escape or do anything to him. If he didn't even have this little self-protection ability, he wouldn't have survived all these years safely. He would have been killed by Prime Minister Wan's men on the way to Li County.
Thinking of that old bastard Prime Minister Wan, he decided to settle the score with that old bastard when he returned to Kyoto!
This time, without waiting for the guard Ma in front to take action, Caifeng, who was following beside him, stepped forward, took out the dagger on his waist, and cut the knife in Zhao Rui's hand.
Guard Ma just glanced at the person who took action and didn't say anything.
After the ropes on his body were untied, Zhao Rui sat up from the bed and stared at Lu Mingfei with a pair of fiery eyes.
There was food on the table.
"If you want to eat, come over. If not, just sit there and watch me eat." He was hungry, so Lu Mingfei found a place to sit down, picked up his bowl and chopsticks and started eating without waiting for Zhao Rui to come and eat with him.
“Gurgle——”
At this moment, Zhao Rui's stomach rumbled at an inopportune time.
Everyone in the house heard it.
Zhao Rui's face flushed, and he stared at Lu Mingfei without any movement. He was born as the eldest son of the royal family, and had never suffered any hardship since childhood, let alone being hungry for several days.
What made him more angry than being hungry was Lu Mingfei's repeated humiliation of him!
"If I were you, I would fill my stomach first and then think about other things." Lu Mingfei took a meat bun and took a big bite. "Hmm, it's delicious. It's worthy of being a big meat bun made by our government chef."
Zhao Rui glared at Lu Mingfei for a while, and became even angrier when he saw that Lu Mingfei was eating without being affected by him at all.
But Lu Mingfei was right in what he said: fill your stomach first and then think about how to kill this person!
Thinking of this, he got off the bed and walked towards Lu Mingfei.
When he saw there was only a plate of buns and two side dishes on the table, his face fell.
Seeing Zhao Rui's disgusted expression, Lu Mingfei laughed in anger, "Eat it or not, the food in our government office is only of this standard, not comparable to your palace."
Seeing Lu Mingfei eating the meat buns in big mouthfuls and smelling the aroma of meat, Zhao Rui, who originally didn't want to eat, sat down, picked up the chopsticks on the bowl, picked up a meat bun and took a bite.
After a pause, he continued to take the second bite.
As soon as Lu Mingfei saw Zhao Rui's expression, he knew that their buns had captured Young Master Zhao's taste buds. He asked him proudly, "Right? I didn't lie to you, did I?"
"The meat buns made by our yamen's cook are quite delicious."
Zhao Rui glanced at Lu Mingfei, continued eating his food, and said nothing.
Lu Mingfei looked at the face that looked somewhat like Zhao Lang. Of course, he didn't have any liking for Zhao Rui or any other thoughts about him.
He felt uncomfortable when he thought about Zhao Lang being a hostage in Kyoto Prefecture all these years, while the young master Zhao Rui was enjoying wealth and glory in the palace.
"Zhao Lang is better than you. He eats everything and is never picky about food." In front of Young Master Zhao, he began to praise Zhao Lang's good points.
"He's smarter than you!"
"Shut up!" Zhao Rui couldn't stand it anymore.
Seeing that the young master was irritated by him, Lu Mingfei's mood improved. He immediately thought the bun in his hand tasted even better. "Can't I tell you the truth?"
"You have to accept that some people are born smart and some are born stupid."
“…” Zhao Rui really wanted to stuff half of the bun in his hand into Lu Mingfei’s mouth to block his mouth and stop him from speaking.
The meal ended with Lu Mingfei deliberately provoking trouble.
What Lu Mingfei didn't expect was that Zhao Rui didn't take advantage of the meal to attack him.
He had originally prepared himself to fight back if Zhao Rui dared to attack him.
What a pity!
"General Zhao, please stay here for two more days. The person sent by the prince to pick you up should be on the way." After eating his fill, Lu Mingfei got up from the stool and prepared to go about his business.
But before he could take a step forward, he heard Zhao Rui calling him, "Stop!"
"Hmm? What do you want to tell me?" Lu Mingfei raised his eyebrows and asked the young master.
"Sell me the food you have." Zhao Rui said.
"What do I need the money for? Do you think I'm short of money?" Lu Mingfei snorted and laughed.
Hearing what their master said, the guard Ma who was standing beside him complained in his heart: Master, you are really short of money. I don’t know who couldn’t sleep in the middle of the night and spent half the night calculating in the study.
However, since this matter concerns the face of their elders, they naturally would not tell it in front of outsiders.
At this time, Lu Mingfei didn't know that his subordinates were secretly criticizing him. He put on a face of being rich in front of Young Master Zhao and said, "I told you, if you want to get food from me, you have to exchange it for something of equal value."
Zhao Rui took a deep breath and wanted to strangle Lu Mingfei to death.
But he also knew that the room was full of Lu Mingfei's men, and he alone could not defeat the guards standing beside Lu Mingfei.
"I can trade the land with you." He changed the condition.
"Land?" Lu Mingfei stretched out a finger and shook his head, telling Zhao Rui, "I don't lack land right now."
"What I lack is people!"
"..." The veins on Zhao Rui's forehead popped out. "You're dreaming! They are my brothers who have been with me through thick and thin. I can't possibly give them to you!"
"That's nothing we can do." Lu Mingfei shrugged and walked away.
However, just as he reached the door, he heard Zhao Rui say from behind, "I can give you someone. Right? Any person will do."
He stopped and turned to look at Young Master Zhao behind him.
"Of course not, I just want someone who can work!"
"Can."
The two people's eyes met, and Lu Mingfei suddenly smiled. 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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