385, found a foster father
385, found a foster father
Lu Mingfei held his adoptive father's arm with one hand, preventing him from kneeling and paying respect. He glanced at Zhao Lang, then at his adoptive father and said, "Adoptive father, the Regent is not an outsider. From now on, when we meet privately, you should treat him the same way you would treat me. No need to be so polite."
When Zhao Lang heard that he was not an outsider, his mood suddenly became cheerful. He even smiled slightly and said to Lu Qingfeng, "Ming Fei and I have been good friends for many years. You can just treat me as a junior like Ming Fei."
When he said the last sentence, Zhao Lang looked at his Lord Lu and asked him with his eyes: Do you think I am right?
"..." Receiving the questioning look, Lu Mingfei wanted to give a thumbs up to His Royal Highness the Regent for being so considerate.
Lu Qingfeng heard what his adopted son and the Regent said, but in front of this powerful Regent, he was still very nervous and frightened, and did not dare to really treat His Royal Highness the Regent as a junior like his adopted son.
But he could also see that the relationship between his adopted son and His Royal Highness the Regent seemed to be very familiar and good.
"Please sit down, godfather. You've worked hard on the journey." Lu Mingfei pulled his godfather to sit on the chair and made a gesture to His Royal Highness the Regent to sit down.
He sat down next to his adoptive father and did not sit next to Zhao Lang.
Zhao Lang looked at Lord Lu who was sitting far away from him, but didn't say anything.
The waiter brought tea and snacks and then left.
"Godfather, why did you suddenly come back to Beijing? I didn't hear that you were coming back before." He was in a hurry to come out and hadn't had breakfast yet. He was a little hungry now. Seeing some snacks on the table, Lu Mingfei took a piece and put it into his mouth.
"It just so happens that the caravan is delivering goods to Kyoto Prefecture, and your family has prepared some New Year gifts for you, so I came to see you." Seeing his adopted son eating snacks, Lu Qingfeng pushed the plate over a little for his adopted son to take.
"After you returned to Beijing, your father and I didn't come to see you.
Originally, your father was planning to come back in person. But he couldn't leave the workshop, and it was Chinese New Year, so I told him I would come back here first and ask him to find time to come back and see you after the New Year.
Lu Mingfei nodded and asked, "Are my father and mother okay?" He hadn't seen his family for a long time. The last time he saw his family was half a year ago.
In recent years, he and his family have been apart for most of the time, and they have been in touch through letters. However, due to the distance, even letters only come once every few months.
"Everyone is very nice, but they are a little worried about you. They knew I was returning to Beijing and wrote a letter to you, asking me to bring it to you." As Lu Qingfeng spoke, he took out a cloth bag from his arms.
He opened the bag and found several letters inside, which he took out and gave to his adopted son.
"The New Year gifts everyone prepared for you are in the box outside."
"Okay, thank you for your hard work, godfather." Lu Mingfei took the letter and glanced at the words on the outside of the envelope. He recognized that two of the letters were written by his brother.
Later he talked to his adoptive father for a while.
Knowing that his adoptive father must be tired after the long journey, Lu Mingfei asked someone to take his adoptive father to rest and let him stay with him during his stay in Beijing without having to go out to stay in an inn.
Lu Qingfeng couldn't persuade his adopted son, so he had to agree and followed the servant who led the way.
Only after his adoptive father left did Lu Mingfei come over to sit next to Zhao Lang and ask the man who had been sitting there without saying a word, "During the New Year holiday, my adoptive father will be staying with me."
"What do you want to tell me?" Zhao Lang asked.
Lu Mingfei originally wanted Zhao Lang to go back to Prince Ding’s Mansion to celebrate the New Year, but when he thought that Zhao Lang would be alone there, he couldn’t bear to let Zhao Lang go back to celebrate the New Year alone.
Since he has already prepared himself to let his family know about the relationship between him and Zhao Lang, there is no need to hide Zhao Lang.
So he said, "It's okay. You can stay with me for the New Year. We can have New Year's Eve dinner with my adoptive father. He probably won't be here for long and will leave."
"Well, thank you, Lord Lu, for your kindness in taking me in." Zhao Lang immediately heard the difference between "godfather" and "my godfather". Lord Lu meant that Lu Qingfeng was the godfather of both of them.
Although he had found an adoptive father for himself, he would still be happy to acknowledge him if this adoptive father was the same adoptive father as Lord Lu.
Seeing a bit of pastry on the corner of the young man's mouth, Zhao Lang reached out to help him wipe it off.
Lu Mingfei touched the corner of his mouth with his hand and asked Zhao Lang: "Is there something stuck on the corner of my mouth? Is there anything else?"
"No more." Zhao Lang took out a handkerchief from his arms, wiped his fingers, and called someone outside to bring breakfast.
On the other side, after Lu Qingfeng arrived at the small courtyard arranged for him to live in by his adopted son, he suddenly remembered something. It was still so early at this hour, and the Regent came to visit his adopted son?
Is the relationship between his adopted son and the regent a little too good?
Thinking about the interaction between his adopted son and the regent just now, Lu Qingfeng always felt something was strange in his heart.
***
After they had breakfast, Lu Mingfei came out to see the New Year gifts his family had given him.
He took out the gifts that his two mothers and younger brothers had specially prepared for him.
He asked the steward to take out the rest of the food, divide it into several portions, and send them to the teachers of the Imperial College and the seniors he had followed when he was in the Hanlin Academy.
This year, many people sent New Year gifts to his house, but he had them all rejected by the security guards, so he didn't have many gifts to return.
Just after he had arranged these things, the guard came in and said that someone was outside delivering something.
"Just reject it directly." Lu Mingfei said without thinking.
"Sir, the steward from outside has handed over a note." The guard handed a note to their lord.
Lu Mingfei opened the post, took a look, and raised his eyebrows.
"Which family's is it from?" Zhao Lang reached out and took the note from Lu Mingfei's hand, opened it and took a look, then closed the note without any change in his expression.
After exchanging a glance with Zhao Lang, Lu Mingfei thought for a moment and said to the steward, "Then take it first. Steward, go out and deal with it."
"Yes, sir." Upon hearing this, the steward beside him followed the guard out.
Not long after, the steward came back from outside with two gift lists and two letters for their master.
Lu Mingfei took the gift list, glanced at it, and handed it to the steward. "Prepare two similar gifts according to this list and send them to Prince Qi at the Zhennan Palace."
"Yes, sir," the steward replied.
Because the late emperor wanted to win back the Prince of Zhennan, the Prince of Zhennan's house and property in Beijing were not taken away by the government. After the young emperor came to power, no one thought about these things, which led to the Prince of Zhennan's house in Kyoto being retained.
There was also a very strange thing happening here. After Qi Jun returned to Kyoto Prefecture, he actually dared to move back to the Prince of Zhennan's Mansion?
Lu Mingfei didn't know whether to say that Prince Qi was brave or that Prince Qi had guessed that the court could not do anything to him at this critical juncture.
After waving his hand to let the steward go out, he picked up the letter written to him by the fifth princess, opened it, and read it from beginning to end.
Perhaps because she was afraid that the letter would be seen by others, the Fifth Princess did not say much in the letter she wrote to him. She began by expressing that he had left her for Yunzhou City before, and then mentioned that she wanted him to help deliver another letter to her mother, and thanked him for the trouble.
The fifth princess's biological mother was Concubine Zhang in the palace.
"The Fifth Princess expressed her gratitude to me and asked me to help deliver this letter to her mother." Seeing Zhao Lang staring at him, Lu Mingfei had no choice but to show this man the letter written to him by the Fifth Princess.
This is to prevent the jealous person from having the lid open all the time and making him feel bad.
Zhao Lang took the letter and glanced at it. Seeing that there was nothing in it that shouldn't be there, he put it down and said, "This letter is for Concubine Zhang. I'll help you deliver it when I go to the palace another day."
"Oh, that's fine. Can you please send some things to Concubine Zhang when the time comes?" Lu Mingfei thought that Concubine Zhang was a woman alone in the deep palace, and her life must not be easy, so he prepared to send some food and daily necessities to Concubine Zhang in the palace.
This time Zhao Lang nodded and agreed.
Lu Mingfei asked casually, "Does your palace need to arrange many things for the New Year?"
"The housekeeper will arrange it." What Zhao Lang meant was that he never worried about these things.
Hearing Zhao Lang's words, Lu Mingfei felt a little envious of the Ding Palace for having a good steward like Liu. However, he also knew that talents like Liu were rare outside the palace, and only large families could cultivate management talents.
Even the stewards in his house were found for him by Butler Liu.
It was still early before going out, and Lu Mingfei was still thinking about work, so he discussed with Zhao Lang, "Let's go to the study for a while? Let's go out together later?" They had an appointment to meet Prince Qi today.
"I'll listen to you. Go if you want." Although it was rare to stay at home for a day, since Lord Lu wanted to go to the study to handle official business, Zhao Lang was still happy to accompany him.
So the two of them came to the study.
They had shared a study room when they were at Prince Ding's Mansion, so when they came to Lu's Mansion, they still shared a study room.
Zhao Lang also had his things moved to the Lu Mansion and moved into Lord Lu's house. He not only took away half of Lord Lu's bed, but also half of Lord Lu's study.
However, because Lord Lu didn't want outsiders to know that they lived together privately, he used a different identity when entering and leaving the Lu Mansion, and did not dare to openly enter and exit Lord Lu's house through the main gate in his identity as the Regent.
On this day, it was still snowing outside.
The two of them stayed in the warm study. While Lord Lu sat at his desk to handle official business, he sat on a reclining chair to read memorials. They didn't disturb each other, but when they looked up, they could see each other right in front of them.
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