Only Lu Mingchuan in prison knows what exactly happened to the Lu family.
Although those guards were in cahoots with him, she bet her brother was being used as a pawn.
After a long wait, it was finally the next morning. Lu Jinyue woke up early, called Baohuan, and after she washed up, she asked for a set of palace maid services, which were perfect for her.
Baohuan was worried about her injuries, but Lu Jinyue insisted on going out.
"I'm fine. After two days of rest, I feel much better. Let's go and come back quickly." Lu Jinyue urged.
Baohuan had no choice. She didn't want Lu Jinyue to leave the palace both for public and private reasons. However, Lu Jinyue was a kind person and was the emperor's woman. Most importantly, the medicine she gave her saved her a lot of suffering.
But what if she was discovered while leading people out of the palace? What if Miss Lu fell ill and fainted on the road?
"Stop thinking about it and let's go quickly." Lu Jinyue urged again.
She felt much better after taking the pills. At least the wound was no longer inflamed and she didn't have a high fever.
She tried to move. It would hurt if the wound was pulled, but it would be fine if it was not touched.
Lu Jinyue followed Baohuan with her head down, passing the checkpoints and interrogations at the palace gate.
Baohuan breathed a sigh of relief. God knows how fast her heart was beating! This was the first time she had done something so exciting and unconventional in her life!
When she arrived at the prison, Lu Jinyue ignored the murky atmosphere and found Lu Mingchuan.
"It takes an incense stick of time. If you have something to say, say it quickly." The jailer opened the cell door, tugged at the waistband of his pants which was being dragged down by a bunch of cell keys, and walked away with a piece of straw in his mouth.
Lu Jinyue didn't care about his rudeness. She called Lu Mingchuan as soon as she entered the cell. Baohuan stood outside to keep watch for the two of them.
"Brother, get up quickly." Lu Jinyue felt a little disgusted when she saw Lu Mingchuan's dirty face and disheveled hair.
"Ayue, why are you here? The prison is too dirty, it's not the place for you." When Lu Mingchuan opened his eyes, he saw Lu Jinyue squatting in front of him with a heroic posture, and realized that he was not dreaming.
Then he thought about how he had accidentally stabbed her with a sword, and quickly sat up and looked at Lu Jinyue.
There are differences between men and women, and even if they are siblings, he cannot directly check on them.
"I've been resting for two days and I'm much better now." Lu Jinyue felt warm in her heart when she saw the concern in his eyes.
"I'm sorry, brother, I didn't mean it." Lu Mingchuan's voice became softer due to the heartache. He was afraid that he would accidentally kill his own sister.
But fortunately, his sister was still able to stand in front of him safely.
Time was running out, so she didn't bother with small talk and went straight to the point, "Brother, what happened at home that made you take such a big risk to assassinate Shen Yunxiao?"
The Lu family had originally stayed away from trouble, and they could live a stable life even if they abandoned her as their daughter. She did not blame the Lu family.
When it comes to this, Lu Mingchuan hesitated for a moment, and then told the story slowly.
It turned out that about ten days ago, an uninvited guest came to their house. The man was wearing a conical hat and a straw raincoat, which looked out of place in the cold weather.
He was confused at first, but was really frightened after seeing the true appearance of the person who came.
That person turned out to be Ye Zhixing, who had a broken hand!
"Chen Yunxiao stole my wife and killed my people. I will never forgive him in this life!" Ye Zhixing's eyes were about to burst. Only then did the Lu family know that Lu Jinyue was abducted into the palace by Chen Yunxiao.
"I got this hand thanks to him! Father-in-law and mother-in-law, I'm here to inform you! The dog emperor wants to kill the Lu family so that he can suppress the matter of stealing my wife. You guys should run away quickly!" Ye Zhixing took a sip of tea to suppress the anger in his heart.
The Lu family members became anxious when they heard this. Father Lu slammed his fist on the table, causing the teacup to jump twice and spill some tea.
"Our Lu family has never participated in party disputes and has already moved away from the capital. I didn't expect Shen Yunxiao to want to kill us all!" Father Lu was extremely angry, and he felt heartbroken when he thought of his kidnapped daughter.
His daughter loved Ye Zhixing so much that she even gave up on him as her father in order to be with him.
She must be suffering from humiliation now!
Ye Zhixing urged everyone to flee overnight, but it was still too late. Just as they were about to step out of the house, the sky full of arrows and fireballs came towards them.
In an instant, a large area of houses were set on fire and burned down. Countless people fled from the houses, but were shot through the heart by arrows.
The same thing happened to Lu Mingchuan's grandmother. She blocked a fatal arrow for Lu Mingchuan, but died herself.
Lu's mother and younger brother were also injured during the escape.
"In order to avenge my grandmother, I used the former crown prince's connections to sneak into the palace and assassinate the dog emperor Shen Yunxiao. That's what happened." Lu Mingchuan finished telling the whole story in a few words.
After listening to this, Lu Jinyue always felt that something was wrong.
"Where were your father, mother and younger brother placed when you came?" Lu Jinyue asked.
"Of course, it will be placed in the former prince's mansion." Lu Mingchuan said.
That’s right, the Lu family had unknowingly stood on the side of the former prince.
She closed her eyes feeling a little uncomfortable, and the images of her family appeared in her mind. It would be a lie to say that she wasn't nervous and sad.
"You've been fooled." Lu Jinyue said hoarsely, "Ye Zhixing has been deceiving you from the very beginning. When Shen Yunxiao asked him for me, he acted willingly. How can you say he's snatching me away? I'm the only one who's unwilling."
Lu Mingchuan's face turned pale and he looked at Lu Jinyue in surprise.
"As long as I am offered to Shen Yunxiao, the Ye family will only be exiled but not beheaded. It is Ye Zhixing who wants to live a miserable life. I am just an object he offers to Shen Yunxiao." There was a bit of sadness in Lu Jinyue's eyes, which made Lu Mingchuan's heart tremble slightly.
"I'm afraid that the assassination was arranged by him. It was all for the Lu family to work for him. Didn't you sneak into the palace to assassinate him just for him?" Lu Jinyue smiled sadly. Her family became the bargaining chip for the deposed prince to kill Shen Yunxiao!
Lu Mingchuan's face turned even paler. The situation was urgent at the time and he didn't think too much about it.
Moreover, he saw Ye Zhixing's miserable condition with his own eyes, and no one would joke with his own hands and the lives of his family.
Now that I think about it, it was all a conspiracy.
Lu Jinyue came out of the prison. The sunlight of the first month of the lunar year shone on her body, but there was not a trace of warmth.
She only felt the cold wind whistling past, carrying the chill into her limbs and bones.
Baohuan felt very sorry to see her so distraught. In the face of human life, words of comfort are always too thin and pale.
She heard the entire conversation just now. In this fight for the throne and the party struggle, in the end it was the ordinary people who suffered.
She was only six years old when she entered the palace. At that time, the fifth prince Shen Yunxiao was bullied all day long, but no one helped him.
She was just a humble palace maid, her words carried little weight, and if she helped the fifth prince's palace maids and eunuchs, they would die inexplicably the next day, so she didn't dare to help him.
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