After the excitement, Lu Mingchuan calmed down.
After thinking a lot in the cell these days, he also realized his impulsiveness and the former prince's ulterior motives.
Maybe he was the one who carried out the assassination, and it had nothing to do with the emperor at all!
It's just that they were far away from the government and had no access to information, so they fell into his trap!
Shen Yunxiao sat there drinking tea with a calm expression, as if the noise in front of him could not disturb him at all. It seemed that he came here just to taste the difference between the Lu family's tea and the one in the palace.
The Lu family invited Shen Yunxiao to dinner and wanted to give him a seat as a sign of respect, but Shen Yunxiao sat on the Lu family's side on his own.
Mr. and Mrs. Lu and Lu Mingchuan were all at a loss. How could they have the right to sit at the same table with the emperor?
Although his means of ascending the throne were dishonorable and cruel and violent, he is still the emperor after all!
What they are facing is imperial power!
"Please sit down. I would like to experience the family dinner of a minister today." Shen Yunxiao sat down, and Eunuch Ma was already standing behind him, serving him food.
Hearing this, the adults in the Lu family looked at each other in panic, and only Lu Xiuyuan tilted his head at him to express his confusion.
Lu Jinyue smiled. She knew that Shen Yunxiao didn't care about these things, so she persuaded her family to sit down and eat together.
Shen Yunxiao sat at the head, and on his left were Father Lu, Lu Mingchuan, Mother Lu, Lu Xiuyuan, and Lu Jinyue.
Lu Jinyue happened to sit on the right side of Shen Yunxiao, and the table full of people actually felt like a family dinner.
Father Lu had been an official in the court for many years, but he had never dined with the emperor at such close range. If Eunuch Ma had not been there, he would have felt like he was dreaming.
"Father, mother, brother, there's no need to be restrained. The emperor is actually a very good person." Lu Jinyue picked up a piece of spring bamboo shoots for her mother and a piece of braised pork for her younger brother Lu Xiuyuan. The smile on her face was genuine and gentle.
Their eyes fell on Shen Yunxiao, confused and surprised.
"My dear Lord Lu, the court is in need of people right now. Why don't you come back and help me relieve my worries?" Shen Yunxiao naturally picked up Lu Jinyue's favorite chicken leg and spoke to Lu's father as if he was chatting with her.
He keenly noticed that a pair of eyes were always on the chicken leg, but he didn't dare to ask for it because there were so many people around.
Seeing Shen Yunxiao's chopsticks grab another chicken leg, Lu Xiuyuan's little mouth pursed, and he poked the rice in the bowl with his chopsticks in frustration.
"Your Majesty! I am deeply ashamed!" Father Lu was about to stand up and salute but was stopped by him, so he stood up and bowed to Shen Yunxiao in his seat. "Your Majesty has saved the Lu family, but I have my own considerations. Please allow me to think about it for a while."
If it were any other time, Shen Yunxiao would have so calmly invited someone to serve as an official in the court, and even lowered his posture, but he didn't expect the other party to be so ungrateful. He would have definitely sent the other party and beheaded the entire family.
Mother Lu was also frightened by Father Lu's polite refusal, and her eyes widened.
"It's okay. I didn't think about this. Sit down and eat first." Shen Yunxiao saw Lu Xiuyuan's little expression and put the chicken leg into the bowl.
Xiao Xiuyuan, who thought he had missed out on his favorite chicken leg, looked at the owner of the chopsticks in surprise when he saw the chicken leg in the bowl. When he saw that it was Shen Yunxiao, his eyes instantly lit up.
Hey! This brother-in-law is so nice, he even gives him a chicken drumstick to eat!
After the whole family finished their meal, Shen Yunxiao took Lu Jinyue and said goodbye.
When the two of them reached the screen wall, Lu Xiuyuan suddenly broke free from his mother's hand and ran to Shen Yunxiao like a little cannonball.
"Brother-in-law! I call you brother-in-law!" the little person shouted with a red face, "You can't break your promise!"
Shen Yunxiao paused, his eyes fell on his little face, and seeing his sincere and serious expression, a smile appeared at the corner of his lips. He knew what Lu Xiuyuan was talking about.
He squatted down to look Lu Xiuyuan in the eye, "The emperor's words are unchangeable."
"Let's pinky promise!" Lu Xiuyuan's eyes sparkled like stars, and then he extended his little finger.
Lu Jinyue was amused by him and stopped Lu's mother who wanted to come up and take Lu Xiuyuan away.
Shen Yunxiao did as he was told and stretched out his little finger to hook it with his.
"We make a promise and we won't change it for a hundred years!" The tender child's voice, full of expectation, reached everyone's ears, deeply moving everyone present.
Lu Jinyue and Shen Yunxiao got into the carriage. When the curtain was lowered, the inside and outside were separated into two worlds. The Lu family members gradually became smaller in their field of vision and disappeared after turning a corner.
Only then did Lu Jinyue lower the curtains, and her eyes couldn't help but feel a little sore.
After a short reunion with my family, I don’t know when we will see each other again.
The carriage occasionally shook, and the curtains trembled as well, letting in a ray of light from outside, softly allowing one to see the fine hairs on Lu Jinyue's face.
Shen Yunxiao's gaze on Lu Jinyue was gentle and affectionate, and he reached out and took her into his arms.
After passing through the palace gate, the noise outside disappeared and Lu Jinyue also calmed down.
"Brother Yuan is young and ignorant, so don't take brother-in-law or anything like that to heart." Lu Jinyue saw very clearly that before her pregnancy was diagnosed, Shen Yunxiao, the big bad wolf, would not easily give her a title.
"A man should keep his word." Shen Yunxiao's words left Lu Jinyue speechless.
The two got off the carriage and changed to a sedan chair. When they arrived at the Palace of Heavenly Purity, Lu Jinyue's mood had improved a lot.
After the two of them rested for a while, the Hua siblings entered the palace.
The purpose of this trip was nothing else but to let the soldiers in the camp outside the capital see with their own eyes the power of this crossbow. Lu Jinyue was specially invited to go with them, after all, it was her invention.
Lu Jinyue readily agreed, and packed up early the next morning and went there with Shen Yunxiao.
She had never come here before, but she could hear the roars of the soldiers doing collective drills from a long distance away. She would get off at the gate and walk in.
Along the way, Hua Wuyang was the one who spoke the most and was the most lively. He introduced the configuration and training programs here to Lu Jinyue. When he got excited, he even gestured a few times. It was obvious that he liked this place very much.
After Deputy General Mei was captured, the highest-ranking general here became Senior Hua, Hua Wuyang's biological father.
The Hua family is a family of military generals and has always been loyal to the emperor. When it came to Shen Yunxiao, Hua Wuyang had to work very hard to persuade his father. Originally, his father wanted to retire and stay in the countryside and not care about worldly affairs.
But he was willing to trust his son's judgment.
By now, he had also figured out the emperor's temperament. He would not die unless he touched his bottom line.
"Dad, this is Miss Lu. This crossbow was invented by her!" Hua Xue Ning smiled and walked forward to introduce Lu Jinyue confidently.
General Hua's gaze fell on Lu Jinyue's face, his eyes full of suspicion. Could such a delicate woman make a weapon with such great lethality?
He doesn't believe it.
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