Chapter 40: Jun Xin Chuan (7) He is not blind or deaf, he is just a jerk...
Xie Yun looked closely and found that the person who pounced on her was Lu Jihan.
Although Lu Jihan has a bad temper, his family education is extremely strict.
Although he was trying to save someone, this posture was still rude, and his ears immediately became red and hot.
He knew he was being rude, so he quickly stood up, rushed over, covered Han Zhen's mouth, and warned him, "What are you yelling about? Look carefully, I'm not an assassin!"
Han Zhen was caught off guard, his heart almost stopped and his breathing became rapid.
“Mmm…”
Lu Jihan: "Don't shout anymore, I'm doing this to save your master. If you really call someone, my reputation will be ruined."
After saying that, Lu Jihan turned his gaze to Xie Yun again.
"Big sister, are you going to die because that woman Liu Shijun stole your man?"
When he spoke, he looked particularly speechless. Perhaps it was because he had never seen anything so speechless in his life.
Xie Yun got up from the ground and brushed off the dead leaves and dust on her body. "Han Zhen won't tell. Just let her go."
Lu Jihan finally felt relieved and let go of Han Zhen. "You got me all dirty, and I was already in a bad mood!"
He wiped his hands on Han Zhen's back in dissatisfaction, and then said with a matter-of-fact expression: "What are you looking at? Your saliva is all over my hands."
Han Zhen's eyes went dark, and he almost fainted. How could he look like the son of a scholarly family?
But while Lu Jihan was wiping his hands, Xie Yun caught him off guard and grabbed his ear. "You little bastard, who are you calling Big Sister? I told you to call me Big Sister, but what's the point of your brain? You can't even remember this. And who told you that I was going to die because of that? I was picking flowers! Picking flowers! Do you see that flower? Go pick it for Big Sister."
Lu Jihan curled his lips and said, "I'm not going. I'm afraid you'll attack me and push me down."
Xie Yun rolled her eyes at him, but after hearing his commotion, Xie Yun's originally depressed mood suddenly brightened up.
Unexpectedly, Lu Jihan looked a little sad and stopped being stubborn. "Okay, okay, I'll pick it for you."
His arms were long, so he grabbed the stone railing by the pool, leaned out, and easily picked it up. "Here!"
After giving it to him, she clapped her hands and said, "But your heartless behavior is much better than that of my sister. If she were like you, she wouldn't have gotten herself sick."
Xie Yun asked back, "Did she tell you that she was sick from anger?"
Lu Jihan shook his head. "No, but she fell seriously ill right after she learned Princess Yu was pregnant. She'd never been this seriously ill before, and the imperial physician said it was a heart attack. What else could it be but that?"
Xie Yun was extremely disdainful: "Sister Lingyu wouldn't be so confused as to risk her life for a man."
Lu Jihan didn't understand.
Xie Yun continued, "In a family like yours, daughters cannot choose their own marriages from birth. Marriages for women in aristocratic families are more like transactions, bargaining chips, than marriages. Women trade their own happiness for the prosperity of their family for decades or even centuries to come."
"But from the beginning to the end, no one ever asked your sister her own opinion. Did she like Prince Yu, and was she willing to marry him? Similarly, after her engagement was broken off, no one asked her what she thought. Yet, the world took the liberty of assigning her an unseemly label, using despicable, petty, and narrow-minded assumptions to judge a court lady. And who says a woman whose engagement was broken off must suffer in solitude and jealousy for years?"
Lu Jihan was stunned when he heard this. This was something he had never thought of. In fact, he had not spent much time with his sister. His sister had been raised in the palace since she was young. After his sister's engagement was broken off, she passed the examination to become a female official and stayed in the palace as a female official.
Even if he is a biological brother, he can only see his sister a few times a year.
I only remember that when I was little, my sister and Prince Yu were childhood sweethearts and had a very good relationship. One of them was a gentleman of unparalleled integrity, and the other was an equally talented woman. They were simply a perfect match.
Like everyone else, he took it for granted that his sister should marry him and should like him.
However, my sister had never made any mistakes in officialdom. Instead, she was appreciated by the former queen and the queen, and was promoted all the way to become a leader among the girls of aristocratic families.
He thought his sister was hiding her feelings very well...
"Perhaps she was moved in the past, but facing someone who abandoned her, she wouldn't still be grieving for him. And you, as her younger brother, don't care when your sister will recover or whether the people around her are taking good care of her. Instead, you ran to Feng Gao recklessly out of anger, leaving no trace. Your sister's love for you is really in vain. She actually let you follow others and make random assumptions about her. Even if she is, don't make such assumptions so easily. Otherwise, others will slander her even more and hurt her because of your behavior. Do you have any brains?"
After listening to Xie Yun's speech, Lu Jihan suddenly felt enlightened. Damn him! He actually didn't believe his sister, and because of such a small matter, he came to this lake to drink alone.
He curled his lips, looking unconvinced, and said, "Okay... you... do have some truth in what you said!"
Xie Yun couldn't help laughing when she saw Lu Jihan, who was always arrogant and rude to her, being humiliated.
She said these words not only for Lu Lingyu, but also for herself. So she was particularly cheerful, and the depression in her heart was swept away. She smiled very relaxedly, "Hehe, I am a very reasonable person."
Lu Jihan was stunned by her voice, appearance and smile.
But suddenly, there was a sound of rubble breaking not far away, which scared several people.
Lu Jihan thought to himself, this is not good, could there really be an assassin?
"Sister, please go back to the banquet hall first. I'll go and take a look!" Lu Jihan hurried over to check.
"Oh! Be careful." Xie Yun nodded, but she didn't want to go back to the banquet hall. Besides, this place was closer to her yard than the banquet hall, so she might as well go back and rest early.
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However, Lu Jihan chased after them but didn't find anyone. He only kicked a broken piece of a small stone lion's head. He couldn't help but wonder, how could such a solid object break?! By then, Xie Yun had already left the garden, so he returned to his own residence.
"General, that was the young master of the Lu family. Madam must have just met him by chance." Si Wen followed Yan Huinan to smooth things over. "Madam was just speaking up for Miss Lu."
"Siwen, I'm neither blind nor deaf."
He sneered, thinking he was just being a jerk. Seeing Xie Yun come out because she said she was not feeling well, he followed her out out of concern, but then he saw this scene. He couldn't help but listen to the whole thing from the side.
He saw and heard how Lu Jihan threw Xie Yun down, how the two of them played around, and how they chatted happily.
His wife could talk to anyone around her, even have a pleasant conversation, but when it came to him, she was always so tense and full of hatred.
He did have a momentary impulse just now, wanting to rush out and kick Lu Jihan into the pond to drown him. But in Xie Yun's eyes, he was nothing.
Wouldn't it be even more ridiculous for him to rush forward so foolishly? How would Xie Yun look at him then?
Furthermore, Xie Yun's words weren't really about Lu Lingyu, but rather her own inner thoughts. The one who was actually free and unfeeling and indifferent was Xie Yun herself.
They already look down on you, Yan Huinan, are you still going to rush over and do something stupid? Haven't you done enough stupid things in front of Xie Yun since you were a child?
The funny thing was, he still got angry over such a small matter, getting mad at a young boy! His heart was gripped with a wave of pain and discomfort, a feeling that nearly swallowed up his sanity.
Yan Huinan: "Lu Jihan came here on horseback, right?"
Si Wen was puzzled by the question, but nodded and answered truthfully, "He's riding Qingyan, the horse you gave him as a birthday gift a few years ago. It's kept in the stables at the palace."
Yan Huinan: "Let him walk back. No post station along the way is allowed to rent or sell horses to him. If he gets a horse, he will be shot immediately."
Si Wen: Huh? Are they really going to let Lu Jihan walk back to the capital? Wouldn't that make him walk to death?
"yes!"
But Si Wen thought again, Lu Jihan had practiced martial arts after all, so if he walked and stopped for half a year, he would be able to reach the destination. He wouldn't be exhausted to death.
When they returned to the banquet hall, the Queen was gone, having probably taken the Crown Prince back to the palace to rest. Only a few energetic men were left, still drinking and chatting happily.
Yan Huinan sat down, too lazy to participate in these things. If he didn't hold an important position at the moment, he would never return to this place full of the stench of alcohol!
He had hated this kind of occasion since he was a child, and hated the hypocritical and flattering officialdom. Everyone here was hypocritical, greedy, cruel, and would do anything to achieve their goals.
Liu Shijun, who was sitting next to him, didn't leave either. She was waiting for Yan Huinan to come back.
She kept pestering him, thinking that since Yan Huinan had just allowed her to act unruly in front of Xie Yun, this was her chance.
Unexpectedly, just as she was about to pour wine for Yan Huinan, he scolded her fiercely: "Who allowed you to come near me! Get out!"
Liu Shijun was immediately frightened and trembled, full of doubts and grievances, but she had nowhere to vent. She was fine just now...
When Song Hongxuan was half drunk, he felt a little tipsy, so Yan Huinan ordered someone to send Song Hongxuan and other officials back to rest.
But Zhang Ke, who had been waiting outside the palace, suddenly came to report, "The Queen's bedroom was suddenly attacked by assassins. There are about fifteen assassins, all of whom are mixed in with the eunuchs and palace maids. Twelve of them have been captured so far, and subordinates have sent people to capture the remaining three."
Song Hongxuan, who was only slightly drunk, was suddenly sobered upon hearing this. He shouted, "Are the Queen and the Crown Prince okay?!"
Zhang Ke: "Your Majesty, the Empress and the Crown Prince are doing well. I have sent heavy troops to guard all the palaces."
"Yan Huinan! What are you doing?" Song Hongxuan got drunk after drinking a little and scolded Yan Huinan for dereliction of duty.
Yan Huinan looked at Song Hongxuan with a grim expression. The group of people he punished for dereliction of duty today were none other than the Imperial Guards. In the past, the selection of the Imperial Guards was in the hands of the Ministry of War, not under Yan Huinan's jurisdiction.
Originally, Zhang Ke had discovered that the management of the Imperial Guards was chaotic and he had long wanted to rectify it, but Zhang Ke was stationed in Qingzhou all year round and was always outshined by the commander of the Imperial Guards.
If Yan Huinan had not personally investigated, those people who were doing nothing would still be leisurely occupying the title of Imperial Guards and waiting to die.
This group of assassins probably took advantage of this opportunity to sneak in.
Seeing Yan Huinan's dark face, Song Hongxuan also shut up obediently, "Ziyou, you'd better stay by my side to protect me. Those assassins are definitely targeting me."
Yan Huinan: "Yeah."
But he still ordered Si Wen, "You personally take people to protect the lady."
Si Wen was Yan Huinan's most trusted man. In terms of martial arts prowess within the Great Zhou, Si Wen's was only slightly inferior to Yan Huinan's. And the assassin's target was indeed as Song Hongxuan had said; he must have targeted this departure from the capital and intended to harm the imperial family.
Xie Yun will be fine.
But Si Wen had only been gone for a cup of tea when a eunuch, covered in blood, came to report, "General! This is bad! An assassin has kidnapped Madam Yan! The assassin left a note for me to give to you."
Yan Huinan's heart suddenly stopped and he almost rushed over to snatch the note from the eunuch's hand.
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