At the beginning of the morning hour, several fast horses galloped out of the south gate of the capital and headed towards the distance at high speed. Lu Zifeng and Situ Hao took a look at the receding backs, and soon a guard came to the tea stall.
"Your Highness, the one who just ran away wasn't Prince Qing, but one of his subordinates. Prince Qing has already ridden out of the north city gate and is heading towards Liangzhou."
Situ Hao and Lu Zifeng looked at each other and said.
"Follow them, and make sure to follow closely. Prince Lu and I will follow right away. There's no need to send anyone to chase after those confusing teams. Everyone, just follow them."
Watching the guards leave, Situ Hao looked at Lu Zifeng.
"Let's go. Let's go to Lianzhou Prefecture first. We don't have to rush. We have guards following us, so we shouldn't lose them."
Lu Zifeng shook his head.
"No, we should just follow! I think this is Prince Qing's plan. If we don't follow, I won't feel at ease."
Situ Hao thought about it and said, "Okay, let's follow them."
The two men mounted their horses and galloped towards Liangzhou.
In the mansion of Duke Dingguo, the two old ladies, Kang and Xu, were chatting, and Tan Yunniang was talking to Cui about topics between women.
Lu Minghan had just returned from court. Seeing that his brother and his family were all there, he told them about His Royal Highness Prince Zhong's proposal yesterday.
Lu Mingyuan was fine. He had been in the capital for a few months and was familiar with the city's situation. As a scholar, he must have some knowledge. Xu and Tan Yunniang were stunned. In their opinion, His Royal Highness Prince Zhong was a member of the royal family, and Prince Zhong's daughter was a princess of the royal family. The emperor's niece, while not as good as a princess, was already quite impressive. They hadn't expected Prince Zhong to actually set his sights on his grandson. That was a truly significant event.
As women with limited knowledge, they naturally could not make the decision, so they did not speak for the time being.
Lu Minghan finished speaking. "Just now in the Imperial Study, I asked the Emperor about his opinion, and he said that Prince Zhong had already visited the palace before coming to our house yesterday. The Emperor and the Empress both agreed to this marriage. Now it all depends on the opinions of my second brother and his wife."
Lu Mingyuan thought for a moment and said, "Brother, I promised Feng Ge'er that we wouldn't make decisions about his marriage on our own. How about I go back and see Feng Ge'er and ask him about it?"
Lu Minghan waved his hand.
"You don't know yet! Brother Feng has already left the capital. The emperor has assigned him a mission, so he can't come back for a while. As for how long it will take, it's hard to say. It may take several months. Don't worry, this kid is very capable!"
Lu Mingyuan and Tan Yunniang looked at each other and thought for a while.
"Brother, do you know where this guy went? Why don't we write him a letter and tell him about this and see what he thinks?"
Lu Minghan twitched his lips. He felt that his second brother was spoiling the child too much. Marriage has always been decided by parents and matchmakers. How could he have any say in it?
However, thinking about what happened to Feng'er, his second brother felt very guilty, so he couldn't help but listen to the child's opinions and said.
"I can't contact him yet, so this matter will have to wait a little longer. I estimate that I will be able to contact him in a month."
The matter was temporarily shelved. Lu Zifeng didn't know about this yet. He and Situ Hao, along with a dozen people, followed Prince Qing and his group. This journey took them more than ten days.
"Situ Hao, we'll reach Lianzhou Prefecture in another day's walk. That's the fiefdom of Prince Qing. If we follow so many of us, Prince Qing will definitely be able to spot us. Why don't we split up and disperse into the territory of Lianzhou Prefecture?"
After listening to Lu Zifeng's words, Situ Hao also thought that this was a better approach, so he nodded in agreement.
A group of people dispersed and entered Lianzhou Prefecture respectively. Lu Zifeng used his mental power to pay attention to every move of Prince Qing's group.
To be honest, Lu Zifeng has always been curious about where Prince Qing sent the 50,000 troops to hide, so he has been paying attention to Prince Qing's every move.
In Lujia Village of Luzhou Prefecture, the entire Lujia Village was busy at this time, because in half a month, Cheng'en Hou's brother Lu Mingshan would be getting married. Not to mention the people of Lujia Village, even the gentry and landlords of Luzhou Prefecture, the big merchants, and officials from the counties near Luzhou Prefecture had expressed their intention to attend the wedding.
This put the Lu Family Village, which had originally wanted to keep a low profile, in the spotlight. As a result, no one in Luzhou Prefecture dared to provoke the Lu Family. This left the Lu Family, who had always wanted to keep a low profile, helpless. They had no choice but to pay their family members to go out and buy a lot of food, hoping that nothing would go wrong at the wedding in two weeks. Then it would be the Lu Family in the capital who would be embarrassed.
Lu Chun had already returned to Lujia Village with the fleet for a few days. He had been helping the Lu family these days. Who would have thought that just as he finished his work and sat down, he saw Chang Lin walk in.
"Brother Chang, why are you here?"
Chang Lin looked around and then whispered.
"My master just sent me a message asking me to ask you how the arrangements are going in the mountains due north of Luzhou Prefecture."
Speaking of this, Lu Chun whispered.
"Brother Chang, I went there the night before yesterday and found a lot of soldiers and horses. Because it was too dark at night, I couldn't see clearly, so I am planning to go there again tonight and come back at noon tomorrow."
Chang Lin thought for a moment and said, "Alright, I'll come find you tonight and we'll go together. It's unusual for a bandit camp to have so many soldiers and horses. If it's really as my master guessed, then our Luzhou Prefecture will be devastated!"
Lu Chun's expression was not very good after hearing this. "Now I just hope that Prince Qing won't be too hasty and take action. At least wait until the eldest master is married!"
Chang Lin glanced at Lu Chun speechlessly, "This is just my guess for now, and it's not certain yet. Let's pay more attention to it these few days!"
That night, Chang Lin told Lu Zifeng about what was happening here through his mind. After listening, Lu Zifeng had some idea in his mind, but he needed to wait for Chang Lin and Lu Chun to confirm it tonight before he could say anything.
Lu Zifeng contacted Feng Qing again and asked him to send some people to Luzhou Prefecture to protect the Lu family.
Speaking of Feng Qing and others, they actually have nothing to do usually, except that they were asked to deal with the three Lu Zihai brothers some time ago. After they dealt with the three of them perfectly, there was nothing else to do. Firstly, Lu Lancheng, Xu and Lu Mingyuan basically never leave the capital, so Feng Qing's people have been just training. Lu Zifeng has Lu Chun and others, and they are not needed. Originally, Lu Zifeng trained them just to have a secret force to help him do things that he cannot do in person.
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