Seeing the queen's tired look, the emperor walked over and embraced her.
"Alright Queen, this is the only way to deal with this matter for now. After all, he is your father."
Lu Mingshuang shook his head. "Luckily, my grandfather gave me the token of the Dingguo Mansion's secret guards. Otherwise, my father would have wiped out my entire lineage. Fortunately, those secret guards are still loyal to me. I believe that big brother will definitely eliminate those who betrayed me today."
"Queen, how about giving the token to my eldest brother-in-law from now on? You see, from now on, my father-in-law won't have to worry about him doing anything. And after that child returns to the Duke of Dingguo's Mansion, I plan to make him the Duke of Dingguo's Prince."
Lu Mingshuang thought for a moment and said.
"Let's talk to Big Brother about this. After all, we don't know what he thinks for now."
The emperor and the empress were chatting in the palace, and after Lu Minghan left the palace, he took the leader of the palace's secret guards and a thousand Yulin soldiers and headed towards the villa in the eastern suburbs of the capital.
At this time, Lu Lanqing didn't know that the assassination plan he wanted to carry out had failed before it even started. He was still waiting for a reply from the secret guard who went out to deliver the message!
"Old Duke, there are many soldiers outside, and they just rushed in. We servants can't stop them!"
Lu Lanqing was chatting with her eldest grandson Lu Zihai when she was startled by the servant's loud shout. Just as she was about to curse, she saw her eldest son rushing in with some people.
Lu Lanqing looked at Lu Minghan with anger on her face.
"Boss, what do you mean? Are you bringing so many people here to arrest me?"
Lu Minghan didn't look at Lu Lanqing, but glanced at the three Lu Zihai brothers.
"Take these three away." Then he looked at Lu Lanqing, took out the token and held it up.
"Lu family secret guards, listen up! From today onwards, the secret guards of the other courtyard will only obey the orders of the Queen and me. The old Duke is old, so you will only be responsible for his safety from now on. You don't need to follow his orders."
Lu Minghan then waved his hand.
"Arrest people according to the list."
As he spoke, he handed a piece of paper to the secret guard beside him. The secret guard took a look at it and immediately led his men to capture the secret guards who had betrayed the queen and killed them on the spot.
This action not only stunned Lu Lanqing, but also Lu Zihai and others who had been calling "Grandpa, save me" after being caught were scared to death. The three of them sat on the ground with wet buttocks, obviously scared to death.
Lu Minghan's thundering attack stunned Lu Lanqing. He stared at Lu Minghan blankly with a painful expression.
"Boss, is this how you treat me, your father? Doing this, are you worthy of your grandfather, your mother, and the ancestors of the Lu family?"
Lu Minghan looked at Lu Lanqing with tears in his eyes and a sad face.
"Father, think carefully. Have you been worthy of my grandfather and my mother all these years? Back then, you doted on Aunt Shi, and she plotted to murder Mother and my second brother, causing my second brother to disappear for over thirty years. Mother was heartbroken over his disappearance, and her health has been failing for years. Grandfather ordered Aunt Shi to be executed, and you were dissatisfied, but you didn't dare go against Grandfather's wishes. That's fine, but you were heartbroken that my third brother lost his mother at a young age, and you always secretly cared for him. Who of us ever said a word of disapproval?"
"Some time ago, I told you that Lu Minghong sent people to assassinate my second brother's family who were still in Luzhou Prefecture. What did you do? You were indifferent. Yes, my poor second brother didn't grow up by your side. You don't have to care."
"My third brother is dead, and now you and these ungrateful bastards are plotting to assassinate Feng Ge'er. Haha, I'm too stupid and trust in family ties too much. When I told you about Feng Ge'er that day, the excitement and joy you showed were all fake. Now you're planning to assassinate Feng Ge'er with these beasts!"
"What do you think I should do? Should I allow you to assassinate my nephew here to clear the way for your eldest grandson to inherit the title of Duke?"
Lu Minghan was heartbroken when he said this. Tears kept flowing from his eyes and he looked at Lu Lanqing with hatred in his eyes without any concealment.
At this moment, Lu Lanqing was staring at Lu Minghan as if frozen in time, speechless. He thought he had been hiding it very well and the old lady had been fooled by him, but now looking at his eldest son as if he knew everything, he spoke with trembling lips.
"You...you all always knew what I was thinking?"
Lu Minghan smiled sarcastically.
"Yes, we have known this for a long time. After Aunt Shi murdered my mother and my second brother, it was Grandfather who told my second sister and me everything. That's why Grandfather gave the token of the secret guard in the mansion to my second sister because he was afraid that you would forcibly snatch the token from me. So we know everything you have done over the years. If you hadn't wanted to kill Feng'er this time, we wouldn't have shown up. We wanted to see what tricks you could come up with."
"Father, you should be thankful that Grandfather wasn't cruel enough. He allowed us to keep you alive so that you can settle down in your later years. Of course, we can't possibly take your life. No matter what, you are still my father."
"However, from now on, you will be staying near the other courtyard. Without the Queen's or the Emperor's permission, you will have to stay here."
Lu Lanqing sat down on the couch, and looked at Lu Zihai and the other two who were pulled aside with lifeless eyes. He didn't know what to do. When he was young, he was full of vigor, and his father married him to a girl from the scholarly family Kang. At the beginning, they lived a loving life together. Later, the Queen Mother gave him a maid, Aunt Shi. He liked Aunt Shi very much, and in order to please her, he promised to make her son the prince.
However, he did not expect that Aunt Shi would reach out to the two children born to Kang. The eldest son was deeply poisoned, so that he would have no offspring in this life. He also tricked the second son and asked someone to falsely convey Kang's words, so that the wet nurse went to the north to wait for the Lu family in the capital to pick her and the child up. In the end, he sent people to kill her, but the child was not found. Now he did not expect that they found it themselves.
Lu Lanqing was actually not very happy about Lu Zifeng's family returning to Beijing. If his son knew the truth, he would probably hate him to death. He did all this to fulfill the promise he had made to Aunt Shi. He knew that if Lu Zifeng's family returned to the Duke's Mansion, then his eldest grandson Lu Zihai and his family would completely lose the opportunity to inherit the title of the Duke's Mansion.
Lu Minghan looked at Lu Lanqing painfully. For the sake of family harmony, he and his second sister had been bearing all of this alone over the years. His third sister had never known about these things. She was still young at the time, so he didn't let her know about it.
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