After returning to the military camp from the capital, Lu Zifeng communicated with Chang Lin through his mind, and told him about the arrangements here, asking him to carefully protect the safety of his family. As for the matter of Lu Ziyan and his brother going to school, they had to stop for the time being.
Now it is too far to reach. Even if the Lu family is in danger, Lu Zifeng cannot rush back. He can only ask Chang Lin and others to be vigilant.
The next day, Lu Minghan sent someone to deliver Lu Minghong's address, Prince Qing's address and more detailed information to Lu Zifeng. To be honest, Lu Zifeng really wanted to go and get rid of Prince Qing and Lu Minghong directly, but Lu Minghan finally persuaded him not to be anxious. Lu Minghong was easy to talk to, but Prince Qing was a prince of the royal family after all, and the final decision was in the hands of the emperor. If the Lu family wanted to last long in the capital, they had to follow the rules.
Lu Zifeng understood the Duke's caution. Serving the emperor is like serving a tiger. Even though he was the emperor's brother-in-law, he could not cross the line and still had to abide by the rules.
However, Lu Zifeng still has resentment towards Lu Minghong. Even now, Lu Minghong has hired someone to assassinate his family. Not to mention what happened in the past, which is still difficult to confirm for the time being. Now his family has not yet confirmed whether it is the relative of Duke Dingguo, but he is sending someone to assassinate. This is a bit too much. It seems that breaking his leg last time was too light.
There is a Lu Mansion in the southeast corner of the inner city of the capital. This is Lu Minghong's home. Back then, after Lu Minghong came of age, Lu Lanqing arranged an official position for him and then separated him from the family to live on his own. This house was the house that Lu Lanqing gave to Lu Minghong.
During those years, Lu Minghong knew from a young age about the mistakes his aunt had made, so he had always lived cautiously. It was not until he became independent that he saw that his elder brother Lu Minghan was weak and had not been able to give birth to a son for so many years. Only then did the dark side that he had been hiding for so long come to light.
He always thought that no one knew about his dirty thoughts, so he went to the Duke's Mansion every once in a while over the years to make his presence felt.
Some time ago, one of Prince Qing's men had given him a tip that the so-called second brother, whom his concubine had tried so hard to get rid of, was still alive. Now that his eldest brother was crippled and childless, he was trying to seize the title, but now news had reached him that his second brother was still alive, having fathered three sons and a daughter. This was the biggest obstacle to his seizure of the title. How could he let all these years of hard work go to waste? Naturally, he needed to eradicate the second brother's family.
Lu Zifeng hid in the dark, carefully observing everything in the Lu residence with his mental power, and soon found Lu Minghong's whereabouts. It turned out that he had been living in the study in the front yard. Well, with this appearance, he couldn't do anything.
He used his mental power to look at other courtyards and saw Lu Minghong's wife, several concubines, and his three sons. However, the oldest was only twelve or thirteen years old, which was the same age as Lu Ziyan and Lu Zimo.
Are these three children the basis for Lu Minghong to seize the title?
Lu Zifeng ignored them and prepared to go to Lu Minghong's study, hoping to find the thing that pinned him to death.
Just as he was about to take action, he felt someone approaching, and Lu Zifeng quickly hid his breath.
Soon, a man in black came to Lu Minghong's study, knocked twice on the door and entered the study.
Lu Zifeng hurriedly followed carefully. The presence of a man in black looking for Lu Minghong at this time must be related to Prince Qing.
Sure enough, when Lu Zifeng approached, he heard voices coming from inside.
"What did you say? Failed! How is that possible? Does that family still have someone protecting them?"
"Yes, their family had someone protecting them, and their martial arts skills were quite good. When our people went there, they were completely wiped out, and not a single person left the Lu family alive. The last dozen or so people originally wanted to kill the second and youngest sons of that family, but they encountered the Nan family at that time, and in the end, none of them escaped."
"The Nan family? Luzhou Prefecture, but that Nan Qingyun? Could it be that the Nan family has a good relationship with that family and even sent someone to help?"
In fact, Prince Qing was also suspicious of Lu Minghong's guess, so they sent people to investigate secretly, and finally confirmed it.
"Well, your eldest nephew is the spearmanship master of Nan Qingyun's son. Speaking of which, your eldest nephew's martial arts skills are really unfathomable! The Lu San you sent out a few days ago fell into his hands. But don't worry, Lu San is dead now, so you don't have to worry about exposing yourself. They are just suspicious, but they have no evidence."
Lu Minghong looked at the man in black and said, "How is Prince Qing going to respond now? Prince Qing should know that I have no one to use. When the old man separated me, the things he gave me were just enough to keep me fed and clothed. I don't have any spare money to train death squads."
The man in black said, "Alright, how could Prince Qing not know your background? He is very happy to help you kill that family. However, he is a little short of money right now. Let me see if you can borrow some silver."
When the man in black said this, he saw Lu Minghong's painful expression and secretly criticized him for being petty, but his face showed no expression and he spoke sincerely.
"Master Lu, you should know that the dozens of secret guards sent to Luzhou Prefecture this time, not to mention the money spent on training them, Prince Qing is too lazy to settle the bill with you."
"Even though so many brothers died this time, their families, our Prince Qing must at least consider them! Without the pillars of the family, their parents, wives and children still need to survive!"
Lu Minghong could see that the man in black came tonight, and everything else was just incidental. As for the last step, it was still to ask for money. He had paid a lot of money before, and had already given 50,000 taels of silver in total. Now he wanted more, and he was almost out of money. This was all the money he had saved up over the years.
The man in black looked at the expression on Lu Minghong's face and knew very well that he didn't want to pay anymore. But since you have boarded Prince Qing's boat, it is not so easy to get off.
"Master Lu, you should know that if Prince Qing succeeds in his mission, you will have the merit of following the emperor. It will cost you a lot of money. We have to pay first, right?"
When Lu Minghong heard him say this, his heart was also burning with anger. He had been trying every possible way to seize his eldest brother's title over the years. First, his eldest brother had no children, but he had three sons. Second, his second sister was the current queen. But so what? He had tried to please them many times over the years, but they were indifferent. So he had to find a way himself. Now that Prince Qing has extended an olive branch, he would be sorry for himself if he didn't climb up.
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