Lu Mingyuan said after he knew that this was what his second sister meant.
"Okay, let's go in first! We'll talk after we get in."
Led by Lu Lin, the group walked towards the mansion. After Lu Lin's introduction, the Lu family also knew the past of this mansion.
This mansion was originally the residence of a prince of the previous dynasty. After the previous emperor rebelled and successfully entered the capital, he gave this mansion to his aunt to live in.
Speaking of the late emperor's aunt, she was also a person with a miserable life. She had been married in her early years, but after five years of marriage, she failed to give birth to a son or daughter for her in-laws' family. In the end, she was divorced by her in-laws and had no choice but to return to her parents' home and has never remarried.
By the time the late emperor successfully ascended the throne, this aunt was already in her twilight years. The late emperor had been pampered by her since childhood, so naturally he treated her very well. After entering the capital, he gave this mansion to her to live in, so that she could retire there. However, this aunt died of illness after only five years in this mansion. Later, the mansion was taken back by the court, and it had not been given away for many years until the Lu family arrived. All the servants here were court officials, and now that the Lu family has moved in, the emperor specially sent their indentures over.
Lu Mingyuan and his family looked at the mansion. Although it was a long time ago and the mansion was already a hundred years old, it had been carefully maintained and repaired frequently over the years and was well preserved. Lu Zifeng and Lu Mingyuan were very satisfied after taking a look and were ready to move in directly.
"Dad, I don't think we need to do any more repairs. We can just move in directly."
Lu Lancheng also nodded and said, "Well, this mansion is not small. It is about the same size as the Duke Dingguo's Mansion. It should be a bit against the rules."
Lu Lin on the side hurriedly said, "Old Master, Wuyou, I heard from the Empress that the Emperor said at the time that this is nothing. This is a gift from the Emperor. This violation of the rules is nothing. The court will all have records."
After hearing what Lu Lin said, Lu Mingyuan said to Lu Lin,
"Let's go and choose a yard we each like!"
In the end, Lu Zifeng found a courtyard in the front yard to live in. Because Lu Ziyan was the eldest son of Cheng'en Marquis's Mansion, Lu Zifeng did not choose the largest courtyard, but chose a small courtyard next to it.
Lu Mingyuan naturally lived in the largest courtyard in the central courtyard, while the old couple Lu Lancheng lived in a courtyard behind the central courtyard, which was originally the courtyard for the elders in the family to live in.
After leaving the Cheng'en Marquis Mansion, the family did not go directly back to their previous small house, but went to a restaurant on the street to eat.
Who knew that as soon as I walked into the restaurant, I met the two brothers Situ Chen and Situ Xun.
"Greetings to Prince Jing and Prince Xun."
Lu Mingyuan took the lead in saluting Situ Chen and Situ Xun, but was stopped by Situ Chen.
"Uncle, you must not do this. You are my uncle. How can I ask you to bow to me?"
Lu Mingyuan shook his head and smiled.
"Etiquette cannot be abolished. After all, we should first have national etiquette and then family etiquette."
Situ Chen smiled bitterly, but didn't dwell on this issue any further.
"Is my uncle and his family planning to have dinner at the restaurant?"
Seeing Lu Mingyuan nod, Situ Chen waved his hand and saw the restaurant owner trotting over.
"Manager Wang, this is my uncle, Marquis Cheng'en. Please reserve a private room for my uncle here in the future!"
"Yes, yes, I understand. How about the Plum Box?"
Situ Chen nodded. "Well, very good, this is the one."
The conversation between the two was very quick. By the time Lu Mingyuan realized what was happening, the matter had already been settled. He hurriedly stopped them and said,
"Oh, this is not good, but we can't delay people's business!"
Situ Chen pulled Lu Mingyuan and said
"Uncle, don't worry. This restaurant is my restaurant. Why doesn't my uncle have a private room here? Uncle, don't stop me. This matter has been decided."
Lu Mingyuan had no choice but to accept the private room. Lu Zifeng watched the whole process from the side. He really didn't expect that this restaurant was actually his cousin's restaurant.
After having dinner at the restaurant, the family returned to the small house that Lu Zifeng had bought earlier.
Time passed slowly and it was April. The weather in the capital had become a little warmer, and more and more people were going out for outings. Lu Zifeng was very busy during this period. Not only was he on duty in the Yulin Army, but he also took Lu Mingyuan to the two farms they had bought to arrange spring planting.
Moreover, during this period, Lei Ting also returned from the Western Regions. This time, the Lu family's caravan can be said to have made a lot of money. Moreover, now the North and South Trading Company have added two more cargo ships to the Lu family's caravan.
Lu Zifeng no longer let Lei Ting go out to do business, but let him stay in the capital and handle all the business, because only in this way could he be more relaxed, otherwise he had too many things to do.
Feng Qing also found an excellent place in the mountains near the capital as a place to train new secret guards. Lu Zifeng also went to take a look and found it to be a good place. Now Feng Qing has returned to Luzhou Prefecture. It is expected that by the end of the year, those trained secret guards will be able to come to the capital.
Xue Rou came to the capital, changed her identity and entered the Cheng'en Marquis Mansion to become Lu Zixuan's martial arts master, teaching Lu Zixuan martial arts.
Lu Ziyan and Lu Zimo both entered Lushan Academy. Lu Ziyan didn't want to study at the academy, but he was no match for Lu Zifeng, so he was finally forced into the academy by Lu Zifeng. This incident became a laughing stock in the capital for a time. Only then did the powerful families in the capital truly know how powerful the martial arts of the prince of Duke Dingguo's Mansion was. Anyway, all the rumors during this period said that there was no one in the capital whose martial arts were better than Lu Zifeng.
Of course, Lu Zifeng didn't care about these things. It was true that for the time being, no one could defeat him. Speaking of which, the rumors about Lu Zifeng had been getting more and more intense recently, and Nan Shaoqing was naturally the reason for it.
Since Nan Shaoqing learned spearmanship from Lu Zifeng, he had never met an opponent in the capital. Of course, this couldn't be said of Lu Zifeng and Lu Ziyan. In the capital today, there were basically no young men of the same age who could surpass Nan Shaoqing. Therefore, Nan Shaoqing had been very high-profile recently, frequently challenging others in martial arts competitions. As a result, Lu Zifeng's reputation had spread, and more and more people came to him, wanting to become his disciples, but he politely declined all of them.
Lu Zifeng's explanation was that he had no intention of accepting a disciple, and the reason he taught Nan Shaoqing spearmanship was just to repay a favor.
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