After a set of boxing, Lu Zifeng was sweating. After returning to the yard to wash up, he came to the main room and saw that Situ Yao had already gotten up.
"It's still early, why are you up so early? Why don't you sleep a little longer?"
Situ Yao blushed and said softly.
"How can a bride sleep in? It would be embarrassing if this were to be made public."
Lu Zifeng smiled when he heard that.
"Okay then, but I'm ready. I'm going to pay my respects to the elders today and get to know the people in the family."
Situ Yao nodded to indicate that she was ready, and then Lu Zifeng took Situ Yao to the front yard hall.
At this time, all the Lu family members were present in the hall, not only the families of Lu Minghan and Lu Mingyuan, but also several old men from their hometown in Luzhou Prefecture.
Lu Ziyan stretched his head and looked outside.
"Why haven't my brother and sister-in-law come yet?"
Lu Mingyuan frowned, looked at him, and scolded him in a low voice.
"Sit still, you're so old, but you still don't know the rules?"
Kang looked at it and said with a smile.
"It's okay, we're all family, so why would we bother with all that? Just be careful outside."
The little girl Lu Zixuan is already ten years old this year. She sits next to Lu Zilian and has a good chat with the two sisters.
In the past two years, Lu Zixuan was often invited by Lu Zilian to visit the Nanchang Marquis' Mansion. The relationship between the two sisters is very good now. In addition, the elder sister Lu Zilian is much older than Lu Zixuan, and she has also contributed a lot to Lu Zixuan's upbringing.
When Lu Zifeng brought Situ Yao into the hall, everyone stood up and saluted. This was also the rule. Situ Yao was born in the Prince Zhong's Mansion, was the emperor's niece, and was a princess with a fiefdom and title. No matter what, the Lu family still needed to salute when they saw her.
Situ Yao looked at the elders who were about to salute her and quickly stopped them.
"My dear elders, this is really embarrassing for Yaoer. Everyone here, except my brothers and sisters, is my elder. How can I ask you all to bow to me? Although I have the title of Princess, I am still a junior. From now on, I cannot do this."
Kang laughed even harder when she heard that, and looked at Situ Yao with a kind smile.
"Okay, since Yao'er said so, then we can do whatever we want from now on. These etiquettes are for outsiders to see. As long as we get along well at home, that's better than anything else."
Only then did Lu Zifeng take Situ Yao and the elders to pay their respects and present their gifts.
After all the hassle, it was already mid-morning, and everyone returned to their own yards to have breakfast.
Because Lu Zifeng was getting married, the emperor did not assign him any tasks during this period. In November, the emperor once again assigned Lu Zifeng a task outside the capital.
Situ Yao has also completely integrated into the life of the Duke of Dingguo's Mansion. From time to time, she will stay at the Cheng'en Marquis Mansion for a few days and accompany her mother-in-law Tan Yunniang. However, at the Duke of Dingguo's Mansion, Cui has begun to hand over some of the affairs of the mansion to Situ Yao for management.
The excuse is: This house will be handed over to you two sooner or later, so get familiar with it now!
In this way, apart from spending half a month at the Marquis Cheng'en's Mansion to accompany her mother-in-law, Tan Yunniang, Situ Yao spent the rest of her time managing household affairs in the Duke's Mansion. Fortunately, when Situ Yao was at her mother's home, the Prince Zhong's Mansion, she also helped the Princess Zhong with household affairs from time to time, so she took over these matters very smoothly.
At this time, Cui was no longer in charge of the affairs of the mansion, and Situ Yao was basically handling them.
Time quickly came to the end of the year, and Lu Zifeng had been married for two months. He had been out of the capital some time ago and had just returned.
The gatekeeper at Duke Dingguo's Mansion was also startled when he opened the door and saw Lu Chun, Lu Xia, and the prince behind them, but he immediately saluted.
"Okay, open the door. The master is tired, let him go in and rest!"
Situ Yao was looking at the account books in the study. When she heard the maid Xinyue report that the prince had returned, she was delighted and quickly stood up.
"First, go prepare some hot water for the prince to bathe in. He will surely freeze to death in this cold winter."
After saying that, he stood up and walked out, but just as he reached the door, he saw Lu Zifeng sent Lu Chun and the other two in.
"The prince is back, why didn't you let someone know in advance so I could prepare early!"
Lu Zifeng stretched out his arms and let her undress him, smiling when he heard it.
"There's nothing to prepare. I just need my wife to wait for me to come back home."
These words made Situ Yao blush and said coquettishly.
"There's never a serious time."
After he finished speaking, he heard Xinyue come to report that the hot water was ready.
"Okay, the hot water is ready, go wash up! I'll go to the kitchen and watch them make two dishes you like."
After saying that, he turned and walked out. Lu Zifeng shrugged and then turned into the bathroom.
When Lu Zifeng came out, the food was already prepared. After the two of them had dinner, Lu Zifeng said.
"I'm going to the front yard to talk to my uncle. You should rest first! I might be back late."
Situ Yao smiled when she heard Lu Zifeng say this.
"Well, go ahead!"
When Lu Zifeng arrived at the front yard, Lu Minghan was already waiting there.
"Uncle, I'm here."
"Well, come in!"
After Lu Zifeng entered the study, he closed the door. When Lu Minghan saw what Lu Zifeng did, he raised his eyebrows, but did not say anything. Instead, he looked at Lu Zifeng.
Lu Zifeng stood in front of Lu Minghan's desk.
"Uncle, I have already checked everything the Emperor has instructed me to do, but I don't know how to explain this to the Emperor."
Lu Minghan paused, closed his eyes, and spoke after a long while.
"Could it be the same as the rumors?"
Lu Zifeng nodded.
"This time when I went to Fanzhou, I met an old woman from that time. She was also the midwife who delivered the emperor."
Lu Zifeng's words made Lu Minghan frown, "How did you deal with this person?"
Lu Zifeng saw Lu Minghan's expression and smiled.
"Uncle, I brought him to the capital and settled him in Tangquan Villa. I also assigned Lu Qiu and Lu Dong to guard him there. You don't have to worry about his safety. What I'm worried about now is whether the emperor can accept this fact. Although I'm 80% sure that the emperor is not the empress dowager's biological son, there is no evidence."
Lu Minghan sneered when he heard this.
"It doesn't matter whether there's evidence or not. Since the Emperor was born to the Empress Dowager as the late Emperor said, then the Emperor has only one biological mother, and that's the Empress Dowager!"
Lu Zifeng knew what his uncle meant, but the Queen Mother was restless and wanted to depose the Emperor and have His Royal Highness Prince Jing ascend the throne. She would definitely not compromise like this. She would definitely try every possible way to spread the news that the Emperor was not her biological son, which would be detrimental to the Emperor.
"No problem. The reason the Emperor sent you there to investigate wasn't because he wanted to know the answer. He just wanted you to bring back all the people who knew the truth and hide them so that the Empress Dowager's people couldn't find them to testify."
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