After all, Shen was just a woman, so how could she think so much? She always thought that no matter whether she was expelled from the clan or not, now that Lu Mingjiang was gone, she and her child would return to the clan, and the clan members would take care of her and her child. But now it seems that the child doesn't think so. He probably doesn't want to go back! The child didn't grow up in the clan, so the family is also very unfamiliar to him.
After thinking about it, since my son doesn't want to return to the family, I'll just go along with his wishes.
"Okay, then listen to Xuan'er. Let's go to Jiangnan now. It's a great place. I've heard your father mention it before. It's a picturesque place with plenty of food. As long as we work hard, we can always survive."
"Mother, please wait here for me. I'll go to the city and see if I can hire a carriage. This trip to Jiangnan is a thousand miles away. Without a carriage, I'm afraid it would take us a year to get there. You and father have saved a lot of money over the years, which is enough for us to get there."
Shen nodded and said, "Go ahead. Mother will be waiting for you here."
The next morning, Lu Lancheng and Xu finally woke up. When Lu Lancheng saw that they were safe, he felt relieved. Yesterday, a group of people broke in and knocked them all out without saying a word. He had no idea what happened afterwards.
Just as I was about to get up and go out to take a look, I saw Lu Zifeng leading a few servants and walking in with food boxes.
"Grandpa, Grandma, you're awake now. You must be starving since yesterday! Let's eat something quickly and talk later. I know Grandpa has a lot of questions."
After hearing what their eldest grandson said, Lu Lancheng and Xu stopped being pretentious and started eating directly. After finishing their meal, they put down their bowls and chopsticks.
"Brother Feng, tell me, what's going on?"
Lu Zifeng said this after asking the servants to clear away the dishes on the table.
"Grandfather, grandmother, I've implicated you in what happened yesterday. Those people were from King Rui. They wanted to kidnap you because they wanted my martial arts manual and were planning to use you to threaten me. Luckily, I arrived in time and captured them all."
Lu Lancheng nodded. "Well, since he's been caught, that's fine. But Feng'er, you don't need to blame yourself. Ever since we agreed to go to Beijing, your grandmother and I have been prepared. This is how all wealthy and noble families are. You should know that our Lu family also went through this in the past."
Lu Zifeng nodded and said, "Grandpa and Grandma, I have prepared some guards and will assign them to you today. Whenever you go out in the future, these guards will follow you to protect you."
Lu Lancheng did not object, but nodded in agreement.
"That's right, Grandfather will follow your arrangements."
Xu didn't say anything. She only saw Lu Zifeng clapping his hands, and then saw two men and two women walk in.
"Grandfather and grandmother, these four will protect you two from now on."
The four of them walked up to the old couple Lu Lancheng and bowed.
"Feng Wu, Feng Qi, Yu Si, Yu Jiu greet the master."
Lu Lancheng was stunned when he heard this, but then he figured it out. These people should be guards trained by his eldest grandson. After thinking about it, he realized.
"I'd better give you guys a new name!"
"Feng Wu and Feng Qijiu, your names start with the word Feng, so let's call them Feng Lin and Feng Lu!" After saying that, he looked at Xu.
"Old woman, you should also give these two girls a name!"
Xu smiled and said, "Then let's call them Angelica dahurica and Sangju! I just happened to read a medical book these days and learned some of the names of the herbs."
After arranging the guards, Lu Zifeng prepared to take the old couple back to the capital. It was too dangerous to live in the manor.
"Brother Feng, is this place very close to your grandfather's place?"
Lu Zifeng was stunned when he heard this, but then he remembered that his grandfather had once said that he wanted to meet Lu Lanqing.
"Yes, Grandfather, do you want to go and see him?"
Lu Lancheng nodded, as if remembering something. "Feng'er, I've thought about it. Now that you have your biological grandparents, it's going to be hard to tell them apart. How about this? From now on, you can call your biological grandfather and grandmother "Grandpa" and "Grandma," and you can call us "Grandpa" and "Grandma." How about that?"
Although Lu Zifeng had a lot of opinions about his biological grandfather, when he thought about what Lu Lancheng had just said, he felt that this method was indeed a good one.
"Well, let's do it this way. From now on, I'll call you grandpa and grandma. It's more intimate this way!"
"Grandpa and grandma, the carriage is ready now. Let's go now. Isn't grandpa going to see my grandfather later? Let's go now!"
The two carriages left the farm one after the other and headed towards the villa of Duke Dingguo's Mansion. It took only half an hour to reach the villa.
When the guards of the villa saw that it was Lu Zifeng who had arrived, they immediately knocked on the gate and the carriage drove directly into the villa.
After getting off the carriage, Lu Zifeng took Lu Lancheng to the courtyard where Lu Lanqing lived, while Xu was waiting in the carriage.
As soon as the grandfather and grandson entered the yard, they saw Lu Lanqing practicing boxing. As mentioned before, although Lu Lanqing's character was not very good, his martial arts skills were also good. When he was young a few years ago, he had followed his great-grandfather to the battlefield.
The two men watched Lu Lanqing practicing boxing there, but did not rush forward. Instead, they stood aside and watched Lu Lanqing finish a set of boxing techniques before walking over.
In fact, Lu Lanqing already knew it when Lu Zifeng and the others entered the yard, but he didn't want to pay attention to them, so he didn't stop.
"Grandson, meet your grandfather. Grandpa, this is my grandfather. Actually, he and you are cousins. His father is your uncle, a relative."
Lu Lanqing looked up at Lu Lancheng and was also stunned. He could indeed see from Lu Lancheng's face that he was somewhat similar to himself, and he was thinking about what his father had said that year.
"Sit down, Feng'er, you go down first, I'll talk to your grandfather."
Lu Zifeng thought about it and nodded.
"Then my grandson will go down first."
After watching Lu Zifeng leave, Lu Lanqing looked at Lu Lancheng and said.
"Let me guess, you should be my fifth uncle's child, born to my step-wife!"
Lu Lancheng smiled when he heard this.
"As you said, my father was indeed born to a concubine. Your father should be my father's eldest brother who was born to his first wife!"
The two smiled at each other, and Lu Lanqing said, "Actually, a few years ago, when my father was still alive, he sent people to Huzhou Prefecture to look for my fifth uncle, but he couldn't find him. He always regretted not taking his youngest brother with him when he left home."
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