Chapter 234 Asking about Bixi

Xing Dairong?

Lu Lingyun's eyes suddenly lit up, and he looked at her in surprise, "Where is Xing Dairong?"

Du Ruo slowly came to her senses. She recalled carefully, "It wasn't her. That woman looked very similar to her. She was much older than Xing Dairong. There was a young man next to her who kept calling her aunt."

Hearing this, Lu Lingyun frowned, picked up the teacup, scraped off the tea foam, and took a sip, "How similar is it?"

"Eighty to ninety percent!" Du Ruo looked Lu Lingyun straight in the eye. "I've never seen anyone who looks so much like her. They look exactly like her. I lost my concentration for a moment and held on to her tightly, causing her clothes to be torn."

As she was talking, Du Ruo seemed to have thought of something. "I understand now. She must have been the one who complained to Master yesterday, slandering me by saying that I beat her in the street and tore her clothes?! How could this old woman be so scheming! Nonsense! How shameless!"

Du Ruoyi was filled with anger and immediately found a reason for the injustice he had suffered.

No wonder Cheng Yunshuo said such strange things to her yesterday.

It turns out that woman was behind this!

"Do you know who she is?" Lu Lingjun asked after finding out the whole story.

"I don't know," Du Ruo shook her head, a trace of anger in her eyes, "If I knew, I would never let her go!"

Lu Lingyun: “….”

"Forget it. Even if you didn't beat him up in the street, you did ruin his clothes. Why are you picking on him?"

"She took my sachet first!"

Lu Lingyun raised her eyes and looked at her, and Du Ruo immediately suppressed her arrogance, "She is still secretly accusing me of blind things and framing me..."

Seeing her aggrieved and hurt look, Lu Lingyun said, "Okay, in this case, I won't punish you today. You can go back first."

Du Ruo hesitated for a while, then lowered his head in resentment, turned around and left obediently.

After Du Ruo left, Lu Lingyun fell into deep thought.

Cheng Yunshuo had told her that the sachet that Du Ruo had embroidered for him was lost in the palace, and it must have been found by someone in the palace.

In this case, the woman should be a palace maid.

In addition, Du Ruo said that she is old and people call her aunt, so she is most likely the aunt in charge.

Does she look like Xing Dairong?

Lu Lingjun was filled with curiosity. She thought for a moment and said, "Prepare the carriage and go to Madam Wang's house."

After a few cups of tea, Lu Lingyun arrived at Wang Niangzi's house.

"Sister Lu, what brings you here?" Madam Wang was very surprised to see Lu Lingjun.

"I'm here to trouble you, Sister Wang, again." Lu Lingjun said with a smile.

"Is there any trouble between us? Please sit down and tell me what happened?"

"It's about my prince. He lost a sachet while working in the palace a few days ago. I heard that an aunt in the palace picked it up. It was originally a coincidence, but it backfired yesterday. Aruo ran into the aunt shopping outside. Due to a misunderstanding, she offended the aunt. I thought, I want to meet the aunt and apologize to her."

"I knew it, it was most likely caused by Aruo again!" After hearing the general situation, Lady Wang immediately said, "Aruo is such a troublemaker, causing trouble everywhere!"

Lu Lingyun smiled and said, "The prince has punished Aruo, and I think I should apologize to her aunt."

"It's really hard for you." Madam Wang looked at Lu Lingyun with sympathy and distress. It is not easy to be the mistress of a wealthy family. Both big and small matters have to be handled properly.

There are human relationships and social conventions both inside and outside the house. Only someone like Lu Lingyun, who has a good temper, is willing to clean up the mess for his own concubine. If it were someone else's, they would just beat and scold her and then leave her alone.

Madam Wang couldn't help but admire Lu Lingyun even more.

"Don't worry, I'll ask my wife to find out for you today and give you a reply tomorrow."

"Thank you, Sister Wang." Lu Lingyun smiled at her.

The next morning, when Lu Lingyun was at the Marquis' Mansion, he heard Madam Wang coming.

"Madam, the Queen is here."

"Please come in!"

Madam Wang came here actively and proactively. As soon as she entered her courtyard, she said, "Sister Lu, I found out for you!"

"Thank you so much, Sister Wang. Please send someone to tell me and I will be there soon."

"Then we have to go. It doesn't matter whether you go or I come!" Madam Wang sat down in her yard cheerfully.

Lu Lingyun asked the servants to serve tea to Madam Wang. Madam Wang took a sip of the hot tea, and after she calmed down, she said, "I have found out about that matter."

"The aunt you mentioned should be a head aunt in the Imperial Household Department. Her name is Bixi. She is twenty-five years old this year and is in charge of the chores in the Imperial Household Department. Sometimes she also goes out of the palace to make purchases."

"She's twenty-five?"

"Yes, according to the rules, she has reached the age to leave the palace this year, but many palace maids like her will continue to serve in the palace. I don't know if she is willing to leave the palace." Lady Wang said, "I heard that the aunt is very humble, has a good temper, and knows the rules very well."

Lu Lingyun listened to what Madam Wang said. She didn't say anything for the time being because Wang was a humble person with a good temper. However, she felt that she might not be very good at observing rules.

According to Cheng Yunshuo, Aunt Bixi had picked up his sachet a few days ago and found out that it was his. However, she did not ask anyone to return it for her. Instead, she took it herself and said she would return it in person. When Du Ruo saw it the next day, the sachet was still hanging around her waist. This might have other meanings.

She thinks there is something wrong with her being very well-behaved.

"Sister Wang, can you help me get in touch and ask if it's convenient for me to meet Aunt Bixi?"

"I've asked that for you, too. Tomorrow Aunt Bixi will leave the palace to do some shopping. She will go in and out through the West Gate and will be back at 3 p.m. You can wait for her outside the West Gate."

When Lu Lingyun heard the exact time and place, she hurriedly thanked Madam Wang, "Thank you, Sister Wang!"

"Why are you being polite?"

Madam Wang sat with Lu Lingyun for quite a while, chatting with her about family matters. She mentioned that Du Ruo's aunt had not been feeling well recently, and that Du Ruo's two brothers were also planning to get married, but no good girl from a decent family was interested in them.

Because they gave most of their family money to Du Ruo as a dowry, and Du Erge became addicted to gambling and squandered all the family money. Now everyone thinks they are poor and is unwilling to marry.

Aunt Du Ruo's health was getting worse day by day, which had asked them to lower their standards for marrying a wife. As long as she was from a good family, it would be fine, even if she was from a poor commoner or a merchant's daughter, as long as she was not corrupt.

Lu Lingyun listened to all this family talk with great patience, sighing from time to time.

No matter what time it is, it is not easy for ordinary people to get married. The Du family is considered a good family. The brothers in the family all work in the government office. It is impossible for them to get married.