Chapter 219 Gu Huai is here
In the courtyard.
The bamboo forest rustles, the peach blossoms are red with the night rain, and the willows are green with the morning mist.
Lu Mingchao sat on the stone bench, gently twirling the bamboo leaves in his palms and stroking them carefully. The spring breeze was gently blowing through his hair. The spring scenery was bright and it was a good time.
“Brother…”
"Chao Chao."
Suddenly, Lu Lei interrupted Lu Mingchao and said, "Chao Chao, I know what you want to ask."
"Yesterday, I did go to the county jail to visit Cheng Zhi, but I had no intention of continuing our relationship with her."
Lu Mingchao blinked slowly, thinking secretly in his heart.
She only knew that Lu Lei took great pains to learn how to make a few simple and delicious side dishes from the chef of Baiweilou in Changhe County, and went to investigate with the food box in hand.
Unfortunately, Lu Lei kept saying that he had no intention of continuing their relationship.
For a moment, she couldn't tell whether her love had faded or her obsession had deepened, burying all her love, hatred, and infatuation deep under the calm.
"Brother, if you don't make a decision when you should, you will suffer the consequences. If you don't make a decision when you should, you will suffer the consequences."
Lu Lei's eyes dimmed and he smiled sadly.
"Brother, are you willing to go to Lingnan for me?"
"The Chaofu Clinic in Lingnan is about to be completed. Big brother can take the secret recipe for curing malaria and stay in Lingnan. With the protection of Xie Sui's old friend, big brother will be safe." Lu Mingchao sat up with his head propped up, supporting his cheek, and asked in a warm voice.
Lu Lei nodded in agreement without much hesitation.
Changhe County is a sad place, and my mother keeps urging me to get married every three days or five days.
It is a good idea to temporarily leave Changhe and go to Lingnan.
As the sky gradually darkened, the spring rain came suddenly and quietly, falling in thin, slanting lines.
Xie Yan returned home in the late spring rain. His handsome face was not as eye-catching as the vigor and vitality in his eyes.
"Madam."
Yun Zheng finally realized his dream of becoming a driver and errand boy.
Xie Yan glanced at Yun Zheng, but before he could open his mouth to call Ming Chao, Yun Zheng took the lead.
Yun Zheng, who was born as a secret guard, has great abilities, but he is also a real chatterbox. During the time that I have been following him, his mouth is rarely quiet.
Xie Yan suspected that Commander Mi of the Hidden Guards disliked Yun Zheng for being too noisy, so he kicked Yun Zheng out.
Yun Zheng blinked his clear and round eyes, and said innocently and sincerely, "Madam, the Yu family in the city has sent someone to you!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he disappeared without a trace in a puff of smoke.
Lu Mingchao looked at Xie Yan with a teasing look and jokingly asked, "Beauty?"
Xie Yan took off his damp outer robe and walked to Lu Mingchao, saying with a smile, "Yu Geng wanted to get a piece of the pie, so he brought his daughter here to test the waters."
"Will you know how I answered this tomorrow?"
Lu Mingchao raised his hand and wiped the fine rain from Xie Yan's forehead. "It must be wrong."
Even if I accepted it, I wouldn't dare to take credit for it in front of her.
Xie Yan held Lu Mingchao's hand and said mysteriously, "No, no."
"I told Yu Geng directly that you are the only owner of Chaofu Trading Company, and I am just an ordinary hunter who lives off others."
"Yu Geng's face turned green after hearing what I said. He might be thinking about finding a handsome young man to give to you as atonement."
Lu Mingchao raised his eyebrows and asked, "How handsome is he?"
"Will he be more handsome than Ah Yan?"
Xie Yan pretended to be embarrassed and widened his eyes. "Just because I'm prettier than me, you're going to accept me."
Lu Mingchao looked embarrassed and sighed, "It's a sincere gesture after all. It would be inappropriate to reject it directly."
Xie Yan: His Ming Dynasty began to be considerate!
People, other people's people.
Xie Yan held Lu Mingchao's face in his hands and said, "That's not affection, that's evil intentions."
He and the Ming Dynasty shared the same bed and died in the same grave.
Anyone who tries to interfere should be swept away like fallen leaves by the autumn wind.
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It's another rainy day.
Gu Huai arrived in Changhe County with great fanfare.
The prince of the Zhenguo Mansion and an imperial envoy personally appointed by the emperor!
Regardless of his identity, he was a huge figure that was blinding enough for the officials of Changhe County.
Officials of all ranks were trembling with fear, fearing that their poor hospitality would anger Gu Huai.
Unexpectedly, Gu Huai declined the welcoming banquet carefully prepared by County Magistrate Xu, and instead ordered County Magistrate Xu to summon Lu Mingchao of Chaofu Commercial Bank to meet him.
County Magistrate Xu: ???
"I am a minister in the capital, and I have long heard of the reputation of the county magistrate Xu, who is not afraid of power and is fair and selfless. Seeing him today, I can see that he is indeed worthy of his reputation."
Gu Huai sat upright on a carved armchair, wearing a brocade robe and a jade crown on his head. He had a bright and handsome appearance, clear eyes and thin eyebrows, and looked elegant and majestic.
County Magistrate Xu thought to himself that he was indeed a noble young man who was brought up in the prosperous and luxurious Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion.
His whole body of style and majesty makes people dare not look directly at him.
With the blessing of family background and power, he became more brilliant like the sun and the moon, and more vast like the stars.
No wonder Marquis Yongning couldn't bear to give up Prince Gu, his son-in-law.
"I am sorry to have embarrassed you, Mr. Gu." County Magistrate Xu bowed and said, "This is my duty. I have done my best. You don't deserve any flattery."
Before his father returned to Runan, he repeatedly told him to do his best to take care of Xie Yan and Lu Mingchao, and if he encountered anything he could not handle, he could write to the clan for help.
At that time, he boasted in front of his father that he was the one who protected Changhe County.
The slap in the face comes so quickly!
Gu Huai showed no emotion on his face, and said calmly, "Then go and inform Mr. Lu of Chaofu Commercial Bank."
County Magistrate Xu pursed his lips, looking hesitant.
After hesitating for a long time, he said respectfully, "Mr. Gu, you may not know that in the spring of the following year, Mr. Xie, the husband of Mr. Lu, took over all the affairs of Chaofu Commercial Bank and became the real head of Chaofu Commercial Bank."
Gu Huai paused as he stroked the sachet, and murmured in a low voice, "Is Lu Mingchao doing wedding dresses for others again?"
County Magistrate Xu didn't hear it very carefully. He caught a glimpse of the sachet with duck and goose embroidered on Gu Huai's waist and felt it was strange.
The stitching on the sachet was not even as good as his wife's who was not good at needlework, and it was even more incompatible with Master Gu's demeanor.
"Xu County Magistrate, I have no right to see the despicable people who have taken possession of my wife's property."
"I am here to meet Mr. Lu, who built Chaofu Commercial Bank and has been praised for his benevolent deeds."
Gu Huai raised his voice slightly, with a hint of displeasure of being disobeyed between his brows.
County Magistrate Xu's heart sank.
Prince Gu did not hide his disgust and contempt for Xie Yan at all.
"I will do it right away."
County Magistrate Xu could not find any reason to shirk his responsibility, so he said respectfully.
Gu Huai reminded her, "She has a delicate temperament. Tell the maid to decorate the carriage softly, remove the incense, prepare some soft and light pastries, and use Phoenix tea. Put some peach and pear blossoms in the sweet white glaze porcelain vase."
All along, he thought that he had no feelings for Ah Chao and had never spared the slightest effort to understand Ah Chao.
But when he calmed down, he realized that Achao's preferences had been deeply imprinted in his mind without him knowing when.
County Magistrate Xu's expression became increasingly strange.
The patrolling with the imperial sword is fake, but the seizing of someone's wife is real.
Also, Lu Mingchao is coquettish?
Does Prince Gu have any misunderstanding about Lu Ming Dynasty?
He had dealt with Lu Mingchao a lot, and the woman was smart and strong, and her coquettishness had nothing to do with him.
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