Chapter 29: Angry at the Insult

In order to make room for the two guards, brothers Lu Lei and Lu Yao squeezed in.

Lu Lei rubbed his eyes, his voice was a little hoarse and a little confused.

"Santu, what's wrong?"

"Want to get up at night?"

"It's cold outside, wear more clothes."

Lu Yao said softly, "Brother, there is a noise in the yard."

"I'll go and have a look."

Lu Lei came to his senses instantly after hearing this.

"Thief?" Lu Lei asked in a low voice, but his hands did not slow down and he quickly put on his clothes.

Lu Yao shook his head. "I'm afraid they are guests from Shangjing City."

In the small courtyard, the light and slow knocking on the door continued.

It was not the two guards' fault for not being alert enough. They had been driving for several days in a row and had been straining their minds to guard the body, which made them physically and mentally exhausted. As soon as they sat on the couch, their tense nerves relaxed and they fell into a deep sleep without even caring about the hard bed and the cold room.

Aqiu was shivering in the night wind.

I don't know if it's because it's frozen or because I'm nervous.

Ah Qiu was anxious and looked around in panic, knocking on the door harder and harder.

Qiu, who was guilty and had ulterior motives, naturally did not notice that two heads were vaguely visible behind the slightly opened door beside her, and her every move was silently captured.

Qiu knocked and knocked, and just when she felt that God was against her and was about to give up, the door finally opened.

"But what happened to the young lady?" The guard asked hurriedly as soon as he opened the door.

There was no intentional lowering of the sound, and it was quite loud.

Ah Qiu was so anxious that tears were about to come out. He didn't dare to delay outside the house. He gently pushed the guard away and squeezed into the house.

Guard: ???

Isn't this against the rules?

If the Duke and his wife knew that the young lady's personal maid had entered their room in the middle of the night, which would affect the young lady's reputation, they would definitely beat them to death without mercy.

The two guards' faces turned green.

He jumped three feet high and ran far away from Aqiu.

"Aqiu!" The guard lowered his voice unconsciously for fear of alarming others.

Qiu knew she was being rude, but there was nothing she could do.

Delivering a letter was something she couldn't do alone as a weak woman. The journey was long and if she encountered bandits who robbed her, she would not only lose her life but also her reputation.

"I have a letter here. You two should take it back to the palace right now and personally hand it to Bu Yan who is beside the prince."

"He will pass it on to the prince."

The two guards looked at each other, hesitant and unable to make a decision for a long time.

Aren’t their lives lives?

Are they some shitty thing?

"We were sent by the Duke to protect the young lady. Our young lady's safety is our top priority, and we can only follow her orders."

The guard refused as politely as possible.

Ah Qiu was furious, his voice became sharper and piercing, "How could such a poor and run-down village be dangerous enough to harm the young lady?"

"It is enough to leave one person to protect the young lady."

"If your excuses cause the Crown Prince to suffer, you will suffer the consequences."

"The Duke's Mansion will be handed over to the Crown Prince sooner or later. Do you two really want to turn a blind eye to the Crown Prince's orders?"

"I just asked you to deliver a letter while ensuring the safety of the young lady, but you all refused to do so."

"Do you still have the prince in your eyes?"

"Alright, I'll set out now to deliver the letter to the prince."

The moment the guard nodded in agreement, Lu Yao, who was wrapped in thick layers of clothing, pretended to be troubled and sleepless, and opened the door openly, pacing back and forth in the yard.

Qiu: ...

Guard: ...

Aqiu and the guards were overwhelmed.

No, the people in the Lu family are sick. Who would take a walk in the middle of the night in winter?

Drink northwest wind?

Or chewing the scraped loess?

Ah Qiu and the guards fell silent at the same time, and even their breathing became cautious, secretly hoping that Lu Yao could not stand the cold anymore and return to the house soon.

It is true that the sky gets bright late in winter, but the farmers get up early, not to mention that the Lu family has to prepare a wedding banquet, so they have to get up even earlier.

Two men and one woman in the same room at night is more chaotic and more suggestive than a single man and a single woman being together.

But the people in the courtyard walked so far that they didn't know when the east was already bright, nor what heaven and earth were, and they had no intention of returning to the house to keep warm.

Lu Yao said that he was already very warm and no matter how strong the wind was, it could not blow through his thick clothes.

What's more, he was wearing the heating pad that Chao Chao had given him as a gift.

Stick it on for a moment and it will generate heat for two hours.

He also knew that even if the letter could not be sent tonight, it would be sent tomorrow, and the news of Chao Chao's marriage would soon be known to those who were interested, but he just wanted to make things difficult for Gu Huai, whom he had never met before.

Just as he thought, Gu Huai was a jerk!

He used to ignore Chao Chao, but now he is playing tricks on me.

Could it be that Gu Huai was planning to take Chao Chao as his concubine?

It is really shameless for the prince of a duke's mansion to buy his younger sister's personal maid to work for him.

Does this mean that cats have their own way, dogs have their own way, and shameless people have their own evil ways?

When Gu Huai was unhappy, he felt happy.

Tired of walking, Lu Yao would take a rest on the wooden bench under the eaves.

After resting enough, Lu Yao continued to pace back and forth with great interest.

The night passed little by little.

Ah Qiu and the two guards had beads of sweat on their palms and foreheads.

Finished!

It's all over!

"Aqiu, don't rush out after daybreak."

"Wait until no one is paying attention, then go out quietly."

Ah Qiu's breathing stagnated, and he quickly shook his head, "It won't work."

"When the lady wakes up, she will call me over to change clothes and comb my hair."

The guards were also impatient. "This doesn't work, and that doesn't work. What do you say we should do?"

Ah Qiu's eyes rolled around. "You guys go out now and lure the man outside away. I can take this opportunity to go back to the house without anyone noticing."

"There is no time. If the three of us were found together in a room at night, we would be severely injured if not dead, and the prince would also be implicated."

The guard thought about it and opened the door without hesitation, showing surprise on his face, "Brother Lu, you got up so early?"

Lu Yao's face was filled with an excited smile. "Brother Guard, get up."

"I couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, so I came to the courtyard to relieve my worries without thinking too much. I was afraid of waking up my elder and younger brothers, so I endured the cold and went back into the house."

"Let me in to warm up."

Lu Yao strode into the house without saying anything.

Guard: ...

"No……"

Lu Yao was forcibly stopped and staggered, seemingly accidentally knocking open the window, and his eyes met with A Qiu's.

"This!"

"What's going on!"

"It is simply disgraceful and unbearable to watch!"

"Is this the family tradition and rules of the Duke's Mansion? Nothing more than this!"

"How can this be possible!"

Lu Yao was furious, and his clear and sharp voice was like thunder in winter, exploding in the courtyard and waking up everyone.

Lu Lei, who had been worried all night, pushed the door open impatiently and asked, "Second brother, what's wrong?"

"What happened?"

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