Chapter 125: Bastard
"What are you saying, Princess? After all, we have been sisters-in-law for a few years and our friendship is still there! Yun Qing was killed by a villain today and her body is still lying in the Li Mansion. The bones are still warm. Does the Princess have to watch her brother become a ghost as well?"
When she spoke of the crisis, she burst into tears and looked so pitiful.
Su He stood outside the carved hall, quietly watching Liu perform. When she stopped crying and took a breath, she walked in slowly and asked with a smile, "Mother, I came here at bad luck and ran into the opera troupe? Oh? It was old lady Liu? Look at my mouth, you're really confused. I thought we had invited a troupe to perform opera today!"
Seeing her coming, Liu slowly got up from the ground, wiped away her tears, straightened her clothes and asked, "Why are you here?"
She was an elder after all. How could she cry in front of a junior? What kind of manners would that be?
Su He smiled and replied, "This is my mother's residence. Do I have to make it public when I come back? I want to ask why Old Madam Liu is here?"
The word "come back" perfectly explained her identity.
Su He smiled and looked at Liu's speechless look. Thinking of the crying drama just now, she found it even more funny.
Without waiting for Liu's answer, she walked up to Zhaoyang and bowed, lowering her eyebrows and said, "Mother."
"Have you moved everything here?"
"Yes."
"Huai He will be gone for an unknown period of time. You will live with me and move back when he comes back."
"Listen to mother."
Liu was licking her ears when she heard him calling her mother.
She hadn't even asked the princess to save Lu Yanxiu yet, and Su He showed up.
"Oh, by the way, you just said that Yan Xiu was locked up, right?" Zhaoyang pretended to realize it belatedly and looked at Liu.
Liu hurriedly said, "Not only Yan Xiu, but also Yi'er and Jiao'er, they are the twins, now four and a half years old."
"Ah He, do you have any way to save them?" Zhaoyang deliberately set a difficult question.
Su He was not panicked, and glanced at Liu and replied, "Mother, you don't know that the Lu family is really a nest of wicked and ruthless people. I feel disgusted just by looking at them. I wish they would all go to hell. How can I think of any way to save them?" "
Su He, you! You are going too far!"
Liu slapped the tea table with a slap, and the tea lid rolled down in shock.
After a clang,
Nanny Tang ran forward distressedly and picked up the broken pieces of the tea lid, "Oh my! This tea lid and teacup are made of matching blue and white porcelain. The tea lid is broken, and the whole set of tea sets is useless. How much money must it be wasted?"
Zhaoyang looked up and calmly replied, "Old sister, you have to pay."
"How much...how much?"
Nanny Tang: "Not much, not much, just one hundred and seven taels. As we are relatives, I will give you a little less, just one hundred taels."
One...one hundred taels?
Liu swallowed her saliva and regretted this action, but now the things were broken, and the eldest princess asked for compensation. Could she still refuse?
"I..."
"Forget it, mother. Don't embarrass the old lady. I know the situation of the Lu family. It's more difficult to ask them to pay 100 taels than to ask for their lives." Su He added appropriately, with some exaggeration. According to Liu's personality of wanting to save face, the next sentence will definitely be...
"I'll pay for it!"
Liu's face was sullen, and she said to Nanny Tang very unnaturally: "I will ask someone to get the silver later, and I will never owe you a penny!"
Nanny Tang smiled and said okay.
In fact, this set of blue and white porcelain tea set was fired by the eldest princess herself in the kiln factory many years ago. Because of the poor craftsmanship and some defects, it was placed in the carved hall for 800 years without seeing a single guest. Today, it is also because the eldest princess is free that she entertains guests here.
She was naturally happy to get a hundred taels for nothing.
"Princess, I am willing to give you the money, but Yanxiu and the others..." Holding her breath, Liu still wanted to save people, and she only hoped that the princess would give in.
Zhaoyang waved his hands and said, "There is a rumor in the East Palace that Lu Yanxiu's birth date is very auspicious, and his blood can be used as a medicine for the emperor to prolong his life. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will naturally not do anything to him, and he is now staying well in the East Palace."
"What?"
Liu stood up suddenly. Did she hear it right?
So, she had begged for so long, and performed such a trick for so long, but it was all in vain? In other words, the princess knew Yanxiu's whereabouts very well, but she still watched him play like a monkey?
Liu's face turned from livid to dark. She held the armrest tightly with her fingers and said with gritted teeth, "Thank you, Princess. What about my great-grandchildren? I asked outside Xiuyue Manor. They were taken away by the Crown Prince's people. When can they come back?"
If Lu Yunqing hadn't suddenly come back and said she wanted to take the children out to play, Liu would never let her take them away.
Who would have thought that she would be so heartbroken and want to do something to the two children?
Su He cast his gaze over and asked softly, "Old Madam Liu is too greedy. She even wants to protect the bastard who doesn't know his origin."
Zhaoyang and Nanny Tang looked at her.
Liu didn't understand.
"What do you mean by saying this?"
The bastard who doesn't know his origin?
Ridiculous!
Yi'er and Jiao'er were her proud dragon and phoenix twins, Yan Xiu's own flesh and blood, the incense of her Lu family, the descendants of the Lu family!
How could they be bastards who were ignorant of their origins?
"Such a simple sentence, don't you understand, Madam Liu?"
Su He glanced at her and asked again with sarcasm: "Liu Qiuqiu came from Jiaoguilou. After she was redeemed by Lu Yanxiu, she was afraid that you would find out, so she was secretly placed in Xiuyue Manor. They have been together for many years, but she has never been pregnant. Why is it that after the marriage between Lu Yanxiu and I was agreed upon, she announced that she was pregnant?"
"That is Yanxiu's blessing! It was God who had mercy on him and gave him a dragon and phoenix twin! It must be you, are you jealous of him? Jealous of my Yi'er Jiao'er? Jealous that Liu Qiuqiu can give birth to twins while you have no children!"
Liu pointed at Su He, almost collapsed in rage, and her words were even more inappropriate.
Nanny Tang suddenly scolded, "Madam Liu! If you want to piss off, go home and don't embarrass yourself in the Princess's mansion!"
Fearing that she would utter even more disgusting and dirty words, he winked and ordered the servants to escort her out.
"Grrrl~"
Su He wanted to speak out to stop her, but his stomach turned sour and he felt nauseous.
"Young Madam, what's wrong with you..."
Nanny Tang was knowledgeable and experienced in serving the eldest princess during her pregnancy and childbirth. She could tell something was wrong at a glance.
Pei Xia knelt in the hall and reported to Zhao Yang: "Replying to the eldest princess, the young madam has been feeling nauseous these days. She feels sleepy as soon as she touches the pillow, and feels weak and sleepy as soon as she moves. I wanted to see a doctor for a checkup when I came back from going out, but I put it off because I was packing..."
"Feeling nauseous and sleepy? Have you had a cold recently?" Nanny Tang asked.