Chapter 46 I Want Him to Fall off a Cliff

"The flood in the southeast region is very serious. Otherwise, the salary would not be withheld. Brother, our family can no longer sit and wait for death. Yun Qing is in her prime, and if I can't even prepare her dowry, I will really be unworthy of being your brother." Lu Zhili made a calculation in his eyes.

Lu Yanxiu asked in a daze: "What do you mean..."

"I heard that the position of Secretary-General is vacant. You can think of a way to get promoted."

"It's not my decision to promote or demote an official position. How can I think of a way?" Lu Yanxiu has been a secretary for a long time. Even if he is promoted to the fourth-rank secretary-general, the content of his official duties is still the same. What's the difference?

Why not just promote him to a higher position?

Lu Zhili already knew what kind of person his brother was. Seeing that he had no ambition, he could not help but admonish him: "Officials are promoted step by step. If you want to be parachuted into a high position, that's fine, but do you have any ability? Or any talent?"

Lu Yanxiu shook his head.

"In that case, just listen to me."

"What about you? Aren't you going to take the exam next year?" Lu Yanxiu asked.

"I won't take the exam. As for why, you will know the answer after it's done."

Lu Zhili raised a smug smile at the corner of his mouth, as if he was very sure. Watching him leave the study, Lu Yanxiu was a little confused. Didn't he study hard for so many years just to seek fame? But he said he wouldn't take it?

Is there something wrong with his brain?

The lively atmosphere of the Lantern Festival gradually faded.

The carriage of the Lu Mansion returned very late. Liu Qiuqiu returned to Tingyuxuan and just told Mingchun to prepare water for bathing. After she left, a figure came out from the darkness and almost scared Liu Qiuqiu to death.

"What are you doing here?"

Liu Jinglei appeared in front of her in the clothes of a servant. She was so scared that she quickly pushed him into the darkness and said, "Didn't we agree that I would send someone to give you the money in the next two days? Why are you here?"

"The day after tomorrow is too long. I'm going to the brothel tomorrow. You have to give me some money first!" Liu Jinglei stretched out his hand and asked for money as a matter of course.

Liu Qiuqiu complained in a low voice: "You are such a grown man, can't you find a way to make a living? Do you think the Lu Mansion is a treasury? Inexhaustible? I already regretted following Lu Yanxiu. I got such an empty shell for nothing. It's hard to even eat meat!"

She felt depressed when she thought of the current situation of the Lu Mansion.

If it weren't for Lu Yanxiu's generous and unrestrained behavior, Liu Qiuqiu would not have thought of hooking up with him. But after all, she had a good life for a few years. During the years in the other courtyard, she secretly saved a lot of private treasury, but the family was a bottomless pit. No matter how much private treasury she saved, it would be exhausted one day. At the same time,

the court deducted her salary to support the flood, and Liu Qiuqiu was really complaining.

"Why did I hear that half of the eldest princess's dowry is in the Lu Mansion?" Liu Jinglei didn't believe that the Lu Mansion had no money, and just thought that his sister was pretending to be poor. Lu Yanxiu was very generous in the wine house, and he would give a waiter ten taels of silver at random. How long has it been now, and he has no money?

There are also rumors that the eldest princess piled all her dowry in the Lu Mansion when she married Lu Zhiping, and only took half of it away when she left. Royal things are expensive and valuable. A hairpin can buy a shop, so why worry about not having money?

Liu Qiuqiu stayed in the Lu Mansion for so long, and she also asked Lu Yanxiu about it, but there was no whereabouts of the dowry at all.

Liu Jinglei thought for a moment and said, "It must be that old woman who hid it. You should ask her more. If there is really a dowry worth a fortune, we won't have to worry about food and drink for the rest of our lives."

"How could that damn old woman let me know so easily? If I'm too aggressive, she will doubt Yi'erjiao'er's identity again!" Liu Qiuqiu frowned slightly, thinking that the old lady was not an easy person to deal with.

Liu Jinglei smiled coldly: "Yierjiao'er is not a child of the Lu family... My dear sister, if you want to rest assured in the Lu family from now on, you can't keep that old woman!"

After Su He left, Liu was in charge of the Lu family. Although she said that she was tired and had no intention of managing, she didn't give up.

As long as she was in the mansion, Liu Qiuqiu could not rest easy.

She looked at her brother in the darkness with her dark eyes without saying a word.

The autumn rain was hazy these two days, and the fallen leaves in the yard covered the bluestone slabs, making it look a bit deserted.

Su He had just returned from Zhaixing Restaurant and found out who had pocketed the income in the past two years.

She thought about how when she was in Lu's mansion, she was always afraid that Lu Zhili would be bullied in the Imperial College, so she would give him some money every once in a while to help him manage relationships. But she didn't expect that he was the most thoughtful one, and all the income from Zhaixing Restaurant in the past two years went into his private pocket.

Roughly speaking, it was enough for him to buy several large houses in Beijing.

"Miss, can't you let the second young master Lu take this money without being clear?" Pei Xia asked.

Su He handed the umbrella to her, twisted the wet corner of her skirt, and said lightly: "It doesn't matter if you give it to Lu Zhili, but he needs to pay with other things."

Pei Xia didn't understand.

"Next year's spring examination, I want him to fall off the cliff."

Su He looked at the bird resting on the eaves, his body was soaked, and a gust of wind blew, and he almost fell off.

In his previous life, Lu Zhili signed up for the spring examination twice.

He visited Su Ronghai before the first spring examination to thank him for sending him to the Imperial College to study. Otherwise, he would not have made friends with the powerful and paved the way for his future.

However, Lu Zhili decisively chose to refuse the exam, and instead re-took the exam three years later, and successfully achieved fame.

Su He recalled the past and couldn't help but sigh at Lu Zhili's intentions. He had been coveting the position of Minister of Rites for a long time, and he actually gave up the opportunity of an exam to frame the Su family. His heart is despicable!

But this time, he will never have the opportunity to enter the court to see the emperor again!

"Miss, someone from the next courtyard has sent something."

A maid brought something in, and Pei Xia opened it and saw that it was a plate of cakes.

"This is..."

The maid said, "Lord Lu next door said that the Poria cocos cake sent by the young lady is delicious. He recently thought that the peach blossom cake is good, so he sent it to the young lady to taste."

Peach blossom cake?

In this season, only the palace would keep peach blossom petals frozen all year round for the concubines to enjoy.

Su He looked at the light pink peach blossom cake in the lotus plate and ordered, "Put it down."

The maid bowed and said, "Lord Lu also asked if there was any clue about the Zhaixing Wine House. If you need his help, just ask."

Su He said, "I understand. You can leave

now." The Zhaixing Restaurant has been sealed off, and the other two missing girls were indeed found in the small courtyard next door.

The dignitaries testified for Lu Zhili. Although he was safe and sound, they also put forward a scapegoat, who was the waiter that day. It was said that it was a distant relative of the Lu family who was temporarily bewitched.

The high-sounding reasons were not enough to convince everyone, but some people defended Lu Zhili, and they couldn't do anything about him for the time being.

Su He leaned on the couch and closed his eyes to think. Lu Zhili had a thorough relationship in the Imperial College in the past few years. If he wanted to put pressure on him in the matter of the restaurant, he had to... break the relationship network.