Chapter 195 Lu Wenxue's Marriage
Lu Enyou sighed, "Yutang's sister is not an ordinary woman. I can sense that she has no feelings for me. If I trap her in the palace, I'm afraid it will only hinder her ambitions."
The attendant hurriedly said, "If she can assist the master in the future, the county lady will not be wasting her talent... With such ability, if she were to rule the six palaces, everyone would surely submit to her."
Lu Enyou was slightly moved by these words.
However, he still said, "That depends on her own willingness. Besides, she just returned, and I don't think the Gu family is in a hurry to get her married. Let's wait and see. If she has someone in mind, I will naturally not force her."
After hearing this, the attendant did not try to persuade him any further.
After Gu Ruanci left the palace, the emperor and the empress also went to the empress dowager's bedroom.
The Empress Dowager told the emperor about the eldest princess with a dark face, and the emperor was extremely embarrassed.
The Queen Mother felt even more heartbroken. Why didn't the eldest princess change her ways despite repeated warnings?
Over the years, she has really tried her best to teach the eldest princess, but she never expected that what is in her bones and blood cannot be suppressed after all.
"Mother, I will definitely keep her under strict control and will not let her act recklessly..."
After the emperor finished speaking, he really wanted to continue to confine the eldest princess to her house.
The Empress thought for a moment and said, "Since the eldest princess enjoys embroidering these things for pleasure, why not let her embroider more and burn them for her mother? Her mother's death anniversary is coming soon, and she should show her filial piety to her mother..."
The emperor knew that the queen was also feeling aggrieved that a well-educated child had to go astray.
"That's true, does Mother think this is a good idea?"
The emperor did not make a decision immediately, but instead sought the empress dowager's opinion. After all, he had to make the empress dowager satisfied.
"Just do as the Queen says. Her mother's death anniversary is in a few days. Ask her to embroider a hundred handkerchiefs as a memorial."
The eldest princess was already extremely angry when she heard what the servant said, and she started smashing things in the mansion.
Since leaving the Lu family, she no longer suppressed her personality and became paranoid.
As a result, just after she had lost her temper, an imperial decree came from the palace, ordering her to embroider a hundred handkerchiefs by hand before her mother's death anniversary, and also sent a nanny to supervise her and not to let anyone else do it.
This made the eldest princess even angrier, but because the maids in the palace were all close to the Empress Dowager, she did not dare to act rashly and could only swallow her grievances.
She started working that day, but because she was clumsy, she pricked her fingers all over.
But the nanny seemed not to see it and just urged her to complete the task. After all, time was limited and she had to embroider at least ten handkerchiefs every day to make ends meet.
I was exhausted until late at night before completing today's task.
After the eldest princess returned to her room, she felt even more irritated.
"As expected, if they're not biological children, they're treated differently. I'm just trying to fight for my own happiness, so why is that not possible? The Empress's dignity over the years is truly gone."
The maid immediately knelt on the ground and said tremblingly, "Princess, you must not say this. If it gets out, it will cause trouble."
"There are only a few of us in this room. Who could spread the news?"
Lu Shuyi seemed to be a little crazy. She couldn't get Gu Yutang's love, and she had all kinds of setbacks in the Lu family. Now she wanted to get treatment but was rejected. She felt that she was not decent as the eldest princess at all.
She couldn't help but complain again: "If Lu Hanyue did this, would they punish her? No, Lu Hanyue doesn't need to be like this. As long as she wants something, how could the Queen not give it to her, hahahaha..."
Her crazy look made the maid even more uneasy.
As a result, the eldest princess laughed a few times and then stopped abruptly.
The sadness in her eyes was already revealed, and she muttered to herself, "It's still good to have a mother. If she's not my biological mother, how could she truly care about you? I'm naive."
The affairs of the Grand Princess's Mansion were kept very secret within the palace, and nothing was leaked outside.
So when Lu Wenxue came to visit, she had no idea that the eldest princess had no time to see her.
"Is my cousin busy?"
Lu Wenxue, who was turned away, didn't expect that she originally wanted to join forces with her cousin to cause trouble, but in the end she couldn't even get in the door.
The doorman did not reveal anything, but simply rejected Lu Wenxue according to the words of the nanny sent by the palace.
Lu Wenxue thought about it and finally did not force her way in. Instead, she left with ulterior motives.
After returning to Prince Duan's Mansion, she told Concubine Wen about this matter.
"Hasn't she been released from house arrest? Why doesn't she want to see me?"
Her question did not give Concubine Wen a headache.
She thought for a moment and said, "Didn't she send a lot of handkerchiefs to the Gu family, but was rejected by Gu Ruanci? I guess these handkerchiefs have other meanings. The palace found out and punished her. Now she has no intention of seeing anyone."
Lu Wenxue seemed to have a sudden realization and said, "Since those handkerchiefs weren't for Gu Ruanci, then they were for one of the Gu family's sons? Is she tempted to marry into the Gu family again?"
After she finished speaking, she was shocked herself. Was her cousin stupid?
Concubine Wen was not surprised. When the eldest princess forced Gu Yutang to marry her, she was also crazy.
That's why she wasn't taken seriously after she hurriedly married into the Lu family.
"I couldn't have counted on her in the first place. Your aunt is celebrating a happy occasion, and your cousin is pregnant. She will be more respectable in her husband's family in the future. Even if the title fell to someone else, those people might not be able to defeat your aunt in the end. Wen Xue, you must remember that the struggle in the Imperial State has always been a protracted war. Temporary gains and losses don't mean anything. Whoever survives to the end is the winner. The prerequisite for winning is to stay alive."
After hearing this, Lu Wenxue knew that this was the experience summarized by her mother and did not refute it.
"knew……"
Concubine Wen sighed, "A few days ago, I finally persuaded your father to help your brother propose marriage to that Gu Ruanci, but he insisted on going to discuss it with the princess. Now this matter can only be put on hold. As for you, now that you have reached the age of marriage, it is time for me to find a good marriage for you."
Lu Wenxue did not shy away from these things, nor was she as shy as those young and naive girls. She had long known that her marriage was a transaction.
She said contemptuously, "That Zhou Qinzhu always thought I was interested in her good-for-nothing third brother and wanted to be her sister-in-law... A young man from an aristocratic family who can only play the zither and can't inherit a title is worthy of marrying me? It's a good thing he died, otherwise it would have taken a lifetime to get rid of him."
Concubine Wen said, "Now that the Zhou and Ye families are marrying again, Ye Lingyue has chosen Zhou Yuxiu. As for the Ye family's eldest son, Ye Chenglei, he is also useless. In fact, mother does have a good candidate, but it still requires your father to come forward."
Lu Wenxue asked, "Who is it?"
"Prime Minister Wu's son, Wu Yizhu."
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