Liu Qiaoer sat at the table, hesitatingly. She glanced at Lu Yunzheng quickly with her eyelids raised, feeling a little guilty.
"She is your fiancée after all, she wouldn't harm your family members."
Lu Yunzheng was so angry that his liver hurt: "You can only know a person's face but not his heart. Have I ever told you that?"
"Yes, she is my fiancée, but marriage is decided by parents. I don't know her true nature. Besides, she has had contact with Pei Yuanshan before. Who knows what will happen?"
Liu Qiaoer still felt that Lu Yunzheng was a little paranoid.
"She's your woman now, how come you don't even understand her?"
Lu Yunzheng took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in his heart, and explained patiently.
"Being unmarried is different from being married. If I marry her, we will be a family anyway. She can be trusted and will not betray the Lu family. After all, she is also a wife of the Lu family. But being unmarried is different. She is still a daughter of the Su family."
"Not all women are as naive as you to trust anyone."
Liu Qiaoer's knowledge of ancient marriage is limited to film and television dramas.
The biggest difference between ancient marriage and modern marriage is blind marriage.
Before marriage, husband and wife do not meet each other, so they do not know each other very well. It is different after marriage. Husband and wife are a community. Even if they cannot be loving, they will respect each other.
Liu Qiaoer did not comment on Lu Yunzheng's statement.
"I just saw that she was crying pitifully, and I didn't really want to tell her that you were here. And if she really had other thoughts, she shouldn't be suspicious since I brought her in so openly."
Lu Yunzheng snorted coldly: "Be more thoughtful in the future. Being kind is good, but if you are too kind, you will be bullied badly."
Liu Qiaoer twitched her lips. Wasn’t it bad enough that she was bullied by Lu Yunzheng
Wait, Liu Qiaoer was slightly stunned: "You know the official from the capital? You also know that Su Xueying was imprisoned by him?"
Lu Yunzheng's face darkened, and he said in a deep voice, "Go out, I'm tired."
Liu Qiaoer packed her things, closed the door, and went out.
Looking at the window, she began to understand. Every morning when she got up early and went to the kitchen to make dumplings, Qi Ze would sometimes come to find Lu Yunzheng.
Even though Lu Yunzheng stays in the house all day recuperating from his injuries, he is not completely ignorant of the outside world. Qi Ze is his eyes.
And Qi Ze may not be the only one with such eyes.
Liu Qiaoer is obsessed with looks. She always thinks that appearance reflects the heart, and a good-looking person can't be that bad, so she has a built-in filter for Su Xueying.
Unexpectedly, a day later, Su Xueying came to the door with her maid.
"Pa" a bag of silver was thrown in front of Liu Qiaoer, and Su Xueying was seen smiling, without any trace of the grief of the previous two days.
"Miss Qiao'er, something happened to the Lu family. I know you servants have suffered a lot. This little bit of silver is to help you calm down."
Liu Qiaoer's clear eyebrows curved, and the corners of her mouth were smiling with a hint of alienation.
"It is the masters who are suffering. We, the servants who were sold back, have long been issued with indentures by Madam Lu and sent out of the mansion."
As she spoke, she picked up the purse and weighed it. It was about twenty taels.
"No merit, no reward. Miss Su, is there anything you want to inquire about?"
Su Xueying pursed her lips and smiled lightly, "Miss Qiao'er is smart. I just want to know who else the Lu family has outside? And what did the girl do during the days when the Lu family was raided?"
Liu Qiaoer's heart sank. Su Xueying was just Lu Yunzheng's fiancée. Why did she ask so many details about her
She couldn't help but think of how Su Xueying was kept overnight by officials from the capital.
She frowned and thought hard: "This... I..."
She was thinking about what to say, some things she could say and some things she couldn't say, and her fingers subconsciously stroked her purse.
"Pa" Su Xueying actually threw over another purse, which still had about twenty taels in it.
"Miss Qiao'er is just a maid. I know your family is poor. Take this money to honor your grandmother and sick mother."
Liu Qiaoer raised the corners of her mouth, her eyebrows were still curved, but her eyes gradually became cold.
It seems that Su Xueying has been to the Liu family these two days.
I wonder if Geng told her aunt about the fact that she was taking care of the two children.
Liu Qiaoer thought for a moment and accepted it without hesitation: "Thank you, Miss Su. I did come to the Lu family on the day when the Lu family was raided, and I met Aunt Sun..."
As she spoke, Liu Qiaoer's eyes turned red.
"The eldest son was such a good man, but he died at such a young age. I don't know if our wife can bear it in prison. The youngest son and daughter are so young, but they are also in prison. They have suffered a lot."
Su Xueying listened to Liu Qiaoer's words and frowned: "Didn't you take them away? Why did you say they were in jail? Liu Qiaoer, if you don't tell the truth, I will send you to the government..."
Liu Qiaoer's heart sank. Geng did not hide anything from her and actually told Su Xueying.
Liu Qiaoer lowered her body and knelt in front of Su Xueying, crying bitterly.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it's my fault, I'm so heartless, I brought the little boy and the little girl with me, it's because I was greedy, I could get some money by selling the two children, so I, I..."
Su Xueying glared at Liu Qiaoer angrily and waved her hand: "Shuangjiang, go into the yard and take a look."
Su Xueying didn't believe Liu Qiaoer's words, and went straight into the inner room with her maid.
Thanks to Lu Yunzheng's cleverness, he had already built a dark room in the house.
When Su Xueying brought the maid into the house to check, they found nothing. There were two kangs in two rooms, one cold and one warm. It was obvious that Liu Qiaoer was the only one living in the yard.
I also saw Niu Dahu chopping wood and fetching water in the yard.
Su Xueying and the maid looked at each other and shook their heads in disappointment.
It was just that the yard was filled with a strong smell of medicine, and thinking of Liu Qiaoer's sick mother, she no longer doubted it.
He righteously rebuked Liu Qiao'er for being ungrateful and selling out her master, but he did not say anything else. He came like the wind and left like the wind.
Liu Qiao'er was left shivering all over, clenching her fists in anger.
"Sister, the maidservant next to Miss Su went to your house yesterday and gave you ten taels of silver to ask you about bringing the two children home."
Liu Erniu looked at Liu Qiaoer's dark face and said tremblingly.
"I was in a hurry and busy this morning, so I forgot to tell you."
Fortunately, Liu Erniu was smart. As soon as she saw Su Xueying coming, she hurried back to the house to report the news. The two children and Lu Yunzheng also hid.
After a long time, Liu Qiaoer let out a long breath.
"She deliberately led me to rescue her because she wanted to know the whereabouts of the Lu family. I guess she has taken people to ask the servants who stayed in the county town."
"I just don't know what she would do if she found the Lu family?"
Liu Erniu pursed her lips: "Anyway, I won't treat them like family like my sister does."
Liu Qiaoer smiled bitterly: "Not necessarily. Looking at her posture today, it doesn't seem like she's looking for someone, but more like she's looking for something."
Could this be another secret left behind by Lu Yunzheng
But she couldn't see clearly which side Su Xueying was on.