"Look, I'm really confused!" Mu Qing felt relieved when she heard this, and she couldn't help laughing with shame: "It's strange that people say that women are small-minded, I am really not as good as you! Sigh! But No, they are our benefactors, we should thank them well! But I’m getting jealous of something!"
"It's hard for Ma'am that you figured it out so quickly! Amitabha, there's nothing better than knowing a mistake and correcting it!" Lu Wenxuan said half-seriously and half-jokingly, and the two looked at each other and laughed.
The smile on Lu Xiaoshu's face never broke, he was alone in a daze, thinking for a while and then grinning foolishly, when Du Juan poured tea, she almost stuffed it up her nose, teasing Du Juan, Hong Calyx couldn't help giggling.
"Girl, you should rest quickly! Tomorrow, I will see Mr. Lu with two dark circles carefully under his eyes!" Hong E said with a smile.
"It's okay!" Lu Xiaoshu said casually: "We martial arts practitioners don't even have the energy to do this? Besides, I can't sleep even if I want to sleep now! My mother and my sister are coming too. Tell me, I What kind of gifts should I prepare for them? By the way, when I meet my father tomorrow, what should I wear... "
Du Juan and Hong E looked at each other, Hong E couldn't help but whispered to Du Juan, "You're really crazy!"
"Don't add fuel to the flames!" Du Juan lightly touched the red calyx, and said to Lu Xiaoshu with a suppressed smile, "Girl, how many times have you said this tonight! Get off, and take care of the well-dressed one tomorrow, so you can rest assured! You should hurry up and go to rest!"
"All ready?" Lu Xiaoshu smiled, and quickly said, "Then you all go to bed, and leave me alone! Anyway, I can't sleep..."
Rhododendron and red calyx are speechless.
"Go, go! Don't worry about me, really!" Lu Xiaoshu waved away with a smile.
Hong E burst out laughing, covered her mouth and yawned, vaguely said: "Sister Du Juan, if you want to stay, you can stay, I can take a rest..."
Du Juan had no choice but to shake his head and go.
Lu Xiaoshu looked up at the bright moon outside the window, sighed softly with a smile on the corner of his lips, and suddenly became a little crazy.
Besides, Lu Zhong, in his hometown, learned that the emperor wanted to reverse the case for the backer king and find Lu Xiang's descendants, and it has been more than a month since the announcement was made.
He kept his name incognito for so many years because he was looking forward to such a day, and when this day finally came, he chose to stand up without hesitation.
So, he confessed his true identity to his wife, saying that he was going to the capital.
He has been burdened with things for so many years that he is almost out of breath, and he doesn't want to wait for a moment!
Lu Zhong was originally worried that Miao Cuilan would be shocked and would make trouble with him, but who knew that she was surprised, but not to the extent he imagined!
She just said: "Actually, when I chose to marry you, I thought you were not an ordinary person, let alone came to Maple Leaf Village after a disaster in your hometown as you said! But I didn't expect you to be the descendant of such a big official." people!"
Then he asked him: "Do you dislike me, a country woman, as a daughter-in-law? If you dislike me, let's make up and leave. Don't divorce me. It's too ugly. I can't accept it! Also, the money I earned all these years Can you give me all the family business, anyway, now you will not care too much! Fortunately, our children have grown up, we can leave or stay, as they like! If they leave with you, I will be a son Go out and start a career, just treat your daughter as married!"
"What nonsense are you talking about!" Lu Zhong sighed softly. Seeing his wife's dignified and tense yet stubborn and relaxed appearance, he felt warm and moved in his heart, and a little dumbfounded, he said, "You are my wife. , I never thought of abandoning you in this life! Stop thinking about it!"
"But, I was the one who insisted on marrying you..." Miao Cuilan said in a daze.
"That's what I'm willing to do," Lu Zhong smiled slightly, as if remembering what happened that day, his eyes became more gentle, and said: "If I don't want to, why would I marry you? Ha ha, but that **** is It really shocked me, although I am young, I have seen a lot of things, but this is the first time I have seen a woman like you."
Miao Cuilan, who has always been tough and sharp, felt her face heat up, she was a little embarrassed, and said with a smile: "Is it because I'm too vulgar, and I made you laugh!"
"No," Lu Zhong said with a smile.
"What is that?" Miao Cuilan asked hastily.
Lu Zhong glanced at her, but smiled and said nothing.
Miao Cuilan was overjoyed and said, "You don't look down on me, do you?"
"That's natural!" Lu Zhong nodded with a smile.
Miao Cuilan was happy at first, then sighed, and said: "But after all, I'm just a country woman. When you recover your status, we will be truly different from each other! Will others laugh at you for being so different from me?" What about a wife?"
"Did you think that I haven't seen through these years?" Lu Zhongwen said: "The world is so cold, but you are the only one who is by my side these years. It is you who gave me a complete family. I can’t even get a daughter-in-law! It doesn’t matter if other people make jokes or not, let’s live our lives behind closed doors and care about what they do! Hehe, don’t you want to go to the capital to see Xiaoshu? Chuhe said it, that girl has been talking about us Woolen cloth!"
Mentioning Lu Xiaoshu and Miao Cuilan couldn't help gnashing her teeth, cursing in a low voice: "That heartless and lawless stinking girl, I have to ask her well when I see her, what's the matter with running away from home for no reason like that? I don’t care if the family members are worried or not! I’m hurting her for nothing!”
"Yes, when we see her, we will teach her a lesson! That girl is indeed too lawless!" Lu Zhong nodded and said with a smile: "Then it's decided, our family will go to the capital together!"
Miao Cuilan hesitated slightly, after all she was worried about her daughter and worried about her husband, so she nodded.
Lu Zhong said quickly: "Pack up your things now, we will leave the day after tomorrow!"
"The day after tomorrow?" Miao Cuilan was surprised: "Is it too hasty! The business of the tofu shop is so big now, there are so many things to explain!"
"There's no rush," Lu Zhong said, "Just pack a few clothes. Aren't Chu He and Yu'er here? They all understand."
"That won't work either!" Miao Cuilan thought for a while, shook her head and said, "Xiaoshu likes to eat my dried radish, sweet potato and dried beans, as well as our dried tofu and yuba. I have to prepare some for her." Woolen cloth… "
"..." Lu Zhong was helpless.
The next day the family discussed, Lu Zhong went to Beijing alone, and when Miao Cuilan was ready, Miao Chuhe sent the two of them to Beijing.
As for Lu Qi, he is now the head catcher in the county government, and he is on a mission and has not returned yet, so the two of them are waiting for him by the way.
Besides, although Lu Zhong was worried, it was already winter, and the northward direction of the canal was against the wind and the current, many merchants had already stopped operating, and it was hard to wait for a ship to go northward, but it still only arrived in Shandong.
Lu Zhong had no choice but to get on the boat. I got off the boat at the boundary of Shandong and changed to a horse-drawn carriage. After such a delay, he did not arrive in the capital until late November.
The capital is still prosperous, it should be said that it is much more prosperous than before. However, things have changed.
The name of the street is still the same, but there are many buildings that did not exist before, and many familiar buildings have disappeared. Seeing this, Lu Zhong couldn't help feeling deeply.
When he left that year, he didn't know if he would have the opportunity to step into this capital again in this life. He didn't expect that after nearly twenty years, he finally came back!
Lu Zhong didn't sleep all night, and early the next morning, someone from the palace came to convey the oral order of Emperor Xiangqing, announcing him to enter the palace for an audience.
Lu Zhong touched the letter in his sleeve subconsciously, and followed the visitor.
When Emperor Xiangqing summoned him in the inner palace, he had to say something in memory of Prime Minister Lu.
Thinking of his father, Lu Zhong felt even more uncomfortable and even colder. Back then, his father was also framed and killed by the Zhongyonghou. It was obviously an obvious unjust case, but because the emperor had just succeeded to the throne, he wanted to kick out a group of old officials and promote his confidants, so he went ahead and convicted his father. And countless father's disciples were implicated...
Now listening to the emperor's hypocritical words, Lu Zhong said respectfully, but secretly sneered in his heart.
"The young prince of the backer's mansion said that you have evidence that the backer king was wronged back then? Is there such a thing?" Emperor Xiangqing changed the subject and finally asked about the serious matter.
"Your Majesty, here is the evidence." Without further ado, Lu Zhong took out the secret letter from his sleeve and presented it respectfully, while saying, "One of these two letters was written by Marquis Wu Gong to the King of the Backer in order to win over the King of the Backer for rebellion, and the other One was written by the backer king to the minister's father. At that time, Marquis Marquis wanted to take advantage of the instability of the emperor's enthronement and unite with the backer king to rebel. After the backer king received the letter, he forwarded it to the minister's father. Originally, he wanted to entrust the minister The father handed the letter to the emperor to show his loyalty. Unexpectedly, the leak was discovered by the king of the mountain. He first killed the father of the minister, and then the king of the mountain. Leave the letter early to hide your name, and submit it to the emperor when the time comes... Finally, I have waited until this day!"
"So that's how it is!" Emperor Xiangqing sighed softly, took the letter and read it carefully, there was nothing wrong with it, the paper and handwriting didn't seem fake, and the fact that Marquis Marquis rebelled was there, so he believed it this matter. Sighed: "It's hard to embarrass Prime Minister Lu. At that time, I was young and fell into the trap of a traitor! Alas, this is also God's will. If the news hadn't been leaked at the beginning, it wouldn't have happened like this! If the king of the mountain came to Beijing in person, Prime Minister Lu would No—now that everything is over, it’s useless to say more about it! Don’t worry, I will make the decision for you, and the king of the mountain and the Lu family will make the decision!”
"Caomin thank the emperor Long En!" Lu Zhong kowtowed, but felt extremely ironic in his heart.
The emperor is pushing the affairs of the Lu family to the backer king!