"Ayue, you don't know, when I went to deliver the letter to Master Liu, I happened to catch him having dinner at home. The food he ate was completely free of oil and meat, even the servants of the Lu Mansion couldn't catch up with him!"
"Also, in this cold winter, Master Liu's family is reluctant to even light a charcoal fire. People are freezing to death. I wonder how Master Liu can concentrate on his studies?"
"Ayue, Master Liu is too pitiful."
Mingyue had just regained consciousness when she heard a clear female voice chattering in her ear, and every word she said was about Young Master Liu.
Mingyue opened her eyes and saw a bronze mirror. In the mirror, there was a vague image of a young girl with willow-shaped eyebrows, bright eyes and white teeth. She was undoubtedly a pretty lady.
As soon as she took a clear look at herself, she saw another beautiful woman appear in the mirror.
The woman inserted the jade hairpin into Mingyue's hair and said with pity: "Ayue, please feel sorry for Master Liu and help him!"
Mingyue looked tired and raised her hand to rub her brows. "Let's not talk about this for now. I feel a little unwell and need to rest for a while. You go down first."
The woman looked at Mingyue in surprise. When she saw that she looked a little impatient, she sighed and said, "Okay, okay, I'll leave first. I'll come to see you later. By then, Mr. Liu's letter should be ready, and I'll just deliver it for him."
"Got it." Mingyue agreed casually, and the woman turned and left.
Seeing that there was no one else around, Mingyue called Feishuang and began to receive the original owner's memories.
Her original name was Lu Mingyue, the only daughter of the wealthy Lu family in Lin'an County.
The Lu family was wealthy, but unfortunately the father and daughter had few children. Of the five children, only one survived. In the end, he accepted his fate and thought that he was destined to have only a daughter. He raised his daughter and spoiled her like a treasure. He really gave his daughter the stars if she wanted them and the moon if she wanted it.
Although Lu Mingyue's mother died during childbirth, she was spoiled by her father Lu and had everything going her way since she was a child. She was raised to be very innocent and naive.
When she was fourteen, she became fascinated with storybooks, and she yearned for the stories of talented scholars and beautiful women in the storybooks the most. Once, she secretly went out with her nanny's daughter Zhang Cuixiu, and happened to meet Liu Shumin, a county student. It happened that she and Cuixiu were molested by some gangsters, and they caught up with the scene where Liu Shumin heroically rescued the beauty. She immediately fell in love with Liu Shumin, and coincidentally, Liu Shumin also fell in love with her at first sight.
In the following days, Liu Shumin wrote a letter to Lu Mingyue, and asked Zhang Cuixiu, who knew the inside story, to help deliver it. When Lu Mingyue saw the letter, her heart was filled with sweetness, so she wrote back.
As a result of these interactions, the relationship between the two became even deeper.
Liu Shumin said that he wanted to wait until he passed the imperial examination before marrying Lu Mingyue. This way, he would not be afraid of others saying that he was coveting the Lu family's wealth. Lu Mingyue felt that he was frank and responsible, so she fell even more in love with him.
Later, Lu Mingyue always heard Cuixiu say that Liu Shumin's family was poor and lived a very hard life. She felt so distressed that she started to carry out targeted poverty alleviation.
At first, Lu Mingyue only added a cook and charcoal fire to the Liu family. Later, she moved the Liu family to a new yard and gave them a dessert shop. Later, Lu's father found out about this and wanted to persuade his daughter, but the next day he was stabbed to death by a clerk who had resigned from the shop a few days ago. Lu Mingyue, who lost her father, felt like the sky had fallen.
At this time Liu Shumin said that he wanted to marry Lu Mingyue and provide her with a good life.
It's just that Lu's father died, and Lu Mingyue had to observe mourning for his father for three years, so the two of them just exchanged tokens and got engaged in private. Lu Mingyue had a meal together with the Liu family.
After the engagement, the Liu family would come to Lu Mingyue from time to time to complain about their poverty.
Lu Mingyue felt sorry for her fiancé's relatives, and thought that they would all be a family in the future, so she gave away the things in her hands one by one, and in the end the huge Lu family was forcibly changed into the Liu family.
But she never expected that Lu Mingyue did not live to see the day of her wedding.
When Lu Mingyue had nothing to take out, she naturally fell seriously ill.
When Lu Mingyue was sick and about to die, she saw her wet nurse's daughter, her best sister Zhang Cuixiu, who came to visit her wearing fine silk.
It was only then that Lu Mingyue learned that Liu Shumin and Cuixiu were going to get married and the wedding date had already been set.
It turned out that Liu Shumin and Zhang Cuixiu's families were neighbors. The two families had always had a close relationship and had already arranged the marriages of their children. However, the Lu family's wealth was enviable, so the hero saved the beauty and the love was expressed in a short letter.
There aren't so many talented men and beautiful women who are paired together. Too many coincidences become deliberate. Lu Mingyue was so angry that she died.
Lu Mingyue was unwilling to give in!
It was because the original body was unwilling to give in that Mingyue, who had the same name as her, appeared.
[Feishhuang, what is Lu Mingyue's wish?] Mingyue asked in her sea of consciousness.
Feishuang transformed into a ball-like form, jumping around in her sea of consciousness: [Master, Lu Mingyue wants to protect her father from harm, and to prevent Liu Shumin and Zhang Cuixiu from taking advantage of her again.]
Mingyue raised her eyebrows slightly. She still remembered to protect her father, which meant that Father Lu's love was not in vain. The original body was too naive. Feeling sorry for a man is the first step to bad luck!
Fortunately, she came early. The original body and Liu Shumin had just started communicating not long ago, and had not yet had time to subsidize the Liu family. There was still a chance to make amends.
By the way, the woman who called Mingyue "Tall Liu Gongzi" and "Short Liu Gongzi" just now was Zhang Cuixiu.
Just as Mingyue was thinking about how to deal with this pair of bastards, Father Lu's loud voice came from outside: "I heard Cuixiu say Yue'er is not feeling well. Have you called a doctor?"
The maid was obviously stunned for a moment before she answered softly, "When Miss Zhang came earlier, the young lady asked me to leave. I didn't know the young lady was sick."
Father Lu frowned slightly, and as he pushed open the door, he said to the maid, "I'll go see Yue'er, you quickly go find a doctor to come over and take a look."
Hearing the maid agree and run out, Mingyue stood up and walked around the screen to the door: "Dad, there is no need to find a doctor. My daughter was just a little sleepy just now, and she is fine now."
Father Lu looked at his daughter and indeed saw that she looked rosy-cheeked and did not look sick, so he heaved a sigh of relief.
"If you have nothing to do, go out more often. Staying at home all the time will make a good person sick." After saying this, Father Lu casually asked, "By the way, why did Cuixiu come to see you?"
As early as when Lu Mingyue was ten years old, the wet nurse and her family were sent away by Lu's father. It seemed that the wet nurse always acted like a master and wanted to control the affairs of the Lu family, which angered Lu's father, so he sent them away.
At that time, Lu Mingyue was angry with her father for a long time. After all, she was raised by a wet nurse, so she was naturally very close to her.
However, Father Lu did not treat the wet nurse badly and gave the family a large sum of money, enough for the family to live well for several years.
Moreover, after the wet nurse left the Lu family, Zhang Cuixiu would come to visit from time to time. Lu Mingyue was no longer lonely because she had her former little sister as her companion.
Zhang Cuixiu and Lu Mingyue are of similar age and grew up drinking from the same milk, so they have always had a close relationship.
Father Lu thought that the little girl had no bad intentions, so he turned a blind eye and did not interfere with her continued relationship with his daughter.
Originally, Mr. Lu thought that his daughter had few playmates, so it would be a good thing to have more companions to accompany her. However, he never expected that Zhang Cuixiu was so ambitious and wanted the entire Lu family.
But it is not appropriate to let Father Lu know about this now, Mingyue could only shake her head: "Cui Xiu just wanted to chat with me for a while, and her family is having a hard time, and she wants me to help her out."
Mingyue really didn't wrongly accuse Zhang Cuixiu. She often cried poor when she came to their house before. Her original self had subsidized the Zhang family a lot, but no one had ever mentioned this to Lu's father!
Father Lu's brows furrowed even more. He obviously didn't expect Cuixiu to complain to his daughter about being poor. Moreover, when his daughter said "again", it seemed that this kind of thing had happened many times.
As a businessman, Mr. Lu was not a kind-hearted person. He immediately felt that the Zhang family needed to be punished.
Of course, my daughter is naive, so there is no need to let her know about this.
Mr. Lu didn't stay long. He said a few more words of concern to his daughter and then left.
Mingyue calmed down and thought about the next step.
How to get back the letters that the original body gave to Liu Shumin? The reputation of women in ancient times cannot be blemish-free!
besides…
Should we attack the Zhang family first? Or should we attack the Liu family first
Or... let them fight each other
(End of this chapter)