After the dozen young masters had been baptized by the dowager lady at the Duke of Zhao's mansion, when they walked out of the door, everyone felt refreshed, as if their entire being had been sublimated. The secrets that their fathers and grandfathers had never told them, the secrets that the bigwigs in the court kept secret, were all told by the dowager lady, and they actually felt like they had really become important people.
But just as everyone was sighing in their hearts, suddenly there was a loud clapping sound. The person clapping was Lu Sanlang. Seeing that everyone was looking at him, he said earnestly: "Everyone, if even a word of what happened today is leaked, our reputation will be ruined. Everyone must remember that we all rise together and fall together."
"If one person leaks the news, we will all become untrustworthy in the eyes of the Madam and the young master."
Lu Sanlang's words were like pouring a bucket of cold water on the hearts of the people. The people who had just been proud looked at each other, and as the first person stood up and swore a poisonous oath, saying that whoever spread the news would have no descendants and die a miserable death, a lot of people rushed to express their opinions. In the end, Zhu Er, who personally sent the story, felt that he could not bear it anymore.
However, he himself was somewhat suspicious of his grandmother's superficial talk tonight. Although he knew that swearing was useless - if there was only one big mouth among so many people, the news might spread all over the streets in the next day - he could not sternly warn everyone to keep their mouths shut, so he could only give a bland warning.
"My grandmother trusts you all, so she told you the secret. If you let her down, you should check your conscience. In short, just like Lu Sanlang said, don't be confused and don't say things that you shouldn't say!"
Seeing everyone nodding their heads and making promises, patting their chests, he watched as each person rode on horseback or got in a carriage and left. He then ordered the door to be closed and turned around and ran away. When he returned to Shou'an Hall like a gust of wind, he was about to ask Madam Li to inform her when he heard the voice of the Madam from inside.
"If they really spread these words, it's nothing. They just brought the secret things out into the open. I'm old, and saying these things is not just old people's gossip. You know, I said these things in front of so many people just to let people spread them. If they really keep their mouths shut, I'll be in trouble."
Zhu Er was shocked. After scratching his head, he thought of Lu Sanlang's warning and warned himself again. If everyone really kept silent, wouldn't that ruin his grandmother's business? But he thought again, so many people are not all good. Who knows, someone might bring up these things to show off, and maybe even add a prefix that they heard it from Mrs. Zhao.
At this time, he heard Zhu Ying inside say, "I was wondering why grandma would call so many people home... That's right, with so many people, everyone will know tomorrow that I took them to investigate the Imperial Household Department, so I went to cause trouble! Grandma, if you didn't tell me earlier that it was okay, I would have been prepared to be scolded by you and dad before I went there!"