"Father!" Lou Jing grabbed Lou Jianyu's wrist and stood up slowly, "Whether it is an ancestral property or not, you cannot change it with just one sentence. It can be clearly written in black and white on a piece of paper."

"You..." Lou Jianyu was clutched so hard by him that it hurt. Those seemingly smooth and flawless fingers clamped his hand tightly like iron hoops. No matter how hard he struggled, he couldn't get rid of it. "You are such a rebellious person."

son!"

When Lao An Guo Gong was young, he went out to fight, and he neglected to discipline Lou Jianyu, his legitimate son, so that he missed the best age to learn martial arts. When Lao An Guo Gong had some free time, his son had grown up, and he was so sad that he had to

He devoted himself wholeheartedly to teaching his eldest grandson.

Therefore, Lou Jianyu, who has only learned some external Kung Fu, is no match for Lou Jing, who has learned the Lou family's ancestral internal Kung Fu for more than ten years!

Like a cat stepping on a mouse's tail, Lou Jing looked at Lou Jianyu calmly, "My son is now the princess. My father beat his son, but he committed the following crime. If he let his father slap him, then what would happen?"

That's unfilial." His tone was slow and firm, as if he had sold a huge favor to his father.

Lou Jianyu was so angry that his chest hurt, but Lou Jing's words were correct. If he dared to call people in openly, he would be the one who suffered.

"My lord, my lord!" Suddenly a young boy called outside the door.

Lou Jing let go of her father and put her hands behind her back, as if nothing had happened.

"What's the fuss about?" Lou Jianyu was angry and spoke louder.

The man ran in in a hurry. It was the young man An Guogong had left in the main hall to look after him. "The third master drank too much and pulled his uncle to cry non-stop. His Royal Highness asked the Duke why he didn't go back?"

Lou Jing curled her lips. His Highness the Crown Prince must have been upset by his third uncle when he asked such a question.

"This troublemaker!" Lou Jianyu glared at Lou Jing who was gloating about his misfortune, and threw away his sleeves angrily.

Lou Jing looked at her father's leaving figure, and the smile on her face gradually faded away.

At first, he kept telling himself that his father had his own reasons for marrying him to the prince. As long as his father told him well, he would go to the palace for the sake of this family. He could also return the family property left to him by his grandfather.

However, in the past half month, his father had stabbed his heart with knives one after another, draining his filial piety bit by bit. Today, he and his father completely broke up. From then on, there was no ordinary relationship between them.

Not so good with relatives.

The second aunt walked through the garden holding the account book and saw Lou Jianyu coming out of the Suzaku Hall. She quickly hid behind the rockery, patted her chest and said to herself that she was in danger.

There were seven or eight East Palace guards with swords guarding in front of the Suzaku Hall. They all looked solemn, and they would not relax their guard on the Crown Princess just because they were returning home today. The second aunt looked at those guards and felt a little firmer in her heart.

Well, judging from this situation, the prince should attach great importance to Lou Jing. With the prince as his backer, the weight of Lou Jing's words will naturally be a little heavier.

At the same time, at the East Street entrance of Luotangfang, a Confucian scholar wearing dark blue robes and two young men were waiting by the roadside.

"Sir, if we stop His Highness the Crown Prince's car, will we be punished?" A young man was very puzzled. He didn't understand how his father, the Minister of Rites, could act like a thief when he wanted to see His Highness the Crown Prince.

"What do you know?" The Confucian scholar was about forty years old and slightly stout. He was Yao Zhu, the Minister of Rites. "Your Highness will definitely not blame you. As long as you don't tell this matter, no one will hold you accountable."

The crime of driving the prince's car."

This was actually a warning to them not to tell anyone what happened today. The two young men immediately grimaced and had no choice but to promise in a low voice.

Lou Jing looked at the anxious second aunt, lowered her eyes, did not smile or speak, and tapped her fingers on the thick pile of ledgers in front of her.

"These were copied when the Duke passed away two years ago," the second aunt swallowed, fearing that she might say the wrong thing and make Lou Jing angry, "There were a lot of things in the house at that time, and the step-wife could not handle it alone, so I helped.

In charge of accounting, I was afraid of making mistakes, so I kept a secret."

Lou Jing didn't bother to argue with the second aunt about this flawed argument, and said straight to the point: "Why did the second aunt give me this account now?"

"In the spring of next year, your father and two uncles will be discharged." The second aunt rubbed the handkerchief in her hand, wiped the sweat from her palms, looked up at Lou Jing's face, gritted her teeth and said, "Zhuo

Jade, Second Aunt has watched you grow up, and she can’t be more at ease with this account being in your hands. You are now the Crown Princess and the highest status in the Lou family. If the family wants to be separated in the coming spring, you can

Come back and seek justice."

After the death of a respected relative, the grandson should observe mourning for one year, and the son should observe mourning for three years. Therefore, although the second aunt had many conflicts with the Wei family, she did not dare to propose dividing the family before the three-year period of mourning was completed.

After sending away the second aunt, Lou Jing showed a smile on his face and ordered Le Xian to take the account book back to the East Palace. It was really sleepy and met the pillow. With the accounts from the previous year, there was nothing he could do to settle the accounts with the Wei family.

loss.

The banquet finally ended, the third uncle was carried off early, and the second uncle also drank until his face turned red and his neck was thick. Lou Jianyu was worried that he hadn't asked for the Jinzhou accounts yet, so he asked the prince to stay for a while longer. Xiao Chengjun was impatient to deal with this.

The man, on the grounds that he could not go home past dusk, took the princess and left.

You can't stay the night when you return home, but it's just past noon now! Lou Jianyu could shout and drink at Lou Jing, but he didn't dare to disobey the prince. He could only watch the five carriages with canopies and go away in the dust.

.

"Is this the Chixiao sword?" Xiao Chengjun curiously took the sword in Le Xian's hand to take a closer look, "Are you good at using swords?"

"I'm not really good at it," Lou Jing smiled and spread his hands to show His Highness the Crown Prince, "I learned internal martial arts. Except for bows and arrows, I can only use other weapons."

Xiao Chengjun took the hand and looked at it. It was as white as jade and without any flaws. He rubbed the thin callus on his middle finger with his thumb. The corners of his lips were slightly raised. His princess was confessing her strength to him. This habit is good and should be encouraged.

one time.

Lou Jing looked at His Highness the Crown Prince's subtle smile and felt that the cat's tail that was quietly raised was tickling her heart. She hurriedly put the moon-white lacquer box in her hand into Xiao Chengjun's hand, "Here's this for you."

The Crown Princess did not use the honorific title when she said this, but His Highness the Crown Prince did not notice it. He opened the moon-white box and found a three-color Hetian jade carving brush washer.

This should be a whole piece of jade carving. The main color is white, with very rare cyan and pink mixed in. The white brush is used to make the whole body round and round, and the cyan is used for leaves and flowers, which are carved into lotus flowers reflecting the sun. The strange thing is that the lotus leaf,

The lotus flowers are all protruding. The stems are as thin as reed tubes and stand upright. The veins on the green leaves are fully visible. The sixteen pink and white petals are as thin as cicada wings, half open and half closed, lifelike.

Xiao Chengjun held this marvelous jade brush washer and couldn't put it down, "It's so beautiful."

Seeing that he liked him, Lou Jing felt inexplicably happy, "This was carved by an old jade carver I met when I was in the desert..."

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly heard the neighing of horses. The driver stopped the carriage suddenly, and Xiao Chengjun fell forward involuntarily. He was still holding a brush in his hand. This thin jade carving would definitely fall to pieces if it hit the carriage.

Subconsciously, he protected the object in his hand. Without support, his body fell straight forward.

With quick eyes and hands, Lou Jing took His Royal Highness into her arms, raised her legs and pushed on the wall of the car, firmly stabilizing her figure.

"Your Highness, please forgive me, but someone stopped the carriage." The driver hurriedly apologized.

I don’t know if it’s because of Little Rabbit Bun’s obsession, but Lou Jing doesn’t want to let go every time she holds His Royal Highness in her arms.

"Who stopped the car?" Xiao Chengjun stood up and went out to check. Only then did he realize that his Crown Princess was still hugging him tightly. His Royal Highness was stunned for a moment, and the ears leaning against Lou Jing's chest quietly turned red.

"Your Majesty, Yao Zhu, would like to see His Highness the Crown Prince." The voice of Yao Zhu, the Minister of Rites, came from outside the curtain.

Xiao Chengjun sat up as if nothing had happened, straightened his clothes, lifted the curtain and went out.

Lou Jing put the brush washer back into the box, looked at His Highness the Crown Prince's red ears, and couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth.

"Master Yao," Xiao Chengjun stepped out of the carriage and glanced at Yao Zhu, who had only two boys with him, and then looked at the deserted street in the afternoon, "Why are you here?"

"Your Highness!" Yao Zhu knelt down in front of Xiao Chengjun without saying a word, "I am also desperate. Please save me."

"Get up," Xiao Chengjun raised his hand to ask him to stand up, "What's going on?"

Knowing that this was on the street, Yao Zhu did not admit his death in order to avoid attracting attention. He stood up and whispered: "Does Your Highness know that Yushi Geng Zhuo is dead?"

"What?" Xiao Chengjun was startled and frowned, "Didn't my father promise to let him go?"

"Yes," Yao Zhu said with a sad face, "This morning, the emperor ordered Geng Zhuo to be released. But who would have thought that the people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs tortured Geng Zhuo overnight. When he went to the prison to collect him in the morning, he was already there.

No more."

Xiao Chengjun felt a buzzing above his head and took half a step back, just in time to lean against a broad and strong body.

Lou Jing had been standing behind His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and upon seeing this, she hugged Xiao Chengjun's waist, "The censor is dead, what does it have to do with Lord Yao?"

Yao Zhu glanced at the speaker in surprise. It turned out to be the crown prince's concubine who had just walked in. The prince didn't seem to blame the crown prince for interjecting without permission, so he could only respond: "The crown prince doesn't know something. I offended you a few days ago."

Shen Lian, recently he is looking for excuses for me. I am the second-rank Minister of Rites, so I was not afraid of him. But today, Shen Lian killed the censor first, but the emperor did not punish me too much. I... I am really worried.

I can’t help it.”

There were very few people walking around in Luotangfang, but after noon, someone's servant had already come out to do something. Xiao Chengjun took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "You go back, I will leave the palace tomorrow, you come

…”

When it came to the location, Xiao Chengjun hesitated a little. He was not supposed to participate in government affairs during the wedding period. He met with officials in private and it would be troublesome if the news reached the ears of Emperor Chunde.

"Twenty li to the west of the city is the farm owned by the crown prince An Guo." Lou Jing answered in time.

Xiao Chengjun glanced at him in surprise.

"I've had nothing to do these past two days. I was just thinking of inviting Your Highness to go to the farm to see the fruits I planted myself." Lou Jing said with a smile.

After returning to the East Palace, Xiao Chengjun immediately asked Cai Yi and others to go to the Chongwen Hall, while Lou Jing went back to the Eight Phoenix Hall to take a nap.

Lying on the bed, thinking of His Highness the Prince's secretly red ears in the carriage just now, Lou Jing felt itchy in her heart and couldn't fall asleep, so she turned over and sat up, took out the book in the cabinet, lay on the big pillow, and read it with relish
Chapter completed!