Lin Yixiang nodded with a heavy heart, looked at the letter in his hand, and asked softly: "Then I will take this letter back?"
"Yes." Lin Yichen returned to the soft couch and sat down, "Find out as soon as possible and report any news to me immediately."
Lin Yixiang left Lin Yichen's palace, thinking about what he had just said to Lin Yichen along the way. The content written in the letter seemed to Lin Yixiang to be ridiculous. But if the news spread, I'm afraid some people would believe it.
The more Lin Yixiang thought about it, the more headache he got. When he returned to his dormitory, he looked at Lu Zhiqing beside him, pondered for a moment, and said, "I'm going to the Prime Minister's Mansion tomorrow. Do you want to go back and have a look?"
Lu Zhiqing's expression was startled, then she nodded repeatedly and said with a smile: "Well, I haven't seen my parents for a few days, and I just want to go back and see them."
After Lin Yixiang and Lu Zhiqing discussed it, they let Lu Zhiqing go out. Before leaving, Lu Zhiqing looked at the letter Lin Yixiang held in his hand and was a little curious about who wrote it to him, but he didn't dare to ask, so he went out.
In the Prime Minister's Mansion, everything was calm on the surface, but privately, it was already in chaos.
Lu Zhiyao went to Ye Lianrong's yard during the day, and what he said to Ye Lianrong spread throughout the prime minister's house at a speed that was jaw-dropping. Everyone was secretly discussing the truth of this matter.
False, and as the master of the Prime Minister's Mansion, Lu Yuanzheng cannot possibly not know.
"Nonsense! Where did you hear this?!" After hearing Chu Hansheng's words, Lu Yuanzheng got up in anger and looked at him with a stern look.
"Master, this has been spread in the house now. I heard that the eldest lady went to the second lady's house in the afternoon, but the second lady did not admit that these words came from her mouth. The eldest lady had no choice but to leave again.
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"Why are you telling me now about such a big thing?" Lu Yuanzheng's chest felt tight with anger, "I don't know when the Eighth Prince will come back. If this matter gets serious, then the engagement with the Eighth Prince will be over! Go quickly,
Call Zhiyao over here, I have something to ask her!"
Chu Hansheng followed Lu Yuanzheng's instructions and came to Lu Zhiyao's yard. It was already dark. Lu Zhiyao looked at Chu Hansheng in front of him, turned his eyes, and asked with a smile: "It's so late, what's the importance of Butler Chu?"
Something?"
Chu Hansheng was promoted to housekeeper by Lu Yuanzheng some time ago, and Lu Zhiyao hadn't had time to send him a congratulatory gift. Unexpectedly, now he came to the house on his own initiative.
"Miss, the master has something to do with you." Chu Hansheng had received some favors from Lu Zhiyao before. He glanced at the two maids beside Lu Zhiyao. He knew that they were Lu Zhiyao's confidants.
He didn't avoid it and said directly: "The master said that he has something to ask you. I guess... it's about your meeting with the second lady today."
Lu Zhiyao pursed his lips and smiled, stood up and said leisurely: "Good things don't go out and bad things go a thousand miles away. It's only been one afternoon. Not only you, Butler Chu, but also my father know about this. Okay, I'm here
Let’s go see my father. Yudie, go and get some silver. Butler Chu has been promoted, and we have to express our gratitude.”
"Miss, you are joking. How dare you be a slave?" Chu Hansheng refused repeatedly. When Lu Zhiyao handed the money to him, he still declined. "Miss, I can't take this money."
"Okay, there are no outsiders in this house, so don't be polite to me. In a few days, I will no longer be in the house. By then, even if you want to get money from me, I'm afraid you won't be able to get it." Lu
Zhiyao smiled and stuffed the money into Chu Hansheng's arms, then strode out of the room and came to Lu Yuanzheng.
Lu Yuanzheng looked at Lu Zhiyao who opened the door and asked with a gloomy look: "What did you do to see your second mother today?"
Lu Yuanzheng's straight-to-the-point inquiry made Lu Zhiyao pause. A look of grievance appeared on his face. Lu Zhiyao walked up to Lu Yuanzheng in two steps and whispered: "Dad, this time you have to make the decision for your daughter."
OK."
"Stop talking about this, hurry up and tell me what's going on!" Lu Yuanzheng asked impatiently what happened.
"Dad, I haven't been feeling well these days, but I never thought that my mother-in-law would say such things when she saw how uncomfortable I was. She secretly told others that I was pregnant because
It will be like this. Dad, if people outside hear what you say, how can I marry the eighth prince? My second mother falsely accused me of having affairs with others in the past, so I won’t say anything, but what time is it now?
Doesn’t she know better? Doesn’t it mean that my sister doesn’t care what happens to me when my sister is married? Dad, my mother died early, and you and I both know how my second mother has treated me over the years. But even if I am not her biological child
Daughter, she shouldn’t say that kind of thing behind my back!”
The more Lu Zhiyao talked, the sadder he became, while the more Lu Yuanzheng listened, the more chills grew on his back.
"What evidence do you have to prove that these words were all said by your second mother?"
"Dad, I heard what Er Niang said to others with my own ears. Could it be false? There is another thing that I never told Dad. Wan Yue and Yu Die went home that day because they had something to do, and Er Niang took the opportunity to
Seeing that there was no personal maid around me, he actually poisoned the fruit I ate and knocked me unconscious, and then brought someone else into my room. I still don’t know what happened. If it weren’t for the two
The girl came back just in time to catch me. I think the other slaves in my courtyard would not dare to tell me about this, for fear of offending Er Niang."
"Is this possible?"
"It's absolutely true! If you don't believe it, dad can ask Er Niang in person, or I can call Wan Yue and Yu Die over and confront Er Niang!"
Lu Yuanzheng sighed with a headache, looked at Lu Zhiyao for a while, and waved her hand to let her go back first. Then, he found Ye Lianrong again. Ye Lianrong, not surprisingly, denied everything and did not admit that she had said
That kind of thing.
It was getting later and later. Lu Yuanzheng thought that he would have to go to court early the next day, so he let Ye Lianrong go back first, hoping to find time to find out the matter the next day. But he never thought about it.
, before he started checking, Lin Yixiang came.
The arrival of Lin Yixiang made Lu Yuanzheng and Ye Lianrong tremble in their hearts. Seeing Lin Yixiang go directly to Lu Zhiyao's yard, Lu Yuanzheng sat uneasily in the study, waiting for Lin Yixiang to come over.
Lu Zhiqing followed Ye Lianrong back to the room. Seeing Ye Lianrong's face looking exhausted, as if she hadn't slept well all night, she asked in a low voice: "Mom, what's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell or something happened?"
"Qing'er, do you know why the Seventh Prince went to Lu Zhiyao?" Ye Lianrong asked without answering, wondering in her mind whether Lin Yixiang went to Lu Zhiyao to discuss the matter of the child in her belly, or to study how to put the child into her belly.
Lu Zhiyao took it away without being discovered.
"I don't know." Lu Zhiqing also had a look of displeasure on his face when he mentioned that Lin Yixiang went to see Lu Zhiyao as soon as he came back. "The Seventh Prince didn't tell me anything. He only told me that I had something to do at the Prime Minister's Mansion today and asked me if I wanted to come back.
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"Qing'er, do you know if the Seventh Prince has any contact with Lu Zhiyao during this period?"
"Mom, what do you mean by this?" Lu Zhiqing looked at Ye Lianrong in confusion and asked.
"Don't ask so many questions first. Just tell me, has the Seventh Prince touched you recently? And has he had any correspondence with anyone outside the palace?"
Ye Lianrong's words reminded Lu Zhiqing of the letter she saw in Lin Yixiang's hand yesterday. She nodded slowly, hesitantly answered Ye Lianrong's question, and said: "It seems...Mother, how did you know?"
"Then it must have been written by that little bitch Lu Zhiyao." Ye Lianrong said angrily. Under Lu Zhiqing's repeated questioning, she had to carefully tell Lu Zhiqing some things. "You can't let outsiders know about this, Lu
Zhiyao is pregnant with a child, and it belongs to the seventh prince."
"What?!" Lu Zhiqing yelled and stood up from the chair suddenly. Looking at Ye Lianrong with twinkling eyes, Lu Zhiqing couldn't believe that it was true. "Mom, you can't say this nonsense. She
Is it really possible?"
"Why am I lying to you? Don't you yourself know that the Seventh Prince is having an affair with her?" Ye Lianrong saw Lu Zhiqing making a fuss and said in a sigh, "I guess the Seventh Prince came to our house just to see her.
of."
Ye Lianrong and Lu Zhiqing talked about what happened during this period, and kept warning Lu Zhiqing not to show off her tricks or mention the matter in the slightest after returning to the palace. But she didn't know that Lin Yixiang had known about this matter for a long time, and it was
I learned it from the prince's mouth.
Lu Zhiyao looked at Lin Yixiang in front of him, with a smile on his face, but there was a hint of alienation and indifference.
"What does the Seventh Prince want from me?" Lu Zhiyao asked softly, tilting his head.
Lin Yixiang looked at Lu Zhiyao with clear and calm eyes. He was wearing a light green dress. The style was simple, but he looked extremely comfortable and bright. He couldn't imagine who would fabricate such a lie to hurt such a woman. Lin Yixiang's eyes
The light dimmed and he said, "Have you heard any rumors recently?"
As soon as Lin Yixiang said these words, Lu Zhiyao's expression immediately became a little panicked. Lin Yixiang sighed secretly when he saw the change in Lu Zhiyao's eyes.
Originally, he just came to see the protagonist mentioned in the letter with the idea of giving it a try. Lin Yixiang wanted to see if Lu Zhiyao knew anything, because the letter was obviously aimed at the two of him.
Lin Yixiang himself had so many enemies that he couldn't figure out which one he was, so he had to rely on Lu Zhiyao.
"Seventh Prince...did you hear something?"
Lu Zhiyao looked at Lin Yixiang timidly and tried to deal with him. There were only two people in the room, and Yudie outside the room was nervous and broke into a cold sweat for Lu Zhiyao.
"Sister!" Wan Yue ran back from outside. After seeing the people in the yard, she said to Yu Die with joy on her face: "Guess who I just saw on the street?"
"Who?" Yudie turned her head and looked at the room, pulling Wan Yue to a place a little further away and asked.
"Eighth Prince! I saw the Eighth Prince's carriage and horses!"
