After Hua Rujin settled everything at home, she followed Zhu Zhiye's car to the provincial capital.
Not long after leaving the city, at a pavilion outside the city, I suddenly encountered several guards in plainclothes who stopped the carriage and horses.
The leading guard first bowed his hands to Prince Ning and then sincerely invited him: "Your Highness, please be accommodating. My chief governor invites Miss Hua to come to the pavilion in front to have a talk."
Zhu Zhiye also began to notice that Luo Chuhuai's attitude towards Hua Rujin was unusual, and he quietly sat in the carriage and looked at her with a frown.
Hua Rujin was a little worried that after she left, he would embarrass the whole family, so she silently signaled to Zhu Zhiye and Wu Muning, nodded and said, "Excuse me, Your Highness and Miss Wu, I'll be back soon."
"Be careful."
Zhu Zhiye warned her before letting her out of the carriage.
Hua Rujin followed the guards to the pavilion. Luo Chuhuai was standing in the innermost part of the pavilion with his hands behind his back. He turned around when he heard footsteps.
Looking at my daughter dressed like a handsome young man today, I couldn't help but think of my own youth.
"It looks like, it really looks like."
Luo Chuhuai couldn't help but sigh.
"like what?"
Hua Rujin looked at him puzzled.
"Of course it's like being a father."
Luo Chuhuai slowly sat down and motioned for her to sit down with him. He brought several snacks prepared on the stone table to her one by one and said with a smile: "I don't know your preferences. I prepared them for my father. You can try them."
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"I'm not hungry."
Hua Rujin smiled coldly: "The Governor made a special trip here. I don't think he just came to see me off. If something happens, it's okay."
Her indifferent attitude towards him made Luo Chuhuai feel cold for a while.
After pondering for a moment, he reluctantly smiled and said: "How can a girl show her face all day long? My father has heard about the Dou family. You have suffered. Now that you have escaped from the sea of suffering, you should stay in peace and contentment.
At home, I am waiting for my father to finish the things at hand and find a good marriage for you personally. This is not to brag about my father. I have a great career and my father will definitely make the decision for you for any family you like."
"I don't need the Governor to worry about my marriage."
Hua Rujin didn't want to talk to him about her personal affairs, so she impatiently urged: "The Governor should just talk about it."
Luo Chuhuai sighed deeply: "I heard that you are very close to Ye Chenggui. Are you invited by him to be his staff in the provincial government this time?"
"There is such a thing."
Hua Rujin replied.
"This guy has now become an inspector of the provincial government. He can't hire any kind of staff, but he keeps you by his side. I'm afraid he has ulterior motives."
As a prodigal in love, Luo Chuhuai knew the reason and said displeasedly: "Rujin, whether you admit it or not, you are my flesh and blood. You can't deny this. Ye Chengkuan's life experience is not
Simple, his biological father is Lu Ming, the current Minister of Civil Affairs."
"so what?"
Hua Rujin was shocked when she heard the news, but she had to pretend to be extremely calm.
No wonder he was able to save the day from danger time and time again. Lu Ming was the soon-to-be-successor as the chief assistant and held a high position of authority.
"Behind the Lu family is the Xue family."
Luo Chuhuai explained with a serious face: "Although you have grown up in Jiangling City since you were a child, you must be familiar with the situation in Beijing. Ye Chenggui's aunt, Mrs. Xue, is the daughter of the imperial master of the dynasty, and her sister is even more
Your Majesty’s favorite Concubine Xue, the mother-in-law of Prince Yun, has not yet established a crown prince in the court. Prince Fu and Prince Yun are both very popular figures. Both in public and in private, as a father, I don’t want you to get too close to this person.”
"This is a matter between you men, what does it have to do with me."
Hua Rujin pretended not to understand. He said so much just to make himself stand firm, so that his father-daughter relationship with him would not be discovered in the future, which would anger King Fu.
"Why don't you understand, girl?"
Luo Chuhuai frowned and said, "Whose person is Ye Chengguan? He belongs to King Yun. If you deal with King Fu for him, wouldn't it be embarrassing for your father? How can your father keep you safe when the time comes?"
"The Governor's words must be serious."
Hua Rujin said with a sarcastic tone: "I don't know Prince Fu or Prince Yun, and Mr. Ye is a fair man. He only has His Majesty and the people of the world in his heart, and he will never get involved in party disputes. I
I went to the provincial capital just to avenge someone's grievances, not to mention dealing with Prince Fu. Is it true that the Zhuo family and His Highness Prince Fu are doing something shady as the rumors say?"
"Don't talk nonsense."
Luo Chuhuai was a little disappointed. He felt that his daughter could not understand the situation, so he lowered his face and scolded:
"You can become a famous imperial merchant without some unusual means behind it. Prince Fu's biological mother is from the Zhuo family, so he will have more sympathy for the Zhuo family. Why do you need to add more details? My father also heard about the provincial capital.
In this case, the young master of the Zhuo family has been killed, and the guilty woman has expressed her evil spirit. It is only natural to kill someone to pay for life. Even if you go, you will not be able to find out anything."
"That's not how it works."
Hua Rujin looked sullen: "If it weren't for the protection of officials, how could Mu Ran's cousin feel desperate and do such an extreme thing? If Mr. Zhuo didn't do evil, how could that ten-year-old child lose his life?
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"What do you want to do with a man who is insane?"
Luo Chuhuai had no reason to argue, so he had to use the government's conclusion to prevaricate.
"How did the Grand Governor conclude that he was insane?"
Hua Rujin said sternly: "I heard that this person has never been ill. If everyone uses this excuse to paralyze the world in the future, how can there be any justice in this world?"
Luo Chuhuai saw that she was determined to intervene in the Zhuo family's affairs, and sighed helplessly: "It seems that my father can't convince you today?"
After thinking about it, he shook his head helplessly and said, "What are you doing? The convict must pay with her life for killing someone, but you have offended King Fu for this. Is it worth it?"
"I would like to ask the Grand Governor, if you killed more than ten members of the Lu family for your own personal gain, how could the Grand Governor sleep peacefully every night?"
Hua Rujin didn't answer the question and brought up the matter of the Lu family again.
Luo Chuhuai smiled bitterly: "You are still young, and there are many things that I can't explain to you. In my position, I have many choices, not only for myself, but also for the prosperity of the entire clan. I have to make choices."
"So you can kill innocent people indiscriminately and be murderous?"
For such a person who is deeply entangled in the whirlpool of power, Hua Rujin has no interest in persuading him to return from his lost ways.
Party strife has existed in all dynasties, and she could not comment on the rights and wrongs of it. But as far as the Lu family was concerned, she only felt cold for the person in front of her.
Just to frame political opponents, so many innocent lives were implicated. I'm afraid that Prince Fu may not be a wise king even if he becomes emperor in the future.
"I don't want to care about the Grand Governor's ambitions, and I also ask the Grand Governor not to disturb the purity of our family again."
Hua Rujin finally warned: "I don't want to be an enemy of anyone. If the governor forces me hard, I will never sit back and wait to die."
After saying that, he stood up and turned around to leave.
Looking at her resolutely walking away, Luo Chuhuai looked confused and disappointed, and secretly said: "You are my flesh and blood, how could I force you to do anything."