After Lu Wei's group rested for a day in Liangzhou, they returned to Baochuan.
Duan Shu saw her three grandchildren for the first time. She hugged Lu Shi and Lu Xiao, her beautiful eyes turned red, and she said with emotion: "Grandma thought she would never have the chance to see you in this life!"
Lu Xiao stretched out his little hand and touched Duan Shu's face, and asked crisply: "Are you my grandmother? My mother talked about you!"
"What are you talking about me?" Duanshu said with a kind smile.
Lu Xiao hugged Duan Shu's neck, half-knelt on Duan Shu's legs, nestled her soft body in Duan Shu's arms, and said against Duan Shu's ear: "Mother said, you are my and her savior.
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Duan Shu was startled for a moment and glanced at Lu Xiao. Those clear and dark eyes that were exactly the same as Zhang Yuqing's were shining with admiration. She turned back to look at Zhang Yuqing who was in the yard giving orders to his servants.
Calm and orderly, what she saw and felt in Liangzhou along the way made her deeply moved.
Lu Wei sat with Duan Shu and said, "Qingqing doesn't say anything, but she is always thinking of you in her heart."
"Yuqing is a good boy." Duan Shu smiled and said to Fang Qin next to her: "You too, this time when you come back, don't be as reckless and impulsive as before!"
Fang Qin lowered his head and responded.
"You have driven him back all these years, and he knows you were wrong." Duan Shu said to Lu Wei, "How are you going to arrange it for him?"
Lu Wei said in a deep voice: "I have always regarded Fang Qin as a brother, and it has never changed. Qingqing is a generous person and will not mind what happened before."
The premise is that Fang Qin is willing to change and stop being unreasonably hostile to his wife.
Fang Qin looked up, still smiling, "You have three children, why should I be that evil person?"
Lu Wei stood up and patted Fang Qin hard on the shoulder, "Good brother!"
Duan Shu breathed a sigh of relief and smiled with satisfaction.
The three generations of the family were enjoying themselves happily, all in agreement, tacitly forgetting that Lu Dewen was still in the capital.
After everyone returned, Zhang Yuqing began to organize the third Liangzhou Lantern Festival.
At this time, King Chenliu sent envoys to Liangzhou. On the one hand, he wanted to participate in the Liangzhou product exhibition and sales expo, and on the other hand, he wanted to find out what Lu Wei meant.
Zhang Yuqing accompanied Lu Wei to receive the envoys of King Chenliu.
The fiefdom of King Chenliu is in Sizhou, which is very close to Liangzhou. These days, most of the vassal kings are domineering in their fiefdoms, are cruel and unkind, and treat the people as livestock. They all rely on the support of their peers. King Chenliu can be called benevolent.
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Under the governance of King Chenliu, most places in Sizhou were relatively stable, and there was never any friction with Liangzhou.
Lu Wei's attitude towards the envoy was quite polite.
After the greetings, the envoy tentatively asked the Queen Mother and the Emperor if they had any entrustment to Mr. Lu.
"People of the Ming Dynasty don't speak secretly." Lu Wei was too lazy to make excuses, "If King Chen Liu has something to say, just say it."
The envoy smiled apologetically and said: "Master Lu is the ruler of a state at a young age and a high official in the border areas. If you want to go further, you can only be a close official of the emperor..."
"King Chen Liu wants to be the emperor's master?" Lu Wei asked directly.
The envoy said awkwardly: "Since you know about the Emperor's Master, I believe the Queen Mother has also sent you an invitation."
Lu Wei sneered and looked at Zhang Yuqing, his eyes clearly written - Give me a child!
"Go back and tell King Chen Liu that I don't like to be a teacher." Lu Wei said, "If he wants to be one, he can be one!"
The envoy hurriedly said: "No, no, no, my master will not be the emperor's master. Firstly, my master and the emperor are kin, and secondly, my master has no idea of becoming the emperor's master. He just sent a villain."
Ask Master Lu what you mean."
Zhang Yuqing simply had nothing to say. The Queen Mother of a country actually committed the act of sending group text messages. It would make people laugh to death! No wonder the envoy was so embarrassed!
But think about it on the other hand, King Chenliu is not weak in strength, and he is of the bloodline of the serious founding emperor of Daxia. Why can Emperor Taichang, who was born in King Langya, become the emperor, but he can't?
For the sake of the false reputation of an imperial master, King Chen Liu would give up his dream? Impossible! Although it may not be possible to realize it, dreams always have to be had.
After the envoy left, Lu Wei put his arm around Zhang Yuqing's waist and said with a smile, "How was it? I was right!"
Zhang Yuqing scolded Zhang Yuying in his heart, and said harshly: "Maybe I only sent invitations to you and King Chenliu, but not to anyone else!"
However, within two days, the news reached Baochuan that Jin Yongxiu had become the imperial master. The young emperor named him a superior grand master and announced it to the world.
The whole Great Xia was in an uproar.
What kind of virtue is Jin Yongxiu? Although he put down the rebellion of the King of Jiangxia, countless people died directly or indirectly in his hands in order to raise military supplies. Thousands of villages were desolate and people were starving. Later, in order to control the situation,
Controlling military power and weakening Emperor Anping's power, he deliberately delayed the war and brought down countless people.
He committed so many crimes and was cruel and unkind that even the king of hell felt that he had soiled the things in his palace even if he accepted them.
This kind of person actually wants to be the emperor's teacher?! I'm afraid he can teach the emperor to be so cruel and shameless!
Many Qingliu students gathered together and wrote a letter with thousands of people's blood, asking the cabinet to withdraw the official document appointing Jin Yongxiu as the emperor's tutor. Many people also went to sit in silence at the gate of the palace and asked the Queen Mother to choose a good tutor for the young emperor.
"Even Jin Yongxiu has been invited to be the emperor's master. It shows that no one wants to pay attention to the queen mother and the emperor." Lu Wei raised his eyebrows and said, "How about it? Madam Lu, are you willing to admit defeat?"
Who doesn't know that Jin Yongxiu's reputation was so bad that even Emperor Anping, who was assassinated, knew about it. After using him, he wanted to kick him away, for fear of getting too involved with Jin Yongxiu.
But now that the appointment documents stamped with the phoenix seal and the national seal have been announced to the world, it can only show that no one except Jin Yongxiu is willing to give the royal family face and become the imperial master in name only.
Zhang Yuqing pushed forward the account book he was writing and said, "It seems that the palace has promised Jin Yongxiu a lot of benefits."
Jin Yongxiu is a down-to-earth person, and he won't do anything that is only about face and not dignity.
"The king of Jiangxia fell and all his descendants were killed. The emperor probably gave Jingzhou to Jin Yongxiu to raise his troops," Lu Wei said.
Zhang Yuqing also guessed that the people of Jingzhou had committed crimes in their previous lives! First, King Jiangxia rebelled, and then Jin Yongxiu took over the land. After the war finally passed, he thought he could return to his homeland and recuperate, but he did not expect that the court directly gave Jingzhou to Jin Yongxiu.
It was completely dark.
"This man has no benevolence and is greedy, and his appetite will only get bigger and bigger." Lu Wei said with disgust, "There is no guarantee that he will go to Beijing to kidnap the emperor in the future, and do things like holding the emperor hostage to order the princes."
At that time, Jin Yongxiu would hold the little emperor in his hand and ask him to issue an order to summon all the vassal kings and frontier officials to the capital, or simply confiscate the military power of various people, force them to rebel, and then order other people to go
Counter the rebellion and weaken their power one by one until he is the only one left.
By then, I'm afraid there will be a change of dynasty.
"What he thinks is beautiful!" Zhang Yuqing sneered, "I don't think he has that ability!"
If you want to make the princes hold the emperor hostage, it is only a condition. Your own strength is also very important. If it is not possible, everyone swarms up and beats him and the little emperor to death first, and then sits down and slowly plans to see who will be the emperor.
After all, Fang's vassal kings are everywhere, with dragons and phoenix descendants everywhere.
"With the words of my wife, my husband will feel more at ease." Lu Wei smiled and picked up Zhang Yuqing.
Zhang Yuqing saw him carrying her to the bed, smiled and punched him, "What are you doing in broad daylight?"
"I'm just going to hug you. What can I do in broad daylight?" Lu Wei looked innocent, "What are you thinking about?"
Zhang Yuqing was so choked that he couldn't speak. It's not like he kept talking about having another child all day long!
At this moment, Duan Shu's voice came from the door, "Yu Qing."
Lu Wei let go of Zhang Yuqing, opened the door, and shouted: "Mother."
When Duan Shu came to Liangzhou, she was still the same as before, wearing an ordinary gray cloth monk's robe, with all her black hair gathered into the monk's hat, and no makeup on her rich face. She was still a layman practicing at home without caring about the world.
Zhang Yuqing came out and asked, "What does mother want from me?"
Duan Shu said: "My aunt in the Lu family asked someone to send me a letter, saying that the two girls who came to Liangzhou with them are not young anymore and want to go home and get married on their own."
Lu Wei's two cousins were frightened to death after Lu Wei mercilessly threw them into prison and lived with rats and straw for a few days. After they came out of the prison, they never left the door or took a step forward, and they dared not come back.
Lu Wei gained a sense of presence in front of him.
In the blink of an eye, they had been in Liangzhou for such a long time. Seeing that Lu Wei was not interested in them at all, the two girls had given up. In addition, women's youth is precious. Lu Wei couldn't do it here, and they couldn't do it in that small courtyard in Liangzhou.
He died of old age together with his aunts from the Lu family, so he wanted to return to Beijing and marry his elders.
Zhang Yuqing didn't expect it to be such a trivial matter, so he said, "You can leave if you want. I'll ask someone to escort them back."
"They want to come and kowtow to say goodbye to you and Wei'er," Duan Shu said.
Zhang Yuqing was bored for a while, this is the point!
It was just that he wanted to see Lu Wei before leaving.
If you just want to leave Liangzhou, why bother asking her? Duanshu can arrange for someone to send them back.
"There's no need to say goodbye. We're not really close friends." Lu Wei glanced at Zhang Yuqing's expression. Although Zhang Yuqing didn't even change the curvature of his eyes and eyebrows, Lu Wei was still keenly aware of Zhang Yuqing's hidden smile.
of boredom.
Duan Shu took in Lu Wei's reaction, lowered her eyes, and said, "That's right. I'll ask Fang Qin to arrange for them to leave Beijing."
"Even those two aunts are sent away together." Lu Wei frowned and said.
Is it easy for his wife to make money? Let Dewen Lu raise his own aunt! They don’t raise idle people in Liangzhou!
Duan Shu hesitated for a moment, "Lu Shen and the others..."
Lu Wei sneered, "They stay."
Although the four young masters of the Lu family are not very capable, they are still strong laborers. If they stay in Liangzhou, they can restrain Lu Dewen and make him stay safe in the capital.
Duan Shu added: "There is news from the capital that the Queen Mother is celebrating her birthday, and ministers from all walks of life are sending gifts to show her appreciation. Yuqing is the Queen Mother's sister. Have you thought about what to give her?"
