After Fu Heng left, Du Yuerou walked out of the room. Although the wound on her mouth was not healed yet and she could only eat liquid food, it was not difficult to speak some simple sentences.
She bowed first, then Du Shuli frowned and said, "You're not feeling well yet, why do you have to come out?"
Du Yuerou said calmly: "I don't think about it anymore after seeing it."
Du Shuli said nothing more. After a while, he said again: "But why do you have to take the initiative to remind him that Jiang Wu and you are not related. If he really married to Beirong, Fu Heng would not be able to do anything."
It’s possible.”
Du Yuerou shook her head: "She saved me that day."
…
As soon as Fu Heng came out of the eldest princess's mansion, she turned back. The eldest princess was sitting in the house painting. These were the skills she had learned before she got married, but she had forgotten many of them after she got married.
The weather is rarely better today. The Lantern Festival will be in two days. The sun hangs high in the sky, but it is suddenly covered by dark clouds. A gust of wind blows by, and the birds on the branches flutter their wings.
It was at this time that Fu Heng stepped into the eldest princess's courtyard.
He always spoke straightforwardly, so I just heard him get straight to the point: "The marriage between Beirong and Jiang Wu was replaced by Jiang Wu. Why didn't I know?"
The eldest princess had known that he was going to ask this, so she put down her pen, wiped her hands, straightened out the folds of her skirt, and then stood up and said, "What does this have to do with you? Pingxuanhou's mansion and my eldest princess's mansion,
The Duke's Mansion has nothing to do with it. You are busy with official duties, so I guess you don't like to get involved in such messy things."
Fu Heng frowned slightly: "But... Beirong is bitterly cold."
The eldest princess looked like she didn't care and said "Yeah", and even said: "Who doesn't know? But what is the relationship between the Jiang family daughter and you?"
"Is there still room for change in this matter?" Fu Heng asked.
The eldest princess paused and said half-truthfully, "That depends on whether you want to or not."
Fu Heng was speechless, turned around and ordered: "I want to enter the palace."
…
At that time, the sky was already dark, the bright moon was in the sky, and even the clouds around were gray and smoky, making it look a bit desolate.
In the Pingxuanhou Mansion, Jiang Qingshan was handling official duties. Not long after, someone reported that it was the eldest young master who asked to see him. Jiang Qingshan picked up the tea cup and took a sip, "Let him come in."
After Jiang Lu entered the door, he bowed and said hello politely at first. Jiang Qingshan also asked him about his recent schoolwork in a rare and fatherly manner. Unfortunately, he forgot that Jiang Lu no longer had to study. He just did it every day.
Training at the school grounds is enough to keep him busy.
When Jiang Lu answered, both father and son felt indescribable embarrassment.
It almost took a while before Jiang Lu finally asked: "What's going on with the Beirong marriage?"
Jiang Qingshan paused and said calmly: "This matter was decided before you returned to Beijing. Jiang Lu is too weak. If she goes to Beirong, I'm afraid it won't be good. Jiang Wu is different. Her body is weak.
He is much tougher and can adapt to the life of Beirong people."
Jiang Lu only found it strange, "Is this a question of whether you can adapt? Why does the marriage have to be between the two of them?"
Jiang Qingshan's expression turned cold, and he lowered his voice: "Is this what you should ask?"
What Jiang Lu hates the most is his attitude. Ping Xuanhou is always like this. He is so calm and indifferent. Whether outside or in the house, he has a cold face, as if nothing can get in.
It seemed that no one could make him look sideways, including his two children.
At first, there were only him and Jiang Lu in the house. His mother passed away early and he had almost no impression of her, but he also remembered his mother's family and the people in the Yu family were very kind and friendly. It was his favorite thing to do when he was a child.
Even when I took Jiang Lu to the Yu family for dinner, the Yu family's cooks took great care of the two little guys' tastes and cooked the dishes they liked.
At the beginning, Jiang Lu was also worried about whether his father would be angry, but later he realized that Jiang Qingshan's attitude was that he had no attitude.
He never cared about them. In fact, Jiang Lu always felt in his heart that if the Jiang family was not a lord's family, there was a possibility that he and Jiang Lu would starve to death based on his father's attitude.
Later, when he got older, he gradually understood that he could no longer long for the so-called father's love, so he invited himself to the battlefield and achieved very good military achievements. However, Jiang Qingshan still had no attitude towards all of this.
Jiang Lu still remembers that on the day they left Beijing, everyone was sent by their parents. Even the soldiers had seven aunts and eight aunts. They took a vegetable basket filled with local eggs and asked the captain to take more care of their son. He also said
I have no other expectations, I just hope that this child will come back safely.
But there was only Jiang Lu, and he had nothing. There was not even a stage presence in Pingxuanhou Mansion.
There was no mistress in the house, and his aunt was also at Zhuangzi at that time. Jiang Qingshan was busy with official duties, and there was no one who could come out to see him off. Fortunately, he had only looked forward to it at that time, until he was about to leave.
At the last moment, Jiang Lu chased him out. He didn't bring anything else, but he brought some naan cakes, saying that he made them by himself. His craftsmanship was not good, so don't take offense.
It was from that time on that Jiang Lu, a prince of the Hou family, actually felt like "supporting each other" with his sister.
After returning to Beijing, none of this changed. The only thing that changed was that they told him that his sister was actually someone else. The sister he had doted on for more than ten years actually had nothing to do with him.
At the beginning, he didn't like Jiang Wu, because like most men in the world, he hoped that his sisters in the family would be virtuous, virtuous, gentle and pleasant, Jiang Wu...
She can't even match these eight words.
But he didn't expect that Jiang Wu also hated him. This sister was more independent and self-centered than he imagined. She didn't bother to fight for status in the back house. Aunt Chen tried to use some tricks behind her back, but she didn't let him go.
In his eyes, coupled with the fact that what he expected was not loud, Jiang Lu changed his mind a lot.
At least Jiang Wu didn't bully Jiang Lu because of her status as a legitimate daughter.
As a result, he found out today that his father had always planned for Jiang Lu to get married, and that this matter had been settled for a long time. He had just finished digesting the news, and immediately an even heavier news hit him.
My father quickly changed the candidate to Jiang Wu.
He would not think that his father really felt sorry for Jiang Lu, he would only think that Jiang Lu might have other uses in his father's hands.
What's more, how long has it been since Jiang Wu recognized his relatives and came back? He changed people so quickly? This must be the Holy One whom his father took the initiative to request!
"Father...why on earth did you do this?" Jiang Lu didn't understand.
Jiang Qingshan looked at him coldly and indifferently, and then said after a while: "For you."