Crown Jewels

Chapter 263 Fan Wai Fourteen Questions Lu Jiuxi

"malfeasance?"

Shen Lanqing couldn't help frowning when she heard the words. Although Fu Sinian's father was an official, his duty in the household department was indeed closely related to money, but in reality, it was just that the household department had an idle job and couldn't really manage things. How could it be worth alarming inspector People in the hospital investigate.

This kind of method... is more like the fate of offending the powerful in the officialdom.

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Nanjiao Huangu Academy
The green mountains and green waters are beautiful in color, and the quiet and verdant books are rich in sound.

"Boom-"

The wooden door was suddenly opened from the outside, and the sudden sound made Lu Jiuxi frown. He put down the pen and ink in his hand before slowly raising his head. When he saw Shen Lanqing in a dark official robe opposite him, his eyebrows and eyes were full of surprise and confusion.

Lu Jiuxi raised his eyebrows slightly, picked up the dark gold invitation card carefully placed in the book, and put it in front of the desk beside Shen Lanqing, exhorting him with a calm expression.

"It just so happened that an invitation was sent from the palace. Half a month ago, our army of King Yan in the northern border had won the victory against Xia. It's a good time for you to show up in Lin'an officialdom."

Shen Lanqing heard the words, and glanced lightly at the invitation on the table.

"Three years ago, Fu's house was quarreled. Mr. Fu, who worked in the household department, was sent to the border corvette for the crime of 'dereliction of duty'. The Fu family was overthrown and the master and servants were all scattered. Why didn't you tell me about this at the beginning?"

The word "Fu Fu" spit out from Shen Lanqing's mouth, Lu Jiuxi frowned subconsciously, and raised his eyes to meet the doubts and inquiries in Handai's eyebrows in Shangyuan Mountain, those eyes pierced into Lu Jiuxi's heart like needles, and turned into teasing The bitterness of a broken pustule.

The burning incense on the table obscured Lu Jiuxi's brows and eyes, and after a long while, he finally explained.

"Three years ago, when you and I first arrived in Jiangnan, we had to face the new environment everywhere. At that time, your condition was even more unstable. Why should I bother you with trivial matters in Lin'an City thousands of miles away? I didn't do that for your own good. ?”

"For my good?"

"Ah--"

Laughter overflowed from the corners of her lips, Shen Lanqing's voice revealed a bit of sarcasm, and the smoke and fire from the incense burner showed the confrontation between the two.

"For my good. For my good! For my return?"

Shen Lanqing shook her head silently, meeting Lu Jiuxi's eyes, which made her eyes turn red involuntarily.

"Is it really good for me? You keep saying it's good for me, but in your heart, do you really understand what you really want?"

Unable to hold back the edge of the table with her fingertips, Shen Lanqing casually picked up the invitation card on the table with her left hand and threw it in the center of the table case, with obvious rejection.

"What I want is to be kind to me. It's definitely not just now that the Fu family has been sentenced to 'dereliction of duty'. When he is in deep suffering and helpless, there is no one who can share the suffering for him. What I want is definitely not this. ..."

"As for you..." Shen Lanqing raised her chin, her eyelashes trembling slightly suppressing the tears in her pupils.

"Is it really for me? Isn't it for yourself, to prevent the Lu family's heirs from being completely cut off, to eliminate the guilt of being incompetent as a father, to maintain your self-righteous sense of morality? All of them, could it be, Isn't it all for yourself?"

The green smoke from the incense burner enveloped Lu Jiuxi's eyebrows, even so, Shen Lanqing could still feel the deep surprise and disappointment in his pupils from the emptiness of the smoke, and the slightly opened pupils after shock seemed to have no expectation at all. It turned out that he In Shen Lanqing's eyes, Lu Jiuxi was such a self-righteous father, and he was incompetent.

The burnt soot was chopped off at the waist, and fell into the golden copper furnace and completely disintegrated into ashes. Lu Jiuxi held the edge of the table with his right hand to stabilize his trembling body. fall.

The disappointment in Lu Jiuxi's eyes was a bit dazzling, and Shen Lanqing lowered her eyelids subconsciously, the annoyance in her heart was fleeting, but in the space where the two faced each other, it could not be concealed, making the atmosphere silent and awkward.

But at this time, there was a creaking sound of pushing the door, breaking the dead silence and separating the two from the state just now.

Inexplicably, Shen Lanqing felt slightly relieved.

"grown ups--"

"Azi found out the whereabouts of Mr. Fu—"

Ah Zi squeezed her head into the door frame, poked half of her head in and excitedly asked Shen Lanqing for credit, but her eyes swept over, and when she saw Lu Jiuxi with a slightly gloomy face opposite, her pupils dilated suddenly with a silly smile, as if seeing a ghost Yes, the door frame moved forward under her gravity pushing in panic, knocking Ah Zi's whole head on the edge of the door directly, her sweat-soaked hair bulged out.

The moment she was supported by Shen Lanqing, Ah Zi finally stood firm, looked at the pale Lu Jiuxi with fear, and rubbed the swollen bump on her forehead in pain. Don't complain about Lu Jiuxi.

He Azi used to have some kung fu skills on his body, otherwise he would not have been caught by Shen Lanqing. He followed from the south of the Yangtze River to this dazzling golden city of Lin'an. To be honest, she has never been afraid, and she has always protected Shen Lanqing. It's very good.

But the only thing she is afraid of is a respected old scholar like Lu Jiuxi.

These people are used to being pedantic, and they always like to put on a straight face when they see something that is not in accordance with the rules. Ah Zi really can't stand the serious look, not to mention that the person who frightened her just now is Lu Jiuxi, the head of Huaigu Mountain. The leader who is admired by scholars all over the world, half of his eyes drifted over, and she couldn't bear it even more.

Seeing Ah Zi's shrunken quail when she met Lu Jiuxi, Shen Lanqing, who was suffering from anxiety in her heart, couldn't hold back her urging.

"But what news did you find out?"

AhZi came back to her senses, she didn't dare to delay any longer and hastily said seriously.

"Back to my lord—"

"You asked Ah Zi to inquire about Mr. Fu's residence. I heard from the old eunuch who came out of the palace when Fu's residence was connected to the alley. Three years ago, the Department of Punishment sent a group of eunuchs to the palace. ..."

Ah Zi hesitated for a moment, gritted her teeth and said decisively.

"On the name book, there is a man named Fu Sinian who was sent into the palace. Now, it seems that he is already a respectable figure in the palace."

"Eunuch?"

"Sent to the palace?"

Shen Lanqing frowned slightly, looking at A Zi with absurd suspicion, but seeing A Zi's serious appearance, she just felt that her whole heart skipped half a beat, and even her right eyelid jumped along with it, saying Can't come out flustered.

"how is this possible?"

Suddenly, Shen Lanqing hurriedly turned her head and looked anxiously at Lu Jiuxi, as if trying to find an answer from him.

Lu Jiuxi could clearly see the shreds of hope in Shen Lanqing's eyebrows and eyes. She strongly expected to hear any decisive negative answer from him, even scolding or absurdity. Want to observe the reaction from him.

but……

Lu Jiuxi closed his eyes, rubbed his tired eye sockets with his fingers, and took the initiative to look away from her.

But...he couldn't do it.

He couldn't do it, he lied to her, of course... he couldn't do it either, he took the initiative to cruelly spread such facts before her eyes.

Shen Lanqing's expectation was exchanged for Lu Jiuxi's long silence, an anxious and flustered silence without saying a word.

After a while, she shook her head, chuckled silently, supported the edge of the table with both hands, and swallowed the difficulty in her throat.

"I do not believe!"

"I won't believe these bullshit nonsense. Fu's family is in trouble. The master of the Fu family was exiled to the border. Fu Sinian is not sure, no, he must have been exiled to the bitter cold of the border with his father."

"He looked at Xixi smiling all day long, but in fact, he was most proud in his heart. How could he enter the palace?"

(End of this chapter)