Concubine in power

Lu Yuanzheng returned early and went straight into the study.Sitting behind the desk, Lu Yuanzheng couldn't help but feel a little distressed thinking about the emperor's mention of choosing a concubine for the crown prince this morning.The emperor has made the matter of choosing a concubine clear, which means that he will soon make a decision, which daughter to send to the palace.

It's not that Lu Yuanzheng didn't think about Lu Zhiyao's proposal last time, but looking at Lu Zhiqing's current appearance, he knew that that method would not work.But if Lu Zhiyao is really going to be sent to the palace, the consequences will also give him a headache...

Lu Yuanzheng, who was in a dilemma, could only sigh secretly by himself.Lu Yuanzheng caught sight of the white piece of paper at the door of the room by accident. He walked over and bent down to pick it up.

After reading what was written on the paper, Lu Yuanzheng's mood plummeted.Crushing the piece of paper into a ball and holding it in his hand, Lu Yuanzheng pushed open the door and strode towards Ye Lianrong's room.

Lu Zhiyao, who had been hiding not far from the study, smiled with satisfaction after seeing such a scene, and hurried back to his courtyard, pretending that he didn't know anything, and waited for a good show.

Ye Lianrong had just found out that her money had been stolen, and she was in a state of insane madness.Searching around, Ye Lianrong still couldn't find those banknotes.Just as she was staring at the messy house she had left in a daze, thinking in her heart who might have stolen the bank notes, the door was kicked open suddenly.

Ye Lianrong suddenly turned her head to look, but unexpectedly saw Lu Yuanzheng with an angry face.

"Master..." Ye Lianrong opened her mouth with an unnatural expression. Seeing Lu Yuanzheng walking in front of her aggressively, she was about to ask "what's the matter", but before she could say a word, she was greeted by Lu Yuanzheng's face. I was so slapped that I couldn't speak.

Ye Lianrong covered her slapped face in disbelief, and stared at Lu Yuanzheng with wide eyes. After a while, Ye Lianrong said in a trembling voice, "You... you hit me?!"

She has been married to the Prime Minister's mansion for so many years, even though she had quarreled and quarreled with each other, but he has never done anything to her!

"You actually hit me!?" Ye Lianrong's amplified voice belatedly felt aggrieved.

"That's right, I hit you!" Lu Yuanzheng didn't seem to calm down easily. He looked at Ye Lianrong's distorted face, and casually threw the shapeless letter that he had rubbed into Ye Lianrong's. face. "Take a look, what is this!"

Ye Lianrong lowered her head, opened the piece of paper and looked at the contents in a daze.After she read it, her mind went blank, not knowing what was going on.

"Master, I didn't, you have to trust me!" Ye Lianrong shook her head again and again, showing her innocence. "I really didn't, really..."

"No? Then what's the matter with your room? Do you dare to say that you haven't lost anything? Ye Lianrong, I have been thinking of you and my husband and wife for so many years, and I have been patient with you. Do you really think that the things you do in private are not for me? Didn't you know! Why didn't I find out that your heart is so vicious. She is just a child, and you can really do it!"

"My lord, I was wronged!" Ye Lianrong's legs went limp, and she slumped on the ground, crying while hugging Lu Yuanzheng's leg. "Master, think about it, how could I recognize that flower picking thief? Someone must have framed me, it must be! Maybe, maybe it was Lu Zhiyao who wrote this letter herself, deliberately trying to frame me, master." !"

After listening to Ye Lianrong's last words, Lu Yuanzheng stretched out his hand and pushed Ye Lianrong aside. "You still dare to quibble, she has never read a book since she was a child, how could this word be written by her! Rarely, Yao is kind and wants to give Zhiqing the chance to enter the palace, and let Zhiqing become the crown princess I don't want you to be so vicious and don't know what to do, Ye Lianrong, let me warn you, if you dare to do such vicious things in front of me in the future, don't blame me for not letting you go!"

Lu Yuanzheng beat Ye Lianrong, scolded her angrily, then turned around and left, leaving Ye Lianrong crying and lying on the ground, still holding the letter written by an unknown person.

When Lu Yuanzheng trained Ye Lianrong, his voice was very loud, so naturally all the servants in the yard heard it.Soon, the news that the second wife was beaten by the master because of the eldest daughter spread almost throughout the Xiangfu.

After hearing Yuechan's reply, Lu Zhiqing ran to Ye Lianrong's room in a panic and asked what was going on.Listening to Ye Lianrong's crying, she said out of breath: "The thousands of taels of silver I got back from your uncle yesterday are all gone, and I don't know who stole them. Your father received such a letter this morning. Xin, you hit me without asking any questions. Qing'er, how do you think mother will live in the future!"

When Ye Lianrong talked about her sadness, tears flowed down again.Lu Zhiqing was also very impatient.

"A few thousand taels? Mother, what are you doing with all that money? Where did you put it? Have you looked for it?"

"I've found it, I've found it all, and it's gone." Ye Lianrong was crying with her head lowered, when she suddenly raised her head and stared straight at Yuechan. "Yesterday, you went to fetch the money for me. No one else knows about it. Tell me! Did you steal the money?"

When Yuechan heard what Ye Lianrong said, she immediately knelt on the ground in fright. "Madam, how could Yuechan steal your things? With so much money, I wouldn't dare even if you gave me [-] guts! What's more, I left after I handed the things to Madam yesterday. I know where Madam put it."

"Just because you don't know doesn't mean you can't find it!"

Lu Zhiqing didn't care about so much, she just patted Yuechan's face with her backhand.The sharp nails left blood-red marks on Yuechan's face, which was very painful, but Yuechan didn't dare to cry. "Miss and Madam treated me so well, how could I steal your things, and I have nowhere to spend the money I took!"

Yuechan tried hard to get rid of her suspicions. After tossing about for about an hour, they all calmed down and began to count the matter together.

The general meaning of the letter was that he agreed to help Ye Lianrong and completely ruin Lu Zhiyao.So he took the deposit away first, but he was only interested in married women, so we can talk about it after Lu Zhiyao gets married.

The whole letter was written in a mocking tone, and the final signature of the letter was an unacceptable word "Qian".

"Mother, this 'Qian', could it be..." Lu Zhiqing swallowed her saliva, and asked Ye Lianrong cautiously, "Could it be that Chu Ziqian, right? Did you really look for him?"

"How could I find him? Don't you even believe me?" Ye Lianrong said to Lu Zhiqing angrily, "The imperial court has been arresting that flower-picking thief for so many years, but it's okay if I have the ability to find him What! Besides, if I found him, why did he send the letter to your father?"

"Then who wrote this letter? Lu Zhiyao? She can't write such good characters." Lu Zhiqing looked at the bold and free handwriting on the paper, and guessed: "Could it be the helper she found? "

"This person obviously wanted to frame me. Even if Lu Zhiyao didn't do it, she would definitely have something to do with her! But we have no evidence now, and your father insisted that I did it, so this loss We can only swallow it ourselves." Although Ye Lianrong was angry, she also knew that she could do nothing to Lu Zhiyao at this juncture, otherwise Lu Yuanzheng would definitely not let her go.What's more, she still cared about the last few words Lu Yuanzheng said.

Lu Yuanzheng said that the opportunity to enter the palace was given to Lu Zhiqing by Lu Zhiyao on his own initiative, so... what's going on?

Lu Zhiyao stayed in his yard all day, but there was no shortage of people to tell her about Ye Lianrong.Seeing Wanyue and Yudie walking over with happy faces, Lu Zhiyao pursed his lips and asked, "What happened, you are so happy?"

"You don't know, do you? The second lady was beaten by the master today, haha." Wanyue sat down next to Lu Zhiyao, and said without hesitation: "I saw Yuechan just now. Madam was beaten, but she was beaten by the second lady, anyway, there are nail marks on her face, it's like a dog bites a dog, haha."

"Nonsense, be careful not to be listened to, you can't eat it!" Yudie warned Wanyue sharply, making Wanyue restrain herself a little.Yudie raised her eyes and looked at Lu Zhiyao's pursed smile, she thought for a while and asked, "Do you know why the master beat the second lady?"

"How could I know." Lu Zhiyao shook his head, not intending to tell them the truth of the matter.These two are not her own people yet, and she hasn't trusted them that much yet. "But no matter what the reason is, it's a happy thing."

It was purely on a whim that Lu Zhiyao chose to write such a letter.It is true that Lu Zhiyao can't write, but Xia Yao can.For Xia Yao, who used to like to dance and write, various fonts are nothing to her.As for choosing to write the letter in the name of Chu Ziqian, there is also a reason.

The name Chu Ziqian will scare many people, especially rich people and women.He is a well-known thief in the country of Xia Lai. He not only steals money, but also enjoys sex.Lu Zhiyao had heard his father and elder brother talking about this person more than once before, and he also knew that people had two extreme evaluations of this person.Some people say he is a grand thief, some people say he is a bloody flower picker.In short, this Chu Ziqian is both good and evil, and he is a topical figure among many people.And Lu Zhiyao thought, as the prime minister of the court, Lu Yuanzheng should not be ignorant of this name.

The content of the letter was enough to make Lu Yuanzheng dizzy with anger, and had no time to think about other things.And Ye Lianrong really lost a lot of things this time, so Lu Zhiyao also decided that she didn't dare to look for it with great fanfare.Otherwise, when Lu Yuanzheng really asked, Ye Lianrong would not be able to explain why she took so much money.