Lu Lingzhi helped Mrs. Liu to sit down. He lowered his eyes and faintly looked at the woman he should call mother. In fact, when his father passed away, his mother began to become abnormal. She should hate his father, but she also loved him very much. Otherwise, she wouldn't have framed his Third Uncle for his father's sake.
This woman was pitiful, sad, and hateful.
But she was his mother.
"Mother, I committed the crime of deceiving the emperor, not someone framed me." Lu Lingzhi explained, "It has nothing to do with Third Uncle. It's because His Majesty knows that I saved Shuang 'er."
Liu-shi's expression changed, "His Majesty knows? How … How … Who went to Gao Mi? Other than me, no one else knows about this. "
Lu Lingzhi smiled faintly. If it wasn't for Liu-shi begging him to save Shuang 'er, he wouldn't have hastily arranged the fire. He only had himself to blame for everything that happened today. "His Majesty isn't someone who can be easily fooled. Mother, don't make a fuss anymore. Don't make His Majesty unhappy. Not only will he send people to capture Shuang' er, he'll also execute us."
"I won't make a fuss! I won't make a fuss anymore. " Liu-shi immediately said. If she knew that this matter was related to Shuang 'er, she definitely wouldn't have made a fuss just now.
"You rest in peace. We should be moving out tomorrow." Lu Lingzhi said in a low voice.
Liu-shi asked in surprise, "Where are we moving to? Didn't His Majesty give us this mansion? Can it be taken back after giving it away? "
"This is the Marquis's mansion. We are no longer a Marquis's family." Lu Lingzhi said.
"What will we do in the future?" Liu-shi cried. She had long been used to being the Marquis's mother. Those days were called high and mighty. Was she going to become a merchant's wife again? In the future, she could only live by others' eyes?
Lu Lingzhi thought for a moment, "After tomorrow, I will go back to Border City to guard the territory. I will leave the family matters to Third Uncle. Don't scold people anymore."
"If it wasn't for the Third Branch, we wouldn't have …" Liu-shi wanted to push all the blame to the Third Branch. When she saw her son's cold eyes, she stopped.
"Rest well, I'll be leaving first." Lu Lingzhi said. He had never been willing to talk too much to his mother. Only by letting her know that she was afraid could she restrain herself a little.
By the time Lu Lingzhi left, the sky was completely dark. The maids seemed to have forgotten to light the lamps. The whole mansion was shrouded in darkness. Only the faint light from each room could be seen. Everything was in a state of decay.
All of this happened because of him.
He still had to go look for Old Madame, but how could he explain that the Emperor knew that Shuang'er was still alive?
Lu Lingzhi took a few steps before he suddenly stopped. Looking at the slender figure in front of him, his expression turned gentle. "Yaoyao, are you waiting for me here?"
Ye Zhen watched his figure getting closer and closer. She took a step back, "You can tell the old madam about my life whenever you want, but not now, if you don't want the old madam to fall ill."
"Now, even if I say it, you won't marry me." Lu Lingzhi smiled faintly. In truth, he was more afraid that Yaoyao would leave the Lu family if he told her the truth. "How is grandmother?"
"Not very well." Ye Zhen looked at him contemptuously. "You know that the family will be in chaos because of you, but you still hide outside and dare not come back. Coward!"
Lu Lingzhi smiled bitterly and did not explain what he had been doing all day. His eyes were fixed on her pretty face that resembled Ye Zhen's. "Yaoyao, what is your relationship with Ye Zhen?"
Why did he suddenly mention Ye Zhen? "What do you mean by this?"
"Today … the emperor told me that the name of the person who saved him is Yaoyao." Lu Lingzhi looked at her and said, "I really want to know, what is the relationship between you and Ye Zhen?"
"You ask me, how should I know?" Ye Zhen sneered. "If I knew my life, I would have recognized her long ago."
Lu Lingzhi remembered that Yaoyao had been raised by Third Uncle since she was a child. She definitely didn't know about her past. Perhaps Third Uncle knew. Lu Lingzhi nodded lightly. "Yaoyao, spend more time with grandmother these days. I'll go find Third Uncle to discuss moving tomorrow."
Ye Rou had come to find Lu Lingzhi in hopes that he would not mention her past at this time to provoke Madam Dowager. However, when she saw that he had made everyone worry about him for the whole day, yet he still looked calm and without a trace of guilt, she could not help but feel angry. In fact, she was even more angry that he had already been stripped of his title of nobility and stripped of his title of Great General. He already had nothing, so why did he not seem to be in any pain?
What she wanted to see was his pain, not his indifference, not a look that seemed to be able to make a comeback soon. She didn't want him to have such an opportunity at all.
"What is the so-called crime of deceiving the emperor?" Ye Zhen looked at him and asked.
Lu Lingzhi smiled slightly. "Yaoyao, are you concerned about me?"
"I'm just wondering if the emperor will believe you again in the future." Ye Zhen said faintly, ignoring the tenderness in his eyes.
In the night, she finally saw the smile on the corner of Lu Lingzhi's mouth freeze. It turned out that his indifference and confidence were all feigned. He should know better than anyone that it was impossible for him to gain Mo Rongzhan's trust again.
"The person in the emperor's heart is always the person who saved him. Yaoyao, you are just … a substitute." Lu Lingzhi looked at her back. He didn't know why the emperor was so obsessed with Yaoyao until he said that the person who saved him was also named Yaoyao.
Yaoyao, it's all Yaoyao, so the emperor thought of her as her.
Ye Zhen smiled. "So what? I don't mind. "
Lu Lingzhi's face changed slightly. "You would rather be the emperor's substitute than … marry me?"
"You speak as if you don't treat me as a substitute." Ye Zhen didn't want to talk about her and Mo Rongzhan anymore. Now that Lu Lingzhi had been stripped of his title, her hatred had been mostly avenged. She felt that she could leave now.
She didn't need Lu Lingzhi to die. Death was the best relief. Letting Lu Lingzhi never get what he wanted was the best punishment.
Lu Lingzhi stepped forward to reach out and grab Ye Zhen's hand, but she avoided him. She turned her head and looked at him faintly. "Lu Lingzhi, after doing so many shameful things, how can you still want to be happy with peace of mind? Whether it is Ye Zhen or I, even if we die, we will not marry you. "
"What I did was because I had no choice." Lu Lingzhi explained.
"Then you pay the price for what you had to do." Ye Zhen sneered and quickened her pace to leave.
(Nine-headed Bird Academy)
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