Raising a wife? The mistress of the Hou family divorced and remarried her younger uncle

Chapter 81 Questioning
"Xueying insisted on marrying Lu Feng, but Lu Feng already had a wife. How could I bear to let Xueying become a concubine? Not only would she be laughed at, but our whole family would become a laughing stock. I thought Xie Zhaolan had no power or influence, and was just the daughter of a merchant, so I could just kill her. How could I have thought that she would cause such a big disaster?"

"Kill her if you want?" Earl Anping was shocked. He didn't expect his wife to say such a cold and heartless thing. "That was a life! I know why Xueying dared to be so bold. It was all because of your pampering!"

The Earl of Anping had never spoken so harshly to his wife. His wife was so frightened that her heart was pounding and her face was terrified, and she dared not speak a word.

Inside the Yangxin Palace, the emperor sat on a warm couch reviewing memorials, while the secret guard beside him repeated the conversation between the Earl of Anping and his wife in detail. The emperor put his fist to his lips and coughed lightly.

Seeing this, the eunuch bent forward and gave him a cup of hot tea.

The emperor drank tea to moisten his throat and sneered, "It is said that like a dragon gives birth to a dragon, like a phoenix gives birth to a phoenix. Anping Bo is loyal and brave, upright and incorruptible, how could he raise such an ignorant daughter who treats human life as worthless."

The eldest eunuch met Li Xueying when he went to the Lu family to deliver the imperial edict. After returning to the palace, he told the emperor about the family affairs of the Lu family and the Earl of Anping. This was a rare joke in the capital in the past few decades. When the emperor heard that the eldest daughter of the Earl of Anping was a concubine of the eldest son of Lu Shaoqing, he also laughed at the misfortune of the Earl of Anping's family and wondered why he didn't beat the eldest daughter to death to correct the family tradition.

The eldest eunuch smiled and said, "Although my daughter is useless, the son of the Earl of Anping has inherited his father's business and is loyal."

The emperor put down his imperial pen and supported his chin, as if thinking about something. The Earl of Anping was a close minister favored by the emperor and had served the emperor well. When the palace coup took place, the Earl of Anping was a staunch supporter of the Prince of Yan's party.

When others were pessimistic about the lineage of Prince of Yan, Earl of Anping led a guard troop from the important capital area to rush to the capital for support. They became his surprise troops during the palace coup, and won a surprise victory, thus changing the course of the situation.

Over the past decade, the emperor has been very gracious to the Anping Marquis's Mansion.

"Did Lady Anping mention the Huainan assassins?" asked the emperor.

The secret guard said, "No."

The emperor raised his eyebrows, "So it seems that the Lady of Anping sent people to the farm to kill Xie, and the assassins appeared at the farm to follow Lu Jing. It really has nothing to do with them."

What a coincidence!
"What about the other side?" The emperor frowned.

The Marquis of Anping and his wife were in the eastern side hall, while Lu Jing and Lu Shaoqing were in the western side hall. The emperor intentionally separated them.

The secret guard said, "Master Shaoqing only asked about Master Lu's health and the process of the assassination. He cursed the bandits for causing chaos, but didn't say anything else. Master Lu was seriously injured, so he summoned the imperial physician."

"What did the doctor say?"

"The imperial physician said that Lord Lu injured his waist when he fell off the cliff. He needs to stay in bed for a few days and not work hard."

The emperor snorted coldly. The Huainan assassin had been investigating for so long and was even chased and fell off a cliff, almost dying. Now he has managed to survive with only a back injury. He is lucky.

Be it the eunuch or the secret guards, no one dared to mention the Huainan Death Soldiers.

The emperor waved his hand, and the secret guards retreated silently.

"The Lu family and the Anping Marquis' Mansion have been in such a mess, I'm afraid they will have enmity in the future." The emperor stroked the Buddhist beads on his wrist. They were all his trusted ministers, and the emperor did not want to see them have enmity.

The eldest eunuch said, "In the final analysis, this matter was caused by the eldest daughter of the Earl of Anping. Lu Feng already had an original wife, and she insisted on marrying down, otherwise there wouldn't be so many troubles."

The emperor couldn't help but think of an old event two years ago. After Lu Jing rescued him, he became a popular figure in front of him. After learning that Lu Jing was still unmarried, the emperor wanted to find a daughter of a noble family for him.

He took a liking to the eldest daughter of the Earl of Anping and asked the Earl of Anping what he thought.

The Earl of Anping was not willing to marry Lu Jing. The Jinyiwei had a bad reputation, and Lu Jing was ruthless. The civil and military officials in the court all complained about him, and he had made countless enemies. Living with the emperor is like living with a tiger. Who knows when Lu Jing will lose the emperor's favor. Later, he dealt with Lu Jing several times and felt that although Lu Jing had a bad reputation, he was not a ruthless person. The outside world spread rumors and demonized him too much.

He was also willing to marry his eldest daughter to Lu Jing.

Anping Bo found an excuse to invite Lu Jing to his home. Li Xueying secretly watched him and fell in love with his appearance. That day, Lu Jing was wearing a scarlet Jinyiwei Feiyu uniform, handsome and unrestrained, surrounded by lush forests and bamboos, and he really looked like Pan An.

Li Xueying liked Lu Jing very much and was willing to marry him. However, after just two days, Li Xueying refused to marry him, saying that Lu Jing was only good-looking but cruel and heartless and took pleasure in torturing women. She would rather die than marry him.

Anping Bo tried to persuade her not to believe the rumors, but Li Xueying was determined not to get married, so Anping Bo could only politely decline the marriage proposal.

Although the emperor was a little disappointed, he would not force the woman to marry, so the matter was left unresolved.

When the eunuch heard the emperor talking about this, he smiled and said, "Lord Lu is a man of noble character. The eldest daughter of the Li family didn't want to marry in the past, but chose the eldest son of the Lu family who already had a wife. I think it's not very smart."

The emperor sneered, saying that it was not just not smart, it was stupid!

"The eldest daughter of the Earl of Anping once offended Nian Qing and was extremely arrogant. The Li family did not punish her and even helped her kill people. I want to see whether the honor of the whole family is more important or the life of my daughter!"

When Li Xueying bumped into Lu Nianqing, the emperor was already furious. If it weren't for the eldest princess's advice, he would have punished the Li family long ago.

A eunuch walked into the hall and said, "Your Majesty, Chief Secretary Lu and his two wives are here."

"Call everyone in."

"Yes!"

The imperial palace was majestic and magnificent, with strict palace rules. Leaves fell silently in front of the Hall of Mental Cultivation. Only the scorching sun covered the bluestone road. The heat swept in from the bottom up, and people wrapped in the heat wave could hardly breathe.

The Anping Marquis and his wife, Lu Jing, and Lu Shaoqing were also brought from the side hall to the main hall.

Su Qingwan raised her eyes and glanced at Lu Jing. He was still wearing the Feiyu suit he wore when he entered the palace, with a jade belt tied around his waist and a straight posture. When Su Qingwan raised her eyes, her eyes met his briefly.

Lu Jing's eyes were deep and calm, like ice in a heat wave, covering her inner anxiety.

Li Xueying looked at the Earl of Anping and his wife with pleading eyes, as if she wanted to say something, but before she could even start a conversation, everyone was brought into the Yangxin Palace.

There are three cylinders of ice in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, which makes it as cool as autumn and seems to be separated from the heat outside by a different season.

Several people knelt down and greeted.

The emperor leaned back lazily, raised his palms slightly, and shouted, "Stand up."

Lady Anping was so frightened that her legs went weak. Although she was a first-rank imperial lady, she rarely saw the emperor. The emperor was in poor health, and in previous years he would only show up briefly at the palace banquet and then leave.

The pressure in the palace was overwhelming. Lady Anping became unsteady when she thought about how her mistake would bring trouble to the entire family.

Lu Feng's palms were full of sweat and he was so nervous that he couldn't breathe.

The emperor said, "I have called you here today because of the rebellion of the bandits in Xie's farm. Do you have anything to say?"