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Chapter 97 The Knife and the Fish
When Lu Qing heard Liu Yueyao's words, he didn't even stop eating the chopsticks in his hand.

Zhu Yu, on the other hand, subconsciously looked towards the door. When he saw who came in, the chopsticks in his hand stopped in mid-air.

She had heard Lu Qing ask Liu Yueyao before whether "Master Mo" had arrived. She didn't know who he was asking about, so she didn't ask around. Now she looked at the person coming in from outside. He was indeed wearing a jet-black dress and a black gauze veil on his head. He took off the veil as he walked in.

The black veil passed by, revealing the face of the eldest prince, Prince Xu Lu Chao.

Even if he didn't recognize his face, his aura that seemed to be out of this world was enough for Zhu Yu to recognize him at a glance.

Just like Zhu Yu didn't expect to see Lu Chao here, Lu Chao obviously didn't expect to see anyone else here besides Lu Qing. He paused and stood there in a daze.

Lu Qing waved at him, pointed to the seat across from him, and said to Lu Chao in a teasing tone, "Come and eat! We're already here, so put away the Qinggao ones first. If you serve them later, the food will get cold."

Lu Chao glared at him without any anger, then stepped forward and sat down opposite Lu Qing. While reaching for his bowl and chopsticks, he said to him, "Does your senior brother have any plans to come to the capital in the near future?"

"Yan Daoxin?" Lu Qing raised an eyebrow and looked over. "He can be considered my junior fellow apprentice, not my senior brother. Why are you asking about him?"

"I want to see when he comes next time so I can ask him for some elixirs to poison you." Lu Chao put some food in his bowl and glanced at Zhu Yu beside him. "Who is this?"

"Tsk, I thought you were a very patient person, but I didn't expect you to ask so quickly." Lu Qing looked at Lu Chao with a hint of disdain, then suddenly laughed. He gently placed a hand on Zhu Yu's back and said to Lu Chao, "This is my wife."

Lu Chao looked at Zhu Yu expressionlessly, then at Lu Qing: "I didn't expect you to be so ambitious as to have such a hobby. This really makes me look at you with new eyes."

Zhu Yu didn't expect that the two of them seemed to have no intersection at all during the day and were completely unfamiliar with each other, but when they came here, they spoke in a completely different way from before.

What she never expected was that she was caught up in the teasing of the two people.

Of course she understood what Lu Chao meant, and she was startled for a moment. She couldn't swallow the food or spit it out, and she started coughing.

Lu Qing was extremely considerate. He gently stroked her back with one hand to soothe her breathing. At the same time, he whispered to Zhu Yu in a very gentle voice, "Lu Chao is just a paper tiger, bluffing. You don't have to panic in front of him."

His action seemed quite intimate. Zhu Yu felt his ears getting hot, and blood slowly climbed up his cheeks along his earlobes.

Perhaps it was her blush that betrayed her girlish demeanor that caused Lu Chao to be stunned for a moment before realizing, "Are you Zhu Cheng's married daughter?"

"Yes." Zhu Yu didn't know exactly what the relationship between Lu Chao and Lu Qing was. He just saw that the two of them were very familiar and close when talking, and they were not as cold and distant as they were in front of outsiders during the day. He guessed that they had a close relationship, so he didn't greet Lu Chao seriously, so as not to make the atmosphere awkward.

"I didn't expect that Zhu Cheng's daughter would have such courage and ability." Lu Chao followed her to the morgue during the day, and although he didn't go to the embroidery building afterwards, he also witnessed Zhu Yu's ability.

"Envy?" Lu Qing raised his eyebrows and smiled, "As far as I know, the Zhu Cheng family has many daughters, but they haven't married off their most precious daughter yet.

If you have this in mind, you can ask His Majesty. Now that even Lu Zhang has been given a marriage, it would be inappropriate to leave you behind. Why not ask His Majesty to give you Zhu Cheng's legitimate daughter in marriage? In the future, you and I will be brothers and brothers-in-law. Maybe each of Zhu Cheng's daughters will have unique skills, and then you won't have to envy me so much! " Lu Chao said nothing, but looked at Zhu Yu with sympathetic eyes, sighed slowly, and then started eating.

Zhu Yu found their way of communicating very interesting and had to hold back his laughter, so he used eating to divert his attention.

After Lu Chao arrived, Lu Qing seemed to be more energetic than before. He finished the remaining rice in a few bites, put down his chopsticks and asked seriously, "Let's get back to the point. His Majesty really hasn't mentioned the marriage to you yet?"

Lu Chao chewed his food slowly and politely, then shook his head calmly, "Indeed, not at all."

"That's strange." Lu Qing frowned slightly, "I thought the Jie King's eldest daughter would be arranged to marry you. After all, you and I are only a year apart in age. You should be the next one to be arranged to marry, but I didn't expect it to be Lu Zhang.

What exactly is your Majesty's plan?"

"I don't know." Lu Chao shook his head. "This is not bad. When the day of the marriage comes, all my plans will be exposed, and I will lose hope."

"What do you think about what happened today? Who do you think did it?" Lu Qing asked directly.

Lu Chao shrugged: "If it's not you, it's not me, then it must be someone else."

"I never thought that even the stable Yan Guogong faction would be attacked. I'm afraid the undercurrents beneath the surface are even greater than you and I imagined."

Lu Qing said to Lu Chao with a pointed look. At this moment, he had put away his previous teasing and joking. His expression looked particularly serious, and he also spoke with a lot of sincerity: "I know that you have no intention of fighting for anything, and I just want to keep myself out of trouble.

However, the current situation is such that the world will be in chaos. Not to mention the war, the suffering of all people, and the displacement of the people, even you and I may not be able to protect ourselves.

In the end, it remains to be seen who is the snipe, who is the clam, and who is the fisherman."

Lu Chao paused for a moment, slowly placed his chopsticks on the table, and sighed silently.

He took Lu Qing's words to heart.

Lu Qing ignored his silence and continued, "Just like today, everyone knows that I have always been at odds with Duke Yan's faction. If we hadn't stood up and proved the innocence of Cao Tianbao's nephew, someone would have put the blame on me, regardless of whether I was the instigator of this conspiracy or not.

So instead of passively taking the blame for others, I might as well step forward and be the one who takes the blame.

It's the same with you now. Today someone set up a trap to plot against Duke Yan and Lu Zhang and put the blame on me. Tomorrow it may be you who becomes the unknown villain.

You either become the butcher or the meat. I'm afraid you have no other choice."

　On the first day of the Lunar New Year, I would like to wish all my friends good luck, good fortune, and prosperity.
　　Thanks to Atoubaobao for the monthly ticket!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)