Chapter 404 I am not his brother-in-law
Lu Mansion closed the gate of the mansion in broad daylight for no reason, which naturally attracted the attention of the servants in the mansion.
A maid named Er Qiao passed by the atrium holding medicinal materials, looked puzzled at the retreating porter servants, turned her head, and almost bumped into the fat butler who was in a hurry.
Er Qiao's face was pale, and he quickly bowed his head to make amends.
Although she was Xu Zhihu's personal maid, but because the young lady had just arrived at the mansion and hadn't gotten married yet, the eldest son of the Lu family died of a serious illness.
That's why the whole house is rumored that Xu Zhihu Kefu has never had a good look at the maids in her yard.
It's nothing more than deducting the monthly money. Since the rumors of Baoguo Temple spread, everyone has become more exclusive and harsh to his wife.
Just when Er Qiao thought that he would be caught and scolded by the fat butler, he saw that the fat butler who used to hide a knife in his smile was sweating, and the fake smile on his face seemed a little stiff.
"Er Qiao, are you delivering medicine to Madam?" The fat butler's fat face twitched, he squeezed out an unnatural smile, and stepped sideways to make way for the road, "Go, go, Madam's health is important."
Looking at the smile on the fat butler's face, Er Qiao felt his heart tremble, and quickly said sorry a few more times, and ran towards the courtyard with his head buried.
The courtyard of the deep house is like a world away. The strangeness of the atrium and the gate of the mansion spread to the backyard without any movement.
Er Qiao walked along the long corridor and saw a mature and gentle woman with a bun reading a book under the pavilion in the corridor. Seeing the thin dress on her body, Er Qiao hurriedly put down the medicinal materials and went to the room to get one. A fur cloak covered her.
"Miss, you are weak, why don't you go back to your room and read?"
Xu Zhihu shook his head, looked at the grass growing in the garden and the warblers flying, full of greenery, and said softly: "It's okay."
Er Qiao tried to persuade him a few more words, but seeing that the young lady still refused to listen, he gave up the plan. He worked hard for a long time, finished cooking the medicine casserole, and squatted in a corner of the gazebo to make nourishing soup for Xu Zhihu.
Inadvertently thinking of the scene seen in the front yard, Er Qiao was about to tell the miss, when the nurse in charge of the backyard came straight to this side with a basin of water, glanced arrogantly at Xu Zhihu, and directly Clear water splashed onto Xu Zhihu's side.
"What are you doing!"
Er Qiao became anxious when he saw this, and stood up and glared at Mammy.
Nurse did not hide the contempt in her eyes at all, curled her lips, and said contemptuously, "The Lu family has a clean and upright family, but in the end, you, a slutty girl, ruined the family tradition!"
The nanny became angrier and her tone became more and more ugly, "Xu Zhihu, you seduce men outside, and the whole city knows about you, you really have no shame!"
Xu Zhihu's expression remained unchanged, he flipped through the scroll in his hand, and said flatly, "Poor thing~ I'm afraid no one will want to be a **** if you want to."
"I tore your mouth!" Mammy was furious, pointing at Xu Zhihu and about to rush forward, but was stopped by Er Qiao.
"Er Qiao, get out of the way."
Xu Zhihu didn't even look at it, he turned a page casually, and said flatly, "Aren't you going to tear my mouth apart? Please?"
This nanny is an old man in the old lady's courtyard. Her eyes are usually high above her head. Enraged by Xu Zhihu's dismissive attitude, she rolled up her sleeves and said, "You think I dare not?"
"I'll stop you from daring." Xu Zhihu smiled disdainfully, flipped through the pages of the book and said, "Do you want to do it? Haven't finished the book yet?"
Nanny's lungs were about to explode, but she didn't dare to do anything to the parents of Beiliang Xu, she walked away panting heavily, and said cruelly before she left, "The Lu family married you!" This kind of woman is really unfortunate!"
"Miss, the Lu family is going too far."
Er Qiao beside him was full of grievances, and said with a pursed mouth, "Why didn't you explain it to them?"
Xu Zhihu shook his head and said: "This Liu Liting has a famous literary name, and I come from Beiliang. People in Jiangnan regard us Beiliang people as fierce monsters and crazy beasts. Do you think anyone will believe what I say?"
The clans in the south of the Yangtze River are connected with each other, and Xu Zhihu has seen it thoroughly in recent years.
Marrying Jiangnan far away was originally a deal between Bei Liang and the Lu family. If the deal was completed, she would be nothing.
Otherwise, how could the Lu family find someone who was dying of illness to marry her to start?
Er Qiao saw Xu Zhihu resigned himself to his fate, and quickly changed the subject: "By the way, miss, when will His Royal Highness come to our Yangcheng?"
When Xu Fengnian was mentioned, Xu Zhihu finally showed a smile from the bottom of his heart, and said, "According to the time, it will take about two or three days?"
"Wait for His Royal Highness to come over and see how those nuns in the mansion still bully Miss!" Er Qiao showed a look of expectation, and brought the cooked soup to Xu Zhihu, talking about the fat butler who had just withdrawn from the porter and closed the mansion tightly. walk of the door.
And at this time.
Dragging a dead body through the streets in public, and blocking the gate of Lu's house.
The **** and **** corpse could no longer be identified, but such arrogance naturally quickly spread throughout Yangcheng.
Xu Fengnian turned his head to look at the stretched blood stains on the ground, and Liu Liting, who had already died, tilted his head in doubt, and let the onlookers who approached him point and point. When he turned around again, he was so frightened that he almost fell off his horse drop down.
I seem to know what I'm missing
"Are you looking for me?"
Zhou Ji stood outside the gate with a flowerpot in his hand, looking at Xu Fengnian with a smile.
There was a smile on his face, but there was no smile in his eyes.
"Then what. I was angry for a while, and I forgot to wait for you." Xu Fengnian thumped in his heart, revealing the husky's flattering and sneering as if he realized that he had caused trouble, nodded and bowed.
Zhou Ji glanced at him, but he wasn't really that angry.
If his elder sister married into another country and was so slandered and humiliated by others, Zhou Ji thought that he would not be able to maintain absolute rationality like some keyboard warriors, and advised others to calm down with a mentality of watching the excitement from the sidelines.
When you meet this kind of person, you must stay away from him, because he will easily hurt you when he is struck by lightning.
ka~, blood persuasion.; Ka~, blood persuasion..
You will not die! (Guo Degang edition) (Cao Yunjin edition).
But not being so angry doesn't mean that you have no temper. Zhou Ji was in front of the door but still paced to the side, and waved his head to signal Xu Fengnian to get off his horse and knock on the door.
Xu Fengnian looked in from the crack of the door and saw that there was no one in the atrium. Seeing this, Zhou Ji took out a wooden sign with the word "free" from his sleeve and hung it on the door knocker, pointed to Xu Fengnian, "Ah~ It seems that the Lu family has already known about your atrocities, closed the door to thank guests in advance, and even hung up the 'free guest sign', obviously does not welcome you, the son of Beiliang."
Xu Fengnian's mouth twitched, realizing that this was Zhou Ji's little 'revenge' on him.
He is also used to Zhou Ji's character, Shi Daen never asks for repayment, and always pays for small losses.
Xu Fengnian turned to look at the white horse on the street, took off the wooden sign, and said in a deep voice, "Old Zhou, stand aside."
After saying that, he went back to the street to get on the horse, Xu Fengnian's face sank like water, his legs slammed into the horse's belly, and the horse galloped forward in pain.
According to the door, Xu Fengnian reined in the reins, and the white horse under him neighed long, its front hooves lifted off the ground, Xiu Dong then unsheathed, and the sharp knife light slashed towards the thick wooden door with killing intent.
There was only a roar, and the white knife slashed the heavy door panel.
Sawdust was flying, and the horse stepped on the middle door.
Xu Fengnian rode his horse and drove straight into Lu's courtyard.
"Lawless! Lawless!" The fat butler Lu Dongyang hurriedly came out of the side room when he heard the movement. He looked sternly at the mutilated corpse dragged into the courtyard, and then at Xu Fengnian who was galloping towards him. Trembling almost kneeling on the ground.
"This is not Beiliang. The son's behavior is too domineering." A middle-aged literati wearing a Confucian crown and a dark Confucian robe floated down in front of the horse, holding a straight and simple long sword, and his elegant and easy-going temperament was also at this time. Because of Xu Fengnian's behavior, he showed dissatisfaction.
Xu Fengnian's heart skipped a beat. Facing the person in front of him, he seemed to be looking up from a high mountain. He was obviously much higher than the opponent on horseback, but this kind of oppression from the aura still made him feel that he was being looked down upon by the opponent.
Seventh Mr. Lu Baijie
Although they did not exchange names and had never met this person before, Xu Fengnian still recognized the other person at a glance.
Lu Baijie is known as Tangxi Sword Immortal, and his domineering sword is famous all over the world. From the corner of his eyes, Xu Fengnian saw Zhou Ji covering his nose. The way of hospitality, I am the son of Beiliang, I have been knocking on the door for a long time but no one has received me, as the audience outside the mansion can attest."
The fat butler saw the Seventh Master come forward, knelt on the ground, and said aggrievedly: "The villain obviously put up a thank you card, indicating that today the Lu family will not have outsiders."
"Isn't this a coincidence?" Xu Fengnian glanced at the fat butler, who shrugged his shoulders and buried his head down.
"I came to Lu Manor to visit relatives today, how can I be a foreigner?" Xu Fengnian said with a smile, "Patriarch Lu's order to put up a sign to thank guests must mean to wait for me~ Don't you think so?"
The fat butler didn't dare to quibble, he could only bury his head and acquiesce.
Lu Baijie glanced at him, saw the fat butler's behavior, immediately understood the meaning, cupped his hands and said, "In this way, it is true that my Lu family has lost the way of hospitality, please forgive me, my lord."
"It's okay, Steward Lu just didn't understand Master Lu's meaning, there was a misunderstanding, and the matter was explained clearly." Xu Fengnian waved his hand, pointing to the corpse of Liu Liting dragged all the way to the ground, showing resentment.
Gritting his teeth, Xu Fengnian told the story of his collusion with the capital in an attempt to ruin Xu Zhihu's reputation, instigated a breakup between the Lu family and Bei Liang in exchange for his admission to the Imperial Academy in the capital, plus the letters between Liu Liting and the capital, Xu Fengnian The sound was not loud, but it was enough to reach the ears of the audience outside the door.
"Bei Liang has always treated people in a simple manner. Treat me with courtesy and return courtesy, treat me with swords and return me with swords!"
Xu Fengnian's words were convincing, and there were letters to prove it, everyone was in an uproar, and then looked at the bloodstains dragging all over the place, and they were full of horror at this arrogant and unscrupulous Prince Beiliang.
The commotion in the front yard was really loud. Hearing that Xu Fengnian arrived in Yangcheng two days earlier than expected, Xu Zhihu couldn't wait to take Er Qiao to greet him in the front yard.
Halfway through, Xu Zhihu noticed the fur cape he was wearing, and quickly took it off for Er Qiao to put it away, so as not to cause Xu Fengnian to worry.
Er Qiao knew that his young lady was soft on the outside and strong on the inside, so she couldn't dissuade her, so she could only put away her cloak worriedly, and followed every step, for fear that there would be any accidents to the lady.
From the backyard to the front yard, where they passed along the way, the mothers who usually had their eyes above the top of the head were all pale and frightened. Er Qiao didn't know why, until he came to the atrium and looked at the blood stains all over the floor.
There are also a few servants with grim expressions who are carrying a bunch of heavy things and walking towards the door, making retching sounds from time to time.
Looking back at the two people in front of Master Seven, one of them had two knives on his waist, and the other was holding a flower pot. I don't know which one is Prince Beiliang?
Zhou Ji wandered around in the atrium, and did not participate in the conversation between Xu Fengnian and Lu Baijie.
Xu Fengnian wanted to seek justice for his sister in this trip, and by the way, set up the scene.
He is not Xu Fengnian's brother-in-law, and he has no position to participate in it.
Speaking of which, Xu Fengnian and his second sister are quite good-looking, with an aloof and cold temperament, but a bit too strong.
I don't know how his eldest sister is.
Zhou Ji was thinking, when he suddenly heard a gentle voice with a bit of joy coming from the side.
"The Year of the Phoenix."
Zhou Ji turned around and looked, only to see a woman with a woman's hair in a bun and an embroidered dress walking from the corridor.
Different from Xiao Jiang Ni's youthful and lively vigor, and also unlike Shu Shu's natural obsequiousness and enchantment, that kind of gentle, intellectual, and mature charm exudes an affinity that seems to have the power to embrace everything.
Well. Otherwise, being Xu Fengnian's eldest brother-in-law is not bad.
Zhou Ji shook his head, looked at the vines in the flowerpot, and laughed dumbfoundedly.
He is in this world, one Sito is enough, and he should not think so much about other things.
He met Hong Xixiang in Wudang Mountain, and he could feel Hong Xixiang's deep-rooted love for Xu Zhihu. The two were in love, but they couldn't get together.
Zhou Ji didn't intend to destroy the couple, and even thought about how to help them get together after leaving this world.
"Sister" Xu Fengnian looked at the familiar figure approaching, his eyes turned red immediately, and he quickly walked up to her, calling with a choked voice, which made Xu Zhihu's eyes wet as well.
The two siblings reunited after a long absence, so naturally they would have a lot to say. Lu Baijie and Xu Zhihu exchanged a few words, then walked towards Zhou Ji who was next to the flower garden, nodded and said, "Your Excellency is Zhou Ji Zhou, who has been famous all over the world recently. Young Master, right? In the Battle of Luweidang, Young Master Duanhua killed the eleventh King Ming Yin in the world with lightning. It has already been spread all over the world. When I saw you today, I really have an extraordinary bearing."
"Stop, stop, what kind of dude? Is this my nickname?" Zhou Ji had a strange expression, and whispered, "It's not as good as the sword coffin back then."
"What are you talking about, young master?" Lu Baijie asked suspiciously.
"Nothing." Zhou Ji said with a smile, "If you want to praise, you should suppress it first, and if you want to suppress it, you should praise it first. Mr. Lu is so flattering as soon as he opens his mouth. I don't know what it means?"
"Young Master, you are young and you have become a perfect celestial phenomenon. Lu has been practicing swordsmanship all his life, and he has been stuck in Zhixuan for many years." Lu Baijie put his sword on the hilt, and said solemnly: "I don't know if you are willing to teach me."
(end of this chapter)