Chapter 83
Chen Jiao met Lu Yu again at the Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet at the Marquis of Pingxi.
The mother and daughter of Wei have not returned yet, and there are only three men, Pingxi Hou and his son, in the big room. Pingxi Hou is solemn and serious, and Lu Yu sat next to him. The father and son were carved out like the same mold, like two icebergs, and Lu Huan looked gloomy, which was completely different from the one who used to talk and laugh.
The grandma thought that the eldest grandson and the second grandson were not right recently. The second grandson liked Chen Jiao but couldn't. The grandma knew that she was not satisfied with the second grandson liked Chen Jiao, but Chen Jiao tactfully refused to marry her. She was very satisfied. She only had the eldest grandson, which hid too deeply. The grandma couldn't find any slightest slightest in her words when she inquired several times.
Chen Jiao sat quietly beside her aunt, and never looked over again except for looking at the Lu brothers when she first came.
In September, Mr. Lu Er got news from his friend of the Ministry of Personnel that his release was basically accurate and he would only wait for the official dispatch at the end of the year.
Chen Jiao and the second wife were both very happy.
The autumn examination was about to be released, Lu Run was confident and acted calmly. The second wife was restless. Two days before the listing, she was really anxious and took her niece and son to the temple to burn incense.
Apart from Lu Run, there were only four guards accompanying him. Liangzhou was in peace and peace. Who dared to touch the female family members of the Marquis of Pingxi?
But just as the group came out of the temple, someone stopped them on their way.
Chen Jiao stared at Liu Heng, who was holding a hand-cranking folding fan opposite him angrily.
The second wife even scolded: "What does the second master want?"
Lu Run had already called four guards forward.
Liu Heng glanced at the twenty guards he brought, smiled contemptuously, then took out a document from his sleeve and handed it to the servant next to him: "I miss them."
His servant took the document respectfully, took out the letter and held it high in front of him, and began to recite it in a slight and scrutiny.
It turned out that it was a document to take a concubine. Suzhou magistrate Chen An accepted Liu Heng's betrothal gift and wanted to give his eldest daughter Chen Jiao to Liu Heng as a good concubine. The wedding date was set, on the second day of the eighth month!
The second wife, Chen Jiao and Lu Run stared at the document in disbelief.
Liu Heng smiled and said, "I have another copy here, Miss Chen, Ling Zun's handwriting and seal."
After saying that, he ordered the servant to hand over the document.
The servant arrogantly delivered the documents of taking the concubine to Chen Jiao.
Chen Jiao has lived in Liangzhou for nearly two years. The prefect Chen wrote two letters to his daughter. Chen Jiao was not very impressed by his handwriting, but in the documents of the prefect Chen, the seal, the handprint, and the red official seal approved by the Suzhou County Government! Perhaps these can be forged, but with Liu Heng's identity, the prefect Chen was competing for power and wealth, Liu Heng really thought of this vicious plan. He could get it true. Why do you need to make it false?
Chen Jiao felt chill all over, and she had to do it all, but she didn't expect that her biological father in this life was a beast!
She felt as if she was so sad, Liu Heng laughed and said, "I was going to send a matchmaker to the Marquis' Mansion last month, but I was busy that time and couldn't leave for a while. Now it's been delayed for so long. Let's not pay attention to the red tape. Miss Chen, let me go."
As soon as he finished speaking, four sedan chairmen were carrying a sedan chair and flashed out around the corner.
This is to steal people!
Lu Run was so angry that he stood in front of his cousin that he said, "Mr. Liu, first of all, we must verify the authenticity of this document from my uncle. Furthermore, the document is true. My cousin is the daughter of the prefect, and you will take her into the door if you say hello and don't call me. Where is the face of our Pingxi Marquis' Mansion?"
Liu Heng smiled but said nothing.
Today, he came to force Liang to be a concubine, which was the result of his calculations. After Cuihu was humiliated by Lu Yu, Liu Heng knew that Lu Erye would not give his niece to him as a concubine, so Liu Heng sent someone to Suzhou with a token, first arrested the prefect Chen for a handle, and then asked the prefect Chen to agree to the marriage. The prefect Chen was very tactful and accepted the betrothal gift before signing the document.
After taking the document, Liu Heng waited with peace of mind. His father was going to return to Beijing this month. He had known for a long time that after his father left, he would just wait for Chen Jiao to leave the Marquis' Mansion. After all, the Marquis' Mansion of Pingxi is not a place where he can trespass. Similarly, as long as he kidnapped people now, the Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Marquis' Mar
"Take it." There was no nonsense, and Liu Heng retreated behind the guard and sneered and ordered.
Liu Heng brought twenty guards. On the side of the Marquis of Pingxi, there were not enough maids and servants to include Lu Run, not to mention that there were only four guards who could work hard with Lu Run.
Lu Run is the main focus of the imperial examination, and is able to deal with two royal guards at the same time, which is a drop in the bucket.
Soon, Lu Run and the four guards were subdued by Liu Heng's men, and the men were all over. The second wife and the maids could not protect Chen Jiao even more. The second wife cried heartily, but she could only watch her niece being dragged away by Liu Heng's men, tied her hands and feet and covered her mouth, and stuffed it into the sedan chair that she had only used to take a concubine.
"Let's go!" I was afraid that those who Lu Run sent to inform Pingxi Hou would return to the city before him, Liu Heng rode on the horse and urged the sedan chairmen to run faster.
Of course, Lu Run wanted to send someone to the Marquis' Mansion to report the news, but Liu Heng kept all twenty guards and surrounded Lu Run and the others. Lu Run couldn't rush out. Suddenly, he had an idea and gave a reward to the pilgrims hiding in the distance to watch the fun. The first person to send the news to the Marquis' Mansion in Pingxi, rewarding 100 taels of silver!
Some of the pilgrims ran away immediately, and Liu Heng's guard immediately threatened again.
The pilgrims dared not run away again, and the prince's mansion could not afford to offend him.
But one hundred taels of silver was so tempting. Behind the pilgrim, a man in gray pretended to walk into the temple and ran away in a corner.
The man in gray could not do anything, but he was strong. Shortly after Liu Heng and his group entered the city with a trumpet and carrying a sedan chair, the man in gray also ran over and panted all the way to find out where the Marquis' Mansion was. He turned countless streets and alleys and finally arrived at the gate of Marquis' Mansion. He was sweating profusely, and he told the guards outside the Marquis' Mansion about this.
When the guard heard this, he went straight to report to Lu Yu who happened to be in the mansion today.
Lu Yu was not in the study and was called to scold him by the lady, just to persuade him to get married as soon as possible.
Lu Yu listened expressionlessly, perfunctorily expressing himself.
As soon as the guard showed his figure, Lu Yu immediately stood up and walked out with a serious expression. Ordinary civilized things are sent by officials to spread the word. The only thing that can allow the guards to rush in directly is the border war report.
"Criminal, there is a hero outside the door who claimed that he was entrusted by the third prince. He said that the second master of the Qin Palace bullied others with his power and forced Miss Chou to take him into a sedan chair and took him back to the palace with his concubine's gift!"
When Lu Yu heard this, his eyes became cold and he passed the guard and ran out.
"Yunya!" The lady chased after her with a cane and shouted loudly: "Where are you going!"
As if he didn't hear it, Lu Yu walked through the courtyard like a sharp arrow, rushed to the horse-raising house to untie his war horse, and turned over.
The Qin Palace was only two streets away from the Pingxi Hou Mansion. After Liu Heng entered the city, he ordered the sedan chairmen to continue to speed up, but he insisted on taking a concubine openly, and the people were watched by blowing and beating the ground. The road was more or less blocked, and the speed slowed down. When Lu Yu rushed over, the sedan chairmen just turned from the other end of the alley.
Liu Heng rode on the horse and recognized Lu Yu, who looked like a ghostly demon on the other side, and thought it was not good. He shouted at the four guards guarding the gate of the royal palace between them: "Lu Yu intends to assassinate him and stop him!"
The guards of the royal palace got the order and pulled out their waist knife and rushed towards Lu Yu.
At the same time, Liu Heng urged his sedan chairmen to rush to the royal palace like a death. As long as he rushed into the house, he would not believe that Lu Yu would dare to enter the royal palace!
But why were the four guards of the royal palaces Lu Yu's opponents? The four bent down and slashed at Lu Yu's war horses. Lu Yu swung his long whip and directly swept away the big swords in the hands of the four people. The force was so strong that even the four guards were forward with the force of the weapon's disarming force and collided uncontrollably.
The war horse has its own spirituality and directly crossed the heads of the four people.
The sedan chairmen had already rushed to the front of the palace and were almost turning inside. Now they saw the horses pounced on their heads and were about to trample on them to death. The four sedan chairmen threw away the sedan chairs on their shoulders without thinking, and rolled out to the left and right.
The sedan chairman in front threw it first, and the sedan chair hit the ground first. At that moment, Chen Jiao, whose hands and feet were tied up, was thrown out of the sedan chair in a blink of an eye. She was already upside down in the sedan chair, but now she fell out, and her whole body hit the ground almost at the same time. Chen Jiao had only time to protect her face with both hands.
As soon as his body stopped, he didn't care about feeling the pain, and a neighing sounded suddenly from above his head. Chen Jiao raised her head in horror and saw two black iron hooves turning in a direction a foot above his head. The front half of the horse also turned around, revealing the man on the horse's back.
The man held the reins in both hands and looked down at her, with a sharp gaze and a handsome face as cold as before.
Just a meeting, the oncoming sandstorm fascinated Chen Jiao's eyes.
She closed her eyes uncomfortable, and the ground suddenly trembled. He jumped off the horse. Then, Chen Jiao was thrown onto the horse by him. He followed her up and hugged her tightly in his arms.
Chen Jiao's tears fell like a silent rain.
She thought she was going to experience another nightmare of being humiliated, and even if her uncle heard the news, it was too late to save her. But the man appeared, one by one, and saved her before she was thrown on the bed by Liu Heng. At this moment, Chen Jiao did not think about whether Lu Yu could successfully take her away, nor did she think about her rejecting Lu Yu's proposal for marriage. She just wanted to cry, crying to avoid Liu Heng for the time being.
Her shoulders were trembling, and her tears came to his chest through her clothes. Lu Yu said nothing, hugged her tightly with his left hand, and looked at the circle of guards rushing out of the palace.
Liu Heng once again took advantage of the number of people.
He also rode on the horse and angrily scolded Lu Yu, "Lu Yu, I have the concubine's document written by Chen An. Do you want to steal the bride?"
"Where is the document?" Lu Yu asked coldly.
Liu Heng asked the people around him to hand over another concubine document he had left deliberately.
When Lu Yu was looking at the document, Liu Heng said kindly: "Lu Yu, last time you threw me a dagger, you said you didn't know my identity in advance, and I really had no choice but to do anything to you. Now you openly come to the palace to rob my concubine, which will ruin my good deeds. It is a crime of disrespect and lawlessness. If you are tactful, leave now. I will not care about you, otherwise you will not blame me for not taking care of my past affection."
Lu Yu was still looking at the document.
In Chen Jiao's eyes, his silence was dangerous.
Afraid that Lu Yu really left her, Chen Jiao trembled and grabbed his clothes.
What is his backbone? As long as he can avoid being abused by Liu Heng, she would rather beg for this arrogant man who was once refused marriage by her.
She trembled like a fragile butterfly whose wings were pinched by someone. Lu Yu stared at the words on the document, and his hand holding her waist without hesitation on the little hand she was holding his clothes. The man's big hand was warm and powerful, which meant protection. Chen Jiao was shocked at first, and then inexplicably believed him. Her stiff and trembling body softened and leaned on him dependently.
"I wonder if the second master, when did you and Lord Chen discuss their relationship?"
After comforting the little girl in her arms, Lu Yu looked up and asked calmly.
Liu Heng looked at him suspiciously and said, "In early June, if you don't believe it, you can send someone to Suzhou to verify it."
Lu Yu raised his eyebrows: "June this year?"
Liu Heng nodded when he really wanted to verify it.
Lu Yu smiled and returned the documents in his hand to Liu Heng's people. He apologized to Liu Heng: "I'm not hiding it from the second master. When my second uncle went to Suzhou to pick up my cousin, Lord Chen said in person that he would hand over my cousin's marriage to my second uncle and second aunt. In May last year, I had proposed to my second uncle and second aunt to marry my cousin. Both elders agreed, but because my cousin was young, he had never started the wedding. Since I had a engagement with my cousin, I forgivable Lu to not let my cousin down and not to break his trust in my uncle and aunt."
Liu Heng's face suddenly changed, and suddenly remembered something again. Looking at Lu Yu's serious look, he held up his horse whip and laughed loudly: "A gentleman is a gentleman, and he can even deceive others. If your uncle and aunt agreed to your proposal last year, why would your aunt take Miss Chen and Mr. Meng Qi to see each other this year?"
Chen Jiao bit her lip secretly, Lu Yu's lie was too easy to expose.
Lu Yu said calmly: "Second Master refers to the act of my aunt and Mrs. Meng traveling to Cuihu together? Then Mrs. Second Master may have misunderstood. My aunt and Mrs. Meng already knew each other and met each other on a trip. It was normal that they would definitely not discuss marriage."
This is a quibble. Liu Heng's eyes sank and said coldly: "Just, of course, the marriage of children depends on the parents' orders. Lord Chen is alive, so where is your uncle and aunt the turn to decide."
Lu Yu was about to speak, but saw someone whipping from behind Liu Heng. He smiled and when the man approached, Lu Yu shouted: "Second uncle, the second uncle discusses with his uncle in June this year. His uncle agrees to promise his cousin to be a concubine for his second uncle. However, in May last year, I proposed marriage to my cousin. The second uncle and aunt also promised in person that he would marry me. He also asked the second uncle to help us solve our doubts. Who has the final say in the cousin's marriage?"
Liu Heng turned around and recognized that the person was the younger brother of Pingxi Hou and Lu Yu's uncle Lu Erye.
Mr. Lu was not breathing steadily, and his eyes swept across the concubine sedan chair on the ground. He saw that his nephew's arms were tied up. He was in a pitiful and graceful manner. Mr. Lu suddenly cursed: "Chen An's bastard kills my sister first, and then bullies my niece. When I went to pick up Jiaojiao, he asked Jiaojiao to break up with him. From then on, the marriage had nothing to do with the Chen family. Now Chen An knew that I betrothed Jiaojiao to my nephew, but he also gave Jiaojiao to the second master as a concubine on my back. It was obvious that he wanted to use the second master to revenge me! He despised the prestige of the King of Qin so much, and hoped that the second master would break up and never be played with by villains!"
Liu Heng stared at the angry Erye Lu quietly.
Farting, both uncle and nephew fart! Before that, Lu Yu and Chen Jiao could not have had a engagement!
But Mr. Lu acted like a real person. He insisted on taking Chen Jiao as his concubine, which was to admit that he had been a pawn for the prefect Chen!
Looking at the servants who seemed to have believed in the uncle and nephew of the Lu family and the guards of the royal palace, Liu Heng sneered. As long as he could get a beauty, he would not mind any reputation. However, with the sound of horse hooves, Liu Heng looked around, hey, Lu Yu, the Marquis of Pingxi, is here too!
Chapter completed!