When the capital was in chaos at night, Lu Chongyuan had been waiting in the study. There were half-written words on the table. Dim light fell on the paper, which had sharp strokes and thick ink.
The dragon hid in the blue waves and blended with the toad.
Waiting for the day when he will come to the fore, shaking the mountains and rivers with thunderbolts...
“Master, I need to see the Master!”
A shrill cry of desperation from outside made Lu Chongyuan’s hand tremble. Thick ink dripped heavily onto the paper, and with a horizontal stroke, the two characters for “mountains and rivers” were split as if by an inky abyss, ruining the entire sheet.
Lu Chongyuan’s face darkened as he tossed the brush aside. “Someone, come here.”
A person hurriedly entered from outside. Lu Chongyuan’s voice was icy. “What’s going on? Who’s shouting out there?”
Xilin lowered his head. “It’s Lu Rong, from the Eldest Young Master’s side. He says Fifth Young Master had a high fever tonight. When the household physician was administering medicine, someone tampered with the decoction, trying to harm Fifth Young Master’s life. He wants to leave the estate to fetch a doctor and asks the Master to seek justice for Fifth Young Master.”
Lu Chongyuan’s face flashed with anger. “Which household physician has the gall to do this?”
“It’s… it’s Doctor Wu…”
Lu Chongyuan froze, his expression growing even more furious. “Didn’t I tell Doctor Zhou to attend to Xuan’er?!”
“Doctor Zhou had a family emergency and left the estate yesterday. Only Doctor Wu was left in the household.”
Xilin, who had always handled matters for Lu Jiu’an, was naturally well-informed about the household’s affairs.
Ever since the death of Madam Guan from the main branch, the Eldest Young Master was executed, and Lu Zhinian went missing, only the eight-year-old Fifth Young Master, Lu Zhixuan, remained.
Lu Zhixuan clearly knew nothing, and having lost both parents, he was already pitiable enough. Yet, the people in the household treated him unkindly.
Many in the Lu family believed their current predicament was entirely due to the main branch. If Lu Zhinian hadn’t been duplicitous and targeted Song Tangning, they wouldn’t have provoked subsequent troubles. If not for the main branch’s downfall, the Lu family wouldn’t have repeatedly faced humiliation. Madam Guan’s illicit affair with Prince Cheng further shamed the entire Lu family.
People from the first house died or disappeared, and many people in the Lu family took out their anger on Lu Zhixuan. Especially after Lu Qin was exiled, the people from the second house regarded the fifth young master as a thorn in their eyes and blamed him for everything.
Even the fifth young master in the school was often bullied. The young masters in the mansion called him the bastard left by Guan and Prince Chen. The fourth young master from the second wife even pushed someone into the lotus pond in the mansion and almost took his life.
After Lu Chongyuan knew about this, he severely punished the Fourth Young Master and beat to death those servants who neglected the First House. However, the Fourth Young Master did not learn his lesson and hated the Fifth Young Master even more. Doctor Wu had always been close to the people of the Second House and now he wanted to kill Lu Zhixuan...
Lu Rong was Lu Zhao's close confidant at the time, and he was the one who stayed in the first house to protect Lu Zhixuan.
At this moment, he was banging his head outside, and the sound of his shouting went through the door, making Lu Chongyuan both angry and furious.
"It's too chaotic outside tonight to go out and get a doctor. Let Lu Rong go back first, and go to the main room to tell Wu Zhongcai that if he fails to cure Xuan'er and something happens to him, I will kill everyone in the Wu family."
"Also, have someone watch the Second Madam and the Fourth Young Master. If they dare to mess around again, break their legs!"
There was chaos and injustice outside, but they kept making trouble for him.
Lu Chongyuan looked up and asked, "Have the people who went to Jiyun Lane come back?"
Xilin whispered, "Not yet, but the palace has been in chaos. People from the Privy Council and the Black Armor Guards have entered the palace to protect the emperor. There aren't many people left in Jiyun Lane. Yue Fengcheng will definitely try his best to make things worse now that he has taken action. Marquis Luyang will also lead people over there."
"Don't worry, Master Lang, nothing will go wrong."
Lu Chongyuan just frowned when he heard this. He had been trapped in the mansion for a while. Taking action tonight would be a risky move. He had to succeed and could not fail.
Listening to Lu Rong's shouting outside, Lu Chongyuan felt a little irritated and flustered: "Go and tell Lu Rong to shut up. Isn't he afraid that people outside won't know about the noise in the middle of the night? Tell him to go back and take good care of Xuan'er. Also, have someone keep an eye on the outside and tell me immediately if there is any news."
Xilin nodded quickly and walked out.
Outside, Lu Rong was kneeling in front of the yard and kowtowed until his forehead was bruised purple. After hearing Lu Chongyuan's reply, the blood flowing down his forehead made his whole face look particularly creepy in the night.
"Does the Lord not care whether the Fifth Lord lives or dies?"
"It's not that we don't care, it's just that something happened in the mansion tonight, and it seems like there's trouble outside, so it's hard to let people go out."
Xilin explained seriously, "Don't worry, Master Lang asked me to go back with you, and he will also warn Doctor Wu not to neglect Master Wu's illness..."
"No."
Lu Rong stood up with a cold face. What warning Wu Zhongcai, what daring to neglect the Fifth Prince? If Lu Chongyuan really cared about his master's child, how could he allow others to humiliate and bully him? Just like the last time, the Fourth Prince almost killed his little boy, but afterwards he was just beaten with a few boards and knelt in the ancestral hall for half the night.
It was just because the eldest master died and the eldest lady took the blame for the Lu family and ruined their reputation. Everyone thought that the eldest branch would never have a chance to rise again, so no one cared about the life or death of his young master!
Don’t think he doesn’t know that Lu Yin has filed a complaint with the Jingzhao government!
Lu Rong felt cold in his heart. His master died to save the Lu family, his eldest lady took the blame and was forced to death, and now the fifth son almost died at the hands of the second wife, but Lu Chongyuan was unwilling to even take a look at him. He didn't know if his master would regret it if he knew about it in the afterlife.
"Since the Master is too busy to take care of the Fifth Master, I will take care of Wu Zhongcai myself. I will go and ask the doctor to come back myself."
"Lu Rong!"
Upon hearing this, Xilin immediately tried to reach out to pull Lu Rong, but he dodged him.
Seeing Lu Rong's gloomy eyes and his face filled with resentment, he stepped forward to stop Lu Rong and said hurriedly, "Don't think too much. It's not that the Lord doesn't care about the Fifth Lord. He will definitely punish the people who harmed the Fifth Lord tonight. It's just that you can't leave the house right now..."
Lu Rong raised his eyes fiercely: "Can't leave the house and watch my young master die of fever? The master always says he will deal with it. What can he do? Will he wait for my young master to die and then beat him with a few sticks like last time, or will he kill him to pay for the life of the fifth young master?"
Xilin was speechless.
Lu Rong sneered: "It's what I deserve to die for the Lu family, but I can't get even a little bit of pity from the Lord for the Fifth Lord..."
He pushed Xilin away and tried to leave, but Xilin quickly reached out to grab someone and stop him from leaving the house.
The matter in Jiyun Lane was not settled yet, and there couldn't be any trouble in the mansion at this time. Seeing Lu Rong attacking him with murderous intent, Xilin had no choice but to fight back and wanted to capture the man first and then explain to him slowly. However, who would have thought that they had only been fighting for a few moments when a loud noise was heard from outside.=================
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