Chapter 32
After Lu Songli and her daughter arrived home, two waves of people from the palace came to the house in the afternoon. These two waves of people brought two oral orders. One was that the Queen Mother announced that Lu Songli would enter the palace to attend the dinner, and the other was that the Emperor announced Lu Desheng went to the palace to see him.
After the first wave of eunuchs announced the edict, Lu Desheng handed him a purse and asked if he could let his wife accompany his daughter into the palace. The eunuch who announced the decree took the purse, glanced at the Lu family mother and daughter, and shook his head.
After seeing off two waves of father-in-law, Lu Songli's family of three got together to discuss. Lu Songli felt that the emperor summoned her father to the palace because he had previously promised to reward him. When the Empress Dowager summoned her, it was probably because the person who came was not kind. As the saying goes, there is no good banquet.
Lu Desheng and Jiang looked at their daughter worriedly. Lu Songli knew that this meant that the Queen Mother was really going to interfere in their marriage between Zhao Lu and Xie Qin. I sent someone to the Qin family to inquire, and sure enough, Qin Sheng was also summoned. No need to think about it, since Qin Sheng has been summoned together, the other two, Xie Zhan and Zhao Yutan, must also be included.
"Ah Li, I'm afraid I'm going to wrong you this time." Lu Desheng said apologetically.
The Queen Mother summoned Lu Songli into the palace alone. Jiang could not follow her. No matter what happened, she would have to deal with it alone.
Lu Songli understood that her father was referring to the incident that offended the Queen Mother back then, and she was afraid that the Queen Mother would embarrass her this time. Lu Songli knew that her father didn't want to do it either. Her father was not a very personable person. If he had a choice, would he choose to offend the Queen Mother? He must have been forced into helplessness.
"Mom, dad, don't worry about me, I can handle it."
After guessing the Queen Mother's intention, Lu Desheng and his wife also lay down. The Queen Mother had already intervened, but there was nothing they could do. They had already thought about the worst case scenario, which was to lose their marriage to the Xie family. An arm cannot twist a thigh, but everyone in the Lu family knows the current affairs.
The father and daughter discovered that the time and place they were going to meet were at the same time, so they decided to set off together.
Before entering the palace, Lu Songli took a bath and dressed up. After getting dressed, she prepared to apply makeup herself.
As the saying goes, the three concepts follow the five senses. Lu Songli was a person who benefited from appearance in later generations. Although she didn't know how the conversation would unfold after the Empress Dowager summoned them, it was certain that she would be facing a famous beauty from Chang'an City. Zhao Yutan's bright and charming personality would easily suffer if she didn't take good care of it. How could Lu Songli let herself suffer such a loss?
When Mrs. Jiang saw that she had chosen a moon-white palace skirt, she hesitated and asked, "Is it too plain?"
"No, grandma, just listen to me." Lu Songli replied while putting on makeup. As a working woman, makeup is a basic skill, and her current face is 70% or 80% similar to her previous face. In some places, it is even better than before, and she can paint it more easily.
As the saying goes, if you want to be pretty, wear a filial piety and a moon-white palace skirt, which is just right. She has a light makeup style, which suits both heavy and light makeup. To be honest, white is more suitable. In the upcoming scene, she is the weak one, so why not use her cold, beautiful and sad qualities to magnify her advantages.
When she finished the last stroke and stood up, Mrs. Jiang was so amazed that she no longer wanted to ask her to change into another outfit.
"Come on, your father is already waiting. You two should go early and come back early."
****
At the entrance of the palace, military officers must dismount from their horses and civil servants must dismount from their sedan chairs.
As soon as the Lu family's carriage stopped, a eunuch came up and asked, "But is the carriage of Master Lu Desheng Lu?"
The father and daughter looked at each other in the carriage, and Lu Desheng got out of the carriage first.
As soon as he landed, the eunuch urged him, "Master Lu, you have arrived. Come quickly, please come with Sa's family. Don't keep the emperor waiting."
This scene fell in the eyes of Xie Zhan, who was the first to arrive at the palace gate. He stepped forward and greeted them, "Uncle Lu, Ah Li."
Lu Desheng nodded to him and was asked to leave before he even had time to warn Lu Songli.
Looking at this scene, Xie Zhan thought to himself, Lu Desheng is really favored. It is already this time in the evening, and the emperor still summons him to the palace.
The remaining two people looked at each other without speaking. To be honest, when Xie Zhan first saw Lu Songli, he was a little afraid to recognize her.
This was the second time he had seen Lu Songli since the incident of falling into the water. She had changed so much, completely different from her previous submissive appearance. No, when she came to the door the next day, she had already changed. In fact, upon closer inspection, her clothes have not changed much from before. Now she is wearing a moon-white dress, with a typical boudoir-girl bun and makeup. Unlike the thick bangs she used to have, she now has her bangs tied up in front of her forehead, revealing her entire face. , but while looking forward, the bright eyes and white teeth shine like pearls, and the vivid color is fully displayed.
At this moment, the Zhao family's carriage arrived at the entrance of the palace and stopped naturally. Zhao Bin drove the carriage himself. After he stopped the carriage, he jumped down and handed his hand to the people in the carriage.
I saw a slender hand resting on his little arm, and then, a beauty in red came out of the carriage. This person was none other than Zhao Yutan.
Lu Songli watched this scene leisurely, feeling that she was being tricked.
Perhaps because her gaze was too direct, the Zhao siblings were the first to look at her.
Zhao Bin had a look of surprise on his face. He just glanced at her and turned his head, as if he saw some garbage.
Zhao Yutan's face became paler under the red dress, and her makeup gave people the feeling of recovering from a serious illness. At this moment, she looked at herself, her eyes filled with tears, she was about to cry, but she still couldn't speak, which made people feel pity.
Lu Songli clicked her tongue in her heart, okay, enemies are on a narrow road.
Zhao Yutan is also amazing. No matter what she has done, she can act so innocent when facing herself. I don't know how she usually hypnotizes herself.
Zhao Yutan's red lips parted slightly, "Ah Li, thank you, brother."
Lu Songli soon realized that Zhao Yutan's eyes were not on her, but behind her. Xie Zhan was standing just a little behind her. She was about to turn her head to see Xie Zhan's reaction.
At this moment, someone galloped over on a white horse not far away.
Xie Zhan, Zhao Yutan, Zhao Bin and Lu Songli looked towards the sound.
After recognizing the man on the horse, Zhao Bin looked very unhappy.
The person coming was very fast. When he approached them, he held the rein in one hand. After the last difficult horse movement, the shooter quickly turned over and dismounted.
Qin Sheng was wearing the official uniform of Yunqiwei Military Attaché. The young man was full of heroic spirit and involuntarily attracted everyone's attention.
Zhao Yutan couldn't help but stop and look at him intently.
Qin Sheng walked past her and went inside without squinting.
Zhao Yutan opened her mouth slightly, wanting to call him out, but in the end she could only lower her eyes sadly.
Qin Sheng was very good. In her precognitive dream, during the years when the Qin family was exiled, he suffered from an emergency and passed away. He carried the coffin for three hundred miles. Forgive her. She didn't want to lose her husband at a young age, nor did she want to live in a precarious situation like a prisoner. day. Maybe, after they broke off their engagement, without her, even if the Qin family was exiled, he wouldn't need to die early?
Lu Songli openly appreciated the young man's enthusiasm and arrogance. Her mother was right, Qin Sheng was really handsome in his horsemanship.
When he caught her gaze, Qin Sheng paused slightly, then glanced at the three of them suspiciously, frowning.
None of the four of them had the intention to speak.
The four people were silent, and the guards at the entrance to the palace were embarrassed for them.
As analyzed before, the four of them now represent the attitudes of the four families. Nothing Xie Zhan said was wrong: Zhao Yutan finally grabbed the position of the innocent mistress, so it was naturally difficult for him to speak: Qin Sheng was too lazy to speak.
At this moment, the person most suitable to break the calm is Lu Songli. But why would she do this? For Lu Songli, as long as she is not embarrassed, others will be embarrassed.
Finally, Qin Sheng showed an expression that was hard to explain and walked towards the palace. A group of seriously ill people arrived at the palace gate but did not go in. They did not know what they were looking at and what was there to see!
