bookrandom Chapter 140: Han's confession
Chapter 140: Han's confession
Last night, after Lu Chenshuang chased him away and was about to go to bed, who knew that guy would come back and put the jade pendant around her neck.
Lu Chenshuang was a little surprised at the time. Mu Hansu told her that this was a jade pendant carved for him by the late emperor when he was born, and it was a symbol of his status.
Although he has not yet asked the emperor for permission to marry her, he has already reserved the person, and this jade pendant will serve as a token of their love.
After saying that, he put the jade pendant on her without caring whether Lu Chenshuang agreed or not, and then left in a hurry, as if he was afraid that Lu Chenshuang would fail to harvest it.
Xiaoman and Guyu helped Lu Chenshuang get up. Guyu dressed her and asked, "Miss, have you rested well? How about we go to the Lu Mansion tomorrow?"
Lu Chenshuang shook her head and said, "No, I haven't been home for two days. I'm afraid there are some things my mother can't handle on her own."
Of course, what Lu Chenshuang was talking about was the matter of Han's lending money at high interest. Lu Chenshuang was really afraid that Lu Zhan would be confused for a moment and try his best to protect Han's, then all their previous efforts would be in vain.
According to the timeline in the book, that matter should have fermented in the past two days.
When Xiaoman was tidying up Lu Chenshuang's clothes, she found a jade pendant on her neck. She asked curiously, "Miss, where did you get this jade pendant? How come I have never seen it before?"
It’s not good to be too close to your maid, as she will have no personal privacy at all.
Even if she wanted to make up a story, she couldn't do it. After all, Xiaoman was in charge of her entire fortune. Xiaoman and Guyu knew how much she had better than she did.
Lu Chenshuang laughed awkwardly and said, "This was given to me by a friend."
Xiao Man smiled and said, "Friends? Your friends are really generous. I think your jade pendant is worth a lot of money."
Lu Chenshuang didn't say anything else, but she still agreed with Xiaoman's words.
Putting aside the significance of this jade pendant, royal belongings must be of good quality.
After everything was packed, Lu Chenshuang took Xiaoman and Guyu to the Lu Mansion.
They went at the perfect time, because the Lu family was in chaos.
Lin had already obtained the evidence that Han had lent money privately, and originally wanted to wait for Lu Chenshuang to come and deal with it together.
But then I thought that as a mother, I couldn’t rely on my daughter for everything.
In addition, Han has been acting up again these past two days. Not only has she provoked her everywhere, but she has also encouraged Madam Lu to set rules for her.
Suddenly, Lin couldn't bear it any longer and revealed the whole thing.
Although Han was afraid at first, she later turned around and accused Lin of wrongly accusing her with the support of Old Madam Lu.
Lin was jealous of her being favored by Lu Zhan and deliberately targeted her.
Lu Zhan already liked Han, and she was also dissatisfied with Lin's private investigation of Han, so it was inevitable that she was a little biased.
So in this matter, Lin was at a disadvantage.
Mrs. Lin was also very angry. She and Lu Zhan had been married for twenty years. How could he be so blind? So her words were very impolite.
All of a sudden, several people started quarreling, and the entire Lu Mansion was in chaos.
As soon as Lu Chenshuang returned to the Lu Mansion, Lin seemed to have found her backbone and looked at her eagerly.
At the same time, she felt somewhat guilty. Her daughter had already pointed out the way for her, but she still couldn't do it. As a mother, she was really useless.
Lu Chenshuang patted Lin's hand, signaling her not to be anxious.
Then he ordered the housekeeper, "Housekeeper Lu, tell the servants that if anyone dares to leak even a word of what happened today, they will be beaten to death immediately!"
Butler Lu had seen Lu Chenshuang's majesty.
Besides, Lin is the one in charge of the mansion now, and no matter how favored Han is, she is just a concubine.
So when Butler Lu saw that Lu Zhan had no objection, he immediately agreed.
Then he tactfully withdrew all the servants.
Then Lu Chenshuang looked at Lu Zhan coldly and said, "If Dad wants the entire Lu family to be buried with Han, just pretend to be deaf and dumb and try to smooth things over."
Although Lu Chenshuang has never been in a good mood towards his father, this is the first time she has looked at him with such cold eyes as today.
Lu Zhan couldn't help but feel a little scared, but then he remembered that he was Lu Chenshuang's father after all, what could she do to him?
So he pretended to cough and said, "What are you doing? I'm your father, how can you talk to me like that?"
Lu Chenshuang glanced at Lu Zhan and asked calmly, "From the looks of it, Dad is determined to protect the Han family to the end?"
Being asked so bluntly by Lu Chenshuang, Lu Zhan said with a guilty conscience: "It can't be considered as protection. We don't know whether the evidence is true or false."
Lu Chenshuang snorted coldly and said, "Since Dad thinks it's fake, let's report it to the authorities. Once the authorities investigate, they will know whether it's true or not."
Hearing this, Lu Zhan quickly interrupted her and said, "You can't report it to the authorities. How can you alarm the authorities for such a small matter?"
Being afraid of the truth being discovered is one thing, but their family had alerted the authorities a few days ago because of the poisoning of Old Lady Lu.
The government was going to investigate the case thoroughly, but he risked his reputation to get them to close the case.
If this matter is brought to the attention of the government again, not to mention the consequences, she would probably be laughed at to death by her colleagues, and she would definitely not be able to escape the blame for not managing her household properly.
Lu Chenshuang looked at this foolish father and said sarcastically, "Dad actually thinks that lending money privately is a small matter.
Do you know that the imperial court has been investigating this matter recently?
Because this incident has already resulted in a loss of life.
Just wait, within ten days, a large number of people will be beheaded and exiled to the border.
Fortunately, no one was killed in our family, but I'm afraid that other families will be forced to sell their children.
So Daddy just needs to clean his neck and wait to be slaughtered or exiled. "
Lu Zhan was really frightened when he heard this, and stammered, "Really, is it really that serious?
You are not lying to your father, are you?"
Lu Chenshuang glanced at him and said, "Do you think I have any reason to lie to you about this?
Did you know that I just came back from the palace yesterday? "
What Lu Chenshuang said was half true and half false. It was true that she went into the palace yesterday, and it was also true that the emperor ordered people to investigate the matter thoroughly.
But she didn't get this information from the palace.
But Lu Zhan didn’t know. He only knew that Lu Chenshuang was quite liked by the Queen Mother and the Eldest Princess.
Since she has some friendship with the Emperor and the King of War, it is not surprising that Lu Chenshuang can get inside information.
If this matter is really as serious as Lu Chenshuang said, and Han is lending money at high interest rates, then their Lu family will probably be killed as an example to others.
The more Lu Zhan thought about it, the more frightened he became, and his eyes turned cold as he looked at Han.
Han had followed Lu Zhan for so many years, so she naturally knew what his eyes meant.
She was also extremely frightened, she knelt on the ground with a plop and said, "Master, don't listen to Lu Chenshuang's nonsense.
It's just a loan, it's not that serious. She was just trying to scare you."
When Lu Chenshuang heard this, she smiled at Han. Han also realized that she had said something wrong and was incriminating herself, so she quickly covered her mouth.