Surprise! The villain is my brother, stay calm!

After arriving at Linyuan, Lin Tao considerately settled Lu Zhanxing's family first and let them go fishing and play near the fish pond.

The men went hunting, and they all had a great time.

Someone was a little too attentive and even hunted a rabbit for my third sister to play with.

Lu Zhanxing felt something was wrong, so he grabbed a certain attentive young man, Lin Tao, and asked, "What do you want to do?"

Lin Tao said with a smile: "Isn't this for the sake of letting all the young ladies have fun? What do you want, Master Lu?"

"Hmph, you'd better be sensible and don't have any evil ideas. Even if my third sister is divorced, she will not look down on you." Everyone in their family has a gene for beauty. Although Lin Tao is not ugly, he is not handsome either. Her sister will definitely not like him.

She didn't judge people by appearance, nor did she value power. She just felt that her third sister would not like someone like Lin Tao, and was worried that Lin Tao's efforts would be in vain, so Lu Zhanxing deliberately made it clear.

Lin Tao also knew that he was not up to the Third Miss, but he couldn't help asking, "I heard that your Second Sister also married a merchant, why can't I?"

Lu Zhanxing looked Lin Tao up and down. He was not ugly. He had regular features and was quite tall, but a little fat. He had small, smiling eyes. Wouldn't he be out of place if he entered his own home?

"Although my second brother-in-law is a merchant, he also has a very good-looking appearance. Do you have the same appearance?"

Um, he really doesn’t have that.

But Lin Tao seemed to have heard the hidden meaning, and asked with a bitter face: "Does it have to be good-looking?"

It’s too late to go back to the drawing board now!

It’s all his father’s fault. Why did he pass on his appearance to himself? Even if he looks like his mother, he is still handsome!

Lu Zhanxing patted his shoulder with his folding fan sympathetically: "Be obedient and stop daydreaming!"

After saying that, she happily joined the conversation between the prince and his two friends, not giving Lin Tao any chance at all.

Lin Tao was extremely depressed, but as the owner of this forest garden, Lin Tao still took care of everyone in a tactful manner.

Liu Xu smiled and said to Lu Xifei: "Young Master's good friend, Mr. Lin, is really a considerate person."

Lu Xifei held the little rabbit Lin Tao brought over and agreed with a smile: "Yes! It's quite interesting."

The new cousin followed Lu Xifei obediently and nodded as well.

The Princess of Yan was already circling around Zhao Ningxiu, and seeing that the two of them seemed to be attracted to each other, Lu Zhanxing and the third prince nodded with satisfaction.

Today's goal has been achieved.

When leaving, Zhao Ningxiu expressed his gratitude solemnly: "I will never forget your kindness today."

Lu Zhanxing smiled and nodded: "Brother Zhao, you are too polite. You can interact with me more often in the future."

"It is better to obey orders than to be respectful!"

The two of them tacitly confirmed their alliance.

Within two days, the emperor issued an edict to confer the title of Ningyuan Marquis on Zhao Ningxiu, granting him a mansion and various rewards, and also issued an imperial edict to grant him marriage.

The once impoverished Marquis Xuanping rose to prominence in an instant. With his relationship with the Princess of Yan, even the emperor had to protect him. The Marquis Xuanping's mansion once again went from being deserted to being bustling with people.

When Marquis Xuanping learned that all this was done with the help of Young Master Lu, he pondered for a moment and thought that Master Lu needed to win him over, so he helped the Marquis Xuanping's Mansion.

Although the Xuanping Marquis Mansion is in decline, it still has many in-laws. They didn't visit them before, but now they will definitely try their best to climb up to them.

The Xuanping Marquis Mansion must remember this favor. Without Lu Zhanxing's matchmaking, their Xuanping Marquis Mansion would have fallen into complete decline.

From now on, the Xuanping Marquis Mansion can only follow the lead of the Anguo Duke Mansion.

Lu Zhanxing went to see his grandfather happily, but he didn't expect that his elder brother was also talking about the Princess of Yan.

The old Duke said: "It's good that the Princess of Yan has not become a helper to any prince!"

Lu Zhanxing retorted with a smile: "But they are the helpers of our Anguo Mansion!"

The old Duke and Lu Zhanyan were stunned, and the grandfather and grandson looked at each other, somewhat confused.

Then Lu Zhanxing told everything he had planned during this period, and he raised his head with great pride, as if to say, "Brother, look, I care so much about you!"

After the old Duke was stunned, he couldn't help but look surprised: "Well, you kid, you have done such a big thing without making any noise, well done!"

In order to help Princess Yan, the Marquis Xuanping's Mansion and the Marquis Ningyuan's Mansion will be on the side of Duke Anguo's Mansion in the future. It doesn't matter if they are in a bad situation now, but with the relationship with Princess Yan, these two marquises will seize every opportunity to climb up.

Seeing his brother waiting for his praise, Lu Zhanyan couldn't help but smile: "Well done!"

After getting the praise he wanted, Lu Zhanxing's smile became even brighter. Seeing the two brothers helping each other like this, the old Duke was completely relieved. Even if he died now, he would have no regrets.

He said to his eldest grandson, "Although you were in the Imperial Academy before, His Majesty was afraid of you and did not allow you to become a close minister to the Emperor. He specially arranged for you to be the head of the Ministry of Rites. On the surface, you seem to be very glorious, but in the end, you are not as good as the Cabinet..."

Lu Zhanyan also had a gloomy face: "Grandson knows that I have decided to support the Second Prince. What do you think, grandfather?"

The old Duke thought for a moment and said, "That's fine. The Imperial Concubine has been demoted and the Second Prince has been demoted. It's a low point for him. It's just the right time to help him."

"Yes, grandson knows."

Seeing his elder brother and grandfather discussing the future development of the Duke of Anguo's Mansion, Lu Zhanxing felt excited and suddenly remembered the incident with the Zhao family. Maybe he could even win over the Prime Minister's Mansion.

So he told his eldest brother about this matter: "Brother, I received news that the wife of the Prime Minister, Zhao, has a lover in the manor, who goes to the manor every month to check the accounts..."

When the Old Duke and Lu Zhanyan learned the news, they sighed again, saying that Xingdi's "Skynet" was too powerful, and that he even knew such a secret matter?

Seeing that his grandfather and elder brother looked shocked by him, Lu Zhanxing felt a little embarrassed. They thought that it was the news obtained by Skynet.

Yes, that's right, I am Skynet and Skynet is me!

So be it!

Lu Zhanyan knew that Prime Minister Su’s wife had such a big handle. After thinking for a moment, he realized that this matter could be profitable.

She had been thinking that if she wanted to surrender to the Second Prince, she would have to show her loyalty. So would it be feasible to win over the Prime Minister's Mansion for him or to split the relationship between the Fourth Prince and the Prime Minister's Mansion?

Although Su Xianxin has married the Fourth Prince and the two seem to be bound together, what if the Prime Minister knows that Su Xianxin is not his biological daughter?

It doesn’t matter whether she is or not. What matters is to make the Prime Minister’s Mansion think that she is not.

Then the Prime Minister may not necessarily help the Fourth Prince, and it is possible that he will turn around and support the Second Prince and the Fifth Prince.

And I made Prime Minister Su break with the Fourth Prince, which was enough as a token of my allegiance.

Even if the Prime Minister is ruthless enough to acknowledge this daughter, that's fine. It's okay to have a gap between them. Seeing the Fourth Prince being humiliated, the Second Prince should be very happy.

"Xingdi, thank you!"

"We are all family, don't be polite. By the way, I plan to live in a farm in the suburbs for a while. I feel relieved to have my eldest brother in charge at home." She has decided to live in the farm for a while and then find two handsome men to cultivate feelings with.

Lu Zhanyan disagreed: "Why do you want to live in the manor?"

Lu Zhanxing chuckled: "I just got a few beauties, so I want to be unrestrained. It's not good to do that in the mansion, so you understand, big brother..."

She told him the reason she had thought of long ago.

Lu Zhanyan was about to say something but stopped himself, feeling a little guilty. If it weren't for him, Xingdi could have married a woman he liked.

When the old Duke heard his grandson's righteous tone, he couldn't help but say, "Grandfather knows that letting you marry Xianye is unfair to you, but you should also pay attention to your image. You know the ancestral rules that you cannot take concubines if you don't have a child by the age of 40..."

He was afraid that his grandson would go too far and end up having a lot of illegitimate children.

"My grandson knows that I won't let them have a chance to get pregnant."

If you want to get pregnant, do it on your own!

Oh, it’s so hard to be a woman!

Now she is just testing herself, and will talk about the child later.

After making the decision, Lu Zhanxing asked Liu Xu to pack up, as she was going to have some free time!