Reborn Queen

After seeing Lu Yanxiu's actions, An Jingrui let out a low laugh. Sure enough, he couldn't hide anything. Dang even admitted it openly: "Waiting for you, how can you say you waited so long?"

"I'll say nice things, let me guess, did you do something sorry for me?" After hearing An Jingrui's words, Lu Yanxiu stretched out his hand and squeezed An Jingrui's ears before removing the teacup on the table. He brought it over and replaced An Jingrui with a cup of tea.

At this time, Feichen had already brought Lu Yanxiu's servants onto the boat just now. According to his previous experience, the prince would not want these servants to disturb his solitude with Mr. Lu.

"Don't you just miss me that much? If you want to say sorry to you, last night..." An Jingrui looked at Lu Yanxiu, leaned close to his ear and whispered something, and sat back in his seat. Then he looked at Lu Yanxiu with a smile, "Does it count?"

"Of course!" Lu Yanxiu looked serious, but that's not what he said when he straightened An Jingrui's clothes.

"Spring hunting, don't you know how to go?" Seeing Lu Yanxiu's "duplicity", An Jingrui didn't expose it. He propped his chin with one hand and looked at Lu Yanxiu with starry eyes.

"Of course, I'm late today because my little brother just asked me to meet, and I can't shirk it if I say anything I want to go to spring hunting." Lu Yanxiu said, thinking of Yan Qi's courtship to his eldest brother just now, he couldn't help laughing laugh.

"If I didn't know that the princess is your younger brother, I'd be jealous." Seeing the smile on Lu Yanxiu's face, An Rui narrowed her eyes. Although she knew she didn't mean to love her younger brother, she showed such a look for another person. It's also really unpleasant.

"Even Yan Qi's jealous, like a child." Hearing An Jingrui's words, Lu Yanxiu was not angry, but instead smiled dotingly at An Jingrui.

"Why don't you come with me when the time comes? Let's go get a leader!" Traveling all year round, how can you do it without self-defense skills?Not only Lu Yanxiu, An Jingrui's skills are also very good.

"Xiaoyao is also interested in the leader?" Seeing An Jingrui's high-spirited look, Lu Yanxiu couldn't help but laugh. All of them are interested in the leader.

"Also?" An Jingrui rolled his eyes when he heard this word, and immediately understood why, "The princess is also interested in the leader?"

"It's so smart." Lu Yanxiu gave An Jingrui an appreciative look, "I even asked my elder brother to help me."

"It seems that I have no hope." An Jingrui touched his chin as he spoke, looking a little disappointed, but turned his eyes towards Lu Yanxiu, as if he was calculating something.

"Huh?" When Lu Yanxiu saw An Jingrui's reaction, what else did he not understand?Immediately reached out and pinched An Jingrui's earlobe, "What are you thinking about?"

"I'm thinking, the leader is gone, so why don't you want to compensate me?" An Jingrui looked at Lu Yanxiu with a smile in his eyes, and he was not very interested in the leader either. The proposal just now was just to make Lu Yanxiu Just act with yourself during the spring hunt.Now that I know that Lu Yanze agreed to Lu Yanqi's fight for the leader, it probably doesn't matter to them outsiders.

"What compensation does Xiaoyao want?" Lu Yanxiu spoke softly, looking at An Jingrui with a smile in his eyes.

It is quite different from the usual half-smile, at this moment, in Lu Yanxiu's eyes, there is less sharpness that can see through people, and less the calculation that exists all the time, more tolerant, more pampered drown.

"Well... I have to think about it!" An Jingrui stroked his chin, as if he was seriously thinking about "blackmailing" Lu Yanxiu.

Lu Yanxiu didn't speak, but just looked at An Jingrui quietly, as if he would agree to any request made by Lu Jingrui.

"After the spring hunting is over, let's go out of Beijing! How about it?" After An Jingrui finished speaking, he looked at Lu Yanxiu intently, as if he was afraid that he would refuse.

"Although I really want to agree to you, but I can't." Lu Yanxiu touched the bar, and rejected An Jingrui's proposal after a while. After seeing An Jingrui's disappointed eyes, he added slowly, "But Half a month after the end of the spring hunting, it is still possible."

"Ah?" If you say you are overjoyed and saddened, it is nothing more than that.An Jingrui couldn't react for a while, what Lu Yanxiu said just now.

But after a while, An Jingrui came back to his senses and repeated what Lu Yanxiu said just now: "Half a month?"

It seems to be asking, but also seems to be confirming.

"Yes, you have to let me finish my eldest brother's wedding, right?" Lu Yanxiu looked at An Jingrui's surprised and unsure look, a little bit dumbfounded, it seems that last time because of the quarrel between the concubine and An Jingrui, he really will He was quite frightened, otherwise he wouldn't even have to confirm this kind of thing with himself.

"Master Lu is getting married?" Hearing what Lu Yanxiu said, An Jingrui was surprised at first, then relieved, "Speaking of which, Mr. Lu has indeed reached his age."

"Brother's betrothal partner, you know, the woman just got rid of clothes this year, and the parents want to have a grandson, so naturally they can't wait." Speaking of this, Lu Yanxiu shook his head. He used to think about having a brother and a brother, even if he left alone It doesn't hurt if you take the "wrong way".

Who knew that even the younger brother would get married when he returned home this time. Thinking of this, Lu Yanxiu glanced at An Jingrui: "You must know that the elder brother is now shouldering the mission of the entire Lu family."

An Jingrui choked when he heard the words, but he couldn't refute.After Lu Yanqi married his elder brother, he would not have any more children, and he himself would not wish to marry inappropriately. Looking at it this way, the important task of carrying on the family line for the Lu family falls on Lu Yanze, right?

"It's really hard work, brother." After thinking for a while, An Jingrui sighed, his words were helpless.After all, in a sense, he is also sharing the responsibility for them, isn't he?

"Now I know you are called Big Brother? Who called you Mr. Lu one by one just now?" In Lu Yanxiu's mind, An Jingrui is good everywhere, but he is too polite. Even if he has been with him for so long, he calls him his family. The name is also the same as that of outsiders.

Hearing this, An Jingrui glared at Lu Yanxiu. Why was he so oblivious?Is it because the relationship between the two cannot see the light for the time being?What would they do if they got used to shouting and couldn't change it in the future, and were listened to by caring people?

Naturally, Lu Yanxiu knew this truth, and he didn't mess around. Instead, he asked another question: "Why are you so eager to leave Beijing?"

On the day of An Jingrui's birthday party, Lu Yanxiu said that he would not leave Beijing for half a year. At that time, An Jingrui didn't raise any objections. Why did he change his tone today?Judging from An Jingrui's tone just now, it seems that he doesn't want to stay any longer.

"It's not because of the third brother. Recently, the third brother has been acting quite a bit... Father, mother and concubine are not at ease with him. Recently, I have also started to get in touch with the affairs of the court. Don't worry, you know me. Those things, I have seen them all." You have a big head, if you don't leave now, I'm afraid you won't be able to leave after a while!" As he spoke, An Jingrui pouted, with a trace of naivety on his face, he kept pinching Lu Yanxiu's sleeve, and turned to Lu Yanxiu. Lu Yanxiu complained, his tone was exactly the same as when Lu Yanqi was acting like a baby to Lu Yanze.

After finishing speaking, An Jingrui sensed something wrong: people's hearts are always biased, between the third brother and the crown princess, the relationship must be biased towards the crown princess.Now I have talked about the third brother in person, will I think too much?What's more, the third brother seems to be making mistakes recently because of the princess. Do you think that I am complaining for the third brother?

Thinking of this, An Jingrui tightened his grip on Lu Yanxiu's sleeve, his face was also tinged with tension, his eyes drifted, and he was afraid to look at Lu Yanxiu's expression.

Sensing the change in An Jingrui's expression, Lu Yanxiu was a little helpless, but also a little funny, why would he think too much because of this?

"Well...then let's go after eldest brother's wedding, okay?" Lu Yanxiu said, taking the hand that was holding his sleeve back into his hand, and squeezed it lightly.

"Okay! Let's go to Chuzhou first? It just so happens that we can go to Turkic from Chuzhou, and then we can gallop on the grassland..." After hearing Lu Yanxiu's promise, An Jingrui immediately relaxed and began to ask Lu Yanxiu Talking about his plan, he also asked Lu Yanxiu for his opinion from time to time.

"It's up to you to decide." Lu Yanxiu looked at An Jingrui who was talking non-stop with a smile, and didn't say much, just nodded from time to time, expressing his agreement with An Jingrui's opinion.

Lu Yanqi and An Jingxing, who had no knowledge of the plans of the second brother and the fourth prince at this time, had just returned to the Prince's Mansion when they saw Eunuch Jiang who was hesitant to speak.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, Your Royal Highness the Crown Princess." Eunuch Jiang leaned over as he spoke, not knowing what to say next.

Logically speaking, although it is not a common thing for a servant to die in the mansion, it is not worth making a fuss about, but the identity of the person who died this time is somewhat special.

"Speak up if you have something to say." Seeing Eunuch Jiang's expression of not knowing where to start, An Jingxing frowned. Eunuch Jiang is the old man who serves by his side, when did he start to be so ignorant of the rules?

"The girl named Qiu Xin who was brought out from the palace just left." After sensing An Jingxing's displeasure, Eunuch Jiang didn't dare to delay, and immediately told what he had just learned.

"Dead?" Lu Yanqi was stunned when he heard the news. He didn't think of who Qiu Xin was for a while. It took a while before he remembered the maid who was thrown into the stable by him. Lu Yanqi was really surprised.

Lu Yanqi's original intention was just to scare the chickens to warn the monkeys, and he never thought of putting anyone to death. Besides, although the stables are a little bit more difficult and tiring, they shouldn't exhaust a living person to death, right?

"The maids who come out of the palace are more sophisticated than others, and Qiu Xin was personally punished by His Highness, and some of the servants... the news came this morning that it was not very good, and they left just now. "Eunuch Jiang's words were cryptic, but the meaning in the words was there.

Where is the palace maid fine?It is clear that this kind of fine "court lady" cultivated to please the dignitaries was unexpectedly punished by Lu Yanqi and sent to the stable. Can't help it, let alone Qiu Xin.

"The servants who work with Qiu Xin will be fined with ten lashes each for three months, the steward will be fined with twenty lashes for half a year, and the servants in the courtyard will be fined with thirty lashes for half a year!" Lu Yanqi rubbed his brows. How long does the smoke go?Just such a moth!

"This..." Eunuch Jiang subconsciously looked at An Jingxing when he heard the words. There had never been such a precedent in the Prince's Mansion before. "The law does not blame the public", this statement is also reasonable. Although An Jingxing was very clear about rewards and punishments before, he never punished servants on a large scale.

You must know that Qiu Xin worked with at least 30 people before and after, plus stewards, attendants, etc., at least 50 people. This is not a small number. If they are all punished, this news may be...

Although An Jingxing also thought about small punishments and big punishments, he didn't go to the point where Lu Yanqi punished everything from the manager to the servants.But for Lu Yanqi's decision, An Jingxing has never refuted his face. Even if he disagreed a little, he nodded to Eunuch Jiang and expressed his attitude: "In the future, the matters in the mansion will be managed by the Crown Princess. .”

What this means is to tell Eunuch Jiang not to ask him again if this happens again in the future.

"Yes..." Eunuch Jiang leaned over, knowing that he could not escape the punishment this time, so he bent over, turned and left, ready to carry out Lu Yanqi's order.

I have only heard of Lu Yanqi's unreasonable and terrifying before, but the people in the Prince's Mansion have never felt this.One is that Lu Yanqi made several troubles after marriage for the benefit of An Jingxing. The servants in the prince's mansion all had their hearts on An Jingxing. In their eyes, Lu Yanqi's behavior was not only not terrible, but also Very refreshing.

And the second is that because of An Jingxing and An Jingqing, Lu Yanqi not only did not look savage at all, but was also very gentle, so that the servants of the Prince's Mansion almost forgot that this Lu Yanqi who married into the Prince's Mansion The young master of the family is the "little overlord" that people in Beijing talk about.

"Do you think that the law does not blame the public, and my order just now is a bit excessive?" Lu Yanqi returned to the room, closed the door, and then turned to look at An Jingxing.Just now An Jingxing gave him great respect in front of Eunuch Jiang, so likewise, he will not refute any of An Jingxing's ideas in public.

It was also because of this that even though Lu Yanqi had seen An Jingxing's disapproval just now, he still waited until he returned to the room before opening his mouth.

"It's just a trivial matter." An Jingxing didn't think about it at first, but since Yan Qi mentioned it, An Jingxing also wanted to express his own opinion. In An Jingxing's mind, this matter was really not Suitable for big fights.

"Yes, it's just the death of a servant girl. It's not a big deal. To put it bluntly, there are not one or two lives in that dry well in the palace? But Qiu Xin can't die, at least not in the stable!" At the end, Lu Yanqi's voice was involuntarily raised.

Lu Yanqi's first reaction when he heard the news was that the anger in his heart was not because of Qiu Xin's death, but because the servants of the Prince's Mansion were not vigilant at all.

Empress Yuan went early, and it is understandable that An Jingxing was not clear about the pickling in the backyard, but An Jingxing didn't know, is there no one who understands in such a big prince's mansion?

An Jingxing was stunned when he heard Lu Yanqi's words. Before he could figure out why Lu Yanqi said that, he heard Lu Yanqi's next words:

"Everyone knows that Qiu Xin was punished by me to the stables. It's natural for servants to watch the dishes and order food, but now that people are dead, what will outsiders think? They will say that these servants were ordered by me. , will say that my majestic princess can't even tolerate a maid, and even say that you, the majestic prince of a country, can't even manage the backyard!"

As he spoke, Lu Yanqi rubbed the center of his brows, calmed down the anger in his chest, and then continued to speak, this time his tone was much calmer:

"Cultivate one's morals, regulate the family, govern the country, and bring peace to the world. If the family cannot be unified, why govern the country? Now that the envoys from various countries have just entered Beijing, no one knows who, and now that such news is spreading, what do they think of you? The place where Qiu Xin died No, the time is even more wrong! The Prince's Mansion is not so airtight that not a single fly can fly in, if you don't punish severely now, it will be too late when the news spreads tomorrow!"

After listening to Lu Yanqi's instructions, An Jingxing realized the seriousness of this matter. He never thought about it, but a maid died in the backyard, and there was such a great knowledge in it. Seeing Lu Yanqi's tired face again An Jingxing felt guilty for a moment, "It's because I didn't think carefully."

Since Yan Qi married into the Prince's Mansion, the Prince's Mansion not only failed to provide Yan Qi with a stable environment, but he was repeatedly instructed by Yan Qi and enjoyed the benefits brought by Yan Qi. Thinking of this, An Jingxing felt ashamed Worse.

"Eunuch Jiang, what is your background?" Lu Yanqi had never asked the servants of the Prince's Mansion before, but the current situation forced him to ask. Now is the critical moment, even if the people in the Prince's Mansion could not give Jing Xing Bringing help, and must not hold back, Eunuch Jiang's sensitivity to things is too low!

"I brought him out of the palace. My concubine pointed him out to me. He served me by my side as soon as he entered the palace." An Jingxing didn't know why Lu Yanqi asked such a question, but he also said that Having said that, because of Lu Yanqi's tone, he really wanted to simply know Eunuch Jiang's background.

"Let Eunuch Jiang divide half of the power in charge of the mansion in the future. I will call Ru Yan back to the mansion tomorrow. Eunuch Jiang is in charge of your affairs, and Ru Yan is in charge of the backyard." Lu Yanqi immediately understood what An Jingxing said. .

At the beginning, the queen mother probably wanted a clean person, An Jingxing, to teach her, but she didn't expect that she would go there before it was too late.

An Jingxing is a big man, his grandfather is famous, and his grandmother went early, so how can he understand what happened in the backyard?Over the years, the Prince's Mansion has adopted the method of the Prince's personal guards to select servants, and directly investigated the three generations, but they did not expect that the right way was wrong, which led to the current airtight situation in the Prince's Mansion.

But Qiu Xin was different. Qiu Xin belonged to Ji Youyi, which broke the existing balance in the mansion, and revealed a lot of loopholes that had not been managed before.Thinking of this, Lu Yanqi felt a little regretful, it seemed that his decision to transfer Ru Yan away a few days ago was still too early.

"Okay." An Jingxing agreed without even thinking about it. Not to mention that Lu Yanqi only wanted half of it, even if he took it all away, it was a reasonable performance.

But when Lu Yanqi mentioned Ru Yan, An Jingxing thought of a question that he had neglected for a long time: "Speaking of Ru Yan, there is something I would like to ask my wife as a husband."