Chapter 104 Return on Investment
On the way to the front yard of the Lu family, Qin Heng unconsciously lagged behind Qin Sheng by two steps, his eyes fell on his tall figure, his Ah Sheng, who was handsome and elegant, like a tall little poplar.
As soon as Qin Heng slowed down, Qin Sheng noticed it, and he also stopped and looked back in confusion, "Big brother?"
Qin Heng patted Qin Sheng on the shoulder, "Ah Sheng, big brother thank you."
Thank you for your hard work to grow up and make yourself excellent, and then let Lu Songli recognize you, and then be willing to lend a hand to the Qin family. Her reminder, whether it is useful or not, is better than their ignorance before the reminder.
Qin Sheng looked confused, and couldn't understand what his big brother thanked him for? Obviously he didn't do anything.
Qin Heng smiled, his younger brother, a fool has a fool's luck.
The Qin family's troubles are right in front of them. If Lu Songli didn't recognize him, she could have said nothing today and secretly asked her father to ask Emperor Kang Cheng to cancel the engagement between the two families. Given how much favor Lu Songli enjoyed in front of Lu Desheng, he shouldn't refuse.
So what if the Queen Mother ordered the marriage? The Lu family has a golden medal of immunity from death, and Lu Desheng has a say in front of Emperor Kang Cheng. If the Lu family is willing to use the golden medal of immunity from death, it is not impossible for her to cancel the marriage. At most, she will lose a layer of skin.
For Qin Sheng, if he can't figure it out, he won't think about it. Anyway, his brother won't hurt him. Compared with his elder brother's vague thank you, he is more concerned about how his elder brother protects His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who has already gone north.
His younger brother's question made Qin Heng fall into deep thought. He thought that he should tell Silang about the prediction that the Crown Prince might get into trouble in the north as soon as possible, to see if he can catch up with the Crown Prince's team: then he will send a letter to his father by carrier pigeon, asking his father to send someone back to the rear to meet His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. It's just that if the Crown Prince doesn't get into trouble on the way, he will be stable later.
Then, the question came, how to pass the message to Silang? It is not easy to send a letter by carrier pigeon, because Silang is a moving point, and pigeons must have a fixed route and a fixed place to land.
Silang and his group set out yesterday. Given his eagerness to return, he is probably far away now, and there is more than one way to the northern border. Even if someone chases them, ordinary soldiers may not be able to catch up with them.
"Brother, I'll go!" Qin Sheng asked.
Sige has been on the road for a day and a night plus half a day. With Sige's speed, he must be fast. Ordinary people can't catch up with him, but he can!
"Okay, you go." Qin Heng thought about it for a while and agreed, "After telling him the news, you will rush back, okay?"
If the person chasing Silang is Asheng, then the problem that he thought was difficult for ordinary people just now is not a problem. Silang is with people, and not all horses are top-notch horses, so it is good for them to travel 600 miles a day, and Asheng can travel 800 miles a day. As for tracking which road they take, Asheng is good at this, so there is no problem.
He calculated the walking distance and it should be no problem for Ah Sheng to come back before the 15th.
******
After the banquet, brothers Lu Zhiyuan and Lu Mingzhi accompanied Lu Desheng to see the Qin family out.
After seeing off the guests, Lu Songli invited Lu Desheng into the study.
When Lu Zhiyuan and Lu Mingzhi saw their mother move Xiao Wuzi to sit by the door, the brothers knew that they had something important to discuss.
"Brother, I'm going back to Winter Garden. Are you going to leave? Or do you want to go to the study to listen?" Lu Mingzhi asked. On major matters, the two brothers can't make the decision, but as a family, it's okay to listen. Today's matter is not small at first glance, and the degree of confidentiality is quite high. As for him, it's better to hide if he can.
Lu Zhiyuan shook his head with a painful face. He couldn't keep up with their thinking, so he didn't humiliate himself. Otherwise, he would deeply doubt that he was not his biological child. Otherwise, why are the differences between children so big with the same parents?
Lu's Study
Lu Songli personally poured a cup of tea for her father and served it with both hands.
Lu Songli had greeted her father about the conversation she had just had with Qin Heng, and the father and daughter had a brief communication. After sending the Qin family away, she repeated the conversation to Lu Desheng.
In fact, if everyone had held a meeting together, she wouldn't have to go through so much trouble. But this is very necessary, because she has two identities, the Qin family's unmarried daughter-in-law. The key is that she hasn't married yet, and hasn't fully integrated into the Qin family. If she insists on dragging her father along, it will make both parties uncomfortable. Now, it's a bit troublesome, but things are going smoothly.
In the study, Lu Songli told her father about her inference. Then she confirmed with him again the true situation of the emperor's dragon body, which was the basis of her inference.
Hearing his daughter's question, Lu Desheng did not hide it, "The emperor's dragon body is indeed not very good." Although the emperor always looked rosy and energetic every time he summoned him or the ministers, he knew that this was all due to the excitement after taking the elixir. He noticed that the emperor was taking medicine very frequently now.
"Dad, I received a message saying that someone was secretly asking Wei Zili about the emperor's current physical condition."
"You mean someone is spying on whether the emperor's dragon body is healthy?"
"Yes."
Lu Desheng: How could he not know? He meant, why didn't that person ask him?
It can be said that he is the minister who has had the most contact with Emperor Kang Cheng in recent days, except for Wei Zili. The other party secretly found Wei Zili and then avoided him accurately? Why? How is he worse than Wei Zili?
Lv Songli thought that it was normal that no one asked her father for information. Her father was currently labeled as a loyal emperor. "If those people really came to you, they would have to worry about being sold to the emperor by you." In addition, the Qin family was about to marry the Lu family, and the other party had included the Qin family in their plan. As long as they didn't want the plan to be exposed, they would never think of buying information from her father.
Lv Desheng thought about it and it seemed that he would really do it. Because no matter how much these people gave, it was not as much as Emperor Kang Cheng gave. Besides, he didn't dare to sell the emperor's news, because he was afraid that Emperor Kang Cheng would kill him after knowing it.
"Wait, the person behind the scenes, who asked Wei Zili for the emperor's news, must have acted very carefully and secretly. How did you know so carefully?" Lv Desheng asked the doubts in his heart.
You know, because he was in front of the emperor, those palace maids and eunuchs were happy to be on good terms with him, and they were very willing to reveal some news to him. Now even he didn't know the news, but his daughter actually knew it. When did his daughter grow so long? It has already reached the palace?
"Forget it, you don't have to tell me." Lu Desheng thought it was good for his daughter to have some power in her hands.
Lu Songli felt that there was nothing she couldn't say. During this period, after getting her father's approval, she used the power and resources of the Lu family to extend some tentacles and develop some power.
The person who handed her the news this time was none other than the eunuch Xiao Lizi who led her the way when she met the queen mother last time.
As the saying goes, meeting is fate. After she came back from the palace that day, she invested some money in eunuch Xiao Lizi through her father's network.
Eunuch Xiao Lizi himself was also very hardworking. It wasn't long before he moved himself from a leading eunuch to serving in the Yugan Palace.
He was the one who passed on the news that someone had approached Wei Zili.
To be honest, she just invested casually and didn't expect to have such an unexpected gain.