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Xie Zhichan and Lu Xiuzhu both looked outside the door at the same time, and saw Pei Yi sitting in a wheelchair in the yard with a vigilant look in his eyes, like a tiger or leopard warning an uninvited guest who had trespassed into its territory.

Xie Zhichan stood up and walked to the courtyard, asking, "Why is the prince here?"

Pei Yi glanced at her and looked at Lu Xiuzhu, his tone full of displeasure: "I heard that Princess Anle committed a crime and injured someone at the gate of Qianyuan Pavilion. I came to see what happened."

Dan Feng stood behind Pei Yi, and after hearing his master's calm words, he immediately filled in the details: "You don't know, Princess, when my master heard about this, he was so worried about you that he even wore his shoes the wrong way and rushed to see you."

Pei Yi glared at Dan Feng with an unpleasant expression, causing him to lower his head in embarrassment.

Seeing Xie Zhichan looking at his feet, he shrank back.

Xie Zhichan looked down and saw that Pei Yi's shoes were indeed pointed in opposite directions. He also saw beads of sweat on his forehead. Seeing his rather embarrassed expression, he was actually somewhat touched. He smiled and said to him, "I'm fine. It was the cousin from the Lu family who was injured, but she's fine now."

Pei Yi didn't get the meaning of this smile at all. He just took the initiative to immerse himself in the sourness, and even spoke with a hint of jealousy: "Since it's all right and it's getting late, Princess, please go back with me. There's no need to deal with irrelevant people anymore."

When Xie Zhichan heard the words "irrelevant person", he knew that he was in a bad mood. He thought, "We are in a contractual relationship. You are acting like a fool here." He rolled his eyes at Pei Yi and said to Lu Xiuzhu, "Mr. Lu, I will go back to the mansion with the prince first. Madam Yu will stay in the store to take good care of my cousin. You can rest assured and go back first."

Lu Xiuzhu nodded and said, "I trust Ayuan's medical skills, you can go back."

Pei Yi felt that the sound of "A Yuan" was harsh, and looked at Lu Xiuzhu and said, "Lord Lu should really go back home earlier and pay more attention to the princess, so that she won't go crazy on the street again and hurt people again."

Lu Xiuzhu looked embarrassed and said after a moment of silence: "I will keep an eye on her and prevent her from hurting others again."

Pei Yi knew that Lu Xiuzhu was talking to Xie Zhichan, so he just kept a cold face and did not answer. He let Xie Zhichan push him into the carriage and go back to Prince Yan's Mansion.

Lu Xiuzhu watched as Xie Zhichan's figure disappeared from the carriage and went away with it.

Later, he went to the back hall to look after Zhang Zhitao. Seeing that she was still in a coma and her breathing was steady, he felt completely relieved and returned to the Lu Mansion.

As soon as he returned to the mansion, Old Madam Lu sent someone to invite him over.

When I arrived at Madam Lu's room, I saw Madam Lu and Mrs. Lu sitting inside.

The oil lamp swayed in the evening breeze, casting a shadow on the armchairs beneath them. Both of them had serious expressions.

Lu Xiuzhu was thinking about his cousin and didn't know how to talk to his aunt about it. He felt a headache. Now she called him over in a hurry, and he didn't know if it was because of his cousin.

He asked first: "Grandma, aunt, do you have something to talk to me about?"

Seeing her mother was furious, Lu spoke up for her mother, "Brother Zhu, please try to persuade the princess. It's not our Earl's Mansion's fault that she got her face injured. But why does she keep throwing things in our mansion to vent her anger?

I heard from the nanny in your courtyard that she smashed the house this morning, and when she came back at noon, she smashed the house again after going somewhere.

Even if this family has mountains of gold and silver, it can't withstand her smashing and destroying things like this, right?

Although you have won the first place in the imperial examination and have entered the imperial court as an official, your salary is not enough for her to smash and destroy things in one day. If this continues, our Chiayi Earl's Mansion will be as strapped for cash as it was back then."

Lu Xiuzhu knew that her aunt was only telling the truth. Perhaps she was thinking about the grievance she had suffered when she was the daughter of an earl and had to marry into a merchant family, so she spoke more bluntly.

Thinking of his current salary, he couldn't help but blush.

Thinking of Princess Anle's faults, he wished he could avoid her all day long. Now that he was asked to persuade her with kind words, it was like a plate of fly shit was placed in front of him.

Just thinking about it makes me feel sick.

But the difficulties are right in front of us. We can't let our grandmother, at such an old age, worry about the affairs of the mansion again.

He nodded solemnly and said, "Don't worry, Aunt Grandma. I will persuade her."

Old Madam Lu and Mrs. Lu both breathed a sigh of relief. Although Princess Anle didn't listen to anyone else, Zhu Ge'er was the one in her heart, so she should still listen to him.

At this moment, Zhang remembered that she heard from the maid in the mansion that her daughter went out with Lu Xiuzhu in the morning. She was secretly happy in her heart, hoping that their childhood sweetheart relationship would become deeper, and wait for Zhuge'er to take the initiative to ask Taojie'er to come into the mansion.

Now Lu Xiuzhu came back, but didn't see her daughter, so she asked casually: "Brother Zhu, has Sister Tao gone back to her room? Why didn't she come to greet Grandmother before leaving after she came back?"

Lu Xiuzhu's heart tightened, and he was silent for a moment. He organized his words in his mind, but he still didn't know what to say. He just said, "She is staying in Qianyuan Pavilion for the time being. I want to let my cousin live in the villa on Yanfu Street in a few days."

Why was she sent to live in a separate courtyard when everything was fine, and it was several streets away from the Lu Mansion? As soon as Old Madam Lu and Mrs. Lu heard about it, they knew something bad had happened.

Mrs. Lu was worried and asked hurriedly, "What happened to Sister Tao? Why do you suddenly want to send her to live in another courtyard? Brother Zhu, Auntie only has this one child, please don't scare Auntie."

Now that the topic has been started, it's not that difficult to continue.

It’s just that Lu Xiuzhu didn’t want to make the matter too serious, but his cousin was almost beaten to death, her face was disfigured, and now she’s lying in bed in a coma—

It seemed that no matter what he said, the matter was very serious, so he told Madam Lu and Mrs. Lu everything that happened at the gate of Qianyuan Pavilion in a heavy tone.

Finally, he said to Mrs. Lu, "Don't worry, aunt. Ayuan has treated my cousin. She is not in danger of death now. Someone is taking care of her over there. I will also arrange for reliable servants to take care of her in the other courtyard in the future."

Worried that his aunt was still unwilling to put his cousin in the other courtyard, he added, "That place is farther away from here, so the princess won't run into her again. The other courtyard is also close to the Yunjing Temple, and I think my cousin will feel better if she listens to Buddhist music."

When Mrs. Lu heard that Princess Anle had scratched Tao Jie'er's face, she was shocked, frightened and angry.

She only had this one daughter in her life. Although she was not a great beauty, she was pretty and charming. Now her face was ruined. What would she do with the rest of her life?

The men in the family never valued Tao Jie'er. They disdained her because she was a daughter and could not inherit the family business, and it was even more impossible for them to stand up for her.

For a moment, Lu didn't know who to talk to about her grievances. After thinking it over, her mother, who gave birth to her and raised her, became the only person she could confide in.

She threw herself on Madam Lu's lap and cried, "Mother, please help Sister Tao! Even though Princess Anle is of royal blood, she shouldn't treat a child from a commoner family like this!"

Old Madam Lu was also shocked when she heard this. She was stunned for a long time and could only blame Princess Anle for being too lawless!

She just hugged her daughter and lamented, "What a misfortune for our family! How could our Lu family marry such a vicious woman with a heart of a scorpion!"

Lu Xiuzhu buried his head and said nothing. Listening to his grandmother's cry, a thought suddenly flashed through his mind. He thought, this was probably retribution, retribution for their Lu family's breaking their promise and canceling the marriage with the Xie family.

But he couldn't say this out loud, because it would hurt his grandmother's feelings. Even his aunt had the right to hurt his grandmother's feelings, but he couldn't.

Perhaps this is what he deserves. If he receives a favor, he must also suffer resentment.