The dim back

When Zhang Fengxue heard Zhang Yulu say this, he jumped up with joy: "Sister is the best to me. She gives everything to me."

Zhang Yulu actually just wanted her sister to see the situation clearly.

What no one expected was that Zhang Fengxue actually made a request to Yu Xiaoyao: "I hope you will come to my house to propose marriage soon. I hope you will keep your promise."

Yu Xiaoyao had indeed said this before, that he would marry Zhang Fengxue as long as Yu Cailian could be saved, but no one expected that Zhang Fengxue would be so anxious to marry him off.

As an intellectual woman, Yu Cailian readily agreed: "Sister Fengxue, we two must live in peace in the future. If you don't accept me, I can leave here."

Yu Xiaoyao was a little angry: "Who allows you to leave me? You have to stay by my side for the rest of your life."

Yu Xiaoyao said this to Yu Cailian. In Yu Xiaoyao's impression, his sister is omnipotent. Yu Xiaoyao laughed and said, "Zhang Fengxue, a real man is bound by his words. I will definitely do what I say, but I have to inform my parents first."

Zhang Yulu felt that something was not right: "Yu Xiaoyao, originally your family did not agree with you and your sister becoming husband and wife. Now you are making the decision on your own and marrying Zhang Fengxue. I'm afraid that Lord Yu will not agree."

This is something that everyone knows, and almost everyone knows it, but no one points it out.

Liu Zhongqing said at the side: "Our marriage is not a joke. It should be arranged by our parents and matchmakers. I hope you can handle this matter well, otherwise Yiren Villa will not let you go."

Yu Xiaoyao certainly knew that the matter could be big or small. If Zhang Fengxue came into the family, she would definitely be married in a grand sedan chair with eight bearers. Yu Cailian could only serve silently from below.

Zhang Yulu was still worried that her sister would suffer, so she suggested, "If Lord Yu disagrees, you can marry into Yiren Villa."

As soon as Zhang Yulu said this, Yu Xiaoyao immediately stood up to refute: "How could I, a man, marry into a woman's family? What are you thinking?"

Faced with Xiaoyao's attitude, Zhang Yulu immediately made a decision: "I know that Master Yu cares about his reputation in the martial arts world. Similarly, we little girls also care about our reputation. We can't let my sister follow you for no reason, right?"

Seeing Zhang Yulu constantly fighting for the pocket for his sister, Liu Zhongqing laughed: "You are just like a housekeeper. You haven't asked the person concerned for his opinion yet. Ask Zhang Fengxue what he thinks?"

Zhang Yulu turned around and asked Zhang Fengxue: "What exactly do you want to do? Tell me what happened. I want to hear it."

Hearing his sister ask him this, Zhang Fengxue naturally expressed his thoughts: "I just want to be with Brother Yu now, and other things can be discussed."

Zhang Fengxue now understood that his sister was ridiculous: "If you follow this person for the rest of your life, you will never have a good life. You will only be suppressed by him for the rest of your life, and everything will revolve around Yu Xiaoyao."

Zhang Yulu looked at Yu Xiaoyao who was standing beside him and said, "As a grown man, quickly explain the matter to me."

Yu Xiaoyao looked at Zhang Yulu's expression and knew that she was indeed very nervous. As for his sister, Yu Xiaoyao nodded and said, "I will try my best to satisfy everyone and will not let you, my sister, suffer any loss."

Zhang Yulu seemed to have thought of Yu Xiaoyao's thoughts: "I don't want you to marry your sister and put her aside like a vase every day. She is your wife, you should know how to get along with your husband and wife."

Hearing Zhang Yulu remind him, Yu Xiaoyao understood: "I still need to think about this matter, but before that, I will definitely ask my parents to come and propose marriage, hoping to give me a chance."

Zhang Yulu nodded: "Since Zhang Fengxue herself agrees, it will not have any effect if I insist on it. Let's move in a positive direction."

After Zhang Yulu finished speaking, she held Zhang Fengxue's hand tightly and said, "Come home with me now, don't embarrass yourself here. You are the second young lady of our Yiren Villa, so you must be more careful about what happens next."

Zhang Fengxue had no choice but to look at Yu Xiaoyao reluctantly: "I'll go back with my sister first. You must go and propose marriage as soon as possible."

As soon as the two sisters walked out, Liu Zhongqing said to Yu Xiaoyao: "We are both men and we both understand our own situations. We are actually similar, but I just want to handle this matter well. I hope we can have a chance to discuss it in the future."

Yu Xiaoyao knew it very well: "I am different from you. What I did is equivalent to stepping on other people's relationships. But you are different. You just let your parents make the decision, but your beloved Qiufeng girl didn't come out to cause trouble."

Liu Zhongqing looked at Yu Cailian on the bed. Seeing Yu Cailian's appearance, Liu Zhongqing had an idea in his mind: "Yu Xiaoyao, don't just look at the surface of some things. Some people may be around you for your whole life and you may not be familiar with them. You should slowly get to know them first."

Yu Xiaoyao felt that there was something behind Liu Zhongqing's words, so he asked directly: "My Lord, please tell me what you want to say. I will accept it with an open mind."

Liu Zhongqing covered his mouth and laughed: "You should slowly experience it yourself. We can only understand this matter intuitively, not in words."

When Liu Zhongqing walked out of the door, he saw Zhang Yulu and Zhang Fengxue waiting on the side. The three of them hurried back to Yiren Villa.

Zhang Yulu was the first to warn Fengxue: "Before the Yu family comes to propose marriage, don't meet Yu Xiaoyao or Yu Cailian in private. This will cause a lot of trouble."

Because Zhang Yulu knew that there was a plot in the novel where Zhang Fengxue happily went to find Yu Cailian, but it turned out that Yu Cailian was not as simple as she seemed, she was a very scheming woman.

Liu Zhongqing winked at Zhang Yulu, who immediately understood: "Wait for me for a moment. I have something to tell you later."

Zhang Fengxue watched the interaction between the two and started to complain: "You are really interesting. You two are an engaged couple flirting with each other and then trying to stop me from being with my beloved. I wonder what you two are thinking."

No matter what Zhang Fengxue said, Zhang Yulu didn't want to argue with him. Zhang Fengxue said to Zhang Yulu, "Things have come to this point. We shouldn't say anything now. Go back to your room now."

Sometimes Zhang Fengxue was afraid of his sister, so he had to return to his room reluctantly.

Looking at Zhang Fengxue's receding back, Zhang Yulu stared closely at Liu Zhongqing. Liu Zhongqing knew clearly in his heart, "Did you hold back a lot of words? To be honest, when you two just left, I observed Yu Cailian."

Zhang Yulu nodded: "You are really smart. This Yu Cailian is really not as simple as she seems. Otherwise, how could she, an orphan who was picked up by someone, live in Yujiabao for so many years? He would make Yu Xiaoyao willingly marry her."

Liu Zhongqing also thought so: "Originally, Yu Cailian knew that he would not live long, so he had to give up reluctantly. Now that his condition has improved, he will definitely hold on to what he has worked so hard for so many years. How could he give up so easily?"

When Liu Zhongqing mentioned this, he thought of the things in his own inner house: "You know my little aunt Yan Si Niang, she is really vicious sometimes. That's why mother and the second aunt never intervene. Sometimes it's not because they can't speak out, but because Yan Si Niang is very resourceful."

When Zhang Yulu heard Liu Zhongqing say this, she of course understood why Liu Zhongqing had mentioned it: "I know why you brought it up. We're going to go out and live alone in the future. Are you afraid that I can't deal with Yan Si Niang?"

Liu Zhongqing was also thinking about Zhang Yulu: "Because there are fewer people in your Yiren Villa, there will be no fighting in the backyard."

Zhang Yulu nodded: "My mother died early, and now there is only one concubine Fang in our house, otherwise Zhang Fengxue and I would be tormented like fire."

Hearing Liu Zhengqing's words, Zhang Yulu also told the truth: "I really don't have any way to deal with the things in the backyard of the mansion, so I want to go out and do business on my own."

Liu Zhongqing certainly understood Zhang Yulu's idea: "Don't worry, I will definitely help you with this kind of thing, but my followers mentioned something to me these days."

Zhang Yulu knew the highlight was coming: "Tell me what you want to hear."

Liu Zhongqing had never been fond of his family's business, so he could only speak out about this matter and discuss it with Zhang Yulu: "When I was escorting a batch of goods, my followers said that the goods suddenly turned into a pile of white paper, and the good cloth disappeared. What do you think happened?"

Zhang Yulu touched his chin and said, "The people who usually come into contact with these mismatched people should be the escort officers. Are these escort officers from your family?"

Liu Zhongqing shook his head: "We always delegate some escort agencies, and then they load the goods onto the ships, so the crew can also get in touch with them."

Zhang Yulu felt that this matter was a bit difficult: "Did the people guarding the ship secretly sleep during the escort? Did they neglect their duties and drink alcohol? This would easily lead to the loss of goods. This is obviously the result of the goods being replaced by someone else."

Liu Zhongqing also thought so: "I have always disliked my family's business, but in this case, someone actually stole from our house. This is a matter for the government. Since it is a matter for the government, I must intervene in this matter to the end."

Zhang Yulu randomly asked Liu Zhongqing: "Who is the escort officer at the dock?"

Liu Zhongqing shook his head: "These are all people arranged by my father. Since Zhang Laojiu disappeared, I don't know who is in charge of this matter."

Speaking of Zhang Laojiu, Zhang Yulu's heart skipped a beat: "Although Zhang Laojiu is still alive, he will definitely linger on. I feel that he will make a comeback. The two of us must be careful."

Facing the last incident, only Concubine Xiao died. It seems that things are still quite difficult. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

Zhang Yulu felt a little depressed when she thought about this: "Did we do something wrong? That's why we implicated your family. Your family is a royal merchant. Anyone who can accept your family's things must be very brave."

Liu Zhongqing nodded: "If we can't deliver the goods on time, the ladies in the palace will start to make trouble, the most important one is the Queen Mother, my grandmother, who has never been very kind to my mother."

Zhang Yulu found it very strange: "How can a mother be bad to her daughter?"

This is another story. Liu Zongqing told Zhang Yulu, "In fact, the Empress Dowager was not my mother's biological mother. My mother's biological mother was a palace maid at the time. Her status was too low. After giving birth to my mother, she was secretly executed by the late emperor. So my mother was naturally handed over to the Empress Dowager, who was the queen at the time."

Hearing Liu Zhongqing say this, Zhang Yulu suddenly realized: "So your mother is the eldest princess, and the Queen Mother is not sincere to her, then your mother must be very sad, right?"

Liu Zhongqing nodded: "You know now, right? My mother insisted on marrying my father. Logically, my mother should marry a nobleman. She would never marry a common businessman. This was my mother's decision at the time."

Hearing Liu Zhongqing say this, Zhang Yulu suddenly understood: "The eldest princess wanted to stay away from the disputes in the palace, so she married into the common people."

Liu Zhongqing didn't expect that Zhang Yulu could actually understand the eldest princess's thoughts. It seems that women understand women better.

Zhang Yulu recalled that it had been written in the outline that the eldest princess died suddenly, but in fact, she was secretly executed by the empress dowager. The specific details will be discussed later. He hoped that this would not happen.

Zhang Yulu reminded Liu Zhongqing: "Now the two of us should keep an eye on the dock. You never know when the cloth from your family will appear at the dock. It is a huge batch of cloth, used to make clothes for all the ladies in the palace. If the Queen Mother does not pursue it, I think this matter can be resolved."

Liu Zhongqing nodded: "The Empress Dowager has always believed that my mother is a disgrace. She is reminding herself that the eldest princess is not as good as a palace maid. The Empress Dowager has never given birth to a child in her life. The moment she saw my mother, it was as if she was reminding herself of her own shortcomings."

Liu Zhongqing's words made Zhang Yulu feel a little sad: "No wonder the princess doesn't want you to serve as an official in the court. It turns out that she is afraid that the queen mother will have a head-on conflict with you."

Liu Zhongqing didn't want to talk about this matter anymore: "Don't think it's so bad. It's hard to say whether the cloth can be delivered to the palace as scheduled. There are still five days left. My followers are also slowly looking for clues."

Zhang Yulu was helpless and could only activate his system: "Who on earth hijacked this batch of cloth?"

The system reminded Zhang Yulu: "Host, you have very few knowledge points that can be used now. If you ask this question, I will not be able to continue to answer your other questions next time."

Zhang Yulu thought about it, gritted her teeth and nodded, agreeing: "Then I will use this knowledge point on this problem."