Volume 2: Residence in the Capital Chapter 99: Secret Letter and Password
In the past, he had often visited Lu's residence, so Zhu Er didn't need a guide. Halfway through the journey, he had already thrown off the steward who was leading the way, rolled up his sleeves and rushed towards his goal. However, before he could see the gate from a distance, he heard Lu Sanlang's angry shouting.
"If you have the guts, don't lock me up. Just beat me to death. You never treated me as your son anyway!"
After hearing these words clearly, Zhu Er, who had just wanted to meet Lu Sanpang and give him a good beating, suddenly slowed down his pace and felt a sense of sympathy.
He is the same. His father doesn’t love him, his grandmother doesn’t care about him, and his mother died a long time ago...
Thinking of this, Zhu Er quickened his pace again. When he broke through the two stunned Lu Mansion guards and entered Lu Sanlang's yard, he saw the little fat man circling in the yard like a trapped beast, shouting desperately for death.
"I might as well just bang my head against the wall and die..."
Zhu Er took a deep breath, rushed over like a whirlwind, grabbed the man by the collar and slapped Lu Sanlang. Then, he didn't know where he got the strength from, but he grabbed the little fat man who was much heavier than him and dragged him into the room.
Zhu Gongquan, who was one step behind, saw this scene, hesitated for a moment, then turned to look at the steward beside him: "My second young master has such a temper, it is really offensive. Can you ask Minister Lu to see me? I want to apologize in person on behalf of the second young master."
However, Zhu Gongquan was just trying it out, thinking of getting in touch with Lu Wan to test her attitude, and he didn't hold much hope. Unexpectedly, the steward was only slightly stunned, and then said with a smile: "Everyone knows that Zhu Gongquan is the confidant of Duke Zhao who stayed in the capital. Even if my master doesn't see anyone else, he will definitely see you, please."
Zhu Gongquan walked a few steps and saw that Ah Liu did not catch up with him, and he couldn't help but feel moved.
Lu Sanlang was awakened by Zhu Er's forceful dragging into the house. Before he could get angry, he saw Zhu Er, with a ferocious look on his face, forcibly driving the two girls out.
Faced with such an abnormal situation , his eyes lit up, and he was not angry but happy. He completely forgot the burning pain on his cheek and asked quickly, "Zhu Er, did my young master ask you to come?"
"What do you mean by little master?" Zhu Er, who was furious, said with a dark face, and then said angrily, "I want to entrust Yingying to you because I trust you. But you are just like your father, playing tricks on me, and you even regard...you regard your love rival as a master. Do you have any ambition?"
"Don't compare me with my father!" Lu Sanlang, who was angry and embarrassed, first refuted Zhu Er's words , and then said unhappily, "Besides, I can't afford your sister. She was just forced by my father to act, and she doesn't like me! As for the young master... I just tried it casually at first. Who would have thought that he was really capable and was the last disciple of Master Ge!"
At this point, Lu Sanlang said impatiently: "Did the young master ask you to come? If not, I'm busy and don't have time to waste with you!"
"You... well, talking to me is a waste of time!" Zhu Er was furious, "If Zhang Shou doesn't rely on me, he can save you!"
Realizing that Zhu Er was really sent by Zhang Shou to rescue him, Lu Sanlang immediately smiled. Just as he was about to comfort Zhu Er, the next moment, he heard the door creak, and when he turned around, it was Ah Liu who entered the room.
Zhu Er was so frightened that his scalp went numb and he shuddered. He thought about how Ah Liu had dragged him to see Zhang Shou in front of his grandmother, and no one seemed to have pursued the matter afterwards. He immediately realized that this guy was not easy to fool. When he was about to explain, he saw Ah Liu coming to him with an expressionless face, as if to say, "I don't want to talk, just looking at you."
Zhu Eryu remembered his mission, looked around in panic, and suddenly rushed over to kick over the stool, overturned the pen holder, and shouted loudly: "Lu Sanpang, you dare to play tricks on me, I will make you pay..."
Seeing Zhu Er starting to perform a one-man show, Ah Liu looked at the stunned Lu Sanlang and said calmly, "Bring a message or a letter, just say it."
"Oh, this is it!" Lu Sanlang quickly took out a piece of paper folded into a small square from his arms, unfolded it and showed it to Ah Liu. On it was a seemingly ordinary family letter, with each sentence separated by punctuation marks.
But when there are several consecutive words, or when one or two words are skipped, an inexplicable horizontal line will often appear, which looks extremely strange.
Ah Liu looked at it up and down for a while, then said thoughtfully: "Used the password?"
Lu Sanlang didn't expect that Ah Liu knew what the password was, and he was immediately overjoyed: "You know it too? The young master told me yesterday when we were doing a night sweep of the Jiuzhang Hall at the Imperial College that there are many ways to use this password, and he also taught me a lot of tricks. Ahem, this was not written by me. My father sent someone to arrest me just to see if I could crack the password, and I secretly copied a copy without telling him."
Upon hearing this, Zhu Er, who was still making a scene over there, immediately stopped what he was doing with his hands and mouth, and felt even more bitter in his heart.
Could it be that Lu Sanlang really has some talent for mathematics?
Lu Sanlang originally wanted to show off that his father finally paid attention to him, but when he saw Ah Liu staring at him without saying anything, he said angrily, "I didn't solve it."
Zhu Er was immediately furious and smashed the pen holder. Why are you showing off when you haven't figured it out yet?
Before the two former dandies could start fighting again, Ah Liu suddenly interrupted and said, "It seems someone is coming!"
Zhu Er was still smashing things around, and Liu had such sharp ears, how could he hear it?
Lu Sanlang was very surprised by the man who had such a good ear, but what he didn't expect was that Ah Liu ignored him and turned around to walk towards the door. He hesitated for a moment, and didn't care how Zhu Er would destroy the things in his room, and hurried to catch up. They walked one after another, and Zhu Er suddenly felt like a meaningless clown, and stopped in dismay.
"Sanlang, Sanlang!"
Following the voice, a middle-aged woman walked into the yard quickly. When he saw the person coming, Lu Sanlang's face of anger suddenly turned into grievance. He immediately passed Ah Liu, ran forward, knelt down and hugged the person's thighs, crying without hesitation.
"Mother, I finally got an award from the Emperor, and I planned to study hard in the Imperial College! But my father was so unreasonable that he sent someone to arrest me and even broke my hand!"
Well, at this moment, I absolutely cannot say that my father brought me back to crack some secret letter...
As Lu Sanlang spoke, he showed his mother the cut on his finger, and then he burst into tears: "It was obviously my father who caused this. He was so eager that I had to marry Zhu Ying. Now, Zhu Er has come to my house to ask for an explanation. I am more wronged than Dou E! Mother, I am now a disciple of Ge Men. The young master said that he would let me be the head of the dormitory. That is the head of the dormitory of the Imperial College..."
Ah Liu calmly put the note into his arms. Seeing that Lu Sanlang was still crying and Zhu Er was looking at him with his big mouth like a fool, he quietly retreated into Lu Sanlang's room.
After quietly leaving from the back door, he jumped up to the top of the wall to take a look at the terrain while no one was around. He didn't bother to care about the mess outside, and in a moment he slipped out from the side door of the front yard of the Lu family in the dark. When he appeared beside Zhang Shou and Zhu Ying's carriage and knocked on the window, the coachman and his entourage outside had not yet reacted.
Zhang Shou, who had drawn the curtains, was also surprised, especially when he saw that only Ah Liu was there, and Zhu Er and Zhu Gongquan were not there. Before he could ask any questions, Ah Liu took out the note and handed it to him. He quickly took it in his hand, carefully read this ordinary family letter, and then stared at the seemingly messy lines and began to ponder.
This... seems to be, should be, probably a code? Is Lu Sanlang passing on a message, or is he testing him?
