Chapter 28 Prediction Comes True

Chapter 28

The next morning, Xie Zhan received replies from the Lu family and the Qin family. They both rejected the post.

Xie Zhan was puzzled by the fact that the two posts were rejected at the same time.

He could understand that the Qin family refused the invitation. After all, the Zhao family had broken off the engagement with the Qin family. What happened to the three families of Zhao, Lu and Xie had nothing to do with the Qin family. Moreover, the Qin family had their own pride as military commanders, so it was reasonable for them not to accept the peace talks organized by him.

But the post sent to the Lu family was also rejected, which was beyond his expectation.

In his expectation, Lu Songli, as his fiancée, was now challenged in status. In addition, the Lu family had just rubbed the Zhao family to the ground yesterday. He felt that no matter what the reason, the Lu family should accept the invitation and come to negotiate with a high attitude.

At present, the Lu family acted as if they refused to negotiate, as if they didn't care about the thoughts and opinions of the Xie family and his fiancé. Xie Zhan keenly realized that something he didn't know had happened.

Just as Xie Zhan was still thinking and pondering the possible problems, the servant in his yard ran towards him, "Oh no, oh no, young master!"

"What happened?"

"Miss Zhao committed suicide by cutting her wrists in the middle of the night last night. It is said that blood flowed all over the floor, staining the floor of the room red."

After the initial surprise, Xie Zhan asked calmly, "What else?"

He did not ask whether Zhao Yutan was dead or not. She must be still alive. The Zhao family would definitely not let Zhao Yutan die like this. If she died, then the Zhao family would really lose everything. However, this time she committed suicide by cutting her wrists, plus the previous hanging, the same trick has been used twice. If the previous time was just a show, then the Zhao family would definitely not dare to fool people again.

"The maidservant who accompanied the bed was awakened by the smell of blood, and then she found out that something had happened. The imperial physician guessed that Miss Zhao waited until the maidservant who accompanied the bed fell asleep before she took action."

"Did the Zhao family invite an imperial physician?"

"Yes, the doctors invited from outside shook their heads after seeing the case, so the Zhao family had to hold on to her life with ginseng, and then went to the palace to ask for the imperial physician."

"What is the situation at the Zhao family now?"

"Miss Zhao is still in a coma, and the imperial physician said that if she can wake up, she can live, and if she can't wake up, she can't live."

After listening to the servant's words, Xie Zhan fell into deep thought. Did he guess wrong? Did the Zhao family go too far? Did Zhao Yutan really commit suicide because he couldn't bear it? But his intuition denied his guess.

Then, this was still intentional by the Zhao family. The Zhao family spent a lot of money this time, and what they sought was just to survive after being put to death, and this "survival" also requires an opportunity. Xie Zhan thought again that the Zhao family's desperate move was not like Zhao Wenkuan's style, but rather like they were sure that someone was backing them up...

He narrowed his eyes slightly and ordered, "Go and find out what news the Zhao family has about the follow-up! Also, find out who has visited the family in the past two days, and where the master has been and who he has met."

Not long after, his people brought him the news he wanted.

Because Miss Zhao left a suicide note before committing suicide, saying that her reputation was tarnished because of the drowning incident, she had already decided to die: later the family was slandered and impeached because of her, and she wanted to solve it but failed, and her behavior might even bring a second blow to the family, and she felt ashamed to live in the world.

Mrs. Zhao Luo went to the government office alone and asked the Chang'an Ling to order the arrest of the gossipers who had recently spread rumors and slandered her daughter. Since Zhao Yutan was still unconscious and very likely to not wake up, the Chang'an Ling agreed. At this time, the yamen runners were arresting people everywhere, and Chang'an City was in chaos.

Xie Zhan saw at a glance that the Zhao family was killing two birds with one stone. First, they could frame the Lu family and then directly defeat the rumors. Second, they could force the Xie family, which actually gave the Xie family another chance to break off the engagement. In the final analysis, everything the Zhao family did was aimed at the Lu family.

Another thing that Xie Zhan had just asked to be investigated also had a result. When he saw Zhao Wenkuan's name on the visitor list, his face darkened slightly. His father had accepted the Zhao family's surrender. No wonder the Zhao family dared to act so radically.

Xie Zhan was in a bad mood at this time. His father was really too anxious. He clearly said that this matter was not urgent, and he would wait and see, and not rush to make a conclusion! This was also the first time he tasted the bitterness of being a young patriarch.

Xie Mingtang: It's not that he was anxious, it was really that the Zhao family gave too much, and it was difficult for him to refuse.

At this point, Xie Zhan planned to see how the Zhao family would continue this drama!

People's joys and sorrows are not the same. Compared with the Zhao Mansion, which was shrouded in gloom, the Lu family seemed peaceful and harmonious.

Xu Erge left the city early in the morning. After all, he had to take care of the family's livelihood of slaughtering pigs. Lu Desheng got up alone to see him off. On weekdays, he had to attend the morning court and got up early. After seeing off Xu Erge, he went back to the house to rest.

Because today was a day off, her father did not have to report to the Imperial Censorate. Lu Songli quickly wrote a prescription early in the morning, asked someone to get medicine from Doctor Zhou, and then boiled two large pots of Chinese herbal medicine for washing hair.

Lu Songli took her mother to wash her hair together and used one pot. For the other pot, she asked the servants to scoop the boiled medicine juice into a wooden barrel and bring it to the main courtyard for her father to use.

In ancient times, women had long hair because they had grown their hair since childhood. Her hair was waist-length, but because of her poor physical foundation, her hair quality was also poor. As the saying goes, hair is the residue of blood, so it was expected that her hair quality was poor. When she takes her own medicine to take care of her body, and then uses the secret Chinese medicine recipe to nourish her hair, her hair quality will definitely improve.

In ancient times, washing hair was a big project. There is no hair dryer here, and it takes less than an hour or two for such long hair to come out from washing to drying.

Didn’t you realize that in order to complete this big project, the imperial court invented a holiday? Xiu Mu Xiu Mu, as the name suggests, is a day for officials to wash their hair and take a bath. Her father washes his hair on holidays and only on ten days, which means that her father washes his hair only once every ten days.

Women in later generations are somewhat mysophobic, and Lu Songli is no exception. Ask her to wash her hair once every ten days, but she can't do it. Before wearing it, she would wash her hair every other day. Here, washing once every five days is the limit of what she can endure. Not to mention that her hair quality is not good, it is the type that is frizzy and easy to get oily. When Mo Bing combed her hair before, he liked to apply osmanthus oil on it to make her hair greasy and shiny. I couldn't think about it anymore. She just had a chill.

"Don't tell me, your hair smells pretty good after washing with this concoction." Her mother said when the mother and daughter were lying on the couch to dry their hair.

"That's right." Lu Songli had just said that this recipe was a secret hair care recipe that she had bought in the past. It contained more than ten Chinese medicinal materials such as Platycladus orientalis leaves, Polygonum multiflorum, dried ginger, angelica and so on. The amount of Polygonum multiflorum was also Not low, of course the smell is good. And if you wash your hair regularly with this recipe, it also has the effect of growing black hair.

The news that Zhao Yutan committed suicide by cutting his wrists reached the Lu family. The Lu family had dried their hair and were preparing to eat.

Lu Songli curled her lips, it was still the same old trick, she had been told in advance not to use this trick all the time. As expected, Guizhou donkey has no skills!

Her mother, Mrs. Jiang, shook her head after hearing this, "Again? It's only been a few days since the last hanging, and this time you cut your wrists to bleed? Isn't it just another pretense?"

Lu Songli smiled, "That's not possible. We have invited the imperial doctor. The palace has been alarmed. Zhao Yutan must have been stabbed, and the blood must have flowed." It is certain that Zhao Yutan suffered a lot.

"Master, Madam, Second Miss, Miss Zhao also left a suicide note." The servant who inquired about the news said with a grimace.

"What did the suicide note say?"

"The general meaning is that her reputation was ruined because of the incident of falling into the water, and she had already begun to die. Later, her family was slandered and impeached because of her. She wanted to apologize and explain, but in vain. When she thought about her behavior, she might even bring harm to the family. When the second blow came, she felt that she could not survive in this world.”

Lu Songli said in her heart, what a big basin of dirty water! Look, what he said, implicitly or explicitly, didn't he mean that the father and daughter were forcing her to death?

Snap! Jiang was so angry that she slapped her chopsticks on the table, "What does she mean?"

This suicide note is full of controversy and will really make people think about it.

"Auntie, let's not be angry." Lu Songli sat close to her and rubbed her back to calm her down. The words in this suicide note did mean something, but they didn't name him by name, so they didn't want to check on him.

"My daughter is right. You can write whatever you like in someone's suicide note. They didn't name anyone in it. It has nothing to do with us. Don't react so fiercely." Lu Desheng also looked like the old god was here. Humph, Zhao Mansion also That's all.

When Jiang saw that the father and daughter had exactly the same look on their faces, she turned her anger into a smile and said, "Okay, I'm not angry anymore."