The adopted daughter returns with a new face

The next day, after Mu Rongchen left court, he heard his brother say that his mother asked him to go out and bring back a woman he liked. He left the palace without saying a word, went to the post station to see Ouyang Mingtai and the others off from Beijing, and then turned around to the Ministry of Justice to receive his punishment.

Lan Rufeng had no appetite due to drunkenness, so he drank a bowl of porridge from morning to noon, and rested in his room without any energy. He played with the night-shining pearl awarded by the emperor, and his mind was full of thoughts about what he had done to Mu Rongchen. He stuffed the night-shining pearl into his arms in annoyance, stood up, picked up the folding fan and went out.

"Sir, are you going out? Dinner will be soon." Lan Shi, who was guarding the yard, asked when she saw her master coming out.

"Shi'er, I have something to do at Master Lan's mansion. Don't wait for me for dinner, have it on your own." Lan Rufeng gave the instructions and walked towards the front yard.

Lan Shi followed her master to the front yard and watched him leave the house.

Lan Rufeng ran to the Lan Mansion, and when the guards and the butler Lin Chengdong saw him, they were happy to invite him into the hall.

"Mr. Lan..." Lin Ruyan couldn't help but smile when she saw Lan Rufeng and put down the dishes she had just served.

"Princess, can you give me an extra pair of bowls and chopsticks?" Lan Rufeng asked with a smile.

"Don't be so formal, come and sit down." Lin Ruyan smiled and invited Lan Rufeng to sit down, and signaled Xiaoyue to get a set of bowls and chopsticks.

"Mr. Lan, my husband said that you saved Prince Ouyang in Cangshan and only suffered minor injuries. You are so amazing." Mu Liangyan looked at Lan Rufeng and admired him very much.

Lan Rufeng reached out from his bosom, took out the night-shining pearl, handed it to Mu Liangyan and said, "This is a gift from the emperor. I am offering it to the baby in the princess' belly."

"How can that be? It's impossible." Mu Liangyan rejected Lan Rufeng's kindness and was secretly surprised that his father actually rewarded him with a night pearl.

"Mr. Lan, this is a reward from the emperor. Please keep it well." Lan Ruyun also refused. Although this thing was precious, there was still one in Nan'an's family.

"It's useless for me to keep this thing! You can't eat it, so just consider it as a gift from me to the baby." Lan Rufeng stuffed the night pearl into Lan Ruyun's hand without caring.

"Mr. Lan, this thing is too valuable. You should keep it for yourself! And give it to your wife in the future." Lin Ruyan said with a smile.

“No, no…” Lan Rufeng waved his hand decisively and said, “I don’t need this thing, so I’ll give it to the baby. I won’t prepare gifts for the baby in the future. I treat the princess as my mother. If you don’t accept it, I won’t come here to eat for free in the future.”

"This..." Lan Ruyun looked at the night pearl in her hand and didn't know what to do for a moment.

"Ruyun, then just take it." Seeing that Lan Rufeng had said this, Lin Ruyan couldn't refuse and let her son take it first.

Xiaoyue fetched the bowl and chopsticks, poured a bowl of rice and placed it in front of Lan Rufeng, then stepped aside. Lan Rufeng was not polite at all, he picked up the bowl and started eating, and everyone else also picked up their bowls and chopsticks to eat.

After the meal, Lan Rufeng drank a cup of tea before asking Lan Ruyun if she had done anything after drinking too much yesterday! What did she say?

"Young Master Lan pulled me and said he felt dizzy and wanted to go home. I wanted to send Young Master Lan back, but the prince told Jinshu and I to go back first and he would just take me there. So Jinshu and I went back first." Lan Ruyun answered truthfully.

"How could you leave me to Prince Rong? That's not responsible at all." Lan Rufeng blamed Lan Ruyun, forgetting for a moment that his words were too extreme.

Lan Ruyun didn't expect Lan Rufeng to blame him. Lin Ruyan and Mu Liangyan didn't expect it either. Lan Ruyun explained: "I just thought that the prince's house was next to yours, so it was just on the way."

Lan Rufeng then realized that she had been too direct and explained with a smile: "Prince Lan, don't misunderstand me. What I meant was that I tend to act recklessly when I'm drunk and I'm afraid of offending Prince Rong." As soon as Lan Rufeng finished her explanation, she saw that everyone was staring at her. She really wanted to bang her head against the wall. The more she explained, the worse it got.

"Mr. Lan, you are afraid of offending the emperor's uncle, but aren't you afraid of offending your husband?" Mu Liangyan was unhappy.

"No, Princess, don't misunderstand me. I will not offend the prince." Lan Rufeng really wanted to slap himself in the face.

"Why, Mr. Lan, are you so sure that you won't offend your husband?" Mu Liangyan is not stupid, how could she be so easily fooled?

Everyone in the hall was curious about why Lan Rufeng was so sure that he would not offend the prince. They all stared at him with inquiring eyes.

"Princess, I have always regarded Prince Lan as my brother, so I will naturally not offend you." Lan Rufeng could only explain this way. She no longer knew how else to explain in order to dispel their doubts.

"Okay Liangyan, stop teasing Master Lan." Lin Ruyan stopped her daughter-in-law and said, "Some people don't know what they will do when they are drunk. Master Lan must be worried that he might offend Prince Rong if he drinks too much, so he came to ask Ruyun, right?"

"Princess, it's still me who understands me." Lan Rufeng breathed a sigh of relief.

"At the morning court, I didn't see anything unusual about the prince. When I was leaving the Ministry of War, I met Lord Chen, and he said that the prince went to the Ministry of Justice to receive the emperor's punishment." Lan Ruyun said.

"Then I'll go down and see Prince Rong, and then I'll take my leave first." Lan Rufeng became interested when he heard that Mu Rongchen was given the board.

"Mother, do you think he is looking down on the Emperor's uncle? It's more like he is trying to take advantage of his misfortune." Mu Liangyan said unhappily as she looked at Lan Rufeng who was leaving.

"Let them handle their own affairs as men. We shouldn't interfere." Lin Ruyan tried to comfort her unhappy daughter-in-law so as not to affect the baby in her belly.

"Don't you think what he said just now is strange, mother? He clearly said that he tends to act recklessly when he's drunk. Does that mean that if you treat your husband as your brother, you can tell a person apart? There's something wrong with this guy.

Look at that half of his face, it's smooth like jade, how can there be any masculinity that a man should have? It's even smoother than a woman's skin, maybe he's a woman dressed as a man. "Mu Liangyan's cursing words surprised Lin Ruyan and everyone else.

"A woman dressed as a man..." Lin Ruyan's mind kept flashing back to Lan Rufeng's half face. She looked at her son who had returned, stepped forward and pulled him, saying, "Ruyun, Liangyan said that Master Lan might be a woman dressed as a man. Go and check for your mother."

Lan Ruyun was also surprised to hear his mother's words. He had never doubted it, but his martial arts skills were higher than his own, and Xiaohong was guarding him. How could he go to investigate? He was afraid that he would be discovered before he even got close to her.

Mu Liangyan didn't expect that her careless words would lead her mother to believe them. She looked at her stunned husband and said, "Mother, that guy is so skilled in martial arts, and Xiaohong is guarding him. I'm afraid my husband will be discovered before he even gets close to him."

"Can't you think of another way?" Lin Ruyan was hit hard by her daughter-in-law and asked her son helplessly.

Lan Ruyun understood what her mother meant and smiled to comfort her: "Mother, Master Lan's martial arts cannot be mastered in just a few years. And the painting he gave to the Queen Mother, didn't Scholar Chen say that without more than ten years of accumulated painting skills, it is impossible to paint a white?"

"Where did Feng'er go? Why doesn't he want to come back to see his mother?" Lin Ruyan couldn't help but feel disappointed. The hope that had just risen was extinguished in an instant.

"Perhaps Feng'er is worried that she will not be able to break away from her marriage to Prince Rong if she returns, or maybe she doesn't want us to see her sad." Lan Ruyun said softly. If her sister were alive, she would know that her marriage to Mu Rongchen would be a shackle, so she didn't want to come back.

Mu Liangyan felt bad when she heard her husband's words and apologized: "I'm sorry, mother. Please don't be sad, okay?"

"Liangyan, mother is fine." Lin Ruyan comforted her daughter-in-law. She knew better than anyone that Feng'er was in a difficult situation. Because the Lan family and her husband, a son and a daughter were far from enough to restrain the royal family, her marriage with Mu Rongchen could not be ended just because she wanted to.