My concubine is pregnant, I tear up the marriage certificate and marry another powerful official

Zhang's eyes revealed a deep hatred, and she pointed at the door and yelled, "Get out! Get out now!"

Watching Lu Yanxiu taking Liu Qiuqiu away without any reluctance, she covered her face and cried, her heart chilled to the point of trembling.

It's fine that the maid looked down on her, but she even treated her own son like this! He is really Lu Chengye's son, how cruel!

Mingchun rummaged through boxes and cupboards to find a set of clean clothes, brought them to the bed and said tremblingly, "Madam, calm down. I will change you into clean clothes, otherwise you will catch a cold if you delay for too long."

"Ming'er, you must bring the young lady here." Zhang was in a daze, muttering something, and then let Mingchun help her change her clothes, looking out the window from time to time without saying a word.

Mingchun was a little afraid that the eldest lady would do something to hurt him and get him into trouble, so he left after changing quickly.

When they returned to Tingyuxuan, Liu Qiuqiu was nestled in Lu Yanxiu's arms, crying inconsolably.

"My mother died of illness. I just saw the eldest lady and felt very sad. That's why I wanted to take care of her and do what I can... I'm useless and can't do even the smallest things well..."

There was a hint of seductive stickiness in Liu Qiuqiu's crying voice, which might be annoying to others, but Lu Yanxiu had gotten used to it over the years and was very fond of it.

Thinking of Zhang's shrewish look, he couldn't help but said: "The affairs of Youranju have nothing to do with you in the future. You just need to teach Yi'er and Jiao'er well in the future."

"I know it."

Mingchun took the excuse of serving new tea and took a look inside the room. Seeing the two people clinging to each other, he really felt sorry for the young lady.

Outside the yard.

Lu Yi brought back a little cat from somewhere and tied a rope around its neck so that it couldn't go anywhere.

Mingchun came out of the house and saw it, and kindly reminded him: "Young Master, cats are scratching people, you better be careful!"

Three-year-old Lu Yi smiled brightly, held the cat in his hands and patted it: "It's okay, it will be obedient...ah!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the cat struggled and scratched itself several times, then jumped out of Lu Yi's arms, hid in the corner of a tree, and looked at the two of them vigilantly.

The two scratches on the back of Lu Yi's hand were burning with pain.

Mingchun hurried into the house to find medicine for wounds, and when he came out with the medicine, he didn't see Lu Yi.

"Where did it go?"

After searching the courtyard for a while, Mingchun couldn't find anyone, so she gave up. She went into the house and reported the matter to Lu Yanxiu so that he would know about it, otherwise it would be her dereliction of duty as a maid.

The next morning, the light was dim and the sky was filled with morning glow.

Lu Yanxiu kept his promise and went to the Su family in person to pick up Su He and bring him back home.

Seeing his indifferent attitude, Wang and others just told Su He to take care of himself and ignored him.

Lu Yanxiu knew that this change in mood must have happened. Perhaps Su He said something bad in front of his father-in-law and mother-in-law.

Inside the carriage, Su He quietly looked at the shops on both sides of the street. Lu Yanxiu secretly glanced at her several times, fingers intertwined nervously, and finally couldn't help asking: "Master Lu came to the mansion yesterday, was it to discuss something important with father?"

Lu Huaihe relied on the fact that he was the eldest princess' only son, and he was very proud of himself in front of him. Lu Yanxiu couldn't get along with him, and he didn't have the courage to ask his father-in-law, so he had to test the waters in front of Su He.

Su He looked back at him with calm eyes, "The emperor likes riding and shooting, and he wants to hold a hunting ceremony in the hunting ground. As the Minister of Rites, father should take care of this matter. However, the eldest princess and Princess Xianyin will also participate in this ceremony, so Lord Lu came here to instruct on the matter. It seems that my husband has been so obsessed with the joy of Sister Liu entering the mansion these days that he doesn't even care about the affairs of the court."

Her tone was steady, without any sarcasm or ridicule. Lu Yanxiu found it irritating, as if Su He was mocking him for not caring about his career, which was why he had no chance of advancement.

"So that's it..."

There was a trace of shame on Lu Yanxiu's face. He rubbed his hands between his knees and said nothing more.

The carriage stopped at Lu Mansion.

Su He went straight back to the Osmanthus Courtyard, but as soon as he stepped into the yard, he saw a pool of bloody and hairy corpses.

Pei Xia screamed, and bravely went to the front to check. She turned it over with her hands, and suddenly vomited!

That's a cat.

The bloody little cat was ripped open, had its mouth cut, and had its limbs cut off!

"Who threw it in the Osmanthus Courtyard? Who is so bold?" Pei Xia was afraid that the young lady would feel sick when seeing the cat, so he quickly ran into the house and got an old piece of clothing to cover the little cat.

Su He never liked having too many people serving her, and her only personal maid was Pei Xia. Once they left, there was no one in the Osmanthus Courtyard, so no maid noticed what happened.

Su He frowned, and a hint of sharpness flashed in his eyes.

The blood had already coagulated, and it seemed that he had been dead for a long time.

The Lu Mansion is so big, but they only threw the cat in her yard?

Su He couldn't bear to look at it a second time.

She asked Pei Xia to put the cat in a wooden box, wrap it with cloth strips, and carry it into the hall.

"Miss, this is going to..."

Su He said, "The cat was obviously tortured to death, and it showed up in my yard. It was clearly a provocation. Look carefully in the yard. Is there anything else suspicious?"

Pei Xia quickly put the cat back into place, and his heart ached as he looked at its broken body.

"It's a life after all. Who has such a vicious mind?"

In the hall.

Pei Xia called all the servants in the mansion here, a total of fifty people.

When they saw Su He sitting upright in the hall, his cool eyes revealing a hint of majesty, they couldn't help but become quiet, not daring to say a word.

"Madam, everyone is here. Is there anything you want to tell me?"

After Butler Zhu counted the number of people, he stood beside Su He obediently, looked at Su He's expression carefully, and suddenly felt that something bad was going on.

Pei Xia presented the wooden box covered with a cloth, placed it in front of everyone, and said loudly: "Young Madam has something to ask. If any of you know anything, just speak up."

As soon as this was said, everyone started to guess what had happened?

"No one in the mansion keeps a cat, but there is a little cat in the osmanthus courtyard. Do you know who it belongs to?"

Hearing Pei Xia's voice, Ming Chun, who was standing at the end of the crowd, suddenly thought of the calico cat that Lu Yi brought back, which disappeared after biting him yesterday.

Before Mingchun decided whether to raise her hand to answer, someone had already spoken: "I have seen the young master holding a cat. He picked it up from the back door of the Lu Mansion. It is white and yellow in color, about this long..."

The maid used her hands to measure the length of the cat, and the facts were indeed similar to what she described.

Su He understood, and sent housekeeper Zhu to invite Lu Yanxiu first. As soon as he returned home, he went to Ting Yuxuan, thinking about Liu Qiuqiu all the time.

Soon Lu Yanxiu came over and saw the hall full of servants. He thought she was making trouble again, and his face sank. He asked Su He, "What are you doing?"