Golden Branch

“…That’s how it is!”

Wang Heng wasn't too surprised.

Although I didn’t expect a miracle doctor, I can accept it.

As for Shisan Niang's choice, Wang Heng understood it even more.

Wang Hengju knew a few years ago that Zheng Shisan was a very sober person.

She knows exactly what she wants and is able to work hard towards her goals.

Her behavior may not seem so pure, but it is a wise move.

She is a smart person.

What Wang Heng likes most, besides absolute loyalty, is intelligence.

A person can be bad, but he cannot be unfaithful, and certainly not stupid!

After getting married, Shisan Niang's focus seemed to shift and she began to focus on her own family.

However, when she finds out that the little home she thought was harmonious and beautiful is not really happy and beautiful, and may be full of crises, she will make a new choice.

In the eyes of a paranoid person like Lou Yu, Zheng Shisan's words and actions are a bit two-faced.

Wang Heng, however, could accept and tolerate it.

What she looks at is never the so-called sincerity, but the real results.

As the saying goes, "A gentleman judges by deeds, not by the heart." As long as the result is what she wants, Wang Heng doesn't care about the reasons, process, heart, purity, etc.

Although Zheng Shisan had some small calculations, a closer look showed that she had not done anything to betray Wang Heng.

At most, it's not pure enough.

Impure loyalty is still loyalty.

It was just within the range that Wang Heng could tolerate!

Wang Heng met Zheng Shisan's gaze and nodded slowly, "Okay, I understand! I'll tell my brother about this."

If Wang Heng wants to intercept something, she can do it herself.

However, letting Lou Yu come forward would be more foolproof.

After all, what Lou Yu controls is not only his own personal power, but also the secret power of the Eastern Palace and even the Taiji Palace.

Lou Yu has sufficient manpower, and with the clues that Zheng Shisan had investigated in advance and her support in the Prince Rui's Mansion, it will definitely be faster and safer.

Wang Heng knew Lou Yu's strength best, and Zheng Shisan also had some understanding of it.

Therefore, upon hearing Wang Heng's words, Zheng Shisan felt relieved: "With Lord Lou taking action, there's absolutely no room for error!"

Zheng Shisan had a smile on his face, but he was swearing in his heart: Yang Sanqi, you want to have the best of both worlds and have wives and concubines, it's really a foolish dream!

……

In the evening, Lou Yu came back from the Dali Temple and went to the princess's mansion first as usual.

After Lou Yu sat down, Wang Heng told him about the miracle doctor.

"Female priest? Surname Li, name Mingtang? Has she ever treated the plague in West City?"

Lou Yu sat cross-legged, one elbow resting on his knee, playing with the teacup in his hand.

He slowly reviewed the report Wang Heng had relayed from Zheng Shisan. "Hmm, quite interesting. I'll send someone to West City to investigate."

"And that Asu, I'll also send someone to keep an eye on him!"

Lou Yu's brain worked rapidly, and he made many arrangements in the shortest time possible.

As the prince's confidant, Lou Yu knew better than anyone how harmful heart disease could be to Queen Li and the prince.

Such a perfect prince, because of these minor flaws in his heart disease, caused people like the King of Yan to have delusions.

If there really is a miracle doctor who can cure the illness of the Supreme Mother and son, the Crown Prince's position as crown prince will be more secure.

"Yeah, brother, you're always careful and prudent when doing things!"

Wang Heng trusted Lou Yu and believed even more in his abilities.

It would be fine if he didn't know. As long as he got a clue, he would be able to find the miracle doctor before Prince Rui's Palace.

"You little girl, you only know how to coax me with sweet words."

"No way, I'm not just talking, I've personally prepared a gift for you!"

After finishing the serious business, the "brother and sister" started to make noise.

"Gift? What gift? Where is it?"

Lou Yu put down the teacup and stretched out his slender white hand in front of Wang Heng, as if asking for something.

He had known for a long time that Ah Heng was sewing a sachet with her own hands.

However, it took her a full year and a half to make this sachet, from the autumn of the previous year when she carried the coffin back to her hometown, to the whole of last year, and then to the early summer of this year, and she still hadn't finished it.

Lou Yu knew that his little girl was spoiled and never blamed her for being lazy or slow. He felt sorry for her and didn't want Ah Heng to suffer.

However, when he first heard that the little girl was doing housework, Lou Yu was full of anticipation.

And this expectation, after nearly two years of long waiting, slowly turned into helplessness——

His Ah Heng was indeed born into wealth and raised in luxury, and was extremely delicate.

She has never suffered hardship, and she will never put herself in a difficult position.

Looking back on the first half of the little girl's life, which lasted more than ten years, the only hardship she had endured was probably the "bullying" from Lou Dalang when she was young.

Of course, for Yu Louyu, even when he was a little naughty in his childhood, he still liked Wang Heng and never bullied her.

But for Wang Heng, who was abandoned by her family, she did compromise and endured all kinds of humiliation to Lou Dalang in order to live a good life in Zhuangzi.

To this day, Lou Yu still remembers the quarrel he had with Wang Heng.

That time, Wang Heng completely exploded, no longer "enduring" and instead turned into a little troublemaker.

It was at that time that Lou Yu realized that Ah Heng was not without temper, she was just enduring and enduring.

Come to think of it, how could a young noble lady from a noble family not have her edge?

Wang Heng was never a little white rabbit, but a little fox.

She is the best at judging the situation and disguising herself.

Lou Yu initially liked Wang Heng because she was well-behaved, gentle, and didn't cry.

Now, Lou Yu is very tolerant and even indulges Wang Heng's mischief.

He and Aheng are not like Xiao Wuzhi and Wang Mian, whose love is purely that of adults.

And they are mixed with too many emotions.

Family love? Yes!

Friendship? Yes!

Love? Only half!

Lou Yu has the love and exclusiveness that a man has for a woman, but the little girl has not yet realized it.

Lou Yu's hands rested on his knees, twisting slightly. He was calculating the remaining days of mourning for Ah Heng for the umpteenth time.

Aheng lost her father and had to observe mourning for three years, which strictly speaking was a total of twenty-seven months.

Now, more than half has passed and there is less than a year left.

Less than a year, ten months, it feels so long!

Well, not that long. Lou Yu secretly planned to let this ignorant little girl know about love affairs before the mourning period ended.

"This matter requires careful planning!"

On the surface, Lou Yu continued to bicker with Wang Heng, but he had already made a plan in his mind.

……

Lou Yu came out of the princess's mansion and returned to the outer study of the Duke's mansion, where he summoned the secret guards.

"Give orders to keep an eye on Prince Rui's Mansion and Yang Shou."

"Also, send a message to all prefectures and cities to conduct a full-scale search for the female nun named Li Mingtang."

Lou Yu issued orders one after another.

The secret guard bowed and agreed to everything.

After sending the secret guards away, Lou Yu took out a sheet of documents and began to handle official business.

He is now the Shaoqing of the Dali Temple and has many serious and important cases on hand.

He also had a part-time job in the Eastern Palace, where he had to handle many matters for the prince, both visible and invisible.

In addition to official business, Lou Yu also has to deal with "private matters" for his little girl -

For example, the Lishan Academy which is about to be completed.

Another example is the Tangquan Villa which is about to be built.

When Lou Yu read the reports from Tangquan Villa, a scene he saw two years ago came to his mind:

Late at night, under the moonlight, there is a small spring and a pair of beautiful jade feet.

Tick ​​tock!

A drop of bright red liquid quietly fell on the drawing in front of him.

When Lou Yu saw the slightly smudged bloodstain, the tips of his ears turned red, but his jade-like face showed indifference.

He numbly and familiarly raised his hand to wipe his nose, stood up, and took a cold shower first.

Then he entered the inner study.

He stood in front of the Treasure Pavilion and gently twisted a vase. Click, and a faint sound of an amplified machine echoed in the silent room.

Then, the entire wall swung open like a door, revealing a windowless secret room.

Lou Yu had just finished bathing and was wearing only a loose white gauze robe.

Her long, black hair was loose, with water droplets dripping from the ends.

Lou Yu was completely unaware and walked to the middle of the secret room and sat down behind the desk.

He very skillfully pulled out a piece of paper from one side, spread it out, smoothed it out and fixed it with a paperweight, then picked up a pen from the pen holder, ground it, and mixed the colors.

Swish!

Swish!

Lou Yu held his sleeve with one hand and painted with the other.

In a moment, a portrait of a beautiful woman slowly appeared on the white paper.

Yes, portrait!

Lou Yu has never painted figures in public, and no related works have ever been released, so there are rumors:

Lou Hanzhang is indeed a talented man, proficient in literature and history, and is the best in the world in playing the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. However, there is a slight flaw in his perfect image: he is not good at dealing with people!

The fact is, Lou Yu is not bad at drawing figures, on the contrary, he draws very well!

Just like at this moment, under his pen, the stunning beauty "Wang Heng" seems to be walking out of the drawing paper.

The brushwork is exquisite and the characters are lifelike...except for their expressions and movements, which do not exist in reality.

Ahem, that’s right, what Lou Yu painted was not realism, but the fantasies and YY in his mind were presented on the drawing paper.

Halfway up the hill, under the moonlight, a stunning girl with picturesque eyebrows and eyes, long hair like a waterfall, was wearing a chest-length skirt and a long gown with wide sleeves made of light gauze.

The tulle was almost transparent and slid down slightly, revealing the slender yet round shoulders of the beauty.

On the upper right side of the back, near the shoulder, there is a small, bright red mole.

It looks like the blood of a toad, and also like a natural bright color.

Her skin is whiter than snow and her red moles are charming, making her even more alluring.

Lou Yu continued to paint. The chest-length skirt was not tied at the waist, but the beauty's slender waist could still be vaguely seen through the wide skirt.

It is so light that it cannot be held in one hand, just like the willow branches swaying in the wind in spring.

Lou Yu had hugged that slender waist more than once, and he knew very well how thin Ah Heng's waist was.

He had also stretched out his hand to gesture——

Lou Yu is tall, with long arms and legs.

If he stretched out one of his hands, it would be able to block Wang Heng's waist horizontally.

If you put your hands together, it will just lock that slender waist.

Lou Yu continued to draw with his pen.

Below the slender waist are slender and straight legs...The focus of Lou Yu's painting this time is the slender and beautiful feet below the legs.

The ankles are slender and the feet are beautiful.

I dipped the tip of my brush into the paint mixed with gold powder and drew a bell-shaped anklet on my left ankle...