Reborn: The First Rank "Madam"

C145 – What Does Master Lu Want?

Lu Zheng tightened his arms and locked Zuo Shaoqing tightly in his embrace. His heart was still beating unstably and at that moment, he almost thought that he would lose Zuo Shaoqing.

Zuo Shaoqing leaned weakly on Lu Zheng’s chest. Last night, he fought so hard and suffered a lot of injuries. He didn’t even close his eyes for an entire night, and now he has no energy at all.

“Are you all right?” Lu Zheng reached out his hand to brush away the long hair on Lu Zheng’s face and frowned as he looked at Lu Zheng’s pale face.

Zuo Shaoqing shook his head and rubbed against Lu Zheng’s chest. He said hoarsely, “No problem.”

If it was any other time, Zuo Shaoqing would have been holding Lu Zheng tightly and confiding his grievances, even if it hurt a bit. However, after the incident where he was taken as a hostage, he didn’t want Lu Zheng to see his weak side anymore, even if it was just pretending to be weak.

“Master, what should we do with these people?” Soong Hanlin took advantage of the chaos to clean up a few soldiers that wanted to escape and finally stretched.

“Take Prince Ruiqing and Commander Xu to the palace. The rest of them will be in charge of the palace, waiting for the royal decree.”

After Lu Zheng finished giving orders, he left the ground full of pleading soldiers and brought Zuo Shaoqing back to the Wu Steel Manor.

The door of the Wu Steel Manor was strangely closed. On the vermillion door, there were a few traces of weapons. Presumably, Prince Ruiqing’s men didn’t let this place go last night.

Lu Zheng stepped into Duke Zhen’s mansion, and without caring about the servants kneeling on the ground, he ordered, “Go call all the doctors here!”

At this time, the servants also saw that Master Lu was carrying another person in his arms. Furthermore, he wasn’t a stranger.

Although no rumors came out of the manor, everyone knew clearly that this young man was not ordinary to Master Lu.

Lu Zheng carried Zuo Shaoqing into his yard and went to the bathroom first. He helped Zuo Shaoqing clean up before carrying him out.

Three older doctors were already waiting in the hall. On the way, they already heard who the doctor was, so when Lu Zheng put the person on the chair, they automatically went to the front to take their pulse.

Actually, Zuo Shaoqing wasn’t really injured, he just bled too much and was physically weak due to overwork. The three doctors came up with the same answer, they wrote down the prescription, left the ointment and left.

However, one of the doctors in a loose robe turned around and said: “Master Lu, look at this young master’s body, it’s going to take a few days to recuperate. For these few days, the two of you better sleep in separate rooms and not work too hard.”

Zuo Shaoqing’s originally pale face turned red. Seeing Lu Zheng nod seriously, he kicked him in dissatisfaction.

“Why?” Lu Zheng looked down at him and caressed his blackened eyes a few times. “You must be tired. I asked the servant to bring you something to eat. Have something to eat and then rest.”

Zuo Shaoqing was indeed very hungry. Originally, he didn’t eat much last night at Jiang’s Mansion, but now it’s even past lunchtime. If he doesn’t eat anything, he might faint from hunger before he loses too much blood.

First, he drank a bowl of soup at the bottom. Zuo Shaoqing didn’t have any big fish or big meat. After that, he drank two bowls of plain fish porridge and immediately felt his whole body warm up.

Lu Zheng accompanied him to eat a little. Seeing him put down the bowl and chopsticks, he stopped eating and carried him back to his room.

Zuo Shaoqing felt a little embarrassed being served like this all the way here. Actually, it wasn’t that he couldn’t leave, it was just that he liked the feeling of being held in Lu Zheng’s hands.

Lu Zheng sat on the edge of the bed and peeled off Zuo Shaoqing’s clothes. He applied the medicine for him personally. The whole process was done with a straight look and his hands were well-behaved. After bandaging up, he immediately covered Zuo Shaoqing with his blanket.

If he wasn’t breathing more rapidly than usual, Zuo Shaoqing would have thought that his body was unattractive.

“Do you not want Master Lu to enter the palace?” Zuo Shaoqing, who was wearing a high-quality silk blanket, stared at Lu Zheng who was also starting to undress.

“I’m not going. What’s next is just the matter of the sentencing and rewards. The emperor knows what I want.”

Zuo Shaoqing made sense when he thought about it. Lu Zheng’s official title was already extremely high. There was indeed nothing much to reward.

However, what he was curious about was: “What does Master Lu want?”

Lu Zheng paused for a moment when Zuo Shaoqing took off his clothes, then he stared at him with a burning gaze. The corner of his mouth curved slightly as he said mysteriously, “You will know in a few days.”

Zuo Shaoqing felt a little embarrassed from the stare. He didn’t know why he felt that Lu Zheng’s gaze was too gentle, so gentle that it made him uncomfortable.

“You’re tired too. Sleep first.” Lu Zheng bent down and kissed him lightly on the forehead, then walked towards the bathroom with his upper body naked.

Zuo Shaoqing fell asleep very quickly with his head against the pillow. No one knew how long he slept for, but he could feel a cold body under the blanket. It was so cold that he hid in the bed.

However, he was tired and tired, so tired that he couldn’t even open his eyes. Luckily, it didn’t take long for that body to heat up, so Zuo Shaoqing immediately hugged him back and fell asleep comfortably.

When he woke up again, it was already dark outside. He rubbed his swollen head, and when he moved, the wound on his arm immediately started to hurt.

“Ugh…” Zuo Shaoqing touched the wounds on his body one by one. The most serious parts were all wrapped up by Lu Zheng, but he still couldn’t stop the pain.

Lu Zheng heard the sound of the door opening and came in. He was even holding a porcelain bowl, walked to the bedside and sat down: “You’re awake? Drink the medicine first.”

Zuo Shaoqing didn’t need him to feed him. He took the bowl and gulped it down a few times. He even used his sleeve to wipe his mouth boldly, as if he wanted to disperse something in his heart.

Lu Zheng used his fingers to rub his moist lips. His eyes were filled with deep affection, “Are you scared?”

Zuo Shaoqing knew what his short question meant. He leaned his head on Lu Zheng’s shoulder and replied in the same short voice, “Afraid!”

He was afraid that his hard-earned life was going to end like this. He was afraid that he would not be able to stand beside Lu Zheng on equal footing when he was brought up on the wall. He was afraid that he would fall down the wall and die in front of Lu Zheng.

Lu Zheng’s rare gentle and comforting voice was beside his ear: “Don’t be afraid, I was too careless this time. This will never happen again!”

Zuo Shaoqing had already calmed down from his sleep. At this moment, he still had the heart to joke: “It’s raining under the heavens and the prince wants to rebel, that’s also something we can’t do. But it will still take many years for the next prince to grow to be able to rebel.”

“Don’t worry, if Zhan Yuanfeng doesn’t have a good impression of these little ghosts, I think he should just go into meditation.”

This kind of outrageous words could only be said by Lu Zheng. Zuo Shaoqing didn’t agree and relied on him to ask about the affairs of the mansion. When he entered, he already noticed that the damage to the mansion was not light.

“Prince Ruiqing sent troops to surround the manors of a few ministers. The Wu Steel Manor is one of them. Coincidentally, the guards in the mansion were a bit more impulsive, so they started fighting. Don’t worry, they just destroyed a few buildings.”

Zuo Shaoqing felt relaxed listening to him, but he knew that the soldiers surrounding the Wu Steel Manor were probably all gone.

His eyes moved, and asked seemingly carelessly: “How is Jiang’s Mansion, was it surrounded?”

A hint of a smile appeared on Lu Zheng’s face, “Of course, the Jiang’s Mansion just so happened to invite guests last night. Half of the court’s ministers are inside, surrounding that mansion is equivalent to encircling half of the capital.”

Zuo Shaoqing did not hear what he wanted to hear and let out a disappointed sigh. Zuo Family’s entire family was inside, it would be great if they could accidentally hurt one or two of them.

“However… Although he’s not injured, it’s said that he lost a lot of things inside, so I don’t know who did it in the chaos.”

Zuo Shaoqing regretted that he was kidnapped by bandits, otherwise, he would have been able to light a few fires during this period of chaos. He was also happy to be able to burn down a few courtyards like Jiang’s Mansion.

Thinking about this, he suddenly cried out. “Ah, my flexible sword still fell into the Jiang’s Mansion.”

Lu Zheng immediately put on a cold face, “If I knew that you could cut yourself with a sword, I wouldn’t have given you that stuff.”

When he drugged Zuo Shaoqing, he found out that half of Zuo Shaoqing’s wounds were caused by his own weapon, so he didn’t know what to say.

Zuo Shaoqing was also a bit embarrassed. After all, this kind of shady affair was really shameful. He explained in a low voice, “Aren’t you still not used to it?”

“And Yinyi, as a guard he dares to abandon his master and run away. This is outrageous!”

“The enemy has so many people and we are not their opponent. Since their target is me, of course we have to let Yinyi call for reinforcements.” Zuo Shaoqing knew Yinyi’s personality. He wasn’t someone who would run away at the last minute.

Lu Zheng snorted lightly, still dissatisfied. If he knew earlier, he would have let the eight guards follow Zuo Shaoqing closely, at least they would have been able to escape when they couldn’t beat him.

“According to Yinyi, there are two groups of assassins. One of them belongs to Fifth Princess, and the other doesn’t know who it is. No matter what, I will make Fifth Princess pay!”

Zuo Shaoqing immediately told him what he heard when he woke up. Previously, he didn’t know that Prince Ruiqing was so ambitious. Now that he thought about it, the other assassin must have been sent by Prince Ruiqing.