ebookland Chapter 349 The Luo Family's Arrangements Are Incomprehensible
Chapter 349 The Luo Family's Arrangements Are Incomprehensible
Following the guidance of their divine sense, Wenwen and her two siblings easily bypassed the guards of the Luo family and arrived near Luo Qianyou's study, entering an empty room.
In the darkness, several people sat cross-legged in the room.
"Alright, let's stop here and take a look at his pre-departure arrangements."
"Big brother, what do you think he'll arrange first?"
"If there's no one, what's the point of having a throne?"
"But even though both Luo Da and Luo Er were injured, he didn't seem that anxious."
“His family has more than just Luo Da and Luo Er.”
Wen Chengbin...
Okay, he's just narrow-minded.
In the capital, how many high-ranking officials and nobles do not have multiple wives and concubines? Families like the Wen and Ren families, where there is no trouble in the inner quarters, are extremely rare.
After waiting for a while, they heard Luo Qianyou's voice coming from his study.
"Butler, go and invite the old lady over."
Soon, a series of footsteps approached.
As soon as Madam Luo entered the study, before Luo Qianyou could speak, she anxiously asked, "Son, what's the matter that's so urgent?"
"We'll set off at noon tomorrow. We can start making arrangements for Mother's side now."
"Tomorrow at noon? Really?" Old Madam Luo clearly hadn't expected it to be so urgent.
Luo Qianyou looked up at the old lady, the unspoken meaning in her eyes understood only by the mother and son. The two remained silent.
For a moment, the study was very quiet, with only the sound of the two drinking tea. After a while, Madam Luo got up and left the study.
The three siblings who were eavesdropping in the next room were dumbfounded.
What kind of crazy thing is this mother and son doing? They don't say anything, so how can the eavesdropper know what will happen next?
The riddle that Madam Luo and Luo Qianyou are playing is beyond their comprehension! What should they do?
Although the Luo family mother and son only said two sentences, there was still a lot of information, especially regarding the arrangements made by Old Madam Luo. What exactly were these arrangements?
This successfully piqued Wenwen's curiosity.
"Brother, I'll go keep an eye on the old lady. You guys keep an eye on this side."
Wen Chengjian: "Second brother, you and sister go and keep an eye on that side. I can handle things here by myself."
Wen Chengbin: "Okay, little sister, I'll go with you."
The brother and sister arrived at Madam Luo's courtyard in the dark.
Having the experience of ransacking houses before, the two of them used their spiritual senses to probe every inch of the courtyard.
If you don't check, you don't know, if you check, you will be shocked.
Madam Luo's courtyard is practically a rat hole.
There was a basement in the corner of the small kitchen, and a mezzanine in the wall of the warehouse filled with goods, leading to a hidden door.
Furthermore, there is a secret passage under the old lady's bed, and even the maids' quarters have a hidden door. Crucially, there is also a secret passage in a small Buddhist shrine next to the ancestral hall in the backyard of the Luo family.
I wonder if all these hidden doors and secret passages lead to the same place.
Is this what they mean by "all roads lead to Rome"?
I just don't know where exactly is Rome, Mrs. Luo's Rome?
In the darkness, Wenwen and Wenchengbin, brother and sister, gritted their teeth and made a firm decision: they would protect Old Madam Luo with their lives.
They refused to believe that Old Man Luo could refrain from taking action. Since Luo Qianyou had instructed her to make the arrangements, she would act sooner or later; they just needed to be patient.
And so, the old lady went into her own courtyard and slept peacefully.
Silent all night.
The next morning, as soon as the city gates opened, a man rode a flying horse, shouting battle reports all the way, galloping towards the imperial palace.
When the border war broke out, the whole capital knew about it within half a day.
Since returning to the Luo residence yesterday, Luo Qianyou spoke a few words with Old Madam Luo last night, then went to the military camp overnight. After making some arrangements, he assembled his troops early this morning.
At this time, soldiers from the vicinity of the capital gathered outside the city gate.
After the ceremony, Luo Qianyou, accompanied by the emperor and his ministers, led his soldiers on a journey to the northwest.
The three Wen siblings had agreed last night that Wen Chengjian would be following Luo Qianyou's lead.
Therefore, at this moment, Wen Chengjian disguised himself as an ordinary soldier and mingled in the ranks.
Meanwhile, Wenwen and Wenchengbin were still at the Luo residence.
Upon learning that Luo Qianyou had already set off, Madam Luo gathered the entire family in the ancestral hall in the backyard to offer incense to the Luo family ancestors and pray for Luo Qianyou's triumphant return.
After the kneeling and bowing, Madam Luo said, "Alright, you should all stay home these days unless absolutely necessary. Just stay in your own courtyards and don't cause any trouble, remember that."
Madam Luo, the eldest daughter-in-law, had some reservations about the old lady's words. She calmly replied, "Mother, Princess Wei invited us to admire the flowers a few days ago, and we already agreed. It would be inappropriate to back out at the last minute. Besides, the young ladies in the family should also go out and relax. You can't generalize and condemn everyone just because the master went to the border. Does that mean the family can't go out? Wouldn't that make us a laughingstock? What do you say, Mother?"
Madam Luo never expected that the first to object would be her eldest daughter-in-law; she was truly a hopeless idiot.
No wonder she never knows what her son is doing. This eldest daughter-in-law is truly unfit for respectable society. Once things are settled, the first person to be dealt with will be this fool.
Madam Luo's face darkened, and her authoritative tone left no room for argument: "I will write to Princess Wei and tell her that you have caught a cold and are afraid of passing on your illness to them, so you should get some fresh air tonight!"
At first, Wenwen and Wenchengbin didn't understand what "appropriately freezing" meant, until they saw the unusual scene at night and realized what it meant.
It turned out that after dinner, Madam Luo gave each of the women attending the flower-viewing banquet a bucket of ice water and specifically instructed them to use it for a bath.
Goodness, in late autumn, making the women bathe in ice water—who came up with this idea? Just to have a legitimate reason not to go out, and then put on a full show. How dedicated and ruthless!
Madam Luo is truly a heroine among women, a paragon of virtue. She would gladly sacrifice eight hundred of her own for every thousand enemies killed, or perhaps even a thousand of her own.
Even though the Luo family members were furious, they had to suppress their anger and pour the ice water on themselves after receiving it.
In the early hours of the morning, the Luo family sent a message to the palace, saying that many members of the family had fallen ill and they were worried that it was some kind of infectious disease. They earnestly requested the Imperial Concubine to help them invite the imperial physicians to come and treat them.
Early in the morning, two imperial physicians, fully armed, emerged from the Luo residence. The official explanation given by the Luo family was that a family member was ill, and the residence would be closed to visitors for the next few days.
Since he was ill, the people who had previously invited the Luo family naturally started gossiping behind his back.
However, the Luo family couldn't hear these remarks, and Old Madam Luo didn't care. People can say whatever they want, so she let them say what they wanted.
After this series of actions, Wenwen and Wenchengbin, who were observing from the shadows, were even more confused and completely baffled.
These two were not fond of using their brains, so they could only wait and watch, staying quietly in a corner of the Luo family home, continuing to monitor Old Madam Luo's every move.