Chapter 109: Allies or Enemies 4 (2/2)

Zhu Fengyin nodded and followed ahead, she was soon led outside the game to where Lu Yiling and Madam Lu stood surrounded by soldiers. The older woman hugged her weeping daughter close, she looked up as Zhu Fengyin walked out gracefully. Zhu fengyin was led to stand beside Madam Lu and Lu Yiling, she waited until the soldier stepped back before turning to check on them.

”Are you hurt Mother,” she asked running her eyes through her mother-in-law before turning to Lu Yiling. ”How is Yiling, mother?”

Madam Lu Looked at her and sighed ”we are good, Yiling is still in shock, apart from that all is well”.

” Good”, Zhu Fengyin walked closer and pretending to check in Lu Yiling whispered, ”Did they tell you why we were arrested?”.

Madam Lu shook her head, she was about to answer but stumbled back when she saw her sins led out in chains. ”No!” She whispered.

Zhu Fengyin turned around to see what had her shocked and covered her mouth with her hand to stop herself from screaming. The moment she screamed her mask of calmness she had on would-be broken. She needed to both look strong and act strong. That was what she needed to get them to safety.

She needed to be of sound mind to think of a solution but the sight of Lu Yingjie, Lu Yaozhu and Lu Yong being led out in heavy chains nearly broke her.

The Lu brothers were led into the carriage, they didn't seem to have put up a fight because there weren't any injuries on them. While Zhu Fengyin was glad that they hadn't given the Emperor any way of punishing them, she was scared of what was to come.

The soldiers were merciless in their actions, they pushed them forward and forced them into the wooden barred carriage used to transport prisoners. Because of the force Lu Yingjie who was in fr fell forward and hit his forehead on the bars, Zhu Fengyin took a step forward when she saw that. She wanted to rush forward and check on him but was held back by Lu Yiling.

Her mother's gasp had made her draw away from her arms and it was in time to see her elder brothers led out like criminals in long interlocking heavy chains. They didn't seem hurt but she understood how embarrassing it was for them. The noise attracted a few daring onlookers from the residences around their mansion, all of whom were servants.

Which was typical of these spinless noble families, they couldn't come out for fear of being implicated but had no problem sending out their servants to find out what was going on. By morning a lot of distorted stories would be spread by these nosy neighbours.

Their so-called allies would all deny them, who wants to associate with a family of criminals. This incident though sudden cleared her eyes, she watched as her brothers were roughly pushed into the carriage. She saw her eldest brother fall forward and hit his forehead and her ever proper sister-in-law rush forward as if to catch him.

She immediately held her back and pushed her back. Never in a million years would she ever believe that she would witness her well behaved and perfect sister-in-law lose control. She didn't even believe that her sister-in-law had emotions since she always gave off the cold vibe.

She held Zhu Fengyin tightly until the carriage door was locked then let go of her. Zhu Fengyin didn't make any move to go forward and instead whispered to her, ”thanks”. She didn't respond a just nodded, she didn't want to speak. She had lost the will to talk and just decided to observe. Lu Yiling looked around and saw that the Emperor had sent almost all his entire elite forces to capture them.

If it was in the last and the entire Lu family and their servants, she wasn't being taken in. She would have found this scene amusing, but this time the joke was lost to her. Did the Emperor fear that they would rebel, if he did, then he was more foolish than she thought.

Her Lu family was loyal to a fault yet this paranoid old fool saw than as rebels, was this the price of their loyalty. Would centuries of loyalty to the Zhongshan royal family be rewarded with pain?

There was no other way, Lu Yiling could think this would end. She didn't bother struggling as She was led into another barred carriage with her mother and sister-in-law. In the end, struggling wasn't worthwhile.