After a master of metaphysics severed ties with his family, the whole family was filled with regret!

Chapter 50 Luo Chujiu's Senior Brother

At the Empress Dowager's birthday banquet, Xiao Jinglin single-handedly restored the selection of concubines to normalcy, and no one else dared to act recklessly.

At the same time, everyone's understanding of Xiao Jinglin's favoritism towards Consort Jiang has reached a new level. Anyone who wants to put someone in His Majesty's shoes should first ask themselves if they can match Consort Jiang in terms of appearance and talent. If not, they should stop dreaming!

Luo Chujiu had been watching Luo Chuxue's performance with a sense of amusement from the moment she stepped onto the stage. Clearly, Luo Chuxue herself did not want to enter the palace, but she still submitted the performance, which could only be the result of being tricked by Luo Jiangshi.

Now there's going to be some excitement to watch at the Luo residence.

Luo Chuxue was not one to give up easily. Realizing she had been deceived by Luo Jiangshi, she was probably plotting against Luo Wanping and Luo Jiangshi.

Just as Luo Chujiu had guessed, as soon as Luo Chuxue returned to the Luo residence, she went to complain to Luo Sunshi and Luo Wanxing.

"Really? You went to the concubine selection banquet?!"

Lady Luosun was shocked.

She didn't want her daughter to enter the palace as an imperial concubine. To put it nicely, she was just a concubine.

Why is it that the eldest son's daughter can become Princess Xiao, while the second son's daughter can only be a concubine? They really have ulterior motives!

"If His Majesty hadn't been so uninterested in taking a concubine today, I'm afraid I would have stayed in the palace tonight, and it would have been very difficult for me to see my father and mother again," Luo Chuxue said, her eyes reddening, feeling extremely aggrieved.

Madam Luo felt heartbroken and held the person in her arms. Luo Wanxing, seeing this, also felt a pang of sorrow in his heart.

"It's all your father's fault for being so incompetent, letting you be schemed against by the eldest son's family. Don't worry, I will definitely get an explanation from them."

Luo Wanxing was about to confront Luo Wanping, but Luo Chuxue stopped him.

"Father, don't go—"

"Why? You've suffered such a great injustice, are you just going to let it go like this?" Luo Wanxing looked at Luo Chuxue with great confusion, not knowing why she was stopping him.

“Father, my uncle and aunt are still in charge of the Luo family. What good would it do if you went to speak up? My aunt can deny it and say that she was unaware that it was a concubine selection banquet. We have no evidence to prove that they did it on purpose. We will be accused of making unfounded speculations about them. In the end, it will be Father who suffers the loss.”

Upon hearing Luo Chuxue's analysis, Luo Wanxing found it very reasonable and thankfully did not impulsively go to settle scores with the eldest son's family.

"What does Xue'er think we should do?"

Luo Wanxing calmed down and asked Luo Chuxue for her opinion.

"Father and Mother, rest assured, your daughter will never suffer in silence. I will seek justice for myself in the future. The reason I told you about this is to make you more wary of the eldest son's family. They can be ruthless to their own daughter, let alone to our family. I am just the beginning. Father should be more wary of your uncle's attempts to harm you in the officialdom."

Upon hearing Luo Chuxue's words, Luo Wanxing's heart skipped a beat, and he nodded.

From then on, the second wife and the first wife were truly estranged!

However, Luo Wanping and Luo Jiangshi disagreed, feeling it was a pity to miss such a good opportunity.

If Luo Chuxue really enters the palace as an imperial concubine, then the Luo family's status in the capital will rise even further.

After Luo Chujiu recovered from her injuries, she kept pestering Nalan Qingyin to take her to visit her senior brother.

Nalan Qingyin happened to have something to discuss with her senior brother, so she took Luo Chujiu with her.

The eldest brother's surname is Kong, and his name is Kong Xianling. He is a learned scholar and a Confucian master respected by all the students of Nanzhao Kingdom.

But no one knows that Kong Xianling started out in metaphysics and only later switched to Confucianism.

"President, please wait a moment. I have already sent someone to invite you. Please have some tea and refreshments. You will be here in no more than a quarter of an hour."

Nalan Qingyin nodded and sat down with Luo Chujiu. "Fourth Senior Brother, Senior Brother's house is so simple. Is Senior Brother very poor?"

Nalan Qingyin was almost startled by Luo Chujiu's words, and nearly spat out the tea in her mouth.

"What nonsense are you talking about? Senior Brother just likes simplicity. He's not poor at all."

It is well known that every year, there are countless students who want to become disciples of the senior disciple, and the tuition fees are extremely expensive. However, those who become disciples are at least among the top three in the imperial examinations, so the number of people seeking to become disciples continues to be endless every year.

“Okay, then Senior Brother’s tastes are indeed unique.” Luo Chujiu shrugged, indicating that she didn’t really like this decorating style.

Nalan Qingyin shook her head, offering no comment.

About fifteen minutes later, an elderly man with white hair arrived late. His eyes lit up when he saw Luo Chujiu, and he walked briskly to her side.
"Is it Junior Sister?"

"Senior Brother, it's me, Xiao Jiu!"

Luo Chujiu hadn't seen her senior brother for several years. Now that they met, her senior brother's white beard seemed to have grown quite a bit longer!

Kong Xianling is now sixty years old. When he became a disciple, Luo Chujiu had not even been born yet.

He remembered that when Luo Chujiu was first carried back to Xuanfeng Mountain by his fourth junior brother, she was so small. Back then, the brothers even fought over who would carry their little junior sister. Now that he thought about it, time really flies.

My junior sister has grown into such a graceful young woman.

"Big brother."

When Nalan Qingyin saw Kong Xianling, she immediately stood up to greet him. This was a rule of the sect: one must stand up and greet elders.

Kong Xianling merely glanced at Nalan Qingyin, giving her no further attention, his focus entirely on his junior sister.

"Senior Brother, I heard you were expelled from the mountain by Grandmaster? How did you offend Grandmaster?"

Kong Xianling looked at Luo Chujiu, who was several generations younger than her, as if she were looking at her own granddaughter, and held her hand, asking softly.

"I didn't upset my master! He insisted that my kinship and marriage ties were not severed and made me go down the mountain to settle them before letting me return to Xuanfeng Mountain. I get angry just thinking about it. My master went too far! I've decided to ignore him for the next two years and not write to him!"

When Kong Xianling and Nalan Qingyin heard their junior sister making such a fuss about their grandmaster, they dared not agree. Only their junior sister would dare to do such a thing to their grandmaster.

"Has Xiao Jiu's kinship been severed?"

Kong Xianling usually stays at home and is relatively isolated from outside information, so she had not heard about Luo Chujiu's severance of ties with the Luo family, which is why she asked her.

"Yeah, it's a clean break. From now on, I have absolutely nothing to do with my cheap parents!"

Luo Chujiu said smugly that she had completed half of the task of going down the mountain, and she didn't know how long it would take to complete the other half.

After all, she doesn't know how to end this marriage. The first step is to get married, then fall in love with each other, and then she doesn't know what will happen next.

After they fall in love with each other, she will ask her master how to end this marriage.

Upon hearing this, Kong Xianling showed a look of heartache:
"It's alright. From now on, your senior brother will be your family. You're old enough to be my granddaughter. If you don't mind, I can announce to others that you are my granddaughter, and no one will dare to look down on you."

"Senior Brother, don't take advantage of me. I don't want to be your granddaughter."

Luo Chujiu isn't stupid. Being the granddaughter of the eldest brother puts her two generations lower in rank!

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