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Chapter 250 Rude
This is like handing a pillow to someone who's about to fall asleep!
When Zhu Yu heard Yan Shu's topic, she almost burst out laughing. She was just wondering how to get her to lower her guard and talk to her about why she ran away, but the girl couldn't help but start pouring out her grievances.

"After we got married, did Lu Zhang treat you badly?" she asked cautiously.

Yan Shu pursed her lips, and when she mentioned Lu Zhang, her grievances were replaced by anger: "It's not that he treats me badly, it's that he has never paid any attention to me at all. The only time we met was when we went through the wedding ceremony on our wedding day, and he even had someone put a veil on my head."

At the time, I thought this was the custom of the Jin Kingdom. Later, I learned that he had heard from someone that women of the Jie Kingdom all had fierce faces and were very ugly, so he was afraid that I would embarrass him. Therefore, he directly sent someone to deliver a veil to my room and made me wear it.

Zhu Yu was somewhat surprised to hear this.

Although she didn't have a good impression of Lu Zhang, her opinion was generally similar to Lu Qing's. They both thought that Lu Zhang was someone who lacked his own opinions, was easily influenced, and was easily manipulated.

This man, after accepting the Emperor's bestowed marriage, dared to openly humiliate his bride.

It should be noted that when Lu Qing got married, Emperor Jin did not visit her home; it is said that he only sent wine and dishes. However, on the day of Lu Zhang's wedding, Emperor Jin personally went to her home to drink the wedding wine before leaving.

As a result, he actually had someone prepare a veil for Yan Shu before the wedding ceremony on the day itself...

Is it because he is the most favored by Emperor Jin that he is not afraid of offending Emperor Jin?
"Then when he sees you at night and finds you so beautiful, he should be very surprised and delighted, right?" Zhu Yu kept her doubts to herself and prompted Yan Shu to continue.

Yan Shu snorted: "We haven't even met each other yet."

"Huh?!" Zhu Yu was stunned. This was an answer she hadn't expected at all. "How could this be..."

“After I entered the family, I never lived in the main courtyard of Prince Yi’s mansion,” Yan Shu said with aggrieved feelings. “The emperor ordered him to marry me, a princess of the Jie Kingdom. Lu Zhang was unhappy because he thought the Jie people were all reckless, stupid, and uncouth, and not worthy of him as a prince. However, he could not disobey the emperor’s decree, so he reluctantly married me and did not let me live in his main courtyard. He settled us, master and servant, in a side courtyard. After the wedding ceremony, I was sent back, and he never went to my place again after that.”

"Who told you that Lu Zhang doesn't want to marry you? And what is his opinion on the Jie people?" Zhu Yu asked curiously.

"They were just the servants in his mansion!" Yan Shu snorted. "Later, he received some imperial decree and left, never to return home again."

After he left, his servants became even more open, thinking we wouldn't understand, and talked about a lot of things.

They said Lu Zhang deliberately volunteered to go out to avoid me, and didn't want to go home.

They also said that his maternal grandfather, that old man of some duke's name, originally wanted to marry his wife's sister's granddaughter to Lu Zhang. He said the girl was a renowned talent, extremely beautiful, and possessed both beauty and brains; countless suitors were eager to propose. Lu Zhang seemed quite satisfied and had agreed to his grandfather's proposal. However, before the matter was finalized, the emperor bestowed a marriage upon him and me, which is why he was so unhappy.”

Zhu Yu had never heard of the Duke of Yan wanting to marry his wife's younger sister's granddaughter to Lu Zhang before, at least not from Lu Qing. He was somewhat surprised, but he had to remain calm on the surface.

Yan Shu slammed her fist on the table in frustration: "He's acting all wronged now! I'm the one who was the one who had to compromise and marry into the Jin Kingdom!"
I hate those weak, useless men who can't lift a finger or carry anything! I'm already feeling so wronged to be married to one like that! And before I could even cry, he started complaining about me!

And because of what he did, it's as if I begged and pleaded to marry him, ruining his wonderful relationship with another girl, and even forcing him to stay away from home!
The more I thought about it, the angrier and more aggrieved I became. I wanted to send a message back to my father, to tell him about my experience in Jin Kingdom, and to ask him to find a way to help me leave that awful place.

But I only brought two maids with me, and we're still pretending we don't understand the Central Plains language! We can't find anyone to help us send the message back to the Jie Kingdom.

Alone in the Prince Yi's mansion, I grew angrier and angrier. If Lu Zhang never went back, was I just going to be locked up in the Prince Yi's mansion until I was old?

So in a fit of anger, I swapped clothes with my maid and found an opportunity to run away from Prince Yi's mansion!
However, I really didn't expect that horses in Jin Kingdom would be so expensive. Our Jie Kingdom's horses are both good and cheap. As a result, the silver I brought was only enough to buy that short and timid cowardly horse. Otherwise, I might have already entered Jie Kingdom territory before you saw me, and I wouldn't have injured my leg.

She glanced wistfully at her well-bandaged ankle and sighed, "But I'm actually quite lucky! If I had just injured myself and hadn't run into you guys, I would have been in real trouble!"

Zhu Yu thought this girl's personality was really interesting; she was straightforward, cheerful, and optimistic.

However, she had something else she wanted to confirm with Yan Shu: "If you ran away, wouldn't the people from Prince Yi's mansion find out?"

"Unless Lu Zhang goes back, he probably won't find out for a while." Yan Shu pouted and shook her head. "Those servants in the Prince Yi's mansion treat people differently based on their status!"
Their master disliked the three of us, leaving us in a side courtyard and ignoring us. They followed suit. They never lacked food, drink, or other necessities, but each time they would deliver them to the gate of the side courtyard and hand them over to my maid. They were unwilling to even step into the courtyard.

Because Lu Zhang turns a blind eye, the servants treat us this way, and the person in charge doesn't punish them. They probably think that doing so will make Lu Zhang feel better.

So, apart from the time I didn't lift the veil, there were a few old women waiting in the house. After they learned that Lu Zhang would never go to my place, no servants went into the side courtyard again. Even the gossip was something we overheard them discussing outside the courtyard wall.

Even if I wore this outfit and walked around the gate of Prince Yi's mansion twice, their gatekeepers wouldn't recognize me as their princess!

As Yan Shu spoke, she pointed to the Taoist robe she was wearing, which belonged to Zhu Yu.