Plotting with You: The Forensic Scientist in Ancient Times!-Chapter 251 - 250: Rudeness

This is truly like offering a pillow to a drowsy person!

Zhu Yu nearly burst into laughter upon hearing Yan Shu’s topic. She had been worrying about how to get Yan Shu to let down her guard and talk about why she ran away, and it turned out the girl couldn’t help but pour out her grievances.

"After the wedding, did Lu Zhang treat you poorly?" she cautiously asked. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

Yan Shu pursed her lips. When she mentioned Lu Zhang, her grievances were replaced by anger: "It’s not that he treated me poorly; he simply never paid any attention to me. Aside from the first meeting on our wedding day, he had someone cover my head with a veil.

At that time, I thought it was a custom of Jin Country. Later, I found out he had heard from someone that women from Jie Country all had fierce-looking faces and were quite ugly, so he was afraid I’d embarrass him and had someone deliver a veil to my room for me to wear."

Zhu Yu was a bit surprised.

Although she didn’t have a good impression of Lu Zhang, she generally shared a similar view with Lu Qing, believing that Lu Zhang was someone without much opinion, easily swayed by others.

It’s surprising that such a person, after being bestowed a marriage by Emperor Jin, dared to openly embarrass the emperor’s bestowed bride in this way.

To know that when Lu Qing got married, Emperor Jin didn’t even visit, only sending some wine and food. But on the day of Lu Zhang’s wedding, Emperor Jin personally came to drink the wedding wine before leaving.

Yet, he dared to have a veil ready for Yan Shu in advance on the wedding day...

Could it be that he relied on being favored by Emperor Jin and wasn’t afraid of angering him?

"When he saw you afterwards and realized you were so pretty, he should have been pleasantly surprised, right?" Zhu Yu, keeping her doubts in her heart, led Yan Shu to continue speaking.

Yan Shu snorted, "We still haven’t actually seen each other till now."

"What?!" Zhu Yu was stunned, an answer she had not anticipated beforehand, "How could this..."

"After entering the door, I didn’t even stay in the main courtyard of Prince Yi Mansion," Yan Shu said with grievance, "The emperor ordered him to marry me, the Commandery Princess from Jie Country, and Lu Zhang was displeased. He thought people from Jie Country were rustic and stupid, unworthy of being paired with a noble prince, but couldn’t defy the emperor’s command, so unwillingly, he married me and didn’t let me stay in the main courtyard, settling my maids and me in a side courtyard. After the wedding ceremony, I was sent back, and he never came to see me since then."

"Who told you Lu Zhang didn’t want to marry you, and how does he view people from Jie Country like this?" Zhu Yu asked curiously.

"It was those servants from his mansion!" Yan Shu snorted, "Later, I don’t know what other decree he received, but he left and never came home since then.

Once he left, those servants in his house became even more unrestrained, thinking we didn’t understand what they were saying and spoke about many things.

They said Lu Zhang deliberately sought to leave to avoid me, not wanting to come home.

They also mentioned that his maternal grandfather, some Duke Yan, wanted to marry the legitimate granddaughter of his wife’s sister to Lu Zhang, saying that the girl was a well-known talented woman, extremely beautiful and accomplished, with many people breaking down the door to propose.

Lu Zhang seemed quite satisfied and had agreed to his maternal grandfather, but before both parties could settle things, the emperor bestowed a marriage between him and me, which displease him greatly."

Before, Zhu Yu had never heard of Duke Yan wanting to marry his legitimate granddaughter to Lu Zhang. At least, she hadn’t heard Lu Qing mention it. This surprised her a bit, but she maintained a calm exterior.

Yan Shu pounded the table with some resentment: "He acts all aggrieved, but I’m the one who compromised and married into Jin Country!

I dislike those weak, frail scholars who can’t lift or carry things! To marry such a man, it almost kills me with grievance! Yet I didn’t even cry, and he despised me first!

Moreover, he made it seem like I was desperately wanting to marry him, ruining a beautiful relationship with another girl, and even forcing him not to return home!

The more I think about it, the more furious and aggrieved I become, wanting to send word home, telling my father about my mistreatment in Jin Country, so he could find a way to get me out of that hellish place.

But I only brought two maids with me, and we’re pretending not to understand the language of the Central Plains! We can’t find anyone to help send the message back to Jie Country.

Staying in Prince Yi Mansion, the more I think about it, the angrier I get. If Lu Zhang never returns, am I supposed to be locked in there until old age?

So in a fit of anger, I swapped clothes with my maid and found an opportunity to run away from Prince Yi Mansion!

But I never expected that horses in Jin Country would be so expensive. Our Jie Country’s horses are of good quality and cheap, and the silver I brought was only enough to buy a short and timid one, or I’d probably have reached Jie Country by now, wouldn’t have bumped into you, and wouldn’t have injured my leg."

She looked somewhat forlornly at her well-bandaged ankle and sighed: "But, I was quite lucky after all! If I had only injured myself and hadn’t met you, it would have been a disaster!"

Zhu Yu thought this girl’s personality was indeed interesting: straightforward, lively, and optimistic.

However, there were other things she wanted to confirm with Yan Shu: "But if you ran away, wouldn’t the people at Prince Yi Mansion notice?"

"Unless Lu Zhang returns, I guess they won’t notice for a while." Yan Shu pouted and shook her head, "Those servants in Prince Yi Mansion judge based on people’s status!

Their master doesn’t care for the three of us, pushing us off to the side courtyard and ignoring us. They follow his lead, delivering food and drink to us daily without missing a meal, but they only drop it at the side courtyard entrance, leaving my maid to take it in, never stepping even a foot into the courtyard.

Since Lu Zhang is indifferent, those servants treat us this way, and the steward doesn’t punish them. They probably think doing so would please Lu Zhang.

So, except during the time when I hadn’t lifted my veil, when there were a few older women waiting in the room, once they realized that Lu Zhang would not come to my place, no servant ever stepped into the side courtyard. Even those rumors we heard were through the courtyard wall as they gossiped outside.

Now, even if I’m standing in front of Prince Yi Mansion dressed like this, their gatekeeper won’t recognize me as their princess!"

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