Liu Zide was going to take part in this year's autumn examinations, which truly made one wonder.
After all, the Liu brothers were but mediocre scholars, careless and frivolous. It was already a stroke of great luck that Liu Zixian passed the exams, so on what grounds did Liu Zide dare to try his hand as well?
Lu Tong did not believe that her two cousins had buckled down in the unseen years, spending their time studiously engaged in "hanging beams and piercing thighs".
She put pen to paper and wrote down the names Liu Kun and Fan Zhenglian.
Logically speaking, Liu Kun should have met with Fan Zhenglian.
According to a revelation by Wan Fu, a servant of Ke Chengxing, after Lu Rou's death, Lu Qian had visited the Ke Family and, following a heated argument, left on bad terms.
Perhaps by then, Lu Qian had already sensed something fishy about Lu Rou's death.