The Pretty Eldest Daughter of a Scholar's Family

Chapter 844 Returning to Northern Border
Spring boudoir in February, rankings released in March, Lu Jinhua and Su Zexuan are both high school students, although their rankings are not very high, they are both second-class Jinshi.

Both of them wanted to find a chance to go outside, and the elders in the family expressed strong opposition.

After all, they are only 20-year-old youths. Even if they have three years of study tour experience, their life experience is still not enough for them to deal with the secrets of officialdom, and it is even more difficult for them to govern.

The two high-spirited young people were naturally unconvinced in various ways. After Lu Mingyang, Su Chengzhi, and Lu Jinkang and others presented facts and examples several times, they were finally persuaded to take the Shujishi Examination, and successfully entered the Imperial Academy to become Shuji custard.

"When you enter the Imperial Academy, you see more, you learn more, you talk less. It only takes three years, and when it expires, the hall will be disbanded and appointed as an official. If you want to stay in the Imperial Academy as editors and reviewers, you can go to other departments to do work for Shizhong and Yushi. Well, even if you go out of Beijing to be the prefect and county magistrate, it’s up to you, it all depends on how you manage these three years.” Knowing that the two young people have been selected as Shujishi, Lu Mingyang said sincerely Said these words to them.

After the two entered the Hanlin Academy and started working as errands, their marriage was naturally put on the agenda. This time, the two had no excuses, and they were already weak, so they didn't refuse any more.

I don't know if it was for Lu Jinhua's marriage or something else, Xiao Xu, who had lived in northern Xinjiang for nearly five years on the eve of the Dragon Boat Festival this year, brought Brother Chun back to the capital with Lu Da, who returned to Beijing to report on his work.

There were a lot of people returning to Beijing with them this time, besides Lu Jinzhen and his wife and their sons and daughters Da Niuniu and Brother Xuan, there were also Lu Jinbei and their son Xi Geer.

Brother Xuan is one year older than Sister Le. Not long after Lu Jinkang and Su Yunduo left Boni City, Yang Aoqun was diagnosed to be nearly two months pregnant. Eight months later, he gave birth to his eldest son as he wished. Lu Chengxuan.

Zeng Ru still has only one child, Xi Ge'er, because Zeng Ru injured her body when giving birth to Xi Ge'er, and after several years of treatment, she has basically recovered, but Lu Jinbai asked Zeng Ru to take care of her for another two years. son!

Besides, Lu Jinchen from the second room got married two years ago. Last year, Zhong Qiu night added two boys to the second room at once, which instantly relieved a lot of burden for Zeng Ru.

The town government's mansion suddenly became lively, and Su Yunduo, who was in the palm of his hand, was too busy to touch the ground.

Lu Da and Xiao Xu officially moved into Zhenghe Hall. Xiao Xu naturally wanted to keep the Xuhui Courtyard in his own hands, but the mansion had already vacated a new courtyard for Lu Jinhua, and now it has been repaired in sevens and eighties. And Brother Chun is only five years old, even if she wanted to keep it for Brother Chun, she couldn't say this, so she had to forcefully vacate Xuhui Garden to Lu Jinkang and Su Yunduo.

In fact, Su Yunduo doesn't want to take Xuhuiyuan, because even if they move into Xuhuiyuan, they won't live for long. The emperor has already revealed some words to Lu Jinkang, maybe he won't send Lu Da to northern Xinjiang again, so ninety-nine percent of northern Xinjiang The handsome seal will be handed over to Lu Jinkang.

Su Yunduo was not worried about whether he and his sons and daughters could follow Lu Jinkang to northern Xinjiang. Even if there were voices of opposition in the court, Lu Jinkang could make them disappear.

In the past few years when he returned to the capital from northern Xinjiang, Lu Jinkang was first in charge of developing weapons in the Ministry of War, and then invited him to be in charge of manufacturing weapons in the Ministry of Industry. He returned to the Ministry of War half a year ago as the servant of the Ministry of War, and was even more favored by the Holy Spirit than before. He himself is also becoming more and more powerful.

Although the family members of the city guards in all frontiers of Dongling Kingdom are basically in the capital, there are no exceptions. The Zhennanhou Mansion that has been stationed in the southern border for several generations now only leaves the old Zhennanhou and Zhennanhou's son in the capital. The family members are all in southern Xinjiang.

However, there is no definite purpose yet, and Su Yunduo has only started preparations in secret. What needs to be most busy at present is Lu Jinhua's marriage.

Although Mrs. An had already screened for Lu Jinhua before, now Mrs. Xu, the mother-in-law, has returned, so Mrs. Xu will naturally have to decide the candidate.

It just so happened that Su Zexuan also needed to see each other, so the two parties decided to restart the Lotus Appreciation Fair.

Ever since the lotus garden in the southern suburbs came into the hands of Su Yunduo, there has never been a large-scale lotus appreciation party held in the capital.

Now that the Lotus Appreciation Fair is suddenly reopened, there is a grand occasion in the capital where it is hard to find a sticker.

Since this lotus appreciation party is going to be held, it will not only be for Lu Jinhua, Su Zexuan, who has not yet made a marriage agreement, will naturally be able to escape, and even visit for a few teenage girls from the Duke of Zhen's mansion. In other words, the lotus appreciation event this time is even more grand than the lotus appreciation event in the era of the eldest princess.

For this reason, before sending out the invitation, Su Yunduo specially went back to Dongmingfang, and handed the invitation list she made up to Ning: "Mother, can you see if there is anything else that needs to be added?"

Ning took the list and looked at it carefully. The girls she and Mrs. Lu met for Su Zexuan were all on the list, and even the girl who met Su Zechen was also included, so she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief , looked at Su Yunduo with satisfaction and said: "You are the most appropriate to do things, but mother has nothing to add."

After he finished speaking, he paused for a while, raised his eyes to look at Su Yunduo, then turned around to look at the old lady Lu who was lying on the couch, and asked hesitantly: "Mother, may I bring a family?"

The old lady Lu accidentally twisted her foot a few days ago, but fortunately she only sprained her tendons and did not hurt her bones. Su Zechen also rubbed her blood away with medicine wine in time. After all, she was old and did not recover so quickly, so she had to go to bed Raised on the couch.

Su Yunduo came here today not only to confirm the list with Ning, but also to see Mrs. Lu.

Su Yunduo came here a little early today, and Ning was still in charge, so she came directly to Anju to visit Mrs. Lu first. Before Ning came over, the list had already been reviewed by Mrs. Lu, and there was nothing wrong with it. Feeling that there is something missing, after listening to Ning's words, she couldn't help raising her eyebrows slightly, but her face was still warm: "The lotus garden is so big, there should be no problem if there are more families or less families, but I don't know which family I want to bring?"

Ning Shi felt a little embarrassed, pursed her lips, and finally said: "It's the same year as my husband, and it's Mr. Cheng who came to our house a few days ago."

The old lady Lu understood as soon as she heard it. This Master Cheng was indeed the same year as Su Chengzhi. He had been a concubine in the Imperial Academy for three years. In the capital city, I found a real vacancy from the fifth rank in the Ministry of Industry.

Mr. Cheng came from a poor family, and being able to find a real shortage in the Ministry of Industry is considered a talent. His wife is also a good speaker, but if there is no one to guide her, it will be difficult to successfully break into the social circle of the noble ladies in the capital.

Mr. Cheng has two sons and two daughters, both born to Mrs. Cheng. The eldest son is 20 years old at the same age as Su Zexuan and Lu Jinhua, and the second son is only two years younger than the eldest son. The girls are twins, and they are 14 years old this year.

Su Yunduo didn't go back to Dongmingfang for some days, so he didn't know Mr. Cheng. After hearing Mrs. Lu's introduction, although he felt a little weird in his heart, he didn't say anything. Just as Mrs. Lu said, Heyuan is so beautiful. It really doesn't matter if there are more families or less families.

After Su Yunduo left He Anju, Ning quietly told Su Yunduo why he wanted to invite the Cheng family.

It turned out that the Ning family fell in love with the eldest girl of the Cheng family on behalf of Ning Hua.

"Didn't you say that the two girls of the Cheng family are only fourteen this year? My cousin is nineteen this year. Could it be that the difference is too big?" Su Yunduo frowned slightly. When the Ning family looked after Su Zexuan, they also looked after Ning Hua by the way, but Su Yunduo didn't want the Ning family to get too involved in the affairs of the Ning family.

It's not that the Ning family doesn't know what Su Yunduo means, and she also understands that as a married woman, she doesn't want to get involved with her nephew's marriage. But Ning Hua has hope to revitalize the Ning family, but the current Ning family's social circle is too narrow Not to mention Quan Shi, who is a merchant's wife, even Shen Shi, who is already an official wife, may not have a wide range of contacts.

Even though Ning Huayou is only a juren now, and the Guibang was basically just finished at the end, but there are not many juren after all, and he will still be young after a few more exams.

Now that Ning Huayou has been admitted to the Imperial College by his own ability, his future is basically guaranteed, so he wants to find a good girl for him.

Although the Lotus Appreciation Fair has not been held for several years, and it is Su Yunduo's first time to hold a Lotus Appreciation Fair, this year's Lotus Appreciation Fair has been an unprecedented success.

After the Lotus Appreciation Party, both Lu Jinhua and Su Zexuan successfully made their marriage arrangements.

Lu Jinhua chose to be the eldest granddaughter of the Guozijianji Restaurant, who is also the niece of the fourth aunt, Mrs. Xu. Mrs. Xu was not very satisfied with this marriage. She wanted to find a noble daughter for Lu Jinhua. In his eyes, he was just an ordinary official family.

An's and Lu Jinhua themselves are very optimistic about this girl named Zhao Xin, Yang Aoqun and Zeng Ru also like Miss Zhao very much, thinking that this girl is pleasing and sensible.

Su Yunduo's performance was even more indifferent, and it could even be said that he had an indifferent attitude.

Although Lu Jinhua is the eldest brother's brother, the one he married was Su Yunduo's sister-in-law, but Su Yunduo has her own principles of dealing with things, and she adheres to the principle that if she can get along, she will get closer and if she can't get along, she will stay far away. They all live their own lives.

Su Zexuan's appointment of Lin Yingyue, a girl from the Lin family who has a similar status to the Su family, made Su Yunduo a little confused, but after she met Lin Yingyue, she couldn't help but give Su Zexuan a nod Thumbs up.

To marry a wife is to marry a virtuous woman. Although this Lin Yingyue does not quite meet the requirements of the world's "virtuous" women in this era, she is very suitable for the requirements of the second wife of the Su family in Dongmingfang for the eldest daughter-in-law. She is agile and capable and has a girl of this age There is no smoothness.

In addition to the confirmation of Lu Jinhua and Su Zexuan's marriage, some marriages of Ning Hua have also been basically settled.

The Ning family took a fancy to a girl from the Cheng family, but it wasn't Miss Cheng, but Miss Cheng, who was born a quarter of an hour later than Miss Cheng.

A small misunderstanding at the lotus appreciation meeting made the two of them see each other right, and a happy event was made.

Lu Jinhua's and Su Zexuan's wedding dates were set in March and May of the next year, but Su Yunduo had no chance to participate in their wedding.

A few days after the lotus appreciation meeting came to an end, the Holy Majesty issued an order at the court meeting that Lu Jinkang would replace Lu Da as the new coach of Northern Xinjiang.

Besides Lu Jinzhen and Lu Jinbai, Lu Jinsong and Lu Jinyu, who were over 15 years old, accompanied Lu Jinkang to northern Xinjiang.

Lu Jinzhen and Lu Jinbei wanted to assist Lu Jinkang, while Lu Jinsong and Lu Jinyu wanted to go to northern Xinjiang for training.

The news that Su Yunduo was going to the northern border with his children soon spread in the capital, and it was exactly as expected, causing an uproar in the court. Not only the censors wrote letters one after another, but even some military officers raised concerns about it. opposing opinions.

Although the Holy Majesty was a little shaken, he had privately expressed to Lu Jinkang that he would at least keep brother Huan in the capital. After all, brother Huan, who was six years old, was just at the age of enlightenment. It would take at least a year to go, and three to five years at most. Maybe it's a new year, isn't it because I missed Brother Huan.

Lu Jinkang completely ignored the objections of the officials in the DPRK and China, but he could not ignore the wishes of the Holy Majesty. However, it was his unshakable principle to take Su Yunduo and his children to the northern border.

Faced with the Holy Majesty's persuasion, Lu Jinkang was unmoved, and instead found various reasons to persuade the Holy Majesty.

After all, the Holy Majesty trusted Lu Jinkang and loved Lu Jinkang, so he personally argued for Lu Jinkang. After Su Yunduo passed the mid-autumn reunion festival in the capital with a full staff of Zhen Guogong, he finally left Beijing with a pair of children. Lu Jinkang went to northern Xinjiang.

Lu Chenghao, who is full of the beautiful scenery of "the wind blows the grass and the cattle and the sheep", is brother Huan. At this moment, Lu Jinkang is wrapped in a cloak and riding on the horse. A pair of bright big eyes are exposed from the cloak. He looks around, but there are only withered grass roots in his eyes. He couldn't help pouting and yelling at the carriage behind: "Mother, you and Uncle Six and Uncle and the others have teamed up to deceive people. How can there be such a beautiful scene of cattle and sheep here!"

Brother Huan's words made everyone laugh, but he himself was ignorant, not knowing what everyone was laughing at.

No matter how smart he is, he is only six years old after all, and there are still many things he doesn't understand.

He didn't know that the northern Xinjiang in September had already entered winter early. Although there was no snow this year, the grass had already withered and yellowed. Naturally, he couldn't see the beautiful scenery of "cattle and sheep appearing when the wind blows the grass".

"Why are you brat talking to your mother!" Lu Jinkang stretched out his hand and slapped Brother Huan lightly.

A head wearing a cotton cap appeared on the carriage behind, it was Su Yunduo who was accused by Brother Huan of being a liar, and she smiled cheerfully: "Brother Huan, this is the season that you forgot what your mother taught you." The law of climate change? Think about what the Northland is like in winter?"

"The grass is withered and yellow, and the snow is vast." Brother Huan murmured first, and then his eyes lit up: "Mother, I understand! Now it is winter and only the withered and yellow grass roots can be seen. When it snows, it will be snowy. Wait until next year In the spring, the grass will grow again, and when you are lucky, will you be able to see the beautiful scenery of cattle and sheep when the wind blows the grass?"

"You're smart, you're right this time! Judging by the weather, I'm afraid it will snow heavily at night, and then you will be able to see the snowy scenery! Get back in the car quickly, we have to hurry." Lu Jinkang said Then he stuffed Brother Huan in his arms back into the carriage.

(End of this chapter)