Step by step lotus flower

Chapter 51
As for where the girls and women got the secrets of the Ling family, Lu Mingxuan didn't know. The experience of her previous life told her, don't underestimate these low-level people, they have their own channels of information, Using it well can often get twice the result with half the effort, but they are often the ones who do bad things. This is the origin of the old saying "It is better to offend a gentleman than to offend a villain".

She only knew that since she found out that although Ling Mengqi was the eldest son of the Marquis of Guangping, he might not be able to inherit the title and family property, and he would not even be able to return to his family. The 100 taels of silver given to him has already been spent by now, and on the first day of living in the Sizhi Pavilion, he could hardly even get out the silver to reward the servants. After that, the Duke’s Mansion has no idea about Ling Mengqi except that it is noble in the first place. A few girls other than Lu Mingfeng's interest in him suddenly dropped. After all, good looks can't be eaten, and they can't be exchanged for a good future, especially when Lao Dinggong and Ling Xiang had a marriage contract. Once they acted a little more enthusiastically, they caught Ling Mengqi's eyes and were begged by him to go to the old man. Wouldn't it be ruined for the rest of their lives?
However, the laws of this dynasty did not explicitly stipulate that the family property of the nobility must be passed on to the eldest son, and given their status in the Duke Ding's mansion, the old Duke and Lu Zhongmian may not stand up for them and help Ling after they marry. For Meng Qi to fight for the title, if Lu Mingfeng and Lu Mingzhu were replaced, it would be possible. They still have this self-knowledge—as expected, peerless beauties are only suitable for viewing from a distance, and it is more suitable for ordinary people like them to live their ordinary and vulgar lives!
After Lu Mingxuan knew the general situation of Ling Mengqi, she stopped wasting time on him, and instead paid close attention to Zhao Yanjie secretly.

Although Zhao Yanjie's parents died early, and his only relative, his grandmother, also passed away not long ago. It is said that due to repeated changes in the family, almost everything that could be sold has been sold. It is really unfortunate to come to Beijing to join Mrs. Lu, an aunt and grandmother who has not been in touch with her for many years. No parent who loves her daughter a little bit will not marry her daughter to such a person, but on the other hand, it is precisely because of him Without parents or family background, for Lu Mingxuan, he is a perfect husband-in-law candidate, especially when she knows that he will pass the government and township examinations in four years and become a juvenile juren.

According to the regulations of this court, as long as you win the Juren, you can go to the Ministry of Officials to wait for a vacancy. Of course, a mere Juren can't find a lot of fat vacancies, but Lu Mingxuan knows that Mrs. Lu feels guilty for her in her heart, as long as Ding Guogong The government is willing to come forward, thinking that it will not be difficult for Zhao Yanjie to find a slightly better job in the future, and she has no other requirements, as long as it is far away from the capital.

Lu Mingya claimed that the concubine's concubine looked down on Zhao Yanjie as a poor man, but she felt that this marriage could not be better, so let her break the original deadlock, so that several actions can be achieved in one fell swoop, Everyone is happy!
Although Lu Mingxuan had preliminarily locked in Zhao Yanjie as one of the candidates for her future husband-in-law, she never showed it on the surface, and she didn't even reveal the slightest hint of it in front of Lu Mingfu. After all, she is only nine years old now. It's still too early to talk about this, and Zhao Yanjie's character still needs to be observed and tested. Rao, she wished she could leave the Duke's Mansion immediately, but she didn't want to just so hastily decide on the rest of her life and repeat the previous life again. The tragedy of marrying an inhuman.

Therefore, in the following days, Lu Mingxuan lived in the same way as before, and is still living in the same way now.

After eating Laba porridge, the closer the year is to the new year, the more intense the atmosphere of the new year is. Because the relatives and friends of Dingguo’s mansion are old and the generals have sent people from all over the country to Beijing to give New Year’s gifts, and the New Year’s gifts in the old family in Yangzhou are combined. The income from the various village shops under the name of the government has also been delivered one after another. Mrs. Lu is capable, but at that time it was inevitable that she was a little bit at a loss. Sometimes when she got busy, she didn't even have time to eat, so she went back Mrs. Lu, ask Lu Mingzhu and Lu Mingli to temporarily suspend class for a few days to help her.

Who would have thought that this matter would be known by Lu Mingya again, and she also went to Mrs. Lu to ask for a job, saying that she and Lu Mingxin, "Although they are dull, it is okay to help the auntie run errands", she spoke beautifully, and her posture was enough Low, Mrs. Lu is not good at refusing, lest others say that she treats the concubine badly, so she can only agree to let Lu Mingya and Lu Mingxin temporarily suspend class and go to Mrs. Lu's room to help.

There were only six girls in the school, but now four of them went to the school at once, so it was not easy to start the class again, so Lu Mingxuan and Lu Mingfu could only suspend the class, and they were not entertaining themselves in the Kongcui Pavilion every day. , is to go to Rongtai to live under the knees of Mrs. Lu Chenghuan, I just hope that the life will pass faster, and the New Year's Eve will be earlier, then they can go out of the house to reunite with Lu Zhongxian.

According to Mrs. Lu's original intention, she would keep the two sisters in the Duke's mansion year after year, but both Lu Mingxuan and Lu Mingfu insisted on going back to celebrate the New Year with Lu Zhongxian, saying that they couldn't even leave Lu Zhongxian alone during the New Year. Lonely, Mrs. Lu had no choice but to let go, and promised to let the two go back with Lu Zhongxian after offering sacrifices to their ancestors on New Year's Eve, but they had to come back on the fifth day of the lunar new year, because the sixth to ninth day of the lunar calendar is the government's mansion. Please take this opportunity to introduce the two of them to the wives and ladies of various families on the day of drinking New Year's wine, and it will only benefit the two of them in the future without any harm.

Lu Mingxuan knew that Mrs. Lu was doing it for their own good. Although she was reluctant to part with Lu Zhongxian, she wanted to take advantage of those few days to visit the newly opened shop. After all, she couldn't go against Mrs. Lu's wishes again, so she agreed to go back on New Year's Eve. Come back in five, at most, the itinerary will be more compact by then.

A few days later, it will be the 23rd New Year’s Eve in the twelfth lunar month. People in the north celebrate the New Year on 23, while people in the south celebrate it on 24. But whether it’s 23 or 24, everyone should pay attention to the New Year.

That day, Duke Dingguo's Mansion worshiped the Kitchen God early in the morning, and then swept the dust and pasted amulets. There was a lively scene everywhere. In the evening, there was a family banquet.

Even though it was a family banquet at Duke Dingguo's mansion, Mrs. Lu asked Lu Mingxuan and Lu Mingfu to participate in it early in the morning, so they changed into new clothes early and went to Rongtaiju. The family banquet was held in the open hall of Rongtaiju.

Mrs. Lu also changed into a new purple peony dress today, and wore a jade head mask, looking beaming. When she saw Lu Mingxuan and Lu Mingfu coming in, she smiled and said, "It's early, you two. Could it be that you can't wait to have something delicious tonight?"

Lu Mingfu smiled and said: "Don't be afraid to tell the old lady, just thinking that there will be something delicious tonight, my sister and I didn't even eat lunch."

Mrs. Lu laughed loudly, and after laughing, she said to Nanny Zhang at the side: "These two sisters often come to talk with me these days, and the days go by faster."

(End of this chapter)