Step by step lotus flower

Chapter 88 Birthday (1)
She hurriedly came back to her senses, looked at Mrs. Lu with an apologetic smile and said, "I was just in a daze for a moment, I didn't hear what Mrs. Lu said, so I ask Mrs. Lu to forgive me."

Mrs. Lu waved her hands and said with a smile: "It's okay, I just asked in vain, it's like this, my son was in a daze and heard someone say that whenever you have free time, you go to Jiusheng Building, and sometimes you just stay there Half a day, right? It's a good thing that you devote yourself to learning, but there are a lot of people there, if you accidentally meet some foreigner, and then you are told by that screwdriver, wouldn't it be a big disadvantage to your reputation? , and the reputation of the Duke’s Mansion is also at a great disadvantage? You must know that for a family like ours, the reputation is the most important thing, and everything else has to come later. I mean, if you want to read a book in the future, just write the title of the book so that Let the girl and mother-in-law go and borrow it from you, so wouldn't it be the best of both worlds, what do you think?"

Lu Mingxuan never thought that she would be able to hide from Mrs. Lu, the mistress of the house, that she ran to the Jiusheng Building whenever she was free. Now that Mrs. Lu has personally asked the girl to borrow books for her, she I can only obey: "It was because I didn't think carefully, and the lady is worried about me. From now on, I will try my best to go to Jiushenglou as little as possible. If I want to read any books, I just ask the girl to borrow them for me. "

What she didn't expect was that Mrs. Lu would attach so much importance to reputation that she even said things like "fame is the most important thing, and everything else comes later". Once she knows that the eldest prince has For the habit of breaking sleeves, the most likely thing for her to do is to kill herself immediately and silently, instead of rescinding Lu Mingfeng's engagement with the First Prince?

Lu Mingxuan swallowed back the words that were already on the verge of her mouth, and couldn't help but smile bitterly in her heart. Fortunately, she was able to hold back just now and didn't say anything she shouldn't have said, otherwise, who knows what will happen now Under the circumstances, maybe even Lu Zhongxian, Lu Mingfu, and even Ling Mengqi would not even think about living again?
The wry smile is not to mention that before she and Lu Mingfu were going to enter the Duke's mansion, Lu Zhongxian had told them in every possible way, "Don't run around if you have nothing to do, listen to what you should listen to, and never listen to what you shouldn't listen to. Shen heard it, and remembered that it was rotten in her stomach', even if Lu Zhongxian didn't say this, isn't the experience of the previous life not enough for her to learn a lesson?
Lu Mingxuan didn't say anything anymore, just sat and listened to Lu Mingfu gossiping with Mrs. Lu's mother and daughter for a while, then when Lu Mingfeng showed a little tired face, she said goodbye and left with Lu Mingfu.

After the two sisters walked out of the door, they could vaguely hear Mrs. Lu's voice inside: "...When you sit in your aunt's seat in the future, I, a mother, will be able to follow the glory..."

Lu Mingxuan felt more and more that she was right when she said nothing just now. Mrs. Lu made it clear that she wanted to be the emperor's mother-in-law. It's nothing, it's not a problem at all, okay?

Of course, the premise is that the eldest prince can really become the emperor.

After returning to Kongcui Pavilion, she parted ways with Lu Mingfu and went back to her room, Lu Mingxuan leaned on the couch by the window unhappily.

Rao has decided in his heart to keep the secret of the eldest prince in his stomach, even Lu Mingfu will not tell it, but when he thinks of the shyness and joy on Lu Mingfeng's face when Mrs. Lu mentioned the eldest prince, there is still a smile in his eyes. Lu Mingxuan's unconcealable longing and longing for a better life in the future made her feel extremely uncomfortable. She had a feeling similar to "Although I didn't kill Boren, Boren died because of me". Although she was not the instigator, at best It's just that they know about it and don't report it. Although Lu Mingfeng has not suffered any harm so far, no one dares to assert that after she marries the First Prince, she will definitely be hurt and unhappy!
She was struggling and uncomfortable when Danqing came back, and brought back the 25 taels of silver that she brought back intact, and said: "Mr. Ling said that he would not be rewarded for nothing, and it is enough to take the girl's 20 taels of silver every month." No, if you rely on the girl's kindness again, you will have to look forward to Shu, what kind of person will you become? And in the future, you will be unable to repay the girl's kindness, so no matter how good the business in the shop is or how high the profit is, he will only take 20 taels. 20 taels can be regarded as borrowing from the girl, and I will pay it back sooner or later, please tell the girl and the shopkeeper Xiaochi."

Well, she knew it would be like this... Lu Mingxuan shook her head and sighed: "Forget it, just put away the money, I should have expected brother Ling's arrogance, since I didn't accept the money at that time Money, of course I won’t accept it now, it’s because I did it too much.”

After a pause, he lowered his voice and asked Danqing: "I asked Brother Hu Zi Ling what he is busy with these days, has that one pestered him again?"

Danqing cooperated and said in a voice that was only audible to the two of them: "Huzi said that Mr. Ling spent most of his time practicing martial arts these days except for going to the school, and he got along well with the guards in the mansion. That one came to the mansion a few times after that, but Mr. Ling avoided them after hearing the news beforehand, and nothing went wrong, please rest assured, girl."

Lu Mingxuan felt a little relieved when she heard that, as long as Ling Mengqi could escape the clutches of the eldest prince in the past few months, after that incident, he would be recommended by Princess Fuhui to enter the 24th guard and become an official. Thinking about it, the First Prince would easily dare not do anything to him, right?
A few days later, Lu Mingfeng started to go to Qinfangzhai to attend class again. Perhaps it was because Chukui was really different from the little girls after she came here. She looked a little less youthful and more charming. The more beautiful it looks, the more people can't take their eyes off.

However, Lu Mingxuan didn't dare to look at her, and tried to avoid being alone with her. Perhaps, this was the feeling of "guilty heart"?Although it wasn't her who was the thief.

The second day of August is Lu Mingxuan's tenth birthday. Although she is a junior who is not qualified to celebrate her birthday, and the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, there are many trivial matters, but Mrs. Lu thinks that this is her first birthday after coming to the Duke's mansion. For the first time in her life, she can't be too sloppy, even if it's not a big concert, it's okay to set up a few tables of wine.He also thought that the grandchildren and grandchildren hadn't been together for quite a while, so he called Lu Wenting's brothers and Ling Mengqi and Zhao Yanjie together.

On the morning of the second day of August, the first thing Lu Mingxuan did after waking up was to kowtow three times in the direction of her home, and then wrote a post for people to send it out with Lu Zhongxian. The birthday of her children was a day of disaster for her parents. Now that he is gone, he should greet Lu Zhongxian a few times and kowtow to him to repay the kindness of his upbringing.

After the post was sent out, Lu Mingxuan changed into a newly made mug-green beanie embroidered with silver stalks and a dark green and silver eight-panel Yunxiang skirt, and sat down in front of the mirror to dress up.

Because she is still young, she still wears a little girl's hairstyle. Normally, Lu Mingxuan finds it troublesome and usually wears a double flat bun, but today is her good day, so she chose a more festive double snail bun and tied it around her hair. The ribbons under the bun were also replaced with a pair of red gold hollowed-out tassels inlaid with broken rubies. On the right side of the temple, a bead flower with silver threads wrapped around rice grain-sized colorful beads and tassels was inserted, and gold thread inlaid pearls fell from the ears. Gourd earrings, and the pair of blood jade bracelets that Mrs. Lu gave her when she first met Mrs. Lu.

(End of this chapter)