Unexpectedly, the two of them are still in a stalemate and arguing. Lu Yiqing has already taken the opportunity to go to Mingqingyuan to move Mrs. Lu to be a rescuer. Mrs. Lu sent Madam Zhao to convey her meaning—of course, she supports the Qin family. . Instead, he reprimanded Mu Qing for disregarding the seriousness, saying that it would be too late for her to delay like this, and would she be willing to kill her granddaughter? Mu Qing turned pale with anger.
On weekdays, Mu Qing would have given some face to Old Madam Lu's words, but this time, no one can persuade her if she doesn't give in for her daughter.
After all, she is Mrs. Hou, and she put on a stern voice, and the servants in the mansion really didn't dare to move, Qin was in a hurry. When the smell of gunpowder was strong, Lu Wenxuan finally rushed back...
"No matter what, your mother loves you very much in her heart. Alas, you were too young back then, and we couldn't take you away. For this reason, your mother always has a thorn in her heart, and she always wants to make it up to you, what? I plan for you and give you the best, you can't break her heart!" Lu Wenxuan said with a smile.
His wife had been crying to him for a long time, and Lu Wenxuan knew that she was always guilty of this daughter in her heart, so she didn't know how to persuade her.
That guy Lu Yiqing is the most insidious, and the Qin family is also not easy to mess with. In addition, the old lady Lu is overwhelmed by her seniority, Lu Xiaoshu feels that her imagination is a little lacking, and she can't imagine how her mother insisted. Resisted and actually shocked them.
"Father, I've never blamed you and mother, really!" Lu Xiaoshu raised his head, speaking with a hundred and twenty sincerity.
Not only did I not blame it, but I am very grateful for the details. During those years in Maple Leaf Village, she really had a very happy time. There were parents, uncles, aunts, sisters and brothers, and master, and Lin Fang who was bullied by her, and—finally joined in But Zhou Shizhi, that bastard who couldn't even get rid of him!
Thinking of them, Lu Xiaoshu's eyes couldn't help being tinged with tenderness, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.
"Hehehe!" Lu Wenxuan told her to laugh, and said amusedly, "You were only two months old at that time, what do you know! Well, in fact, no matter how much your parents say, it's just an excuse, and it can't change the fact that you once abandoned you. Dad is very happy that you can grow up to be as open-minded and open-minded as you are today, really. So, if you don’t blame your parents, don’t talk back to your mother in the future, she is—”
Lu Wenxuan looked towards his daughter. The father and daughter looked at each other and laughed.
What kind of temper she is, both father and daughter understand.
"Okay, I'll just apologize to her!" Lu Xiaoshu felt dizzy thinking about it.
In other words, she has never been afraid of anyone since she grew up. She was never afraid of her fierce mother when she was in Maple Leaf Village, but she suddenly felt that she was quite afraid of this mother...
"That's good!" Lu Wenxuan smiled.
Lu Xiaoshu sneered, curling his lips secretly, can father stop talking to her in such a coaxing tone...
Seeing her daughter obediently coming over and calling "Mother" softly, Mu Qing felt that there was no resentment in her heart, and the mother and daughter quickly settled down.
Lu Xiaoshu was nervously waiting for Mu Qing to talk about Zhou Shizhi again, thinking about how to confuse him, but Mu Qing didn't say a word, which made Lu Xiaoshu feel quite suspicious .
How did she know that her mother was planning how to sell her!
Within three or two days, Liao Yuanyuan, the third lady of the Duke of Li's mansion, celebrated her sixteenth birthday. The Duke of Li's mansion sent a post to invite the girls from the mansion of the Earl of the Duke of Beijing to a banquet, and Lu's mansion was also invited.
This was the first time in so many years that the girls in Lu's mansion received such an official invitation, which made everyone in the whole mansion very happy. The old lady Lu showed a rare smile to Lu Xiaoshu, and said a few words to her kindly when she greeted her.
This is a sign that the Lu family has officially entered the upper class circle of Beijing. As long as they are accepted by this circle, the girls' social status will increase, and they will be able to marry a good family in the future. This is a great thing! For the sake of this benefit, Mrs. Lu was naturally happy.
On this day, after breakfast, Lu Xiaoshu, Lu Yiqing, and Lu Yihui gathered together to prepare for departure.
Lu Xiaoshu is a serious lady of the Hou Mansion, and Lu Yiqing and Lu Yihui took the initiative to come to Jingming Hall to meet her.
Lu Yiqing is still dressed elegantly, with pink and purple zigzagging plum blossom embroidered cloud gauze with narrow sleeves facing the front, and a long skirt embroidered with green onion and yellow flowers. She has a narrow waist and is elegant and graceful. , wearing two copper coin-sized begonia flowers of the finest palace silk, and a small emerald jade sparrow with the head of a rice bead step pinned to the bun on the left side. With bright eyes and white teeth, holding a fan of flowers and flowers for ladies, it looks like a picture of a lady.
Lu Yihui's outfits are much more gorgeous. The orange-red strands of golden flowers and grass patterns and water-red borders are paired with a stand-up collar, a golden pleated skirt with flowers, a gold inlaid jade bracelet, a gold ruyi head necklace, and the hair bun is from Lu Xiaoshu. The picked emerald emerald bead phoenix wears peony golden steps, the whole person is shining like a doll. Fortunately, she was younger, her white and tender oval face showed some baby fat, her eyes were big and bright, and she looked delicate and innocent, which took off a bit of the vulgarity of this attire.
If so, Lu Xiaoshu couldn't help laughing in his heart when he saw it.
Look at Lu Yiqing, and then look at her plain attire, the three of them look like sisters who go out of the same family!
Mao is afraid that others will not see her daughter? Don't wrap it like this!
"Second sister," Lu Yihui told Lu Xiaoshu to look a little embarrassed. She lowered her head to look at her clothes and said with a happy and proud smile, "Do you think I'm dressed well? Third sister said you gave me this step." It goes well with this dress, doesn't it?"
Lu Xiaoshu said "haha" twice, glanced at Lu Yiqing and said with a smile: "Of course what your third sister said is not wrong, it really fits well!"
After hearing this, Nanny Hua took a special look at Lu Yiqing.
Mu Qing specially ordered the old and mature Nanny Hua to accompany Lu Xiaoshu to set off, just to ask her to remind her. Mammy Hua looked on coldly, then she winked at Lu Xiaoshu.
"Second miss, third miss clearly has no good intentions." The two came to the side, and Nanny Hua said softly: "Fourth miss is too flamboyant, and someone will definitely ask about it. If third miss hints a few words, you just If you give something to Miss Fourth but don't give it to her, I'm afraid others will say that Miss Second is mean and heartless, and you intend to provoke the relationship between sisters."
When a rich family chooses a daughter-in-law, temperament is the most important thing. Such a temperament will undoubtedly be a disturbance when entering the door, and no family will welcome it.
Mu Qing was already determined to secretly choose a Xu for her daughter, and Nanny Hua naturally fully supported her and would not allow anyone to wantonly destroy Lu Xiaoshu's reputation. Even without Mu Qing's words, Madam Hua would not let this kind of thing happen.
Lu Xiaoshu was taken aback for a moment, then sneered. The doorways in this big mansion are really annoying! If Nanny Hua hadn't reminded her, she really wouldn't have thought of coming here!
"Fourth Sister!" Lu Xiaoshu turned around and came in front of them, and said with a smile, without any intention of avoiding Lu Yiqing, he smiled directly: "Your steps and jewelry are too expensive. Look, you and I The three elder sisters don’t wear such expensive things, and you are the only one who wears them. When someone asks, why do you alone have the two elder sisters? How do you answer? People will gossip about you! When the time comes Your reputation will be ruined! Why don't you take them all off, Second Sister has a lot of other jewelry here, can you pick a few and put them on for you?"
Lu Yihui is not a fool either, she was startled, then understood what Lu Xiaoshu meant, and couldn't help but glared at Lu Yiqing.
Lu Yiqing's face flushed slightly, and she didn't know what to say for a moment. She never thought that Lu Xiaoshu would be so shameless and dare to say that in front of her.
When she regained her composure and wanted to make some excuses, Lu Yihui had already smiled and agreed to go pick out jewelry with Lu Xiaoshu.
Lu Yiqing was secretly annoyed, and couldn't help but glance at Ju Xiang who was standing aside respectfully with her hands down, and secretly sneered in her heart: Lu Xiaoshu, Lu Xiaoshu, you are the one who is going to take Juxiang there today, and then, don't blame me...
After a while, Lu Yihui redressed up, took off those dazzling jewelry decorations, and replaced them with ones that were similar in quality to the two of them. As for her gorgeous clothes, it was just right for her age, so there was nothing wrong with it.
The three went to the second gate together, got into the carriage, and the accompanying maids got into the other carriage behind, and rushed to Li Guogong's mansion together.
In the carriage, seeing Lu Yiqing's calm expression, Lu Yihui felt a little uneasy, and finally mustered up the courage to talk to her with a smile, cautiously flattering and apologizing.
Lu Yiqing seemed to have expected it, and responded with a gentle smile, showing the demeanor that a sister should have in every way. Lu Yihui was very happy to see her.
Lu Xiaoshu secretly wondered, feeling very strange in his heart. When she arrived at Li Guogong's mansion, she understood a little bit.
She didn't expect that Lu Yiqing had a good relationship with Liao Yuanyuan and other girls in the upper-class circle of Beijing, and they could almost speak a few words.
She was still confused at first, but she didn't fully understand until she saw Wei Fangya appearing and talking affectionately with Lu Yiqing.
Lu Yiqing was very scheming, knowing that as long as she fell in love with Wei Fangya and became Wei Fangya's close friend, who would not want to see her among the other girls? Even if you feel contemptuous in your heart, you will probably sell some face.
Presumably in the past, she used to hang out with Wei Fangya and go to these occasions a lot, right? It's no wonder that Lu Yihui wants to curry favor with her, because Xiao Nizi wants to ingratiate herself into the circle by curry favor with her!
In the Jufang Pavilion in the Peony Garden, the corners of Lu Xiaoshu's mouth twitched.
Since Wei Fangya's arrival, twelve or thirteen girls have basically circled around Wei Fangya, chatting and laughing with her, only Lu Xiaoshu didn't join in the fun, leaning on the pillar and looking at the delicate blooming flowers in front of him .
Lu Yiqing didn't know what she said to Wei Fangya, Wei Fangya looked up at Lu Xiaoshu at the other end of the pavilion, was startled, and blurted out in surprise: "It's really her! How is this possible!"