Thinking of this, the fourth prince slowed down and said to Lin Fang: "Actually, what you said just now is not bad! If you really don't want to give up, you may not be able to give it a try! Everything is possible before the dust settles!"
Lin Fang was overjoyed immediately, and hurriedly said, "I never planned to give up! Thank you, Fourth Prince, for your success!"
"This king wants to fulfill you, but it's a pity, now that this king has said it, it doesn't count!" The fourth prince laughed at himself, and by the way, he gave Lin Fang a blank look, and said in a deep voice, "Now that Miss Lu is in the limelight, at this time you Don’t be in a hurry. Let’s talk about it after the new year! If things take a while, maybe new opportunities will appear!”
Lin Fang became anxious at the moment. Hearing what the fourth prince said, after thinking about it, he felt that it was the truth. He could only suppress the eagerness in his heart, nodded and said, "Okay, this time I will listen to you, the fourth prince!"
Besides, Zhou Shizhi asked Lu Xiaoshu to come out, took a piece of paper on which the plum blossom poem was written and asked her with a smile, "You really wrote this?"
Although it's not true, but he hurt her self-esteem by asking him like that, okay
Lu Xiaoshu's face suddenly became a little uncomfortable, his pretty face sank, and he hummed: "So what if it is? So what if it's not?"
Seeing this posture, Zhou Shizhi knew that he had said something wrong, and hurriedly apologized with a smile: "Xiaoshu, I have no other meaning, just asking!"
"This has nothing to do with you!" Lu Xiaoshu's face softened, and he muttered softly.
Zhou Shizhi smiled and said: "I just want to know if there are any benefits for my future daughter-in-law that I haven't discovered. In fact, I don't think it's strange that you wrote it, your paintings are so good—"
Hearing his praise for his paintings, Lu Xiaoshu felt that he had saved some face and felt much more at ease, so he smiled and said, "That's not the same! This poem is poetry, and painting is painting! I don't know anything about composing poetry! You don't know , Some boring people actually came to ask for poetry these days, and I ordered them to send them away! It's really annoying!"
"It's no wonder that under the prestige—uh, since you didn't make that poem, but your sister did it?" Zhou Shizhi hurriedly changed his words when he saw her glaring at him.
"It's not my sister, I'm not that stupid, if someone talks about doing this kind of impostor thing in front of the queen, my sister and I will have to finish the game!" Lu Xiaoshu said, rubbing his face in distress. Rubbing his forehead, he said: "You asked me who wrote this poem, you really asked me, because I don't know either!"
"What?" Zhou Shizhi suspected that he had misheard.
"You heard me right," Lu Xiaoshu pouted, looked at him and said, "I don't even know who wrote it."
"..." Zhou Shizhi was stunned. Rao is smart, and good at analyzing people's hearts and events, but this time it's really out of the question!
"Can I hear what's going on?" Zhou Shizhi said.
Lu Xiaoshu rolled his eyes at him: "I didn't intend to hide it from you. If you hadn't talked so much nonsense, I would have finished talking by now!"
Zhou Shizhi smiled, "Okay, okay, it's all about me, Miss Lu, Miss Lu, please listen carefully!"
Lu Xiaoshu laughed "puchi", and told the whole situation at that time, including that he was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot when he heard that he was going to write a poem, and he didn't hide it from him.
After hearing this, Zhou Shizhi still felt that it was better for him to stay still.
"There is such a good thing in this world? Such a good thing actually happened in the palace?"
"And it fell on me!" Lu Xiaoshu added angrily.
"I can't figure out who is helping me in secret," Lu Xiaoshu sighed softly, and smiled at Zhou Shizhi: "If I didn't know that it was in the palace, I would have thought you were helping me! Hey, Tell me, could it be the Third Prince?"
Why are these words so offensive!
Zhou Shizhi snorted and said, "If I knew that plum blossom poems were going to be written at this flower viewing banquet, and if I knew that you couldn't do it at all, I would definitely try to help you. The third prince—"
He shook his head: "I don't think it's him! I can't predict the future, but can he? It can't be him."
When Lu Xiaoshu heard the same reasoning, he nodded and said, "What you said seems to have some truth."
"It's fine if you don't know! In fact, it doesn't matter to us who it is. The important thing is, why did the queen interfere in your marriage—" Zhou Shizhi suddenly stopped talking, and he vaguely felt that this matter was probably related to Empress related!
In other words, it was the empress who planned to let Lu Xiaoshu win the championship, and then it was logical to notice her in full view, and then talked about her marriage—
However, this does not make sense!
Why did the empress go to such lengths to take Xiaoshu's marriage decision into her hands even at the expense of cheating? If she wanted to bestow a marriage, she could just say so. Why bother
But if he guessed wrong, who was the person who helped her? What is the purpose
Lu Xiaoshu saw that his expression was gloomy and his eyes were dark, so he knew how many times his mind might be spinning, so he gently pushed him and smiled, "What are you thinking about again? Could it be You think too much! It's a very simple matter, I don't think there are so many conspiracy designs! Whatever it is, it's not a bad thing anyway!"
makes sense! Even if the empress holds the power to decide her marriage in her hands, in her own capacity, it is not difficult to ask the empress to grant her a marriage.
Even for the sake of being wronged by the whole family for so many years, even if she pretends to be, the empress will not give up this face!
Thinking of this, Zhou Shizhi put the matter aside, suddenly smiled, approached her ambiguously and said in a low voice: "Imagination? Is it just imagination? Daughter-in-law, it's rare for us to be together. How can we be sorry if we don't think about it—"
"You, you, you—what nonsense!" Lu Xiaoshu couldn't help but blushed, and pushed him to the side.
Zhou Shizhi had a good time, and smiled innocently: "Didn't you say it yourself? I just followed your wishes!"
"Out of shape! I'm too lazy to talk to you!" Lu Xiaoshu spat at him softly, and said with a smile, "You're a busy person now, I won't disturb you, I'm going back!"
"Stay with me again, I'm going back to my hometown in a few days, and it will take more than a month to come and go." Zhou Shi smiled and gently took her hand.
Lu Xiaoshu couldn't help but feel a little bit reluctant, and said: "This is a big deal, you just have to do it with your heart, I will wait for you to come back!"
Zhou Shizhi smiled and said: "When I leave, I will entrust this house to you! I have already agreed with the housekeeper, if there is anything that cannot be mastered, let him come to you! You press Just deal with it according to your own ideas, I believe in you!"
This is treating her as one of his own, Lu Xiaoshu felt sweet in his heart, and smiled and said: "You are not in Beijing, what can you do? You also regard yourself as an important person too much! Hmph, I don't care about it! "
Zhou Shizhi chuckled lowly, and said, "You don't care about it, it's me who cares about it! I can't wait for you to accompany me when I go back to my hometown next year to worship my ancestors!"
Thinking of his family's tragic experience, Lu Xiaoshu felt pity and sympathy in his heart, so he softened his voice and said, "As long as it's not the Chinese New Year, if you go back next year, I will definitely accompany you there."
"No," Zhou Shizhi laughed meaningfully, and said, "What I mean is, as long as I go back in the future, you must follow. It should be open and aboveboard, and your parents have no objections."
Lu Xiaoshu was taken aback, only then did he realize what he meant after getting married...
She stomped her feet and said angrily to him, "When will you learn to take advantage of me! You're glib! Hmph, now that the empress has stepped in, it's hard to talk about this marriage, you just wait!"
Zhou Shizhi didn't take it seriously at all, and said with a smile: "What's hard to say, it's just a matter of one sentence!"
Lu Xiaoshu made a funny face at him, laughed and chatted a few words, then went back to the mansion.
In a blink of an eye, it is the new year, worshiping the stove and ancestors, and soon it will be the new year.
This year is the first year that Lu Xiaoshu's family lived after they came to Beijing. Lu Xiaoshu is very fortunate that there is no second wife around to make trouble, and the third bedroom is very honest now!
Lu Wenshi finally came back from Jiangnan, and he brought back a beautiful concubine. Mrs. Mao had been arguing with him for half a month, and even came to Jingmingtang crying, begging Lu Wenxuan and Mu Qing to make decisions.
Where does Lu Wenxuan care about such nosy matters? Going back to lubricate the soles of her feet to avoid it, Mu Qing got what Lu Wenxuan said, so she just tried to persuade Mrs. Mao, saying how can a sister-in-law take care of her uncle's house
Although Mao was dissatisfied, she did not dare to fall out with Da Fang, otherwise, she would be alone and helpless. In the end, he had no choice but to admit it with grievances and tears, but let Mu Qing agree that if the concubine wants to bully her, let Mu Qing make the decision for her.
Mu Qing thought about it, and felt that this was possible and necessary, so she nodded and agreed.
Only then did Mao feel that her back was stiff again, and she still flattered Mu Qing without mentioning it.
On the eve of the New Year's Eve, the weather was very good, and Lu's mansion got busy up and down after worshiping the ancestors early in the morning.
Lu Xiaoshu's siblings were fine, when Lu Yihui came over, Lu Jing'an clamored to set off firecrackers in the garden, so the three siblings went together.
Lu Xiaoshu originally wanted to go to his adoptive parents, but then he thought about the New Year's Eve, and he was afraid that he would be too busy to worship ancestors and gods there, so he didn't go there.
At dusk, the sound of firecrackers can be heard faintly through the courtyards from time to time, and it’s time for the family reunion dinner in every household.
"Xiao Shu, An'er, go and invite your third uncle and third aunt over here!" Nanny Hua reported that the food was ready, and Mu Qing ordered Lu Xiaoshu and her siblings.
Today is the Chinese New Year, and it seemed a bit more solemn for the brothers and sisters to call someone, so Lu Xiaoshu smiled and agreed, and dragged Lu Jingan to go.
Ever since that little concubine named Hongyan came, Mrs. Mao did not come to Jingmingtang much, most of the time she stayed in her courtyard, staring at that Hongyan. He gets jealous at every turn, and has a fight with Lu Wenshi, which makes the whole Jingxiu hall jump like a dog.
No, today she was originally arranging the New Year's Eve dinner with Mu Qing in the Jingming Hall, and while she was talking, she suddenly remembered the vixen in the courtyard, so she couldn't sit still anymore, and left in a hurry.