It should be said that Mingyu was unlucky as she arrived at the wrong time, just when Comrade Miao Cuihua was in a bad mood. What's more, in Comrade Cuihua's view, Mingyu was young and playful, and had never ridden a horse, so she forgot the time when she was having fun for the first time.
Mingyu did not explain and bowed her head to admit Comrade Cuihua's misunderstanding. In Miao's eyes anyway, she believed that her son Batianbao was good in everything and Mingyu was bad in everything. Explanation was covering up, and covering up was tantamount to admitting guilt.
Sima Hong felt a little sorry and scratched his head, saying, "Mom, I wanted to ride the horse. Mingyu couldn't ride a horse, so she just sat in the carriage and waited for me."
Miao's face was a little embarrassed, and she glared at Sima Hong. He really forgot his mother after having a wife. He even ruined his own mother's stage. What's wrong with scolding your wife? Is it a loss of meat? However, Miao couldn't bear to scold her son, so she waved her hand and said, "Go back and change your clothes. There are guests coming to the house. The old lady has been nagging you to come and recognize your relatives since early morning."
Back in the room, Madam Zou went to the yard to fetch water for Mingyu. Lixiang was furious and said angrily, "Second Madam should have gone to the old lady and complained to Second Master. And Madam, you scolded Second Madam without knowing the truth. Is that unreasonable?"
After staying in the Marquis' Mansion for a long time, Lixiang finally figured out what was going on. The old lady was kind and treated the Second Mistress very well, but the mistress was not such a good person. She found fault everywhere and scolded whenever she could find an excuse.
Mingyu said with a smile: "Why, do you feel wronged to follow me?"
Li Xiang's eyes turned red, "I'm just feeling sorry for you!"
"Okay, okay, don't cry." Mingyu smiled and handed over the handkerchief. "Just bear with it and it will pass. Don't talk about what happened today in front of Madam, so that she won't worry about it at her age."
What's the point of saying it? Last time she wanted to deal with the arrogant Zhuxiang, she made such a fuss and Zhuxiang was only put in solitary confinement. She was punished to copy the family tree. Compared with her eldest sister-in-law Luo, the old lady really loved her very much, but no matter how much she loved her, she couldn't love her as much as her own grandson.
Sima Hong was naughty and did some ridiculous things, which frightened her. The old lady would at most scold him a few words, but when Comrade Cuihua heard this, she became even more unhappy. The mother-in-law wanted to punish her daughter-in-law, but she had many ways to do so.
Just bear with it, bear with it, the day when she becomes a divine turtle, she will be free.
Mingyu washed her face and changed into a lake green high waist skirt. As it was getting close to evening and the weather was getting cooler, Madam Zou put on a moon white short coat for her. There was no time to wash her hair, so Lixiang could only mess up Mingyu's hair and comb her hair into two buns again. Mingyu was young and didn't need to wear makeup. Lixiang looked at her and thought Mingyu's face was a little pale, so she applied a light layer of rouge on her face.
At the gate of the old lady's yard, Mingyu met Sima Hong. Sima Hong had changed into a scarlet round-necked brocade robe, with two jade pendant purses hanging on the jade belt around his waist. The golden sunset of the northwest land shone on his body. He had a handsome face and was a typical romantic nobleman.
He is just an idiot and a show-off! Mingyu commented on Master Bao in her heart with a calm expression.
A young man in a blue cloth robe was sitting at the bottom of the old lady's room, with a servant boy of about thirteen or fourteen standing behind him. When the two men came in, the young man immediately stood up. Mingyu saw the man and felt that he looked familiar. He lowered his head and thought, isn't this the gentleman who asked them for directions outside the horse farm in the morning
"Sit down, sit down!" The old lady was very happy and kept saying to the young man, "We are all family. According to seniority, they should call you uncle. There is no reason for you to stand up and greet them!"
Sima Hong also recognized the person in front of him and twitched his lips. It turned out that his father's old friend was the old lady.
The old lady pulled Master Bao and Mingyu over, pointed at the young man standing there and said with a smile, "This is Master Lu Hao, the Minister of the Imperial Household Department."
Lu Hao immediately smiled and bowed, "I am a junior, please don't kill me, old lady."
The old lady talked on and on for a while, and Mingyu understood the general idea. It turned out that Lu Hao's grandfather and the old lady were from the same village. They had followed Taizu to fight in the war and revolt to make a living. According to seniority, Lu Hao should call the old lady aunt.
After Emperor Taizu founded the country, he rewarded people for their merits, and Lu Hao's grandfather was also appointed an official of some importance. Unfortunately, fifteen years ago, Lu Hao's father was implicated in the case of Prince Mao's treason, and the Lu family spent all their family wealth to bribe people, and the deceased old man Lu had good relationships and accumulated some connections, so the execution was changed to dismissal from office, and the Lu family fell into decline.
Fortunately, Lu Hao was a promising boy. He passed the imperial examination at the age of 17. This year, at the age of 19, he was promoted to the position of Taifusi Cheng, a sixth-rank official. This time, he went to Gan'an County, north of Tianshui, to inspect the work of the Royal Horse Farm Branch. On the way back to Beijing, he stopped by Tianshui to visit relatives who were separated by several generations and had nothing to do with him.
The old lady and Sima Qing were very enthusiastic about Lu Hao and praised him one after another, especially the old lady. Lu Hao's family was in decline, but he did not rely on his family or backdoors, but only on himself. He achieved a position of the sixth rank at a young age, which made the old lady very proud.
Look, this is a high-level talent produced in our village! Mingyu guessed that this was what the old lady was thinking. Mingyu secretly raised her eyes to look at the gentle man named Lu Hao, and felt that his ears were red. The old lady was really too good at praising!
After the praise, the old lady sighed and said, "Your family suffered a disaster back then, and you should have spoken up. We are all relatives. If you hadn't come this time, I wouldn't have known that you have grown up so much!"
Lu Hao smiled modestly, "It's nothing, actually. I was still young back then, and being able to save my life by losing money was the best I could do. I've gotten through all these years smoothly, thank you aunt for your concern."
Mingyu curled her lips in her heart. If she had wanted to, she could have sent a letter to ask at any time in the past fifteen years. If Lu Hao had not been successful enough to become the Minister of the Imperial Household, he would probably not have received the courtesy he has today. At most, he would have been treated as a relative who came to beg for money by the Sima Marquis's Mansion and would have been sent away with a few copper coins.
Compared to the enthusiasm of his grandmother and father, Sima Hong felt bad about Lu Hao. They were only three years apart in age, but Lu Hao was already a minister of the Imperial Household Department and passed the imperial examination at the age of seventeen. In contrast, he...
Is this Lu Hao just like his elder brother, who is here to contrast him with how wasteful and unmotivated he is
The old lady took the hands of Master Bao and Mingyu and introduced them to Lu Hao: "This is your second nephew Bao Ge'er, whose full name is Sima Hong, and this is your second nephew's wife."
Lu Hao was surprised. When he saw this beautiful girl being protected by Sima Hong in the morning, he thought she was a lady from Sima Hou's mansion. He didn't expect that she was actually the daughter-in-law of Sima Hou's mansion.
When Miao saw Lu Hao's surprised expression, she hated him so much that she hated the old lady even more. She insisted on marrying such a young girl to Baoger. It was a joke just to see it. People would think that Sima Houfu was just like the landowner in the countryside who had more than two acres of land and bought a child bride!
"The engagement was arranged by our elders..." Miao explained with an awkward smile.
Lu Hao praised politely, "What a perfect match!" He could see that Miao was unhappy, so he tactfully stopped talking about this topic.
Sima Hong and Mingyu saluted "Uncle Lu" who had airdropped in, and then went down.
Lu Hao was a little absent-minded. The voice of the little girl named Mingyu was crisp and beautiful. Lu Hao resisted the urge to look down at her and returned the greeting seriously.
The old lady is old and likes to be in a crowd. It's a rare occasion for people from her hometown to visit her. She is so happy that she insists on letting Lu Hao stay at her house for one night and have a meal before leaving the next morning.
It was hard to refuse such a kind offer, so Lu Hao had to agree. He then asked his servant Xiao Qi to vacate the arranged inn, and more than a dozen people packed their luggage and moved into the Anxi Marquis Mansion.
After everyone had packed up, Xiao Qi boasted to the group of young people, "I just went with my master to the old lady's house in the Marquis's Mansion, and I saw the little girl who showed us the way today. She is the master of the Sima Mansion!"
Lu Hao added: "She is the second young lady of the Sima family."
The rest of the people were surprised, and they all talked about it: "So young? She's already married and become a young lady?"
"She doesn't look like she's even fourteen years old!"
"Isn't it said that women in the northwest marry late?"
Lu Hao smiled and gestured for silence, and the room immediately fell silent. "Alright, alright, it's someone else's family affair, we shouldn't ask about it."
Xiao Qi was only thirteen or fourteen years old, with a green beard on his mouth. He pouted and said, "Such a beautiful girl is already married. What a pity, isn't it, Master?"
Lu Hao's smile remained calm. "Pretty? I didn't notice. How can a little girl who hasn't grown up be that pretty?"
Seeing that he was being refuted, Xiao Qi snorted and said, "You're talking nonsense. I clearly saw you looking at that girl several times! You looked at her several times when you asked for directions this morning, and you stole a few glances at the old lady just now!"
Lu Hao was both angry and amused, and he directly grabbed Xiao Qi's ear and said, "If you keep talking nonsense, I will throw you to Tianshui and leave you alone! I am the young mistress of the Marquis's Mansion, how can you make up stories like this!"
A group of old men looked at Xiao Qi's ears being pulled with a smile, "I think you have a crush on her, and you have to take it all on me!"
"That's right, can I be interested in a little girl?"
"Hey, Xiaoqi, your hair hasn't even fully grown yet and you're already thinking about women, haha!"
Xiao Qi's face turned red from being teased by a group of grown men. He stamped his feet and argued, "No, I just looked at her a few more times! I was only looking at me, not at the girl!"
However, everyone looked at me in a teasing manner, as if to say, "I understand the thoughts of young people. You don't have to be embarrassed anymore, and don't drag me into this."
Lu Hao was helpless and patted his head. This was the downside of leading a group of ignorant and rough men. It was really a headache. He simply put on a majestic posture and shouted, "Shut up, everyone. Do you want to be kicked out by the Sima family?"
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