Qian Yunrou brought the old Taoist home for the second time, hoping to learn some witchcraft from him.
Who knew that her eldest brother found out about this, and his eldest brother immediately came to the door with his men and knocked out two of the old Taoist's front teeth. Qian Yunrou was also severely punished.
Qian Tong, who has always been good-tempered, showed extraordinary disgust when his sister brought a man home.
Qian Tong, who thought he was standing up for his sister, once again found out that his sister had taken someone back, and completely broke up with Qian Yunrou.
This incident reached the ears of Qian Cheng. During the break, a student asked: "Qian Cheng, is that shameless person really your sister?"
Qian Cheng frowned and sneered: "If you like it, can I give it to you?"
The student was choked and laughed sarcastically for a moment.
Not far away, Xu Xiao, who was watching this scene, said: "This Qian Cheng is also unlucky. Why did he end up with such a sister? Fortunately, it doesn't matter now."
When Yao Yu saw the angry Qian Cheng, she thought of her adoptive mother, Mrs. Leng. She was also a person who couldn't deal with things well. Otherwise, when she was a wife in the Yao family and an old lady in the future, she didn't know how many people would rush to honor her.
Unfortunately, people's blessings are lost because of their own actions. When they want to complain, they find that they don't even have the qualifications to complain.
For example, now that the Lu family is prospering, who would say that the Lu family is not good?
Wuxi Official School was opened, and so many children from poor families were admitted. Chief Lu Shan taught personally, and Lu Yunhong, the number one scholar, was also in charge.
More importantly, with the support of the prince and the eldest princess, even the emperor will pay special attention to it.
After three to five years, the Lu family has gained momentum, and these disciples can be regarded as the Lu family's connections. If a big family opens a clan school, it will also recruit some children from the in-laws to study together, isn't it just to support each other?
Yao Yu gradually discovered the fact that Lu Yunhong was indeed much better than him. So...the couple got along day and night, and it was not surprising that Wang Xiu had feelings for Lu Yunhong.
He felt that he should let it go. If he continued to pester her, he might even hate himself.
Seeing that Yao Yu was silent, Xu Xiao guessed that he might be thinking of his adoptive mother, and said immediately: "Let's go for a walk today, how about relaxing?"
Yao Yu refused: "No, I want to go back to study."
"You should stop running around. If you are knowledgeable and have no reputation, if you can't become an official, you can only be a staff man. What's the good of that?"
Many staff members will never see the light of day in their lives. If the big family has too many scandals, the staff members may not end well.
After Yao Yu finished speaking, he left. Xu Xiao came from a big family, and he didn't need to explain many things clearly.
Xu Xiao looked at his back thoughtfully.
This chess piece was no longer useful, and Xu Xiao felt a little regretful.
After he went out, Maoxue said quickly: "Young Master came back just in time, there is a letter from the capital."
Xu Xiao asked: "Bring it to me and take a look."
After Xu Xiao got the letter, he opened it and read it, and immediately frowned.
King An asked him to seduce Wang Xiu?
Do you want to ruin Wang Xiu’s reputation??
Why go to all this trouble? Wouldn't it be better to just poison or hire a murderer?
Xu Xiao burned the letter and said calmly: "Your Majesty, have you been very busy recently?"
Maoxue lowered his voice and said: "I heard that the prince is ill and will not go to court for several days."
Xu Xiao's eyes moved slightly, thinking that it was no wonder.
It seems that the prince is seriously ill, or perhaps King An knows something inside, otherwise King An would never use such a pedantic method given his temperament.
The most important thing is that he has no confidence in Wang Xiu.
Wang Xiu is a very smart person, informal and very popular. If he showed any special thoughts about Wang Xiu at this time, Yao Yu would be the first to stare at him.
Moreover... Wang Xiu's preference for Lu Yunhong was known to everyone in the academy. If he dared to intervene like this villain, those students would drown him with their spit.
Finally, Xu Xiao thought of a compromise.
He could start with the girl from the Lu family. As far as he knew, the second daughter of the Lu family, Lu Yunyuan, had not announced their marriage yet. She was only waiting for her sister Lu Yunran to get married before starting to talk about marriage. Now that Lu Yunran was about to get married, this was an opportunity.
Time passed, and on June 29, Lu Yunran got married.
The Zhang family's pick-up party arrived early and waited in the city until auspicious times came to the Lu's house to pick up the bride.
It was the first time that Wang Xiu saw Mrs. Quanfu preening the bride. She watched it with gusto. If it weren't for her busy family, she would probably have to finish it before going out.
As the head of the Lu family, she was very busy. However, she called a group of students to help, including those in charge of tea, some in charge of the kitchen, and some in charge of greeting local squires and distant guests.
Whenever guests come, arrange where they should go and who will serve tea, everything is in order.
Everyone complimented him with admiration, and most of the words of praise came from the bottom of their hearts.
In particular, they saw that Wang Xiu had prepared a very generous dowry for Lu Yunran. It included everything from furniture to screens.
The most outstanding thing should be the makeup gift that makes everyone’s eyes shine as soon as it is opened.
There are jade Ruyi, golden peanuts, twelve-color agate bracelets, twelve-color Hetian jade bracelets, gold hairpins, gold-set gemstone headbands, and Nanzhu headbands, etc.
At first glance, people are dazzled by what they see. When they take a closer look, they find that everything is newly made and has a good meaning. The most important thing is that it is piled in piles, which looks particularly luxurious.
A wife laughed and said that if she had known that Lu Yunran's dowry was so rich, she should have come to propose marriage to her son earlier. She would have given her son to her doorstep.
Everyone laughed, but everyone knew that the Lu family was not something everyone liked.
As for the young master of this family, he also ran away for a long time. The Lu family saw that he was sincere and only then agreed to marry their daughter.
When Lu Yunhong went to put the banknotes at the bottom of the box for his sister, he saw the 20,000 taels of banknotes at the bottom of the box that Wang Xiu had prepared a long time ago. He couldn't help but curl up his lips. His wife was really willing to give them, and she didn't know how much more she would give them.
Leave some for the child. Lu Yunhong smiled and added another 10,000 taels in silver notes.
The person who was picking up the bride from the Zhang family knew that Lu Yunran only had 30,000 taels of banknotes at the bottom of the box, so they didn't dare to neglect him anymore.
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Perhaps because she got up too early, Wang Xiu felt a little headache in the afternoon. As soon as the wedding team left, she leaned on the couch for a while.
When she woke up, she found her mother-in-law sitting next to her and asked her if she was feeling better.
With that said, he quickly poured her a cup of warm tea.
Wang Xiu was flattered and quickly got up and said, "Why is mom here? Aren't there many guests outside?"
Mrs. Chen said: "I asked your father-in-law and Yun Hong to take care of them, as well as Yunyuan and Yunzhu. It's time for them to learn how to be a housekeeper. If you don't feel well, sleep for a while. I'll ask the maids to bring the food later.
Come to your house."
Wang Xiu was deeply moved and said quickly: "I'm fine. I'm in good health. Don't worry, mother."
With that said, he got up and found two pills to take.
Seeing her like this, Mrs. Chen became even more worried.
"Axiu, once the wedding bride leaves, our family will have nothing to do. Don't hold on."
"Listen to mother and get some sleep."
Wang Xiu smiled and said: "Mom, I'm really fine. I guess it was because of the cold wind earlier."
"Don't worry, I'm fine now."
Mrs. Chen didn't believe it, but Wang Xiu wanted to go out to greet guests, so she had to call Lu Yunhong to give him instructions.
After a while, Lu Yunhong was seen bringing a bowl of hot ginger water from the kitchen to Wang Xiu.
"Drink a bowl to drive away the cold."
Wang Xiu smelled that it was ginger soup and said: "Mother said that?"
Lu Yunhong nodded, sighed and said: "Thank you for your hard work today, later..."
Seeing that there were still people around, Lu Yunhong said: "Have a good rest later."
Wang Xiu nodded with a smile and urged him: "Go and get busy."
Lu Yunhong left uneasily. Before leaving, he touched her hands and forehead and left after feeling that they were not hot.
Zhou Xu's wife, Xie Shi, said with envy: "Lu Zhuangyuan is really considerate."
Wang Xiudao: "No, Mr. Zhou is also very considerate."
When Ms. Xie thought about her second child having a daughter and her husband comforting her, she did not deny it.
The two of them were chatting and laughing, and Chen Shengfang called on several young daughters-in-law to help them count all the gifts sent by the Zhang family and put them into the account.
Lu Yunyuan greeted the remaining guests to take their seats, and Lu Yunzhu ran back and forth to spread the word. Everyone looked very capable.
Mrs. Xie sighed: "Your husband has no brothers, but he has several good sisters. Look, which one is not your helper?"
Wang Xiu stretched out and said wiltedly: "Yes? I think they are really good too."
When Mrs. Xie saw that Wang Xiu was not in good spirits, she urged her: "There are no outsiders now. You can go and take a nap."
Wang Xiu shook his head, yawned and said, "The medicine I took has taken effect. It won't be a problem. Just bear with it for a while and it will be fine."
Sure enough, Wang Xiu regained his energy after a while and quickly took care of the remaining matters.
After all the students finished their work, they all went back to the academy. Wang Xiu felt very happy when he saw that Pei Shan, Xu Anbang, Dong Zheng, and Xie Cheng were still there.
But when she turned a corner and found Xu Xiao and Lu Yunyuan making tea together in the teahouse, she suddenly felt bad.