sjar Chapter 359 He Likes the Food I Cook
Chapter 359 He Likes the Food I Cook
"Okay, of course you are good to me. Look, I am good to you, and you are good to me too. Isn't it good for both of us to get married? Why don't you agree?"
Shen Teng didn't understand why Lu Shian rejected him.
"Are you afraid that I will treat you badly? I can swear to God that as long as you marry me, I will treat you well."
Looking at Shen Teng like this, Lu Shian suddenly realized that for him, maybe he was just suitable for marriage, and it had nothing to do with love or not.
"Shen Teng, do you like me?"
"I like it. The food you cook is so delicious. I can't stop thinking about it if I don't eat it for a few days."
Lu Shian: ...
When talking about food, his eyes light up, that's for sure.
What he liked was not her, but the food she cooked.
"So you want to marry a cook."
"No, our marriage is settled anyway. Tell your aunt that you can wait at home on the sixth day of the New Year."
After Shen Teng finished speaking, he left in a hurry. Lu Jingxun hurried over, wanting to chat with this rich second generation, but he didn't catch up.
He turned to look at Lu Shian, and seeing that she looked unhappy, he couldn't help but say a few words: "Mr. Shen came to wish you a happy new year, how can you be so rude? Although he is not in the official career, with his family's wealth, even the royal family members have to be courteous to him."
Nowadays, Lu Jingxun talks about interests and power all the time, which makes Lu Shian very uncomfortable.
She stood up and bowed perfunctorily to Lawrence Lu: “Thank you for your teachings, Dad. I will pay attention to it in the future.”
After saying that, he turned and left.
Lawrence Lu was speechless: “This girl…”
On the second day of the New Year, almost all the noble ladies of Anjing entered the palace.
Lu Shi'an was also among them, as well as Yu Xiuying, who entered the palace to meet the emperor as Lu Jingxun's wife.
Dong Xuan'er was almost furious because of this, but she couldn't do anything about it. Lu Jingxun made it very clear that Lu Shi'an was favored by the Imperial Concubine and the Second Prince, and even he couldn't stop Yu Xiuying from going.
She cried out of grievance, "I am your wife, married in a grand ceremony, and now even she can step on my head. There will be no place for mother and son in this mansion in the future."
Lu Jingxun could only coax her patiently: "Xuan'er is the most well-behaved and sensible. You should understand my difficulties. How can Yu Xiuying compare with you? Daughters will always get married, but you are different. What belongs to me is our son's."
Dong Xuan'er stopped crying a little after hearing this: "You said so."
"I said, everything is for our son."
Dong Xuan'er burst into laughter, and Lu Jingxun turned around and bought her a set of headgear, which completely comforted Dong Xuan'er.
After Wang Xue Ning found out, her eyes were filled with coldness.
"Son, hehe, don't worry, you will never be able to give birth to a son while I am here."
Back to the topic.
In fact, Yu Xiuying was also unwilling to enter the palace. She was a peasant woman who knew nothing, and would only make a fool of herself and become a joke in the palace. She didn't want to be watched and laughed at by others.
Lu Jingxun comforted her: "Not everyone can enter the palace. I let you go because in my heart, you are my wife, different from others. Do you understand what I mean?"
Yu Xiuying was deeply moved when she heard this, but then she thought of Dong Xuaner and Wang Xuening, who was about the same age as Shian, and her feeling of being moved instantly disappeared.
"Your Highness, you are flattering me. I know exactly what I am. I have suffered too much and put in too much effort in my life. The hardships of half a lifetime have made me incomparable to those noble ladies. I'm afraid those noble ladies would not want to sit with me."
Lu Jingxun's mind was very conflicted. On the one hand, he wanted to please Yu Xiuying and her daughter and make Lu Shian listen to him, but on the other hand, he felt that Yu Xiuying's status was really not worthy of his current self.
But when he thought of Lu Shian now, he had to be better to Yu Xiuying.
He knew that Lu Shian was not only close to the Second Prince and the Imperial Concubine, he also knew that Lu Shian often went to the palace to accompany the Queen Mother.
If he wanted to have a good relationship with Lu Shian, it was useless just relying on his father's identity, so he could only be roundabout and let Lu Shian know that he was sincere to Yu Xiuying, so that Lu Shian would listen to him.
In the end, it was Lu Shi'an who persuaded Yu Xiuying, and Yu Xiuying finally mustered up the courage to agree to accompany Lu Shi'an to the palace.
In order not to embarrass Lu Shi'an, Yu Xiuying had been holding the carriage since she got on, which made Lu Shi'an both moved and sad.
"Mom, don't be so nervous. The Imperial Concubine and the Queen Mother are both very nice people. Besides, we can just hide in a corner and no one will notice us."
Even when Yu Xiuying was sitting, her back was straight.
"Clothes make the man, and saddles make the horse. I think my outfit is OK today."
"Mom is the best."
When the mother and daughter arrived at the Queen Mother's palace, many people had already arrived.
Lu Shian took a look around and found that many of the noble ladies were people he had met in the Princess's Mansion. Qin Jingzhi and Su Qianqian were both there.
As for Liu Rulan and her daughter, Lu Shian did not see them, but she guessed that Liu Rulan would not come.
Liu Rulan encountered such a thing years ago, and now she is probably too embarrassed to see people.
I heard that when he came down from the mountain, his clothes were in disarray and he was unconscious.
Although no one knows the truth, everyone thinks that it would be bad for the mother and daughter to fall into the hands of thieves at the same time, especially the beautiful young girl and the charming middle-aged woman.
The rumors in the streets were not worth listening to. They said something about how the mother and daughter fought with the thieves at the same time, and the thieves were willing to let them go. Anyway, the rumors were so ugly.
I heard that the Duke was so angry that he fell ill, and he invited the imperial physician to treat him. On New Year's Day, the Duke's Mansion was completely silent...
Seeing so many people, Lu Shian pulled Yu Xiuying to the side as he had said before. Unexpectedly, the nanny beside the empress dowager saw her.
"Miss Shi'an, the Queen Mother is waiting for you."
This sentence successfully made everyone look at Lu Shian. Lu Shian was fine, but Yu Xiuying was very nervous.
The palm of her hand holding Lu Shian's was already sweaty. Lu Shian held her hand and signaled that she didn't need to be afraid and that he would stay with her.
Lu Shian helped Yu Xiuying to the Queen Mother.
Yu Xiuying and Lu Shi'an knelt before the empress dowager one after the other. After three bows and nine kowtows, they shouted in unison: "Long live the empress dowager. May the empress dowager live a thousand years. May the empress dowager live a thousand years and a thousand years. May the empress dowager live forever under the bright moon and under the lotus pond and may her fishing line be long and long."
The Queen Mother nodded repeatedly: "Okay, okay, my little girl Shi'an is too sweet-mouthed, get up quickly. Reward, reward!"
As soon as the Queen Mother finished speaking, a palace maid immediately presented a reward, and the mother and daughter knelt down to express their gratitude.
"Alright, alright, hurry up and get up. Why is Shi'an so well-behaved today?"
The Queen Mother then turned her gaze to Yu Xiuying and said, "I guess it's your mother's good teaching that has taught Shi'an so well."