Chapter 55 A Bolt from the Blue

"Sir, I'm a little worried." Sun Shun said nervously.

"What are you worried about?"

"What if she goes and sues you for divorcing your wife and marrying again? After all, she is your child bride."

This is something Lu Qiniang could definitely do.

"She won't." Zhang Heyao said firmly.

"I'm just a little worried."

"I know what's going on."

"Oh." Sun Shun didn't say anything else.

"Okay, let's go down and rest early. We have to continue our journey tomorrow." Zhang Heyao said.

"yes."

When Zhang Heyao returned home, Lu Qiniang was carrying two large buckets of pig feed out.

Seeing him come in, Lu Qiniang froze in place, staring at him blankly, and then her eyes became surprisingly bright, "Brother Heyao! Brother, you're back!"

Zhang Heyao was so shocked by her appearance that he was speechless.

If Lu Qiniang's voice had not changed, he would have doubted his own eyes.

In the room, Daya was teaching Sanya how to do needlework.

San Ya was still a little restless and always wanted to go out and play.

Hearing the sound outside, she immediately pricked up her ears, "Sister, sister, someone is coming. I heard mother calling him brother. Is it father who is back?"

"Yes." Daya became nervous and excited, and she didn't forget to remind Sanya, "Remember, you have to call me dad. Don't mention the previous dad in front of dad, understand?"

"oh."

"Remember this, or I'll get angry and never make delicious food for you again." Daya threatened her.

San Ya nodded repeatedly.

Compared to dad, delicious food is more important.

"Remember to call daddy and kowtow to him. Don't just stand there in a daze. Be obedient and don't embarrass mom, okay?" Daya whispered to her while putting her shoes on.

"good."

"You, how did you get yourself into this state!"

In the yard, Zhang Heyao finally recognized Lu Qiniang. She was wearing a gray coarse cloth dress, and her skirt was suspected to be stained with pig food. She looked so bloated that she was unbearable to look at. He couldn't help but scold her.

Lu Qi Niang just stared at him with a silly smile, and said, "I was feeding the pigs! I didn't know you were coming back today. I'll go back and change into some clean clothes later. Brother He Yao, you must be tired. Come on, come on, let's go inside first."

Daya pulled Erya out and just happened to catch Zhang Heyao's undisguised disgust towards Lu Qiniang in his eyes.

She stopped, the smile on her face faded, and she stood at the door with her hands on it, her fingertips turning white from the force.

San Ya didn't think too much about it. She rushed over like a cannonball, slid to her knees in front of Zhang Heyao, kowtowed, and shouted happily, "Dad!"

Zhang Heyao took a step back, frowning.

This child is so uneducated!

"Hurry up and get up! Your dad is embarrassed by your shouting." Lu Qin's mother scolded with a smile. Thinking that Zhang Heyao might misunderstand, she quickly explained, "Brother, they are not my children. I adopted them. I have never married and I have always been guarding our family."

After that, she instructed Daya: "Daya, go make a bowl of brown sugar eggs for your father. Put a lot of sugar in it. When life was hard in the past, I used to nourish your father like this. We were poor back then and couldn't bear to put sugar in it..."

"Aren't you going to feed the pigs? Go first." Zhang Heyao hated to hear the word "before" from her mouth.

It was more disgusting than he had expected.

"Yes. San Ya, follow your sister." Daya called San Ya and went to the kitchen together.

After entering the kitchen, Sanya looked up at Daya and said, "Sister, I just called you daddy. I want to eat brown sugar eggs too! Hey, didn't you call me daddy? Sister, you're so shameless! How dare you say that to me!"

Daya forced a smile and said, "Help your elder sister light the fire, and I'll make it for you."

San Ya happily agreed, "Put more sugar in. Mother won't check how much sugar is left today anyway."

"A clever one."

Zhang Heyao stood in the yard and looked around. When his eyes fell on the chicken coop, his brows frowned again.

He hates this filth!

Lu Qiniang quickly came back from feeding the pigs. Seeing him still in the yard, she couldn't help but laugh and said, "Why don't you go into the house? Don't you even recognize your own home? What are you looking at the chicken coop for? They haven't grown up yet. I'll have to go out and buy some chickens and kill them later..."

She scooped water from a ladle and washed her hands, then went into the house and changed into her best clothes.

She had only tried it on before, and this was the first time she officially wore it. She made it specifically for Zhang Heyao.

It’s just that it’s a little… too pretty, not plain at all, which makes me a little embarrassed.

Lu Qiniang came out of the house a little awkwardly, rubbing her hands in front of her, "Brother Heyao, come in! Daya, are the brown sugar eggs ready?"

"No, I don't like that. It's too sweet."

"Don't you like it? But you used to... Oh, look at me, such a fool, I've forgotten that our family was poor before. Now you're an official, and you've eaten all kinds of delicious food. By the way, brother, what kind of official are you? How did you get the position?"

This was a perfectly normal statement, but it made Zhang Heyao angry and embarrassed.

He knew that many people were talking about him behind his back, saying that he was a gigolo.

Hearing Lu Qiniang's words now reminded him of what others had said about him.

"You're still so clueless." Zhang Heyao scolded, "Of course I worked so hard and risked my life to get this position."

Daya pursed her thin lips and couldn't bear to listen any further.

——Perhaps because the mother had always been treated like this by him, she didn’t notice anything, but she couldn’t stand it.

"Mom survived a near-death experience." She came out of the kitchen carrying brown sugar eggs. "Last year, she had a serious illness and almost died."

"Hey, Daya, why are you talking about that? Brother, don't worry, I'm fine! Look at me now, everything is fine." Lu Qiniang smiled, "By the way, brother, where is your luggage? You came back from such a long distance, where are all your things? I'll wash your clothes and hang them out to dry..."

"I left all my things at home." Zhang Heyao said.

"I left it at home?" Lu Qiniang was confused. "Why didn't I see it?"

"In another home."

Some things are better said directly.

Zhang Heyao didn't know that he had such a deep shadow on this place, so much so that now standing here, he almost couldn't control himself and wanted to slam the door and leave.

"Another home? Oh, I see. Brother Heyao, did you buy a house in the capital? Is it expensive? Where is it? Let's take the three girls to see the new home."

Still the same as always, no brains, no sense of boundaries.

Zhang Heyao thought to himself.

He even saw the girl named Daya, her face tense.

Maybe she already understood the hidden meaning of her words, but Lu Qiniang still acted like a fool.

"That's my new home. It's not convenient for you to go there." Zhang Heyao looked at Lu Qiniang's disbelieving eyes after she was stunned for a moment, and continued almost cruelly, "I have married Princess Zhaoyang of the Zhenbei Palace."