Chapter 182 Tell her to the fourth brother!
Returning to his own yard, Lu Xinran was still very excited.
What good day is today?
She was just thinking about how to make money yesterday, but today she has a shop, and Lu Xinlan also gave her such great news.
She sat down at the table and took out a bulging purse from her arms.
This was something Lu Xinlan stuffed into her hands before she left the house, saying it was half of the income from the shop and farm from the previous year, so that she could spend it as she pleased without restraint.
She carefully untied the tight rope and then pulled out the banknote.
The denominations of the banknotes were not large, with the largest one being only two hundred taels.
The rest are of the kind ranging from 100 taels, 50 taels, 20 taels, and 10 taels.
She counted them one by one, her abacus clacking in her mind, and finally came up with a figure of three thousand eight hundred and ninety taels.
So much silver!
She held the banknote and looked at it again and again. It took her a long time to come back to her senses after the excitement subsided.
These banknotes are not all the money Lu Xinlan currently has, right?
In the original book, the heroine Lu Xinlan is described as being very generous and wears different clothes and accessories every day.
He lived such an extravagant life that he must have spent all the income from his farm and shop on decorating himself.
The two of them came here together in July, and have been almost inseparable since then.
Apart from the four-season clothes made for her by the mansion and the jewelry sent by various brothels, she had never seen her buy any more clothes or jewelry for herself.
Since she had never spent much money, these coins and notes should be what the original owner left for her.
She came back to her senses from her joy of becoming rich, counted out 1,500 taels of silver, put them back into her purse, and asked Cuizhu to deliver it back to Lu Xinlan.
Lu Xinlan looked at the banknote that was returned to him and couldn't help but shook his head and laughed.
The day before, the girl was still complaining that she was a pauper, like a money-grubber. In the end, she didn't want the land or the shop, and only kept half of the money.
As she laughed, sighs began to rise in her heart.
Not caring about the past grudges... That girl can do that, but how can she really not care?
She was the one who occupied the old man's nest, and now she is also the one favored by the Zhao family and occupies the status of the eldest daughter of the Lu family.
Her emotions were extremely complicated, but in the end they only served as motivation for her to bury her head in the account books.
In the palace, Eunuch Fu bent over and recounted in detail what had happened to the Gu family the day before.
The emperor looked at the memorial in his hand and narrowed his eyes slightly: "So, it was Qiu Zhenye who first snatched the Gu family's child, and Qiu Zhenye's wife was determined to marry An Hongsheng's daughter to that child?"
"Yes, that's what I heard."
Eunuch Fu bowed his head slightly respectfully.
He couldn't remember when it started, but the emperor would ask him to find out everything in the capital, big or small, especially the places the Lu sisters had visited. Once something happened, the emperor would make sure he got to know it in detail.
If you care so much about those two sisters...just take them into the palace, why do you have to care about them silently like this?
The emperor sorted out the causes and consequences, then shook his head slightly.
Qiu Zhenye couldn't even handle his own wife's insanity, so how could he lead the troops?
Moreover, although he was wary of the Zhang family's prestige in the military, as long as Zhang Yongping stayed in the capital sensibly and did not have any inappropriate thoughts, he would not touch the Zhang family.
He also didn't want to leave a cruel reputation in the history books of later generations.
He has not been harsh to the Zhang family for many years. Qiu Zhenye and his wife are so blatantly distancing themselves from the Zhang family and are showing that they will kill all the members of the Zhang family sooner or later. What the hell!
Are you saying that he is a cruel and merciless tyrant who cannot tolerate military commanders? !
The more the emperor thought about it, the more he disliked Qiu Zhenye and his wife. Thinking of the memorial he had just read, he snorted coldly, took out the memorial, and wrote a reply.
Aren't these Qiu family members afraid of being implicated? Then get out of here!
Yucheng is missing a vanguard general, and Qiu Zhenye can just fill in!
He disliked the Qiu family and planned to drive them out of the capital after the new year. In the Yongshou Palace, the empress dowager and the empress were talking about what happened the day before.
"How come such a good marriage has become such a mess?"
No one dared to report Lu Xinran's "treasonous" words to the Queen Mother, so she felt the same as the other ladies at this moment, thinking that it was unnecessary to make things so fuss-like.
The Queen, on the other hand, somewhat understood Gu Zixian and the Gu family's attitude.
"Mother, this matter was wrong from the very beginning. General Qiu separated the two elders of the Gu family from the young man who died in the battle for more than ten years. It would have been fine if the Gu family had never cared about this child.
"Old Madam Gu had been searching for the only bloodline left by her son who died in battle for so many years, and she almost didn't get to see him before she died.
"How could the two elders of the Gu family not hate him? And General Qiu...he has always known that Gu Zixian is not his offspring, so he has not been wholehearted in cultivating him over the years.
"That's what An's vision is. Guzi is jealous that the child was not raised astray, simply because the child is a good person.
"With so many pasts involved, it's only natural that the two elders of the Gu family cannot accept this marriage."
After she explained this, the Queen Mother nodded, but still with a sigh.
"But if this happens, the child's future will be ruined."
The thing that scholars fear most is not having a good reputation. If he messes up to such an extent, how can he become an official in the future?
The Queen was not worried about Gu Zixian's future. She thought that Gu Minghui would make a fuss about this matter, and he would definitely find a way to pave the way for Gu Zixian who had suffered so much "wrong".
She was now worried about another thing, "Mother, the two girls from the Lu family will be sixteen after the Chinese New Year.
"Originally, His Majesty wanted to marry Lu Xinlan to the Fourth Prince, but now that she is of a lowly birth and cannot marry into the royal family, she will definitely have to discuss marriage again.
"That girl is calm and generous. I am not worried about her. I am worried about Xinran. What kind of marriage do you think the Lu family will find for her?"
If she randomly finds a marriage for her, or if Lu Jinchuan uses her to exchange benefits with others, and this gets to the emperor's ears, will he be able to accept it?
The girl's ability is so amazing that the emperor cannot take her into the harem, but he won't let her marry anyone he wants, right?
The Queen Mother frowned slightly as she spoke, "That girl's marriage is indeed very difficult. If she marries an ordinary family, the Emperor will definitely be jealous..."
If I can't marry into an ordinary family, what about marrying into the royal family?
The Queen Mother's heart skipped a beat, and a thought suddenly came to her mind: "Queen, what do you think about giving that girl to the Fourth Prince? The Emperor originally wanted to give Miss Lu to the Fourth Prince, and now it seems that it is okay to change it to Miss Xinran."