Chapter 241 This is a good marriage

Lu Jinchuan attached great importance to this marriage.

He could guess the emperor's thoughts and knew that he could not keep the position of Minister of Justice.

The eldest son is too incompetent, and the second son... he has neglected the second son too much in the past. Even if he fully supports him now, it will take many years.

He had no way of leaving the position of Shangshu to his two sons, so he could only try his best to maintain good relations with the successor that the emperor would choose.

Tang Quyan has no family behind him, and he has achieved his current status entirely through his own efforts.

He could feel the emperor's jealousy of the aristocratic families, and he could also feel the importance he attached to Tang Quyan, so if possible, marrying into the Tang family would be a good thing that would kill two birds with one stone.

He remembered that Lu Xinran had also read the booklet of Tang Quyan and his wife.

She was extremely satisfied with the Tang family at that time.

Pei didn't expect that he would suddenly bring up Lu Xinlan's marriage. She also remembered that when the Zhang family held the wedding, Liu had mentioned this matter to her openly and secretly.

"No hurry. Xin Lan was taken to the border by the Empress. When Dasheng returns to the capital, Xin Lan will be with the Empress and will surely be respected and praised. By then, a girl will be sought after by hundreds of families. If the Tang family is really interested, then they are willing to wait."

If they met again because she was not in the capital, it only meant that the girl had no destiny with the Tang family.

Lu Jinchuan was about to reprimand her for saying that, but as soon as he raised his eyebrows he saw the sarcasm on Pei's lips, and he quickly swallowed his dissatisfaction.

"That's true, but the Tang family is also a rare good family. It would be a pity if that girl missed it."

"Okay, I know what's going on. It's late now. Go back to the front yard."

Seeing that Lu Jinchuan was about to go to the inner room with a thick face, Pei directly shouted to drive him away.

He was filled with humiliation and after struggling for a long time he finally left tactfully.

Aunt Xu entered the room and made the bed for Pei, advising her as she did so: "Madam, why did you do that just now? Aren't the two concubines locked up? For the sake of the eldest and second masters, you can't just ignore the old master."

Pei was already accustomed to being told this every now and then.

She waved her hands, "If it weren't for the sake of the eldest and second brothers, do you think I would still be willing to care about him?"

If we really deal with those two concubines, can all the grudges of the past years be wiped out?

Why can he put the past behind him with just an apology and continue to enjoy the present without any harm?

What about the grievances and sufferings she had endured in the past years? Could she just swallow her anger and bear the consequences?

Don't even think about it. She will never forgive that old scumbag until the day she dies.

When Lu Xinran woke up the next day, it was already noon. She was stretching and hesitating whether to hand an invitation to Zhang Shuier, when Cuizhu came into the room holding a stack of invitations.

"Miss, these are the invitations sent by various mansions this morning. They all invite you to come to their mansions to enjoy the flowers."

"So many?"

Lu Xinran walked forward with some surprise and took the notes. He looked through them one by one, picked out Zhang Shuier's note and glanced at it for a few seconds, then asked Tracy to prepare the pen and ink.

There were too many elders to meet at the Duke's Mansion, which made her feel a little uncomfortable, so she made an appointment with everyone directly in the teahouse.

Zhang Shui'er changed her clothes and went out almost immediately after receiving the reply. When she arrived at the teahouse, she saw Lu Xinran already waiting for her in the room, and immediately rushed up to him in dissatisfaction.

"Hey Lu Er, you're so mean. Why didn't you take me with you when you went to the border?"

She had been closest to these sisters in the past six months, and she didn't know how she had survived for more than a month without them.

Lu Xinran pulled her hand away, dodged to the side, and then replied.

"We are also being led by the Empress. If you want to go to the border, why don't you ask your aunt, the Empress?"

Hearing her talking about the empress, Zhang Shuier sighed in frustration and bent down to sit down beside her.

"Do you think I don't want to ask? It's because my aunt left in such a hurry that she didn't think of taking me with her."

However, even if the queen wanted to take her to the border, her father, mother and grandparents would not agree.

Now that the Zhang family has returned to Beijing and handed over all of the Zhang family's troops, they will never go back to the border.

The Emperor still ordered the Empress to go to the border to relieve the siege, and she would return to Beijing after the war was over.

"How is my aunt? Is she doing well over there? Grandma has been worried about her all this time, afraid that something bad might happen to her."

"Don't worry, the queen is doing well at the border, her skills are not rusty, and General Qi and General Xie are old friends, they will take care of her in everything, nothing will happen to her."

"Yes, Grandfather said so, but Grandma has been worried. With your words, Grandma can sleep well tonight."

Zhang Shuier came here this time just to learn about the Queen's condition from her.

Now that she had finished talking about the thing she was most concerned about, she suddenly didn't know where to start.

Lu Xinran wanted to know a lot, so he asked bluntly, "I heard you're engaged?"

Speaking of engagement, Zhang Shuier's cheeks flushed, "Yes, we are engaged, and the wedding date is set for February next year."

"Don't even mention the wedding date. I don't even know who the groom is."

Lu Xinran bumped the other person's shoulder with a smile. She had heard and seen more detailed information from Cuizhu and the booklet.

But she just wanted Zhang Shuier to bring it up on her own initiative.

Zhang Shuier's cheeks were about to burn. When Lu Xinran giggled and bumped her shoulder, she took a deep breath and said calmly.

"Haven't you already guessed who the man is? Why do you want me to tell you?"

"If you don't tell me, how can I know if my guess is correct?"

The more shy and awkward she was, the more Lu Xinran wanted to tease her.

But fortunately, she knew that Zhang Shui'er was just a thin-skinned paper tiger, so she said with a smile after shaking her head a few times, "I didn't expect Cui Wu to be so brave that he would let his mother come to ask for marriage directly."

The last time they met, after being reminded by her, Cui Shenglin went back home to look for her mother.

When his mother heard him say that he wanted to marry a girl from the Duke's Mansion, she was so frightened that the tea bowl in her hand fell to the ground.

How dare he, a playboy known throughout the capital, covet the girl from the Duke's Mansion? !

Even if he had the courage, she didn't have the face to go to the Duke's Mansion!

After refusing many times, Jin finally had no choice but to visit her son after being pestered by him.

She thought that as soon as she opened her mouth, the other party would hit her back with a soft nail, but she didn't expect that Qiu would agree to it right away.

He also asked her to find a matchmaker to formally arrange the engagement for the two of them.

"That guy," Zhang Shui'er recalled what Cui Shenglin had said to her in private, and her face turned red as if blood could drip out. "Oh, he came to propose marriage, and my mother and brothers thought he was a decent and honest person, so they agreed."