Chapter 34 They Make Me Look So Unworldly
Lu Xinran, who was concentrating on eating melon, did not notice that the waterside pavilion became unusually quiet at that moment, with only the knocking sounds of palace servants placing wine and food on the tables.
The officials and their families who were some distance away from her became anxious when they noticed that there was a sudden silence from here.
Lu Xinran was eating melons while exclaiming in amazement as if he had never seen the world before.
[They are playing so wildly? They make me look so unsophisticated. ]
[The concubines take turns sleeping! Fang Suxin...]
[He also took aphrodisiacs and sent people to the mountains to hunt tigers for their penises! In the end, he hunted a tigress. Hahahaha, I laughed my ass off.]
Everyone: “…”
Don't laugh first, tell me what Fang Suxin is like!
Zhou Hanwen and Zhou Bingshan, father and son, felt sweat dripping down their spines. They wanted to stand up and angrily denounce the nonsense, but when they looked around, they saw that the emperor was looking at them with interest.
Lu Xinran lowered her head and continued flipping through the booklet happily. The contents of the booklet appeared in chronological order from recent to far.
The longer you stay with each other, the more you see.
Given enough time, she can see how old the other person is and still pee his pants.
[Chunfenglou...is it the most famous red building in Qingpingfang? ]
Everyone who heard what was in their mind nodded madly in their hearts, and said, "Just tell me what happened to Chunfeng Tower!"
[Five years ago, the courtesan and Miss Yue from Chunfenglou disappeared overnight. It turned out that they were redeemed by Zhou Bingshan.
[Well, did Fang Suxin find a yard in the city for him to live in? ]
[He Yue was first presented to Zhou Hanwen as a gift. When Zhou Hanwen got tired of her, he took her back to his house to be his concubine...]
[Six years ago, a newly married woman came to Beijing to file a complaint. Zhou Hanwen had his secret guards kidnap her and raped her for half a year, and even forced her to bear his child!]
[How shameless! You are just like an enoki mushroom, and you still have the nerve to embarrass yourself everywhere. ]
[As the Left Chief of Staff, he did all kinds of evil things in private. Does he think that since he is in a position to impeach all officials, no one can impeach him? ]
[No wonder Fang Suxin and Zhang Youchang got together, but Zhou Bingshan didn't react at all. This Zhou Mansion... is so dirty! ]
Zhou Hanwen felt like he was pulled out of the water, his legs shaking constantly.
The emperor looked at him with a smile in his eyes. He found that as long as the melon was not eaten by himself, he felt refreshed.
Zhou Hanwen wanted to kneel, but the emperor gave him a cold look, so he could only sit in his seat obediently with shaking legs.
But in my heart I knew it was over.
Not only him, Zhou Bingshan is also finished.
Lu Kangde felt extremely happy when he saw the Zhou family members in a panic.
Ever since he knew that Fang Suxin had exchanged her body for his position as the Minister of Revenue, he had always wanted to pull her down from that position.
However, the Zhou family was very tough in their attitude and were only willing to send Fang Suxin to the manor, but they did not negotiate the position of the doctor in the Ministry of Revenue at all.
Now Zhou Bingshan has to give in even if he doesn’t want to!
He wanted to turn around and give Lu Xinran a look of approval, but thinking of her previous complaints that she had no closeness to him as her biological father, he quickly steadied himself and tried to dilute his presence, fearing that Lu Xinran would see him and bring up his past.
After Lu Xinran had finished eating the big melon of the Zhou family father and son, he raised his head contentedly, only to find that the waterside pavilion was unusually quiet.
The Zhou family members who were in a similar position to them all looked extremely unhappy.
[What happened to them? Was I too focused on eating melons and didn't notice what happened? ]
He quickly glanced at the Chigua system again and found that there was nothing updated on it, and he felt confused.
As soon as this thought came to mind, everyone skillfully picked up their glasses and toasted the Empress Dowager and the Emperor.
Before the banquet officially started, an interesting melon was eaten. The emperor suddenly forgot his embarrassment in the morning, smiled and raised his glass to toast the empress dowager with all the officials.
Amid the bustle, an inappropriate voice sounded again.
[What's the point of saying nice things? It's better to keep her from getting angry. ]
The emperor paused while holding the wine glass. The empress dowager beside him laughed, agreeing with what was said.
She turned her head and looked past the Emperor to the Empress.
"This child, everything he says is exactly what I want."
"Indeed, I also think this little girl from the Lu family is very cute."
The queen curled her lips and smiled brightly.
She had already given up on the emperor, and Lu Xinran's words today only made her more determined.
She completely withdrew her heart from the emperor. She no longer had any obsession or reluctance, and her brows relaxed.
Thinking of the emperor's thoughts in the morning, she was afraid that he would really be shameless, so she said slowly.
"I really like this child. She just returned to the Lu family and is helpless. I have no children either. I just wanted to adopt her as my adopted daughter."
The Queen Mother was surprised, then she understood.
She quickly glanced at the emperor and agreed, "You have a good idea. If I were not too old, I would also like to be a support for her."
emperor:"……"
Being looked at warily by the Queen Mother and the Empress, he touched his nose and snorted inwardly.
As an emperor, he had all kinds of beauties he wanted.
He liked the charming and coquettish Chen Fei, and this little bean sprout from the Lu family was not something he liked.
He had wanted to take her into his harem before, but he just thought it was the easiest way.
"Emperor, what do you think?"
Seeing that he didn't give any response, the Queen Mother asked again in a pressing manner.
The empress smiled distantly, and the emperor felt inexplicably uneasy.
"If the Queen likes it, just accept it. I won't embarrass a little girl."
From now on, as long as he keeps a distance of ten steps from that girl, he will not be the one to be embarrassed.
The empress felt relieved immediately after hearing his words. She looked at the empress dowager and asked who was the one who made the decision to adopt a daughter.
Lu Xinran yawned, looked at the crowd of people in the water pavilion, picked up a piece of snack, and thought about where to eat the next melon.
"Tongzi, was that big melon from this morning worth the money?"
"Not bad, it's been rising for fifteen days."
"What, only fifteen days?"
[Is the emperor so worthless? Is the big melon between him and the concubine so worthless? ]
[Only five days for the Zhou family? The Zhou family is in such a mess, and it’s only been five days? ]
Lu Xinran was depressed. She drooped her shoulders and huddled behind Zhao and others, her whole body filled with grievance.
"It's already 20 days for two melons. If you work harder and see a few more people, a little bit will add up to a lot. We can definitely save two months today."
"Well, that makes sense!"
Lu Xinran was fooled by the system and immediately started to work hard on his senior year questions.
It's just eating melons, that's not easy.
【Whose are you looking at? 】
The harmonious atmosphere of toasting each other was instantly frozen by this sound.
Everyone stopped stroking their hair with a mixture of anticipation and fear, for fear of looking into the eyes of the Lu family and becoming the protagonist.
Lu Xinran tugged at Lu Xinlan's arm: "Who is that person?"
Lu Xinlan looked in the direction of her finger: "That is the wife of the Shaoqing of Honglu Temple."
[Okay, this is her. She looks so mean, yet she dares to think about Lu Xinlan. No, I have to take a good look at her before thinking of a way to tell my grandmother.]