Because he was rejected by Mrs. Lu, Wei Yinuo left in anger.
Lu Yu chased after the man and sent him out, apologizing all the way, and finally he appeased the man. However, he still refused to give in on the matter of marrying Lu Wan.
Lu Yu had no objection to letting his daughter marry into the Wei family, but because his mother was reluctant to agree to it, he promised Wei Yinuo that he would seriously consider it.
Wei Yinuo hinted that if he married Lv Wan, he could be promised the position of legal wife, which made Lv Yu very excited.
After sending the person away, he returned to the hall. Mrs. Lu had not left yet and was obviously waiting for him.
He scowled and scolded, "What's wrong with you lately? Why are you so inconsiderate? You almost offended someone."
Madam Lu didn't respond. She stared at him and asked, "Did you agree?"
"Not yet." Lu Yu sat down and raised his hand to ask her to add more tea.
She didn't move, but continued to ask: "You want to agree, don't you?"
Lu Yu didn't answer, but poured himself a cup of tea.
Mrs. Lu knew what he meant. "I will never agree to it." Then she brought up the old lady and said, "Mother won't agree to it either."
Lu Yu threw the tea bowl at her feet and glared at her coldly, "If you weren't so incompetent, and if your daughter wasn't so ungrateful, why would you marry Wan'er to him now?"
"This has nothing to do with Song Qiao." Madam Lu came to her senses and said, "Now I think my mother is right. The Wei family is such a calculating family. We shouldn't have anything to do with them."
"What do you know?" Lü Yu pointed at her and said, "Do you think that the silks and satins we wear, the delicacies our children eat, and the expenses of dozens of people in our family can be maintained with just my salary? Without these people's help and ways to make money, would our family be able to live in a mansion and drive a BMW? Not to mention the personal connections in the officialdom, which requires money everywhere. Without money, our future is doomed."
Madam Lu said, "But when father was alive, didn't our family live well?"
"But my father is gone." Lu Yu's eyes were gloomy. "I am not a father either. I don't have that ability."
Lu Yu did not have the talent of his grandfather Lu. His position was obtained for him by his grandfather when he was still alive. His son was even worse than him. He only knew how to hang out with his two uncles all day long. Since the reform of the imperial examination system, he has not even passed the exam to get a degree.
If he doesn't work hard to make some money, the Lu family will fall into decline.
Lu Yu said tiredly, "This family can't be supported by me alone. Someone has to pay."
Madam Lu wept, "But Wan'er is only sixteen years old, just a half-grown child."
"How could I be willing to give it up?" Lu Yu pondered. "Master Wei San promised her the position of principal wife if I marry Wan'er. This is also a sign of his sincerity."
"So what if she's the legal wife? In a place like that, the legal wife is just a target. Besides, there's a mistress like that up there. If she were to marry in, she'd probably suffer even more than I do."
"Suffering more than you? What do you mean?"
Mrs. Lu shed tears and said nothing.
"What? Did marrying me wrong you?" Lu Yu sneered, "If you regret it, you can just leave. There's no need to pretend like this."
Mrs. Lu knew she had spoken out of turn and wiped her tears, saying, "I didn't mean that."
Lu Yu snorted coldly, then said, "This marriage with the Wei family cannot be hidden from mother. As the mistress now, you must find a way to make it smooth. I will leave it to you to persuade them."
"I……"
"If this matter still fails, you will move to the west wing and vacate the north courtyard. I will hire another mistress."
Hiring another mistress? What does that mean? Mrs. Lu's heart suddenly sank. Just as she was about to ask for clarification, Lu Yu had already strode out the door.
She sat there for a long time and then went out to chase him, only to find out that Lu Yu had already driven out.
"Where are you going, Master?" She called the Master's attendant to ask.
The attendant stammered and couldn't explain clearly.
Seeing this, she became more suspicious that something was wrong, and then she called all of Lu Yu's followers to interrogate them one by one, and finally someone let the cat out of the bag.
It turned out that Lu Yu had already kept a wife outside and had two sons. The elder one was five years old and the younger one was only three months old.
Mrs. Lu suddenly felt like the sky was falling.
She smashed her room to pieces, then sat in the mess and looked back at the past, but the past was like the fragments on the ground, and could never be put back together again.
As Lü Yu said, she regretted it. But regret was useless. She was already a puppet in Lü Yu's hands. Her family, children, and even herself were all in his control.
She clutched her chest, feeling unable to breathe. Only then did she truly understand what it meant to be unable to control one's own behavior.
When Lu Wan learned that her mother was throwing a tantrum in the room, she hurried to persuade her. Mrs. Lu looked at her in a daze, then hugged her and burst into tears.
"Daughter, I'm sorry!"
I don't know which daughter he was talking to, or if it was addressed to all of them.
But it was too late to wake up.
——————The dividing line where Dr. Wu refuses to eat dog food————
White mist appears in the cool weather, and red persimmons are covered with glistening frost.
As autumn ends and the north wind arrives, the small stove starts to emit fragrance again.
With the help of several engravers from the Imperial College, the carving process of the blue-engraved version was much faster.
Xu Jiang felt much more relaxed and had the leisure to satisfy her cravings.
It happened to be the time when autumn mushrooms were growing wild, and the couple who sold mushrooms had a good harvest. They sent her a lot of them, along with some wild fruits and mountain products.
The thought of stewing old hen with mushrooms makes me drool.
When the couple was chatting, they learned that Xu Jiang was engaged, and the next day she sent two wild ginsengs with fruits as a gift.
Xu Jiang was so grateful that she didn't know what to do, so she stuffed a big bag of food into her hand as a return gift, and also put some red money in the bag. Although it was not much, it was a token of her appreciation, after all, she had come such a long way.
However, she didn't know how to take care of the wild ginseng, so she invited Song Qiao over.
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