On the second day, Lu Yun did not only hang a picture of a beauty in front of Luo Lingyu. He and Luo Lingyu took a book and recited the book while they were busy with their work, so as to teach Luo Lingyu by example. The maids were planting flowers in the yard, and the curtains were fluttering. They looked up and saw the handsome figure of the young man walking in the corridor. He was reading a chess manual, and his robes were flying. The bamboo curtains were rolled up, and Luo Lingyu was writing at the desk, with a beautiful and stunning profile.
The two of them recited back and forth, but the maids could not understand:
"When people are happy, they sing, when they sing, they dance."
"Dancing makes me angry, angry makes me sad, sad makes me sigh, sigh makes me open, open makes me linger."
"Hmm... then what?"
Lu Yun recited the book without turning the pages. Luo Lingyu picked up the book on the desk, turned two pages, and admired Lu Yun's photographic memory. She has always been studious, but she can't compare to Lu Yun's excellent memory. According to him, the Book of Rites was a book he read when he was four years old, and he never turned it over again. He is already 21 or 22 years old this year, but he still remembers the book he memorized in his childhood.
The maid Jinyue entered the room holding a bunch of dewy flowers and bowed to the lady: "Lady, are these the flowers you asked me to pick?"
Lu Yun took a quick glance and saw that Luo Lingyu was asking the maid to pick different flowers to change the flower arrangement in the room. Lu Yun disagreed and said, "Your belly is so big, why are you still going through so much trouble?"
Luo Lingyu: "Everyday is fresh, my husband. If every day is the same, life will be boring."
Lu Yun disagrees.
Luo Lingyu didn't need to stand up, the maid had already handed her the scissors. As she was trimming the branches, Jinyue watched from the side and asked the couple curiously, "Just now when I entered the yard, I heard the husband and wife reciting a book, and it seemed different from what they recited yesterday. What are the husband and the wife doing?"
Lu Yun replied: "To choose a name for the baby in Lingyu's belly."
Jinyue: “…Ah?”
She never thought it was this reason: "But, aren't only the prince and the old lady allowed to give names?"
Lu Yun smiled.
Luo Lingyu then jokingly said, "Silly sister, how can you not believe in your husband's ability? The name he likes will naturally be sent to the elders' desks, making everyone satisfied."
"It's a pity that Brother Xuechen only thought of a girl's name before, and never thought of a boy's name. In order to supervise Brother Xuechen, I had to recite with him."
Jinyue smacked her lips.
She thought again, Sanlang is still so hard to please. He even needs his wife to accompany him to memorize the name.
The romance between these two husband and wife seemed too high-end and too hard for these maids.
…
After ten months of pregnancy, in late July of the following year, Luo Lingyu gave birth to a pair of twins, a boy and a girl, for Lu Yun.
When the newborn baby was born, it was a girl. The head of the Lu family, who was waiting anxiously in the yard, fainted with joy when he heard it was a girl. One of the head's brothers asked someone to call a doctor for his brother, laughing wildly: "Good, good, good!"
In the courtyard of the second house, "Qingyuan", there was a faint and joyful atmosphere. As soon as the baby girl was carried to the main hall, a group of men and women in their teens rushed in. Old Madam Lu was the first one to come, and she was overjoyed. The head of the Lu family, who had just woken up, drank a sip of water, rolled up his sleeves, rushed into the main hall, and asked to see the girl of this generation of the Lu family.
When the child was born, the Lu family praised him unanimously: "He has beautiful features and is cute. He will grow up to be a peerless beauty like Lingyu."
"It would be great if I could take it home and raise it."
The midwife standing next to Old Lady Lu trembled: "..."
In fact, I have long known about the abnormal attitude of the Lu family, but every time a woman from the Lu family gave birth to a child, especially a girl, the ecstatic attitude of the Lu family still made me frightened and confused.
“Wow, wow, wow…”
Compared to the older sister who was born first, the elder Lu family just glanced at the boy in the midwife's arms, perfunctorily praised him "not bad", and turned back to look at the girl. The boy was all alone, no one cared about him. The midwife was slightly at a loss, and looked for help at the child's biological father, Lu Sanlang Lu Yun, who had finally squeezed into the main hall.
Lu Yun didn't look very well.
Because he was the biological father of the child, but he didn't see the baby being taken away by the elders before he saw it. On such a happy day, he couldn't turn his head, so Lu Sanlang was very unhappy.
When the midwife wanted to bring the boy to him, Lu Saburo refused with a righteous indignation: "I want to see how my wife is first, and then see the two children."
This was a battle for the child that took too long.
No one was interested in the boy, but both Mrs. Lu and the head of the Lu family racked their brains to find excuses to adopt Lu Yun's daughter. Lu Sanlang stood in front of the elders and argued with the scholars, refusing to lend his daughter out. The famous scholar was eloquent and good at conversation, but it was probably the first time that a famous scholar argued with the scholars to keep his child.
Luo Lingyu's sister, Luo Yunhuan, tiptoed to the window to watch them quarreling, then turned her head to look at the crying boy in the mother's arms. Luo Yunhuan was full of sympathy: "My little nephew, auntie can imagine how you will be excluded in the future."
Born as two siblings, the elder sister receives much attention while the younger brother is ignored.
So pitiful.
Luo Yunhuan sympathized with her little nephew, but no one cared about him and her sister hadn't woken up yet. Before her brother-in-law could win the debate, the young lady volunteered to raise her little nephew first.
…
Quoting classics, Lu Saburo argued with others for two hours, leaving the elders of the Lu family speechless and no one able to fight back. With great difficulty, he managed to keep his daughter's right to stay by his side.
Luo Lingyu didn't know about this for the time being.
Lu Sanlang was very knowledgeable. When Luo Lingyu woke up from her coma, the first person she saw was her husband who was sitting by the couch and looking at her. He had been with her all the time, not leaving her to the care of the maids after she had just given birth. Luo Lingyu asked him if it was a boy or a girl, and what they looked like. Lu Yun smiled and replied, "A boy and a girl, twins. But I don't know what they look like, I haven't seen them."