Chapter 3 The Best Family
Chapter 3
Princess Gong felt a headache just thinking about the Lu family, and couldn't help but say, "I shouldn't have sent an invitation to the Lu family earlier." Especially for Lu Songli, when this heart disease came back, it was almost fatal.
The princess glanced at her mother-in-law and thought, "How dare I not send an invitation to the Lu family?" It's not like no one has done this before, but what was the result?
The Lu family had a poor reputation, and the women of the capital shunned them, making them unwelcome guests at their banquets. The reason they dared not exclude the Lu women was that if they deliberately excluded them, they would be targeted by the Lu family's trolls, who would try to cause trouble for the men in the court. In Lu Desheng's words, "I can choose not to come, but you can't refuse to invite me. I don't want special treatment, but I do want you to treat everyone equally."
After the incident of playing tricks on the women in the capital, they had no choice but to accept it. There was nothing they could do. The Lu family did not follow the rules of martial ethics. When they neglected the women of the Lu family, Lu Desheng would torment the men in the court. They could not afford to offend them.
The Crown Princess had just sat down to drink some tea when someone from the front yard came to announce that someone from the Lu family had arrived. She quickly stood up and went to greet them.
Lü Desheng helped his wife get off the carriage and, led by the palace servants, quickly walked towards the inner courtyard. After Lü Songli fainted, Mo Bing had the carriage driver return to the Lü family to inform the master. Upon hearing the news, Lü Desheng and his wife rushed to the Prince Gong Mansion without stopping. Not only did they come, they also brought the doctor who had been supporting the palace.
When Lu Songli learned that his biological parents had rushed to the palace, he woke up in time after his own doctor took his pulse.
After their doctor confirmed that the person should be moved, the Lu couple firmly declined the palace's invitation and decided to take the person home.
Lu Songli also wanted to go back with her father and mother, not stay in the palace. She had been feeling pain and discomfort on the left side of her back since she was in the water, and a tightness in her heart. She had a vague feeling that her heart might not be in good health. The maid's words and the doctor's diagnosis confirmed her suspicions. She was also cold. After changing into dry clothes and getting into bed, she still felt cold hands and feet, and there was no warmth in the quilt.
When the Lu family's carriage returned, Xie Zhan and his servants silently escorted them all the way.
When the people in Prince Gong's Mansion saw this, they praised Xie Zhan highly.
Arriving at the Lu family's house, Lu Desheng asked his wife to send his daughter and the doctor back to her courtyard first, while he stayed behind to send Xie Zhan away. Yes, Lu Desheng used the late hour as an excuse and didn't even let anyone in.
Lü Desheng was angry and his words were rather rude. Xie Zhan's face darkened at the slight, but he immediately bowed his head and promised to come back tomorrow to visit.
After sending the person away, he came to his daughter's Xiaofeng courtyard with a gloomy face.
The courtyard was bustling with people. The doctor was brewing medicine, and the servants were also busy.
Jiang came out of the house and asked, "Have they sent them away?"
"Um."
"Master, you shouldn't show disrespect to your future son-in-law."
"Son-in-law? I'm not sure what will happen in the future." They had already learned everything that happened at the flower viewing banquet in the palace. Speaking of Xie Zhan, Lu Desheng was full of complaints. He couldn't even recognize his fiancée, so what use was he!
Thinking of what happened tonight, Jiang was also worried.
Lu Desheng glanced into the room and said, "Let's not talk about him anymore. How's Ah Li?"
"The doctor just finished his consultation and went to get some medicine. Ah Li is awake and seems to be in good spirits. I let her rest on the couch."
"Let's go in and see her."
When the two elders came in, Lu Songli leaned against the head of the bed and called out, "Father, Mother."
"Are you feeling uncomfortable?"
"Not bad." Lu Songli had basically determined that the original owner might have mild myocarditis, and also had a severe cold...
"Is your falling into the water related to the eldest daughter of the Zhao family?" Lu Desheng asked.
“Not sure, but I suspect.”
"Well, we can't afford such a loss. You handled things very well tonight." Lu Desheng praised her for taking the initiative, which was very good.
Lu Songli smiled shyly and said to the two elders, "Dad and Mom, it's very late, you should go and have a rest." After all the hard work, it was almost midnight. For them who went to bed early and got up early, it was really a bit late.
Before the couple returned to the main house, Lu Desheng went to the front yard. There were some things that had to be guarded against.
When the two returned to the room, Mrs. Lu sighed, "Master, what is going on?" She was afraid that falling into the water would affect her marriage with the Xie family.
Thinking of his daughter's friendship with Xie Zhan, Lu Desheng also had a headache. "As long as my daughter is okay, I'm glad. We'll see what else happens later." Humph, in short, he would not let his daughter suffer any loss.
None of the families involved slept well that night.
In fact, Lu Songli was not asleep. She admitted that she was very strong inside, but not strong enough to remain indifferent after traveling through time and space after an accidental death.
She lay in the warm quilt, gazing absentmindedly at the ceiling of her bed, where her personal maid, Bing Mo, slept at the foot of the couch. The dim candlelight in the room, filtering through the curtains, wasn't glaring, but rather, in the pitch-black night, it felt reassuring.
She didn't have much resistance to the idea of traveling into a book. After all, she had injured her head in the car accident and was bleeding profusely. If she was lucky enough not to die, she didn't know if she would have any sequelae, such as becoming demented or a vegetable. The thought made her suffocate.
Now that she was able to travel through time safely, it seemed that her current body came from a well-off family, with a decent identity and social status. This was a blessing, but it was a pity that she had lost the townhouse she had just bought and the unspent savings in the bank.
Although Mr. and Mrs. Lu's reputation outside is hard to describe, she seems okay.
The original owner had a brother, a sister, and a younger brother, all of whom were close relatives. The eldest sister was married, and the eldest brother was away with the eldest sister-in-law at her parents-in-law's house. The younger brother was studying at the academy. None of the brothers and sisters were easy to mess with.
The original owner was an exception. He had a bit of a shrewd personality and was not at all like a member of the Lu family. In the words of outsiders, good shoots came out of bad bamboo.
It is worth mentioning that the original owner cared a lot about the outside world's evaluation and was often worried about his family's bad reputation outside.
In this regard, Lu Songli didn't know what to say. She could only say that the Lu family protected the original owner too well.
Overall, she was quite satisfied with the Lu family. It was better to be difficult to provoke than to be bullied. Anyway, her own reputation in the future was not good. She had very low empathy and was definitely not the kind of person who was kind and generous!
Friends often say she's constantly ambivalent about her moral compass, saying the law is there to protect ordinary people like her; without it, they'd be bullied to death by her. She doesn't agree. She's not that bad. She's always been a law-abiding, tax-paying citizen, her moral compass just a little waning. But she's also self-aware. She became a partner in their firm at the age of 27, so she's definitely not a pushover.
When she was born into a family like the Lu family, it was like a crow landing on a pig, so no one should look down on anyone else.
After sorting out all this, Lu Songli wanted to sleep because she was tired.
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