Chapter 236 Marriage 1
The next morning, Lu Sui returned to Beijing.
Three days later, he came again, and this time not only him but also Duke Lu Chang and his wife Lin came.
Naturally, a lot of gifts were brought, and the bride's family sat together and happily finalized the marriage between the two.
As soon as they return to the city for summer vacation, the Lu family will ask official matchmakers to come and propose marriage.
After Lu Sui and Lu's parents left, Jiang Yueyao sat on the soft couch by the window, holding her chin and listening to the birdsong and cicada chirping outside. Everything seemed so unreal.
She... is getting engaged?
Perhaps thinking she was dreaming, Jiang Yueyao stretched out her arm and said to Jin Zi who was standing in front of the window, "Pinch me."
Jinzi really listened to her.
Just twist it without hesitation.
Jiang Yueyao hissed in pain, pulled her arm back, and looked at Jinzi with a resentful look on her face.
"You twist it hard when I tell you to?"
"Ah?" Jinzi was confused and didn't understand what she meant for a long time.
Jiang Yueyao glanced at her unhappily, rubbed the place where she was twisted, then held her chin with both hands and sighed softly.
"Jinzi, am I going to get engaged?"
Jin Zi leaned against the window frame and looked back at her: "Miss, are you unwilling to marry Lord Lu?"
"How could that be?" Jiang Yueyao said hurriedly, "I just think it's too fast. My father was still saying bad things about him a few days ago, telling me not to marry him so easily."
Jinzi suddenly stuck his head in and whispered to her.
"Just get used to it. The master is always fickle."
Just as he finished speaking, a deep male voice came: "What are you talking about here?"
Jinzi immediately retracted his head and stood up straight.
"My lord, I didn't say anything!" The voice was clear and loud.
Shen Huaishan glanced at her, took Bai Jinyu’s hand and walked into Jiang Yueyao’s room.
When he entered the room, he saw Jiang Yueyao lying on the table like a boneless person, and couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong?"
Jiang Yueyao sat up straight and reached out to hug her mother.
But he was stopped by Shen Huaishan halfway.
He pulled his wife to sit opposite, looked at the indignant Jiang Yueyao, and snorted, "Don't go into your mother's arms all the time. You are seventeen, Shen Baoqi, and you are about to get married. You should be more modest."
"You have no shame, so why should I have any shame?" Jiang Yueyao retorted to him unconvinced.
“I…you…”
"You, you, you hug your mother when you're fine. You're even more shameless than me."
"She is my wife, I can hug her whenever I want."
"She's still my mother. I was born by her. What's wrong with me hugging her?"
“No!”
“You’re domineering!”
"Oh, you two are so noisy!" Bai Jinyu pushed away Shen Huaishan who was trying to hug her, and then sat next to Jiang Yueyao.
Jiang Yueyao fell into her arms.
Then he challenged Shen Huaishan with a playful smile.
"Admit it, Duke Shen, you are not as important as me."
Shen Huaishan sneered: "Do you believe that I will regret the engagement?"
“…Dad, I was wrong!”
Shen Huaishan raised his eyebrows complacently, took the tea handed to him by the maid beside him, and drank a sip with satisfaction.
Then ask Jiang Yueyao.
"What did Lu Sui say to you when he left yesterday? I saw you two standing there whispering to each other for a long time."
"He can't bear to leave me, just like you can't bear to leave my mother since you've been staying here and not going back to the city."
Lu Sui choked and took another big sip of tea.
Bai Jinyu couldn't help laughing.
She looked at Shen Huaishan: “It’s time for you to go back.”
"I won't go back. Your son is watching over the military camp. As for the emperor, if he needs me for something, he will naturally send someone to find me."
Bai Jinyu no longer paid attention to him and looked at the little girl in her arms.
She asked softly, "After August returns to the city, your marriage to Lu Sui will be finalized. Xiaoqi, do you have any other ideas about your marriage?"
"Everything is going well. Lu Sui also promised me that even if we get engaged and I marry him in the future, he won't interfere with Qianweilou, and I will manage the palace as well as you do."
"Lu Sui is a man of great ideas. It's obvious that his parents listen to his arrangements. This is a good thing for you."
"Yeah. We don't have to interact too much with the old mansion. It's just him and me in the Regent's Palace. It's very comfortable."
Bai Jinyu nodded: "That's true."
She said, looking at Shen Huaishan: “This is very similar to me. Your parents died early, and there is no one else in the mansion, which saves a lot of unnecessary trivial matters.”
Shen Huaishan put down the teacup.
"At the moment, everything about this marriage is satisfactory, but after the engagement, it depends on his performance. If he doesn't perform well and makes a mistake, whatever happens will happen. My daughter, Shen Huaishan, will never accept that humiliation."
These words made Jiang Yueyao feel warm in her heart.
She immediately let go of Bai Jinyu, stood behind Shen Huaishan, and massaged his shoulders.
"Don't worry, Dad. Lu Sui won't do that!"
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In a blink of an eye, two months passed and Jiang Yueyao returned to the capital with her grandmother from the summer resort.
Just two days after returning, the official media hired by the Lu family came to the door.
The commotion was so huge and grand that in less than an hour, the good news spread out.
The Prince Regent asked an official matchmaker to go to the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion to propose marriage, and Shen Guogong agreed wholeheartedly. They were a perfect match, with talent and beauty, and it was indescribable.
The next step is to ask for the name, ask for the marriage, ask for the betrothal gift, and ask for the date...
After all this process was completed, it was already spring of the second year.
The "date of marriage" was a good day calculated by a monk personally by the old lady Lin of the Lu family. Lu Sui took the date to the Shen family. Shen Huaishan and Bai Jinyu looked at it and thought it was good, so they set the wedding date.
The eighth day of the fifth month next year is an auspicious day and a good day for getting married.
In the evening, Lu Sui went to Qianweilou to pick up Jiang Yueyao and take her home.
The two of them sat in the carriage, and Jiang Yueyao drank the white pear water he handed her.
It rained a few days ago and she didn't close the window when she slept, so she caught a cold.
I'm almost better now, but I still have a cough.
Lu Sui asked Qing Yi to boil some white pear water and brought her a cup of it every day. After drinking it for a few days, she was cured.
But he still brought it today.
Jiang Yueyao finished her drink and handed him the cup: "May 8th?"
"Yeah." Lu Sui put the cups and bowls into the lunch box, then looked up at her. "Why? Do you think it's too early?"
"No way." Jiang Yueyao sat down next to him and leaned her face against his chest. "May 8th is the perfect day, neither too hot nor too cold. It shouldn't be too hot to wear a wedding dress."
"Um."
"Thank you for your hard work, Lord Lu."
Lu Sui held her in his arms, bent down and kissed her on the head, then asked, "Why do you want me to work so hard?"
"There's still a year left. You'll have to pick me up and drop me off for another year. Isn't that tiring?"
"I am happy to serve you, young lady."
Jiang Yueyao smiled, remembered something, took out a purse from her sleeve and handed it to him.
"Here, this is for you."
Lu Sui took it, looked at it, and saw that the needlework was much more skillful. He couldn't help but ask, "Did you embroider this?"
"Well, does it look good?"
There was nothing embroidered on the purse except the word "Lu".
The hairpin-shaped calligraphy is very exquisite.
Lu Sui smiled and did not hesitate to praise him.
"Very good, well embroidered."
Jiang Yueyao looked up at him and asked, "Is there a reward?"
Lu Sui chuckled, lowered his head and kissed her slightly pouting red lips...
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