After saying that, Lu Huai pulled Qin Xi inside.
Qin Qi followed him inside, and smiled behind him.
“Look, I’ve had the account books moved inside for you, and the heater is on. You can look at the account books here, and if you get tired, you can lie down on the bed for a while. Isn’t that nice?” Lu Huai said to her as he pressed her down to sit on the stool.
"Okay, I'll listen to you," Qin Xi nodded with a smile.
"Ah, that's right."
Qin Xi began to look at the account books, while Lu Huai sat opposite her, glancing at the stove from time to time and then at her, looking rather bored.
The ledger reads, "In the thirteenth year of Yuming's reign, on the twelfth day of the eleventh month, the kitchen purchased goods, and the expenditure was thirty-six wen."
land……
Qin Xi recalled the dream she had yesterday.
Lu Huai held her in his arms, the familiar scent of green willows seeming to waft towards him. His eyes were filled with a smile as he gently kissed her, his eyes seeing only her.
Qin Xi turned her head to look at Lu Huai, who was staring blankly with his cheek resting on his hand, and shook her head with a sigh.
At this moment, Butler Lu walked in and bowed to the two of them, saying, "Greetings, young master and young mistress."
Qin Xi closed the ledger and looked at the steward.
Since their marriage, Minister Lu and his steward have rarely set foot in Qihuai Courtyard. As the saying goes, "No one visits the temple without a reason," so the steward probably wouldn't come in person unless it was something important.
"Uncle Chang, is there something you need?" Qin Xi nodded to the butler and asked.
The butler nodded with a beaming smile: "That's right. Master just returned from the palace, and His Majesty spoke about the New Year's banquet."
"Another New Year's banquet..." Lu Huai slumped his eyelids and complained, "New Year's banquets are just about eating and drinking well, watching a few women wander around, reciting poems and painting. It's so boring. There's this kind of New Year's banquet every year. It's not new at all."
The steward gave him a reproachful look. "What are you saying, Second Young Master? The New Year's banquet is a time for joyous gatherings. His Majesty's permission to enter the palace already shows great respect." With that, he bowed respectfully to the sky and continued to say to Lu Huai, "Second Young Master, you can't use such a ridiculous excuse as 'I'm dizzy from listening to too much poetry' to escape halfway through this year."
As expected of Minister Lu's most capable assistant, the steward's nagging ability is no less than that of Minister Lu.
Lu Huai turned his head in another direction and said sullenly, "You all say the same thing every year."
Qin Xi recalled the annual banquets of previous years, just as Lu Huai had said. They were nothing more than singing girls and dancing girls performing, and unmarried talented men and beautiful women showing off their talents.
As Prime Minister Qin held a high position, he was naturally required to enter the palace, so Qin Qi would accompany him. However, Prime Minister Qin did not want her to marry out so early, so he would not ask her to go out and prove herself, which Qin Qi was even less inclined to do.
"Besides, the eldest young master will also be coming back," the butler said with a smile, looking very happy.
Qin Xi had seen Lu Huai's elder brother, Lu Chuan, from afar a few times. Because he was deeply loved by the people, Lu Chuan's visits to and from the capital were always quite grand. The last time he left the capital was several years ago, when Qin Xi was still a young girl and liked to join in the fun, so she went to see him a few times with Lele and Bao Bao.
Upon hearing that his elder brother was coming back, Lu Huai's ears twitched, and he finally became interested.
"Big brother is coming back?" Lu Huai was pleasantly surprised.
He was different from other children from a young age, and he had no interest in studying all day long. Apart from Shuzhan, who was a simpleton, only his older brother could have some common topics with him.
Lu Chuan was dispatched by Emperor Yuming to accompany the Grand General on a campaign to expand the territory. In addition, due to the constant riots in recent years, he had not returned home for several years since his last departure from the capital.
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