Chapter 311 The Mistress of a Wealthy Family Turns Her Own Side After Opening the Book (9)
Jin Shu found it all quite amusing.
This kid definitely won't be able to eat. After all, last night the old lady secretly sent someone to prepare a table full of delicious food and drinks for him. He ate so much meat and fish that he was almost bursting. How could he possibly have an appetite for this table of food today?
"Lu Gu, let's eat."
"I have no appetite, so I'm going to study."
"You have to read books and eat meals. If you don't eat today, you won't eat tonight either."
"If you don't want to eat, then don't eat."
Anyway, with his grandma protecting him, she definitely won't let him go hungry.
Jin Shu watched him get up and leave without stopping him, then looked at Lu Huai beside her.
"Eat more, you're too thin."
If nutrition is inadequate at this age, it's highly unlikely that it can be made up for later.
Lu Huai nodded and ate even more heartily.
He always had a desperate sense of responsibility to complete Jin Shu's orders. When Jin Shu asked him to memorize books, he would force himself to memorize books he had never read before without eating or drinking.
This time, let him eat as well.
The young child desperately needed an opportunity to prove himself. Jin Shu saw his ruthlessness towards her and a slight smile appeared on her lips.
This child is promising; he has a bright future ahead of him.
After dinner, Lu Xu practiced boxing with Jin Shu, while Lu Huai and Lu Gu began attending classes with the teacher.
Before the class was even over, Lu Gu's stomach started growling.
He rubbed his stomach with a tense expression, comforting himself to just bear with it a little longer, and there would be food when Grandma came back.
He persisted like this until dinner time. Lu Huai and Lu Xu went to eat, but because he had argued with Jin Shu at noon, he couldn't even sit at the table and could only stay on the side to continue practicing calligraphy.
The aroma of food wafted over, making my mouth water uncontrollably.
He gritted his teeth and persevered, waiting for the old lady to return.
But even after waiting until evening when the back massage had already started, the old lady still hadn't returned.
Memorizing on an empty stomach is definitely not effective, and the final result was predictable. After Lu Huai finished reciting the book fluently, when it was his turn, Lu Gu was so nervous that he could hardly breathe and was sweating profusely.
He was terrified; the thought of Jin Shu's cold, indifferent eyes made his legs tremble uncontrollably.
"I...I'm not, I'm not ready."
"You can't memorize this little bit of content in a whole day and night?"
"I...I, I was just too hungry, I didn't mean to."
Jin Shu nodded, her expression indifferent.
"Yeah, of course I'll be hungry if I don't eat. I thought you'd learn your lesson if I let you go hungry for a meal, but it seems one meal isn't enough."
Boys can take the imperial examination at the age of thirteen. You still have more than two years left, yet you can't even memorize such simple content. Lu Gu, I used to think you were very smart, just a bit willful, but now it seems... sigh...
"Go outside and kneel down, the same as always. Recite it before you get up."
Lu Gu's eyes were filled with tears at this moment.
He had expected this to happen. He thought that after eating his fill, he would be able to memorize those things, but he didn't expect that he would wait for the old lady to return for a whole day.
Kneeling outside, Lu Gu choked with sobs, regretting why he had to talk back to Jin Shu. He could have been praised like Lu Huai and avoided punishment if he had just behaved himself, but he insisted on making things difficult for himself.
Filled with hunger and regret, Lu Gu held the book while shedding tears, his whole body shivering violently from the cold.
Snowflakes began to fall again, stripping away the last bit of warmth from our bodies.
Just then, a figure suddenly appeared beside him.
He turned his head and saw nothing but astonishment in his eyes.
Jin Shu actually stood beside him, silently holding the umbrella and watching him.
Lu Gu's eyes were red, his throat felt a little choked up, and a complex mix of emotions welled up inside him, making him inexplicably want to cry.
And so, he knelt for half the night, and Jin Shu stood beside him with an umbrella for the same duration.
The snow weighed down the umbrella, and Jin Shu returned to the house, letting A Yu massage her wrists.
"Miss, what are you trying to achieve? If that boy is disobedient, then let him suffer a bit. That's how I raised my younger brother, and now he's incredibly obedient. You actually stayed outside with him in the cold for so long!"
Look at these hands, they're probably going to get frostbite.
Jin Shu looked at her hands, which were originally slender and white like scallions, but were now red from the cold, and her knuckles seemed to be a little swollen.
"It's alright, not too cold."
Jin Shu wasn't afraid of the cold. One of the benefits of practicing boxing was that it strengthened her body, made her resistant to the cold, and this little bit of snow was nothing to her.
"Why are you so concerned about Lu Gu? I think Lu Huai is better. He's better looking and more obedient. Wouldn't it be better to groom him to be the future Duke of Dingguo?"
“This has nothing to do with the future Duke of Dingguo. Lu Gu is a leader, and we need to find the right way to train him properly so that he will be obedient in the future.”
"horse?"
"Yeah, little calves just can't tell right from wrong, they're stubborn and willful."
Jin Shu started laughing as she spoke, which made A Yu feel uneasy.
What's wrong, Miss? It seems like you've remembered something happy.
But nothing happy has happened since I entered the Duke's mansion.
At this point, only Jin Shu herself knew what she was laughing about.
She missed the feeling of returning to the grasslands to tame horses so much. After she became empress, it was no longer her turn to tame horses. Experiencing it again after so long was really interesting.
Meanwhile, Lu Gu, who was huddled under the covers and crying while hugging his pillow, had no idea that he was not even being treated as a human being.
He didn't even know why he was crying.
I always felt that Jin Shu wasn't as bad as her parents and grandmother said.
She punished herself by not eating because she had disobeyed.
She punished herself by kneeling outside because she was a failure to live up to her potential.
When it snows, she will also hold up an umbrella for herself.
When he couldn't stand up after reciting his lessons, she would gently carry him on her back and take him back to the house.
Why did her parents say she was stubborn and eccentric?
She seems both stern and gentle, and most importantly, she seems to genuinely care for him...
The next morning, as soon as Lu Gu got up, he saw the food laid out on the table.
The simple congee and side dishes looked plain, but they made his mouth water.
Ayu, who brought the porridge, helped him sit down.
"The lady said that you were hungry all day yesterday, so you can't eat too much meat today, otherwise it will harm your spleen and stomach."
This porridge was cooked by the lady herself; please eat it while it's hot.
Lu Gu sat down at the table, picked up a spoon, and the emotions from last night surged up again.
Ayu was still talking from the side.
"The lady had no children of her own, so she treated you as her own son. All she did was in the hope that you could establish yourself in the capital and live a good life."
Sigh... You wouldn't understand even if I told you all this. Anyway, don't let your wife's good intentions go to waste. Drink slowly, don't choke, there's more in the pot."
Lu Gu ate the porridge in big mouthfuls. It contained shrimp and scallops. Although no oil or salt was added, the taste was incredibly delicious.
(End of this chapter)
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