Chapter 340 The Ninth Princess Actually Assisted Him

Jin Yulu didn't expect Meng Shanchuan to do this.

She blushed with embarrassment.

【Wow, this is eating melons up close! 】

Lu Li finally reacted.

"I am willing to bear witness for you!" She raised her hands high and looked at the two of them with a smile.

"This way, please." Meng Shanchuan still retained a bit of rationality and did not say it directly in front of so many people.

With Lu Li and Lu Xuan around, Jin Yulu had no reason to refuse and could only follow his footsteps silently.

Meng Shanchuan found a quieter place to stop.

Before Jin Yulu could ask him what he wanted to say, he just said it out loud.

"Miss Jin, are you willing to marry me?"

[Wow, General Meng is too direct, isn't he afraid that Sister Jin will reject him? ]

Lu Li held Lu Xuan's hand and squatted on one side, the two of them resting their chins on their hands and watching the show.

Jin Yulu was stunned. She didn't expect Meng Shanchuan to be so direct.

Meng Shanchuan felt a little annoyed after he finished speaking.

He has been with the Ninth Princess for a long time, so he doesn't know how to express himself in a tactful way and always gets straight to the point.

"I don't mean to ask you to have a private relationship with me. I just want to know if you are willing. If you are willing, after returning to Beijing, I will ask my mother to go through the three matchmaking and six betrothal procedures, and marry you in a sedan chair carried by eight people." Meng Shanchuan explained hurriedly, fearing that Jin Yulu would think he was too frivolous and not serious.

Fearing that she would not believe him, Meng Shanchuan added, "Miss Jin, I am serious."

Jin Yulu never thought that she would hear these words in her lifetime, and tears welled up in her eyes.

She wanted to control her tears, but the more she tried, the harder it became.

"Don't cry." Meng Shanchuan was anxious.

He stretched out his hand to wipe away the tear for her, but suddenly remembered that they had no relationship at all now, and it would be too presumptuous for him to do so.

His hand froze in the air, wanting to touch her face, but finally withdrew his hand.

"I don't mean to force you." Meng Shanchuan lowered his head and pulled up Lu Li who was watching the show.

"Look, the Ninth Princess is here. If I force you to marry me, you can tell the Ninth Princess and let her kill me with thunder."

Lu Li glared at Meng Shanchuan unhappily.

She can't chop down just anyone!

If she uses the thunder from heaven to strike a good person, she will also be retaliated against and be punished by heaven.

Jin Yulu, who was originally crying silently, burst into laughter after hearing this.

"Brother Meng, I know you are not that kind of person."

"Then what kind of person do you think I am? You won't say that you think I'm a good person, but you are not worthy of me, right?" Meng Shanchuan took a step back.

He heard Lord Qu say that if a woman doesn't like you but is too embarrassed to reject you openly, she will say you are a good person, but I am not worthy of you.

Jin Yulu didn't expect that Meng Shanchuan would speak before she could even finish her words.

"I'm really not worthy of you." She lowered her head.

"Why are you not worthy of me?" Meng Shanchuan was unhappy when he heard this.

"Looking at the whole of Daxia, which girl is better than you?"

"My family was hit by a disaster, and you, a girl, endured the humiliation and hid for a long time, and finally avenged your family. You are filial, courageous, and smart. In what way are you unworthy of me?"

Jin Yulu stood there in a daze.

Is she so outstanding in his eyes?

"But I come from a merchant family and I've been married..." These are the two points that Jin Yulu cares about most.

"So what?" This time it was Lu Li who spoke.

"Empress Min was also from a merchant family, but she married my father. Do you think General Meng is more powerful than my father?"

"That's right! The Ninth Princess is right!" Meng Shanchuan was overjoyed. He didn't expect that the Ninth Princess would actually help him.

Looks like I found the right person!

Lu Li couldn't stand the way the two people were hesitating even though they clearly loved each other.

“嫁過人算什麽，父皇頒布過律法，鼓勵寡婦再嫁，誰敢拿你身份和嫁過人的事情做文章，你就讓孟将軍揍他們呗。”

With the examples of his elder brother and second sister, Lu Li felt that this was no problem for the two of them.

The spider spirit's son is a royal consort, and her eldest brother is going to marry a foreigner.

What's the difference between Meng Shanchuan and Jin Yulu?

"Besides, you are an official appointed by my father himself! You and General Meng are colleagues. If he does something bad, you can write a memorial to complain."

Lu Li looked at Jin Yulu with a look of hatred.

"That's right! The Ninth Princess is right!" Meng Shanchuan became like a parrot, just repeating this sentence.

"Yes, Sister Nine is right. Stop dawdling. I still want to watch the bridal chamber." Lu Xuan couldn't help but stand up.

He grabbed Lu Li's hand, feeling a little angry.

I thought I could witness something, but this is the result?

It would be better to go and watch them having fun in the bridal chamber.

Meng Shanchuan and Jin Yulu were left speechless by what the two children said.

The two looked at each other, and Jin Yulu was the first to be defeated.

"If you don't leave me, I will stay with you till death." She lowered her head, said this with a red face, turned around and was about to leave.

"That's great, that's great, I'm going to have a wife." Meng Shanchuan was so excited when he heard this that he couldn't help shouting.

Lu Li couldn't bear to look at his silly look, so she grabbed Lu Xuan's hand and ran away.

Jin Yulu was embarrassed and annoyed, and stamped her feet: "Keep your voice down."

"Okay, okay, I'll keep my voice down. Don't worry, Miss Jin. When we return to the capital, I'll ask my mother to go to your house to propose marriage!" Meng Shanchuan grinned, smiling so happily that he couldn't close his mouth.

…

The secret guards naturally noticed the movements of Meng Shanchuan and Jin Yulu.

After all, they brought Lu Li and Lu Xuan with them.

After learning that the two had expressed their feelings, the secret guard informed Lu Yanshi of the matter.

"Oh, I thought Meng Shanchuan, this silly boy, couldn't even find a wife after returning to the capital. Now he finally succeeds."

Lu Yanshi nodded with satisfaction, and then had Lu Li and Lu Xuan, who were making trouble in the bridal chamber, brought back.

We have to hit the road tomorrow, so the two kids can’t play too crazy.

After giving the order, Lu Yanshi couldn't help but sigh.

This time, he really experienced how difficult it is to be a father. Taking care of children is sometimes more tiring than attending court.

He suddenly wanted to return to the palace.

…

The dawn was just breaking, and the horizon was stained with a faint and magnificent glow. Jiang Heci had already gotten up and prepared breakfast.

After drinking the hot porridge, everyone prepared to continue their journey.

Before leaving, Zhu Xinhui and Tao Tao and his wife came to thank Lu Yanshi specially.

"Thank you, Fourth Master. If it weren't for you, we might not have been able to get married." Zhu Xinhui was quite emotional.

Tao Tao smiled shyly, but still mustered up her courage.

"So, to thank you, we decided to present this painting, 'A Picture of Various Scenes in the Marketplace'."

She handed over a nicely wrapped scroll.

"Mr. Danmo's "Pictures of Various Scenes in the Marketplace"? Is it true?" Lu Yanshi was a little surprised.

How did this long-lost painting appear in this small place?

"We had it appraised before, and it's authentic. If it was fake, we wouldn't dare to present it." Tao Tao answered cautiously.

This was something left by her great-great-great-grandfather.

Their ancestors were once wealthy, but later they encountered war and the whole family was forced to separate, and they also ended up in Changliu Village.

Before, her grandfather was seriously ill and the family could not afford the money for his treatment, so her father thought about selling the painting.

Someone was willing to buy it for a high price of five hundred taels of silver, and her father agreed. However, her grandfather refused and insisted that her father redeem the painting. This was a family heirloom, and he would rather give up his illness than not save it.

In desperation, Dad could only take the painting back and keep it as a treasure.

The betrothal gift offered by the Zhu family this time was too much. In order to let her become an official's wife, her father gave her this ancestral painting as a dowry.

After discussing with Zhu Xinhui, she decided to hand over the painting.

If they keep such a valuable item, they will be burned and may not be able to keep it in the future. It would be better to offer it to the emperor.

"Let me see."

Lu Yanshi took the painting and looked at it carefully.

Mr. Danmo was a famous painting master in the previous dynasty.

He was different from those literati who were good at painting flowers, birds and landscapes. He hated the corruption of the rich and powerful, so he often used his brush to criticize the ills of the time. His paintings were full of meaning, which made the viewers applaud and also made the rich and powerful shudder at the sight of them.

He was quite courageous and even used his paintings to satirize the previous emperor's incompetence. In anger, the previous emperor destroyed all his surviving works and forbad anyone to collect his paintings.

However, he enjoyed a high reputation among the people, and some upright people also praised his paintings. They secretly kept his paintings and gave him money so that he could continue to create.

The former emperor was furious and arrested him and brought him to the palace to ask him if he had ever repented.

Mr. Danmo replied: Regret.

He also expressed his intention to paint another picture and give it to the emperor of the previous dynasty.

The former emperor readily agreed.

Unexpectedly, Danmo Jushi spent his life painting. In the end, he painted a picture satirizing the emperor for being blind, unable to distinguish between loyalty and treachery, and confusing right and wrong, calling him an incompetent and cowardly tyrant.

"Even though I die, I have no regrets. The only thing I regret is that I didn't paint this picture earlier so that people all over the world can see it."

These were his last words in this world.

The emperor of the previous dynasty dismembered and beheaded him and threw him into a mass grave.

The founding emperor of the rebellious Great Xia Dynasty admired this painter very much, so he tried his best to search for his surviving works, and after finding them, he kept them in the Great Xia Palace.

Therefore, Lu Yanshi was very familiar with the paintings of this Danmo hermit.

He opened it carefully and read it.

This painting was well preserved by the Tao family, and the more Lu Yanshi looked at it, the more surprised he was.

"It's actually a painting by Mr. Danmo." He muttered to himself, and then smiled happily.

This trip out of the palace was not in vain!

He was about to reward Zhu Xinhui and his wife when he heard Lu Li's voice.

[No, this is fake.]