Chapter 142 Lest She Be Dependent on Her Straight Talk

Lu Lingjun looked at Du Ruo's expression and knew everything but didn't say anything.

She stood up and said loudly, "Miss Du Ruo, if you don't like to look after the accounts and do embroidery, I won't force you, but you have to abide by the rules of my mansion when you live here. You were wrong today, but I won't punish you because you are a guest. But if you do it again, I will inform the prince. I hope you will be careful with your words and actions in the future."

After Lu Lingyun finished speaking, he left.

There is no need to speak out your secrets, but rules still need to be established.

If Du Ru was a guest, she would forgive her this time, but next time, she would not let her off so easily.

Informing the prince means driving her out.

If you are in her yard, you must abide by her rules. If you break the rules again and again, please get out!

When Du Ruo heard Lu Lingyun's stern words, she blushed again.

If it happens again, he will actually kick her out.

She had never been treated like this before in all these years of mischief.

Her brother doted on her, and her brother's friends were even more used to her. Even her aunt would not drive her away because of such a thing...

For a moment, Du Ruo felt a sense of grievance, depression, shame, unwillingness, and panic of being blamed.

She felt that she had no privileges in Lu Lingyun's backyard and no one would buy into her tricks.

In short, she calmed down.

In the evening, when Cheng Yunshuo came back, he found that Du Ruoan was quiet today.

It was completely different from her usual chattering appearance, where she kept talking to him as soon as she came back.

"What's wrong with you?"

Du Ruo lowered her head to eat the food. After hearing this, she looked up at Cheng Yunshuo and said, "Nothing."

Du Ruo didn't say anything, but there was a hint of grievance in her tone.

"What happened!" Cheng Yunshuo immediately looked at Lu Lingyun.

Before Lu Lingyun could speak, Du Ruo quickly said, "This has nothing to do with Master's Wife. Master, please don't get angry with her."

Lu Lingyun, who was eating, stopped using his chopsticks for a moment.

Du Ruo continued, "Master, am I annoying like this?"

"What?"

"She is careless and doesn't follow the rules. Like a man, she always offends people without even realizing it."

Cheng Yunshuo listened to Du Ruo's reflection and thought for a while, "A Ruo, you are doing well this way."

Hearing this, Du Ruo's eyes lit up again, "Master, you are right."

Lu Lingyun blinked her eyes and looked at the two people the whole time.

Finally, she chuckled and said nothing and continued eating her meal.

After dinner, Du Ruo didn't keep pestering Cheng Yunshuo. He just talked to him about the meal and then left.

After Cheng Yunshuo finished eating, he accompanied Lu Lingyun to the inner room to look after the children.

"Lingyun, you've been taking care of the kids and A'ruo these days. You must have worked hard."

When Lu Lingyun heard Cheng Yunshuo say this, his eyebrows raised, "Why do you say that, my Lord?"

Cheng Yunshuo had been causing trouble for her a lot, but he had never been seen mentioning anyone in front of her.

Hearing what he said, I felt like there was something else behind it.

As expected, Cheng Yunshuo continued, "Today, Aruo's brother came to me and asked me to find a good marriage for Aruo."

Hearing this, Lu Lingyun raised his eyebrows, and it was rare for him to show his temper, "Your Highness, you really make things difficult for me."

It would be fine to just invite Aruo to live in the mansion, but asking her to arrange a marriage for her is really asking for trouble.

"Why, Aruo is not behaving well?"

"Matchmaking is a thankless job. What's more, you know Miss Aruo's temper and personality. If I don't do a good job, she will blame me for the rest of her life!" Lu Lingjun directly rejected Cheng Yunshuo.

She has always been a person who doesn't want to cause trouble or get involved in other people's affairs.

Qin asked her to pay attention to Qin Shaojing's marriage, and she was just adding some things to it. The son-in-law was waiting for Qin or Qin Shaojing had his own intention, and she would come in between to mediate and act like a sister-in-law.

Asking her to arrange a marriage for Du Ruo directly is absolutely not allowed.

"Lingyun, no one will blame you."

"Oh!" Lu Lingyun sneered, "You are a man, my Lord. How can you know the importance of marriage to a woman? If you meet a bad man, your whole life will be ruined. I am just an outsider. If I arrange a marriage for someone else and they don't live well in the future, they will blame me."

After listening to Lu Lingyun's words, Cheng Yunshuo felt that they made sense.

"I'll talk to her brother tomorrow."

The next day, Cheng Yunshuo went on duty as usual.

Du Ruo became much more obedient in Lu Lingyun's yard.

Today, he sat in Lu Lingyun's yard, which was a rare occasion, and played Go pieces by himself.

In the morning, people from the Lu family came to Lu Lingyun.

"What is it?"

"Miss, Madam said there will be a hairpin banquet in a few days and she wants to invite you to the banquet."

"Oh? Who else?"

"There are also two young ladies from the Liu family, and your aunt."

When Lu Lingyun heard this, he knew everything.

This is not a party for appreciating flowers, it is a party for a group of noble ladies to look for wives and to search for husbands.

Lu Lingyun herself was hired at last year's Spring Banquet.

When Lu Lingjun heard that the visitors were the sisters Liu Qingping and Liu Qingshuang, she knew that this year would be their home court.

The Liu family and Liu Shi should be the ones choosing sons-in-law for them.

And the reason why they asked her to go together was naturally to save face for the two of them.

Lu Lingyun took a sip of hot tea and said, "Go back and tell mother that I will be there on time."

"Yes, Miss!"

The Lu family left with satisfaction.

Nowadays, families must help each other. A single tree cannot make a forest, and a single thread cannot make a line. Families should support each other, and everyone should prosper together to better withstand the difficulties of wind and snow.

It was helpful for Liu Qingping and Liu Qingshuang that they married well.

Besides, she didn't dislike the two sisters.

She was happy to do this kind of thing to save face.

In the evening, Cheng Yunshuo came back.

Du Ruo, who had been bored all day, wanted to have a good chat with him, but Cheng Yunshuo sent her back to bed early.

"You should go to bed earlier and stop staying up so late."

"Master, I've been bored at your house all day. Now that you're back, I finally have someone to talk to."

When Cheng Yunshuo heard this, he frowned and asked, "Isn't your master's wife at home?"

"But my wife is very busy. She has to look after the accounts and manage the household affairs. I don't understand."

Cheng Yunshuo's face turned serious. "If you don't understand, why don't you learn from her?"

"I took the initiative to tell her that I wanted to teach her, but she refused to learn." Lu Lingyun could hardly speak.

She glanced at Du Ruo and quickly took responsibility, lest she be blamed for her "straight talk".

Du Ruo: “….”

As expected, Cheng Yunshuo's face became even more serious after hearing what Lu Lingyun said. "Aruo, you are not young anymore. Your two brothers worry about you all the time, saying that no one taught you to be a good housekeeper since you were a child. You come to my house now, and it's a rare opportunity. If you don't learn, what are you waiting for!"

Du Ruo was extremely reluctant to be scolded, and said coquettishly, "Master!"