Chapter 162 Returning to the Lu Family to Sell the Indenture
After Lu Lingjun agreed to Chunhe's marriage proposal, she went to find Cheng Caimai's parents.
Cheng Caimai is the third generation of the Cheng family. His grandfather was the first horse herder who followed the old marquis who died first. He helped the old marquis to block the sword and died on the battlefield.
After his death, he left behind a widow and a young son. The old marquis, grateful for his loyalty and bravery, took his widow and young son all the way from the border to the capital.
After the marquis's mansion was opened, they were given a very important management position in the family.
Cheng Caimai's parents were both in charge of the Cheng family's business, managing the grain and rent of several farms and fields.
He is highly valued by his master.
Like several chief stewards, they had their own small houses outside the mansion, and could go back to their own homes to rest after finishing their work in the mansion.
The family is quite wealthy.
Lu Lingyun met Cheng Caimai's parents. They learned that Lu Lingyun was the arranged marriage for their sons and that Chunhe was Lu Lingyun's maiden who came with the dowry. After taking a look at the pretty girl, they were delighted to see Chunhe.
The two said that they would arrange a decent wedding for Chunhe and marry her in a grand manner.
Chunhe blushed as she heard this.
After Cheng Caimai's parents decided on the marriage, the matter was not over yet.
"Send a letter to the Lu family, telling them that I will go to visit my parents tomorrow."
"yes."
Lu Lingyun had promised these maids who came with her as dowry that if they behaved well, the indentures would be returned to them when they got married.
Lu Lingyun has always remembered this incident.
The next day, Lu Lingyun arrived at Lu's house.
In Liu's yard.
As soon as Lu Lingyun entered the yard, Liu came with a group of people to greet him.
"Yun'er, what brings you here?" Liu said enthusiastically.
Ever since Lu Hanyi followed Li Wenxun to take up his post in the local area, Liu's attitude towards Lu Lingyun has become more intimate.
I don’t know what I felt inside, but at least that’s what I looked like on the surface.
She looked like a loving mother, and she felt even more like a mother than Lu Lingyun's biological mother.
"Mother, I have nothing to do, so I came to see you and father." Lu Lingyun smiled faintly, "Is father okay?"
"Your father is fine! He has not returned from the court yet!" Liu looked around, "Didn't the prince come with you?"
"Yun Shuo received a letter of appointment from the Yu Lin Army some time ago and entered the palace to work. He is even busier than before."
Liu was startled when she heard this, "Is the prince a member of the Yulin Army?"
"right."
"That means you are working in front of His Majesty!" Liu said with praise, "It is amazing to be in front of His Majesty. The prince has a bright future!"
"No way, I'm just an ordinary palace patrol guard, how can I walk in front of you!" Lu Lingyun said humbly.
Once you join the Imperial Guard, you are divided into different ranks. The most basic ones are the guards and patrollers of the palace gates. Later on, you will be promoted to third-class guards, second-class guards, commanders, and generals. If you are favored by the emperor and selected as a personal guard, you will be promoted to the highest level of honor and serve in front of the emperor.
When one reaches the level of walking before the Emperor, he is considered the Emperor's confidant, and all the civil and military officials in the court have to be polite to him.
If he is granted the privilege of being sent out to a distant land, he will start at the rank of general, or even local governor.
Those who walked in front of the emperor were all very distinguished officials.
After hearing this, Liu continued to flatter him, "The prince is a rare talent. The first time I saw him, I knew he would be extraordinary in the future! Lingyun, you are so lucky! You have married a good husband! Just wait for that good day!"
As Liu said this, she felt extremely sour in her heart.
After all, she was the one who whispered in her ear that Cheng Yunshuo was an uneducated and unlearned playboy.
In the future, he will favor his concubine over his wife, making the entire mansion a mess, with chaos and confusion. He will even elope for that slutty concubine, bringing the Ningyang Marquisate to complete ruin!
How come Cheng Yunshuo is fine?
Who doted on his concubine and killed his wife! Who eloped with his concubine!
Not only had he been a Jinwu Guard before, but now he had been promoted to the Yulin Army in the imperial palace.
Looking at his ambitious appearance and his family background of Ningyang Marquis Mansion, he will definitely work for the emperor in the future!
What eye of her silly daughter was blind that she could say such nonsense!
Such a great fortune, but she doesn't want a rich husband, and instead rushes to marry Li Er, that heartless guy!
What kind of life have you become?
When Lu Lingyun met Liu's eyes, he saw the regret and bitterness beneath her false flattery.
She didn't know whether Lu Hanyi regretted it now or not, but her stepmother must have regretted it in her later years.
She definitely couldn't sleep the whole night, and she wished she could go back to the early days of her and Lu Hanyi's marriage discussion, and break Lu Hanyi's legs just to get her to marry into the Marquis's mansion.
With a faint smile on her face, she asked inconspicuously, "How is Hanyi?"
"Her! Don't mention it!" Liu frowned, unable to even smile bitterly. She rolled her eyes and pulled Lu Lingyun into the house to sit down. "That Li Er is really a piece of shit. It hasn't been long since he arrived, and his maid named Xiangxue is pregnant. She forced Hanyi to make her a concubine!"
"Are you pregnant? How long have you been pregnant?"
"Three months!" Liu was furious when she talked about this. "When Hanyi was giving birth to him, he was having an affair with a maid. How shameless!"
Lu Lingyun: "......"
She remembered that in her previous life, her stepmother had instigated her to send the maid who came with her as a dowry to Li Er's bed when she was pregnant.
They say that all men are of the same character and cannot control themselves. The pregnancy period is long, so if they are asked to find a maid to be their concubine, it would be better for them to send their own woman.
Later, she had difficulty giving birth again and again. Li Wenxun's official position gradually rose, and Liu had mentioned more than once that she wanted to send her concubine's younger sister to be his concubine so that she could give birth to a child and be loved by him.
But when it comes to his own daughter Lu Hanyi, he calls her an adulterous and shameless person.
It was as if she had done something terribly wrong and hurt her daughter.
Lu Lingyun was too lazy to expose her hypocrisy and continued, "How could Li Er be such a person? He seemed quite gentle and modest before."
"Who says it's not true? Your sister is so unlucky that she married such a man. She also told me that Li Er wanted to use her dowry money to supplement the family income. If your sister doesn't give it to him, she will give the power of the household to that little girl Xiangxue!" Liu said angrily.
This Li Er really took advantage of the fact that he had left Beijing. Her daughter had no one to support her, so she was bullied by him like this.
If he were still in Beijing, she would make him look ugly!
It's a pity that the Emperor Gaozu is far away now, and Father Lu is too lazy to care about such troublesome matters. After all, what happened to Lu Hanyi are just trivial matters in the inner chamber. Father Lu gets upset when he hears about them, and just scolds Lu Hanyi for being useless. Moreover, because of the last warning, he will not intervene.
Therefore, Father Lu would not write a letter to warn Li Er.
As Liu was talking, she looked at Lu Lingyun, "Yun'er, Hanyi is your sister, you can't just watch her suffer such injustice, you have to help her!"