Chapter 79 New Year

"Mom, don't hit me, it's me!" Captain Qian said hurriedly when he saw his mother.

"I'm going to hit you!" Captain Qian's mother, Wang, is also from the Marquis' Mansion. She was originally the maid that came with the late old lady and married to the steward Qian in the mansion. After the late old lady passed away, Qin dismissed a large number of the late old lady's people, and Wang was one of them.

Captain Qian's mother is now a free person. Her husband is the chief steward of the Marquis's Mansion, and her son manages a caravan. Their life is so comfortable. They usually walk around the streets. Because her family serves the Ningyang Marquis's Mansion, their status is higher than that of ordinary people around them.

Her only concern is her son's marriage.

"You are already in your twenties, and you will be thirty in less than two years, and you are still not married! Do you want to piss me off to death?" Wang started to scold him.

"Mom, I'm always out and about, how can I find the time?"

"You have to hurry up, or else ask the lady or the marquis for grace to give you a year's vacation!"

"That's impossible. No one else can do my job."

"Others can't do it, but you want to wipe out our Qian family!" Wang raised the broom and hit and smashed the Qian team leader.

Beat him so hard that he jumped up and down.

Just then, there was a knock on their door.

Captain Qian said hurriedly, "Mom, stop fighting, someone is coming!"

Team leader Qian trotted to open the door. As soon as he opened it, he saw a pretty and tender little girl standing at the door holding a few feet of fabric.

Captain Qian recognized her as the maid who had given him a reward today.

"You are with the young lady, right?"

"Yes, Captain Qian, I am Shuanghong who is beside the young lady." Shuanghong stood at the door and looked inside. She saw Wang holding a broom inside. "Is it inconvenient for me to come here?"

"It's so convenient, you're my savior!" Captain Qian said to her with a smile, "Come in quickly, my little savior."

Shuanghong blushed when she heard this. "I won't go in. I'm here to pass on a message."

Shuanghong handed the fabric in her arms to Captain Qian, "Our young mistress said that next year when you go to Jiangnan, try to find these fabrics and resell them. These fabrics will be more fashionable next year."

"Okay! No problem!"

Captain Qian agreed immediately. After he took the material, he saw Shuanghong was about to leave. His mother was still waiting in the room with a look of anxiety, so he hurriedly asked Shuanghong to stop.

"Wait a minute."

Shuanghong looked at him, "Anything else?"

"If you have nothing to do, I'd like to invite you to have some tea and tell me about what happened in your house this year."

Shuang Hong: “…”

"Let's go, let's go now." People who have been traveling for a long time have a more open personality. Captain Qian is different from other people in the mansion. He doesn't have so many rules. Seeing that his mother was about to make trouble for him, he threw the cloth to Wang and said, "Mom, I'm going out for a while."

After saying that, he pulled Shuanghong out.

Shuang Hong: “…”

Shuanghong returned to Lu Lingyun with a shy face.

"Why are you back so late?"

Lu Lingyun looked at Shuanghong and saw that she didn't come back like usual.

When Shuanghong heard this, her face turned red, and she lowered her head even more. She said in a deep voice, "Captain Qian invited me to have tea."

"Um?"

There's nothing wrong with inviting you to tea, but what's wrong with Shuanghong's tone and expression?

"He beat you after we invited you to tea?"

"No way!"

"Then why is your face so red?" Lu Lingjun said with a smile.

"Young Madam, how could I!" Shuanghong's face turned even redder.

Lu Lingyun pulled her in front of him and asked, "How old are you this year?"

"It's the 14th day after the New Year."

"Fourteen is old enough to find a husband."

"No, I will stay by the young lady's side!" The blush on Shuanghong's face faded, and she said with determination in her eyes.

Shuanghong was not a born child of the Lu family, but was sold into the Lu family.

Her parents were both lower-class people. Her father was a gambler and her mother was in poor health. She had a brother at home. They had no food to eat that year, so she was sold. When she was sold, she was thin and small, and many places didn't want her. She was lucky enough to enter the marquis's mansion, where she was favored by Lu Lingyun and kept as a maid. Otherwise, her life would have been miserable.

Her indenture, like Zhiran's, was in Lu Lingyun's hands.

"Even if you get married, you can still stay by my side." Lu Lingyun looked at her with a smile, "Just marry into our family. Madam, I will find a good marriage for you."

Shuanghong listened to Lu Lingyun's words, and her resolute little face turned red again, "Young Madam, how could you do this!"

"Does that mean you agree?"

"No, I don't agree. I don't want it."

Seeing Shuanghong getting anxious, Lu Lingyun stopped teasing her, "Okay, I won't joke with you anymore. Seeing your blushing face, I thought you already have a lover."

"Young Madam, you...you are disgusting." Shuanghong covered her face, stomped her feet and ran away.

Looking at Shuanghong's expression, Lu Lingjun smiled and said nothing.

Two days passed in the blink of an eye.

Lu Lingyun also stopped what he was doing because the New Year celebrations had begun in a lively manner.

Zhiran took Dongsheng back to the Marquis' Mansion to celebrate the New Year.

On New Year's Day, the entire mansion was decorated with lights and was bustling with activity.

Lu Lingyun gave everyone in her courtyard a New Year bonus in advance, and everyone gathered together, prosperous and happy.

Lu Lingyun went to Qin's yard and had a reunion dinner with everyone.

During the New Year's Eve dinner, she received a big red envelope from Qin and the old marquis, and Cheng Yunshuo also received one of the same size.

Qiu Ling and Xing Dairong each received a small red envelope.

Everyone had a beaming look on their face.

Lu Lingyun has been married into the Marquis's Mansion for almost a year. No matter what this family was like in the past, it is much more comfortable for her than her previous life.

Under her management, things will get better and better.

She is living well here, but Lu Hanyi is not living well there.

On New Year's Eve, Lu Hanyi, pregnant with her big belly, went to her parents-in-law's yard with Li Wenxun to have New Year's Eve dinner.

Sister-in-law Wei brought her children and her husband to sit next to Mr. and Mrs. Li. Mrs. Li praised them highly and gave them big red envelopes, rewards and praises warmly.

The second branch of their family was so quiet and lonely that they were severely ignored.

Lu Hanyi only received a small red envelope, and judging from her appearance, she was far behind Wei.

She went on to say, "Mother-in-law is too partial. How come our second house is not yours? How come my eldest sister-in-law's family has so many?"

Mother Li looked at her with a fake smile, "Your sister-in-law has the same amount as you, and the others are for Huan Ge'er. When you give birth to a son, I will give you more accordingly. You can't compete with the child."

Lu Hanyi was resentful when she heard these things. Arguing with the child?! Using the child as an excuse was just a way to fool her, but she didn't have the ability to argue with them, so she was dismissed.

Mrs. Wei on the side also smiled and tried to smooth things over, saying that she had just married into the family and got the same amount as her younger brother and sister-in-law. She hinted that Lu Hanyi was greedy and ignorant, and everyone joined in making fun of her.

Lu Hanyi had no way of refutation in the face of these contradictory words, and she immediately looked at her man in anger.

Li Wenxun was seen eating his meal in silence, as if it had nothing to do with him.

Lu Hanyi felt even more frustrated and angry.