Chapter 82 Still Have to Be Patient
Li Wenxun's warm face turned cold when he heard Lu Hanyi's words.
Liu saw that the atmosphere was not right, and quickly said to her daughter, "What did you say? Apologize to your aunt."
"Why should I apologize to him? The charcoal I used there was all given by you. How can the Li family have any face? I am still carrying his child!"
"Alright, alright. The Li family is the Li family, and aunt is aunt. Say less and go back with aunt." Liu didn't dare to let her daughter say anything more and pulled them towards the steps.
Li Wenxun's face also turned cold at this time, and he said to Lu Hanyi who was throwing a tantrum on the couch, "Let's talk about it when we get home."
"If you have anything to say, just come to my mother's house and explain it clearly!"
"You're not leaving?"
"I won't go!" Lu Hanyi held Qiao and wanted to control Li Wenxun in front of her family.
As they just got married this year, and the woman is pregnant with the man's child, a normal man would always give in to his wife, whether it means being submissive or making a promise, he would bow his head once.
But she didn't know Li Wenxun at all.
He cared more about his own face than her and the baby in her belly.
"If you don't want to leave, stay here!" Li Wenxun glanced at Lu Hanyi, turned around and left.
He married Lu Hanyi, but the Lu family has not given him any help so far. Lu Hanyi's elder sister who married into the Marquis's Mansion has never helped him once. Lu Hanyi's performance in the Li family is even worse. Today, she has embarrassed him in front of so many people, so how could he give her a good face?
Love or not!
If she doesn't come back, she will stay at her parents' home.
Seeing that Li Wenxun didn't care about her at all, Lu Hanyi suddenly became anxious. She stood up from the table, but before she could say anything, she saw him walk out of the house without looking back.
Immediately, she clenched her fists and frowned, and her anger turned into a sentence, "Humph!"
Lu Lingyun had seen enough of the show. She put down her teacup and stood up. "Mother, I still have a lot of things to do at home. I will go back first."
"Lingyun, it's almost time for dinner, stay and have a meal."
"No, the prince is also busy. If I don't go looking for him, he will go looking for me." Lu Lingyun refused and left with his people.
After she left, many of the concubines and girls in the room came up and said they wanted to see Lu Lingyun off. Liu didn't say anything else at this time and told everyone to leave.
As everyone left, she turned to her dear daughter on the couch and said, "Why are you arguing with your man in front of so many people, especially Lu Lingyun?"
"Who knew that Li Wenxun was such a person!" Lu Hanyi was even more angry. She just wanted to control Li Wenxun.
In her previous life, Li Wenxun was always obedient to Lu Lingyun in public. She had no idea that Li Wenxun would openly disobey her.
"You don't know his character, and you're still rushing to marry him?" Liu lifted her skirt, sat cross-legged next to her, with a look of disbelief on her face.
"Who told me at that time that Li Er was a good person, a hundred times better than that prince! Now look at how Cheng Yunshuo treated Lu Lingyun, and how Li Er treated you!"
"Oh, that Cheng Yunshuo is not a good guy either. Do you really think he will take Lu Lingjun seriously? Everyone knows that the two concubines in his house are pregnant, but Lu Lingjun is not." Lu Hanyi sneered.
She was puzzled by the changes in Cheng Yunshuo's life, but the facts were right in front of her: both concubines in Cheng Yunshuo's house were pregnant, except Lu Lingjun. It would be strange if she could be favored!
Liu didn't know what to say to her daughter. She threw up her hands anxiously, "No one knows how they live behind closed doors! But on the surface, Prince Cheng is very polite to Lu Lingyun. She, Lu Lingyun, married into the Marquis's mansion and became the Prince's wife. Her life is getting better and better. What about you? You married into such a poor Li family. They can't even burn charcoal in the middle of winter. On the day of your return, Li Er passed away. How good are you!"
Lu Hanyi frowned, and she pushed her mother away with a whimper, "Don't say that, Li Er will be successful in the future."
"My dearest daughter, who did you ask to cast a spell on you? Li Er is so prosperous, what on earth does he rely on? He is the second child in the family. His elder brother passed the imperial examination a few years ago and joined the Ministry of Rites. The whole family supports him. Who cares about Li Er? He has no one to rely on, no money, and he is not favored. What is the basis for the Li family to support him?"
"He relied on himself!" Lu Hanyi stood up, "You have no idea of his strength. He will definitely be the top scorer next year!"
Liu: “…”
Lu Hanyi's resolute tone made Liu hesitate again. She looked at her confident daughter and regained some of her expectations. "Does he really have this ability?"
"That's for sure! Otherwise, would I compete with Lu Lingyun for it?" Lu Hanyi sneered.
"Then you shouldn't have quarreled with Li Er. How can you ask him to step down in front of so many people?" Liu turned around and scolded her daughter again.
After hearing what she said, Lu Hanyi's face turned red with anger. "It was obviously him who provoked me first. You don't know that he doesn't care about anything at home, and asked me to deal with his sister-in-law and mother alone. The whole family bullies me, and I can't live like this."
"But isn't he going to be the top scholar in the future? What will happen if you don't hurry up and your son-in-law runs away?"
Lu Hanyi put away her anger, turned around and began to think, yes, even if Li Wenxun was not good in other aspects, he would be very successful in the future, so she still had to be patient. For her future wealth and glory, a lady of the first rank had to endure this.
"If he comes back in a few days, I will go back with him."
"Is he really coming?"
"Of course he will come!" Lu Hanyi said the last word without much confidence.
He will come.
Li Wenxun is nowhere to be found. He hasn't shown up since the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
Lu Hanyi waited and waited at Lu's house, and when the first month of the lunar year was about to end, she went back alone in dejection.
By the time Lu Lingyun found out that Lu Hanyi had returned to the Li family alone, she had already taken care of the entire New Year.
She smiled in the yard, thinking that her good sister had managed to find a good marriage, and that good days were still to come!
The New Year passed in a blink of an eye, and the two caravans of the Marquis' Mansion set out again, heading south for business. After the New Year, the weather gradually became warmer, and the harsh winter was over.
All the charcoal that Lu Lingyun had stored was sold out. This time, she earned more than 80,000 taels of silver.
Up to now, Lu Lingyun had a total of six shops, seven farms, and a forest. All her silver money added up to more than 10,000 taels, not counting the gifts and jewelry given by Qin in her dowry box.
She became increasingly wealthy.
At the same time, loan sharks began to suffer.
After the beginning of spring, a large amount of loan sharking money came due for repayment, and the big lenders rushed to collect their debts.
Debtors could not pay back their debts, and several murders occurred in succession. Similar to the development in the previous life, this alarmed the higher-ups.
After Cheng Yunshuo returned to the Duwei Mansion to work in the spring, he came back to the dinner table and said, "We don't have any loan sharks in our mansion, do we?"