Chapter 9 First Confrontation

"How dare you!" Shuanghong scolded from behind.

Lu Lingyun smiled faintly at Chong Shuanghong and waved her hand, indicating that it was okay.

The pink-shirted woman in front of him sneered and rolled her eyes, "You people are so old-fashioned. You are so bold all the time. It's really boring."

After listening to her words, Lu Lingyun felt lucky that she had sent Zhiran out of the house yesterday, otherwise Zhiran would have had to take action now.

She still looked at Xing Dairong with a faint smile, "Then what do you think is not old-fashioned?"

"Of course everyone is equal. People are equal. I am no worse than you. Why should I listen to you?"

Lu Lingyun looked at the woman in front of him who was full of arrogance and self-confidence, "Your idea is very novel."

"No, I'm not like you old-fashioned people." Xing Dairong said, pulling up the maid beside her, "I treat my subordinates like sisters, unlike you who treat people as slaves and dogs!"

Lu Lingyun didn't get angry either. He walked to the main seat and sat down calmly.

She sat down, and Xing Dairong pulled her maid to sit down as well, "Sit down, why are you standing all the time? Aren't you tired?"

Her little maid was originally the prince's personal servant. After Xing Dairong entered the mansion, he took personal care of her. After all, she was still a member of the mansion. When she met Lu Lingyun's gaze, she suddenly became panic-stricken and dared not sit down.

"Miss, I'd better stand."

Xing Dairong pulled her twice, but it was no use. "I'm speechless. You feudal women are hopeless. No matter how much I teach you, you won't learn!"

Lu Lingyun listened to the new words that popped out of her mouth from time to time and scraped the teacup, "What is feudalism?"

"Feudalism is what you are like, poor bugs who are bound by a bunch of rules and dare not resist and have no freedom."

"Isn't it good to have rules? As the saying goes, without rules, there will be no order." Lu Lingyun said calmly while scraping the teacup.

"That's oppression! That's a bad habit! Forget it, you won't understand even if I tell you."

Chun Xing rolled her eyes. "You are the only one who knows. Being unruly means being uneducated. You came from a brothel. Who would teach you to behave yourself?"

Xing Dairong immediately got angry when he heard the words "born in a brothel". "I had no choice in that brothel! But your wife, a respectable lady from a well-off family, was forced to be someone's mistress!"

"Mistress?" Lu Lingyun muttered these two words.

"It's the third party who interferes with other people's relationships! And it's the third party who knows the third party!"

"You are talking nonsense! Our eldest daughter was married in a formal ceremony and married into the marquis's mansion in a grand sedan chair!" Shuang Hong said angrily.

Xing Dairong sneered, "Your wife knew that Yun Shuo and I were together, but she still married me. This is nothing but knowing the truth and taking advantage of others!"

Lu Lingyun couldn't help but want to laugh, "Then according to what you said, what should I do?"

"You can reject the marriage proposal and pursue your true love!"

"Marriage is a big deal. It's decided by my parents and the matchmaker. How can I refuse it?"

"Then run away from the marriage! Who tied your feet? There is no place in the world that you cannot go. Women like you who have been poisoned by feudal ethics are not bound by bound feet, but bound by bound brains. You don't have the slightest spirit of resistance."

Lu Lingjun held a teacup and looked at Xing Dairong who was talking incessantly in front of him. He did not seem angry at all. However, Shuanghong, Chunxing and Chunhe behind him were all very angry.

Refuse marriage? Escape? Run away?

Regardless of whether they can escape or not, in this day and age, why would women like them leave the protection of their families?

The family may be bad, but the outside world is a thousand times more dangerous than the family.

If you have money, it can be stolen or robbed. How can you, a woman, protect your wealth of real gold and white silver?

It is even more difficult to move forward without money. People are meat in the plates of others. If you are kidnapped, sold, raped or killed, who will be in charge of you?

In this era, everyone from top to bottom has to work together to form families, clans, and factions to survive in a cruel environment. For a woman to live alone is simply a fool's dream.

Why did she say that escaping from the family was such an easy and happy thing?

Lu Lingyun listened to her patiently and put down the teacup. "So you came here today just to tell me this?"

"I guess so," Xing Dairong looked at Lu Lingyun with a sympathetic look, "In fact, you are also a victim of feudal ethics. I don't blame you, but Yun Shuo has promised to be with me for the rest of my life, and I absolutely do not accept polygamy. From now on, you should stay at home and we can live in peace."

"You are simply... bold!" The calm and honest Shuanghong shouted angrily, his face flushed.

After listening to this, Lu Lingjun suddenly felt a little regretful for sending Zhiran away last night.

Shuanghong, don't just be angry, go up and tear her apart!

Just then, an urgent voice came from outside.

"Dai Rong!"

A young man in brocade robes rushed in impatiently from outside.

"Cheng Yunshuo, I'm here."

Xing Dairong waved and greeted him with a smile.

"Are you okay?"

"What can I do?"

Seeing her alive and kicking, Cheng Yunshuo was obviously relieved.

This look was completely seen by Lu Lingyun.

It was just as the rumors said, he really loved this concubine terribly.

"My Lord, are you worried that I will make things difficult for your beloved child?" Lu Lingyun stood up from his seat and smiled gently.

Hearing Lu Lingjun's voice, Cheng Yunshuo turned around, and when he met Lu Lingjun's indifferent and calm gaze, he unconsciously avoided it a little.

He looked like a person who was trying to judge a noble man with his own mean mind and was discovered.

Yes, he was worried that Lu Lingyun would take advantage of his absence to attack Xing Dairong.

But he really didn't expect that Lu Lingjun didn't get angry at all when meeting Xing Dairong, which was a bit overstepping.

For a moment, he lost all his arrogance in front of her.

"Dai Rong, let's go." Cheng Yunshuo avoided Lu Lingyun's words and directly pulled Xing Dai Rong away.

As Xing Dairong was being dragged away, he turned to Lu Lingyun and reminded her, "Don't forget what I just said."

Lu Lingyun just smiled and didn't comment.

"What did you just say?" Cheng Yunshuo asked after leaving the brothel.

"I'm reminding her that you're mine, don't try to take advantage of you."

Cheng Yunshuo, who was originally in a good mood, suddenly changed his expression after hearing this. He shook off Xing Dairong's hand and said in a sharp voice, "Nonsense!"

"What's wrong with you?" Xing Dairong looked at the man who got angry at her for the first time and got angry too. "You promised me this, don't you think you can keep your promise?"

"You don't even need to come and tell her that!"

"Oh, you go ahead and say it without me telling you. Who knows if you will say it or not!" Xing Dairong pouted, looking dissatisfied.

Cheng Yunshuo looked at her deeply, and for the first time he felt that the woman he loved most was a little stupid.

He was tired for the moment and didn't want to coax her anymore, so he just walked back.

After walking away for several hundred steps, Xing Dairong, who was still standing there, saw that he was not coaxing her and realized that he was really angry. Xing Dairong bit her lower lip, ran up quickly, and hugged Cheng Yunshuo's arm and acted coquettishly in front of everyone in the yard.

"What's wrong with you? I'm also afraid that you don't love me anymore."

When she spoke in a coquettish voice, Cheng Yunshuo's anger disappeared by half. "Dai Rong, I promised you that I would do it. Don't interfere in this matter anymore, and don't come here to cause trouble again."

"Okay, okay, as long as you keep loving me, I will never make trouble again."

Cheng Yunshuo's brows relaxed completely in an instant, and he said lovingly, "Let's go back."

The two of them chatted and laughed, and left Lu Lingyun's yard in a sad manner.

They are as close as glue and lacquer, just like a newlywed couple.

In the yard, Lu Lingyun led people out.

Chun Xing looked at Xing Dairong and said, "She is really a vixen from a brothel!"

"If the prince likes this, then why don't we learn it?" Chunhe said.

"Yes, otherwise she will really ride on our heads in the future!"

Lu Lingyun smiled and shook her head slightly, "It's novel, but limited, no wonder."

Having said that, she went back to her room, leaving Chun Xing and Chun He looking at each other in bewilderment.

After meeting him twice, she basically understood what kind of person Xing Dairong was.

It's indeed fresh and interesting, but also incredibly shallow.

Such a person is indeed extremely attractive at first, but after a long time you will find that beneath her novelty she is actually shallow and worthless.

Just like what had happened in her previous life, the days after she eloped with Cheng Yunshuo were not filled with romance, but rather a mess.

Yes, Lu Lingyun first met Xing Dairong in Jiangnan in his previous life.

The two who had eloped settled in Jiangnan. She accidentally ran into it once. Xing Dairong openly pulled Cheng Yunshuo to quarrel for money on the street. Cheng Yunshuo, who was wearing an old brocade dress, dragged her into the house with an impatient and embarrassed look on his face. After walking a few steps, Xing Dairong burst into tears.

The scene was very lively.

Afterwards, I heard that the two men were the young masters of the Ningyang Marquisate who had caused a sensation in the capital.

Lu Lingyun thought for a long time at that time, wondering why the two people who had committed the rebellious act of eloping would do this.

She understood now. First, Xing Dairong was indeed novel and attractive when she first met her. But apart from her novelty and uniqueness on the surface, she was completely unrealistic inside.

The second was her good sister, who gradually forced the two of them together and made them elope impulsively on the day when they were most in love.

As time went by, they soon discovered that in addition to romance and love, life also includes the trivialities of food, clothing, housing and transportation. How can a long-lasting romance exist between an unrealistic woman and a young man who is ignorant of the ways of the world?

Lu Lingyun smiled slightly after figuring it out. The difficulty in this marquis' mansion was indeed much easier than in the Li family in his previous life.