Chapter 182
The carriage arrived outside the Xiangyun Restaurant. The He family's servants went to speak with the owner of the Gold and Silver Shop, giving the two ladies a private room to choose their favorites. Then, Miss He II spotted her husband, Xu Shengwen, drinking with friends in the restaurant. She stopped him, gave him instructions, straightened his clothes, and scolded him for not paying attention when he left.
Yining bought Baoger a candy figurine and teased him intermittently, but she wouldn't let him bite it. Baoger's eyes watered from his mother's teasing, and just as he was about to cry, Yining licked him. But she didn't dare hold it in her hands or it would get all over the place.
Xu Shengwen had a handsome face, an upright figure, and a broad smile. He simply nodded slightly to Yining. The female relatives were reluctant to speak, so they didn't ask who she was.
"I know everything. There's no time now. We have to go upstairs first!" Xu Shengwen said as he shook his wife's hand.
Miss He Er let her husband go and walked back into the house, smiling, "Sorry to have kept you waiting. He never pays attention to these things! His probationary period has just ended, and today he's going to visit the Minister of Works, Luo Ge Lao. He wants to ask for a good official position. But Luo Ge Lao is not easy to talk to, and there are so many people asking for help. I told him to pay more attention."
When Luo Yining heard her mention the three words "Lord Luo", his heart was shocked.
Miss He Er suddenly seemed to remember something, and a puzzled look appeared on her face: "Wait, I remember the family you married into... seems to be the Luo family?"
She never came back after she got married, and didn't know much about the things in the capital. She didn't even know who Luo Yining married.
Luo Yining lowered her head to drink tea. She said, "Well, I'm marrying into the Luo family."
Seeing that she didn't say much, Miss He stopped asking. Instead, she continued to talk about Lord Luo: "This Luo Shenyuan is really amazing. He's a young Lord, yet he serves the emperor by his side. Did you know that he cleaned up the six ministries last month, removing over forty officials from office... I heard that if he weren't already married, the emperor would have considered him a princess."
Yining selected several anklet designs and prepared to make a few more for Bao Ge'er. She handed the selected designs to the maid and said, "I have them all selected. You should choose quickly. Let's go back. Be careful, Ying Jie is hungry." Ying Jie was not brought out. Miss He Er was breastfeeding the child herself and did not hire a wet nurse.
"That's true!" Miss He thought of Sister Ying and no longer worried about Luo Shenyuan's words.
Xu Shengwen had just arrived at the entrance of Xiangyun Restaurant when several colleagues were waiting for him. Seeing him coming, they laughed and said, "You rascal, who was that person who just called you?"
Xu Shengwen said angrily, "Who else could it be? That's the wife I married! How could I possibly have a mistress?"
As the group walked into the restaurant, a colleague put his hand on his shoulder and said, "I remember Brother Zhao had a mistress, a young lady of only fourteen or fifteen years old, so fresh and tender."
The person named beside him coughed and said, "I rescued her when I was in office. She has nowhere else to go. What else can she do except follow me? Don't talk nonsense. I want to take her as a concubine."
Others came to tease him again and asked him what the young lady felt like.
They arrived at the private room and were about to sit down when the person who had just been laughed at patted Xu Shengwen on the shoulder and said, "Brother Shengwen, aren't you going to look for Elder Luo? Look, isn't that right there?"
Xu Shengwen looked over and saw that it was indeed the Luo family's sedan chair that had stopped. A group of people walked to the window and saw Lord Luo dismount from his sedan chair. The next sedan chair to disembark was that of Lord Song, the Minister of Personnel. Suddenly, a commotion broke out. Lord Luo had actually arrived at the Xiangyun Restaurant! "We have to go and pay our respects, or it would be rude!" said the man surnamed Zhao. The others quickly packed up and left the room.
Xu Shengwen was walking in front, as he had something to ask of someone. Seeing Elder Luo and Lord Song being escorted in, several people immediately stepped forward to greet them.
Elder Luo, wearing a cloak and a stern expression, walked in. He was talking to Lord Song. Seeing them, he glanced at them, handed the item in his hand to his attendant, and asked calmly, "Xu Shengwen?"
"Your Excellency still remembers me!" Xu Shengwen bowed and smiled, "I once observed government affairs under your Excellency, and was fortunate to receive your guidance."
"Yes." Luo Shenyuan nodded. He had a faint impression of this man. Lord Song saw that they were all young officials and ignored them. He smiled and made a gesture, "Lord Luo, please go first."
Luo Shenyuan smiled and agreed, and the group went upstairs. Just as they reached the corner where there was a window facing the street below, Luo Shenyuan suddenly paused.
He seemed to have seen something, and the smile on his face immediately disappeared. Even his eyes became very strange, and if you could say it, it was a kind of ferociousness that was finally about to be grasped.
Xu Shengwen was still surprised to see that it was his wife's carriage, and a woman holding a child had climbed in. The child was covered in a cloak and disappeared in a flash.
No one reacted until Lord Luo suddenly turned and headed downstairs, swiftly chasing after him. His followers hurried to avoid him, but the carriage was so fast it disappeared into the vast streets, leaving no clue where to begin. Someone approached to ask, but Luo Shenyuan snapped, "—Shut up!" His eyes flushed, and he even gasped.
Luo Shenyuan closed his eyes and finally calmed down a bit. He ordered the people around him: "Go, call the owner of the Gold and Silver Shop next door."
When the shop owner heard that it was Lord Luo calling him, he was very nervous and came over quickly.
"I pay my respects to you, sir." The shop owner knelt down and then stood up.
Luo Shenyuan had only seen it briefly, not completely, and was even afraid it was just an illusion. After all, there were too many such illusions.
He sat on the armchair and asked, "There were two women in your shop just now, and one of them was holding a child. Do you know who it was?"
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