Chapter 4 Being a mistress is not an easy job

As she spoke, tears fell down her face. Lu Yanxiu was most afraid that Liu Qiuqiu would mention the past, so he quickly held her in his arms to comfort her. He couldn't help but kiss her again: "I still have to entertain those guests. They are all official social events. I won't leave until I'm drunk. I can't ignore them. Didn't I rush here in the middle of the night?"

Liu Qiuqiu's due date was a few days later, but she didn't expect that on the day Su He and Lu Yanxiu got married, her stomach started moving early and she gave birth to the child at night.

When Lu Yanxiu hurried over, he saw Liu Qiuqiu lying weakly on the bed without any strength, with blood all over her body, and the child lying inside crying non-stop.

It was also the wedding night. Su He and Lu Yanxiu only drank the wedding wine, and then he closed the door and left without looking back.

Speaking of the past, Liu Qiuqiu was unwilling to recall it.

She nestled in Lu Yanxiu's arms and said coquettishly: "I have lived with you for so long and suffered grievances. Now I am upright and I don't ask for a name, but it is also hard for me to have children. You have to give me some money!"

"Why?"

Liu Qiuqiu's eyes were filled with tears: "If you change your mind about the young lady one day, I can save some money and leave the Lu Mansion to help you two!"

Her words were very pitiful, which aroused Lu Yanxiu's sympathy.

Thinking that she was a lonely person who he redeemed from Lelou and had no one to rely on at home, he couldn't help but say: "Qiqiu, I, Lu Yanxiu, will never have two minds in this life and will protect you. I will give Su He and Li Shu soon, and then everything in the house will be yours, and you can decide everything. Naturally, there is no need to save money."

Although he said so, in order to please Liu Qiuqiu, Lu Yanxiu still generously gave her a sum of money, which was considered a small private treasury.

That night, because Liu Qiuqiu was pregnant and had difficulty moving, dinner was specially served in Tingyuxuan.

Lu Yi and Lu Jiao looked at the table full of vegetarian dishes, without even a bit of oily meat, and had no appetite, and were too lazy to pick up chopsticks.

Liu Qiuqiu threw the bowl on the ground in anger, glared at Mingchun, the maid sent by the old lady, and asked sullenly, "Is this how you treat meritorious officials in the Lu Mansion?"

Mingchun had not yet figured out the temperament of this master, and was afraid of offending her, so she quickly explained, "Auntie, calm down! The daily meals in the mansion should be arranged by the young lady, but yesterday the young lady and the young master had a quarrel in the hall, so they just gave up and didn't care about it. The kitchen maids couldn't make up their minds, so they had to arrange it based on the money in the account. I heard that there was not much left, so they changed the meals in the evening, and even the old lady's courtyard was the same."

Liu Qiuqiu's expression gradually became contemptuous, and she secretly said in her heart that Su He had good means.

Give up? Did he want to make Old Lady Lu and Lu Yan change their minds about letting her enter the mansion?

Lu Yanxiu once said that Su He was a daughter educated by a wealthy family, and she behaved in a well-behaved and polite manner, and never overstepped her boundaries. Now it seems that this is totally wrong!

"Auntie, how about I take away all these dishes and ask the small kitchen to prepare some new pork belly?"

Liu Qiuqiu glanced at them and found them bland, and said lightly: "No need, you can leave first."

After Mingchun left, Lu Yi complained angrily: "Mother, when my sister and I were playing in the front yard just now, we saw someone carrying Fanlou's food to the east."

He will never forget the familiar taste of the elbow! Daddy always bought it for him to eat!

To the east is Su He's osmanthus courtyard.

Liu Qiuqiu sneered, "She doesn't want to eat this pickled food, but she asked me, a pregnant woman, to eat it? Yi'er Jiao'er, when your father comes back later, you know what he will say?"

"Mom is pregnant and can only eat vegetables without oil or salt! Poor my unborn brother, he can't even smell the taste of pork elbow!"

Under the guidance of Liu Qiuqiu, Lu Yi understood many things at once. In addition, since he was a boy, Lu Yanxiu and Old Madam Lu basically responded to his requests.

Liu Qiuqiu then leaned back in her chair with satisfaction, waiting for Lu Yanxiu to go to the Guihua Courtyard to question him.

In the past few days after his rebirth, Su He was afraid of repeating the same mistakes, so he was always worried and had no appetite. Today, I asked Lu Yanxiu for a divorce. After finding out what he meant, I felt relieved.

Pei Xia went to Fanlou to buy halved pork elbows to whet her appetite.

But as soon as the halved pork elbows were served, Lu Yanxiu came over as if he had smelled something.

He had a gloomy face, and as soon as he entered the room, he cast his eyes on the dining table. Finally, he looked at Su He who had a bewildered look on his face, and sneered: "You really don't treat yourself badly!"

Pei Xia saw that her young lady might have no appetite after being questioned by him, and she didn't want to give this aunt any good face at the moment: "Our young lady has been taking care of all the big and small things in the mansion for many years. Whenever she is free, she will go to Youran Residence to take care of the eldest lady. She has no merit, but she has worked hard! But aunt is going to scold her for even a piece of pork elbow. If the people of the Su family know about it, I'm afraid they will wonder what kind of miserable life the young lady is living in the Lu family?"

Pei Xia has been serving Su He since he was a child. Although he is a house-born child, he has never been wronged since following Su He, so he can't help but feel sorry for her.

These words irritated Lu Yanxiu for no reason, and he angrily overturned the food on the table, and his shiny elbow also fell to the ground and was covered with dust.

Su He frowned, not understanding what he was mad about.

"Qi Qiu has made an invaluable contribution to the continuation of the bloodline of the Lu family! But you, relying on your status as the mistress, are playing tricks on her! You even arranged some pickled and oilless vegetable leaves! Has your conscience been eaten by a dog? If you don't want to be the mistress, I can always replace you, it doesn't have to be you!"

Lu Yanxiu was very angry, pointing at Su He and wishing he could take her to Ting Yuxuan to see that the vegetable leaves on the table might as well be fed to the dogs!

"Do you really think I want to be the mistress of the Lu Mansion?"

Su He asked slowly, her cold eyes revealing a chill, and she looked at Lu Yanxiu faintly, which made him shudder.

"If it weren't for my mother-in-law being paralyzed in bed and unable to take charge, and the old lady being old and without energy! Do you really think I can be in charge of the Lu Mansion? Don't you think it's such a good job, my husband? Since the first year of my management, the treasury has been empty. How much dowry have I spent? How much money have I filled? Where did the money come from for my husband to entertain officials? For many years, I have been trembling with fear and acting cautiously, but today I have been rejected by my husband because of a piece of elbow!"

"If you hadn't asked housekeeper Zhu for a sum of money yesterday to give to sister Liu, how could the mansion be in such a state today?"

Lu Yanxiu immediately retorted: "I just rewarded Qiqi with fifty silver taels! That's what she deserves!"

Su He laughed: "You have spent 70% of your salary in the past two years to take care of Liu, Qiqi and the other two. Why don't you think about whether the mansion needs expenses? Or do you think that the mansion has my dowry, and I will make up for it if there is no money?"