Chapter 471 Palace Banquet
"Dad, where is mine?" Lu Chao came back to his senses and asked.
Lu Youping: "Your what?"
"New Year's money?" Lu Chao stared at him with eyes wide open, asking with confidence.
Lu Youping looked at Lu Chao meaningfully: "You've been married for two years, and you still have the nerve to ask for New Year's money. Where's your face?"
Lu Chao: “…”
Dad, you're going too far.
Just talk, why make personal attacks?
Don’t I have any face?
"Grandma gave it all to me." Lu Chao said.
"So you should just be happy secretly, or else you will go back?"
It was given to the daughter because the two were unmarried and still had children.
It was given to the daughter-in-law because she was good at managing the household and she and Lu Xiang made a lot of money by running the Lu Mansion.
As for my son...
Go wherever is cool.
Lu Chao: “…”
Hum, so love will disappear, right?
I am no longer the kid who passed the imperial examination and made you proud?
Everyone had breakfast together in Fuyuan Hall, and then Lu Youping took the New Year gifts and went out to pay New Year's greetings to his superiors.
Lu Qiao took the box back to her Begonia Courtyard and opened it impatiently. What caught her eyes were rows of neatly arranged silver ingots. Hearing about it was a different feeling than seeing it with her own eyes. At this moment, she could feel the excitement more intuitively.
hiss--
"Dad is so generous this year."
Qiu Ying was also staring blankly at the box of silver in front of her, so shocked that an egg could almost fit in her mouth: "Sixth Miss, how much silver is here?"
"Count?"
Qiuying nodded, and the master and servant sat together and counted the silver ingots in the box...
After a while, Lu Qiao let out a breath:
"Huo, one hundred taels..."
After a moment's pause, she took out the red envelope given by the old lady and pinched out a silver note from it. Five hundred taels was written on the face of the note.
Qiu Ying's eyes widened: "Sixth Miss, you're rich!"
You have to know that her master's monthly salary is only thirty taels of silver, and this is already an increase compared to the past.
This morning is almost two years' worth of monthly routine.
I won’t send it anymore.
Gulp!
Lu Qiao swallowed and calculated quietly in her mind. She was fourteen this year and would be coming of age next year. Judging from the amount of lucky money she received this year, next year would not be less. If it was fast, she would not get married until the year after next. Another year of lucky money...she would have saved up a lot for her dowry.
"Qiuying, quickly put it away and lock it in the cabinet." Lu Qiao said.
Qiu Ying smiled and replied, "Yes, Miss."
After counting the silver, Lu Qiao took out the gift Lu Xiang gave her. She opened it and saw that it was a pair of twisted gold and jade earrings. She put them on immediately and shook her head and asked Qiu Ying, "Qiu Ying, look at my earrings, what do you think?"
Qiu Ying smiled and nodded: "It looks good!"
Lu Qiaole happily ran to Qixiayuan to find Lu Xiang.
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Qiao Jingru returned to her parents' home, and Lu Yao, the second married daughter of the Lu family, also returned to the Lu family.
He was accompanied by his second uncle Zhou Huaicheng.
The servants unloaded the gifts from the carriage, and the two men went to pay New Year's greetings to the old lady first.
Lu Xiang and Lu Qiao accompanied them.
For a while, the room was filled with laughter. Zhou Huaicheng sat silently aside, but his eyes would fall on Lu Xiang from time to time, with amazement and greed in his eyes.
After not seeing her for a long time, the girl looked like a flower bud slowly blooming, revealing her unique beauty bit by bit.
The girl's face was fair and tender, her skin was as white as snow, she wore a little makeup, her eyes were gentle, her eyebrows were picturesque, her long black hair was tied into a flowing bun, and she wore a tassel hairpin inlaid with crystals and pearls, which made people unable to take their eyes away.
Lu Xiang felt Zhou Huaicheng's malicious gaze, his brows furrowed, and his eyes were cold.
Her second sister was sitting next to her, and this bastard dared to look at her like that?
I really want to dig out his eyeballs.
Lu Yao and Zhou Huaicheng stayed in the Lu Mansion for a day and left after dinner.
Lu Xiang and Lu Qiao saw them off and watched the carriage drive away.
The two of them didn't enter the mansion until they could no longer see the carriage. The smile that Lu Qiao had been wearing suddenly disappeared, and her face was filled with anger and disgust.
Lu Xiang was stunned by her sudden change of expression.
"What's wrong?"
Lu Qiao looked at Lu Xiang and gritted her teeth, "Third sister, you have to stay away from your second brother-in-law in the future. The second brother-in-law is too much. He has been looking at you with malicious eyes and has no regard for you at all. He doesn't even take a piss to look at himself. He dares to look at you so presumptuously. It's shameless and disgusting."
As she spoke, her eyes widened, she was extremely angry.
After being stunned for a moment, Lu Xiang smiled gently.
"good."
Lu Qiao: "Don't laugh, take my words seriously and remember them in your heart, okay?"
“Yes.”
"Oh, I'm so angry. I didn't realize before that my second sister would marry such a man." Zhou Huaicheng looked at the third sister so unscrupulously in front of the second sister, which showed that he might not take the second sister seriously.
This kind of pervert with a dirty mind doesn't even know how he could hook up with the maid in Zhou's house behind the second sister's back.
My second sister is so pitiful.
Lu Xiang pursed her lips lightly, wanting to say something but ultimately not saying much, she just smiled and said, "No matter what, the Lu family is the support of Second Sister. If Zhou Huaicheng dares to bully Second Sister, the Lu family will never let him go."
Zhou Huaicheng should not set his sights on her in the end, otherwise, even if he is her brother-in-law, she will kill him.
After that, Lu Youping went to visit each family every day to wish them a happy New Year.
On the fifth day of the New Year, the Qiao family held a banquet and invited the old lady and others.
On the eighth day of the first lunar month, the Lu family also hosted a banquet for the Qiao family and the Zhou family. Lu Xiang also invited He Zhiyan. Unexpectedly, he saw He Zhimin following him again.
A few days later, an invitation was received from the palace. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Emperor Chengde held a banquet and invited officials of the fifth rank and above to attend the banquet with their families.
The old lady also entered the palace.
On the fifteenth day, two carriages were lined up in front of the gate of Lu Mansion, simple yet exquisite.
The old lady led everyone to the gate.
Lu Chao and Qiao Jingru were in the same carriage, while Lu Xiang and Lu Qiao were in the same carriage with the old lady.
Because it was a dinner party, they set out in the evening. When they arrived at the palace gate, it was already dark. Officials from various families had arrived with their families. Looking around, there were flowers in profusion, beautiful girls, and all the rich ladies were dressing up with all their might. At first glance, one would have thought that the emperor was going to select a concubine. However, everyone knew that among the emperor's princes, three still had no principal wife. Originally, the seventh prince was to have a principal wife, but the Su family was confiscated and exiled, so the position of principal wife was naturally vacant.
Even if I take a step back and it's not my turn to be the principal wife, I still have the position of concubine.
Being a concubine of the royal family is the most honorable.
If you can be noticed at the palace banquet, you will be able to rise to the top and become a phoenix.
Many people even secretly hoped that they would be assigned to the Eighth Prince Chu Jinyan...
Lu Qiao was a concubine’s daughter. It was her first time attending a palace banquet and she was so nervous that she was at a loss for words.
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