Chapter 215 This Idiot
"Later, I accidentally learned that Rongyin was once the most popular prostitute in a brothel, so I found the madam and brought her to Big Brother yesterday morning. Aunt Yao swore that I had found Rongyin. I guess Rongyin had somehow managed to coax Big Brother, and she hated me for causing trouble for her again and again, so she said that I had instructed her to do so."
Lu Xiang was sure that it was Aunt Yao who did it, but she had no evidence at the moment.
Even Rong Yin said that she was sent by Lu Xiang. To others, she was more suspicious than Aunt Yao. Although Aunt Yao's move was not very clever, it was able to pinch people's weak spots.
It doesn’t matter whether the old lady believes it or not. What matters is what the eldest sister-in-law thinks.
"Your eldest brother is such a fool. He can have any woman he wants, but he was fooled around by a prostitute."
The old lady's chest heaved up and down with anger. The mansion had finally been peaceful for a while, but Lu Chao did something weird again.
If you like her, you can. As long as Jingru agrees and she is of clean background, no one will object to you taking her as a concubine. But you keep her away quietly, and it is at a critical time for the imperial examination. This will make people in the capital laugh at the Lu family.
The key point is that this woman was born in a brothel. Even if she looks like a fairy, the old lady cannot agree to let such a person enter the Lu family.
If you have the ability, go and start your own business.
Even though your father was completely bewitched by Liu, Liu was not from a brothel.
If you don't learn good things, you will learn bad things. This is the result of the upper beam being crooked and the lower beams being crooked.
Unable to bear the rage, the old lady asked someone to call Lu Youping back. She said that it was his fault that her grandson did not learn well. The old lady felt that she would not be able to eat today if she did not scold him.
"Biju, take the eldest young lady downstairs to wash her face." The old lady ordered.
Qiao Jingru's face was covered with tears. She sat here feeling distraught and decided to go to the next room to calm down.
Bizhu agreed and helped Qiao Jingru walk away.
Qiao Jingru was pulled away like a puppet. Bizhu brought some hot water and Liangchen took the handkerchief: "Let me do it."
"Okay, I'll wait outside. Madam, please let me know if you have anything to say." Bizhu said, and then stepped out.
Liangchen rubbed the handkerchief and handed it to Qiao Jingru, shaking her gently, and said anxiously: "Madam, this is not the time to feel sorry for yourself. You know what kind of person the Third Miss is better than me. Anyway, I absolutely do not believe that this matter has anything to do with the Third Miss. If she wants to suppress you, why would she consider everything for you? Don't say that the master now values the Third Miss because she is loved by the Queen. Even when the master did not value the Third Miss in the past, it would be easy for her to suppress you just because the old lady loved the Third Miss. Why bother to find a concubine? Isn't this just asking for trouble?"
Qiao Jingru stared at Liangchen with dull eyes, as if she was digesting what Liangchen had just said. After a while, she came back to her senses and realized belatedly that from questioning Lu Xiang to her silence, it seemed to others that she was suspecting that Lu Xiang was related to this matter.
Isn't Lu Xiang disappointed?
"I... I didn't mean that." Qiao Jingru threw the handkerchief away and said, "Liangchen, call Xiangxiang over. If we don't make things clear, there will be a rift between us in the future."
Liangchen responded and hurried to the flower hall to invite Lu Xiang.
Seeing this, Bizhu walked a few steps away.
Qiao Jingru's eyes were red and swollen. The fact that Lu Chao had a mistress was a big blow to her, so she was distracted.
"Xiangxiang, don't worry, I don't doubt that you are right."
If it was possible for Lu Xiang a year ago, after more than a year of contact, she can say with certainty that Lu Xiang would not.
"Sister-in-law, do you really believe me?" Lu Xiang looked at Qiao Jingru seriously and asked.
"Yes, I believe you." Qiao Jingru nodded affirmatively, her voice still carrying a heavy nasal tone after crying: "Although I am young, I am not stupid. Aunt Yao and I have no relationship and we have no contact, how can she compare with you? In the past year or so, you have planned everything for me and we are truly friends. The trust between you and me is not just lip service. I believe that if I was wronged today and wanted to fight against you, you would not believe it. Aunt Yao does not understand, you are hiding it because you want to protect me, and my second and third brothers are the same."
"First there was Zhao Qingya, then there was the concubine. Other women are treasures in Lu Chao's heart, and no matter how much I do for him, I am just a weed. Xiangxiang, I am so tired, but even if he doesn't love me, I can't bear to give up."
Lu Xiang held Qiao Jingru's hand, her beautiful black eyes surging with a hint of coldness, and the words "divorce" almost came out of her throat, but when the words came to her lips, she just vented: "Brother is not worthy of you."
The eldest sister-in-law's obsession with Lu Chao is just like her obsession with Xiao Muheng in her previous life. She was reborn with the memories of her previous life, so in this life she only has deep hatred for Xiao Muheng, but the eldest sister-in-law does not have that, so she is reluctant to give up her feelings for Lu Chao.
Facing the painful and sad Qiao Jingru, Lu Xiang couldn't bring himself to say divorce and just rubbed salt into her bleeding wounds.
Qiao Jingru smiled bitterly and shed tears silently.
The servant who went out to look for someone reported back to the old lady that the eldest young master was not in the academy, and the master was busy with official duties and could not spare the time.
"Not in the academy?" The old lady's face was so gloomy that ink could almost drip out. After a pause, she looked at Lu Xiang and said, "Xiang Xiang, do you know where the concubine lives?"
Lu Xiang nodded and asked Ah Man to go to Jilan Lane to find someone.
However, when Ah Man came back, he said the house was empty.
Lu Xiang: “…”
She really underestimated Rong Yin's methods. She could continue to fool Lu Chao like this.
Lu Chao is such an idiot!
"You guys go back first and wait for your father to come back. I don't believe he can avoid the fifteenth day if he can avoid the first day." The old lady said angrily: "Xiangxiang, persuade your sister-in-law well."
Lu Chao had done something wrong to Qiao Jingru, but the old lady didn't want Qiao Jingru to make a big fuss, because Lu Chao still had to take the imperial examination and couldn't let everyone know.
To put it more bluntly, the old lady is infinitely tolerant of Lu Xiang, and no one else has this preferential treatment.
Qiao Jingru didn't want to go back to her own courtyard, so she followed Lu Xiang to Qixia Courtyard.
Lu Xiang stayed with her the whole time, and Yun Zhai and the others served her cautiously. They didn't dare to talk too much or laugh, for fear of stimulating Qiao Jingru even more.
Qiao Jingru couldn't eat anymore after two bites of lunch, and sat in the warm room staring out the window in a daze.
The warm sunlight shines through the gaps between the leaves. The flowers in the yard are about to bloom, bringing with them a fragrant scent that ripples throughout the room.
Qiao Jingru only felt cold hands and feet, as if even her blood was cold.
She felt that this time the mistress might not be as easy to deal with as Zhao Qingya.
It was not until the evening that Lu Youping and Lu Chao came back. Lu Youping learned that the old lady had been looking for him during the day, so he did not even have time to change into his official uniform and hurried to Fuyuan Hall.
"Mom, why did you ask someone to come to the Ministry of Works to see me during the day?"
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