Chapter 64: Many Backers
Lunar New Year's eve.
Firecrackers were set off all over the capital, and festive window decorations were pasted everywhere.
The children were wearing new clothes and playing around.
Lu Chaochao is eleven months old!
Congratulations, she has grown another tooth and now she is a baby with three teeth.
[Happy, happy, I am one step closer to eating a big chicken leg. 】
No matter who she met, she would grin with her big front teeth, revealing three small white teeth.
Mrs. Xu's cheeks ached as she watched: "Okay, okay, okay, mother knows you have grown a new tooth. I'll give you a chicken leg to chew when I get home tonight." This girl kept shouting in her dreams, "Growing teeth, growing teeth..."
Lu Chaochao smiled happily. After getting the chicken leg she wanted, she became very happy.
The complicated clothes never made her feel irritated.
"We are going to the palace to offer sacrifices to the heaven today, and there will be a palace banquet later, so you must be obedient." Xu put on a thick coat for her. It was very cold during the sacrifice, and she was worried that Lu Chaochao would freeze to death.
After finishing dressing, Lu Chaochao glanced at his mother.
He crept under the bed and used his hands and feet to push out a small box.
There was a small key hanging around his neck, and with a click, the key opened.
There was a string of jade pendants inside.
Any piece of it would make her scumbag father drool, but she owns a lot of them, and throws them in the corner with disgust, gathering dust.
【Taking up space!】 】Lu Chaochao curled her lips.
Mrs. Xu was taking a bath and changing her clothes. All she could see was her butt sticking out and her head down, searching for something.
The two tufts of hair on his head were shaking.
Lu Chaochao is only eleven months old and his hands are very small.
He took a handful of chestnuts from the box.
There were only two chestnuts in a handful, and the chubby boy couldn't hold them all, so he grabbed several handfuls and stuffed them into his arms.
He grabbed two more handfuls of peanuts and stuffed them into his small purse.
He grabbed another sweet potato the size of a thumb.
After busying himself for a while, with his pockets bulging, he locked the box again and pushed it in.
Offering sacrifices to heaven is extremely tedious and boring, and one is not allowed to leave.
Xu didn't dare to drink water for fear of having to go to the toilet.
I just took two sips of thick rice porridge to fill my stomach.
"Why do we require the legitimate son and daughter to participate in the heaven sacrifice this year? Chaochao is only eleven months old and can't even walk steadily." Dengzhi sighed and busied himself putting a scarf on Chaochao.
Xu glanced at Lu Chaochao, who was ignorant of the world and squatting on the ground poking ants.
She always felt that maybe...
The emperor wants to see Chao Chao.
but……
Your Majesty, you are not that free, right?
Xu put everything aside and just as she was about to go out with Chao Chao in her arms, she saw a look of joy on Su Zhiqing's face.
"Madam..." Su Zhiqing's face flushed. In the past half month, she had tried her best to please Lu Yuanze.
Lu Yuanze didn't even step into Xu's room.
He actually looked like he was indulging in the pleasures of a gentle and permissive life.
"Happy New Year, ma'am." Su Zhiqing hesitated to speak, the joy in her eyes could hardly be concealed.
"Just say it frankly. Delaying the sacrifice to heaven is a serious crime." Xu had a third-rank imperial edict, which required her to enter the palace to offer sacrifices.
【hey-hey. She became Lu Jinghuai's little wife...and was going to piss Pei Jiaojiao off to death. 】The weapon he cultivated was pointed at himself.
Lu Jinghuai doesn’t know yet.
Su Zhiqing bowed to Xu.
"The Marquis loves Qingqing very much. Last night... the Marquis said that he wanted to make Qingqing his second wife."
"Madam is old and raising several children. I'm afraid she won't be able to take care of everything. I specially asked Qingqing to share Madam's worries..."
It was worth it, her calves were shaking when she walked this morning.
Pei Jiaojiao is beautiful, but she is no longer young.
As for herself, she was young, beautiful, humble, and well-read, almost combining the advantages of both Xu and Pei Jiaojiao.
Pei Jiaojiao also gave her the Marquis's preferences.
She deliberately created the same hobbies as the Marquis, making the Marquis feel that they were quite compatible.
Last night, the Marquis was so carried away that he agreed to make her his co-wife on the spot.
Xu couldn't hide the loneliness in her eyes.
"In that case, let's record Miss Su in the family tree on the first day of tomorrow. But this marriage..." Xu hesitated for a moment.
Fortunately, Su Zhiqing interrupted and said, "Sister, the New Year is busy, there is no rush for marriage." As long as it is recorded in the family tree, she will be a formal co-wife.
She just called her sister.
"Bah, any random person is trying to claim to be a relative!" Dengzhi couldn't help but complain.
"Madam comes from a famous family. She is the pampered daughter of the Xu family, but she has no sisters." Dengzhi said angrily.
A co-wife is only slightly higher than a concubine or a concubine.
She is also worthy of being called sister together with the principal wife.
Su Zhiqing blushed with shame and tried hard to suppress the anger in her eyes.
Humph, so what if she’s the legal wife?
What’s the point if you’re not loved by a man?
She doesn't know yet that the Marquis has been keeping a mistress for almost twenty years, right?
There was pity and gloating in her eyes.
The Marquis said: It is true that Xu loves him deeply.
"What Miss Dengzhi is teaching you is that Qingqing didn't realize her own identity." She lowered her head with a sneer on her lips.
"Okay, just serve the Marquis well."
Xu didn't even look at her and left the house with her people.
Today, the emperor led his court officials to offer sacrifices to heaven.
The women took their children to the other side of the altar, just in time to block the sight of the court officials and avoid the cold wind.
Xu stood in position.
I thought to myself, this is a great location.
How could she know that this was specially reserved for Lu Chaochao by the Emperor and the Crown Prince.
All the court officials knelt in the cold wind.
Although Lu Yuanze had a high title, his official position was low. He was kneeling slightly behind and could not see the front at all.
"Lord Lu, after the palace banquet, shall we have a few drinks together?"
"Let's taste the wine together! Every line is a masterpiece that will be remembered for centuries!"
"Lu Jinghuai is truly a man of real talent. His failure to gather positive energy during last year's Ghost Festival must have been an accident. After all, it was his first time participating in the parade."
Lu Yuanze felt proud and his heart was filled with excitement.
This is his son!
Lu Jinghuai is his son.
"I heard that Your Majesty is extremely fond of "Song of the Wine". Your Majesty has already given your high regard to Lu Jinghuai, even before he took part in the provincial examination. If he really gets the top three honors..." A minister secretly glanced at the prince.
"I'm afraid that smoke will come out of our ancestors' graves."
"The glory of the Xu family in the past will fall on Lu Jinghuai's head. I don't know whose child Lu Jinghuai is. Such an outstanding son is raised outside." Ever since the Minister of Rites was caught cheating in public last time, everyone knew that Lu Jinghuai was the son of a concubine.
I just don't know whose son he is.
Lu Yuanze pinched his palms, his face slightly gloomy, and said nothing.
Xu's family became famous because the old man assisted His Majesty in ascending the throne and became the emperor's teacher and the Grand Tutor, one of the Three Dukes. Bring the Xu family to the peak.
Lord Chen, the Minister of Rites, glanced at Marquis Zhongyong.
idiot.
He helped Lu Yuanze keep a mistress and offended Lu Chaochao, which was even more stupid.
He touched his ears, which were swollen from being pinched by his wife, but when he thought of his wife's pregnancy, he grinned foolishly.
The imperial physician has examined the baby and confirmed that it is a boy.
He had a son in his old age! This life is worth dying for.
He didn't remind Lu Yuanze that his daughter was so awesome! And there are a lot of backgrounds! !
Just piss him off to death.
On the altar, the Imperial Astronomical Observatory recited sacrificial texts and prayed for good weather and good harvests in the coming year.
The emperor brought the crown prince with him, both with solemn expressions. The emperor already knew that Lu Chaochao had saved the prince, and he was grateful to God for giving him Lu Chaochao.
The emperor just bowed his head.
Then he saw a baby emerging from behind a huge bronze tripod.
The baby was grinning, showing three little teeth, and was laughing.
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