Chapter 50: Second Brother Returns Home
As the year draws to a close, the first snow falls.
The capital city seemed to be covered with a layer of white frost, and even the flowers and plants were covered with a light frost.
Lu Chaochao is ten months old.
Ten-month-old Lu Chaochao has grown up and has inherited all the advantages of Xu and Lu Yuanze.
The baby's face is chubby and fat, and his clear eyes are round and bright as stars, with a hint of ignorance. Her cheeks are puffy like little buns, and people can't help but pinch them when they see them.
At this moment, she was wearing a small red jacket, with two small buns on her head and a bunch of pompoms hanging on it.
She walked unsteadily and could take a few steps on her own without even the help of a maid.
"Our daughter looks just like a doll in a New Year painting. She's really pretty."
Dengzhi couldn't help but admire.
She helped her lady raise three sons, but none of them was as pretty as Chaochao.
"Miss Chaochao speaks and walks earlier than her three brothers." Yingxue nodded involuntarily.
"Can I hold you in my arms?" Dengzhi saw a light snow falling outside the house. Even though the maid had swept the snow early, the ground was still a little white.
Easy to slip.
Lu Chaochao was very excited.
“Let’s go…let’s go…”
"Send a few...let's go." Xiao Chaochao spoke in a baby voice with two chestnut cakes in his pocket.
She is now almost one year old and can already eat some soft complementary foods, roasted sweet potatoes, roasted chestnuts, rice flour, rice paste, and various meat purees.
She especially loves roasted sweet potatoes, the sweet aroma after they are roasted is extremely pleasant.
Seeing that she had an idea, Dengzhi held Yingxue's hand and slowly walked with her towards the main courtyard.
Stepping on the thin first snow, Lu Chaochao giggled.
One step leaves a small footprint.
The mini footprints look extra cute.
She laughed as she walked. When passing by the flower garden, the little girl frowned, shook off the maid, squatted in front of a wilted flower, and her little face almost touched the flower.
"What's wrong, young lady?" Yingxue had just opened her mouth when Xiao Chaochao stretched out her index finger and made a shushing sound.
"Cry...Fa Fa, cry..." The little hand pointed at an orchid.
Dengzhi couldn't help but smile. Children are so innocent that they think flowers, plants and trees can talk.
"Okay, I'll listen to the young lady. I'll ask the servants to move the orchids to the greenhouse later." He coaxed Lu Chaochao to move forward.
Lu Chaochao was small and couldn't walk, so after a while, Dengzhi picked her up.
As he walked quickly towards the front yard.
Lu Chaochao heard a soft sobbing sound.
Sounds soft and innocent.
Lu Chaochao blinked and turned the corner, then saw a young man in a moon-white gown kneeling outside the door.
There was also a petite girl in white standing under the eaves.
The girl was covering her face and sobbing softly.
Xu's furious voice came from inside the house: "You've read so much that you've lost your mind! You're engaged, why did you bring a girl back home?"
"You are slapping your fiancée in the face by doing this!" Xu was so angry that her face turned red.
Originally, she doubted Chaochao's thoughts. After all, the second brother already had a fiancée and was not such a naughty person.
But at this moment...
Seeing him kneeling outside the door and insisting on bringing the girl in, she was so angry that her head felt dizzy.
Lu Zhengyue glanced at his mother worriedly, but when his eyes fell on Su Zhiqing at the door, he became more confident.
Miss Su's face was pale and she was shivering with cold standing outside the door, as if a dodder was clinging to her.
"Mother, my son and Wen Ning have no feelings for each other, and getting engaged is not what he wants."
"My son just wants to marry someone he loves and wants to live a loving life like his parents. He doesn't want to be a stranger who treats him with respect."
Xu was so angry that she felt dizzy.
The marriage between Yanshu and Jiang Yunjin was arranged by the old marquis himself, so that's all.
But the Wen family lived next door to the Lu family back then.
The little girl from the Wen family follows Lu Zhengyue around all day long, calling him brother. The two of them have a childhood sweetheart relationship.
Later, the Wen family was exiled, and only three years after leaving Beijing, Lu Zhengyue started to act up.
"I only treat Wen Ning as my sister. You can kill your son. He cannot marry Wen Ning."
Lu Zhengyue sighed quietly. He was about six years old when he got engaged to Wen Ning.
Wen Ning was indeed cute back then, but he didn't understand the relationship between men and women at that time. Now that he thinks about it, he treated Wen Ning as his sister.
"Mother, Qingqing, Qingqing can't marry anyone else."
Lu Zhengyue looked a little embarrassed: "When my son was studying, he encountered danger and fell off a cliff. It was Qingqing who carried him back and saved him."
"Qingqing lost both her parents when she was young, and she has already ruined her reputation by raising her son."
"Mom, I can't be a treacherous person." After spending the past few months together, Lu Zhengyue naturally developed a liking for Su Zhiqing.
Miss Su is gentle and considerate. She lives in the mountains all year round and is extremely simple.
Xu's eyes were almost spitting fire.
Although Lu Zhengyue went out for study, the two servants he brought with him were both good at martial arts.
Wherever he went, he would write a letter home.
Unfortunately, after falling off the cliff, the servant couldn't find any trace of him.
We searched for three days in a row, searching every village around. The village where Su Zhiqing was located had clearly been searched.
Unless someone deliberately hid him.
"Mom, my son has been in a coma for three days. After waking up, he has been recuperating at Qingqing's house. Perhaps, when we came to search, Qingqing went up the mountain to collect herbs. Qingqing's family is poor and their life is extremely hard. It is my son who has increased her burden." Lu Zhengyue sighed.
He had a high fever at that time and his temperature fluctuated.
He was in a daze due to fever all day. When he opened his eyes, he saw the girl in front of him, blushing and hugging him with tears in her eyes.
When their skin touched, he was shocked.
But the girl shed tears.
Lu Zhengyue took a deep breath. He had already ruined Qingqing's reputation, so he must marry her.
"Qingqing is kind-hearted, so she saved her son."
"If you don't save her, the servant will find you." Xu sneered.
Lu Zhengyue felt a lump in his throat.
"You are dressed elegantly. Even the jade pendant hanging around your waist is worth a thousand taels. Your clothes are even more exquisite. How do you know that she is not attracted by your money? She deliberately hides you." Xu couldn't help but sneer.
The girl at the door was filled with shame and anger, and immediately cried, "Madam, why do you humiliate me?"
"Although Qingqing was born in poverty, she is also a man of integrity. If Zhengyue hadn't begged me, Qingqing would not have wanted to go to the capital."
"Qingqing has no plans to get married in this life. The worst that can happen is... I'll cut my hair and become a nun, living a life of seclusion and worshipping Buddha for the rest of my life." Su Zhiqing's eyes were filled with tears and her expression was determined.
"Meeting Brother Yue is Qingqing's greatest luck in life. Qingqing doesn't dare to hope to marry Brother Yue. I only hope that Brother Yue will be happy in this life." Su Zhiqing said with tears in her eyes, and then walked out crying.
Lu Zhengyue's eyes suddenly turned red.
When Xu saw this scene, he got a splitting headache.
“You can’t leave!”
"Mom, if Qingqing leaves, I will go with her." Lu Zhengyue's eyes were red, and he held Su Zhiqing's wrist tightly.
Feeling Qingqing's trembling, he felt even more distressed.
He gritted his teeth, stood up slightly, and planned to hit the pillar to show his determination.
I heard a childish voice beside my ear: [Bang against the wall, bang against the wall, bang against the wall…]
[Bump, bump, bump, bump into your love brain, look at your love brain bumping into the wall...]
The voice was full of gloating.
Lu Zhengyue, who was about to bang his head against the wall, silently bent his knees and continued to kneel with his head down.
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