activa-t Chapter 264: Doesn’t she want her life anymore?
Chapter 264: Doesn’t she want her life anymore?
On the Empress Dowager's birthday, families from all over the capital came to Ronghui Garden early to wait for the arrival of the Empress Dowager and the concubines in the harem.
When the Lu family arrived, most families in Beijing had already arrived.
The wife of Lord Liu, Mrs. Wu, whom Cuizhu had just mentioned when she woke up in the morning, was guarding the front yard. When she saw them being led in by the palace servants, she hurried over.
Knowing that she couldn't thank Lu Xinran in person, she looked around and didn't find Zhao, so she immediately turned to Pei.
"Old Madam, I would like to thank you for your help before."
So that she could have the opportunity to take her children away from the Liu family and no longer have to suffer every day.
Pei narrowed her eyes and smiled, patting her hand in relief: "No need to be so polite, life is for yourself, I hope you can live the life you want in the future."
Don't be like her. When she came to her senses and realized that she had suffered so much injustice in her life, it was already too late.
Wu nodded gratefully and hurriedly took a bulging purse from the servant and handed it to Pei.
"This is a small gift from me. Please...please keep it for me."
It was not easy to give the thank-you gift directly, so she could only ask Pei to pass it on in this way.
"When the girls in the mansion get married in the future, I will come back to help them with their dowry."
Since she said so, Pei didn't refuse. She glanced at Lu Xinran who was full of curiosity, took the purse and handed it to Aunt Xu behind her.
Wu happily and gratefully spoke a few more words to the Lu family before leaving with her two children.
But Lu Xinran always felt something was strange. When the two children left... why did they look at her with such complicated eyes?
The Queen Mother had never been so excited about her birthday. She was clearly one year older, and the days were getting shorter and shorter. She didn't know when she would never wake up again.
But when she thought about being able to hear gossip about various prefectures in the capital at today's birthday banquet and having enough big melons to eat to her heart's content, she felt that she could accept it as she got older.
After all, time is fair to everyone.
Even as noble as she and the emperor could not escape birth, old age, sickness and death.
When she got off the phoenix chariot, she saw Lu Xinran kneeling in the crowd.
Now that this girl is here, it shouldn’t be boring anymore.
It has been nearly a month since the Queen returned to Beijing. Apart from the time he met her in the palace on the day of the celebration banquet, this was the second time Lu Xinran had seen her.
She secretly glanced at the queen's face out of the corner of her eye, and was relieved to see that there was no makeup deliberately covering up the dark circles under her eyes, and her face was clear and rosy.
Just like the process of the previous year, a group of people followed the team to the waterside pavilion.
The August heat in the capital has not yet dissipated, so the birthday banquets in recent years have been held here during the day.
After the Queen Mother sat down, she smiled warmly and nodded. Everyone thanked her and took their seats.
After Lu Xinran sat down, he poked Lu Xinlan's arm with some emotion.
Time flies so fast, it has been a year since they came to this time and space.
Looking back on this year, it seems that a lot of things have happened, but it also seems that these things have little to do with them.
Lu Xinlan could understand why she suddenly sighed, and her heart was also a little moved.
Without the toil of her previous life, she has gradually become accustomed to the leisure and idleness in this time and space.
It seems that no matter how alert one is, one cannot help but be assimilated by everything here.
The Queen Mother's eyes swept over everyone and finally landed on Lu Xinran.
This girl...why is she so quiet today!
Is her life worth nothing?
Her gaze was so hot that Lu Xinran instantly came back to his senses from his sigh.
Seeing that the Queen Mother's attention was on her, she quickly stood up and said a series of birthday wishes.
The Queen Mother nodded with a smile and granted her the same blessing as she had the previous year.
Everything seemed to be the same as before, but the more so, the more strange it felt to Lu Xinran.
However, Lu Xinlan, Lu Xintong and the other two who were standing by all saw the Queen Mother's intention.
Lu Xintong carefully took out a small note from her bosom, which she had asked for from her brother before leaving.
Lu Yuanting prided himself on being an insider in the capital, and there was nothing he didn't know about the gossip in every government office in the capital, big or small.
If he couldn't find any hearsay information, he would write it down in a notebook.
The few things he wrote to Lu Xintong today were just random excerpts from his notebook.
Since he couldn't find out the truth no matter what, and he was really curious, he might as well look for an answer from Lu Xinran.
Although this will become a secret known to everyone, what does it matter!
Lu Xintong hesitated, unsure whether he should bring up the contents of the note as casually as he had done with his brother.
Just as he was hesitating, Lu Xinran glanced at him, and then took the note naturally.
[A distant cousin has come to the residence of Lord Xu from the Ministry of Revenue? ]
[No, that's not some distant cousin, it's the daughter of Lord Xu and his cousin. Now that she's of marriageable age, they brought her over from Yuzhou, hoping to find a good marriage for her in the capital.]
[However, apart from Lord Xu and his cousin, no one else knew about this matter.]
[His wives, concubines, and mother didn't know about this, but one of his concubines saw how caring he was towards this distant relative and decided to let her son marry her.]
[His wife also knew about this, but she just turned a blind eye.]
[The girl was a thoughtful person. She knew that she was not of high birth and could not find a suitable marriage in the capital, so she wanted to marry the son of the first wife.]
[But Lord Xu's wife, well, has an ordinary appearance, and his two sons are not good-looking. Although the girl values their status, she doesn't like their appearance.]
[So, she is now dealing with several cousins and has not yet decided who she will marry.]
Everyone: "..."
What an outrageous plot!
Half-siblings having a love triangle?
Mr. Xu’s wife: “……?!!”
She must have been disliked by that girl just now!
She's ordinary looking?!
There's nothing ordinary about her. She's just a little fatter, shorter and darker.
But the Taoist priests at Baiyun Temple all said that she was full of blessings, and whoever married her would bring prosperity to three generations!
It would be bad enough that Xu Tu had an affair with his cousin, but he actually had the guts to bring her back to disgust her!
She ignored everyone's sympathetic looks and nearly broke her teeth.
She said that the little slut was not a good person at first glance, and she was just as lowly as her mother!
And there’s that shameless old man Xu Tu, who even dared to bring back the evil child born from an extramarital affair.
Fortunately, it was exposed by the girl from the Lu family today, otherwise it would have been such a joke and they in the Xu family would have been laughed at by so many people.
The Queen Mother leaned back on the soft pillow with satisfaction. This was much more interesting than music, singing and dancing!