Chapter 4 Rebirth (IV)

Lu Jin brought Ming Xi and the two maidservants back to the Lotus Wind Fast, muttering along the way.

"I didn't expect, that girl woke up but changed her temper! Once upon a time, although also and you don't get along, the face is still passable, today even dared to make up you!" Lu Jin exasperated hummed out a breath, with that one inhalation and closure, under the nose ran out a burst of smoke.

"Mother! Why do you think father is so biased, both are father's daughters, how come father is so biased in favor of her?"

"It wasn't that damned fortune teller who insisted that the girl had a destiny of great wealth! You still don't know your father, always take the family honor first! He inherited your grandfather's position as Marquis of Wushih, and was demoted to the third rank. It's ridiculous to think that other third-ranked Daoyuan still live in Yecheng, but only we live here in Huai Lin City."

"Didn't Father lead the troops to war the other day? Didn't a number of people come to celebrate Father's success?"

"Hehe!" Lu Jin covered her mouth and laughed, and continued, "Your father was there with the King of Anfo, not even a vice general, even if the celebration banquet is also the turn to do it for your father! Do you think these monkey-like people are celebrating your father's success?"

"Who else could it be if not for father?" Ming Xi asked in disbelief.

"You're really a bit younger, and your mind is not as good as that girl's."

Ming Xi skimmed her mouth, very aggrieved and unconvinced, Lu Jin saw her like that, also could not bear to reprimand, and continued: "It's not your fault, you were originally four years younger than her! If you weren't born in this princely home, why would you play any tricks!"

Lu Jin also did not look at Ming Xi, seems to be talking to his young self, but also seems to say again to Ming Xi, "your father's life is not much of a success, he is determined to put his hopes on that girl, your eldest sister is really competitive, not only riding and shooting, zither and chess calligraphy and painting are also proficient in all kinds of things, alone in the celebration of the banquet to read a few phrases of Xu Ling's words of the "Winged Snow Lyrics" on the stunned crowd.

Qionglin Xuanpu Ye, Gui Shu Ri Nanhua.

It is not as if the heavenly court is a treasure, and the light snow carries the wind diagonally.

The three mornings are filled with joy and feet, and the six dances out of the Chonghua.

Tomorrow, outside the Quegumen, you should see the Sea God's car. Why do you think you didn't think of it at the time?"

Ming Xi nuzzled and didn't make a sound, and Lu Jin said to himself, "If you could be equal to her, your father wouldn't be pinning his hopes only on her body."

"If she didn't her father would have looked at me differently." Ming Xi muttered in her heart, raised her eyes to look at Lu Jin, and said, "When she fell into the pond, who knows how she was rescued? And how did the Yin family's son and cousin show up at Lanyue Pavilion so coincidentally?"

Lu Jin covered Ming Xi's mouth at once and scolded in a low voice: ''You can't say this nonsense! It's fine no matter how you and her argue, it's just a little jealousy between sisters, but she fell into the pond, and if your words of gloating fall on your father's ears, beware of him picking your skin."

Ming Xi was immediately silenced by the shock.

Unconsciously had already walked to the Lotus Wind Fast, a woman in a dark green jacket walked over unhurriedly and came in front of the second madam and said in a fine voice: "Table young master has sent over pastries for you and the second young miss to try."

Lu Jin swept a glance at the woman, the woman also looked back at Lu Jin, Lu Jin sighed lightly and said, "Nowadays, my body is not as good as it used to be, and I'm tired after this trip."

Ming Xi said knowingly, "Since Mother's body is tired, go back and lie down! Daughter will not disturb."

"Also good! I'll have your Auntie Qiu send you the pastries from your cousin in a moment."

"Uh-huh." Ming Xi bent down to Lu Jin and nodded to the woman in the dark green jacket who had just delivered the message, then returned to the east wing with Ying Yan.

Lu Jin, on the other hand, returned to the main house of the Lotus Wind Lodge along with Qiu Lan. This dark green jacketed woman was Lu Jin's accompanying maid, Qiu Lan.

As soon as he entered the house, a heat wave came over his face, Lu Jin took off his cloak, handed it to Qiu Lan, and said to another maidservant in the house, "You go down first, here Qiu Lan is waiting."

Speaking to Qiulan again, "Bring the pastries to taste!"

After Qiu Lan hung up her cloak, she took the pastries and put them on the table, turned around and twisted a handkerchief to clean Lu Jin's hands.

Qiu Lan handed Lu Jin a handkerchief and asked quietly, "Eldest Miss is awake, she didn't say anything, did she?"

Lu Jin smiled and said, "It's all about love since childhood and not to mention, almost being defiled is okay to go around proclaiming it?"

"Your Ladyship is truly brilliant!" Qiulan said as she placed the food box on the table.

There are two plates of pastries in this food box, one on top and one on the bottom. Each plate placed six, are fried golden crispy skin, wrapped in soy sauce honey, yellow crispy shell and dotted with various colors of honey.

Lu Jin looked at the pastries arranged like flowers and sighed, "What's wrong with this nephew of mine! He is willing to put so much effort into the arrangement of the pastries, but that girl is just not blessed!"

"Cousin Young Master is indeed extremely good!" Qiu Lan exclaimed.

Lu Jin took out the agreed upon pastry with yellow honey dotted on the shell, and gently broke it open, the pastry split in two, revealing a note from inside, which read, "Auntie don't be angry, my nephew didn't accomplish anything that day!"

Lu Jin gave a kind smile and handed the note to Qiu Lan, saying, "Burn it!"

Qiu Lan took the note with both hands and put it into the fire pit, a small three-inch-long piece of paper, which disappeared in a flash.

The charcoal fire in the house burned a little strong, the temperature is not inevitably high, or just come back from outside, the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor is big, Lu Jin could not help but feel a little hot, so he casually picked up a juan fan fan a few times, and then fan said: "Only now do you have the guts to come and tell me that I have not yet accomplished anything! Can't I guess what that girl did when she woke up?"

"Cousin Young Master is actually a bit young! It's really strange to say the least! It's nothing unusual for Table Young Master to appear at Lan Yue Pavilion, so how come the Yin Family's Young Master is there as well?" Qiu Lan said.

"I can't say that the two have already hooked up being!" Lu Jin raised her eyebrows and smiled coldly.

"If that's the case, we'll save ourselves the trouble!"

"Hey!" Lu Jin sighed and added, "Qi'er has liked that girl for so long, and he can't handle it when he's really created an opportunity for him!"

Qiu Lan laughed and said, "Cousin Young Master might be taking pity on her!"

"Humph!" Lu Jin snorted and continued, "I, as an aunt, gave him a chance, and if he doesn't succeed himself, he can't blame me."

"The slave girl has heard that the eldest young lady has woken up, so I guess there will be no delay in this year's selection?"

"Awake is awake! But it's not up to her to say whether she can participate in the selection or not!"

"Yes! But for today we have to plan again! There is also the child in the belly of the First Lady!" Qiulan said repeatedly.

"Ai!" Lu Jin sighed and said, "I'm really tired, go and deliver that plate of pastries down there to Ming Xi, and have someone cook some snow ginseng and deliver it to Lan Yue Pavilion!"

"You rest well, ma'am, you're a pregnant woman now, after all!"

"It's exhausting to hide this pregnancy."

"When are you going to tell His Lordship?"

"Let's wait a little longer! Anyway, I've been inaccurate and negligent with this monthly letter."

Lu Jin tossed and turned in bed, although the body is tired, but the sleep is not, to Hu Gong, Hu Yuanxi is the hope of the Hu family, but to her, their own daughters and the belly has not yet known the gender of this, and how is not their own hope.

They have always been with the big lady face and heart and not, although the master has always been on their own favor, but also can not hold their own has nearly thirty, will soon be old, they are not favored to also not very important, but she can not help but plan for the child.

I have been a child all my life, but my own child was born as a concubine, Ming Xi will be the same as myself, if I marry someone is also a small, even if I have a male child in my belly, so what? Even if she had a male child, what would happen? There is no possibility for a concubine son to inherit a title.

It's time to change, only if you are ruthless, you can change the fate of yourself and your own children. For Yuan Xi, Lu Jin originally did not kill, but just want to let their nephew Lu Qi forced to take it, Lu Qi would have liked Yuan Xi, his own brother also rose to the fifth rank, so that if Yuan Xi to Lu Qi is not a loss of this girl.

But the matter has not been finalized, and seeing that the date of entering the palace is near, one has to be ruthless.

Lu Jin in bed thought for a long time, did not think of a good plan, think of brain pain, then sleep, wake up has been noon, hastily ate lunch, suddenly remembered that today is the fifteenth, that is, such a big day, it would be better to go to beg on the column of incense. Yu sent a maidservant to inform the first lady, they want to go to Yao En Temple to Yuan Xi to seek peace, then let Qiu Lan accompanied himself out.