At Lu Qinghe's place, the door was closed as soon as Zhao Ting took Tang Yuyao away.
Mrs. Jiang quickly put away her doubtful expression and said as if she had never seen the world before: "Is that a prince just now? Is he the emperor's son? He is really handsome, and he has no airs!"
Lu Qinghe sneered: "What kind of airs can he have? Even if he does, he wouldn't dare to show it in front of me."
"Ah?" Lu Qinghe sat down and continued to look at the jewelry. Mrs. Jiang hurriedly followed, looking puzzled.
Lu Qinghe originally looked down on Jiang's unattractive appearance, but seeing that she was curious and envious at the same time, he suddenly got interested in talking: "Although he is a prince, his life is not as good as that of an ordinary family." Young Master, although no one in the capital deliberately tries to embarrass him, no one makes friends with him. You can tell by looking at him that he is quite old, but he has not married yet."
You look like you're already in your twenties, yet you haven't married yet?
Mrs. Jiang couldn't help but said: "Why is this? Look at him, he is a good-born man, and he is a prince. Even a lady from a wealthy family doesn't want to marry, but a girl from a small family cannot marry even if she wants to, right?"
Lu Qinghe frowned, thought for a while and said: "It is said that he was born with a strange phenomenon. In that year, disasters occurred in several places in Zhao. The eminent monk invited by the emperor appraised him and said that everything happened because of him. Therefore, the emperor and His biological mother, Concubine Li, disliked him very much. Fortunately, he was a prince. If ordinary people had such a fate, they would have been killed long ago. So no one dared to marry him, not to mention that he was a prince, and the marriage had to be approved by the emperor. of."
If the emperor doesn't nod, who wants to die? Come on.
This was the reason that was widely circulated in the capital, but Lu Qinghe once heard his father whisper in private that Concubine Li gave birth to Prince An less than seven months after entering the palace. This child was most likely not the emperor's. I can't tell whose bastard it is. Even though he was refuted by his cousin-in-law, who was Weiyuan Marquis, Lu Qinghe was more willing to believe his father's guess.
Ms. Jiang nodded blankly: "It turns out that he has such a destiny!"
What a stupid person, she just believes whatever she says.
Lu Qinghe suddenly felt bored and didn't want to say anything else. He just pointed at a few pieces of jewelry and said he was leaving.
"Okay, let's go, then let's go!" Mrs. Jiang completely listened to Lu Qinghe, and as soon as she said it, she also got up.
Jiang's husband, Lu Zhongkai, is a descendant of a branch of the Lu family. He came to the capital from the north to join the Lu family. The second place six years ago was nothing to the Lu family. However, Lu Zhongkai's mother had some kindness to Lu Qinghe's mother. Now Mrs. Lu He was unable to entertain guests due to illness. When Mr. Jiang came to visit, he had to ask Lu Qinghe to entertain him.
But firstly, Lu Qinghe looked down upon Mrs. Jiang, and secondly, their family had repaid Lu Zhongkai's mother for the little kindness she had shown her in the past six years. It was Lu Zhongkai who was useless, but now he was sending women to his door asking for help, which was really despising.
Lu Qinghe pointed at the jewelry on the table and said with a smile, "Second cousin, don't you choose a few?"
Jiang could not afford to choose, let alone a few things, she couldn't afford to choose any of them.
She smiled awkwardly and said: "These are suitable for pretty little girls like you to wear. I'm already old, so forget it."
Lu Qinghe said deliberately: "Are you looking down on it? How about I ask the store to bring some jewelry suitable for my second cousin's age?"
Mrs. Jiang quickly waved her hand: "No, no, I'm pregnant now and I don't like her."
Consciously appreciating Jiang's embarrassment enough, Lu Qinghe snorted and said: "That's up to you, second cousin-in-law, I'll go back first, you can go back by yourself. You are pregnant now, so you have to take it slow. !”
This is rejecting yourself.
Mrs. Jiang watched her leave and sighed, with a flash of embarrassment in her eyes.
The grandma who was serving her looked a little unbearable and said, "Madam, let's go back."
"Yes." She stood up with her mother's hand, and when she left the wing and walked to the stairs, Mrs. Jiang turned around.
The little maid who followed Prince An earlier looked a little familiar, and the little maid was also very strange. Why did she keep looking at her secretly? But the little maid seems to be named Yuyao. Although she has been in the capital for six years, she really doesn't know a maid named Yuyao, especially a maid from the palace.
"Madam, what's wrong?" asked grandma.
Ms. Jiang shook her head and walked up the stairs.
The carriage swayed through the lively streets, passing by magnificent mansions, and finally stopped at the entrance of an alley. After paying the money with the driver, Mrs. Jiang helped her grandma into the alley and walked to the innermost house. As soon as Yi Yi entered the door of the small courtyard, he knocked on the door.
Lu Zhongkai came to open the door. When the door opened, he was holding a six or seven-year-old girl in his arms.
"Xiaoyu, you're back, you're feeling fine, are you tired?" He held the little girl in one hand and supported Jiang with the other.
Mrs. Jiang smiled softly and said, "I'm not tired. I took a carriage back and forth, so I won't be tired." After saying that, she reached out to pick up the little girl in Lu Zhongkai's arms, "Little Yunduo, come to mother." Then he said angrily to Lu Zhongkai: " Whatever you do with her, no matter how old she is, just ask her to walk underground by herself."
However, Lu Zhongkai hurriedly took half a step back, put down the little Yunduo in his arms, and worriedly touched Jiang's belly: "Don't hug her, you have a big belly, don't hurt my little girl."
Mrs. Jiang suddenly frowned and said, "What nonsense are you talking about? We already have a daughter, and this is a son!"
Lu Zhongkai looked like he was afraid of her: "Okay, okay, son, son, this thing in your belly is your son!"
Mrs. Jiang then smiled, but she was still uneasy. She called to Xiao Yunduo and said, "Xiao Yunduo, come here and tell me. Is this baby in your belly a little brother or a little sister?"
Xiao Yunduo is six years old and looks very similar to Mrs. Jiang. She has a fair face, big eyes, and a very cute pink face. Her eyebrows and eyes are also 60-70% similar to Tang Yuyao's. But looking at Ms. Jiang at this moment, she was not as close to her mother as ordinary children. Instead, she looked at Mr. Jiang quietly for a while, turned around and left without replying.
As soon as she entered the house, she reached the main house in a few steps. Turning to the left, she entered the west room and closed the door.
Mrs. Jiang was stunned and asked Lu Zhongkai: "What's wrong with Xiao Yunduo?"
"I don't know!" Lu Zhongkai also looked confused, but he quickly slapped his leg and said quickly: "Is it because you keep talking about your son, and Xiao Yunduo gets tired of it?"
Does such a young child understand this?
Mrs. Jiang murmured: "But even if I have a son, I still love her the same!"
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Because of meeting Lu Qinghe and Mrs. Jiang, Tang Yuyao calmed down after a while. Seeing that there was no time to pick out rouge and gouache, Zhao Ting asked Zhenbao Pavilion to send several jewelry pieces and put them on the long table in the wing. There were several rows and it was up to her to choose.
Tang Yuyao chose a pair of jade bracelets and a gold hairpin, as well as more than a dozen old and bulky gold ornaments.
The second shopkeeper of Zhenbao Pavilion looked at him blankly, but Zhao Ting understood. Tang Yuyao fled to Chizhou City seven years ago. People who have lived such a hard life must care more about money. These bulky gold jewelry are ugly, but they are very cheap to use. Unlike exquisite jewelry like that, if it falls into the hands of people who don't understand, it really won't fetch a good price.
He couldn't help but feel some pity in his heart. After returning to the palace, he asked Chen An to carry a box of gold ingots directly to Taoyuan. Taoyuan, who came directly after Tang Yuyao came back, was looking at the gold jewelry to cheer herself up when she saw Zhao Ting taking the wooden box and carrying it to the table in front of her.
"What is it?" Tang Yuyao asked curiously.
Zhao Tingxiao: "Open it and take a look."
Tang Yuyao opened it in confusion. When she saw three rows of golden gold ingots in the wooden box, she was stunned.
She wanted money, and she was not that stupid in this life. She wanted what Zhao Ting gave her, and she had to find a way to get it if Zhao Ting didn't. But she thought it was just the jewelry, but she didn't expect that Zhao Ting actually brought her a box of gold ingots! With this kind of money, she would not be able to live anywhere after leaving the palace. Let alone raising one sister and brother, it would not be a problem to raise ten or eight.
She planned to find the child, who was her father's flesh and blood, her brother or sister who was biologically related to her. If Mrs. Jiang and Lu Zhongkai were very good to the child, then she would leave some money for the child, which was the only thing she, as a sister, could do for the child. If Mrs. Jiang and Lu Zhongkai were not good to the child, then she would take the child away no matter what. With money and precautions, she believed she could protect herself and the child well in her life!
"I bought these jewelry as soon as I bought them, but next time you just choose good-looking ones. As for the money, you don't have to worry about it. I have plenty of it." Zhao Ting reached out and pulled Tang Yuyao into his arms and sat down, "Whether it's you or you are born again I can afford to raise ten or eight children."
A man who has never had a woman may not be so eager for women, but at this age, seeing that his brother who is two years younger than him has a child, Zhao Ting has also thought about his own child. Now that he has Tang Yuyao, he thinks more concretely, wondering who his and Tang Yuyao's children are more like.
Children?
Tang Yuyao touched her belly and left Prince An's Mansion. She probably would never marry again in this life.
But she really wanted to have a child.
"Are you so rich?" Tang Yuyao hugged Zhao Ting's neck and said, "Then I want some more banknotes."
