In the lavishly furnished hall, Mrs. Hu, the mistress of Tianenhou Mansion, sat upright on the center seat with a gloomy face.
Seeing Lu Qian standing in the middle of the hall, tall, plump, as gorgeous as a peach and plum, quite pretty, but with slightly mean triangular eyes, Mrs. Hu snorted coldly, looking at him up and down extremely critically.
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Lu Qian bowed to Mrs. Hu and respectfully called her "aunt".
According to the clan blood relationship theory, Lu Qian's great-grandfather and Tianenhou Lu's grandfather (tai, "big", "sunshine") are half-brothers, and Lu Qian is the nephew of Tianenhou Zheng'er Bajing.
, this word 'aunt' is extremely appropriate.
In the hall, besides Mrs. Hu, there were two guests.
One is a man wearing a blue brocade robe and a three-beam green gauze wing crown. He looks to be in his early thirties. He is sitting on the guest seat to the left of Mrs. Hu, holding a fine porcelain tea cup in both hands.
, crossed his legs, looked at Lu Qian sideways with an arrogant face, and a look of disgust on his face.
The other one is about the same age as Lu Qian. She is wearing a large palace skirt with plum blossom patterns on a white background and a small silver fox fur vest on her upper body. She has red lips and white teeth, willow eyebrows and big eyes. She is tall and charming.
The girl with weak wind and willow.
The girl was originally pure and indifferent, looking like a 'beautiful woman from another world' who had nothing to do with her.
But when she suddenly saw Lu Qian, the girl's eyes suddenly lit up, and her gaze was like fire, tightly glued to Lu Qian's upright, resolute, and masculine face.
From a pair of majestic sword-shaped eyebrows, to a pair of bright eyes as bright as cold stars, to the straight bridge of the nose, strong lip line, and light brown skin like a thousand-refined bronze.
The girl's eyes seemed to be coated with glue, scanning Lu Qian's face inch by inch.
Then, she quickly measured Lu Qian's stature with her eyes - her eyes suddenly lit up again.
Lu Qian is almost nine feet tall, with broad shoulders, a wolf-like waist, long and powerful arms and legs, and a body as tall and straight as a green pine. With her resolute appearance, she looks even more masculine and majestic, which is completely different from the handsome men she usually associates with.
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But soon, the girl realized her gaffe.
She slightly adjusted her sitting posture, calmed down her expression, and returned to her original cool and quiet temperament, like an orchid in an empty valley.
Lu Qian couldn't help but glance at the girl a few more times.
Lu Qian is also the only girl with such color in her life.
On weekdays, he studied in the Lu family of Laiguo Duke's mansion, and he also met the rich ladies of Laiguo Duke's mansion several times from a distance.
Those wealthy ladies are rich and powerful, but not smart enough. In terms of temperament, they are more than one grade behind the girls in front of them.
It's just that this girl is so beautiful, but she looks like a beauty in a painting, and the shadows of flowers in the water don't feel real enough.
‘Jingle bell’.
The man on the side closed the lid of the tea cup and placed the tea cup on the small table at hand.
With his right hand he flicked the hem of his clean robe, and the man said softly: "Mrs. Hu, you are the mistress of the Hou Mansion. All the clansmen in the Tianen Hou Mansion are under your control. Please make the decision on this matter."
Mrs. Hu, who looked gloomy, forced out a smile, then slapped her right hand on the armrest of the big chair and pointed at Lu Qian.
"Lu Qian, it turns out that you are a ruined seed with no luck."
Lu Qian was startled by Mrs. Hu's fierce scolding. He looked at Mrs. Hu in astonishment, cupped his hands and said, "Auntie, what did my nephew do wrong?"
Mrs. Hu looked at him with disgust: "What a shame."
After a slight pause, Mrs. Hu pointed at the man: "You must have an impression of Mr. Bai Qiongbai."
Before Lu Qian could speak, Mrs. Hu pointed at the girl again: "This Miss Bailu, you should also know her name."
Clapping her hands hard, Mrs. Hu said coldly: "You are not worthy of me, so hand over the marriage certificate and write a divorce letter saying that you are ashamed of your talent and lack of knowledge and have no morals to put an end to this matter."
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Lu Qian's eyes widened, and he looked at Mrs. Hu and the other three in shock and anger, and finally his eyes fell on the man Bai Qiong.
It’s okay to think that you have little talent and little knowledge!
Claiming to be "immoral and unscrupulous", in the Dayinwu Dynasty, in this era, this is to ruin a person's future and ruin his life!
"Is it your father-in-law in person?" Lu Qian's voice turned cold.
Bai Qiong's expression changed slightly, he picked up the tea cup again and took a big sip of tea. He didn't say a word, and didn't even bother to say a word to Lu Qian.
"Are you still shameless? Are you calling me father-in-law?" Mrs. Hu slapped the handrail hard and yelled loudly: "Among the Lu clan of Tianenhou Mansion, how come you are so shameless and so obsessed with clinging to others?
Rich bastard?"
‘Shameless and clinging to wealth’?
A wave of bad breath rushed into Lu Qian's heart, and a vein bulged in the middle of his forehead, beating rapidly with a 'bang bang bang' sound.
"Auntie, where do you start with these words?" Lu Qian's voice gradually became louder, and he shouted sternly: "Miss Bai and I do have an engagement, but this engagement was left by my grandfather. Then
At that time, don’t talk about me, even my father was not born yet, how could Lu Qian be so ‘shameless’ and so ‘cling to wealth’?”
Mrs. Hu was speechless.
Although she is the mistress of Tian'enhou Mansion and a top-notch queen in the country.
But she comes from a small businessman family, has never read a book since she was a child, and doesn't even know a few words.
In the Hou Mansion, she relied on her status as mistress to dominate, and she was a first-class expert.
But if she is asked to reason and refute people head-on, she doesn't have the ability.
Bai Qiong snorted coldly, played with the lid of the tea cup in his hand, and still didn't say a word.
Bai Lu sighed softly, clasped her hands on her knees, moved her red lips slightly, and spoke.
Her voice was crisp and sweet, like jade beads falling into a silver plate, the 'ding-ding-dong-dong' sound was so sweet that even the anger in Lu Qian's heart inexplicably dropped a bit.
"What Mr. Lu said is true. The marriage contract between you and me was indeed made by the two father-in-laws back then."
Bai Lu stood up and stood in front of Lu Qian, her beautiful eyes never leaving his handsome face.
"As Mr. Lu said, when this marriage contract was signed, your father and I were not yet born. In the final analysis, this marriage contract was just a whim of two old people after drinking."
Bai Lu looked at Lu Yi and said with a smile: "What do you think Mr. Lu?"
Lu Qian put his hands into his sleeves again. He looked at Bai Lu with a faint look and said coldly: "It's frivolous to say this on a whim after drinking. I think back then, the Bai family's grandpa..."
Bai Lu interrupted Lu Qian's words. She looked at Lu Qian with a smile like a flower: "After all, we are thinking about the past, which was decades ago. Let's not talk about the past, but only talk about the present, okay?"
Lu Qian wanted to speak, but Mrs. Hu was already scolding him: "Shut up and listen to what the Bai family has to say."
Lu Qian's forehead veins jumped wildly and he pursed his lips hard.
Tianenhou Lu Tie is the head of this Lu clan.
Lu Yi is now leading the troops to guard the outside, and the Tianenhou Mansion is headed by Mrs. Hu, the mistress.
According to the laws of the Dayin clan, the life, death, honor and disgrace of thousands of people from the Lu clan, both in the Tianenhou Mansion and in the Tianenhou Mansion, can all depend on Mrs. Hu's thoughts.
If an ordinary member of the clan was defeated by Madam Hu, they would really be beaten to death, and the Dayin government had no right to interfere in the clan's internal affairs.
Lu Qian took a deep breath, lowered his head slightly, and pretended to be listening.
Mrs. Hu sneered with satisfaction.
Bai Lu smiled lightly and said calmly: "We won't talk about what happened back then. But what is happening now, Mr. Lu still remembers what your ancestor said to you when you first came to visit five years ago?"
Of course Lu Qian remembers it.
Five years ago, Lu Qian had just turned ten. According to the folk customs of Dayin, a ten-year-old boy is called a "little man" and can be regarded as a "half-adult" and is eligible to go out to visit old friends and make friends on behalf of his family.
Lu Qian prepared gifts for the first time and went to the Bai family to pay a visit.
During that visit, Lu Qian didn't see anyone else from the Bai family. Only Bai Lu's grandfather, Bai Changkong, came out to meet him.
At Bai's house, Lu Qian only drank half a cup of lukewarm 'cold' tea, received a few words of 'yinyin's teachings' from Bai Changkong that were neither cold nor hot, neither salty nor bland, and was left with a 'gift'
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Seeing Lu Jin nodding, Bai Lu also smiled and nodded: "My ancestors have said that you should study hard, work hard, and seek a promising background so that you can fulfill your engagement."
Lu Qian's heart skipped a beat.
He raised his head and took a serious look at Bai Lu, who was as beautiful as a flower with a smile on his face, and then at Bai Qiong, who looked arrogant and impatient, with his legs crossed and shaking constantly.
"Yes, Mr. Bai asked me to study hard and make progress five years ago. He also said that if I didn't study well, I would not only be embarrassed for myself, but also the family tradition of the Bai family, and Miss Bai would also be embarrassed.
Light." Lu Qian's smile gradually brightened: "So, in the past five years, I have never visited her again."
Bai Lu smiled, her eyes were like fire, and she scanned Lu Qian's handsome face again.
Bai Qiong said angrily from the side: "If you are someone who strives to make progress, my Bai family will naturally be happy to have this marriage with you."
Shaking his head, Bai Qiong knocked the lid of the tea cup against the tea cup, making a 'ding-ding' sound.
"But, look at how you have wasted your time and neglected your studies in the past few years, and you have accomplished nothing. I have not wronged you, right?"
Knocking the teacup hard, Bai Qiong scolded: "In the fifteenth year of Jiayou's reign, your family's end-of-school assessment will be judged."
"In the sixteenth year of Jiayou's reign, your family's end-of-school assessment will be held. I'm here."
"In the seventeenth year of Jiayou's reign, your family's end-of-school evaluation will be held.
"This year, Jiayou's 18th year, your clan's end-of-school evaluation has improved a bit, but you are still in the lower middle school, and your results are still shameful!"
Bai Qiong shook his head and sighed: "I am the most outspoken person. I always say one thing and another, and I am never afraid of offending others. The clan education of Laiguo Duke is not considered to be the best in the entire Haojing.
It would be harsh to say he is third-rate, but it is quite appropriate to say he is only second-rate."
"You can only get an inferior grade in a second-rate ethnic study."
Bai Qiong threw the tea cup on the small table, stood up, walked up to Lu Qian with his hands behind his back, and stared at Lu Qian with a stern look: "Do you think you have a future?"
"Do you think you can become famous all over the world?"
"Do you think you can show off your noble status?"
"Do you think you are worthy of my little girl?"
"Don't you feel ashamed? Don't you think that you are too weak to afford the marriage contract?"
The veins on Lu Qian's forehead were twitching wildly.
He recalled that in the past few years, he had been studying in the Lu Clan Academy, and during each year-end assessment, the Clan Academy Clan Academy would study the Taoism topics that Lu Jun had prepared for him.
In Lu Jun’s words, ethnic studies are about ‘teaching students according to their ability’, so in the end-of-year assessment, everyone’s Tao topic will be different.
But for four consecutive years, the Taoist topics Lu Jun gave Lu Qian were all life-threatening!
Mrs. Hu scolded impatiently from the side: "Okay, the toad wants to eat swan meat, but he doesn't want to see if he has such a fate!"
"Okay, Master Bai, Miss Bai, I have the final say on this matter."
"Lu Qian, hand over the marriage certificate, and then follow my instructions and write a deed that you voluntarily cancel the engagement. This matter is settled."