Lu Kuan is Lu Lingjun's younger brother.
He was also the younger brother who got her married that day.
Of the three sons of the Lu family, two were legitimate sons of the Liu family, and Lu Kuan was the only boy born as a concubine.
The status of concubines and concubines has never been high since ancient times.
It is said that the mother is as valuable as the son, and the son is as valuable as the mother.
In a wealthy family, the life of a concubine and concubine will be much better, but most of them are small and transparent in the family, and not many people care. In a poorer family, the status of a concubine and concubine is even lower.
Most of the concubines living in the foreign houses of local squires work as stewards for their legitimate sons. If the family is divided, they will leave the house.
In the final analysis, there are too few resources, and even less can be distributed to the children of the concubines.
Of course, there are some exceptions. If the aunts are extremely favored and their children are favored by the head of the family, they will also receive a lot of preferential treatment.
But these are the minority, and Lu Kuan is one of the vast majority. As a bastard in the family, Mrs. Liu doesn't want to see him at all, and Father Lu doesn't care much about him. Even if he is a man, he is just transparent.
However, Lu Lingjun remembered that in his last life, he was the most promising among the three brothers of the Lu family. He was selected as a scholar, but the family had no resources for him. He stopped taking the examination after failing to pass the examination in his hometown, and found a job as a book clerk. The government was divided and he lived alone, and later he became a seventh-rank minister.
The other two brothers of the Lu family also failed to pass the examination and relied on all the resources of the family. One was a sixth-grade and the other a seventh-grade official, and they were both civil servants with no real power.
As long as the Lu family bets on Lu Kuan, even if Lu Kuan is not that capable of making the Lu family rise, he can still maintain the Lu family's current status.
What impressed Lu Lingjun most about his concubine brother was not that he sang a low-key and upbeat song, but that in her previous life, after she returned to the capital in glory, everyone in the Lu family fawned over her, except Lu Kuan. When she encountered a natural disaster crisis in Jiangnan, , no one in the entire Lu family asked, only he sent her a letter asking her if she wanted to help.
Lu Hanyi had just finished making trouble there, and Lu Lingjun felt that she also needed to support a family member. Her life was different from the previous life. In the last life, she and Li Wenxun fought alone and started from scratch. In this life, she married in the capital. If you leave here, you will inevitably have contact with your mother's family.
The strength of her mother's family will also be one of her strengths. Even if there are people in her mother's family, she doesn't use them, which gives her confidence.
She plans to train Lu Kuan to be her mother-in-law.
After a while, a young man about ten years old followed Shuang Hong.
"Big sister? Are you looking for me?"
Lu Kuan was very surprised to see Lu Lingyun looking for him.
Lu Kuan and Lu Lingjun were just acquaintances, but he liked Lu Lingjun very much because Lu Lingjun was the only legitimate daughter in the family who did not discriminate against him and had given him food and pocket money in the past.
Of course Lu Lingyun definitely doesn't remember it, because Lu Lingyun treats everyone the same.
"You're going to take the Imperial Examination this year, right?" Lu Lingjun looked at him with a smile.
Lu Kuan nodded heavily.
"How did you learn?" Lu Lingjun continued to ask.
"I hope I can pass the exam and become a scholar."
Lu Lingjun smiled at him and said, "I just got a batch of books from my place, which will be helpful for you to take the government examination. If you are useful, come to the Hou Mansion to see me at any time."
Lu Kuan was pleasantly surprised after hearing this, "Really?"
"Of course." Lu Lingjun stretched out his hand to pull out a stray hair from his collar, "Study hard, big sister thinks highly of you."
After hearing this, Lu Kuan's face was filled with surprise. He clenched his fists and said, "Yes, I will definitely not disappoint my eldest sister!"
Lu Lingjun encouraged Lu Kuan and left Lu Mansion.
The next day, Lu Kuan actually came to the Hou Mansion.
He was embarrassed at the door, and he was recognized by the guard after some hesitation. This was what Lu Lingyun had told him.
Lu Kuan arrived at Lu Lingjun's yard, and Lu Lingjun brought him a lot of books and snacks to eat. Lu Kuan saw Lu Lingjun's eyes shining.
After he left, Lu Lingjun was flipping through his account book when he received a message from his servant.
"Young Madam, the First Lady of Duke Xu's Mansion would like to invite you to tea."
Li Niyue came to find her?
"good."
Lu Lingjun had nothing to do, so he got up and went to Xu Guogong's mansion.
As soon as he arrived at the door, the aunt beside Li Niyue was waiting there.
"Mrs. Prince is here." Grandma Wang said with a smile.
"How are you these days, sister Li?"
"Very good!" Grandma Wang smiled and narrowed her eyes. "The charcoal fire you made last time was a great help to our wife. She wanted to treat you to tea as a thank you, but she only took the time to pour it out after the New Year."
"It seems that Sister Li has been very busy this year." Lu Lingyun immediately understood the core.
Li Niyue is busy, that is, she has gained more power in running the house and is busy with the affairs of the house.
"Yes, our wife is now respected by the wife." Grandma Wang said with pride.
At this moment, a group of young women dressed in extraordinary clothes and showing nobility came towards them with their maids and servants.
The woman walking in front was fifteen or sixteen years old, with a peach-shaped face. She looked exactly like Li Niyue's mother-in-law, Mrs. Cui, with sharp eyebrows and an irrepressible arrogance and nobility in her eyes.
At a glance, I thought it was the young Mr. Cui.
"Second Madam." Grandma Wang saluted respectfully when she saw the visitor.
As soon as this title fell, Lu Lingyun knew that this was Li Niyue's sister-in-law, Cui's niece, Cui's youngest son whom she married, and both of them were deeply loved by Cui.
"Second Madam." Lu Lingjun also greeted her with a smile.
Xiao Cui heard Lu Lingyun's voice and glanced sideways at her. The arrogance in her eyes was self-evident, "Who are you?"
"Second Madam, this is our madam's good friend, Mrs. Lu, the eldest son of Ningyang Marquis Mansion."
"Oh!" Mrs. Cui said clearly, with a tone full of disdain, "You are the poor and poor person who got married to someone high and noble."
Lu Lingjun: "..."
"Second Madam, Madam Cheng is our lady's distinguished guest." Grandma Wang frowned and said.
"That's right, dragons look for dragons, and shrimps look for shrimps. Your wife will join the company of these poor people who have climbed up, and you don't mind losing the people of our Duke's palace." Xiao Cui's tone was full of contempt.
She didn't bother to look at Lu Lingjun anymore, raised her noble head, and led the maids and servants to walk past Lu Lingjun and Grandma Wang.
When they passed each other, she looked intently, frowned slightly with noble eyebrows, and waved her hand in disgust, "What a cat and dog."
Lu Lingjun: "..."
"Mrs. Crown Prince, please don't be angry. They are the second wife of our family, my wife's niece. They come from the Cui family of Qinghe, a famous family. They are also the most favored little daughter in the family. They are so arrogant on weekdays," Grandma Wang quickly said He rushed to Lu Lingjun and explained, "When I first entered the door, it also made our wife a lot of anger."
