Lu Lingjun and Liu Qingping sat in the small courtyard and waited.
"Why hasn't anyone arrived yet?"
As she was speaking, she heard a clear and noble voice.
"Sister-in-law, I'm here."
Qin Shaojing led a group of people in first, followed by Qiu Ling, Linglong and Du Ruo.
Du Ruo lowered his head, with a bit of dissatisfaction on his pretty face.
One look at him and it was clear that he had just been angry.
"Shaojing, you're here." Lu Lingjun smiled at Qin Shaojing.
"Sister-in-law invites me, so of course I have to come." Qin Shaojing simply said hello and sat down, "Whose lady is next to you?"
She saw Liu Qingping.
"This is my maternal cousin, Qing Ping." Lu Lingjun introduced the two of them, "Qing Ping, this is Shao Jing, Yun Shuo's cousin, the eldest daughter of the Duke of Qin."
Liu Qingping looked curiously at the elegant and elegant Qin Shaojing in front of her, and took the initiative to say hello to her, "Miss Qin, my name is Liu Qingping."
"Another young lady enters the house?" Qin Shaojing raised his voice, obviously with a different meaning.
Lu Lingjun hurriedly explained, "My cousin has been married and came to the Hou Mansion to learn some rules. She will get married next month."
What she said was to tell Qin Shaojing that Liu Qingping was different from Du Ruo.
Her cousin came from a decent family, and they even got married.
Sure enough, after saying these words, Qin Shaojing immediately stopped being frivolous and said, "It turns out that the Liu family's sister is engaged, which family is she married to?"
"The only son of Zhang Shuzheng's family in Guanglu Temple." Lu Lingjun said with a smile.
When she heard that it was a sixth-grade Beijing official, Qin Shaojing's beautiful eyes turned in a big circle, and she put on a slightly perfunctory smile, "Congratulations to the Liu family sister."
"Thank you, Miss Qin." Liu Qingping felt Qin Shaojing's perfunctory attitude and frowned slightly.
Qin Shaojing here continued, "By the way, sister-in-law, you informed me today about going to the temple fair on the fifth day of May. I was about to tell you that I made an appointment with Tonghua that day and wanted to go to the temple fair with her. I’m traveling with you.”
"Okay." Lu Lingjun smiled and nodded, "But just tell someone about this trivial matter, and you don't even have to come here."
"Sister-in-law is kind enough to invite me to visit the temple fair, but I'm just going to send my servant to say something that will inevitably make people think I'm scornful." Qin Shaojing looked at Lu Lingjun, and then turned to the three aunts standing beside her, "I'm going back to the Marquis Mansion today. I also encountered new things, there are new people here, and if I don’t come back, I won’t know that I have a new aunt in my house.”
She emphasized the word "new aunt", which made Du Ruo's ears tighten when she heard it.
Thinking of how she opened her mouth and told Qin Shaojing that she was her aunt when they first met, and now she really has become her aunt.
It is really embarrassing to have these two words applied to me.
"It's not a big deal to take a concubine for yourself." Lu Lingjun said from the side.
"Why is this not a big deal? It's okay if I take an ordinary concubine. Miss Du Ruo is not an ordinary concubine." Qin Shaojing said in a strange tone, "I was just watching from the outside. Aunt Du was very impressive. She taught the two frontmen a lesson. My aunt, when I saw it from a distance, I thought it was you, my sister-in-law!"
These words are extremely provocative.
Du Ruo heard it all, and she quickly explained, "I, I didn't."
"What's going on?" Lu Lingjun looked at them.
Du Ruo clenched his fists, "I just saw the two aunts and said hello to them..."
When Qiu Ling and Linglong heard this, they all turned their faces away, as if they were too lazy to pay attention to Du Ruo.
Lu Lingjun looked at Du Ruona who was angry and aggrieved, and a little afraid of being punished, "Aunt Du, please stay alone later."
"yes."
It's over, it's over, you will inevitably be punished.
Du Ruo reluctantly said.
Seeing Du Yaoyao being punished, Qin Shaojing suddenly smiled brightly, with a bad light in her eyes, "Sister-in-law, you are so busy, I won't sit here anymore. In addition to telling you about the temple fair, I came here today. I just want to tell you. , the East Campus where I live, the few people you gave me are not enough, I want to send more people."
"Okay." Lu Lingjun nodded.
"But if there are more people, will the expenses also be higher?" Qin Shaojing asked considerately.
Lu Lingjun smiled and said, "It doesn't matter."
It turned out that he came to the house to ask for money and people.
Seeing that Lu Lingjun agreed, Qin Shaojing asked the maid to bring a small box, "It belongs to my sister-in-law for my food and accommodation. My sister-in-law loves me, and Shaojing can't eat and drink for free. This jianzhan is from the Han Kiln." There is no second glazed porcelain in the world. I will give it to my sister-in-law for tea."
Qin Shaojing meant that she didn't take things for nothing.
After all, she is the eldest lady of the Duke of Qin's palace, and she has to be dignified no matter where she goes.
If you take a jianzhan of hers to a pawnshop, you can get it in half for five hundred taels of silver.
Lu Lingjun looked at the old black-glazed porcelain lamp that was sent to him. It was worth a lot of money. He could tell at a glance that it was brought from the Duke's mansion.
She had a smile on her face, "You don't have to eat what I have and use mine. We are all a family. My mother-in-law told me to treat you well. This is your home."
"Then sister-in-law, you have to accept it even more. This is our sister-in-law friendship!"
Lu Lingjun didn't say much after hearing this. He accepted the small gift with a smile and told Qin Shaojing to just send someone to let him know if anything happened in the future, instead of coming in person.
Qin Shaojing was satisfied and went back with his people.
When she left, she glanced at Du Ruo, her eyes full of arrogance.
After Qin Shaojing left, Qiu Ling and Linglong also retreated. Lu Lingjun called them over just to talk to them about the Dragon Boat Festival Temple Fair, but there was no one else around.
Du Ruo, who was the last to stay, carefully asked her why she was causing trouble today, scolded her in front of Liu Qingping, told her to go back and copy the family rules, and then put them back.
After the group of women dispersed, Liu Qingping, who was sitting next to her, was thoughtful.
"What are you thinking about?"
"I was thinking about those people just now." Liu Qingping said seriously, "Then Du Ruo, I understand, she is a good person, but she always feels that others bully her, and everyone has to spoil her, and now she has to become a concubine. She wants others to look up to her and be special than others, so she always stirs up trouble."
Lu Lingjun nodded.
"I also understand those two aunts. The person who went to the palace first would not be willing to be a head shorter than her, so the three of them can quarrel."
Lu Lingjun was even more satisfied. He had spent this time by her side, and he knew how to look at people and things.
"But I can't understand that Miss Qin."
"Why don't you understand?"
"I think she is weird." Liu Qingping frowned, feeling uncomfortable thinking of Qin Shaojing's arrogant tone and demeanor just now, "She is the eldest lady of the Qin family. With such a noble status, she is also your mother-in-law's niece. Normally, If she wants money, she wants money, if she wants people, she just needs people, just open her mouth, what does it mean to give a tea cup specially? It's not worth anything!"
Lu Lingjun listened to her words and smiled lightly, "Because she wants face."
