After ng Qianqian finished speaking, she looked at Lu Yuan: "What does my husband think?"
Lu Yuan raised an eyebrow: "You call husband quite smoothly now."
"Grand Commander."
ng Qianqian imdiately corrected herself.
Lu Yuan: "..."
"Why is that?"
Tan’er didn’t understand.
Ban Xia was very curious as well, but she just followed quietly behind the others. Tan’er would ask, and she was content to listen.
ng Qianqian never missed a chance to flatter her husband: "Because the Grand Commander is formidable, ensuring the smooth proceeding of the royal wedding, so the Supre Emperor is fulfilling his promise to reopen the investigation into the Chu Family’s case. And this case is directly related to the Rooster."
Tan’er said: "Oh, I’ve heard the Rooster ntioned, they’re a traitor!"
ng Qianqian said: "The fact that the Rooster is a traitor has already spread, but since there’s been no formal case or conviction, with the Twelve Guards as witnesses, the Rooster won’t escape justice."
"My forr father-in-law is the most selfish of all. He must quickly clear his na by disassociating himself from the Rooster, so he naturally won’t let Lin Wan’er stay in the Lu Family, and Lu Lingxiao’s sudden disappearance is the best evidence."
Tan’er seed to understand: "He wants to take advantage of Lu Lingxiao’s absence to drive Lin Wan’er away?"
ng Qianqian shook her head: "If she’s driven away, Lin Wan’er is lucky. But I’m afraid my forr father-in-law might do sothing too extre, wanting to leave no potential aftermath."
Tan’er made a gesture of slicing her neck, asking with wide eyes: "Didn’t she have a baby in her belly?"
ng Qianqian paused: "The most optimistic scenario is to spare the child and not the mother."
Tan’er: "What if things aren’t optimistic?"
ng Qianqian: "Both will die."
Tan’er cried exaggeratedly: "Such a cruel heart!"
After performing, she imdiately returned to calm, "Dead is dead, it has nothing to do with ! Lala! Braised pork! Braised pork!"
Tan’er hopped away.
ng Qianqian looked at Ban Xia, whose face had turned slightly pale, and asked: "Are you scared?"
Ban Xia nodded: "Lin Wan’er brought it on herself; she once forced the Lu Family to take her side by relying on her identity as the Rooster’s daughter, and now she is abandoned by the Lu Family for the sa reason. Isn’t this what Young Master ant by... ’what helped Xiao He will also fail Xiao He’?"
ng Qianqian nodded: "Well-used idiom."
Ban Xia covered her chest: "Just thinking about how Miss spent five years in such a wolf’s den terrifies . Fortunately... she left."
No, your Miss never had a chance to leave.
She is forever entombed in those icy waters.
"Prepare so joss paper for ."
"Is Miss going to pay respects to soone?"
Ban Xia couldn’t recall any relative’s morial day coming up.
"A friend."
ng Qianqian, I suppose we are friends.
Lu Yuan gave ng Qianqian a peculiar look, a thoughtful glint in his eyes.
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Lin Wan’er had originally thought that ng Qianqian had a sharp tongue, but she didn’t expect that Lu Yuan’s was even sharper. Afterwards, the servant who advised her to leave was instead kind with words.
Yet, the kinder they were, the sharper the hidden barbs, leaving her with a headache.
"Madam, calm down, perhaps the Young Master has already returned to the mansion!"
Lu Luo advised kindly.
Lin Wan’er could only hope for this.
As she got off the carriage, Lin Wan’er gestured for Lu Luo to ask the servant: "Has the General returned?"
The servant shook his head: "No, not yet."
Lu Luo glanced at Lin Wan’er and then asked: "What about Shenyan?"
Shenyan was Lu Lingxiao’s personal attendant.
The servant replied: "He was called away early in the morning by Master."
Called away by her father-in-law?
The father-in-law never dispatched Shenyan before, so why did he suddenly call him away?
ng Qianqian’s words suddenly flashed across Lin Wan’er’s mind: "Be wary of your father-in-law."
Lin Wan’er frowned.
No way, she’s the Rooster’s daughter, her father-in-law couldn’t protect her enough.
Thinking of sothing, Lin Wan’er gestured briefly and had Lu Luo ask on her behalf: "Has anything happened in the Capital City recently?"
The servant lowered his head: "Nothing, Young Madam, nothing."
The matter of the Rooster being a traitor was under a gag order by the Master, not allowing it to reach the Young Madam’s ears, fearing it would agitate her pregnancy.
Lin Wan’er returned to the Feng Courtyard a bit annoyed.
Elsewhere, Second Master Lu and the Second Madam returned from her family’s house. Life in the mansion had beco increasingly difficult lately, and the Second Madam had stayed at her family’s ho for almost half a month before returning to the mansion with Second Master Lu today.
Halfway ho, they encountered Granny Deng from the main kitchen.
Granny Deng was carrying a food box.
The Second Madam stopped her: "Granny Deng, what good things has the kitchen made today?"
As she spoke, the Second Madam opened the lid of the food box.
What she never expected was that the box contained a bowl of blood bird’s nest.
It’s known that after returning ng Qianqian’s dowry, the Lu Family hadn’t indulged in such expensive items.
"Is this for the Old Madam?"
After asking, the Second Madam discontentedly whispered to her husband, "I knew it, Mother has money! She just won’t spend it on us!"
Granny Deng laughed awkwardly: "It’s for the Young Madam."
"For her?" The Second Madam was shocked, "What right does she have to eat it?"
Granny Deng smiled: "The Young Madam is about to give birth, and the Master specially bought blood bird’s nest for her to nourish her body, she’s been eating it for ten days now."
"Ten, ten days? How much blood bird’s nest has Lin Wan’er eaten?!" The Second Madam was extrely upset, "Elder Brother is too good to that little tramp! No, I want to eat it too! Bring this bowl to my room!"
Granny Deng said: "This..."
The Second Madam said coldly: "My elder brother bought quite a lot, don’t think I don’t know you deduct in private, let her eat it, you can make another bowl for her, but this bowl is mine!"
Second Master Lu said: "Granny Deng, you may go."
Granny Deng left, relieved.
The Second Madam said discontentedly: "What are you doing? She was about to agree to ! You don’t know that these servants deduct more than the masters eat!"
Second Master Lu said: "Do you think it’s anything good? Let’s go!"
The Second Madam frowned: "What do you an by that?"
Second Master Lu pulled her towards the second room: "It’s nothing, don’t ask nonsense."
The bird’s nest was delivered to Lin Wan’er’s room.
Lin Wan’er looked at the blood bird’s nest on the table, took a spoonful and tasted it.
When ng Qianqian managed the household, she cut off her blood bird’s nest; now, with her mother and child both valuable, she had it to eat again.
Lu Luo smiled: "Master never treated ng Qianqian this well, Madam is truly fortunate!"
Indeed, ng Qianqian wanted to sow discord between her and her father-in-law, but how could she not see if her father-in-law was good to her or not?
After finishing the bird’s nest, Lin Wan’er lay down.
Perhaps because she was about to give birth, she had beco increasingly drowsy recently, only three or so hours clear-headed in a day.
Going to the Governor Mansion earlier almost drained her strength, she couldn’t hold on for even an hour now.
She was so tired.
In a haze, she was awakened by a stabbing pain in her abdon.
She... was going into labor!
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