Let Me Pursue You

Chapter 104 – 104

Lu Shiqing’s clothes were covered with milk stains, he got up painfully and happily to change into a clean outfit, and when he came back, he saw Yuan Cixian sitting by the couch, smiling and teasing his son with a tile dog.

The clay puppy was so lifelike that he almost took a step backwards.

Hearing footsteps, Yuan Cixian looked up at him, saw him standing far away and asked her: “Why are you playing this for him?”

“Of course I don’t want him to repeat his father’s tragedy. Don’t be afraid of dogs, start with babies.”

She spoke with confidence, Lu Shiqing choked, and sat beside her angrily. Nor was he naturally afraid of dogs. And it’s not so much fear, it’s better to say it’s the heart block that was licked by the dog back then.

Speaking of which, I don’t know which girl from which family in the capital is the girl who kicked the sky and ran the well earlier. He vaguely remembered that the girl was dressed in rich and noble outfits, she should not be from an ordinary family, and after calculation, she was about the same age as Yuan Cixian, so maybe she was acquainted with her.

Lu Shiqing was not a person who liked to get to the bottom of things, and he would not really care about a child, but now that he remembered it, he was a little curious, and asked her with his knees propped up and his head tilted: “When I rode a horse through the streets, you were in the capital. Bar.”

Yuan Cixian’s movements of teasing the child froze, and she cried out inwardly.

What’s the matter, this is remembering the past, what’s the clue?

She quickly replied: “No, I had already gone to Yaozhou with my father at that time.”

Lu Shiqing said “Oh”, and heard her ask again: “Why are you asking this all of a sudden?”

He shook his head: “I just thought, if you were in the capital, you would probably join in the fun.”

Yuan Cixian was full of regret, and said flatteringly: “Yes, I used to go every year! It’s a pity that I didn’t get to witness your youthful demeanor, otherwise, maybe I would be reluctant to go to Yaozhou!”

Hearing this, Lu Shiqing looked at her warily: “What dream are you having again?”

She sighed solemnly: “To tell the truth, you will be suspected of having bad intentions. How do you have no confidence in yourself, Lu Tanhua, Lu Shilang?”

Lu Shiqing looked at her with a smile, rubbed the two hair spinners on the top of her head, and naturally accepted the seniority of “old man”, and sighed: “I really don’t have much confidence when I meet a little ancestor who is good at everything. .”

She hugged her son and fell into his arms with a smile. She seemed to like his rare love words very much. When she was satisfied, she raised her mouth and lightly bit his Adam’s apple: “Does this make you more confident?”

Lu Shiqing’s Adam’s apple rolled, and he looked down at her with heat all over his body: “Just out of confinement, be careful.”

She patted her chest: “I’m already healed, but have you been well-fed? Don’t be so weak.”

He couldn’t help “hissing”, and reached out to pinch her chin: “Do you want to try?” After that, he looked down at Lu Yuanzhen, who had his eyes wide open, and signaled her to put her son down if she had the guts.

Yuan Cixian didn’t have the guts to hold her son as a shield, and was having a fight with him when she suddenly heard a knock on the door. It was Xuan Shi and Lu Shuangyu who came to ask about the situation when they heard that Yuan Zhen was being carried back.

The husband and wife turned their faces together and looked at each other.

In the month since the child was reassigned, Yuan Cixian had faintly noticed it, but Xuan didn’t know it, and loved the child from another family as his own grandson.

But Yuan Cixian also knew that Lu Shiqing’s choice was right. At the beginning when she and her son were taken into captivity, it was precisely because something went wrong with the later Wen woman, so Xuan always felt that she was responsible for it, and even suffered a minor illness after being exhausted physically and mentally. If she had been told at that time that her grandson had not been rescued, she would have been so afraid that she would fall ill.

The two stood up to welcome Xuan Shi in, they were in a dilemma for a while, but chose to cut straight to the point and tell the truth.

Xuan didn’t get over it for a long time. After confirming the process with the couple carefully several times, he asked where the original child had gone.

Lu Shiqing knew that A Niang already had feelings for that child, so it would be fine to have another adopted son, but keeping him might cause trouble to the Lu family. After all, he doesn’t know who the child’s biological father and mother are, so he can only send it back where it came from.

After Xuan heard this, she was still not able to recover. After thinking wildly, she asked if Yuan Zhen had some serious illness, so they took this child to deceive her.

Lu Shiqing had previously sent Cao An to send the child, and the moment he received it, he followed the two experienced women from the previous time to confirm a red mole mark on the back of the child’s ear. Call the two of them and all the maidservants who met Lu Yuanzhen that day to testify.

In the end, it was Lu Shuangyu who asked this link to be spared, lay on the side of the rocking car and watched Xiao Yuanzhen for a while, then turned her head and said to Xuan Shi: “Mother, come and see this child’s eyes, they are exactly the same as sister-in-law’s! “

No wonder Lu Shuangyu noticed this for the first time. After all, Yuan Cixian’s peach blossom eyes are indeed very attractive. At the beginning, she fell into those eyes.

Only then did Xuan hurriedly leaned over to have a look.

It is a bit exaggerated to say that they are exactly the same, after all, the little doll has not fully grown, but there is indeed a little outline. Looking back on the child’s eyebrows and eyes before, she really didn’t have any resemblance to Lu Shiqing and Yuan Cixian, but at that time the child was just born, and the facial features were all crowded together, so she didn’t think about it.

Looking at it this way, the mother and daughter were suddenly a little surprised.

Xuan looked at Yuan Zhen’s nose, and said to Lu Shuangyu, “This little nose is quite straight, it looks a bit like your elder brother.”

“The face is small, like a sister-in-law!”

“The upper lip is like your elder brother, and the lower lip is like your sister-in-law!”

“…” The couple, whose lips had been ripped apart alive, looked at each other with the corners of their mouths twitching, but sighed contentedly from the bottom of their hearts, the matter was probably settled.

After the Xuan family identified her grandson, thinking back on the grievances he may have suffered in the past month, she had no time to think about the original child, and her heart was so distressed that she kept wandering around Lu Yuanzhen for several days.

Lu Shuangyu had always preferred Lu Yuanshu, who was so obedient that she could fall asleep in anyone’s arms. She always thought that this girl was a match for her name, but now she wanted to tease Lu Yuanzhen, so she made a special trip to the West In the city, I plan to buy some things for male dolls to play with.

Unexpectedly, during this trip, I happened to meet Dou Azhang in the market.

Lu Shuangyu dodged and hid in the alley, but was still spotted by his sharp eyes. He stood at the entrance of the alley, claiming that he had no malice, and called her out to tell her a secret.

Seeing him acting stupid like a cat, Lu Shuangyu was afraid of offending others and embarrassing her, so she could only sigh.

After joining Lu Shiqing’s family, Dou Azhang has been studying hard all the time. This year, he remembered his lesson in the scientific examination and stopped eating natto. As a result, he won the title of Jinshi, and now he is about to become an official.

As for Lu Shuangyu’s identity, she couldn’t hide it for long, after all, she couldn’t stay behind closed doors for Dou Azhang. As early as last autumn, she went out with A Niang, met him by chance, and he knew about her.

After Dou Azhang found out, because of her high status, she had to work harder.

She came out of the alley with a sleepy expression, handed the plaything for Xiao Yuanzhen to the maidservant behind her, and gave him a disgusted look: “Jinshi Dou, since it’s a secret, don’t tell me, I’m afraid of being silenced. “

Dou Azhang looked very excited: “Don’t be afraid, it’s about the teacher. I just knew it one step ahead, and everyone will know it later.”

Lu Shuangyu frowned: “About brother? What secret?” After speaking, he took a breath, “Could it be that brother did something wrong behind his sister-in-law’s back…”

He hurriedly waved his hand to stop her notebook, and said mysteriously: “Come here with your ears.”

Lu Shuangyu put his ear close to him suspiciously, and heard him say: “The teacher is going to be promoted, from the fourth-rank servant to the third-rank Zhongshu servant, and I formally pay homage to the prime minister!”

She was shocked when she heard the words, and said in surprise: “Really?”

Dou Azhang looked proud, as if he could write an article entitled “My teacher is Zaifu” immediately, nodded and said: “Of course it is true!”

The news about Dou Azhang was indeed true. Within a few days, the news of Lu Shiqing’s promotion spread all the way from the Xuanzheng Hall to the streets and alleys.

He became an official in high school at the age of fifteen, and paid homage to the prime minister at the age of twenty-four. Lu Shiqing lived a myth in Chang’an and even Dazhou. Although they met each other, everyone still called him “Lu Shilang”, but the weight of this sentence is different from the past.

When everyone in the court congratulated Lu Shiqing and was flattered on the surface but jealous in private, Yuan Cixian could see clearly that this was probably the old emperor’s ups and downs.

The war in the northwest was almost over as early as ten days ago, the moment the second prince’s head fell to the ground. Although the Turks had not been completely defeated, there were only a few stragglers remaining to resist stubbornly. The coalition forces of Uyghur and Great Zhou are stronger in momentum, and it is only a matter of time before they completely defeat the enemy.

When the news of success spreads to the capital, of course it is Lu Shiqing’s first achievement.

Last year, he successfully repelled the Nanzhao army through a peace negotiation without a single soldier, and was rewarded with gold and silver after returning. This time, Emperor Huining could have only rewarded some objects, but unexpectedly, he happened to meet his immediate superior, who became an official under the door.

The servant under the door is the chief of the province under the door, one of the prime ministers who hold real power in the imperial court. As the second in command under the door, Lu Shiqing is the best candidate to replace him.

But Emperor Huining didn’t let him be his servant.

In the history of the Great Zhou Dynasty, there was an emperor who served as the chief of the Zhongshu Province before succeeding to the throne, so later, no one dared to take the position of Zhongshuling, so it was vacant all the year round, and it was replaced by the second in command of the Zhongshu Province, that is, Zhongshu Shilang acted as the chief executive, in charge of Zhongshu Province, and became one of the ministers of the imperial court.

But after all, the Minister of Zhongshu is acting on behalf of the minister, and he is slightly inferior among the ministers.

That is to say, if Lu Shiqing continued to stay in Menxia province, he would probably be the prime minister soon, but with such a “promotion”, he would only be a deputy prime minister. Although the quality is comparable, it is still a little bit worse.

But Yuan Cixian didn’t feel lost. Because in her dream, Lu Shiqing ended up doing the Zhongshu Ling that no one dared to do. Emperor Huining’s will was just to bring him one step closer to that position. If the old emperor never asked him to transfer, she would feel strange instead.

Yuan Cixian has an intuition that although in this life, because of her intervention, many changes have been added to the political situation of Dazhou, such as the early fall of the Jiang family, such as the establishment of a kinship relationship between the imperial court and Nanzhao, but the torrent of history seems to be dark. It has its own destination. She can reverse the fate of the little people in it, but it is difficult to stop the torrent and the general trend. Therefore, many things that she thought had changed were actually still stubbornly walking on the original track.

The first day of Lu Shiqing’s promotion to the prime minister coincided with the arrival of the Uighur envoy team in Chang’an.

Only then did Yuan Cixian know that when he went to Uighur, besides reaching an alliance with Khan, he also had another mission, which was to welcome a Uighur princess back to Beijing, and promote the marriage between the royal family of the Great Zhou Dynasty and the princess.

It’s just that he was anxious to drive her into labor at the time, and after discussing the matter with Khan, he apologized and left first.

The Great Zhou is no longer as strong as it used to be, and has been getting weaker and weaker in recent years. It has only been sent out by its own princess for marriage. It is actually quite rare to welcome a princess from another country this time.

Now that the princess and the envoys have arrived in Chang’an, Lu Shiqing is on the one hand as the chancellor, and on the other hand he has to express his apology, so he has to go and receive them.

Although Yuan Cixian knew that this marriage was related to the royal family of the Great Zhou Dynasty and had nothing to do with Lu Shiqing, a married man, she was still uncomfortable. After putting on the new official uniform for him, she tied his belt Bian sighed: “The purple official robe is really more beautiful than the deep crimson color. It looks very expensive at first glance. It’s a pity that I have to go out to attract others’ eyes.”

Lu Shiqing grabbed her hand that was fiddling with his belt: “What nonsense are you talking about?”

She curled her lips and snorted at him: “I’ll check carefully when I get back. If you’re missing a single hair, you must have been moved.”

Lu Shiqing smiled helplessly, and pulled her into his arms: “If you don’t worry, go with me.”

Yuan Cixian hesitated when he heard the words, and said seriously: “Is this not good?” After she finished speaking, the jade fingers resting on his waist were already plucking very flexibly. It was obvious that she had been bored at home for a long time, and her hands were very itchy. .

“It’s not good to be famous and important?” Lu Shiqing raised his eyebrows and raised his chin, “Hurry up and change your clothes.”

Yuan Cixian said “Oh” unwillingly, and with a face that was too lazy to go out, she turned her head and smiled.

But he said he asked her to come with him, so don’t blame her for putting on the most beautiful clothes and going to crush Huihufang!