Chapter 64 Lots of backers

Lunar New Year's eve.

The capital was ablaze with firecrackers, and festive window grilles were posted everywhere.

The children were wearing brand new clothes and playing around.

Lu Chaochao is eleven months old!

Congratulations, she has grown another tooth and is now a baby with three teeth.

[Happy, happy, one step closer to eating a big chicken drumstick. 】

No matter who she met, she always had her big front teeth bared, revealing three tiny white teeth.

Mrs. Xu's cheeks hurt when she saw it: "Okay, okay, mom knows you have another tooth. I'll give you a chicken leg to eat when I come back in the evening." This girl kept shouting in her dreams, "Tooth, tooth, tooth..."

Lu Chaochao smiled broadly and became happy after getting the chicken drumsticks he wanted.

The complicated clothes never made her irritated.

"Today we are going to the palace to offer sacrifices to the heavens, and there will be a palace banquet later, so you have to be obedient." Mrs. Xu put her in a thick coat. It was very cold to offer sacrifices to the gods, and she was worried that Lu Chaochao would freeze.

After finishing dressing, Lu Chaochao glanced at his mother.

He sneaked under the bed and used his hands and feet to push out a small box.

There was a small key hanging inside his neck. With a click, the key opened.

There is a bunch of jade pendants inside.

Any piece of it would make her scumbag father drool, but she had a lot of them, and the ones she disliked were still gathering dust in the corner.

【Occupy space! ] Lu Chaochao curled his lips.

Mrs. Xu was taking a shower and changing clothes, and all she could see was her butt stuck out and her head buried in fussing about looking for something.

The two heads were shaking.

Lu Chaochao is only eleven months old and his hands are extremely small.

He took out a handful of chestnuts from the box.

There were only two in a handful, and the little fat man couldn't hold them in his hands, so he grabbed several handfuls of chestnuts and stuffed them into his arms.

I grabbed two more handfuls of peanuts and stuffed them into my small purse.

I grabbed another sweet potato as big as my thumb.

After busying for a while, with his pockets bulging, he locked the box again and pushed it in.

Sacrifice to heaven is extremely cumbersome and boring, and you are not allowed to leave.

Mrs. Xu did not dare to drink water for fear of having to go to the toilet in the meantime.

I only took two shallow sips of thick rice porridge to cushion my stomach.

"Why do you ask your legitimate son and daughter to participate in the festival this year? Chao Chao is only eleven months old and he can't even walk steadily." Dengzhi sighed and hurriedly put a scarf on Chao Chao.

Xu glanced at Lu Chaochao, who was squatting on the ground and poking at ants.

She always felt that maybe...

The emperor wanted to see Chao Chao.

but……

Your Majesty is not so free, is he?

Mrs. Xu put everything aside, and just when she hugged Chaochao and went out, she saw Su Zhiqing's face filled with joy.

"Madam..." Su Zhiqing's face was rosy. In the past half month, she had tried her best to please Lu Yuanze.

Lu Yuanze never even stepped through the door of Xu's room.

He actually looked like he was indulging in a gentle country.

"Madam, have a happy new year." Su Zhiqing hesitated to speak, the joy in her eyes could hardly be concealed.

"Speak directly if you have anything to say, delaying the sacrifice to heaven is a serious crime." Xu has a third-grade imperial edict and must enter the palace to worship.

【hey-hey. She turned into Miss Lu Jinghuai... and wanted to piss Pei Jiaojiao to death. 】The sharp weapon he cultivated was pointed at himself.

Lu Jinghuai doesn't know yet.

Su Zhiqing saluted Mrs. Xu.

"The Marquis feels sorry for Qingqing. Last night...the Marquis said that he wanted to make Qingqing his equal wife."

"Madam is old and has several children, so she is too distracted. I specifically asked Qingqing to take care of Madam's worries..."

It was in vain, her calves were shaking when she walked this morning.

Pei Jiaojiao is beautiful, but she is no longer young.

As for herself, she is young and beautiful, with a slim figure, and is well-read in poetry and books. She almost combines the best qualities of both Xu and Pei Jiaojiao.

Pei Jiaojiao gave her the likes of the Marquis.

She deliberately created the same preferences as the Marquis, making him feel that the two were quite destined.

Last night, the Marquis got carried away and agreed to marry her on the spot.

Xu couldn't hide the loneliness in her eyes.

"That being the case, let's record Miss Su in the family tree tomorrow, the first day of the Lunar New Year. It's just that this marriage..." Mrs. Xu hesitated for a moment.

Fortunately, Su Zhiqing said, "Sister, I'm busy in the New Year, so there's no rush to get married." As long as she writes down her family tree, she will be a serious wife.

She said it smoothly and called her sister.

"Bah, cats and dogs are trying to get close to relatives!" Dengzhi couldn't help but take a bite.

"Madam, she comes from a famous family. She is the beloved daughter of the Xu family, but she has never had any sisters." Dengzhi said angrily.

An equal wife, just one head taller than my concubine and my aunt.

Also worthy of being called sisters to the main wife.

Su Zhiqing blushed with embarrassment and suppressed the resentment in her eyes.

Humph, so what about the legal wife?

What's the use if you can't be loved by men?

She still doesn’t know that the Marquis has been raising his wife outside for almost twenty years, right?

There was pity and gloating in her eyes.

The Marquis said: Mrs. Xu loved him to the core, and it was indeed true.

"What Miss Dengzhi taught you is that Qingqing didn't see her identity clearly." She lowered her head with a sneer at the corner of her mouth.

"Okay, just serve the Marquis well."

Mrs. Xu took her people out of the house without even looking at her.

Today, the emperor took his courtiers to worship heaven.

The female family members took their children to the other side of the altar, which was just in time to block the sight of the courtiers and avoid the cold wind.

Mrs. Xu stood according to her position.

I thought to myself, this location is really good.

How did she know that this was specially left by the emperor and the prince for Lu Chaochao.

The courtiers all knelt in the cold wind.

Although Lu Yuanze has a high title, his official position is low. He is kneeling slightly behind and cannot see clearly in front of him.

"Master Lu, after the palace banquet, how many drinks can we have together?"

"Tasting and tasting wine together will bring you wine! Every sentence is an eternal quatrain!"

"Then Lu Jinghuai is really talented and knowledgeable. It must be an accident that he couldn't gather his righteousness during the Ghost Festival last year. After all, it was his first time to see the parade."

Lu Yuanze and Yourong were filled with passion.

This is his son!

Lu Jinghuai is his son.

"I heard that your majesty is very fond of wine. Lu Jinghuai has been valued by your majesty even before he took the provincial examination. If he really gets the third grade..." A minister secretly glanced at the prince.

"I'm afraid that smoke will rise from the ancestral graves."

"The glory of the Xu family back then was about to fall on Lu Jinghuai. I don't know whose child Lu Jinghuai is, but such an outstanding son was raised outside." Since the last time the Minister of Rites was caught in public, everyone has Everyone knows Lu Jinghuai's identity as a concubine.

I just don’t know whose heir it is.

Lu Yuanze pinched his palms, his face darkened, and he said nothing.

The Xu family's natal family, because the old master assisted His Majesty in ascending the throne, became the emperor's master and became one of the three princes. Bring the Xu family to the top.

Master Chen, the Minister of Rites, glanced at Marquis Zhongyong.

idiot.

He helped Lu Yuanze raise his wife and offended Lu Chaochao, which made him even more stupid.

He touched his ears, and his ears were pinched and swollen by his wife, but when he thought of his wife's pregnancy, he grinned again.

The imperial doctor has seen this baby and it is a son.

He has a son in his old age! In this life, death is worth it.

He didn't want to remind Lu Yuanze that his daughter was so awesome! And, there are a lot of people backstage! !

He was so angry that he was knocked down.

On the altar, Qin Tianjian read the sacrificial inscriptions and prayed for good weather in the coming year.

The emperor took the prince with him, his face solemn. The emperor already knew that Lu Chaochao saved the prince, and he thanked God for sending Lu Chaochao.

The emperor just bowed his head.

Then he saw a baby girl emerging from behind the huge bronze cauldron.

The baby was still grinning, showing three small teeth, and was very happy.