Chapter 001: Birthday Gift
Lu Mingshu always remembered his seventh birthday.
She was born in the second flower festival in the first month of February, and a hundred flowers are blooming.
In the morning, Hui Niang folded a peach blossom for her and inserted it on the desk, which was very good-looking.
Hui Niang also said: "When I get up in the morning, the magpie is calling outside the window, Miss is born today, and there must be something good." ”
As soon as she finished speaking, Xiaohuan ran in from outside out out of breath: "Miss, Miss, something big has happened!" Without waiting for Hui Niang to scold her for being reckless, she shouted, "Your father, your father sent someone!"
Hui Niang swallowed back the words of reprimand, and was stunned: "What?"
"My father?" Lu Mingshu turned his head.
She hadn't seen her father since she was a child. Her mother told her that when she was still in the womb, her father went out to study and apprentice, and he never came back. Mother said that Dad may have something to delay.
"That's right, a guest came to the door just now, saying that your father sent ......"
Xiaohuan didn't finish speaking, and was beaten by Hui Niang: "What's your father, there are no rules at all, call master!"
"Oh......" This is not the point, Xiaohuan pulled Lu Mingshu and said impatiently, "Miss, you didn't see the carriage parked outside, it looks amazing! Even the people sent here are as beautiful as fairies! I secretly heard it outside, saying that the master is in charge, it must be that the master has worshiped the famous teacher and become a master!"
Fu Ze, the son-in-law of the Lu family, is extremely talented in martial arts, but Qingfeng Town is located in a remote area, with a radius of hundreds of miles, and there is not even a good martial arts hall. Seven years ago, the Lu family took out almost all their savings to help him go to Beijing to find a famous teacher, and there was no news of him.
Lu Mingshu has had a wish since he was a child, hoping that when his father will come back, they will be reunited. She didn't expect that this wish would come true on her birthday!
Is this a birthday gift from God?
"It must be the master who got ahead and came to pick you up! Miss will have a good life in the future......
"Miss!"
Lu Mingshu stood up and ran outside quickly, ignoring Hui Niang's shouting behind him.
She hurried out of the living room, where a woman's voice could be heard.
"This is for you. ”
Lu Mingshu gasped, stood on tiptoe, and looked in curiously.
Grandpa and Niang were both in the hall, and in the guest seat, a woman with her back to her, she couldn't see her face, only saw the butterfly hairpin trembling on the black flying bun, so delicate that it seemed to fly away at any time.
There was a maid standing beside her, handing a delicate box to Grandpa.
The box opened, and what came out was a piece of paper.
Then, she saw that Grandpa's face quickly turned red, and asked in a trembling voice, "What does this-this?"
The maid smiled lightly, with arrogance and contempt from above: "It is said that your Lu family is a family of cultivation and study, although it is poor, it is literate and knowledgeable, and the old lady Lu can't even read words, right?"
Lu Mingshu was stunned, is this laughing at Grandpa?
"Ruixiang. The woman in the guest seat spoke, and her voice was still so pleasant.
The maid leaned sideways and bowed her head respectfully: "Yes, Miss." ”
The woman said: "They are from the countryside, and it is inevitable that they have little knowledge, so you can talk to them well, don't be rude." ”
"The slave knows. ”
The maid turned her head and raised her chin slightly: "Old lady Lu, since you can't understand it, the slave will explain it to you." This is the book of separation, after Ling Ai signed, it has nothing to do with the head of my family, the bridge to the bridge, the road to the road, and no more. ”
Lu Mingshu's eyes widened, and he left the book? Dad didn't send someone to pick them up, but wanted to leave with his mother?
Niang stood up suddenly, snatched the piece of paper, and looked at the contents on it in disbelief, her hands shaking more and more.
"No, I don't believe it!" Niang suddenly tore the piece of paper angrily, "Aze won't do this to me!
"Do you want the head of the house to come in person?" the maid chuckled, "Mrs. Lu, do you know what the head of Jiuyao Palace represents? Even if you King Dongyue sees it, you have to respectfully serve as a guest, why do you come to see you as a village woman?" glanced at the paper she tore off, and shook out another one, "It's useless for you to tear it, there is still it here." ”
"Qingyi!" Grandpa stopped his mother, looked at the woman who had always stayed out of the matter, and said in a deep voice, "This girl, everything must be reasonable." Aze is my son-in-law, who has written a marriage letter and posted it on the household post, even if he wants to reconcile and leave, he has to come back and make it clear, right?"
"Isn't it clearly written in the book of harmony?" said the maid, "we are in charge ......."
"I didn't talk to you!" Old Lady Lu shouted, "You slave maid, what are you talking about here? Didn't the master teach you the rules?"
"You-" The maid was furious, and then straightened up, "Old lady Lu, call you an old lady, it is already my young lady who treats the old man." I am a slave and maid? Do you know that my slave and maid are also in the palace? You high-ranking officials in Dongyue must be polite to me!"
The woman who had been staying out of the matter and letting the maid and Mrs. Lu fight with each other raised her head: "Ruixiang, speak well, don't be as reckless as inferior people." ”
"I'm sorry Miss, the slave made it clear to him right away. ”
The woman waved her hand: "No need, let me say it." ”
She said lightly to the angry grandfather and the crying mother: "Old lady Lu, when heroes are also in trouble, when Fu Ze had no long things and had ambitions, your Lu family called itself the family of goodness, not only did not lend a helping hand to him, but also forced him to get into trouble, which is unjustifiable to take advantage of people's danger." This marriage letter ......" No matter how young Lu Mingshu is, he can hear the disdain in her tone, "If I were you, I wouldn't have the face to mention it." ”
Hearing her say this, Grandpa's eyes widened, and her mother forgot to cry and looked at her in surprise.
Lu Mingshu snapped the pane suddenly, surprised and uncomfortable. What did she say? Grandpa persecuted Dad? If Grandpa didn't treat Dad well, he wouldn't have used all his savings to let Dad go out to find a famous teacher. Their family is not a rich man, only the house and 100 acres of land handed down by the ancestors, she heard her mother say that in order to make up for her father's travel expenses, she also sold half of the field.
After a while, Grandpa asked tremblingly, "What he said?"
The maid snorted coldly: "What, you don't recognize it?"
The woman waved her hand and continued: "He has a big heart, and now that he has entered the sea, he will not be embarrassed by you. As long as you sign this paper and leave the book, it will have nothing to do with your Lu family in the future. I heard that he still has a child? The silver ticket in this box should be used as the funds he gave to the child for raising him, and he also returned the food of your Lu family over the years. ”
The maid quickly continued: "Old lady Lu, there is no point in you continuing to entangle. Our head is not a son-in-law for you to call and drink now. He is extremely talented, in just seven years, he has entered and exited the divine realm from the inner realm, and now in the entire Xichuan, he is a master who can be ranked, if he is not delayed by you, he will also be on the heavenly list. Such a character, how can this person in your family climb up? People are self-aware, if I were you, I would simply sign and leave the book neatly, so as not to bring humiliation on myself!"
"You-" Lu Mingshu's eyes turned red when he saw his mother's anger, "What nonsense are you talking about......?"
"Qingyi!" Grandpa stopped his mother's words, gritted his teeth and said, "Don't talk nonsense with them, sign!"
The mother was stunned and shouted, "Dad!"
Grandpa said coldly: "Didn't they make it very clear? Since he has made up his mind to erase the past, it will be as he wishes!"
The mother was silent, and finally signed the letter with tears in her eyes.
The matter was done, and the maid said: "Okay, Mrs. Lu, you have signed and left the book, and from now on the marriage has nothing to do with it, you are still young, and it is still too late to choose someone." It's just that don't look for the head of my family anymore, you want to find a young talent, everyone understands, but you also have to look at your own conditions, isn't it?
The woman stood up and bowed, but her voice was indescribably proud: "I'm so disturbed, I'm leaving." ”
Lu Mingshu watched them come out of the hall one after the other, and couldn't help but follow them to the courtyard gate.
The woman spotted her, turned her head sideways, and glanced at her.
As Xiaohuan said, she is as beautiful as a fairy.
But why, people who are as beautiful as fairies speak so uncomfortably?
The carriage started, and she heard a voice from inside: "Ruixiang, you have too much to talk about, what are you talking to them about?"
Ruixiang's voice was completely different from just now, and she said coquettishly: "Isn't the slave still angry? What kind of person is the head of the family, he has been a son-in-law in such a family......
Lu Mingshu never expected that her seven-year-old birthday gift was not a family reunion, but a piece of paper and a letter from her father to her mother.