Chapter 568: Competition
Zhu Shi saw that Yan Yu's eyes lit up, but he also swallowed back what he was about to say, and his eyes when he looked at Yan Yu softened a little.
"Mother, the winter solstice will be in half a month, it's better like this, before the ancestor worship this year, we will go to visit the widows and widows in the lower clan, and also, when Laba, we will give porridge in the city for a few days in the name of Lu Fu, which can be regarded as doing some good deeds." Yan Yu touched his big belly and said.
She originally wanted to say that she would do something good in the name of the child in her womb, but she was afraid that if she was not born as a boy, it would cause greater loss and resentment in the Zhu family, so she changed it to the name of Lu Fu.
Zhu Shi nodded when he heard this, "That's it, I'll leave these two things to you, since you want to do it, make the momentum bigger, and take a few people to donate some food and clothes to the health hall in the city." ”
"Yes, don't worry, mother." Yan Yu saw that the Zhu family finally approved of her idea, and was overjoyed, and proposed a donation to run a free school, saying that it could allow the big children in the health hall to study, and in the future, they could also select more useful talents for the Lu family.
Zhu Shi agreed after a while, and then looked at Zhou Wan again, "That's it, Yu'er will give birth in a few days, you help her calculate and calculate, and strive to do these things well." Also, next year's spring is coming, Wan'er ponders the crops in Zhuangzi, the cotton loom is said to be researched by you, you work hard here, see if there can be any breakthroughs, and it is best to become famous in one fell swoop and report to the imperial front. ”
"Yes, little know." Zhou Wan nodded.
Yan Yan only learned about what happened in the court that day from the mouth of his eldest uncle Tian two days later, and only then did he know that Zhu was grounded by the emperor for three months because of her.
To be honest, Yan Yan has rarely had contact with the outside world recently, and the people around her will not use these rumors to interfere with her when they see her in confinement, so she doesn't know that the rumors about her and Zhou Lu from the outside world have become popular again, and they are getting more and more intense.
However, after the emperor refuted the rumors, these families didn't talk much about her and Zhou Lu, but talked about her and Lu You instead, mainly because Lu You could go to the battlefield and recover the city, which also subverted everyone's perception of this dumb and fool, after all, most people's impression of Lu You was still stuck on the day he got married.
The memory is too deep.
No one could have imagined that in just three years, this dumb and fool actually impressed the people of the whole city, and I have to say that this fool's life is too good to meet Yan Yan.
Yan Yan didn't pay much attention to these rumors, what she wanted to know was what the Zhu family said to the emperor, so that the emperor would punish her to be grounded for three months, and still admonish her in public.
Reasoning, this woman has been in charge of the Lu family for 20 years, and her means and scheming are not ordinarily deep, otherwise, the Lu family would not have only one concubine, Lu You, and she is still disabled, how could such a person easily offend the emperor?
Yan Yan thought for a long time and didn't have an answer, but she was sure of one thing, the emperor's trust and maintenance of her was the same as before, or rather, more than before.
With this foundation, what is Yan Yan afraid of?
Therefore, she quickly let go of this matter and served the children wholeheartedly, her husband was not around, although there were so many maids and daughters-in-law at home, it was not easy to take care of two children, the main thing was that she had to take care of Lu Jin's feelings, and she couldn't let her daughter think that she didn't love her if she had a son, so she had to spend part of her time telling stories to Lu Jin every day and playing with her.
Yan Yan only knew that Yan Yu gave birth to a daughter the day before the winter solstice, this year's ancestor worship fell ill due to the landing of the old lady, the Zhu family was grounded, Yan Yu gave birth to a daughter, and there was no serious hostess in the Zhenguo Mansion to come forward, for this reason, the patriarch specially came to find Yan Yan.
Although Lu You is also a concubine, Lu You is now a showman, a front-line general, and Yan Yan is a county lord, so the patriarch means to let her come forward to officiate on behalf of the Zhenguo Mansion.
You can't send Zhou Wan and a noble concubine to come forward in a huge Guogong Mansion, right?
Yan Yan wanted to refuse, but when he heard that Yan Yu went to visit the widows and lonely people in the clan with a big belly a few days ago, he also sent them a little food and clothing, and at the same time said that he would expand his clan studies.
Yan Yan heard that something was wrong, Yan Yu was buying people's hearts, it was necessary to be so anxious, with a big belly to visit these poor people that she had never paid attention to?
Therefore, after a little hesitation, Yan Yan agreed to come forward.
Although she doesn't admit that Zhu is her mother-in-law, Lu You is still surnamed Lu after all.
Therefore, on the day of the winter solstice, Yan Yan took Qingyu Qingyun to the ancestral hall of the Lu family, after the ancestor worship, these old people in the clan surrounded her, most of them heard that Yan Yan is not entering the Zhenguo Mansion now, whether it is the Mid-Autumn Festival or she gave birth to a child, she did not return to the Lu family, for this reason, they want to know what happened between her and the Zhu family, why she is a junior and does not even respect her mother.
Because Yan Yan promised not to mention this matter again, she didn't tell the truth, and when she was in trouble, Huang came over, Yan Yan still respected her, mainly because there was no conflict of interest, so naturally there was no contradiction.
Huang saw that Yan Yan was very affectionate, took her hand and asked her if she was tired, whether the child was fat, how many hours a day she sleeped, how many times she had to wake up at night, etc., and also asked Yan Yan if she had received a letter from Lu You recently.
The clansmen on the side saw that they were chatting happily, but they didn't chase after her and the Zhu family, and Yan Yan also took advantage of the situation to go out of the ancestral hall with the Huang family.
Subsequently, Huang told Yan Yan that the Lu family had plans to give porridge to Laba, and also planned to send money and food to the abandoned babies in the health hall.
Yan Yan, who got into the carriage, began to think about the Huang family's words, the Lu family made such a big move, it was nothing more than to leave a good name for the outside world, and the Lu family wanted this good name, most of them came to her, right?
And the Huang family told her this, it was nothing more than wanting Yan Yan to compete with Yan Yu for a high or low or make trouble, to put it bluntly, the Huang family did not want Lu Ming to inherit the Zhenguo Mansion in the future.
But despite this, Yan Yan didn't want to compete with Yan Yu, it wasn't that she was soft-hearted, but that she didn't want to lower her identity to fight with Yan Yu, the pattern was too low, and what she valued was not this nickname.
Besides, Yan Yan's focus is not here at present, she knows that Lu You is going to attack Baozhou, the city of Baozhou is bigger than Zhending, and it is closer to the Khitan, therefore, the difficulty is even greater, Yan Yan has been reading various military books these days, hoping to help him.
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