Chapter 46: Attracting Attention
"Whatever you want!" Xu Junze's simple two-word answer made Lin Shuran couldn't help but smile lightly this time, Xu Junze glanced at her in surprise, is there a problem with his answer?
Lin Shuran was a little embarrassed by him, coughed lightly to hide his little embarrassment, and then asked tentatively: "You are a general who leads the troops in battle, the commander of the first army, when others ask you for your opinion, you don't often answer like this, right?!" ”
From the first night of their wedding, in fact, what Xu Junze left the deepest impression on Lin Shuran was not his handsome appearance and cold and arrogant personality, but the words "with you", it seems that every time he says these two words to her, he feels different.
"Of course not!" He holds the military power and is the safety of the emperor and the country, how can he easily hand over the decision-making power to others, but the public is public, private is private, he actually doesn't know how to get along with Lin Shuran's wife, although the queen mother and the emperor have told him some ways to get along with men and women, but he feels that it is too troublesome, instead of spending his mind on how to get along with a woman, it is better to follow her wishes, both of them are at ease, "You are my wife, you can naturally call the shots in family affairs, I don't have any opinions!" ”
Although it is not certain whether Xu Junze really respects himself or is too lazy to care about these things, Lin Shuran thinks this is very good, at least he does not have machismo and does not allow her to do this or that, but regarding the education of children, she still hopes that he can also participate in it.
"Since you say so, then I will go back and let Xu An personally go to the Zhenguo Mansion, and tell them that the young master of our family will also lead a team to participate in the Keju meeting, and let them make arrangements." After Lin Shuran finished speaking, he looked at Xu Junze expectantly and asked, "If you have nothing to do that day, can you go together?" If Brother Chen, they will be very happy to see you also on the scene! ”
"Go ahead!" Xu Junze doesn't like banquets, he prefers to train soldiers in the barracks alone.
Hearing this answer, Lin Shuran was somewhat disappointed, but she could also understand Xu Junze, after all, he was only twenty-four years old, although his age was not very young in ancient times, but if he was placed in modern times, he was just a hot-blooded and masculine young man, and he didn't know how to be the father of thirteen children.
After that, Lin Shuran said to Xu Junze that he wanted to send potted flowers to the Queen Mother, and Xu Junze promised that she would help give them to the Queen Mother when she entered the palace.
Soon, the Zhenguo Mansion received news that when they heard that Xu Junze's stepsons would come to participate in the Keju Party, Zhenguo Gong Lei Yi and his wife Yang were taken aback, and the Xu family refused to participate in this kind of banquet in previous years.
When the various prefectures in the capital heard that Lin Shuran was going to take her stepsons to participate in the Keju party, and they were going to lead the team to compete, everyone's reactions were different, and it would be different if there was a hostess in the family.
In the blink of an eye, the weather is excellent, the sun is warm, and even the cold winter air is a little warmer.
Early in the morning, Xu Mingchen and they were neatly dressed and energetically waiting for Lin Shuran to set off, in order to participate in the Keju meeting of the Zhenguo Mansion, Lin Shuran also prepared team uniforms and suitable leather boots for them, of course, she also took enough colorful heads, and she couldn't make the dignified General's Mansion look too down.
"Mother, is my father going today?" Xu Mingchen asked out loud after greeting Lin Shuran.
"Your father may have something to do in the army today, he went out early in the morning!" Although Xu Junze lives with her every night these days, the two of them still sleep separately at night, Xu Junze often leaves home before dawn, seeing that Xu Mingchen is a little lost, she smiled and encouraged, "It doesn't matter if your father doesn't go, you don't have to be afraid, I will support you, enjoy your game, don't just think about winning or losing, this is to play!" ”
Lin Shuran didn't want them to have too much pressure, Xu Mingye was also clamoring to go, but he was just able to get out of bed and walk two steps, so in addition to him, there were three youngest, and she took the remaining nine children to the Zhenguo Mansion, plus Dazhu and a few of them who followed to compete together, as well as the maids and subordinates who followed, it was actually full of four carriages.
When the carriage arrived in front of the courtyard specially used to hold the Keju Party in the Zhenguo Mansion, Lin Shuran led her stepsons out of the carriage, which attracted the attention of many people.
"Hmph, this Lin Shuran is not afraid of losing face, a newly married bride is embarrassed to lead so many children out of the house in a grand manner, look at her, she is quite happy to be a stepmother!" Not far away, a young woman who had just gotten out of the carriage was carefully supported by the maid woman, she glared angrily in the direction of Lin Shuran, her eyes were about to roll to the sky, and her tone of voice was sour.
"She is just the daughter of the Taifu, how can she compare with Miss You, you are the concubine of the Guogong Mansion, and now you are the concubine of the prince of the Ling Palace, fortunately you didn't marry General Xu at the beginning!" The maid on the side said with a flattering smile.
Qi Rouer seems to be very satisfied with the maid's statement, as the second daughter of Qi Congming, the Duke of Qin, she has always regarded herself very highly, and thinks that she is a little more beautiful than her sister Concubine Li in the palace, but Xu Junze is ignorant of goods, and she doesn't even look down on her, hmph, now she is married to the prince of Ling, although she is only a side concubine, but in the palace, she is more popular than the princess, and her status is higher than Lin Shuran.
"As a concubine of the palace, don't you lower your value compared to that kind of woman, and seduce men everywhere before she gets married, so that others don't know that there is one lying next to her, and she still thinks about the other in her heart!" At this time, an obviously disdainful voice sounded from behind Qi Rou'er, and she turned around in surprise to see Xiao Chen's wife, Su Wanwan.
Qi Rouer pursed her lips and smiled, who in the whole capital didn't know that Su Wanwan was married to Xiao Chen, Xiao Chen's proposal to marry the Lin family was not successful, I heard that Lin Shuran was injured a few days ago, Xiao Chen hurried to the general's mansion, Su Wanwan didn't like Lin Shuran, of course.
Although Su Wanwan is just Mrs. Shilang, according to her seniority, Qi Rouer also has to call her a little aunt, after all, her father-in-law Ling Wang is the late son of Concubine Su, and Su Wanwan is Concubine Su's maiden niece.
"That's what my little aunt said!" Qi Rou'er smiled and entered the courtyard with Su Wanwan.
Lin Shuran never minded the strange eyes of others, and she pretended not to hear the discussions of the people around her, but the children were simple-minded, Xu Minghao originally minded the eyes of the people around him, but now he found that everyone was pointing at their family, and he was a little angry.
"Look, we're not monkeys!" He muttered a little angrily.
Lin Shuran patted him softly on the shoulder and laughed in a low voice: "If others want to see it, let them see it, if we care about other people's eyes all the time, then we will become unable to walk, unable to speak, and not like ourselves." Let them see generously, and go their own way with dignity, will there be a lack of meat! ”