Lin'an Never Night

Chapter 183 The Father-in-law and the Son-in-law Meet Bing Yingyu

"Oh, you..."

Luxi felt so distressed when seeing this.

Of course, she felt comforted by her second brother's words.

But, it’s made of gold!
No matter whether it is new or old, gold is gold!

If you think it's old, why not refurbish it? How can you throw it away?
Yang Yuan held her shoulders. Lu Xi had really lost weight. He could feel it just by touching her shoulders.

Yang Yuan said softly: "Now that the conditions are met, I should give you something better!"

As he spoke, he opened a jewelry box.

An exquisitely shaped silver-gilt phoenix-patterned hairpin was lying quietly at the bottom of a velvet box.

"Luxi, this one..."

Lu Xi suddenly stretched out his index finger and pressed it on Yang Yuan's mouth.

Lu Xi smiled innocently and said to Yang Yuan, "I already understand what Second Brother means. But as a man, how can you understand what a girl likes to use and what is suitable for her to use? Let me do it."

Lu Xi stood up and opened the gifts that Yang Yuan brought one by one.

"This silver-gilt phoenix-patterned hairpin is beautiful, and it also has a hairpin with gold thread and pearls. Sister Danniang has a tall figure, so it's perfect for her to wear."

Ever since Yang Yuan took out these gifts, Dan Niang felt particularly uncomfortable.

She was not jealous of Lu Xi. She also knew that Yang Yuan had no idea that she would be here today.

However, when a man was giving a gift to another woman with great affection, how could she not feel embarrassed while watching from the side?
Unexpectedly, Lu Xi took over the distribution of the gifts without waiting for Yang Yuan to say more, and gave the first one to her.

Dan Niang was both surprised and moved.

At this moment, she really regarded Luxi as her sister.

Lu Xi did not allow Dan Niang to refuse. He put the golden hairpin in her hair bun, picked up a delicate and small gold-engraved ring, admired it, and said with a smile: "This suits me."

As she spoke, she gently pushed the ring onto her finger, raised her hand to admire it, and continued to distribute things.

Lu Xi bought two copies of the jewelry, the yellow silk fabric with gold jacquard pattern, and the cosmetics from the famous workshop, and divided them equally with Dan Niang.

Apart from the lipstick that Xue Bingxin asked the store to give as a free gift to help Yang Yuan, Lu Xi took it too much.

Therefore, Yang Yuan's deeply affectionate and moving love confession, which he had prepared in advance, could only add one word at the end.

"Time is the matchmaker, and the rest of my life is the betrothal gift. I will use your names and my surname, starting from the first time we met and ending with the end of our lives. How about that?"

He added a "we".

Just add it. He has died once and he has let go of many things.

Life is short, and plants and trees wither in autumn. If I am happy, and you are happy, that is a good life. Why be pretentious?

Luxi has already agreed. If he still holds Gugu in his arms, is he still a man? He is just a "second chair!"

Outside the window, on the small river, a duck popped its head out of the water.

He excitedly wiped the river water off his face and raised a golden hairpin.

"Hahahahahaha, some guest must have gotten drunk and lost his gold hairpin."

"It's great! I'll give it to my mother. She will definitely like it!"

……

The dishes at Song Family Flavor House are really impeccable, especially the new dishes. Even Leng Yuchan and Xue Bingxin, who are well-informed in the palace, cannot recognize them.

The two of them ate with relish and were very interested in the name of each dish.

"Hey, um, what's your name..."

Xue Bingxin wanted to ask the waitress the name of this dish.

The waitress replied respectfully, "Sir, my name is Qiuyue."

After hearing this, Xue Bingxin immediately lost interest in asking her the name of the dish.

Ah~~~, the nickname the head chef gave me really sounds like a little girl!

Leng Yuchan, who usually had a cold personality, suddenly coughed a few times, and hurriedly picked up the tea to calm herself down, but ended up spraying the tea out.

So she turned away, her shoulders shaking.

Xue Bingxin glared at her unhappily, her teeth itching with hatred.

When the waitress saw this, she hurriedly shouted outside, "Chunhua, quickly get a handkerchief."

Someone outside responded crisply, "Hey!"

Ok?
Leng Yuchan's shoulders stopped shaking immediately, but Xue Bingxin's shoulders began to shake: "Gugugugugu..."

Leng Yuchan turned around and glared at Xue Bingxin fiercely, then gnashed her teeth and said to the waitress Qiuyue: "Go, serve another dish of 'braised pigeon in red sauce'!"

……

Dan Niang found an excuse and left the private room. She also twisted Qingtang's ear and took the little girl who was eavesdropping at the wall away.

Dan Niang was not an ignorant person. Even if the senior official formally accepted her, she would not always rush to stick to him with Lu Xi.

Who doesn’t want to have some time alone? Put yourself in their shoes.

When Dan Niang came downstairs, she saw Ya Ge walking towards her with a beaming look on his face.

Dan Niang was afraid that Ya Ge would go upstairs and disturb Erlang and Luxi from talking, so she took him and Qingtang to the back kitchen.

Pick the vegetables first!

Yang Yuan lovingly placed the petite and light Lu Xi on his lap, speaking sweet words to her with great tenderness. Her youthful roundness pressed against his lap, revealing the youthful aura of the girl.

Luxi shyly discovered that since her second brother came back, he seemed to have changed a lot. He was more enthusiastic and more relaxed.

Luxi was a little scared and a little shy, but... she actually enjoyed it a little.

The two of them were whispering to each other.

There was no need to have a clue what the two of them were saying, they just said whatever came to mind.

They are all messy fragments, but like new snow floating in the heart, quietly soaking Xiaoluxi's heart and making it clear and sweet.

"Uh... cough!"

At some point, a majestic cough was heard at the door.

Lu Xi's delicate body trembled, and she jumped off Yang Yuan's legs: "Oh, my dad is here."

"Don't be afraid!"

Yang Yuan stood up calmly, straightened his clothes, and whispered to Lu Xi: "You go out first, I will talk to my father-in-law."

Lu Xi gave him a shy and angry look, but then he said in a worried voice, "My father has a bad temper, second brother, you..."

Yang Yuan said calmly, "My father-in-law has always hoped that you could marry someone from the government. Now I am not only a person from the government, but also an official. I am a seventh-rank official in Beijing, which is equivalent to a county magistrate who has been sent to work in the countryside. How could he be dissatisfied?"

After saying that, Yang Yuan put his hands behind his back, stood straight, raised his chin, and said calmly, "Go, open the door."

"Oh!" Seeing Yang Yuan so calm, Lu Xi gained great confidence.

Luxi quickly ran over to open the door, and saw her father standing at the door, with his chest puffed out and his hands behind his back.

That expression was eerily similar to the young man in the room, as if they were cast from the same mold.

Luxi lowered his head and called out softly, "Dad."

"Well, I know he's back. You go out first!"

After Old Man Song finished speaking, he walked in.

He tried hard to straighten his back so as not to make his limp too obvious, and he even walked with a sense of majesty as he walked with his figure eight steps.

Lu Xi looked back at Yang Yuan worriedly, then closed the door for them.

As soon as the door closed, Yang Yuan rushed in front of Old Man Song.

Yang Yuan held him and said earnestly, "Father-in-law, please sit here. Please sit here."

That face that is arrogant at first but humble later is really disgusting.

Old Man Song glared at him unhappily, sat down on the chair with his arms and legs clenched, and sneered: "Yang Yuan, what a good thing you did to my daughter!"

Yang Yuan stood in front of him, bowed, and said with an apologetic smile: "Father-in-law, what else could I do at that time? I went there with the intention of dying. Even if Lu Xi didn't care about having a bad reputation as a widow, I still couldn't escape the punishment of the court."

I was just chatting with Lu Xi, and Lu Xi told him what she overheard about her father and Uncle Qu and others discussing how to rescue Yang Yuan.

Yang Yuan originally felt that the escape from "Zhiweilou" was too easy, and it seemed that Guoxin Law Firm was too stupid.

Only then did he realize that Old Man Song had been secretly and silently doing many things for him.

He had always known that Old Man Song and Old Man Ji were veterans who had served in the army for many years, but he didn't know that they were actually military kings.

At this moment, he not only had respect for Old Man Song as his father-in-law, but also gratitude towards this old soldier.

Of course, this did not affect his pretentiousness in front of Lu Xi just now.

As a man, what's wrong with showing off in front of your woman?
"Hey, don't call me father-in-law first. Everyone knows that you broke off the engagement. What are you going to do?"

Yang Yuan said: "To be honest with you, father-in-law, when I just came back..."

Yang Yuan repeated to Old Man Song what he had said to Aunt Wu, and then said carefully: "In this way, there will be no more criticism about Yu Luxi's reputation, right?"

Old Man Song's expression eased a little.

Yang Yuan added: "Next spring, my son-in-law will marry Lu Xi, and I will make sure the wedding is a grand and lively one..."

Father Song frowned and said, "You want to marry Lu Xi next spring?"

Yang Yuan's heart tightened, thinking that Father Song was still angry, and hurriedly said, "Yes, since the previous cancellation of the engagement was just a show, then naturally it won't affect anything..."

Old Man Song shook his head and said solemnly, "Do you think I'm telling you this? By the beginning of next spring, it will be less than a year since your eldest brother passed away..."

Yang Yuan suddenly realized that this was what Old Man Song was talking about.

There is no doubt about his relationship with his elder brother, but as a modern man, he is more in favor of ideas such as "well-cared for and lightly buried".

A person's thoughts and ideas cannot be assimilated by the ancients so quickly.

He did not think that being bound by a certain number of days of mourning was a way of honoring his elder brother, and he believed that his elder brother would also like to see him get married and start a family.

Old Man Song said seriously, "That's right. Once someone dies, they're dead. I've seen a lot of dead people on the battlefield. Once someone dies, all these rotten rules are useless to him!

However, the court etiquette is like this, and the world is like this. You are an official now, and as an official, you must not leave any stains in these aspects, otherwise, sooner or later, it will become a means for others to deal with you. "

Yang Yuan suddenly understood.

Father Song said, "The mourning period for parents is 'Zhansui', which lasts for three years. The mourning period for brothers is 'Qi Sui', which lasts for one year. If you calculate carefully, your wedding can be moved from next spring to next summer. However, that seems a bit too hasty. Let's move it back to next Mid-Autumn Festival."

"Yes, yes, my father-in-law is really thoughtful. Then I will marry Luxi in a grand ceremony next Mid-Autumn Festival."

Old Man Song hummed heavily and said, "Okay, then it's settled. However, there is a scholar and a student who are here to propose marriage in Lu Yin Xuan. It's not easy to get rid of the people who come to propose marriage. You should find a way to deal with them!"

Yang Yuan was surprised and asked, "They haven't left yet?"

Old Man Song blushed, and was a little embarrassed: "Hey! Before, when the matchmakers came to ask, hey! Of course I said that my daughter is now free and has not been engaged. Isn't it... the whole thing..."

(End of this chapter)