Forcing me to raise a concubine? The mistress of the Marquisate has gone mad

Lu Jing brought Fang Rou back from outside. In order not to attract Shen Ruoyan's attention, he asked Fang Rou to put some rouge and powder on her hands to get away with it.

Fortunately, until Fang Rou returned, she did not meet anyone from Shen Ruoyan's yard on the way.

Lu Jing just felt relieved, but who would have thought that he was stopped by Chun Xi on the way to the study!

"This servant greets the Marquis. Madam, please come over."

Lu Jing's heart suddenly felt like it was struck, thumping: "Madam, you invited me? Did you say why?"

Chunxi shook her head, "Madam didn't say."

This made Lu Jing even more uncertain and nervous.

Could it be that Shen Ruoyan already knew that he took Fang Rou to see Brother Kang?

But when he went out, he paid special attention and no one noticed him and no one followed him, so he should not be noticed.

Did he reveal himself when he came back?

Until he arrived in front of Shen Ruoyan's yard, Lu Jing was still thinking about what went wrong.

He organized his words in his mind, thinking about how to comfort Shen Ruoyan later.

How did she know about this?

What bad luck!

"Madam, what do you want to talk to me about?" Lu Jing went straight to the point as soon as he came in. He looked calm and pretended nothing had happened.

In fact, my heart is about to jump out!

Qiu Ye invited him to sit down and poured him some tea. Lu Jing was about to say he didn't want to drink, but Shen Ruoyan said:

"My Lord, you have just returned from outside. You must be thirsty. Have some tea first."

She really knew that I went out!

Lu Jing didn't dare to refuse, and didn't dare to put the hot tea down even though it burned his palm.

He feels guilty.

In order to hide his abnormality, Lu Jing blew on the tea and drank it slowly. At the same time, he was thinking in his heart, what did Shen Ruoyan want to do by asking him to come over?

Raise troops to investigate?

Or are you complaining about your grievances?

But her expression seemed so calm, which made Lu Jing a little confused. If Shen Ruoyan already knew, would she be so calm?

Could it be that he guessed wrong?

"Madam, the tea here tastes better than anywhere else." Lu Jing said with a wry smile, put down the teacup, rubbed his hands and said, "Now, Madam, can you tell me why you asked me to come here?"

Shen Ruoyan raised her eyebrows, rarely showing such a lively expression in front of Lu Jing, "Can't I look for the Marquis if there is nothing else?"

She looked at Lu Jing with resentment, her lips pursed as if she had suffered a great injustice.

"Or is it that my Lord, you only think of me when you have something to do?"

"Of course not!" Lu Jing stood up from his chair excitedly and waved his hands repeatedly to show his sincerity.

Shen Ruoyan was amused by him, and she covered her mouth and chuckled, "My Lord, I was just joking with you. But I did have something to ask you to come here this time."

Are you kidding?

Lu Jing wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. He wondered if anyone had ever told Shen Ruoyan that if others didn't find it funny, then the joke was indeed a bit stressful...

For example, he is now.

"My Lord, why do you look so nervous?" Shen Ruoyan saw Lu Jing wiping his sweat all the time, and there was even more worry between his handsome eyebrows.

She was clear in her heart, but pretended to be ignorant on the surface, "Does coming to me put so much pressure on the Marquis?"

Shen Ruoyan lowered her head in disappointment, "Then I should reflect on my role as a mistress."

"How could that be?" Lu Jing spoke so quickly that his voice almost cracked!

He coughed awkwardly twice and explained, "Don't blame me, Madam. I just walked in from outside and I feel a little hot."

Shen Ruoyan looked at the overcast sky today. The cold wind was still blowing outside. She smiled and did not expose Lu Jing.

"I see."

Lu Jing resisted the urge to wipe his sweat and nodded repeatedly. He was now on pins and needles, and he just hoped that Shen Ruoyan would speak up and finish speaking quickly, and he would leave quickly!

If he stayed any longer, Shen Ruoyan would have no doubts, and he would be worried that he would let the cat out of the bag!

Fortunately, Shen Ruoyan did not say anything else, but asked someone to bring the two young masters' homework, and said with a smile: "In fact, it is not for any big event to invite the Marquis here. It is just that the Spring Examination is approaching, and Master Pei may not be able to continue teaching."

Pei Rushi was almost too busy these days, but she still made a study plan for Lu Yan and Lu Changchuan.

But this is not a long-term solution after all.

"I thought that the two children could go to the Imperial College together so that they could take care of each other." This was also the purpose of Shen Ruoyan's visit to Lu Jing.

After all, to enter the Imperial Academy, one had to be in the name of a marquis.

"Imperial College?" Lu Jing remembered that he could indeed go in at this age.

The Imperial Academy was a school specially set up for the children of high-ranking officials. All the teachers there were great scholars who had passed the imperial court's examinations. To be able to enter the Imperial Academy, one had to be an official of the third rank or above to send their children there.

As for aristocratic families, the requirements are very high, depending on the merits of the ancestors and the level of their titles.

Although the Changning Marquis Mansion had no real power, their rank was high enough to qualify for admission.

"Is it too early?" Lu Jing hesitated. Lu Changchuan was Shen Ruoyan's adopted son, and he had no blood relationship with him. It was a kindness of him to hire someone to teach him.

Now we are sending him to the Imperial College, isn't that too much?

As for Lu Yan, although he was the eldest son of the Marquisate, in Lu Jing's heart, he had long ceased to regard this son as the eldest son.

A mute would be embarrassing if he went out.

He should just stay at home and ask a teacher to teach him, and others might not even remember it. If he went out and was in front of others every day, wouldn't he be deliberately telling others that the prince of Changning Marquis's Mansion was a mute? !

Lu Jing doesn't want to lose this person!

"How could that be? The son of the Earl's Mansion is younger than Yan'er, and he has already been sent there." Shen Ruoyan looked at Lu Jing disapprovingly, "Or does the Marquis think that it is not important for children to study?"

Even the Earl's Mansion attached so much importance to children's studies that they sent him to the Imperial Academy to study at a young age.

Don’t they, the Changning Marquisate, have this awareness?

Shen Ruoyan said directly: "It's a pity that the Marquis has been close to scholars and writers recently, but he didn't realize the importance of children's enlightenment?"

Lu Jing subconsciously asked back: "What does this have to do with you?"

"It's a big deal!"

Shen Ruoyan recounted the life stories of all the literati from ancient times to the present, especially those talented people who became famous at a young age, and he talked endlessly, as if Lu Jing was preventing them from becoming successful if he didn't send his two children to school!

Lu Jing was overwhelmed by what he heard, but he still didn't want his mute son to go out and embarrass himself.

Just as he was trying to come up with another excuse to refuse, Shen Ruoyan suddenly asked, "Where did you go today, Lord?"

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Lu Jing's thoughts were so frightened that they stopped. Weren't they talking about studying?

Why are we back to this topic again?!