My concubine is pregnant, I tear up the marriage certificate and marry another powerful official

As she spoke, tears began to fall. Lu Yanxiu was most afraid that Liu Qiuqiu would mention the past, so he quickly hugged her to comfort her, and couldn't help but kiss her again: "Don't I still have to entertain those guests? They are all social events in the officialdom, and I won't leave until I'm drunk. It's not good to ignore them. Didn't I rush here in the middle of the night?"

Originally, Liu Qiuqiu's due date was a few days later, but unexpectedly, on the day Su He and Lu Yanxiu got married, her stomach started to move prematurely and she gave birth to the baby that night.

When Lu Yanxiu hurried over, he saw Liu Qiuqiu lying weakly on the bed, with no strength left, her body covered in blood, and the child lying inside, crying loudly.

It was also the wedding night. Su He and Lu Yanxiu only drank the wedding wine, and then he closed the door and left without looking back.

When talking about the past, Liu Qiuqiu was unwilling to recall it.

She nestled in Lu Yanxiu's arms and said coquettishly, "I have been through so much suffering with you for so long. Now that I am above board, I don't ask for any status, but it was hard for me to raise children. You have to give me some money!"

"Why?"

Liu Qiuqiu's eyes were filled with tears: "If one day you change your mind about the young lady, I can save up some money and leave the Lu Mansion to help you two!"

There was a lot of pity in his words, which aroused Lu Yanxiu's pity.

Thinking of her being the lonely girl he redeemed from Le Lou, with no one to rely on at home, he couldn't help but say, "Qiqi, I, Lu Yanxiu, will never have two minds again in my life, and I will definitely protect you. I will give Su He the divorce papers soon, and then everything in the house will be yours, and you can decide everything by yourself, so there's no need to save money."

Having said that, in order to please Liu Qiuqiu, Lu Yanxiu still generously gave her a sum of money, which could be considered as a small private treasury.

That night, because Liu Qiuqiu was pregnant and had difficulty moving, dinner was specially served in Tingyuxuan.

Lu Yi and Lu Jiao looked at the table full of vegetarian dishes, without even a bit of oil or meat. They had no appetite and were too lazy to pick up the chopsticks.

Liu Qiuqiu threw the bowl on the ground in anger, glared at Mingchun, the maid sent by the old lady, and asked sullenly, "Is this how you, the Lu family, treat your meritorious officials?"

Mingchun had not yet figured out the master's temperament, and fearing that he might offend her, he quickly explained, "Auntie, calm down! The daily meals in the mansion should have been arranged by the young lady, but yesterday the young lady and the young master had a quarrel in the hall, so she simply gave up and didn't care about it. The kitchen maids couldn't make up their minds, so they had to make arrangements based on the money in the account. I heard that there wasn't much left, so the meals were changed in the evening, even in the old lady's courtyard."

Liu Qiuqiu's expression gradually became contemptuous, and she secretly thought that Su He was very cunning.

Just let it go? Was he trying to make Old Madam Lu and Lu Yanxiu change their minds about letting her enter the mansion?

Lu Yanxiu once said that Su He was a daughter raised by a wealthy family, and that she behaved in a proper and polite manner, and never overstepped her bounds. Now it seemed that this was completely wrong!

"Auntie, how about I take away all these dishes and ask the kitchen to prepare some meat?"

Liu Qiuqiu took a quick glance and found it bland and said calmly, "No need, you can leave first."

After Mingchun left, Lu Yi complained angrily: "Mom, when my sister and I were playing in the front yard just now, we saw someone carrying Fanlou's food to the east."

He will never forget the familiar taste of pork elbow! Daddy always bought it for him!

To the east is the Osmanthus Courtyard in Suhe.

Liu Qiuqiu sneered, "She doesn't want to eat this filthy food, but she wants me, a pregnant woman, to eat it? Yi'er Jiao'er, when your father comes back later, do you know what to say?"

"My pregnant mother could only eat vegetables without oil or salt! My unborn brother has a bad taste, he can't even smell the pork elbow!"

Under the guidance of Liu Qiuqiu, Lu Yi understood many things quickly. Plus, since he was a boy, Lu Yanxiu and Old Madam Lu basically responded to his requests.

Only then did Liu Qiuqiu lean back in her chair with satisfaction, waiting for Lu Yanxiu to go to the Osmanthus Courtyard to call her to account.

In the past few days after her rebirth, Su He was afraid of repeating the same mistakes she made before, and she was always worried and had no appetite. Today, she mentioned the divorce to Lu Yanxiu, and after finding out what he meant, she felt a little relieved.

Pei Xia went to Fanlou specifically to buy braised pork elbow just to whet her appetite.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the braised pork elbow was served on the table, Lu Yanxiu came over as if he had smelled the aroma.

He had a gloomy face, and as soon as he entered the room, he cast his eyes on the dining table, and finally looked at Su He who looked bewildered, and sneered: "You really don't treat yourself badly!"

Pei Xia saw that his young lady probably had no appetite after being asked by him, so he didn't want to show a good face to this son-in-law: "Our young lady has been busy with all the big and small things in the mansion for many years. Whenever she is free, she will go to Youran Residence to take care of the eldest lady. Even if she has no merit, she has worked hard! But the son-in-law scolded her for even a piece of pork elbow. If the people of the Su family knew about it, I'm afraid they would suspect that the young lady had a miserable life in the Lu family."

Pei Xia has been serving Su He since he was a child. Although he is a family-born child, he has never suffered any grievances since he followed Su He, so he can't help but feel sorry for her.

These words angered Lu Yanxiu for no reason, and he angrily overturned the food on the table to the ground, and his shiny elbow also fell to the ground and was covered with dust.

Su He frowned, not understanding what he was crazy about.

"Qiqi has made great contributions to the continuation of the bloodline of the Lu family! But you, relying on your status as the mistress, are trying to trip her up! You even arranged some pickled and unpalatable vegetable leaves! Has your conscience been eaten by a dog? If you don't want to be the mistress, I can always replace you. It doesn't have to be you!"

Lu Yanxiu was very angry, pointing at Su He and wishing he could take her to Ting Yuxuan to see that the table full of vegetable leaves might as well be fed to the dog!

"Do you really think I want to be the mistress of the Lu Mansion?"

Su He asked slowly, her cold eyes revealing a chill, and she looked at Lu Yanxiu dimly, which made his heart tremble.

"If my mother-in-law wasn't paralyzed in bed and unable to take charge, and if the old lady wasn't old and had no energy! Do you really think I can be in charge of the Lu Mansion? Don't you think it's such a good job? Since the first year I took charge, the treasury has been empty. How much dowry have I put in? How many holes have been filled? Where did the money come from for my husband to entertain officials? For many years, I have been trembling with fear and acting cautiously, but today I have earned my husband's dislike because of a piece of elbow!"

"If you hadn't asked Butler Zhu for a sum of money yesterday to give to Sister Liu, why would the mansion be in this state today?"

Lu Yanxiu immediately retorted: "I only rewarded Qiqi with fifty silver taels! That's what she deserves!"

Su He sneered: "You have used 70% of your salary in the past two years to take care of Liu Qiuqiu and the other two. Why don't you think about whether the mansion needs expenses? Or do you think that since the mansion has my dowry, I will make up for the lack of money?"