SFS Chapter 156 A Little Joke
Chapter 156 A Little Joke
The carriage rushed into the city, and after circling the West City District several times, it stopped in front of a small courtyard with black tiles and white walls.
The man wearing a black cap was carried down and pushed in a wheelchair. Not long after, a blue sedan chair carried by two people was carried out from the back door, passed through the bustling market, and entered from the west door of the Lu Mansion.
The curtain of the sedan chair was opened, revealing a scholarly face, whose eyebrows and eyes were 50% similar to Lu Chengjing.
Compared to Lu Chengjing's coldness, this person has a gentle temperament, with naturally upturned corners of his lips. Even if he is not smiling, he seems to be smiling a little, looking friendly and approachable.
But in Shang Wan's eyes, all the friendliness and approachability were just hypocrisy and deserved a beating.
This person is Lu Chengyuan, whom Shang Wan wants to get rid of but cannot do so for the time being.
The servant had already prepared a wheelchair and pushed Lu Chengyuan to the study in the front yard. After meeting Mr. Lu, he went to the main courtyard to pay his respects to Mrs. Lu, and then returned to Lu Chengyuan's own courtyard.
Shang Wan had been following quietly, and seeing that Lu Chengyuan always had a smile on his face towards everyone, she cursed him again in her heart for being hypocritical.
Lu Chengyuan's yard is the best and largest yard in the entire Lu Mansion except for the main yard. The yard is planted with flowers and trees and is well tended. You can smell the fragrance of flowers as soon as you enter the yard.
Li got the news and waited at the gate of the courtyard early. She took over the job of pushing the wheelchair with a smile and pushed Lu Chengyuan to the bedroom.
Lu Chengyuan asked, "Have you packed your luggage?"
The smile on Li's lips froze, but when Lu Chengyuan turned around to look at her, it rose again.
"Everything is packed. Clothes and other things for all four seasons, especially your books and manuscripts, are all placed in a separate box."
Lu Chengyuan raised his hand and placed it on the back of her fair hand that was pushing the wheelchair, and sighed softly, "Are you blaming me for not taking you with me?"
Li's forced smile faded and she didn't answer.
"You are going to Beijing to study. If you bring your family with you, you will have to stay at your uncle's house, which will be very inconvenient and may cause you and your children to suffer."
Li said, "I am not afraid of being wronged."
Lu Chengyuan held her hand a little harder, his voice soft, "It's just one year. I will come back to take part in the autumn examination in a year. If I am lucky enough to pass, I will bring you and the child to Beijing, and our family will never be separated again."
Hearing him say this, Li couldn't help choking up and tears filled her eyes.
"It's fine for me, but the children have never been separated from you for so long. Yun Yao just threw herself into my arms and cried, saying that she couldn't bear to see her father go."
Lu Yunyao is their youngest daughter, only five years old this year, at the age when she is clingy and playful.
Thinking of his little daughter's cute face, Lu Chengyuan's expression softened a bit, "I'll go see the two children later."
"Tell them nicely, don't wait until you're gone before they come to bother me." Li wiped away the tears from her eyes with a handkerchief and said jokingly, "Then my daughter will cry in front of me every day. See if you feel sorry for her."
The little daughter is indeed a crybaby. Lu Chengyuan sighed, "Don't spoil her too much. Mother likes Yunyao, so let Yunyao go to mother more often and talk to mother."
Li was not happy about it, but she agreed, "I'm at home, don't worry about it."
Lu Chengyuan chuckled and said, "With such a virtuous wife, what else could a husband ask for?"
Li's pretty face turned red, she gently hit him on the shoulder, and pushed him to continue walking towards the bedroom.
Lu Chengyuan changed into casual clothes and turned his wheelchair to the study.
Manager Liu had already been waiting here. When he saw Lu Chengyuan coming in on a wheelchair, he immediately bowed and called out, "Young Master."
Lu Chengyuan nodded, "Sit down and talk. Have you found out what happened?"
Manager Liu didn't dare to sit down, and his butt just touched the edge of the stool.
Facing this kind-hearted young master, his tone was respectful, even with a hint of subtle fear.
"Master, I have checked carefully. The contract is indeed stamped with your personal seal, only a small pattern is missing in the corner. According to the boss of the carriage and horse shop, the one who signed the contract should be the third young master - uh, Lu Chengjing."
When he heard the name, an outstanding face suddenly appeared in front of Lu Chengyuan.
The expression on that face was always cold and distant, as if no matter what happened it could not attract his attention at all, which was very different from the cute and obedient child he was when he was a child.
His fingers slowly rubbed the edge of the armrest for a while, and his voice was like a sigh, "After all, you have the blood of the Lu family, so in front of me from now on, you should still call me by the original name."
Manager Liu quickly responded and asked carefully, "Why does the Third Young Master have your private seal in his hand?"
"He likes to carve things. It was just a little toy he made for his game. He wanted to play a harmless joke on me, his brother. It's okay. He won't use it again."
Lu Chengyuan didn't take it to heart and spoke in a normal tone, acting like a good brother who was tolerant of his younger brother.
Manager Liu secretly sighed that the Third Young Master was not grateful for what he had. The Third Young Master did such a thing, and only the First Young Master indulged him, but he never gave the First Young Master a good face, like a heartless, cold-blooded monster.
There was silence in the study for a moment.
The maid brought in tea. Lu Chengyuan picked up the teacup, lowered his head and sniffed the tea fragrance but did not drink it. The hot steam blurred his soft eyebrows.
The dripping water in the room made a uniform ticking sound, and in the quiet study, even the smallest sound was amplified.
Manager Liu felt inexplicably nervous, and cold sweat gradually seeped out of his slightly bent back. Just as he was about to say something, he suddenly heard Lu Chengyuan ask, "How is Third Brother doing?"
The tone was as gentle as ever.
Manager Liu swallowed hard, and while recalling Lu Chengjing's appearance that day, he replied, "The Third Young Master was sitting in a wheelchair. He looked good, but he was still as thin as before, and his clothes were all worn out."
As he spoke, Manager Liu couldn't help but add something to his own opinion, "That evil slave refused to obey the rules. The Third Young Master didn't even say anything, but she shouted at me to kill me. She didn't know the difference between the superior and the inferior and didn't know the etiquette. I guess she has done many things to bully her master."
Her long eyelashes cast a light shadow under her eyes. Lu Chengyuan pinched the tea lid and scraped it across the edge of the tea bowl, making a slight scraping sound.
The voice was not pleasant. Manager Liu's voice instantly weakened and he barely finished it. He tilted his head and carefully glanced at Lu Chengyuan's face.
Lu Chengyuan didn't look at him, staring at the tea and asked, "Is your injury better, Third Brother?"
How did Manager Liu know?
He said carefully: "The Third Young Master is still in a wheelchair. I guess his leg injury hasn't healed completely yet. The injury on his hand is covered by his sleeves and can't be seen."
"How is my third brother's wife?" Lu Chengyuan stopped fiddling with the teacup, put it on the desk, and looked up at Manager Liu.
Manager Liu felt his back tighten. "The Third Young Master's wife has changed a lot. When that evil slave beat me, she was cheering beside him. She was never like this before. Now she has changed a lot after leaving the mansion."
"People always change when they move to a new place." Lu Chengyuan murmured, and continued to ask, "I heard that my third brother's wife suddenly learned martial arts?"