Contentment with modest wealth

Chapter 209 Husband, let's catch them in the act!

Jiang's muddled mind cleared instantly, and after a moment's hesitation, she sprang up from the bed!
Lu Jia?

In the middle of the night with a young man?
She jumped down quickly: "What kind of men are they? Are they still outside the side gate?"

"He was here just now, but I don't know where he is now. It was so dark that I couldn't see his face, but I know he was burly and must be a young man! I was in a hurry to come in and report, so I didn't have time to think about that!"

Madam Jiang thought for a moment: "Go and see if anyone is in Yixia Courtyard! That girl is always cunning, so don't fall into her trap."

Last time, we fell into Du Mama's trap.

The maidservant at the door left.

When she returned, she was panting heavily: "Madam, the eldest young lady is indeed not in the room! Just now, I had someone throw a stray cat into the room, and there wasn't a sound inside! It's clear that not only is the eldest young lady not here, but even her maid is not here!"

"Is it?"

Jiang stood in the room, grinning coldly, then immediately went back to the bedside to get dressed: "Go to the study and wake the master! Go quickly!"

She was a pampered wife of a high-ranking official, who was used to having everything done for her. But at this moment, she dressed herself with remarkable efficiency and then picked up a lantern and walked towards the front yard!

It was she who overlooked it.

Lu Jia grew up away from home for so many years and picked up a lot of bad habits. So what's so strange about her having been involved with other men in private?

What good things can you learn from a merchant family?

I'd suspected something was off about her for a while!
There's no way a merchant woman like her could have such power to manipulate things in Shawan!
She must have someone backing her up!
Sure enough, I guessed it right!
That brat actually has someone, and he might even be her lover already!

This shameless girl, in order to get revenge on her stepmother, actually went so far as to seduce a man to join her in the attack, she has utterly disgraced the Lu family!

No wonder she got the right to freely enter and leave the mansion from Lu Jie before entering; it turns out it was to make it easier to meet her lover in secret!

Just when I was worried about how to persuade Lu Jie to make up his mind, the opportunity came along.

We sent Guo Lu to keep watch for so long without getting any results, but now it's come to us for free!
She wanted to see if the Minister would still keep her by his side and pamper her after seeing his precious daughter, whom he had just regained, make such a disgraceful appearance, or if he would rather listen to the Yan family's idea and agree to send her to the Shen family to carry out a mission.
There was a breeze in the courtyard.

The wind that rose from beneath her feet was even stronger than the evening breeze.

Lu Jie was not asleep either.

The problem that the Yan family presented to him was really difficult to solve.

The key point is that Yan Shu also mentioned that this was an idea suggested by Chiang Kai-shek, making it even more difficult for him to refuse outright.

If there's really no other solution, then letting Lu Jia marry Shen Qingzhou would be acceptable. At least she'd be from a respectable family.

But since it was Jiang's idea, and she was so unwilling for Lu Ying to marry into the Yan family, would it really be Lu Jia who was sent to the Shen family?
Before Yan Shu left that day, he told him to think about it for three days before giving an answer. Tomorrow will be the third day, but he still hasn't found a way to resolve the issue.

When Lu Rong knocked on his door and said that Madam Jiang had something urgent to discuss with him at the West Corner Gate, his mind was still racing.

But Jiang's move came so suddenly that it left people bewildered, and he had no choice but to go.

After getting dressed, Jiang arrived at the West Corner Gate, just as the old woman under the gate had arrived and was listening to her report.

“I shouldn’t have disturbed your rest, but things happened so suddenly that I had to let you see for yourself.” As she spoke, Madam Jiang walked to the foot of the courtyard wall and looked out through the latticed window.

Across the alley outside the side gate, a man and a woman stood very close together, their posture quite ambiguous.

The distance was only a few feet, but Lu Jie clearly saw the cloak on the woman whose back was to him, and his expression froze.

This scarlet peacock feather cloak was a new one that Lu Jia had ordered made after returning to the manor. She wore it every day during the snowy days a while ago, and everyone in the manor was familiar with it!

“If the master doesn’t see it with his own eyes, you naturally won’t believe me.” Madam Jiang’s voice was cold and icy. “I knew this girl was a bit rough around the edges, but considering the hardships she had endured since childhood, I was very tolerant of her even when she was at odds with me.”

"I never expected her to do such a shameless thing! My Lu family has been a family of scholars for generations, and we value etiquette and rules the most. As the eldest daughter of the Lu family, how can she be so presumptuous?!"

Lu Jie's face was gloomy. He was about to turn around when he saw the two people under the carriage get into the carriage one after the other. Then the coachman turned the horse around and drove the carriage out of the alley!

Upon seeing this, Jiang was startled and immediately ordered, "Prepare the carriage!"

Lu Jie, who was still staring at the carriage, suddenly grabbed her wrist and looked away: "What are you going to do?"

Madam Jiang said, "Of course we should go and bring them back! How can the eldest daughter of the Lu family be allowed to embarrass herself in public? I want to see who dares to steal our young lady's innocence!"

Lu Jie looked at her for a moment: "If you go, Jia'er will lose all face. You are her mother, do you really want this?"

"What face or not?" Madam Jiang raised her head and sneered, "Meeting with a man in the middle of the night and doing something that deserves to be hanged, and you still care about face?"

“Since you know that I am her mother, you should also know that I have a responsibility to discipline her!”

"These scoundrels outside are harming your own daughter. Doesn't the master want to catch them on the spot and teach his daughter a lesson?"

Lu Jie raised an eyebrow and released his grip: "Then it's your opinion."

Jiang turned around and urged again, "Quickly prepare the carriage! Follow them!"

……

Lu Jia and Shen Qingzhou finished eating a chicken and stretched their arms and legs on Qinghe's bed to digest for a while, when they heard a pecking sound coming from outside the window.

Fuxiao walked in with bright eyes and nodded to her: "Miss, you can go out now."

Lu Jia readily put on his silver cloak, had Fu Xiao hold the lantern, and headed towards Zhaoyang Pavilion where Lu Ying was staying.

The two sisters live on opposite sides of the street, and have not yet visited each other privately.

"Why is Miss here?"

After knocking on the courtyard gate, the old woman inside looked on with surprise.

Lu Jia rubbed her hands together. "I can't sleep, so I came to talk to my sister. Is she asleep?"

The old woman glanced back, but Lu Ying had already appeared at the window, then put on her coat and came out to greet her.
"elder sister?"

Lu Jia walked in, looked at her thin clothes and her equally shocked expression, and reached out to pull them up for her: "I just had a nightmare about how I got lost back then, and I can't fall asleep anymore."

Lu Ying's chest heaved slightly, and she quickly pulled her in, saying, "Come in quickly!"