The Marquis' Wife
Buying a home

As the selection exam began, all participants who passed the Hui-shih exam had prepared themselves and mentally accepted the fact that those at the bottom would fail and be eliminated.

The selection exam is conducted two waves, one wave only lasts one day and there is no holiday because all of it is just a formality. The question of the selection examination was not difficult enough either, they were simply told to answer about the holy book of Conficius and make their own poetry.

And it was certain that Lu Xiang was again the ranking head who led all the rankings, for the selection exam alone there was no survivor award from the yamen officer.

Due to being the ranking head in two consecutive exams, Lu Xiang became the center of attention of the family in the capital. Therefore, the congratulations and sketches and information about the family that sent the proposal reached Lu Xiang, all of whom wanted to be the wife of the honorary scholar.

"Sorry, I already have a wife in Fucheng City".Lu Xiang replied to every proposal that came to him. It made most families who felt that their legitimate daughter or concubine deserved to be Lu Xiang's wife retreat. They did not want to degrade the status of the family by sending their daughters to be concubines of poor men.

But not with Marquis Shan, he was the first man to send his concubine's daughter's proposal to become Lu Xiang's legal wife, he thought that with his status as a Marquis sending the daughter of a concubine was already a pride in itself for Lu Xiang.

And when he received a reply that his daughter's proposal was rejected, he became angry and wanted to meet directly with Lu Xiang to warn and threaten the man that this was the capital instead of the city of Fucheng, he also introduced himself as part of the maternal family of the fourth prince, Murong Xianxian.

But the news from Murong Xianxian's men who learned that the Emperor built a mill derived from the idea that Lu Xiang wrote on the answer paper made Marquis Shan change his mind because of the reprimands and messages from the prince fourth, not to make the man an enemy.

Finally Marquis Shan chose to go to Lu Xiang's and his friend's rental house and agreed to his daughter to become Lu Xiang's concubine even though the man had already rejected the proposal he had sent before.

"Where is Lu Xiang?, call him. Tell him Marquis Shan wants to meet him". Said the Marquis' servant haughtily.

Marquis Shan who was standing at the back immediately stepped in before Lu Cai allowed it. 

"Sorry Lord Marquis, the great lord is away and is not at home".

"He's not home? Then call him. How dare he disrespect a noble family like the Marquis, did he not know that the Marquis family was the fourth prince's maternal family?!".

Lu Cai's face turned pale, his legs became weak and almost fell to his knees yet he himself did not know where his great master went!!.

"Hamba does not know the great master went where the Marquis sir, please forgive the servant". Lu Cai immediately calmed down in fear.

The Marquis snorted furiously and sat down waiting but he was impatient and became humiliated by waiting for the person of lower status to him so he finally ordered for Lu Xiang to meet him at the Marquis residence and leave by annoyed.

Lu Xiang whom Marquis Shan was looking for was touring the inner city of Shenyang to look for a house and visit looking at the shop given by the Emperor, he said, the store is located in the middle of the inner city of Shenyang which is very trategic.

The store has twice the size of De Xiang store in Fucheng, not only that the store also has two houses behind it that can be lived by store employees, he said, one main house that has 4 rooms and one medium house that has two rooms.

After being satisfied to see the contents within the store, Lu Xiang finally searched for a house close to the store so that Adelia would not have to waste a lot of time on the street but after an hour of searching for information, he did not find any house that fit the criteria he wanted. Houses are sold between homes near the noisy city center and homes in the suburbs but small.

"Honorary scholar! we meet again". Ye Hemin who was walking leisurely enjoyed the crowd of the capital looking at Lu Xiang and greeted him enthusiastically.

Ye Hemin chuckled. "What are you doing alone without an honorary master's servant?".

Lu Xiang was a little concerned, that privacy question was not worth asking by the person who had just met with the times yet he still answered honestly. "I'm looking for a house".

"Oh yeah? It just so happened that I found out the agent who had the house information that was being sold. You need my help, honorary scholar?".

Lu Xian was silent for a moment, the offer was so tempting because it was not easy to get accurate information about the sale of the house because it did not have any background. "really? You want to help me healer Ye?".

"Of course, our second meeting signifies that we are already destitute so I help you if you please".

Lu Xiang goosebumps hearing the word fate from Ye Hemin's mouth, his eyes staring strangely and judging whether the man before him had any unusual hobbies.

That judgmental and suspicious look made Ye Hemin's head vein pop out from being so upset and speechless, though, he intended to help because sooner or later Lu Xiang would definitely enter the crown prince faction but this damn reaction made him feel like kicking the sincerity he had just felt.

"Why are you looking at me like that? Don't you want me to help, then...". Feeling so upset made Ye Hemin involuntarily bring out his true nature which was a haughty feeling commonly possessed by noble children.

"Tabib Ye, of course I'm very pleased. Let's go healer Ye?". Lu Xiang's eyes glowed mysteriously, he had already met many kinds of scholars and circles, especially after arriving at the capital and taking the examination together with scholars from various walks of life. He was sure that Ye Hemin was not a normal healer, the temperament that the man had brought out was like the noble son he had seen during his time in the capital.

Ye Hemin snorted furiously, he flapped his big, long sleeves and stepped arrogantly, it was useless to act with Lu Xiang, the sharp rays in the male's eyes made him convinced that he was beginning to suspect his background.

The two went to the teahouse shop, Ye Hemin called someone and introduced Lu Xiang.

"Include this Ming Baixin, he's an expert in finding information and knows a lot of information circulating in the capital".

"It's nice to meet you Xiao Xieyuan".

"It's nice to meet you gongzhi". Seeing the temperament of the Ming Baixin noble, Lu Xiang decided to summon gongzhi even though the clothes he was wearing were just ordinary hanfu.

Ming Baixin glanced at Ye Hemin then chuckled, she then introduced any house sold by the owner, all three went to the three houses that Ming Baixin recommended. After looking and appraising, Lu Xiang finally chose to buy a house in the inner suburbs of Shenyang that was not too far from his shop.

The house has 5 houses, 1 main house that is quite large and 4 side houses, the house also has a front, side and back yard that is wide enough so that it can make events in it.

"Thank you Ming Baixin, thank you physician Ye. You guys helped me a lot today. If you don't mind, I'd like to treat you both to a drink in return for your help".

"No problem".

"Let's go".