The Marquis' Wife
Miao Sheng was angry at the Miao family

Lu Xiang walked into the room and looked at Adelia who was already fast asleep, he realized the presence of his wife while warning the servants and was afraid that his wife would feel disappointed for his actions so he dared to enter the room when it was late at night.

He stroked Adelia's cheek and smiled gently, Lu Cheng said that Adelia was like a light and he felt that his wife was the sun that removed all the darkness in his life.

Lu Xiang broke down and carefully hugged Adelia. "I'm sorry baby if you're disappointed".

Adelia scrunched her forehead feeling disturbed then muttered softly. "Lu Xiang's".

Just as the heavy feeling in his heart simply vanished, Lu Xiang smiled and kissed Adelia's forehead before following along to dreamland.

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In the morning, the atmosphere in Lu Xiang's family changed slightly normally. The servants got up early and finished their work before Adelia got up and helped the girl in making the cake with a respectful and obedient attitude.

Adelia was silent because she knew the reason they had changed. He made breakfast and ate with his family in a warm and harmonious atmosphere.

But it was different from the situation in the Miao family home. In the morning Miao Sheng came home after permission from the academy with a feeling of anger. While he was having breakfast, people who did not like him came over and jeered him.

"Hei Miao Sheng, I heard you studied with your dead aunt's dowry money huh?".

Miao Sheng's face changed. He had noticed something was wrong from yesterday afternoon because some people were looking strangely at him but his friends said nothing so he thought that the strange gaze was caused because they knew that Lu Xiang was also his brother-in-law but it turned out that he was wrong!.

"Why didn't you answer? I heard Lu Xiang's wife is your cousin and your family didn't even give her a dowry, wow your family is amazing!".

Miao Sheng stood up quickly. "I don't understand what you're saying". He immediately left the canteen with a sour face.

"God! Hypocrites".

Miao Sheng pushed the door of the house firmly to the point of making a huge impact sound made Li Mei and Lien Hua who were cleaning the house surprised.

"Miao Sheng's. What are you coming home for? Didn't you go to school today?" Li Mei was delighted and approached her proud son.

Miao Sheng took a deep breath trying to calm the turbulent emotions within his chest. "Mother, did you go to Adelia's pastry shop yesterday?".

"Huh?" The cold voice of her son made Li Mei stunned.

"Answer question!!!" Shouted Miao Sheng scolded.

Li Mei was startled and rewinded her steps, staring fearfully at her son, this was the first time she saw Miao Sheng so angry that he snapped at her. Lien Hua also did not expect that the famous merciful and ever-present Miao Sheng could shout like a madman, he immediately went to the kitchen to avoid getting rubbed and was the target of the man's impingement.

"I-I did go to Adelia's shop".

"Why did you go, Mom? Didn't I tell you that you can leave before my permission?!"

The ferocious red eyes made Li Mei even more afraid.

"grandmother. Did you force my mom to go to Adelia's bakery?". Miao Sheng tried hard not to burst out to vanish all the resentment, hatred, envy and jealousy towards Lu Xiang who was stored in his heart to become an abyss that slowly devoured the rationality he had.

"Well! That damn grandson, he doesn't know himself very well. If I hadn't fed him he would have been dead a long time ago. I just asked for cake and money, the bitch asked her husband to throw me out..."

"Why did grandma do that?! Grandma destroyed all the reputations I built!!!" Devastated was already the patience he held tightly in his soul, what Miao Sheng thought at this moment was to vent out all the emotions present within him.

Grandma Miao Lan was stunned. "You yell at me? Your grandma?". It was like he did not recognize his grandson who always respected him.

"Did grandma know that my friends at the Academy were mocking me using the aunt's money that was supposed to be Adelia's dowry to study?!! Don't you know how embarrassed I was when they said that!!! How can I take the exam if no friend wants to be my guarantee?!! Do you realize what you're doing Grandma?! You ruined my future!!".

Miao Lan's grandmother was pensive, she could not say anything and could only look blankly at the cruel expression of her beloved granddaughter to him. His heart crumpled until he could not breathe for a moment.

"Mi-Miao Sheng" Li Mei tried to calm her son with trembling hands.

Miao Sheng brushed aside his mother's hand and entered the room by slamming the door. He did not dare to return to the academy because of the ridicule of his friend but could not also rent a house or inn for him to live in because he did not have more money. Again he hated the state of his family and hated why he was not born from the family of being.

After the incident the relationship between Miao Sheng and Miao Lan's grandmother became tenuous, they rarely talked and only spoke as necessary. However, Miao Lan's grandmother still gave money to Miao Sheng so that his granddaughter could continue her schooling, already a lot of money he spent for Miao Sheng until now made him not willing to dismiss his grandson's school that would take the exam and waste the money he had spent.

Perhaps things will turn out the way they were after Miao Sheng passed the test and became a Xiucai scholar or even a Juren. All of this happened because Adelia's fault for not giving her money, that's what Miao Lan's grandmother thought. The patriarchy that clings to the bone is very difficult to remove from his mindset.

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Time passed quickly, today Lu Xiang was going to Qincheng city to enroll to take the examination with Chen Xirang and three other fellows through Zhao Fan.

These past two months, Lu Xiang had managed to develop his knowledge and get into A grade. In addition to copying books for sale, Lu Xiang spent his time studying and teaching Adelia to learn ancient Chinese.

Lu Cheng and Lu Shan had also recognized and memorized a quarter of the elementary books that the children had to learn with the help of the teacher Lu Xiang had hired.

Two months passed without any interruption after the incident of Grandma Miao Lan coming to make a riot in Adelia's shop. Lu Xiang knew because Miao Sheng was warning his family because his reputation was starting to decline so that the outgoing could only live their day comfortably.

"This is lotus well water, if you feel tired of drinking this water and this is the provision for your journey. Oho! Don't forget the money" Adelia was busy explaining to Lu Xiang for her husband's trip to be comfortable.

Lu Xiang smiled silently at his wife's soft voice and returned the money Adelia gave him. "I still have money saved".

"But what if something happens and you need money to use? Just keep it, I'm sure you'll need it". Adelia pushed the bag of money into Lu Xiang's chest and went back to check on her husband's luggage.

"Lu Xiang's! We've come".

Chen Xirang as well as three other men got off the horse carriage, they had previously agreed to use Chen Xirang and Lu Xiang's carriage because only the two of them had a horse carriage.

Adelia turned her head and was surprised to see a man smiling forcefully at her. Her eyes widened and looked at her husband asking for an explanation.

Why is Miao Sheng here?!