The Marquis' Wife
New year's preparations

Winter came earlier than usual to make Cheng city covered in white by thick snow to make people reluctant to leave the house.

Since winter comes and the brown fruit runs out of stock because it is no longer the harvest season, fuyuan's restaurant asked for the last stock they brought to Adelia to have the chocolates produced be handed over all to Fuyuan's restaurant without leaving a portion for the girl as was done before.

In the capital there are already plagiarized recipes of liquid chocolate made by Adelia after knowing the source of the fruit but they are made no more delicious than the artificial Adelia soaked in the fruit with lotus well water first before fermenting it so the girl's business with manager Xu had no effect.

The lack of chocolate stock makes Adelia no longer peddle chocolate tarts for sale and only sells red velvet tarts and fruit tarts, cupcakes of various colors and cream-rich snow tarts.

Adelia only accepts limited chocolate cake orders from customers who have 10 silver vouchers, making chocolate cakes a high-end cake that can only be tasted by certain people.

Adelia inserted hot chocolate while staring at the snow falling from the sky from behind the glass window she had installed before. She has not been in this world for nearly half a year with her husband and sisters.

A pair of burly hands hugged Adelia from behind without a word and joined in staring at the wordless snowflakes. Lu Xiang kissed his wife's shoulders, neck and cheeks before Adelia dodged. "Don't bother me"

"The view outside is not as beautiful as the face of your husband Adelia. Do you not love me anymore?" Lu Xiang complained in a cute tone.

Adelia was dumbfounded and speechless about her husband's confident nonsense, she snorted in disbelief.

"The more days you're getting narcissistic my husband, am I feeding you so much that your narcissists are going up some level instead of your weight? Looks like I have to cut down on your meal rations" Adelia said with a serious face but a joking tone.

Lu Xiang chuckled softly, he whispered to his wife. "If you reduce my ration then you will have to compensate with the other rations".

The low and sexy voice made Adelia's face flushed red due to what compensation her husband was talking about. "You...". He let out a long sigh, the thicker Lu Xiang's face the more he couldn't win against the word with the man.

Lu Xiang let out a crisp laugh then again kissed Adelia's cheek a few times.

"Three more days Lu Shan's birthday as well as the new year, I've prepared a small party and the card. What else do you think I should prepare?" Adelia immediately switched the conversation as Lu Xiang's hand started to descend to her waist.

Lu Xiang was silent for a moment and then replied. "You can prepare yi mien".

Yi mien is a long-lived noodle that is made very long symbolizing healthy life to old, usually yi mien is made by a mother on her child.

Adelia realized that she had misspoken, she changed the subject again. "Do you think I should pay a visit to the Miao family home?".

Visiting on new year's day is a hereditary tradition in the Murong Kingdom, a major holiday used by children who have families to visit their parents' homes, especially girls who live far from their families.

Lu Xiang noticed his wife's expression that didn't want to make him sad with the past, his eyes radiating gentleness and came back to shower Adelia with a brief kiss. "Do you want to visit?".

Adelia thought for a moment and then nodded. "Miao Sheng is a group with you, it would be a matter of people if I didn't visit my grandmother's house". She did not want herself to be a burden on her husband who was about to take the test.

"But I don't want to give them a lot of gifts" Adelia blushed her lips with an unwilling expression. Let people say that he is stingy, he does not want to please people who only make trouble for him.

Adelia's eyes shone when she found a solution to her problem. "I'll wrap up neat and fancy but it's just a normal gift let people think that we're giving the Miao family a special gift, hehe although Miao's grandmother and aunt complained but no one would believe it" He laughed cunningly at the expression of his grandmother when he saw the contents of the gift they brought.

Lu Xiang smiled amusedly at the sly expression of his wife who was like a little fox who was sifting through something.

"We should also prepare gifts for the village chief and village elder Miao as well" Lu Xiang added.

Adelia nodded in agreement.

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Lunar New Year is the day awaited by the people in Murong Kingdom, people are busy preparing to welcome the big day by cleaning the house inside out, and the, changing the decor of the room with a lively red color and installing lanterns typical of the Chinese people in red inside or outside their homes makes the atmosphere of the city festive and filled with blessings.

So was Lu Xiang's family home, too, the servants were busy installing lanterns in every corner of the house and changing the decor of the house or changing the furniture of the house with the new make Lu Shan and Lu Cheng who rarely saw the celebration in their home feel happy and growing up.

De Xiang's cake shop had been closed for three days to welcome the Lunar celebration but cake orders continued to arrive at Adelia's house, making the girl finally decide to only accept orders from a few people, only for a few, although many are disappointed but they do not say anything because they know that it is impossible to accept all orders of the cake.

At night Adelia put on a winter jacket, gloves and a knit tiger head hat with a blend of black yellow to the heads of Lu Shan and Lu Cheng.

Lu Shan looked at the hand wrapped in gloves with the same pattern, Lu Shan, clenching her hands and releasing a few times then raising her head looking at the cute hat on her head and smiling at Adelia made the girl's heart melt and feel anxious.

After eating healthily and regularly for these few months as well as thanks to the water of the lotus well, Lu Shan and Lu Cheng grew fat filled up, and, the dull yellow faces both turned pure white with puffed cheeks like most other little ones like a lucky child on a gift sticker.

Especially after wearing a hairy red jacket adds the cute impression of the two boys. Adelia was unable to contain herself and tightly hugged her sister-in-law and kissing her made Lu Shan giggle.

Lu Cheng let out a long sigh looking at the reflection of himself in the glass mirror, his mouth throbbing speechless staring at how cute he was right now, there was no impression of elegance and a little prestige of him like his brother.

"Sister Adel, is his hat nothing else?" Lu Cheng closed his eyes and flipped over, unable to see any more of his radiance in the mirror.

"Why? Don't you like this tiger hat? I have other hats such as a rabbit hat with long ears, a fox hat with pointed ears or a deer hat with horns. Which one do you want?" Adelia ordered a few sets of cute knit gloves and hats for each of her sisters.

Lu Cheng was stunned, his mouth opened with a face resignedly accepting his fate.