The Marquis' Wife
Dinner and Lu Lian

Lu Xiang no longer wanted to deal with anyone who was part of the Lu family. He wrote a letter to the mastermind yesterday warning that he would report all his bitter experiences to mayor Li if Lu Huanran still dared to tell his brother to come to Lu Xiang.

He sent the warning letter through the yamen officer in Cheng city, Xie Hsien's title made it easy to ask for help.

Adelia also did not want her husband to be hurt by the shameless Lu family. He dressed up like a mother with the ability to make up hers then wear high heels similar to the shoes of this world design so that no one recognizes her and then pay the homeless to find out who the family who disliked Lu Ho and Lu Haocun then paid the bum to put the two damn uncles into a large rice sack and beat him to pieces.

Adelia used the enemies of the two Lu brothers to become scapegoats, not only that Adelia also paid the bum to provide information about the two who broke off the brotherly relationship with Xie Hsien because they did not want to pay for the medical expenses of Xie Hsien's mother.

Adelia made sure the news went viral in Lu village which is quite far from Cheng city. Although the news will be the lips of the people, but attacking first is more efficient than finding a solution to what the incident spread without preparation.

Adelia did not hide what she was doing from her husband. Lu Xiang was overwhelmed by what his wife was doing. He kissed Adelia's lips and said. "I love you Adel".

The atmosphere in Lu Xiang's house returned to normal. Adelia got the high-quality grapes from Xu's manager after waiting for almost half a month, she processed the fruit and fermented it into a high-quality wine.

Lu Xiang also returned to the academy, now he and his friends who passed the exam have their own study classes to prepare for the next exam, the fu-shih exam.

Today, Lu Xiang invited the friend who passed the exam along with him to go to dinner at home as a celebration of having passed the exam together.

"Eh! You never invited us home before. Is it going to rain today?" Chen Xirang teased Lu Xiang while staring at the sky outside of the classroom.

"You don't want to come, either..."

"Hey hey friend. Who wouldn't want to come? I never said that, you can't be joking around".

Shao Yunan chuckled at the side. "Why do you always seek your own defeat Xirang. Realize, you can never win over Lu Xiang".

"We'll be there on time". Zhang Yunlei smiled and nodded in agreement.

"Bring your wives along".

Instantly Zhang Yunlei, Chen Xirang and Shao Yunan were flat-faced.

"You!" Say them simultaneously. The three are not married because they focus on learning, after all students like them will be late to marry because they want to find the best wife after getting a college degree. Therefore their speech was like an arrow piercing their body.

Lu Xiang did not feel guilty at all and instead smiled proudly and sympathetically at his friend at the same time.

"What about you Miao Sheng?" He actually did not want to make friends with this man so rarely invite him to talk and Miao Sheng also did not want to talk first which made him comfortable. But he could not stay silent without taking Adelia's cousin.

"Sorry brother-in-law. I can't come, grandma is sick from falling unconscious she was the other day" Miao Sheng didn't want to go and see Lu Xiang become focused even outside the academy.

His rationality told him to be close to Lu Xiang but he was very hard to run under the jealousy and envy stored in his chest, especially after Lu Xiang became Xie Hsien. It was hard to express joy with the man.

Lu Xiang was surprised. "Grandmother Miao Lan is sick what?".

Miao Sheng was silent for a moment. "Grandmother is old and sick" There's no way she's saying that her grandmother fell unconscious from shock hearing Lu Xiang become Xie Hsien!.

"I'm sorry. I'll report to Adelia". Lu Xiang did not promise to visit.

"Okay sister-in-law, thank you".

As the atmosphere became silent, both Chen Xirang and Shao Yunan looked at each other awkwardly. He knew Lu Xiang and Miao Sheng's relationship was not good because the Miao family so it was not surprising that Lu Xiang rarely invited his wife's cousin to speak, according to them Lu Xiang had been kind enough to help Miao Sheng take the exam because it was easy enough to make the man fail because he had no student guarantor if Lu Xiang wanted to do it but a friend they do not do that and instead help, it is more enough to show the integrity of a student according to them.

"Can we come too?" A young man who was also in a special class approached Lu Xiang and broke the silence. He wanted to build a good friendship with the Xie Hsien.

"Of course Li Jin. I invited everyone home for dinner". Lu Xiang said.

Other classmates also approached Lu Xiang and talked and asked questions they did not understand. Lu Xiang patiently attended to all the conversations he had been having.

Miao Sheng who was sitting next to Shao Yunan looked darkly at Lu Xiang who was the center of attention then lowered his gaze.

Lu Xiang was silent for a moment. He actually wanted to spend time at home with Adelia rather than socializing with other students he did not know but he knew that he had to socialize to develop connections, maybe it'll help when he needs it. He also nodded in agreement.

"I'll join in".

Zhang Yunlei smiled happily. "Well, tomorrow I'll bring you an invitation".

"Thank you for bringing me Yunlei".

"It's nothing. Many people want to meet and meet you".

Lu Xiang returned home and told him how many people would come later tonight so that his wife would not be surprised and would not provide enough food.

"alright. I'll cook the hotpot as the main meal and 3 desserts. Lu Xiang, please bring out the fruit wine from the basement". The most suitable winter food is hotpot, the food menu that must be cooked by yourself from the ingredients that have been prepared.

"Ready wife".

After lunch, Lu Xiang returned to the academy and Adelia was busy preparing for the dinner together with Lu Fang and Lu Lian.

"Mrs. Does the lady want to make a dinner?" Lu Lian asked as she cut the ingredients.

"Yes. Lu Xiang invited his friend over for dinner together".

Lu Lian's eyes glowed. "Madam, will the madam also accompany the master to dinner with her student friend?".

Adelia stopped her movements wanting to taste the cuisine then smiled wryly but her eyes showed astonishment. "Yes, they'll also take their wives".

"really? Then can I ik..."

"Lu Lian!" Lu Fang immediately cut off his son's words.

The astonished light missing from Adelia's eyes changed with a sharp radiance but she immediately smiled. "You want to come?"

Lu Lian nodded sharply. "Yes, madam".

"Alright, you can come along, Lu Fang and Lu Niang will also join in to serve the guests".

Lu Lian's smile froze. "But-but...".

"We'll do well madam. We won't let you down".

"I know you can be relied upon".

"Hamba and Lu Lian please excuse me for a moment madam".

Adelia nodded without a word.

"Lu Lian, come with me to the room for a second". Lu Fang whispered and pulled his son to follow him.

The look on Adelia's face changed, she looked forward and thought that she needed a new servant. He had already noticed the strangeness of his little servant when he caught him looking at Lu Xiang enjoying a meal.

However Adelia did not think that far because of Lu Lian's age who was only 12. In the modern world the little girl is just about to graduate elementary school and not even know dating yet but Lu Lian's question makes her think far because she is only a slave and the number of historical novels that she has read made him pick up on the signal from the girl's eyes.

Adelia was worried, on the one hand he could not bear and would feel guilty selling another 12-year-old girl to a nui bureaucracy but on the other he did not want to regret saving a rat that would bite his employer.

His rationality said that Lu Lian should be sold to avoid regret in the future but his heart felt heavy to do so, after all, if he decided to return Lu Lian to the nui bureaucracy, it would make his family's heart cold.

But what if something that made her regret happened? He could neither read minds nor the future, it would be very difficult to dodge the ten thousand arrows.