The Marquis' Wife
Lu Cheng's Birthday

Today is Lu Cheng's birthday. In the morning, Adelia had prepared the things she had to prepare for her sister-in-law's birthday celebration.

Adelia cooks a long-lived noodle called yi mien noodles for Lu Cheng.

"Happy birthday Lu Cheng! I pray you are always healthy and can do what you want".

Lu Cheng stared at the longevity noodles for a moment then smiled sweetly making Adelia want to hug her sister but Lu Cheng immediately dodged, he was an adult and no longer deserved a hug from his sister-in-law.

"Thank you, Adel".

Lu Shan at the side clapped and sang the birthday song he learned from Adelia.

"Happy birthday~ happy birthday~ happy birthday Lu Cheng, good luck!!" He clapped his hands even more, very happy for the birthday celebration of his two-year-old brother with him.

"Sister, will Lu Cheng also get a surprise like my birthday?".

Adelia was choked by the tea she drank. He glanced at Lu Cheng who had no expression whatsoever but Lu Cheng's reply made him resigned.

"Of course Adel's brother will surprise me, he loves me very much. Perhaps the surprise of the celebration is greater than that of Lu Shan". A proud and showy tone was clearly heard from the voice of the 6-year-old.

Lu Shan was silent for a moment as if he was defeated by Lu Cheng.

"Sister Adel, Lu Cheng is an adult. He doesn't deserve a surprise like a kid like me. Isn't that Lu Cheng?".

Lu Cheng was at a loss for words, there was no way he would say that he was a child. He finally chose silence and ate up the long-lived noodles, ignoring the words of his sister.

Adelia who heard the conversation of her sister just smiled amusedly.

Lu Cheng was already 6 years old, although it would be difficult to surprise the little boy but mentally mature, but Adelia still wanted to make a surprise like Lu Cheng said.

Adelia took out three large ice cream boxes from the lotus space that had vanilla, chocolate and strawberry flavors, he then cut half and put it on top of each other in the form of three levels and began to decorate with fruits that he had cut into small pieces.

Adelia put a candle on it and nodded in satisfaction, the birthday ice cream is done. He put it in a wooden box and put it back in space so as not to melt.

To make the surprise, Adelia was forced to travel around Cheng city alone to make excuses about where the ice cream came from. Although the servants disagreed and Lu Cheng forbade but he insisted on doing so.

Fortunately, her pregnancy has just turned 3 months old so she can still move as usual. Adelia also decided to share the happiness of her family celebrating Lu Cheng's birthday by making a discount at her cake shop. This made people know that Lu Cheng was celebrating a birthday.

Some people even sent gifts for still wanting to establish a connection with Lu Xiang, though, manager Xu also sent a gift but the old man's intention was different because he wanted to become more and more with Adelia to accept the wine order from her.

Lu Cheng accidentally did not enter the living room that was being decorated to make it look surprise and pleasant Adelia. Although he focused on studying the teacher hired by Lu Xiang, the smile on his lips showed that he was in a good mood.

After the preparation, Adelia made a rosella wine that she had not had time to make because of the news of pregnancy and problems with the Liang family. He told Lu Mei and Lu Yan to finely grind the rosella flowers with a millstone and then start cooking them in a large pot and giving sugar after the rosella boiled water ripened.

Once ripe, Adelia lets it cool before giving the yeast and begins to close tightly with the middle classed as one finger and inserts a hose to allow oxygen and store it in the wine storage.

Unlike wine grapes, rosella wine has a low alcohol content of 10-14% only so it is suitable if consumed by women or people who are not strong to drink. In the modern world rosella wine is used as a cocktail because of the fragrant roses and refreshing red color.

While Adelia wanted to cook lunch for Lu Cheng and Lu Shan but her sisters pulled her from the kitchen thinking she was tired of processing rosella wine, Adelia complied with her sister's request.

Bored of doing nothing. Adelia picked up the paper and thought about the fate of her pastry shop when she moved to the city of Fucheng. It was impossible for him to leave Lu Niang and the other servants to run the cake shop because they were slaves, after all, people would definitely make trouble if he and Lu Xiang no longer lived in Cheng city.

For the past 10 months, with her introverted personality, Adelia has no close friends to talk about. He is more comfortable sitting at home and doing what he wants than socializing with women at tea events and so on.

Adelia's eyes shone when she recalled Xiaowen, perhaps the woman could continue her cake shop business if she talked to him.

Adelia was not afraid that Xiaowen would take advantage of her because Li Jin studied at the same Academy as Lu Xiang in Fucheng so the Li family would not dare to do that.

Adelia nodded in satisfaction at getting the person who would continue her cake business.

Evening small candles are turned on in the corner of the living room makes the room bright. Lu Cheng walked in with Lu Shan who originally wanted to close his brother's eyes like Lu Cheng did on his birthday but due to the high difference between the two Lu Shan sighed in disappointment and chose the lead Lu Cheng to enter the event room.

"Happy birthday Lu Cheng!!!". Adelia and all the servants said simultaneously.

Lu Cheng smiled happily. "Thank you Adel, thank you everyone".

Birthday ice cream Adelia put on the table with an ice cube foundation so that it does not melt easily. Although it was very strange to eat ice cream at night, Adelia still did it because she wanted to surprise Lu Cheng.

"Now make hope and blow out the candles".

Lu Cheng and Lu Shan looked at the cake that exuded a cold aura with shocked gazes. Lu Cheng closed his eyes in prayer and blew out the candle on the ice cream that had been given whipping cream.

The servants said happy birthday and gave a simple gift then Adelia gave a big gift to Lu Cheng.

"Thank you, Adel".

"Sister Adel, what is this cake?" The extremely curious Lu Shan directly asked.

"Hehe, this is ice cream made from ice".

"Is?!" The two boys were surprised.

"Yes. Now cut the ice cream, don't get too big because it's night".

Lu Cheng nodded enthusiastically. Lu Shan beside him had already licked his lips several times due to the sweet scent of ice cream he had never smelled before.

Lu Cheng gave the first piece to Adelia then Lu Shan and all the new servants finally he cut the ice cream for himself.

Everyone present there was shocked by the delicate and extremely sweet taste of the ice cream. Lu Shan even asked for another piece of ice cream but Adelia immediately held it back.

"Tomorrow you can eat it again. Tonight's enough for one piece because you'll get a stomachache if you eat a lot of ice cream".

Lu Shan was disappointed. Lu Feng looked enviously at Lu Cheng's birthday celebration, he wanted to celebrate the same thing yet he realized that it was all just a dream for him. He looked at the pieces of ice cream on the plate, ate them little by little trying to remember the strong taste of ice cream that he would not feel again.

Lu Fang and Lu Cai who saw him let out a heavy sigh because they knew what their son was thinking. The two of them also gave the ration of ice cream to his son making Lu Feng happy and ate the voracious ice cream no matter the cold that bit his teeth.

Finished eating Lu Cheng opened the gift of Adelia and looked at the backpack made of knitted.

"Is this brother?" Lu Cheng flipped through the bag in a daze.

"It's bag. You can put books and writing equipment in it".

"Eh! I want you too!" Lu Shan looked hopefully at Adelia.

"Yes. There is for you too". Adelia went to the room to pick up the bag and gave it to Lu Shan. Lu Cheng obtained a black bag with a blue zipper while Lu Shan got a beige bag with a brown zipper.

Lu Shan put it on then twisted his body with vigor and giggled happily. " Thank you, Brother Adel" He can't wait for tomorrow to wear a bag when studying.