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The leaves have withered and yellow and fallen. When the spring breeze blows next year, the flowers and plants will turn green again.
Several grand carriages drove out from the south gate one after another. The lively people inquired with people. Only then did they learn that today was the year when the late Grandpa of the Duke of Chu was the late Grandpa. The Duke of Chu led a family to the clan tomb to worship.
The carriage left in a row and gradually came to a mountain road. Because many noble families in the capital built their ancestral tombs in Pingshan, in order to please the nobles, the construction site of this mountain road was even flatter than the official road, and the carriage of the Duke's Mansion was stable, so you could hardly feel the bumps when sitting in the car.
"Let Tang Tang go." Lu Mingyu was holding his son who had just turned one year old. Brother Zhen started to sleep after coming out of the Duke's mansion. He woke up and was whispering to eat milk. Lu Mingyu was about to untidy when the car suddenly lit up. He looked up and saw his daughter leaning over to the window and lifting the curtains, and quickly said softly.
Tangtang still held the curtains with his little hands and looked back at his mother.
Lu Mingyu looked at his son and coaxed helplessly: "Mom wants to feed her brother, so she can't show it to others."
Tangtang was very sensible and turned around to put down the curtains. When he turned around, he saw his father leaning over on a horse. Tangtang suddenly forgot his mother's instructions, and raised his face and asked the tall man on the horse, "Dad, are you hot? I'm so hot in the car."
In late May, the sun is scorching, and it is the hottest time.
"Dad is not hot." Chu Xing slowed down and walked side by side with the carriage. When he looked down at his daughter, he looked inside and saw his fat and fat son keep pushing his mother's chest in his mother's arms, while Lu Mingyu was staring at him angrily.
Chu Xing smiled, touched his daughter's little head, and whispered: "Tangtang helps her mother coax her brother, and dad will come over later."
Tangtang nodded obediently.
Chu Xing helped his daughter put down the curtains, but the man didn't leave, just listened to the movement inside.
Lu Mingyu untied her clothes, and Brother Zhen immediately started to eat. Tangtang leaned over and stood in front of her mother, holding her arms with one hand and holding her knees with the other, watching her brother eat intently. Brother Zhen looked at her sister squintedly, afraid that her sister would rob him, so she raised her little hand and covered the other side of her mother while eating.
"I'm not greedy!" Tangtang said with a chuckling.
Brother Zhen glanced at his sister again.
Lu Mingyu laughed at her daughter in a low voice: "Tangtang was like this when he was a child, and he was afraid that others would rob you."
Tang Tang looked at her mother, blinked her eyes, and suddenly asked, "Mom, who am I afraid of robbing me?" When she was a child, did someone watch her eat like this?
Lu Mingyu's cheeks were inexplicably hot, and she didn't have the nerve to tell her daughter that the one who liked to compete with her was her good father.
Outside the window, Chu Xing heard the conversation between the mother and the mother. When he recalled the feelings at that time, his lips raised high.
When Brother Zhen was full, the carriage was parked outside the clan tomb of the Duke's mansion.
A year has passed, and all the sadness has faded, but when it really comes outside the cemetery, everyone still feels sad. Chu Xing dismounted and took Brother Zhen first and hugged him in his arms. Before getting off the car, Lu Mingyu specifically instructed her daughter and told her to be obedient and not to run around and scream.
Tangtang knew that his great-grandfather and great-grandmother were sleeping, so he was obediently asking his mother to take care of him. Even though he saw a particularly beautiful little red flower on the road, Tangtang held back and did not ask his mother excitedly what kind of flower it was like before.
After worshiping the grandmother, Chu Xing and Chu Sui brothers and sisters, they officially released their condolences and could return to their normal life. Chu Xing was restored to his post, and Lu Mingyu could also take his two children out as a guest, including going to the palace to visit his aunt, the sixth prince, and the eldest princess born last September.
But what Lu Mingyu is most happy is that she did not miss her grandfather’s 60th birthday.
Lu Zhan's birthday on the second day of the eighth month, Chu Xing began to collect gifts for the old man at the beginning of the year. After a while, his subordinates gave him a fresh item to the mansion, and Chu Xing saved it all the same. Five days left before Lu Zhan's birthday, Chu Xing held Brother Zhen, Lu Mingyu held his daughter, and the family of four went to the warehouse to pick the gifts and chose the best one.
Brother Zhen likes a pair of crane-shaped redwood trees the most. He stretches out his hands and keeps touching them, and wants to go over and take a few bites. He is fooled by Chu Xing's red agate stone. Brother Zhen holds the agate stone and smiles constantly. He can't bite it and holds it in his arms.
"Mom, what's here?" Walking to the last row of the shelves, Tangtang squatted down and pointed to a red sandalwood gift box. There were words marked under the gift box, but Tangtang didn't recognize it.
Lu Mingyu smiled and said, "Tangtang open it and take a look."
Tangtang likes to unpack the box the most. With his mother's permission, he excitedly carried the gift box to the ground and dismantled it in a pretty good manner. Brother Zhen lowered his head and looked at his sister without blinking. Chu Xing held his son's small hand with his big hand to prevent the agate stone inside from falling and smashing his daughter.
The box was opened and a round yellow stone was exposed, crystal clear and like glass. There was a green pine branch inside the stone, which was about two inches long. Tangtang liked the colored stone the most. He touched it with his hands curiously. Lu Mingyu squatted down and explained to his daughter softly: "This is called amber. The pine tree means longevity. Tangtang gave this to his great-grandfather, which is to wish his great-grandfather a hundred years of life."
When Tangtang heard this, he immediately shouted: "Then I will give this to my great-grandfather!"
She likes her great-grandfather and hopes that she can live a hundred years old and two hundred years old, and will live all the time.
Lu Mingyu kissed her daughter with relief. She knew she was filial at such a young age, but she thought her daughter would take it for herself.
On the day of Lu Zhan’s birthday, Lu Mingyu and Chu Xing and his wife gave two birthday gifts, one was the crane-shaped red coral tree that Brother Zhen liked, and the other was the pine and amber that Tangtang personally selected. Brother Zhen could not speak auspicious words, and Tangtang’s little mouth was so sweet. After being picked up by Lu Zhan, the little girl hugged his neck and said crisply: “I wish my great-grandfather, the pine and cypress, and a hundred years of life!”
Lu Zhan was so rare that he hugged Brother Zhen in one hand and Tangtang in the other hand. The siblings kissed each other.
The guests were crowded with guests. When it was bustling, a slender voice suddenly spread out loudly: "The emperor is here, the empress is here..."
The emperor is over!
The hall and the yard suddenly became quiet, and then Lu Zhan took the lead and led the descendants of the Lu family to welcome them. Last year, Lu Yun successfully gave birth to the eldest princess. Emperor Hui of Ming was very happy and named Lu Yun as his queen, and told the world that the Lu family was even more favorable than before.
Outside the Lu Mansion, Emperor Minghui bent down and looked out of the carriage. He wore an apricot yellow dragon robe, with sword-browed eyebrows and starry eyes, and was majestic. He was obviously in his early forties, and looked like he was in his thirties. After standing up, he turned around and hugged the sixth prince who was following him, then hugged the eldest princess with one hand and helped Lu Yun get out of the car with the other.
"The old minister pays homage to the emperor and to the empress." Lu Zhan took the lead in kneeling down and bowing.
"Father-in-law is exempt from gifts. Today we will only talk about the father-in-law and son-in-law, not the monarch and minister." Emperor Hui of Ming patted the sixth prince's shoulder and signaled his son to help Lu Zhan.
The sixth prince Xu is three years old and lively and clever. Because he is often taken to the front hall by Emperor Minghui, he is very familiar with his grandmother, who is the Minister of War. At this moment, he ran to his grandfather and said in a very good manner: "Get up!"
Lu Zhan looked at the emperor's son-in-law opposite him, and then looked at the pair of children born after his daughter favored the harem alone. He felt even more satisfied. He stood up and picked up the sixth prince. Just as he was about to invite the emperor and empress in, a familiar voice from behind him suddenly came from behind, "Uncle Cousin, why did you come?"
Lu Zhan was stunned.
The sixth prince had turned his head and saw Tangtang holding Chu Xing in his arms at first sight. Seeing his niece, the sixth prince grinned and rushed to play with her niece, urging his grandfather to let him go. Tangtang didn't even ask his father, but skillfully arched his little body. Chu Xing had no choice but to bend down to let his daughter go.
"Let's go, I'll take you to see my gift!" Tangtang held the sixth prince's little hand and ran in excitedly.
The sixth prince rarely left the palace to participate in such a lively excitement, and couldn't wait to follow his niece.
The eldest princess will be one year old next month. She knows that she is clingy. She watches her brother leave her behind and plays with others. The little girl stops doing it. The fat girl pointed to the Lu Mansion and hums at her father aggrievedly. Emperor Minghui smiled and patted his daughter, pointing to Brother Zhen in Lu Rong's arms not far away and said, "Don't worry, Fu'an, let's play with Brother Zhen."
You can run and play, and you can climb and play.
The eldest princess then realized that there was a boy about hers there. When she met Brother Zhen'er's watery phoenix eyes, the eldest princess blinked her eyes and suddenly smiled, and called Brother Zhen "Brother" in a vague way.
Brother Zhen only knows how to call his sister, and talks with respect, and calls his sister to the eldest princess.
Chu Xing smiled slightly.
Emperor Hui of Ming laughed out loud, raised his silly daughter and said, "Fuan called him wrong. We are older than Brother Zhen, you have to call him his nephew."
The eldest princess couldn't understand and continued to call her brother.
Lu Mingyu smiled and approached his grandmother and whispered: "It's all because of my grandmother's fault that my aunt gave birth so late. Look, it's messy now."
Zhu looked at her daughter who was walking towards her, patted Lu Mingyu's little hand and smiled: "Luckily I was born late, otherwise your aunt might not have such a good marriage."
After hearing this, Lu Mingyu couldn't help but look at his aunt. The two aunts and nephews met, and Lu Yunqi said, "What are A Nuan looking at?" He always felt that his niece's eyes were a little strange just now, as if he had seen someone through her.
Lu Mingyu quipped skillfully: "Auntie is getting more and more beautiful. Can't I take a look at her for a few more times?"
Lu Yun gave his niece a look like an elder.
Lu Mingyu held his aunt's arm intimately and turned around and walked in. Peach blossom eyes swept over Emperor Minghui who was holding the eldest princess, and finally fell on Chu Xing. Chu Xing felt something and looked at her with a handsome face as beautiful as before, but no longer had the coldness and indifference as if he had first met in this life.
Lu Mingyu smiled.
In fact, until today, she can't figure out why she can live for a lifetime and have the opportunity to start over. But looking at the living relatives around her and seeing that they are living a happy life than their previous lives, Lu Mingyu couldn't help but be grateful. Thank God, Chu Xing, everyone who accompanied her for being happy, and thank them for giving her a brand new life.
Chapter completed!