He was betrayed at the beginning, from a cake seller to a wealthy person

The prince brought back a big surprise for Lu Yan, three children. All three were girls, one girl looked older, about eight or nine years old, and the other two were probably twins, they looked almost the same, about four or five years old.

Lu Yan was speechless, looking at the prince in shock. The prince coughed lightly and signaled to the children: "Call someone."

The three children shouted in unison: "Mom!"

Lu Yan took a step back in fear, the expression on her face about to break.

The prince then explained the backgrounds of the children: "They are all orphans of the Northern Frontier Army. Their parents are dead, and they can't contact other elders, so they can only be raised in the barracks. But it's still inconvenient for a group of men to raise children, especially girls. There's no big problem raising boys in the barracks, but girls still hope to have a better place. General Yuan heard that you adopted two children and opened a school, so he asked me to bring these three children to you, so you can raise them together."

The prince took out a hundred taels of silver from his bosom and handed it to Lu Yan: "Everyone in the military camp can pool their money together, and this money will be used as the future expenses of the three children."

Lu Yan became even more worried after hearing this. These three children were different from Lu Wei and Lu Shuang, they were the relatives of martyrs.

Lu Yan turned her head and looked at the three children: "What are your names?"

The children all reported their names. The older girl's surname was Tian, ​​and she was called Tian Qi. The twins' surnames were Bai, one was called Bai Kou and the other was called Bai Zhi.

Lu Yan was speechless when she heard the name. The prince laughed awkwardly and explained, "There are few people in the military camp who can read. When they have children, most of them ask the old military doctors to give them names."

Lu Yan suddenly realized, no wonder there were so many Chinese medicinal herbs.

The three children asked anxiously, "Should we change our names too?"

Lu Yan shook her head: "No, you can still call it this from now on."

These are the families of martyrs. Unlike Lu Wei and Lu Shuang, their names have meaning. They are the few things their parents left them.

The older Tian Qi asked cautiously, "Can we still call you mother?"

Lu Yan squatted down and asked her: "Are you willing to recognize me as your mother?"

The three children all nodded, and Tian Qi said, "We are willing. We have been homeless since we were young, and we envy those children who have parents."

Lu Yan nodded: "Okay, from now on I will be your mother, and Magistrate Lu will be your father. If you acknowledge us, you will just have one more pair of parents, but it does not mean that you have to sever ties with the parents who gave birth to you. They are still your parents."

All three children nodded in surprise.

The prince heaved a sigh of relief when he saw Lu Yan accepted the three children. He packed up and took a few pieces of glass to go back.

This time he was leading that group of fugitives and was travelling much slower on the road, which took quite some time. This time he would probably have to spend the New Year on the road.

Lu Yan sent the prince away and returned home with her three children. Fortunately, there were two vacant courtyards, just enough for the three of them to live in one courtyard.

Lu Wei was already used to Lu Yan constantly picking up children from her home, so he calmly accepted the new sister and two younger sisters, and quickly took on the task of helping them get familiar with their new home.

Lu Shuang was not so calm. He was the youngest in the family and had to call everyone "sister". The only one younger than him was his aunt.

He was the only boy in the family. When he heard the news, he pouted and almost cried.

Lu Yan was also in a daze when she thought about this. It turned out that Lu Sheng was no longer counted in the statistics of "boys". He was no longer a boy, but County Magistrate Lu, Master Lu.

He is not even 20 years old and has not yet had his coming-of-age ceremony, but he has already shouldered the responsibility of an entire city like an adult for a long time.

When Lu Sheng came back in the evening, Lu Yan set a table of food and said she wanted to have a couple of drinks with him.

Lu Sheng felt it was very strange, as it was very rare for Lu Yan to ask him out for a drink. Although he knew that Lu Yan had something to tell him again and it was impossible for her to just want to drink with him, he still happily agreed.

Lu Yan did have some official business to discuss with him: "Next year I plan to build the Salesian Home and the Medical Department."

Lu Sheng nodded: "Tell me more about the Salesian Home."

"My idea is that we are still short of people, so we need to mobilize all the labor that can be mobilized to work. Men can build houses and farm, and women can raise animals and do needlework." Lu Yan said: "Let them put their elderly and children in the orphanage, so they don't have to worry about family matters. Let the elderly take care of the children, and the orphanage will provide meals."

"Let our parents go to the school to teach the students. Women who want to learn needlework can go and learn from mom, and those who want to learn carpentry can go and learn from dad." Lu Yan continued, "We will take care of Lu Zhao. We are busy, and there are also Lu Wei and the others."

Lu Sheng nodded: "Okay, I'll do as you say."

Lu Yan leaned back in her chair, poured herself a drink, and said lazily, "These are enough for you to work for a year. The prince approved three thousand taels of research funding, you can use it."

Lu Sheng was a little surprised: "Isn't that money for you to use for research?"

Lu Yan waved her hand and said, "I don't need so much for my research. You can use it. We'll use it in Liaoyang anyway. It doesn't matter what you do."

Lu Sheng stared at Lu Yan for a while: "You asked me out for a drink today just to say this?"

Lu Yan had already drunk quite a bit of wine and was in a half-drunk state. After hearing Lu Sheng's question, she didn't say anything and drank a few more glasses.

Lu Sheng didn't know what Lu Yan meant, and looked at her in confusion as she continued her actions.

Lu Yan finally got herself drunk and said in a daze: "I can't answer you when I'm sober. I'm drunk now, can you carry me back to the house?"