After rebirth, the Prime Minister's wife always wanted to leave her father behind and keep her

After entering Feng's courtyard, I could hear the sound of laughter from afar.

Cui Yuanqing frowned and paused for a moment, looking at Cheng Songan who was about to go in with her skirt lifted up. Suddenly, he stretched out his slender arm, grasped her arm, turned down, and held her hand in his palm.

His hands were warm and dry, with some thin calluses on the palms, which scratched her soft, boneless palms, and a subtle tingling sensation spread from her fingertips to her heart.

Cheng Songan paused. How could he still be addicted to acting? Wasn't yesterday's acting enough? Before, he just pulled her hand symbolically, but this time he even wrapped his whole hand in it. If she didn't know it clearly, she would have thought he was a good husband who loved his wife very much.

But even when he was right in front of her, she didn't shake him off and let him hold her hand as he walked in.

As soon as they entered the room, they couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. It was Lu Qingshan who was chatting and laughing with his mother. When he saw them come in, his eyes fell on the two people's clasped hands under their narrow sleeves, and then moved away imperceptibly.

Cheng Songan and Cui Yuanqing came forward to greet their mother, and then sat down one by one.

Lu Qingshan sneered: "You come to pay your respects only at noon. My aunt is so lazy when she returns to her parents' home. It shows that the rumors about your virtue are not true."

When Feng and Lin heard this, they thought it was just a habit of their childhood and didn't take it seriously, so they laughed along.

Cheng Songan rolled his eyes in his heart, they hadn't seen each other for many years, and she had always been polite and decent, and even wanted to help him win his lover. But he thought she was just as indecent as she was when they were children, and started to expose her shortcomings.

So he said without any hesitation, "Our family doesn't have as many rules as yours. Mother never cares about these things. But Minister Lu, you went to the government office, why did you come to my house again?"

Lu Qingshan pointed at something on the table and said nonchalantly, "My mother is really sorry for bothering me last night. She heard that my second sister was sick, so she asked me to bring a ginseng."

Feng smiled and said, "Your mother is too polite. I will go to your house to thank her in person some other day."

Lu Qingshan was particularly serious towards Feng, and he quickly stood up and said, "Don't mind, aunt. You and my mother haven't seen each other for many years. Once you are settled, Qingshan will personally arrange for you to come to our house for a gathering."

Feng happily agreed.

Cheng Songan couldn't help but smile. Lu Qingshan was smart and made his mother happy. It would be much easier for him to ask for Cheng Wanxin's hand in marriage.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but feel a little sympathetic towards Cui Yuanqing, and couldn't help but glance at his expression from the corner of her eye, but unexpectedly, he was also looking at her with deep eyes. Was her smile of triumph too obvious?

Cui Yuanqing leisurely picked up the teacup, glanced at Lu Qingshan and said, "Minister Lu is very good at dealing with people, why hasn't he married yet?"

Lu Qingshan said with a hint of sarcasm: "I am not as lucky as Lord Cui."

Cui Yuanqing's eyebrows moved and he smiled slightly: "Cui doesn't understand."

Lu Qingshan said, "As the saying goes, officials in the capital are three levels higher. Lord Cui's ancestors have been officials in the capital for generations. When they were born, they were already at the end of what others pursued for half their lives. We are not like warriors. Even if we are the third place winner, we still have to be sent out to train for a few years before waiting for the order to return to the capital."

At this point, he laughed at himself and said, "After a few years, I have missed many marriage opportunities. Compared with Lord Cui, isn't it just that I have a bad fate and bad luck?"

Cui Yuanqing could hear the sarcasm in his words, but he was not moved at all. He said calmly: "This does make sense. It is fate. Cui can only say that God has mercy on me."

Lu Qingshan's expression was a little fierce for a moment, but it only lasted for a moment, and then he smiled calmly: "It's okay, let's wait a few more years and see."

Cheng Songan silently supported him in his heart: You are about to change your fate, I will definitely win Cheng Wanxin for you and make Cui Yuanqing your defeated opponent. Even if it doesn't work, what's the harm in stirring things up between them and disgusting him?

Feng didn't understand the meaning of their words, and just thought they were talking about Lu Qingshan's marriage. She smiled and said, "What a coincidence! I have just asked the official matchmaker to keep an eye out and find a family for our second daughter. Why not ask them to look for someone for Qingshan as well?"

Lu Qingshan replied respectfully: "Don't bother me, Aunt. Qingshan once swore in front of the ancestral tablets that he would never get married until he took back the five towns in the northern border and established a career."

The Five Northern Frontier Garrisons were five important military towns that were forcibly occupied by the northern barbarians when Emperor Gaozong was in power and the country was weak. They had been a humiliation for the Qian Kingdom for decades, and all ambitious civil and military officials made it their lifelong goal to recover these five towns.

Cheng Songan remembered that in her previous life, the five towns in the northern border were taken back before her death. That was the first major decision Cui Yuanqing made after he entered the cabinet and became prime minister. He sent Lu Qingshan to lead troops to fight against the invading Rongdi and drove them back to the grassland. That was one of the few times when the two of them shared the same political views.

Except for their childhood, Cheng Songan did not have much interaction with Lu Qingshan in his previous life, but when he heard that he had defeated Rongdi, he was happy for him in his heart.

When she was bedridden, she would sometimes wake up in the middle of the night and think of the free and easy days in Yizhou. If she were a man, she would go to the battlefield with Lu Qingshan to kill the enemy and recover the lost territory. How could she be trapped in a small house all her life?

Before she could cry, Cheng Songan calmed down and said to Feng: "Mother, you worry about him for nothing. He is the Huo Qubing of our dynasty. If the Xiongnu is not destroyed, there will be no home."

Feng was the daughter of a military officer, but she admired Lu Qingshan's heroic spirit very much and praised him sincerely: "When you defeat the Rongdi and come back, your aunt will keep the best girl in the capital for you."

Lu Qingshan was silent for a moment, glanced at Cheng Songan, and said, "Okay."

Cheng Songan was a little unhappy. What was that look in his eyes? He was so proud of the best girl who hadn't even started dating yet. She was really petty. She just beat him up when they were kids, but she still holds a grudge against him. She has to be more proud than him in everything to be satisfied.

Well, let's just consider it as repaying a favor. Cheng Songan didn't care and changed the subject, "Don't you want to see the second sister? Let's go to her yard and sit while the weather is nice. The second sister has been sick for a while, maybe we can help her relieve her boredom and maybe she will get better."

As he spoke, he glanced at Cui Yuanqing, and saw a strange flash in his eyes. This subtle expression would have been invisible to anyone if he had not lived with him for nearly ten years.

Cheng Songan sneered in his heart. If he only had Cheng Wanxin in his heart, then what was the kiss last night? Was it just to humiliate her?

Then don't blame her for sending other men to her sweetheart.

As soon as she finished speaking, she quickly added: "My husband is impatient with these things, so why not go to the study to find Yanping."

Lu Qingshan was originally not interested, but after hearing this, he suddenly became energetic and said, "Then I'll trouble Sister Yun Dai to take me to see my second sister."

Cui Yuanqing moved his lips but didn't say anything.

At this time, Cheng Zhongwen also came down from the court. When he saw Cui Yuanqing, he immediately pulled him aside and said, "Yuanqing, I have something to ask you. Today, the sage has kept me here for half a day and told me something. Please come and help me understand it."

Cheng Songan took the opportunity to say, "Then you should go with your father."

Cui Yuanqing was slightly displeased when he saw how eager she was to get him out. He then looked at the complacent Lu Qingshan and became even angrier. But at this moment, he could only suppress his emotions temporarily and said to Cheng Zhongwen, "Yes."

Cheng Songan snickered and scratched her hands, which was an unconscious little action she made when she was happy.

Lu Qingshan did not miss any of this and smiled: After all these years, I have achieved nothing less.

Feng was accompanied by Lin, who led the way all the way to Jingqiuzhai where Cheng Wanxin was.

There were four maids in Jingqiu Zhai. On the day the mistake was made, Feng Shi accused the two closest to her of indulging and instigating the young lady, and drove them out of Jingqiu Zhai and punished them to do rough work. As a result, only two were left in the room, Xiangcheng and Zhuying.

The two of them were in a state of panic, not knowing whether they would be punished like Danruo and Qingguo. When they saw Feng coming with the eldest daughter and guests, they were surprised and happy, and knelt down to greet them.

Zhu Ying was about to say something when Cheng Songan spoke first: "Mother said that my second sister has been ill again recently, so I came to see her. It just so happens that the young master of the Lu family in Yizhou is also coming to Beijing and brought a wild ginseng with him."

Zhu Ying immediately understood: "Yes, our girl is thinking that the eldest daughter should go back home, but she hates that she is weak and cannot go to the front. She is very sad. Miss, please go in and take a look."

Citron took the ginseng and hurried to make tea and pour water.

Zhu Ying pushed open the door and said inside: "Miss, the eldest lady is back, and the young master of the Lu family is here to see you."

Cheng Wanxin was sitting under the windowsill, wearing a plain-colored dress, no hairpins on her head, and no makeup on her face, but it couldn't hide her natural beauty. Looking at her made people feel that flowers are more gorgeous when they are plain.

When she saw Cheng Songan coming, there was no strange expression on her face, as if she had never had a secret meeting with her brother-in-law. She said in a gentle voice, "Sister is back?"

"Yes, and Brother Lu, do you remember?" Cheng Songan led Lu Qingshan to the front and carefully observed Lu Qingshan's expression with his peripheral vision. A man who dared to compete with the prime minister for a woman in his previous life, now that he has met his favorite person a few years earlier, he will probably be even more surprised, right?

But Lu Qingshan just nodded and saluted, his expression did not change, and he said lightly: "Second Miss."

Cheng Songan was a little puzzled. In his previous life, he was so deeply in love with the woman that he was willing to risk his own future to marry, so why didn't he feel any emotion when he saw her now?

Cheng Wanxin stood up and saluted, her eyes swept over a few people, and then she glanced past them and casually towards the door, seeming a little disappointed.

"Yuan Qing doesn't like to join in the fun," Cheng Songan said casually, "He went to the front to accompany his father and Yan Ping."