Chapter 1293: Chapter 1293: Wanting to Be Friends with Her
Shu Yu, considering Xiang Weinan’s part, didn’t hold any grudge against the Xiao Family.
However, since the Xiao Family ca to apologize, she naturally held no resentnt.
“I accept your apology.”
The expression on Xiao’s face instantly relaxed, “Thank you.”
She opened her mouth as if wanting to say more, but eventually stopped, rely smiling, “Now that the matter is cleared, I’m relieved. Well, I’ll be off, goodbye.”
Shu Yu slightly nodded and escorted her and Nanny Gu out of the Lu Family’s gate.
She only turned back after their carriage disappeared into the distance.
The old lady ca over and peeked, “Gone? I was thinking of having her stay for dinner.”
“Gone.” Shu Yu clung to the old lady’s arm, “What delicious food has Grandmother made? I could sll the aroma from afar.”
“Oh, don’t ntion it. I went to buy groceries, and you were gone when I returned.” The old lady tapped her nose, “County Magistrate’s madam ca, leaving and her staring at each other in silence, with nothing to talk about.”
Shu Yu chuckled. While walking inside with her, she recounted her encounter with ng Yunzheng and ntioned in passing that ng Pei was going to escort goods to the capital and would spend the New Year at the old ng Family’s residence this year.
Upon hearing this, the old lady got anxious, “Why so suddenly? No, I must prepare sothing for him. It’s not proper to return ho empty-handedly.”
Shu Yu shook her head and smiled, letting the little old lady bustle about.
That evening, ng Pei ca to the Lu Family to bid farewell after finishing work at the escort agency.
The old lady handed him so hastily prepared items.
Early the next morning, ng Pei set off.
Shu Yu and ng Yunzheng accompanied him and several other escorts from the agency to the city gate. By coincidence, shortly after, Xiao arrived at the city gate with her servants.
This ti, it was Xiang Weinan who was seeing her off, and the two groups t at the city gate.
Xiang Weinan then asked ng Pei and the escorts for assistance in escorting them, even though Xiao had brought guards with her.
Without hesitation, ng Pei agreed, and after chatting for a while at the gate, they set off.
Sitting inside the carriage, Xiao looked out the window at the man and woman standing not far away, her eyes full of envy.
Nanny Gu sighed, “Miss, stop looking.”
“Nanny, do you think if I had said yesterday that I wanted to be friends with Monarch Lu Xiang, would she have agreed?”
Nanny Gu smiled, “She would naturally agree. Miss, you are the daughter of the Xiao Family and the county magistrate’s madam. So many noble daughters in the capital line up to get close to you, Monarch Lu Xiang…”
“I don’t think she would.” Yet, Xiao shook her head, interrupting Nanny Gu, “She is unlike those noble ladies I t in the capital, unlike the won in the Xiao and Xiang families’ backyards. Her eyes never seem limited to the narrow confines she stands in. At such a young age, she has been to the place of exile, beca Monarch Lu Xiang, and went alone to the capital. She seems to need no one to rely on to get what she wants.”
If it were soone else, becoming a Village Chief would naturally an using that identity to build connections and show off, like County Magistrate Zhang who acts like a noble lady of esteed status in the small Dongan Province.
But what about her? After becoming a Village Chief, she quietly returned to farming and setting up workshops, rolling up her sleeves to harvest in the fields herself, guarding that small workshop day and night, too busy to even go ho.
Seeing such a Lu Shuyu, Xiao unexpectedly found herself feeling quite envious.
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