The mistress died of overwork, and after rebirth, she was bad at raising her cubs

Shen Qinglan smiled and sat opposite Lu Huaizhu. Then he took the food box handed to him by Shuyu and said while placing the cakes inside:

"My cousin has his own reasons for doing things. I believe you."

Shen Qinglan's words immediately brought a few more smiles to Lu Huaizhu's face.

Shen Qinglan knew Lu Huaizhu's temper and had to play along.

Feeling somewhat amused and helpless, Shen Qinglan continued:

"Besides, since we have become your disciples, respecting your teachers is the first lesson. I shouldn't contradict you."

"Similarly, cousin, there is no need to worry about anything. Just discipline him as you want. Otherwise, why would I invite him here?"

How could Shen Qinglan not realize that Lu Huaizhu deliberately let her see this scene?

If Lu Huaizhu really wanted to take action, would Huo Junyu and the others still be able to do this?

In the past, among the young men of the Qinghe Cui family and the Qinghe Lu family, which one of them would not take a detour when seeing Lu Huaizhu?

This guy is very good at punishing people. Even when she was a child, she suffered a lot from him.

Hearing this, Lu Huaizhu's eyes flashed with a smile, and he said teasingly:

"I see that you love these children very much. If I were to discipline them, I'm afraid you would feel bad."

"If jade is not polished, it will not become a useful thing. Cousin, instead of worrying about my heartache, you should worry about whether it would be embarrassing for you if others knew that they were your students who were so naughty."

Shen Qinglan looked at Lu Huaizhu's face and couldn't help but smile. Then, regardless of what Lu Huaizhu thought, she called Huo Junyan and Huo Jingyi over and said:

"This is the sugar-steamed cheese I asked the kitchen to make for you. Come and have a try."

"Thank you, mother." Huo Junyan bowed and sat upright next to Shen Qinglan.

Shen Qinglan is one of the few people who can associate the words "mature and prudent" with a child of this age.

Huo Jingyi didn't care about that. She jumped into Shen Qinglan's arms, hugged Shen Qinglan's neck and started to act coquettishly:

"Mom feeds Yi'er! If mom feeds it, it must be sweeter and tastier!"

Shen Qinglan looked at the pink and tender, chubby little face of the little girl who was looking up at her. Her big eyes were as bright as stars. Her cute little appearance was enough to melt one's heart.

He immediately stretched out his index finger and scratched Huo Jingyi's nose, saying lovingly:

"He didn't grow much, but he has a clever mouth."

"Isn't it? I think this steamed cheese with sugar is not as sweet as this girl's."

Lu Huaizhu agreed with great approval.

Maybe he treated Huo Junyu and the others that way on purpose, but Lu Huaizhu really couldn't resist his doting on this little bubble gum Huo Jingyi.

Who can resist such a delicate and beautiful doll that looks like it came out of a painting?

Shen Qinglan smiled as she fed the little baby boy. She glanced outside at the two who were still being punished. She tried not to laugh as she told Shuyu,

"It's fine, but save some for them so they don't cry later."

At this moment, Ren Donglai rushed in from outside, looked at Shen Qinglan with a hint of embarrassment on his face and said:

"Princess, someone is looking for you outside."

"Looking for me? Who?"

Shen Qinglan paused while feeding Huo Jingyi and looked up curiously.

Ren Donglai coughed and said, "Yes, it's Miss Chu from Wendixuan in the west of the city..."

"Miss Chu? That Chu Yingyue?" Shen Qinglan was stunned for a moment and almost forgot about this person.

When Shu Yu heard the name, he immediately got mad and said angrily:

"How dare she come to my house? Maybe she is here to provoke me? Master, please ignore me! Let me deal with her!"

As Shuyu spoke, he rolled up his sleeves and looked like he was about to rush out to fight.

He had only taken two steps when Shuwen grabbed his collar from behind.

Shuyu turned back to look at Shuwen angrily and was about to curse, but Shuwen said, "You can't do it, I'll do it."

With a "clang" sound, the long sword in Shuwen's hand was unsheathed, his face was tense and murderous.

Shen Qinglan almost laughed when she saw the two of them.

The corners of her mouth slightly raised, and then she stuffed the cake in her hand into Huo Jingyi's arms, patted her head, and then stood up and said:

"Calm down, come with me and take a look."

After Shen Qinglan and his men left, Lu Huaizhu was still there, not understanding what had happened. He couldn't help but ask Huo Junyan and the others:

"Who is that Miss Chu?"

Huo Junyan heard this and shook his head lightly, then as if he had thought of something, he said:

"He seems to be the owner of some shop, but I don't know him."

Huo Junyu heard it at the door, raised his hand and shouted:

"I know, sir! I know!"

When Lu Huaizhu heard the boy's yelling, he laughed angrily and hooked his index finger.

Huo Junyu was immediately as if he had been pardoned. He quickly left Qian Duoduo behind and ran to sit in front of Lu Huaizhu, saying:

"I've seen this Chu Yingyue before. She's so pretty! I heard that she used to be the top girl in that, uh, some pavilion!"

After a pause, Huo Junyu asked curiously, "Sir, what does top card mean?"

Lu Huaizhu's face suddenly darkened. He picked up the folding fan in his hand and knocked Huo Junyu on the head, saying:

"Why so many questions? Get out there and keep kneeling!"

"Ah? Didn't I do something good? Can't merits and demerits offset each other?"

Huo Junyu looked at Lu Huaizhu in disbelief, as if he had been stabbed in the back.

Lu Huaizhu was so angry that he laughed. He put the folding fan on the table, picked up the ruler instead, shook it twice and said:

"Merits are merits, faults are faults. Who told you that they can be offset?"

"..."

Lu Huaizhu picked up two pieces of cake and stuffed them into Huo Junyu's arms, then pointed outside and said:

"Your merit is here, your punishment is there."

Huo Junyu held the pastry in his arms, his mouth twitched, but he finally went back to Qian Duoduo and knelt down obediently.

When Qian Duoduo saw Huo Junyu coming back dejectedly, he immediately said with satisfaction: "You left me behind, kid! You deserve it!"

Huo Junyu glanced at Qian Duoduo, stuffed a piece of the cake into Qian Duoduo's pocket and said:

"You and I are different. You hope that I will be in trouble, but I still remember you in my heart! We are already brothers in distress, so we should naturally share the same hatred and enemies."

When Qian Duoduo heard this, guilt immediately filled his tender little face. He looked at the cake in his hand and said with emotion:

"Second Brother Huo, I told you that you can get along with..."

As he said that, Qian Duoduo devoured the pastry in one gulp, with a look of satisfaction at the corner of his eyes.

Seeing this, Huo Junyu raised the corner of his mouth, stretched out his hand towards Qian Duoduo and said:

"Steamed cheese with sugar, ten taels of silver each, very good value."

"????"

Qian Duoduo wanted to spit out the cake in his mouth!

He knew that how could Huo Laoer be so kind?

At this moment, Lu Huaizhu was pondering the identity of Chu Yingyue, while Huo Jingyi, who was standing beside him, was eating cakes and saying:

"Yier knows."

"Ok?"

"The Prince Zhan's Mansion pays Wen Dingxuan a sum of money every month! One thousand taels! One thousand taels every month!"

Huo Jingyi said while eating pastries.

"Every month?"

"Yes, Yi'er has peeked at the account book in the mansion, so it can't be fake."

After a pause, Huo Jingyi couldn't help but ask Lu Huaizhu out of curiosity:

"I heard from Butler Ren that it was probably Dad's mistress. What is a mistress?"

Huo Junyan looked at Lu Huaizhu, whose face was getting uglier and uglier, and with a headache, he picked up the cake and stuffed it into the little girl's mouth and said:

"Shut up."

"???" Why should I shut up? Huo Jingyi looked puzzled.

However, seeing the gloomy look on Lu Huaizhu's face, he swallowed the words back.

She was young, and although she didn't know what a concubine was, it looked like she was not a good person...

Otherwise, the gentleman wouldn't be so angry.