Chen Ao accompanied Lu Zhizhang to pay his respects to his wife. Lu Zhizhang was quite nervous, holding the Buddha statue in his hand, thinking to himself: "What should I say to my aunt at that time? What should I do if she doesn't like it?" After all, he stayed in Hongzhou most of the time. The Lu family was very powerful in Hongzhou. In the past, when others saw him, they would curry favor with him. At this time, he taught him to socialize normally and please his wife, which made him timid.

But with Chen Ao's accompanying him gave him some confidence. My cousin is so good. If it weren't for this cousin, he wouldn't know the importance of pleasing his wife. If he rashly went to propose marriage, and the wife would not agree, it would be bad.

One after another, he went straight into the Buddhist temple. Chun'er happened to come out to face him and collided with Chen Ao. Chen Ao hurriedly supported her, not caring about anyone present, and said carefully: "Chun'er, are you cured of illness?"

Chun'er broke away from him, lowered her head with a embarrassed look and said, "Shen Da... Master Cousin, Chun'er's illness has been cured."

The little girl was too inferior, and Chen Ao said with a stern face: "Don't call Master Cousin in the future, just call Brother Shen, Chun'er, your illness is just right. I'll ask your wife for a few days off. You have a good rest and don't be tired, okay?"

Chun'er raised her eyes and saw Chen Ao's face that was even stern but still had gentleness. The eyes were looking straight at her with a lot of concern. The haze that was pressing in her heart seemed to burst out suddenly. Chun'er threw herself into Chen Ao's arms a little out of control, and couldn't help crying, saying, "Brother Shen, I...you, I thought you would never pay attention to me again after being a cousin."

Ignoring Lu Zhizhang's shock, Chen Ao quickly comforted: "Chun'er is so stupid, why would I ignore you? In my mind, Chun'er is very important."

Chun'er cried and laughed, wiped away her tears and said, "You will talk nonsense."

The little girl realized that she had lost her composure and quickly broke free from Chen Ao's arms. There were still a lot of warm and tear stains on her chest. Chen Ao smiled and said, "I'm talking nonsense. Actually, I have something to give you, but..." Chen Ao kept her in a silence. Seeing that Chun'er was fine, he felt better again: "I can't give it to you now, I will definitely give you a surprise one day."

Chun'er finally regained her reserve and said, "Miss said you are useless and you know how to make the girl happy."

Chen Ao shouted that Miss Zhou was so unkind. She was also very happy when she went to coax her by herself? Is Miss Zhou jealous? Although she thought so, Chen Ao did not dare to confirm. Miss Zhou's attitude towards him was very strange and it was too difficult to guess, so she didn't care.

Chun'er looked at Lu Zhizhang and found someone around her. She suddenly became embarrassed and said in a vain: "Brother Shen and Mr. Lu are going to see his wife?"

Lu Zhizhang hurriedly said, "Yes, is the lady in the Buddhist temple?" He was very polite to Chun'er. This girl has a very different relationship with her cousin! She has to leave a good impression on him. Moreover, looking at her appearance, she looks like a close girl next to her. Although her status is not high, it is of great use and cannot be offended.

Chun'er said, "Mrs. and Miss are in the Buddhist temple! Brother Shen and Mr. Lu come in, I'll get a hand-written Buddhist scripture for my wife." As he said that, he blushed and left hurriedly.

Lu Zhizhang's eyes lit up, and the lady was there, which was great. Although he came to Zhou's mansion, he only met Miss Zhou several times and had never even said a few words. He took this opportunity to get closer to Miss Zhou.

Chen Ao and Lu Zhizhang went in. The lady raised her eyes and saw Chen Ao and Lu Zhizhang coming in. She immediately smiled and said, "Chen Ao, come, sit down and talk." Looking at Lu Zhizhang again, the lady has a good impression of Lu Zhizhang. This young man from Hongzhou, who is a family friend, looks handsome and polite, and is very compatible with Ruoer. According to the Duke's words, he came to propose marriage to Ruoer.

This is not bad. The Lu family in Hongzhou is also a scholarly family. It is a very complicated family in Jiangnan. It is also a first-class family. If you can marry them, you don’t have to worry about Ruoer’s marriage anymore.

The lady waved to Lu Zhizhang and said, "Young Master Lu, you can sit here and talk."

Mr. Lu bowed to his wife calmly and said, "I have seen my aunt. My aunt is very strong. When I came to the mansion a few days ago, I gave me Hongzhou's specialty lotus root powder. I wonder if my wife has used it? Hongzhou lotus root powder is famous all over the world and can be pleasing to the eye."

The lady said, "You child..." She thought to herself, "This child doesn't seem to be very good at speaking, so she doesn't say this as soon as she meets people." However, she didn't mean to blame Lu Zhizhang at all. Instead, she had a little more impression of Lu Zhizhang. After all, after being involved for a long time, it's not easy to meet such a simple child. She should be very good to Ruoer in the future.

Lu Zhizhang sat down and tried his best to show his confidence and demeanor. He looked at Zhou Ruo, who was pursing his lips and silently, and his eyes suddenly lit up again. Miss Zhou was so beautiful. Just as a ray of sunlight shining in the window just fell on her cheeks. In the dazzling, her fat-like skin, her goose-egg face, her slightly pointed jaw, her willow eyebrows, beautiful eyes, and her slightly raised lips. Just looking at this glance, Lu Zhizhang was distracted.

Lu Zhizhang suddenly had the courage and said to his wife: "Auntie, the Duke's Mansion is very big. Although the young student has lived there for a few days, many beautiful scenery have not been seen." He first said something flattering and laid the groundwork for the gifts below.

The lady smiled: "After all, the Duke's Mansion is in the capital, how big can it be? I heard from the master that the Hongzhou Lu Mansion covers an area of ​​1,000 acres, and the jade buildings are endless. That is the real breadth. When you come here, you are afraid that you will see it fresh, so you feel it is big. By the way, I heard that there is a rope gold tower in Hongzhou, and is the incense very popular?"

Thinking that there was finally a common topic, Lu Zhizhang said with great spirit: "The Rope and Gold Tower has always been a treasure of Hongzhou Town Town where water and fire are all located in Jiangcheng. The Zen masters inside are also great monks, and the incense is very popular. There are often temple fairs in front of the tower, which is also very lively."

The lady said, "Since it is a Zen temple, it should be a place for monks to practice Buddhism. It seems inappropriate to hold a temple fair in front of the pagoda."

When Lu Zhizhang heard this, he said, oh, my aunt didn't like the temple fair, so he understood, so he said embarrassedly: "I don't know anything about it. The rope gold tower is thirty feet tall. The Zen masters are on the top of the tower, and no matter how lively the lower heads are, they cannot hear it."

The lady was surprised: "Thirty feet, it's so high."

As the two of them were talking, Chen Ao did not interrupt, but they were flirting with Zhou Ruo. Zhou Ruo knew that Chen Ao brought this young master Lu, and he didn't know what mysterious things he was trying to make. Most of them were to frame the stupid young master, so he smiled and looked at the wall to see what conspiracies Chen Ao was going to use.

But Chen Ao thought to himself: "It's the second time that my cousin and I have cooperated. The first time is to harm the profiteer, and the second time is to bully the honest Mr. Lu. It seems that my cousin and I are very close to each other, and she is also very bad. Hehe, isn't there a saying that is not good? When two bed bugs are together, they will naturally have a similar smell. Cousin, cousin, two bed bugs, very good. I am a male and she is a female."

After talking for a while, Lu Zhizhang finally couldn't help it and said seriously: "I heard that my aunt loves worshiping Buddha very much. Xiaosheng came this time and there was a gift to give to his aunt."

The lady laughed and thought to herself: "This young master Lu is still very well-behaved, and she doesn't know the worldly sense. Okay, let's see how he pleases my future mother-in-law." Then she said happily: "Young master Lu is intent, I don't know what gift it is."

Mr. Lu took out the Buddha statue in his arms, carefully sent it over, and said, "Auntie, this is the Buddha statue I carved myself, please accept it with a smile."

"Hey! It's a Buddha statue again?" The lady couldn't raise a lot of interest. Giving gifts was like this. For example, in later generations, the first one gave Nao Platinum, and the other one wanted to be fresh, which was also very good. But the second one and the third one came to give Nao Platinum, so the other one who was afraid of receiving gifts would not be much interest.

However, since it was sent by Mr. Lu or carved by him, the lady was still moved. She picked up the Buddha statue and smiled and said, "I like it very much." She took the Buddha statue and looked at it, but she asked in her heart: "Why is this Buddha statue almost the same as the one that Shen Ao gave before, it looks so similar."

With this doubt, I went to see Mr. Lu's hands. Mr. Lu's hands were very clean, his skin was well maintained, slender and beautiful.

The lady seemed to have noticed something, and then went to look at Shen Ao's hand. When she looked, she found that there were a few more marks on Shen Ao's hand.

She understood in her heart that this Buddha statue was not carved by Mr. Lu, but by Shen Ao. Mr. Lu took the Buddha statue carved by Shen Ao and said it was his intention, and said that he carved it himself to give it to him. Mr. Lu didn't seem to be very honest and very sloppy.

Thinking about it, the lady felt distressed. Shen Ao, a child, was so honest. If someone gave gifts, what did you do? It hurts your hands and can't get it well.

With this idea, the lady looked a little cold when she saw Mr. Lu.

Shen Ao pretended to be surprised and said, "Young Master Lu's Buddha statue is not very carved, but he is also very good if he has this intention."

The lady became even more angry. Shen Ao was too honest. He was obviously working for Mr. Lu, but he asked Mr. Lu to make this advantage. In the end, he even said good things for Mr. Lu. Compared with the two, Shen Ao was too kind-hearted, and Mr. Lu's thoughts were a bit bad. Especially when he accepted it calmly, he looked a little satisfied, which was very annoying.

Zhou Ruo took his mother's expression and immediately understood that Shen Ao was too cunning. Only he could think of such a bad idea. On the one hand, it made his mother have a better impression of him, and made Mr. Lu lose points in front of his mother; on the other hand, Mr. Lu was kept in the dark, but was still grateful to him for choosing gifts for him and saying good things about him in front of his mother.
Chapter completed!