Chapter 348 Discipline
Li Lanchun rolled off the horse and walked straight towards the couple, teasing Lu Ji: "Are you worried that someone will bully your wife again?"

Lu Ji glanced at the warning look from his wife, and said with a smile: "That's not true, sister-in-law. I'm naturally relieved that you are protecting Ah Ning."

The maid handed Li Lanchun some tea. She drank two sips quickly and then wiped the sweat off her forehead. "I haven't been active for a while. I'm exhausted after running two laps." She turned to Lu Ji and said, "Mother is in a good mood today. You can go down and run two laps with her."

"I'll just forget about it." Lu Ji laughed at himself: "Sister-in-law knows that mother is most annoyed with me recently."

Li Lanchun couldn't help but laugh and joked: "Look at what you said. When did your mother ever like you?"

Lu Ji: “.”

He snorted coldly, then sat down on the chair and poured himself some tea.

Enjoy the scenery while drinking tea leisurely.

It is a rare pleasure for a man to have his lovely wife by his side.

"Have you drunk enough?" Qin Xiaoning spoke to Lu Ji while Li Lanchun went to tie up the horse.

The tone was calm, but it seemed to reveal a sense of oppression.

Lu Ji glanced at her and asked, "What are you doing?"

"Go and race horse with your mother," the little woman ordered him.

Although she looks gentle and kind on the outside, once she talks to him with a stern face, the man always feels his heart fluttering.

He cleared his throat to ease the slight tension in his heart: "You also know that my mother doesn't like me, especially recently."

Before he could finish his grumbling, Qin Xiaoning glared at him again: "Going horseback riding with mother?"

"Did you hear that?"

The last sentence was even more oppressive.

Lu Ji couldn't help but straighten his body and moved his thin lips, but after glancing at the little woman's fierce eyes, he stopped complaining.

Qin Xiaoning ordered the servant to bring the horse over. Seeing the man sitting there with a sullen face and refusing to move, Qin Xiaoning simply pulled him up by his clothes.

The man climbed onto the horse reluctantly and snorted at Qin Xiaoning, "Just wait and see. If my mother sees me catching up, she will definitely scold me."

"She gets angry and scolds me whenever she sees me." The man had a bitter face and spoke with a sense of grievance.

Without waiting for him to continue complaining, Qin Xiaoning raised her hand and patted the horse's back, and the horse galloped away carrying Lu Ji.

When Li Lanchun returned, he saw Lu Ji riding a horse to chase after the Duke's wife and wondered, "What was my second brother doing?"

Qin Xiaoning smiled and replied, "He said that he hasn't raced with his mother for a while. Today is a rare day of leisure, so he wants to spend more time with his mother."

Li Lanchun was so surprised that she could fit an egg in her mouth: "This second brother is really promising."

"Tsk tsk, now that they're married, they've become much more sensible."

As he spoke, he tiptoed and looked in the direction where Lu Ji was chasing after him, muttering, "We're not around, so these two women should not fight."

"No." Qin Xiaoning handed a cup of tea to Li Lanchun: "Sister-in-law, please sit down and rest for a while." Li Lanchun took the teacup and sat down on the chair. The two drank tea and chatted. After about two or three cups of tea, they saw two figures riding horses, one in front and one behind, running towards them from a distance.

The Duke's wife rode in front, and Lu Ji followed behind.

Li Lanchun put down the teacup in her hand and could not help but stand up again. She covered her eyes with her hands, stretched her neck to look at the two people, and kept muttering: "Just now I heard mother say that she was in high spirits and would not stop until dark. How come mother came back when my second brother caught up with her? Could it be that the mother and mother are quarreling again?"

As they were talking, the two men had already rode their horses closer, and the mother and son dismounted almost at the same time.

The sun was at its highest in the morning, and after running for so long, both mother and son were sweating profusely. Qin Xiaoning came forward with a dry towel, and Lu Ji immediately came forward, but he saw the little woman handing the towel in her hand to the Duke's wife.

Lu Ji: “.”

"After running all morning, you must be tired, mother. Sit down and drink some hot tea and take a rest."

Seeing Qin Xiaoning helping the Duke's wife to sit on the chair over there, the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law were talking and laughing, leaving him alone aside.

Lu Ji glanced secretly at his young wife, the expression on his face was indescribable.

The Duke's wife sat in the horse farm and chatted with her two daughters-in-law for a long time before returning to Chunxi Hall.

The lunch was ready, and the Duke was sitting at the table waiting for his wife.

Seeing his wife in a tight outfit coming back, the Duke stood up with a smile and took the whip from her hand, saying, "I haven't seen you riding horses for a while. If I knew you were in this mood today, I wouldn't have gone to play chess with my old friend, but would have stayed at home and rode with you."

The Duke's wife glared at her husband and joked, "You just like playing chess and listening to Zen right now. You're busy all day. How dare I bother you to accompany me?"

Seeing his wife complaining, the Duke smiled and joked, "You have a son and daughter-in-law to accompany you, so why do you need an old man like me?"

As he spoke, the Duke glanced at his wife meaningfully: "I heard that Ji'er even accompanied you to race horses today. Tsk tsk, this child has calmed down after getting married."

The Duke's wife took off her clothes and threw them to the little maid beside her, humming, "How can your son be so filial? Humph! Do you think I don't know? His wife must have said something about him behind his back. Otherwise, how could he be so filial and willing to accompany me on horseback riding?"

The Duke handed his wife a cup of hot tea and advised, "You have been unkind to him recently. You know that Ji'er has a stubborn temper. It's not like the child hasn't said soft words to you before, but you are still stubborn and refuse to show kindness. With his temper, how can he keep coaxing you?"

"I don't need his coaxing." The Duke's wife threw the teacup on the table with a "clack". "If this little bastard doesn't hang around me anymore, I'll have more peace and quiet."

"I think you've almost done with it." The Duke said, "Now that you've married your wife, even if you still refuse to forgive him, what can you do? After all, he is your son, right?"

When this was mentioned, the Duke's wife slammed the table in anger and said, "He married a wife without permission. How can he care about me as his mother?"

Seeing his wife getting angry, the Duke didn't dare to persuade her anymore, and hurriedly said, "Let's not talk about this. Come on, let's eat first."

As he spoke, he persuaded the Duke's wife to come to the table. The Duke's wife glanced at the dishes on the table and said with a cold face: "I don't want to eat."

"I can't eat. I get angry when I think of what that little bastard did."

The old couple were talking in the main hall when the maid outside came in with a food box and whispered to the Duke's wife, "Madam, the princess sent some side dishes to go with the meal."

The Duke's wife was surprised: "A Ning was with me just now, why didn't I hear her mention it."

The maid replied, "It was sent by a maid named Si'er, who said that the princess specially asked the small kitchen in Qingsong Garden to make it before she went to accompany you to race horses. Si'er also said that this was a cooking recipe that the princess got from the folks, and this side dish is the best to go with rice."