Chapter 385: Control Lu Ji
When they returned to Qingsong Garden, the maid had already prepared the meal. After Lu Ji washed his hands, he sat in front of the dining table. Seeing that Qin Xiaoning was still not coming over, he said to her, "Aren't you hungry?"

"I've eaten at Miss Jiang's place." After saying that, Qin Xiaoning turned and went into the inner room.

Lu Ji sat alone in front of the dining table, looking at the table full of delicacies but having no appetite at all. He ate a few bites and put down his chopsticks.

The man looked up and saw Songzhi coming out from the inner room, so he asked, "What is the princess doing in there?"

Songzhi took a look into the inner room and replied, "The princess wanted to go to bed, but she thought that if she got enough sleep at this time, it would disturb her sleep at night, so she stayed awake and is now leaning on the couch looking through the account book."

Hearing this, Lu Ji waved his hand, signaling the maid to go down. He walked to the door of the inner room and was about to push it open, but he paused. He stood at the door and hesitated for a while, but finally pushed the door open.

Sure enough, the little woman was leaning on the couch and looking through the accounts. When she heard the man come in, she didn't even blink, her eyes only focused on the account book in her hands.

The man sat down on a chair not too far from her, poured himself a cup of tea, and sipped it carefully, but his eyes would occasionally drift towards the little woman.

The two of them were here, one concentrating on the account book and the other "focusing" on sipping tea. The little maid Si'er slowly walked into the inner room and reported to Qin Xiaoning that the Sixth Miss had arrived.

Upon hearing this, Qin Xiaoning immediately put down the account book in her hand and said, "Please invite the Sixth Miss in."

As they were talking, the Sixth Miss had already followed the maid into the outer room. Qin Xiaoning went out to greet them and said warmly, "Why are you so free today? Come and see me when you have time."

The Sixth Miss came over with a smile and took Qin Xiaoning's arm: "There have been a lot of tea parties outside recently, and I really ignored Second Sister-in-law. Second Sister-in-law, you are a generous person, please don't mind it."

Qin Xiaoning was amused when she heard this, and jokingly replied: "If I were to argue with you, I would have ignored you a long time ago."

Then he asked, "I heard from my subordinates that you have been going to Minister Zhou's mansion a lot recently."

As soon as Qin Xiaoning said this, the Sixth Miss immediately said, "I went to the Shangshu Mansion just to play with her Second and Third Misses."

The little girl actually blushed slightly.

Qin Xiaoning laughed: "You seem to be trying to cover up something."

"Second sister-in-law..." The Sixth Miss shook Qin Xiaoning's arm coyly: "Don't talk nonsense."

As he said this, he tiptoed and looked into the inner room: "I heard that my second brother is also at home."

As they were talking, Lu Ji stepped out from the inner room. Seeing this, the Sixth Miss quickly winked at Qin Xiaoning, and the two of them tacitly let the matter go.

"I'm here to borrow your carriage from my second sister-in-law." The Sixth Miss mentioned the purpose of this trip.

Without waiting for Qin Xiaoning to agree, Lu Ji asked his sister, "Where is your own carriage?"

"The other day when I went to the suburbs to burn incense, my carriage got stuck in a ditch and the wheels were broken. It hasn't been repaired yet." As she spoke, the Sixth Miss glanced at Lu Ji and snorted, "Second sister-in-law hasn't said anything yet, but Second Brother is unwilling to lend it to me."

He grumbled again, "Now that you have a wife, you really don't care about your sisters anymore." Lu Ji rolled his eyes at the Sixth Miss and said, "I just asked casually, but you complained so much."

"Okay, okay, don't say anything more." Qin Xiaoning glanced at Lu Ji, and then said to the Sixth Miss on behalf of Lu Ji: "Your second brother has always loved you the most. How could he be reluctant to give up just a carriage?"

The Sixth Miss smiled, looked up at Lu Ji, then looked at Qin Xiaoning, and then sighed: "Second sister-in-law is so good to Second Brother."

After hearing this, Lu Ji snorted barely audibly.

Qin Xiaoning smiled and replied: "How can you say such nonsense, kid? Your second brother is my husband, and it is only natural that I treat him well."

In front of the Sixth Miss, the little woman said this softly while looking at Lu Ji with deep affection in her eyes, looking gentle and virtuous.

Seeing this, the Sixth Miss couldn't help but sigh: "Second brother is so lucky to marry a woman like Second Sister-in-law."

After finishing the conversation, the Sixth Miss said goodbye. Qin Xiaoning personally saw her out of the yard. When she came back, she saw Lu Ji sitting on the chair, looking at her with a teasing look.

She knew what he was thinking. She snorted at him and went back to the inner room with a sullen face.

Qin Xiaoning had just picked up the account book when Lu Ji followed in. The man leaned against the door, hugged his shoulders lazily, and looked at the little woman leisurely.

Qin Xiaoning pretended not to see it and continued to look at the account book attentively.

"You are really good at acting." After a long while, the man said with a half smile: "I actually married a drama queen. Haha, I really have no words to express my suffering."

The little woman turned her eyes away from the accounts and fell on the man's teasing face: "Why do you have to suffer?"

The man looked at her and replied calmly, "People outside say that I married a gentle and virtuous wife, but behind closed doors, she ignores me all day long. Oh! Your gentleness and virtue are all for others to see, but when it comes to me, I don't get to enjoy any of it at all."

"Hasn't my life been miserable enough and unfair enough?" Lu Ji said.

Qin Xiaoning listened carefully to the man's accusation, and she replied calmly: "According to you, if you are in a bad mood and have a temper with me, it is natural, and I should endure it and even flatter you. If I ignore you because of this, it would be a great rebellion, right?"

"I didn't say that."

The man walked straight up to his wife and sat down on the small stool beside the couch, looking very aggrieved: "Is it wrong that I don't like other men coveting my wife?"

"That Wei Er clearly has feelings for you. I don't believe you didn't know that. You even talked and laughed with him in front of me. That would have been fine, but you actually scolded me in front of him and even kicked me out of the car to protect him."

Mentioning this, the man huffed angrily again: "Qin Xiaoning, tell me about the things you did. Do you still want to blame me for being angry with you?"

This man is a jealous person.

Qin Xiaoning listened to his words patiently, and then she replied to him: "Didn't I tell you a long time ago that after knowing that you married me, I, Second Master Wei, stopped thinking about me and only treated me as a friend. I also only treated him as an old friend. He is a wealthy businessman after all, and he has all the women he wants. It's not worth it for him to get entangled with me. If he really still had that intention, he wouldn't have stopped our carriage to greet me in front of you that day."