Chapter 50: Buy one, get one free!

Night fell.

The guests, having eaten and drunk their fill, gradually dispersed, and Lu Changsheng also walked towards the bridal chamber, preparing for the wedding night.

“Young Master.”

Outside the bridal chamber stood a young girl in a cyan silk dress, with two bun hairstyles, a clear and delicate face, and large, clear eyes.

This was Lu Miaoyun’s personal maid, named Xiao Qing.

She also possessed a Spiritual Root and was a cultivator.

For a cultivation Family like the Lu Family, in order to have a continuous supply of fresh blood, they would also search for children with Spiritual Roots in the mundane world.

Once found, they would be sent to Qingzhu Mountain for training.

However, unless they were exceptionally talented children, most were taught skills from the hundred arts of cultivation, such as Spiritual Plants, Spiritual Butchering, culinary arts, wine-making, mining, and so on.

Compared to Formation, Medicinal Pill, Artifact Refining, Talisman, and the like, these skills had no threshold, were very easy to learn, but were quite arduous.

The Lu Family’s Spiritual Fields, Spiritual Bamboo, Spiritual Mines, and other rough and miscellaneous tasks that required cultivators were basically managed by these adopted disciples.

When these people reached a certain age, the men would generally marry mundane women from the Lu Family, and the women would become concubines for young masters of the Lu Family, thus being absorbed internally.

Xiao Qing was one of the children adopted by the Lu Family from a young age to be Lu Miaoyun’s maid.

In the future, barring any unforeseen circumstances, she would be married off as a concubine to a certain Lu Family disciple.

But at this time, Lu Miaoyun was marrying Lu Changsheng, so Xiao Qing also came along as a ’tongfang’ maid, a part of the dowry.

For Lu Changsheng, marrying Lu Miaoyun and having a young maid with a Spiritual Root as part of the dowry was an unexpected surprise.

“Xiao Qing, you’ve worked hard.”

Lu Changsheng smiled and nodded at the pretty young maid in front of him, then pushed open the door and walked in.

Inside the room, red lanterns burned brightly, adorned with ‘囍’ characters, and the decor was splendid and magnificent.

Lu Miaoyun, in a fiery red Phoenix embroidered wedding dress, with a Phoenix coronet and a red veil, sat gracefully on the bed.

“Yun’er.”

Lu Changsheng came to the bed and called out to the beautiful woman before him.

Lu Miaoyun did not respond, but her poised sitting posture revealed a hint of nervousness.

“Young Master.”

At this moment, the maid Xiao Qing came over, carrying a tray on which lay a jade scale rod and wine utensils.

Although the Lu Family was a cultivation Family, it had not completely shed some worldly customs and behaviors.

Lu Changsheng also knew the rules, picked up the jade scale rod, and gently lifted Lu Miaoyun’s red veil.

Revealing a gentle and beautiful, radiant face.

Her eyebrows were curved, her eyes clear, her jade-like nose delicate and upturned, and her small mouth rosy; although not as exquisite and stunning as Lu Miaohuan, she was still very beautiful.

She had a sweet and enduring appearance, giving off a feeling of an innocent girl next door.

“Husband~”

After the veil was lifted, Lu Miaoyun’s slender eyelashes trembled slightly, her pretty face flushed, with a hint of shyness, and her voice, soft and sweet, held a touch of playful innocence as she called out.

Although her personality was not as timid and delicate as Qu Zhenzhen’s, she was not a composed and generous woman either.

Moreover, as a woman, she had only met Lu Changsheng once before their marriage was decided. How could she act gracefully on their wedding night?

Lu Changsheng smiled, picked up the wine pot from the tray, poured a cup of Spiritual Wine for Lu Miaoyun, and then poured one for himself.

He spoke, saying, “Yun’er, today you and I become Husband and wife. From now on, we shall walk hand in hand through the rest of our lives. Come, drink this cup to the full.”

“Please guide your Husband for the rest of our lives~”

Lu Miaoyun’s face showed a hint of blush as she looked at the handsome young man before her, then they drank the cross-cupped wine.

“I wish Young Master and Young Miss a hundred years of harmony and many noble children soon!”

The maid Xiao Qing, standing by, collected the wine cups and called out crisply.

Then she bowed and exited the room, closing the door and leaving the newlywed couple alone.

After drinking the nuptial wine, Lu Changsheng immediately felt a warmth in his lower abdomen, realizing there was something in the wine.

Lu Miaoyun’s face was also flushed and delicate, like peach blossoms.

Inside the room, their breathing became unusually clear at this moment.

Lu Changsheng knew without thinking that the nuptial wine they had just drunk was probably specially prepared by the Lu Family to enhance the mood of the wedding night.

He directly embraced his little wife, saying, “Yun’er, it’s time to rest.”

“Mm~ Husband, the lamp isn’t out yet…”

Lu Miaoyun whimpered softly.

“It’s fine, this way I can see clearly.”

This year, Lu Changsheng was twenty-two years old.

He had five wives, six concubines, two favored courtesans, and a ’tongfang’ maid.

The next day, it was bright daylight.

Gentle, warm sunlight streamed through the lattice window, spilling into the room and illuminating the scattered red wedding robes and fiery red wedding dress on the floor.

When Lu Changsheng woke up, he looked at the jade-like beauty in his arms, her hair disheveled and tear stains still at the corners of her eyes. He felt completely refreshed and invigorated, without the slightest hint of fatigue.

Lu Changsheng looked at Lu Miaoyun’s pitiful appearance and, thinking of what happened last night, thought to himself that this little wife was indeed well-behaved and obedient, without any Young Miss’s temper.

He couldn’t help but kiss her pretty, fair face.

This small gesture immediately woke Lu Miaoyun from her sleep. She opened her eyes and softly called out to Lu Changsheng.

“Husband~”

Her voice was soft and sweetly naive, stirring a sense of romance in Lu Changsheng’s heart.

He gently pinched her rosy-white cheek and softly said, “It’s still early, you should rest well.”

“We still have to go see Grandmother later.”

Lu Miaoyun rubbed her sleepy eyes and, instead of going back to sleep, tried to get up.

Seeing this, Lu Changsheng immediately helped the beauty.

However, Lu Miaoyun, after all, had a cultivation of Lianqi Fourth Layer, making her body stronger than ordinary people.

Lu Changsheng still had some rationality yesterday, so he wouldn’t make her unable to get up and move after their first time.

Moreover, that Spiritual Wine also had some benefits for her.

Immediately, the two got up and dressed.

Lu Miaoyun quickly put away the handkerchief and placed it into the mandarin duck brocade box nearby.

This made Lu Changsheng smile faintly.

Then, after tidying their attire, the two pushed open the door, preparing to go pay respects to Fourth Elder.