Chapter 64 – Laying the Odds on Her Name (1)

Lu Shiming personally told Old Madam Lu that he would take Pei Shi and the children to the baths for a few days. Surprisingly, the Old Madam appeared to have heard this.

According to her, the brother and sister have been busy recently, that visiting the baths would help them relieve exhaustion.

However, Old Madam Lu asked him to take the other misses with him.

Ye Zhen heard the words of the Old Madam and naturally felt disappointed in her heart. She proposed to go to the hot spring to avoid the family, so that she could naturally come back more beautiful!

But in the company of the misses of the Lu family, how could her stunt pave off?

Oh heavens please be good to me!

Giddy with ideas for a trip in her head, Old Madam Lu went to find Lu Jing and Lu Fang to ask them personally if they’d like to go to the baths too.

“Grandma, we’d like to go, but yesterday we just accepted the second daughter of Prime Minister Xu’s family. Tomorrow, we will go to their family for a poetry meeting. We also have an appointment to go to Baihua Garden to enjoy the flowers.” Lu Jing said, clearly having no interest in going to the hot springs, especially in the company of Ye Zhen.

Old Madam Lu did not force her, but asked Ye Zhen, “Yao Yao, do you want to go to the baths or join Jing’er and her friends to poetry reading?”

The second daughter of Prime Minister Xu’s family, isn’t that Xu Huiru? She and Ye Zhen both studied in college before. Both were excellent at poetry and painting. Xiu Huiru was always displeased with Ye Zhen, always trying to prove that she was better than her.

“Grandma, I won’t go. I don’t know how to write poems or even paint! Going will only cause trouble to fourth sister. I’ll go after I learn.” Ye Zhen said with a smile, humbling herself in front of the hateful sisters.

Tilting her head a little higher, Lu Jing seemed pleased of Ye Zhen’s words. “Third sister is right not to go.”

A bit disheartened by her granddaughter’s decisions but seeing that she couldn’t persuade anyone anymore, Old Madam Lu did not insist any further.

“Well, then, my third daughter-in-law will take Yao Yao and Xiang’er to stay at the baths for a few days.”

With that, Ye Zhen’s spirit was lifted, her mouth couldn’t help but morph into a victori