Chapter Sixteen: Aunt Cao Enters the Door
In Lilac Courtyard, Aunt He's life was not easy either.
It's not because Mr. Liang treated her harshly or asked her to set rules all day long, but because she got into trouble herself and couldn't live with herself.
Originally, she felt proud that she could accompany Lord Song. In the past, she took care of the backyard of the house. Madam is more than two thousand miles away from here and has no sense of existence. She feels that she and Madam Zhengtou have nothing to do with each other.
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It wasn't until Ms. Liang came that she realized that Madam Zhengtou had hosted so many banquets. No one invited her in the past just because other ladies didn't bother to associate with concubines and felt it was an insult to her status.
Today, the master also said that when his wife and several young masters return to the capital, they will bring their sixth son, Song Chenxing, with them. Song Chenxing is already six years old and cannot be delayed any longer. He must be sent back to the capital to study.
Aunt He wanted to beg for mercy and said that she couldn't let go of the child. Master Song immediately said with a straight face: "If you don't want to let go, you can go back to the capital with the child!"
Aunt He immediately shut up and came back to cry loudly.
Aunt Qin looked distressed, but Mr. Song in this family was right and no one could refute the decision he made. He could only persuade her from the side: "Auntie, after all, I miss the sixth master and hope that he will become successful. I listen.
No matter how many people want to send their children to study in the Song clan, they can't get in! Besides, I think my wife is a generous person and won't treat Brother Xing badly."
Aunt He suddenly became unhappy when she heard her nanny speaking for Liang. She yelled at Aunt Qin: "Who knows! Who knows if she is kind on the outside but vicious on the inside? I've seen her treat a few people
The concubine and concubine are so cold and cold, how can I feel relieved when I hand over Xing'er to her!"
Somehow this word reached the ears of Fourth Master Song. He immediately sent a message, asking He to clean up and return to Beijing with his wife in a month. Aren't you worried? Didn't you arrange your wife?
In this case, let's go back to Beijing together, so as not to make other people annoying by making irresponsible remarks.
Hearing this, Mrs. He howled in her room and went back to her parents' house. Her father and mother complained. Unexpectedly, when Master He heard that his daughter was arranging Mr. Song's wife behind his back, Mr. Song lost his temper. He was so frightened that he scolded his daughter.
, took his daughter and three carts of gifts with him the next day and came to apologize, finally avoiding the need to send He back to Beijing.
Half a month later, Mr. Song's biological mother, Mrs. Chen, arrived in Guangzhou. So while her biological mother and his wife were both there, Mr. Song took in another concubine, who was the daughter of another wealthy businessman in Guangdong, Mrs. Cao.
This time, the Cao family was seen by the Prime Minister of the Liang family. The concubine of the Cao family was of average appearance. She was not very talented in playing chess, calligraphy and painting, but she was very good at settling accounts and managing money.
On the night of the visit, Mr. Song only had dinner in Cao's house and slept in the study by himself that night.
Early the next morning, Madam Cao respectfully served tea to Madam Liang, and Lord Song stayed at Madam Liang's place until Madam Liang left Guangzhou Mansion with several boys before consummating his marriage with Aunt Cao.
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Song Qingyue listened to Xiao Cui, the new maid in the yard, chattering about the gossip she had picked up from everywhere. She shook her head and sighed: Master Song was so sincere in his performance. If he doesn't get promoted and make a fortune, who will get promoted and make a fortune?
You know, Mrs. Cao came with a dowry of one hundred thousand taels!
When He entered the family, the dowry was only 40,000 taels. Who asked Mr. Song to be promoted?
Now the value has increased! Can a fourth-grade prefect follow the same price as a second-grade chief envoy?
That certainly can't be the case.
Other people's concubines don't have dowry. The moment the concubine is brought in, she becomes the property of her husband's family. Everything she brings will be confiscated, so no one is willing to give her as a concubine.
How much dowry is required for a daughter?
But Master Song is different here. The dowry is the sincerity expressed by the Cao family to Master Song!
It can be seen that Ms. Cao is a smart person, good at talking, and also good at conduct.
She was far worse in appearance than Mr. He. Mr. Song was also cold and indifferent to her at first. He took turns going to several courtyards in the backyard, basically getting even rain and dew. But gradually, he entered Aunt Cao's house more and more times.
, Aunt Cao's voice in the backyard is getting bigger and bigger, and she is gradually becoming able to dominate the He family.
Mr. Song's biological mother, Mrs. Chen, was a very docile and taciturn person. She was originally depressed all day long when she was in Jiangling Mansion. After coming to Guangzhou Mansion, she didn't see much improvement, which made Mr. Song very troubled.
He ran to Mo Yuxuan to watch Song Qingyue playing in the mud, and asked his daughter for advice.
Song Qingyue said: "Isn't my great-grandpa arriving in a few days? You might as well buy a shop for your great-grandpa, sell medicine, see doctors, and ask grandma to help in the shop. You will feel better when you have something to do."
Mr. Song nodded, deeply convinced that Mrs. Chen had been familiar with medical books since she was a child and was good at gynecology. If she hadn't been deceived by Mr. Song and defiled her body, she would never have been reduced to being a concubine.
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Ten days later, Aunt Bai was delighted to find that her daughter finally stopped playing in the mud and went to work as a medicine boy at Dr. Chen's Xuanhu Medical Clinic.
However, as a medicine girl, she basically didn't do physical work, and she didn't know anything about traditional Chinese medicine. She mainly harassed my great-grandfather with chirping and croaking all day long, urging him to record the various cases he encountered during his travels over the years.
Dr. Chen himself kept some records, but he was walking all year round and it was inconvenient to carry pen, ink, paper and inkstones. Moreover, Dr. Chen had a good memory and others were lazy, so only a small part of the cases were recorded.
Song Qingyue watched Doctor Chen dictating the cases while she took notes.
After finishing the records, you need to sort them into categories and summarize them.
But these things were too professional after all. Song Qingyue was a layman, so she asked Lord Song to recruit two young children who already knew pharmacology to be apprentices. By the way, they would help the old man sort out the cases. This kind of recording and summarizing work was left to her.
Just let the professionals do it!
Chapter completed!