Chapter 57 Marrying a Wife and Forgetting the Mother
On September 28, the British government held a flower viewing banquet and invited many guests from Chang'an City to the banquet.
The British princess has really enjoyed growing flowers and plants over the years. She and her daughter-in-law are very good at growing flowers. The gardeners they work for are also very capable, and the flowers and plants they grow are particularly beautiful and precious.
Today, the flower appreciation banquet held by the British government is chrysanthemum appreciation. Appreciating chrysanthemums in autumn is a very elegant thing. Therefore, many dignitaries in Chang'an City like to appreciate chrysanthemums in autumn.
The chrysanthemums in the British Palace grew well, and many nobles from Chang'an City had long wanted to come and see them. Unexpectedly, a few days after the King of Jin accepted his concubine, the British Palace held a flower-viewing banquet.
When it came to Prince Jin's acceptance of a side concubine, Chen Ruowei did not come back. After all, she was a side concubine and was not qualified to return after three days like the main concubine.
The status of women in the Yong Dynasty is indeed not that low, but it does not mean that the status of the side wives is the same as that of the main wife. The side concubines of the princes do not mean that they can be equal to the main concubines. Even if they are on the family tree, they are still side wives.
, is my concubine.
The side concubine is indeed of high rank, but she is still a concubine. How can she be qualified to return home on the third day like the main concubine?
Therefore, Chen Ruowei did not come back three days after entering Prince Jin's Mansion. She had to stay in the backyard of Prince Jin's Mansion and be her concubine.
Even today's flower viewing banquet at the British Duke's mansion was attended by Princess Jin. Chen Ruowei, the concubine, was not qualified to attend at all.
Of course, the British Duke-in-law’s flower-viewing banquet did not invite many members of the royal family. The reason why Princess Jin was able to come was because her family and the British Duke-in-law were somewhat related, and the British Duke-in-law left a message for her.
Just to save face.
In the main courtyard of the British Duke's mansion, in the flower hall where the British Duke and Duchess entertained guests, a pair of middle-aged women of about the same age were chatting. One of them had a somewhat melancholy look on her face.
"You should also relax. Didn't your Feng'er just let go and marry her step-in-law? What else do you have to worry about?" Yan Shi, the British princess, looked at the person opposite and said.
"Alas..." Mrs. Anyang Marquis Xiaoyan sighed, "Sister, you don't understand how much Feng'er values his first wife. I'm really worried that he only agreed to marry his stepmother just to perfunctory me."
"Tell me, when he had a wife before, I couldn't bear to see him refusing to take concubines for the sake of his wife. Now our Anyang Marquis Mansion only has three children, all of whom were born to Feng'er's first wife."
"Sister, tell me, which family like ours doesn't have many children and grandchildren? Look at the Pingyang Marquis Mansion, it really has many children and grandchildren, it's really tempting to look at."
"Look at my family again, there are only three children..." Mrs. Anyang Hou said dissatisfied.
She was really dissatisfied with her son's first wife who died young. She disliked her son after being married for so many years, and now that he is gone, she still doesn't think she is a good person.
After all, the son would rather keep the filial piety to his first wife for three full years. At the beginning, he was unwilling to marry a stepmother or take concubines to prolong the family. How could Mrs. Anyang be satisfied with this?
Even though it has been more than two years or almost three years since her former daughter-in-law passed away, her resentment towards her has not dissipated. It is all because of her that her son will not disobey her.
The British princess sighed and said, "Feng'er has three children, why are you anxious? The Anyang Marquis Mansion has not stopped its incense."
She really didn't understand this sister's thoughts. She already had two grandchildren and one granddaughter. Why was she still as anxious and angry as if she didn't have any grandchildren?
"How can three be enough? The more children, the better." Mrs. Anyang said.
After hearing what she said, the British princess paused her tea-drinking hand and said nothing, but in her heart she complained that the other party had really failed to "do unto others what you do not want others to do unto you".
You must know that after her sister married into the Anyang Hou Mansion, she disposed of all the concubines of Anyang Hou. Before she gave birth to a child, no concubine or concubine was born.
Anyanghou's wife, Xiaoyan, had only had a child after three years of marriage. She had really ensured that she was not pregnant, so Anyanghou's concubines were absolutely not allowed to get pregnant and have children.
Even after Mrs. Anyang Hou gave birth to her son Su Feng, she did not let the bastard son be born early. Instead, after Su Feng had two or three more bastard sisters, the bastard sons were born one after another when he was seven years old.
But now the Anyang Marquis Mansion only has one legitimate son and three concubines, Su Feng. As for the concubines, there are four or five. In addition to Su Feng, Mrs. Anyang Marquis also has two daughters, but she is the kind of daughter who doesn't care much about them.
She only cares about her son.
The British princess-in-law is really helpless towards her sister. Fortunately, even though they were twins, they only look a little bit similar, their personalities are not similar, and their lives after getting married are also not similar.
"Speaking of concubines... I remember when Feng'er's family was gone, she gave her maid to Feng'er?" the British princess said.
Mrs. Anyang Hou said with an ugly face when she heard this, "Yes, I gave it to you, or two of them!"
"Sister, what do you mean by that? Before she died, she gave Feng'er two concubines. Wasn't she worried that I, a grandmother, would not be good to her grandchildren? She asked her maid to be my aunt and guard me.
Grandchildren?”
"Don't she know that even if the maids were loyal to her before, once they become aunts and have children of their own, they can no longer be sincere to their original spouse's children?" Madam Marquis Anyang said angrily.
She really felt that her ex-daughter-in-law was really mentally ill. Could it be that when she was about to die of illness, she also lost her brain?
Give your personal maid to your husband as a concubine to help take care of her children after she dies? Is it possible?
When she is alive, her maids becoming concubines may not necessarily be good for her and her children, let alone after she dies?
Expecting the maid to remember her kindness and be kind to her children in the future? How naive.
As someone who has experienced it, Mrs. Anyang Hou knows very well what she thinks when a maid becomes an aunt. It’s not like she didn’t give her dowry maid to her husband as an aunt, but the maid stabbed her behind her back. If she hadn’t dealt with it cleanly, she would have
I had to shed a layer of my skin at the hands of that maid.
"And Feng'er, when I gave him a few maids to serve him, he just didn't want them. Even after he took them back, he had them do rough work as maids. He had no intention of bringing them into the house."
"What happened? As a result, he accepted the maid given by Luo Shi. What did he mean? In his heart, does Luo Shi's wife have more weight than me, his mother?"
British Duchess: “…”
"The Luo family still wants to marry their concubine to Feng'er as a stepmother? What a dream! Where do they think the Anyang Marquis Mansion is? Are they allowed to do whatever the Luo family wants?"
"It's not enough to have one Luo family, and now I want to stuff in a little Luo family. How can I agree?" Mrs. Anyang Hou gritted her teeth.
She really hated her ex-daughter-in-law, and she always felt that it was because she married her that she had problems with her son's relationship. How many times had her son disobeyed her because of her?
Now that Luo Shi is finally gone, how could she let another person named Luo come in? She couldn't let Luo's concubine come in.