Once they learned that their mistress was pregnant again, Fei Yanggu's three concubines had different reactions.
In "Qiu Xiang Yuan", Shen Liqiu threw two tea bowls early in the morning. She was banned for half a year, but the other party was pregnant with an heir. If she was lucky enough to give birth to a legitimate son... ha... how could she have the chance to win the honor of the master? ?
"Rou'er, remember, you must practice music, chess, calligraphy and painting intensively, so that Ama will look at you differently... In this way, maybe mother will still have a chance... you know?"
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"Gege is already six years old. If I get another legitimate son...Fujin, he will be really blessed..."
In the "Xiahe Courtyard", Xia's Youzhen was chatting with Shui Yingying from the "Yingxue Courtyard" next door about this happy event that had spread throughout the mansion early in the morning.
"What are you envious of? After all, Qi Yan is still here, and what about me? Ha... hens that can lay eggs are more useful than me." Shui Yingying choked with a bitter smile.
During the three years when Fujin refused to return to Heyuan to take charge of affairs, the three-bedroom concubine in this mansion looked like Shen Liqiu's glory, but in fact it was not as good as Xia Youzhen, who had a son and everything.
"Don't be discouraged. You might get pregnant one day." Xia Youzhen put down her sewing and patted the back of Shui Yingying's hand to soothe her restless heart.
She no longer expected the master to enter her courtyard. After giving birth to Qi Yun, her health became worse and worse year by year. Before, the master would come here to sit and sit for the sake of her giving birth to his son. Since then, After Fujin moved back to Heyuan and reconciled with her master, she never saw him step into "Xia Heyuan" again.
Fortunately, she has Qi Lang and plays word recognition games with him every day, which makes her life fulfilling.
After the drowning incident a few months ago, she became more and more indifferent to the competition for favor in the back house, and only wanted to raise her only son into adulthood.
"Afraid! Pregnant? Don't say it's impossible for me alone. Even if the master is willing to enter my yard, he may not be able to do so... The doctor said that I will... have no heirs in this life..." He said , Shui Yingying swallowed so hard that it was almost difficult to form a sentence.
"You mean...the master...didn't go to your place either?" Xia Youzhen asked nervously as she digested the words that had just come out of Shui Yingying's mouth.
"That's right. I haven't been here since Fujin moved back to Heyuan... Ha... This is the fate of being a concubine... When you call me, you will come, and when you wave, you will go... Forget it... Now, I don’t ask for anything more, as long as the master doesn’t divorce me..."
"I didn't expect that the master would be so attentive to Fujin..." Xia Youzhen added in a murmur. All kinds of feelings came to her heart. What woman doesn't hope that she is the only one in a man's heart? Although she knew earlier that she would never be the one. The master's "only", but now it seems that "one" will no longer be possible...
"That's right...if you and I had the beauty and delicate charm of Fujin, maybe the master would have given up on us long ago..."
"The master doesn't seem to be a person who is greedy for beauty..." Xia Youzhen didn't think the relationship between the master and Fujin was good, attributing it to the reasons Yingying said.
"It's just a joke. Do you think I will really feel sorry for myself? No...Didn't you say that I want to go to Meishan Villa for an outing? I am going to ask the master to allow me to stay in the Villa for a long time and not come back."
"Yingying..." Xia Youzhen was stunned, "I heard that the other courtyard is far away from the capital..."
"It's better to be far away. I come back once a year and a half to reminisce about old times and chat. You and I should be polite to each other, so as not to dislike each other when we meet often..." Shui Yingying raised her eyebrows and looked up at the "Qiuxiangyuan" Looking in the direction, she could clearly see how afraid Shen Liqiu was of them.
Without the burden of having children, she could go to another courtyard to live alone. Maybe life there would be much more interesting than here.
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"Mother, why are you here? Didn't the doctor tell you to rest more?" Seeing Minrong carefully walking up to the second floor with Xia'er's support, Jinxi was nervous for a while and hurriedly slid off the chair and ran to
Minrong came forward, supported her, and carefully helped Minrong sit down on the soft couch in the study room.
"Don't be so nervous all of you. The doctor just said to rest more, but he didn't say not to let me move around properly. It's not like I've never been pregnant before. Otherwise, where did you come from?" Upon seeing this, Minrong asked,
He nodded Jinxi's forehead in a funny way, and felt sweet in his heart.
After the master learned that she was pregnant, he warned everyone in the mansion not to disturb her. Whenever there was anything that needed permission, they should report it to him. He also did not delegate power to any of his aunts and concubines. As a result, he was really busy.
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"My daughter is worried about E Niang... The doctor also said that these first three months are a dangerous period, so you must be careful." Jin Xi frowned worriedly, nagging like a little adult, asking Min to tolerate it.
He couldn't help but cover his mouth and chuckle.
"Eniang - you're still laughing at me!" Jinxi saw this and stamped her feet angrily. She had privately asked the doctor for a lot of prescriptions for miscarriage, hoping that Minrong could give birth to this baby smoothly.
"Okay, my daughter loves E Niang so much, and E Niang is happy. Today, I also have something to ask you..." Minrong said this, paused, stared at her daughter intently and said: "Xi'er, remember E Niang
Did mother tell you about your Guo Luomafa?"
"Of course my daughter remembers. They... still refuse to forgive Eniang, right?" Seeing that Minrong seemed to have something to say to her, Jinxi simply sat down on the soft couch and gently soothed Minrong's back.
"No..." Minrong smiled softly and held Jinxi's little hand, "They... want to take us two back to stay for a while."
"Eniang doesn't want to go?" Jinxi asked to the point.
"It's not that I don't want to... The day of the draft is coming soon. Your Aunt Ningjing has asked Guo Luomafa to go there this time. She will definitely want to persuade my mother to let your Ama contribute... I don't even think about it. According to your Ama's temperament,
How can I be willing to make these unrealistic accommodations for a distant cousin of the Nalan family? As for me, Queen Yi Fei... No matter how open-minded I am, I don't want to add new people to my wife... And I don't want to find accommodations with her, either.
They are not my own children. I will not go to her to intercede for anyone else... What's more, the draft is like getting married. It's not just glamorous before the eyes, it must be good... What if... one is not good?
I regret it for life..."
Jinxi propped her chin up, and from her chattering like pouring beans, she could tell that she was in an extremely low mood. She must have been very angry at the person who came to convey the message.
She has seen the snobbishness and ruthlessness of the Nalan family more than once.
In the first month of the first month, I went with Minrong to Nalan's house to pay New Year's greetings. No one saw me, so I accepted all the gifts.
A few days later, the Nalan family only sent a nanny to deliver the message, saying that the old man was not in good health and needed to rest. When Minrong heard this, she asked that person to bring a lot of good medicinal herbs with her to the private room.
All the money was transferred to Nalan's family.
That's okay, after all, the blood relationship cannot be severed. No matter how weak the family ties are, the condolences and filial etiquette should be shown. Over the years, Minrong has been a lot.
It's a pity that from Jin Xi's point of view, these etiquettes will cause a few ripples even if they are thrown into the river. But if they go into the pockets of the Nalan family, it will be fine without corresponding rewards. They have to come to their door from time to time.
Come and ask for it, as if the cheap girl owes them.
Just because she chose the marriage she wanted? Married the man she wanted? Should she keep compensating them for this throughout her life?
That's enough, I don't want to think about what they did to her back then!
Her biological mother died young and was bullied in the Nalan Mansion. She even wanted to marry her to the 60-year-old Prince He as a concubine in an unknown house, just to give her the same father who did not seek advancement.
The half-brother was trying to find a way out. After being frightened by Minrong's request to ask Concubine Yi to seek marriage from the Holy Spirit, everyone in the Nalan family was so angry that they threatened to sever ties with her and treat her as a daughter...a widow without family ties.
It is light, and finally it is reflected in the dowry.
This also caused Fei Yanggu's misunderstanding. He thought that Minrong had to marry him as his wife. Although what he valued was not the amount of the dowry, through the dowry, one could really see the love the married family had for their daughter and their son-in-law.
recognition.
After all, which Manchu girl doesn’t have a dowry of more than thirty-two dans when she gets married? What’s more, she is marrying a military general and a second-rank minister of the imperial court. But when Minrong married into Fei Yanggu’s mansion, she only had 24 dans, most of which were
The loose stuffed clothes were sewn and embroidered with the cloth Minrong bought herself...
Alas, Jinxi thought about this and couldn't help but hold Minrong's hand tightly and sighed softly: "Mother, you have done enough for them, don't bear the burden of the past to wrong yourself anymore."
"Xi'er..." Minrong sighed softly and turned around, "You can accompany E Niang to Nalan's house tomorrow, it will only take half a day. E Niang wants to make things clear. From now on, I really don't want to worry about their affairs anymore.
..." She stroked her belly gently, and for the first time, she decided to make what she considered an extremely selfish decision.
"Okay! I will protect you and my brother." Jin Xi nodded cautiously after hearing this.
"Pfft." Minrong, who had been depressed for most of the day, was amused by Jinxi's words: "Why are you just like your Ama, insisting that the baby in my mother's belly must be a younger brother? Isn't it possible that he is a younger sister?
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"Haha... Mom, this is called 'sincerity leads to gold and stone'. As long as you identify him as the younger brother, he must be the younger brother... Don't believe it? Let's make a bet..." Jinxi smiled, she really hoped that
Minrong is pregnant with a son. In this way, she can leave the Ulanala Mansion with peace of mind and explore her own free world after she leaves the palace at the age of twenty-five...
"You! You are becoming more and more clever! I don't know where I learned all these words." Minrong chuckled and pinched the tip of Jinxi's nose and said lovingly.
"It doesn't matter where you learn it from, as long as E Niang is happy. By the way, E Niang, I recognize all the words in these posts. How about I go to Liulichang tomorrow to buy some copybooks?"
"Okay, I'll go to Liulichang as soon as I get back from Guo Luomafa's place tomorrow." Minrong agreed readily. Her daughter practiced calligraphy through copybooks. Why did she disagree?
"By the way, your two brothers are busy taking the Imperial Academy exams right now. Don't disturb them at all times. If you don't recognize any words, just come to E Niang." Minrong thought of this and hurriedly ordered her daughter.
"I know." Jin Xi nodded and responded. She often went to see Qi Ke and Qi Chen brothers in order to hide the truth about her literacy. Now that they are working hard for the future, she naturally understands the importance.