It took me a long time before Lin Xueyao heard the sound of the yard door being opened and stood up almost immediately. However, only Zhu'er came back, but Chen Rui was not seen.
"Where is the master? Why didn't he come?" Lin Xueyao asked anxiously, for the first time he had lost his steady demeanor in front of his servant.
Zhu'er bit his lower lip, hesitated for a while, then hesitated and said, "Sir Shangshu...he..."
"What's wrong with him?" Lin Xueyao saw Zhu'er's look that she didn't dare to speak, and she had already guessed a little in her heart, but she couldn't believe this fact. She widened her eyes and shouted: "Speak quickly!"
Zhu'er was frightened by Lin Xueyao's sudden anger and trembled. Finally, she gritted her teeth and retelled the words that Lord Shangshu had said before to the second wife: "Lord Shangshu can't say it, and she said since that's it. Madam, you advised him to take a concubine so virtuously. I guess he doesn’t need to be with him at night. Madam, just stay in the yard yourself. He won’t come here for these days..."
After Zhu'er said this with difficulty, he heard a crisp sound. He lowered his head and saw a piece of jade pendant in his second wife's hand falling to the ground and falling into two halves on the ground.
"Madam, this is the jade that Lord Shangshu specially brought back from Jiangnan to you. How could you smash it?" Zhu'er exclaimed, looking at the good jade that fell in half, he felt very distressed and subconsciously. He wanted to bend down to pick it up, but was frightened by Lin Xueyao's sneer.
"He won't come to my yard anymore. What's the point of keeping this piece of jade?" Lin Xueyao's eyes were dull and her face was pale, as if she was deeply hurt by Chen Rui's words reposted by Zhu'er. I don't know if it's crying or laughing.
"I just kindly suggested that he take a concubine, but he didn't come to my yard to spend the night. He had never treated me so cruelly..."
Lin Xueyao covered her face with her hands, fell down and fell back to the softness, and kept muttering in her mouth that all the expectations she had before were replaced by grief and anger.
The makeup that was originally carefully described seemed even more bleak under the swaying candlelight. The several plates of pastries and a pot of wine on the table looked particularly ironic in this quiet night!
Lin Xueyao kept shaking her head, and her former forbearance posture appeared in her mind from time to time, as well as the proud faces of Lu Xiyun and Liu Yiyi after being favored...
Lin Xueyao finally couldn't help but feel the burning anger in her heart. She waved her sleeves and swept the pastries and wine pots on the table to the ground, venting her grief and anger to the fullest.
Zhu'er was startled by her sudden actions and stood stiffly in place for a while before she could react.
She followed the second wife for so long and saw the second wife with such abnormal behavior for the first time.
She carefully leaped over the wine and food that had been swept to the ground, bent down and picked up the jade pendant that had fallen in half and placed it aside, and walked behind Lin Xueyao, helping her pinch her shoulders to relieve her tense emotions while softening her. He advised: "Second Madam, don't be too sad... Lord Shangshu may have said this because he was angry! You are the first one to be by his side, and he will not be so heartless!"
Lin Xueyao shook her head, a self-deprecating smile appeared on the corner of her lips, and said word by word: "Zui'er, you don't understand. Although Lord Shangshu is very good to every concubine in the mansion, it is precisely because of this that if he really makes up his mind. Whoever is determined to neglect, will do it! Have you forgotten how he neglected Wei Zijin at the beginning?"
PS: Given that my friends left a positive message yesterday, I added two more pictures today, and there are 8 updates in total~