Eight hundred and seventieth chapters severe warning
After breakfast, Xue Tao came to Dugu Youlan's room. Dugu has been pregnant for more than seven months and her body is relatively heavy. In the past few months, she has been lazy and doesn't want to move much.
"Let's go for a walk."
"Sister, I'm too lazy to move!"
"No, I have to walk more just for the sake of the baby in my belly."
This sentence was useful. For the sake of her children, Dugu Youlan had no choice but to get up and follow Xue Tao slowly downstairs. They didn't go far, just pacing in the garden downstairs.
"Sister, you want to tell me about Cai Chun!" Dugu Youlan said calmly.
"How do you know?" Xue Tao asked with a smile.
"I could see it in the morning. She and her husband have a tacit understanding. She glanced at him furtively at least ten times. The love in her eyes was hard to conceal."
"No wonder you speak sourly."
Dugu Youlan shook her head, "No way! I might have felt uncomfortable before, but now I have figured it out, even if there is no Liu Caichun, there will still be Li Caichun and Zhang Caichun. With the status of the husband, it is impossible for there to be only three women. Oh my God
Weather, are you so angry?"
"It's that simple?"
Dugu Youlan sighed softly, "I am a relatively stupid person, and I have always been a little bit behind-the-scenes. My husband has been away for two months, so he didn't write to you. But he also wrote to Minqiu, but he didn't.
Write to me, I'm still pregnant! Even if he doesn't care about me, shouldn't he care about the child?"
"My husband cares about you. He asked me to take good care of you."
"That's not the case. Maybe he just cares about the children. He doesn't care about me. It wasn't until I accidentally found a letter written by my husband on Min Qiu's desk a few days ago that I realized that my husband meant a lot to me...
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Speaking of this, Dugu Youlan's eyes turned red. She bit her lip and said: "I know I entered the marriage because of a political marriage. At that time, my father forced him to accept me as his equal wife. My husband has always been uncomfortable, but I don't want to be like this either."
, he can’t do this to me.”
Speaking of this, Dugu Youlan's tears fell, and she threw herself into Xue Tao's arms and began to cry sadly.
Xue Tao patted Dugu Youlan's back gently. She didn't know what to say. She knew her husband very well and could not tolerate any sand in her eyes. Back then, the Dugu Youlan family insisted that Dugu Youlan be an equal wife and enjoy the treatment of a real wife. This has always been in the heart of her husband.
Fortunately, Dugu Youlan was virtuous, so this matter was not mentioned. However, Xue Tao felt that the root cause was not the political marriage, but Dugu Youlan's own problem.
"Youlan, please take the initiative. My husband wrote to Minqiu. I guess Minqiu wrote first. She cares about her husband and asks for his welfare, but you are too lazy to write. Even I take the initiative to write, and Xiaowei writes every day.
She wrote a letter to her father, even though none of the letters were sent, but her father knew that her father could not love his daughter?"
Dugu Youlan wiped away her tears and nodded: "Sister is right, the main reason is that I have a cold personality and am not very good at pleasing others."
"He is not someone else, he is your husband. He only has so many feelings, and there are many women around him. Give her more, and give you less. If you don't take the initiative to care about him, do you still expect him to take the initiative to care about you? Min Qiu
It's not without reason that she is so favored. She has contributed much more than you and I in that regard."
Dugu Youlan murmured in a low voice: "The main reason is that Min Qiu has a fairy figure. The waist is so thin, but the bottom is so big and round. How can my husband not like her?"
"Isn't that the case? People are not animals, people are emotional. I never indulge him, but it does not mean that I don't care about him. Caring is accumulated bit by bit. After many years, it will become very deep.
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Seeing that Dugu Youlan was thoughtful, Xue Tao continued to persuade: "Youlan, you must change yourself, learn to care about your husband, and don't always use political marriage as an excuse. If you are a ball of fire, the other party will not be ice."
, if you were Ice, the other party's fire would be extinguished, don't blame me for not reminding you, if you continue to be so cold, you will still be marginalized after Caichun enters the house."
Xue Tao sent Dugu Youlan back to her room and asked her to think about it alone. She returned to her room and immediately asked the maid to find Min Qiu.
Although Minqiu is loved by her husband, she is still afraid of Xue Tao. She has no status in front of Xue Tao.
"Sister, are you looking for me?" Min Qiu asked quietly, standing in front of Xue Tao.
Xue Tao took a tea cup and looked at Min Qiu, and found that she had indeed changed a lot. When she served him, she was still a pure and beautiful little lady, but now she no longer looks as pure as before.
In Dugu Youlan's words, Min Qiu has indeed become very seductive, wearing a lot of makeup, especially her body proportions are exaggerated, and her breasts are very big. Viewed from the back, her waist is very thin, but the two flaps below are...
Big and round.
"Are you still in contact with your sister-in-law?"
"My brother and I have no contact with each other, but my sister-in-law comes occasionally, either to ask for money or to talk to me. They are afraid that I will abandon them."
"What do I usually tell you?" Xue Tao continued to ask without revealing his voice.
"There's nothing special about it, it's just that the parents are petty, talk about their children, and talk about interesting things that happened on Xi'anmen Street."
"Did you talk about Liu Caichun?" Xue Tao suddenly asked.
Min Qiu's expression changed slightly, and she said after a while: "I can't remember."
"Hmph! That's it, what did your sister-in-law teach you?"
Minqiu lowered his head and did not dare to say a word.
"Actually, even if you didn't tell me, I would have guessed that she would definitely tell you that Caichun has been sleeping with the powerful everywhere, and she has long since become a spent flower, isn't she?"
Min Qiu shook her head quickly, "Sister, she doesn't dare to say that, and I don't allow it. My sister-in-law just said that there are rumors in Jiangnan that she has an ambiguous relationship with Wei Yingwu."
"You asked her to investigate, right?"
"I didn't let her go. I just said that Caichun was going to come into the room. I was worried that I would fall out of favor, and then they went to investigate on their own."
Xue Tao said coldly: "I'm warning you one last time. If your sister-in-law dares to sow discord in this family again, I will beat them back to their original form and make them go to the streets to beg for food. If you don't believe it, just watch!"
Minqiu was so frightened that she whispered: "Sister, I was wrong!"
"I don't see that you are very scheming. On the surface, you are very enthusiastic about Caichun, but behind your back, you say bad things about her on your husband's pillow. Minqiu, I bought you back then. I just thought you were simple, smart, and malleable.
My little lady, I was afraid that you would be bullied, so I took you with me when I got married. But now... look what you have become. You are thinking about how to please your husband every day. Do you think you can rely on your figure?
You can charm your husband, but don’t think about what you will do if one day he abandons you?"
Minqiu knelt down and cried: "Sister, I just hope that my husband will dislike me, so I'm afraid of Caichun coming in."
Xue Tao shook his head and said, "You have gone astray. It doesn't matter. I will set the rules after Caichun is introduced. I don't want to say anything to you now. You must follow the rules in the future. Heavy makeup is not allowed in the palace.
Including the number of times you have sex with your husband at night, if you dare to violate the rules, see how I will punish you severely!"
Seeing Min Qiu crying and leaving, Xue Tao ordered someone to find the palace manager and said to him: "Eunuch Yang, I will make a rule now. From now on, my relatives and family members, no matter who comes, must get my permission before they can enter the palace."
,No one is allowed to enter the palace without my consent, including my parents."
"I understand, I will definitely explain it to you and strictly abide by it!"
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In the afternoon of that day, Xue Tao met with Liu Caichun and formally expressed his hope that she could become a member of his family. This time Liu Caichun did not refuse, but wanted to give her one night to think about it.
The next morning, when the family gathered together for breakfast, Liu Caichun implicitly expressed her attitude that she was willing to continue living like this with everyone.
Xue Tao immediately asked Li Wenyu to be a matchmaker and asked Liu Caichun's father to marry Caichun.
Liu's father agreed to the Guo family's proposal and generously offered it without asking for any financial gifts, but Xue Tao still gave him 10,000 yuan and five shops on Xi'anmen Street as financial gifts.
The process of taking a concubine is much simpler than marrying a wife. The two most important points are the qualifications for taking a concubine. Scholars must have meritorious service, martial arts practitioners must have military exploits, and businessmen must pay taxes and donate a certain amount. As for ordinary people,
, basically you are not qualified to take a concubine. How can you not be qualified to take a concubine secretly? That is a crime of exile.
The second important point of taking a concubine is that the eldest wife must accept it. If the head wife does not agree, she can only raise a concubine secretly. She cannot enter the house, has no status, cannot participate in sacrifices, and the children she gives birth to are also illegitimate.
As long as these two points are met, you can just sit in a small sedan and enter from the backyard at night. You can't even go through the main entrance, which is quite humiliating.
However, Xue Tao still gave Liu Caichun face, asked Li Wenyu to be a matchmaker, and proposed to Liu's father. With the words of the matchmaker, the orders of his parents, and the gift of money, it was no different from marrying a matchmaker.
Of course, after all, it was not the official marriage, so Liu Caichun did not go home, and there was no way to tell which door he came in through.
Three days later, Xue Tao held a simple ceremony at the Jin Palace. Guo Song took her ancestors to worship and accepted Liu Caichun as his disciple, making her officially Guo Song's second concubine.
There were very few people attending the ceremony. Except for Liu Caichun's father, Zhang Lei and his wife, and Guo Ping, no one else was invited. After paying homage to his ancestors, Xue Tao sat in the main hall and accepted the tea from Liu Caichun in full view of everyone, even if he admitted it.