Double Life: The Long Road to Chasing Your Wife

"Don't be angry, I was not feeling well some time ago. After I recovered my health, I forgot about it. Please don't be angry. I will send someone to buy you a better one tomorrow."

Xiao Yan was so angry that he put his hand on his head. Lin Shu would always take whatever he said in his last life to heart and complete the tasks he ordered as soon as possible.

This Wang Jingxuan, although her father's official position was higher than that of Shi Jingke, the daughter she raised could not stand up and take on the important role of the Duke's wife. She was not as good as Lin Shu at the time.

"It seems that you are not suitable for the position of the Duke's wife. You will not need to take care of the Duke's mansion in the future. It is easy to have children and raise children. The emperor will issue new regulations. If a woman is unvirtuous, a man can marry an equal wife in advance or take a concubine. , my guild will ask for the emperor's grace and find a lovable person to take care of the Duke's palace and become your sister, so that you can have children and raise children. Regardless of whether you are a man or a woman, my lord will not treat you badly."

After Xiao Yan finished speaking, he ignored Wang Jingxuan and left.

Wang Jingxuan was left standing there like a bolt from the blue.

Qiu'er, who was serving fetal soup from the kitchen, came back and saw Wang Jingxuan standing straight at the door of the room with a very abnormal face.

"Madam, I just saw that the Duke went to the old lady's house. Why did he come back so early today?"

Snapped!A slap on Qiu'er's face.

Wang Jingxuan said sadly:

"Don't mention him to me. As soon as he came back, he told me that he asked for the emperor's grace to marry an equal wife. During this time, I was pregnant and still serving their mother and son. As a result, he treated me like this."

The bowl fell to pieces and shattered, and the fetal nourishing soup was scattered all over the floor.

Qiu'er ignored the pain on her face and quickly knelt on the ground to pick up the fragments.

"You bitch, I'm talking to you, why don't you reply to me?" Wang Jingxuan stepped on Qiu'er's hand on the broken porcelain bowl and crushed it repeatedly. The pain was so painful that Qiu'er stabbed her heart, but Qiu'er didn't dare to scream. Because she knew that the louder she screamed, the more Wang Jingxuan would torture her.

Sure enough, seeing Qiu'er's lack of reaction, Wang Jingxuan felt bored, so she raised her foot and kicked Qiu'er in the chest.

After Wang Jingxuan kicked her, she took her foot back and said coldly.

"unlucky."

"I really don't know what's the use of my mother asking you to be a dowry? It's not that I can't capture the heart of the Duke, but now he wants to marry an equal wife, and you don't help me think of a way!"

Qiu'er was also very aggrieved. When Wang Jingxuan first got married, he disliked her good looks and was afraid that she would seduce Xiao Yan, so he tortured her repeatedly.

Now that Wang Jingxuan is pregnant, her temper is getting worse and worse, and she often beats and scolds Qiu'er.

"Madam, the Duke is so busy with his affairs that he doesn't even look at me. I really have no choice."

Wang Jingxuan pointed at Qiu'er's temple:

"If there is no other way, just think of a way! What is the use of my wife raising you?"

Seeing Qiu'er's cowardly look, Wang Jingxuan was so angry that she vented her anger on Qiu'er for a while before giving up.

Qiu'er returned to the room alone and applied medicine to herself.

"Wang Jingxuan, just wait. You are reflecting in the ancestral hall. I saw clearly what you did with the guards. I also heard what you said to the doctor. The Duke of Guo didn't even go to your room four months ago. My child. It's definitely not the Duke of Guo's, just wait, if you still bully me like this, after you give birth to the child, I will expose your true face in front of the Duke of Guo."

The more Qiu'er thought about it, the more aggrieved she became. Why did Wang Jingxuan not treat her as a human being despite her wholehearted service to her?

Xiao Yan came to Mrs. Hou's residence.

"The child has seen the mother."

"Yan'er, get up quickly and sit next to mother. Why are you back so early today?"

"Back to mother, there are a few new officials who came in today. The work is divided, so we finish earlier than usual. I just heard from the nun in the front yard that she made you angry again today?" The 'she' Xiao Yan said refers to Wang Jingxuan. .

"Alas!" Madam Hou let out a long sigh.

"It's my fault. I shouldn't have let you marry Wang Jingxuan in the first place. Before we got married, she called me 'cousin aunt' and was very respectful to me and pretended to be sensible. I was deceived by her appearance. Let you marry her." Even though Wang Jingxuan was pregnant now, Mrs. Hou became extremely angry when she thought of what Wang Jingxuan had done.

"What did she do today to make her mother angry?" Xiao Yan wanted to know the specific reason.

"The Wang family has several poor relatives. I heard that Wang Jingxuan married into our family and came to play in the autumn breeze. She said she wanted to borrow money. In the end, she didn't ask the reason for borrowing the money and directly lent 1000 taels to them, as well as her brother. , you go to the account of our Duke's Mansion to get money at every turn. At the beginning, I wanted you to help your cousin uncle with political affairs, not to directly ask them to come to the Xiao Mansion to ask for money. No wonder your father didn't let me spend more time with them when he was here. Now I know I was wrong, Yan'er, what can mother do to stop holding you back?"

In fact, after the death of Mr. Hou in the previous life, Mrs. Hou wanted to help the Wang family again. Wang Jingxuan's father, Wang Zhuang, brought many people to Xiao Mansion to fight the autumn breeze. However, they were rejected by Lin Shu, and the shop was also tightly controlled by Lin Shu. Finally, when the Wang family saw that they couldn't get it from the Xiao family, they went to Mrs. Hou to chew Lin Shu's tongue, which made Mrs. Hou's attitude towards Lin Shu worse and worse.

Mrs. Hou even blamed Lin Shu for not understanding the ways of the world. How could Mrs. Hou know that if Lin Shu hadn't been in charge, the Xiao Mansion would have been emptied by those poor relatives.

"Fighting the autumn wind?" Xiao Yan recalled that in his previous life, someone came to his house to fight the autumn wind, but was finally frightened back by Lin Shu's tough tactics.

"Mother, have you checked the house's accounts recently?" Xiao Yan suddenly began to worry.

"When she was pregnant, in order to make her happy, all the affairs of the government were given to her. Now she has made some small mistakes, and even I can't blame her. When I told her, she held her belly and said she had a stomachache. I asked her to take the bill. Come to see me. She said she was not feeling well and wanted to go back to her room to rest. We will discuss it another day. I think she has lost a lot of money. For the sake of my grandson, I will bear with it for the time being and wait until she gives birth to the child. A capable woman comes to help you manage the house, not to mention that your status is different now, you are the Duke of the country, so some wealthy families will definitely be willing to take you in as a housekeeper."

"Mother, I came to you to talk about this. However, I want to marry an equal wife, so that the new couple will have status and status when entering the house, and can help you manage your family property. The emperor is sending people to revise the new rules. Women without virtue can be married. After all, Wang Jingxuan is a relative of our family, and she was married by our three matchmakers and six betrothals. When she gives birth to a child, we will ensure that she lives a safe life in Xiao Mansion. As for taking care of the house, she is indeed not qualified. So when the emperor's new regulations come out, the child will directly marry an equal wife, and the child wants to choose this equal wife."

Mrs. Hou thought for a while.

"That's fine. I'm old and my eyesight is not good. I married a plague god for you. You can choose a happy one to marry me in the future, and my old wife can enjoy happiness."