The Three Spirit Stones

At noon, Mrs. Cheng had already gotten up, lit incense, chanted Buddhist scriptures, and had breakfast.

At this time, Cuizhi came to report that Sun Yuechan had returned, and she immediately had someone welcome her into the bedroom.

"Good morning, mother!"

Sun Yuechan greeted her mother-in-law.

"Yuechan, are you done with the housework?"

She took her daughter-in-law's hand and sat down together.

"There are still some trivial matters, the others can just take care of it, Dad asked me to come back early,"

"Well, Yuechan, your husband has returned safely. This is a great thing. You have been wronged in the past few years."

"Being able to serve her mother-in-law, Yuechan feels no grievance,"

Hearing her say this, Mrs. Cheng said with relief and some guilt, "But... he brought back a woman, the daughter of the benefactor who saved his life. Before his death, the benefactor betrothed his daughter to Xu'er. This... Oh! Yuechan! Now I don't know what to do?"

"You are the daughter-in-law of our Cheng family, the first wife, and her father is the benefactor who saved my son's life. If she is made a concubine, that is absolutely unacceptable. But since she follows my son, she must be given a status. Yuechan, you always have a lot of ideas. Can you give me some advice?"

Sun Yuechan looked embarrassed, but she was thinking, he brought a woman back, and he wants me to give him advice? How difficult is it to solve this problem? Can't I just divorce him?

But she didn't dare to say this.

"Mom, I don't know what to do about this. How about waiting until my uncle or my dad is around and then asking them for advice?"

She said tactfully,

"It can only be done this way."

Mrs. Cheng said helplessly,

Then, she asked Cheng Yu and A Cai to go to the side hall to meet Yue Chan.

As she was about to see her husband, Sun Yuechan couldn't help but feel her heart beating faster!

In fact, she had no impression of Cheng Yu except for the one time she met him when she was ten years old.

She only remembered that he was very shy at the time, and he didn't dare to move his hands and feet when he sat there, even more shy than herself. Later, when she grew up, she occasionally heard a few words from him from her father, saying that he was taken to the northwest by his uncle for training, and then he was preparing to get married, and then she got the news of his death.

As for why she insisted on marrying into the Cheng family, only she herself knew. It was definitely not because she loved him so much that she would become a widow for him.

It can be said that Cheng Yu is no different from a stranger to her.

Yuechan helped Madam Cheng into the side hall. There was only a man sitting there drinking tea. He was wearing a moon-white gown and a hat. He looked up when he heard the voice.

When Yuechan saw it, her heart couldn't help but beat faster!

What a handsome man!

His figure is as graceful as a jade tree, his face is clear and simple, his facial lines are as if they were chiseled by a knife, his nose is straight, his eyebrows are as deep as his temples, and he has a pair of eyes with extremely clear black and white!

He stretched out his sleeves, stood up with a gentle expression and called "Mom".

Cheng Yu also saw Sun Yuechan,

She is a tall woman with picturesque eyebrows and eyes, slightly wheat-colored skin, red lips and white teeth, and hair like dark clouds. Her every move gives people a dignified and graceful feeling.

"Xu'er, why are you the only one here? Where's Ah Cai?" Mrs. Cheng asked.

"She is so tired from traveling that she hasn't gotten up yet,"

He just found a reason.

"Oh!... You haven't seen Yuechan yet!"

Then Madam Cheng patted Sun Yuechan's hand, meaning that she should see her husband.

Yuechan stepped forward and bowed her head slightly, saying, "Yuechan greets her husband."

Then he placed his right hand on his left hand, raised his hands to his forehead, bowed 90 degrees, and performed a formal ceremony to Cheng Yu.

Cheng Yu hurriedly held Sun Yuechan's hands up and said, "Sister Yuechan, there's no need to be so polite."

Mrs. Cheng wanted to leave them alone, so she said to Cheng Yu, "Xu'er, you haven't seen Yuechan for a long time. You two should have a good chat. I'm going to the Buddhist temple," and then she left.

Cheng Yu knew that his mother wanted him to develop a relationship with Sun Yuechan. He felt helpless and was too embarrassed to refuse. The two of them sat there in an awkward atmosphere.

It was the man who spoke first.

"Sister Yuechan, thank you for your hard work over the past few years!"

"My dear husband, you are too polite. This is what I should do."

"Um... well, I haven't been home for a long time, so I may not understand some things in the mansion. Please let me know if there is anything I did wrong."

"Don't worry, my dear husband. I will tell you everything I know."

The two of them exchanged a few dry pleasantries, and then didn't know what to say anymore!

"...Um, I have something to do in the yard. I'm sorry, Sister Yuechan, I have to go back first."

"Okay, I will send you off, my husband."

After saying this, the two of them bowed to each other and left.

After Cheng Yu left, Yuechan breathed a sigh of relief.

From childhood to adulthood, she has been taught how to be a housewife, how to manage servants at home, how to discipline her husband's concubines and illegitimate children, how to manage the family's financial income and expenditure, how to be gentle and virtuous to her husband, and filial and serve her mother-in-law!

She has never liked this kind of marriage from the bottom of her heart.

But whether she likes it or not, it's not her choice.

Parents' orders, matchmaker's words,

The only purpose of these girls from powerful families is to arrange marriages.

When her parents chose Cheng Yu as her husband, she was actually quite satisfied.

The main reason was that Cheng Yu was an only child, with only a mother-in-law in the mansion, his father-in-law had passed away, and he did not have any concubines or maids. Such a simple family population was rare in Bianjing City.

Sun Yuechan could foresee that life after getting married would be pretty good.

But man proposes, God disposes. Later, the bad news about Cheng Yu suddenly came, and her parents planned to find another man for her.

This good man was another son of a noble family in the capital, the second son of a legitimate family. Although he was handsome, he had a flaw that Sun Yuechan was most afraid of: there were too many people in his mansion.

His father was a marquis and had more than twenty concubines and a large number of illegitimate brothers and sisters. You can imagine that it would be a headache for him to deal with all these people in the future!

Sun Yuechan is a very rational woman. After weighing the pros and cons several times, she found that it would be better to become a widow in the Cheng family than to marry into this troublesome big family.

Because since she was a child, she has heard and seen too many dirty things in the backyards of wealthy families!

There are concubines who are jealous of other concubines and drug others, there are mistresses who are jealous of concubines and frame them, there are men who favor concubines over their wives, anyway, there are so many kinds of things.

Including her own family, her father, General Sun, had a principal wife, three concubines, and eight legitimate and illegitimate children. Her own mother also spent all her energy to compete for favor with those concubines.

She was so tired of this kind of intrigue!

Seeing all this, she sometimes asks herself, what exactly does marriage bring to women?

She can't see happiness, only devastation!

Therefore, she would rather marry into the Cheng family without love in exchange for a peaceful life in the second half of her life.

Of course, everything has its pros and cons.

On the plus side, life after marriage was indeed simple and peaceful. Every day she mainly managed household affairs and served her mother-in-law. Her mother-in-law was also a sensible woman, and the two of them developed a mother-daughter relationship.

The downside is that the two widows have a modest family business, which attracts many people who want to take over the family.

But Sun Yuechan was not a helpless little woman. She had a decisive and ruthless character, her family had some power, she had several brothers with whom she had a good relationship, and her mother-in-law also had support from her family. Therefore, those who wanted to take advantage of her could not gain any benefits from these two women.

However, she also understood that the mansion could not always be without a male owner. She wanted to adopt a male from the Cheng clan as the heir of the Cheng family. When she was planning to discuss it with her mother-in-law after a few days, Cheng Yu came back.

His return disrupted Sun Yuechan's plans, and she suddenly felt a little at a loss!

Although she felt that Cheng Yu was easy to get along with and good-looking, she felt very uncomfortable at the thought of sleeping in the same bed with a strange man.