The daily life of a concubine's daughter

Shi Mingchen was distraught and confused.

He was not a decisive person.

He finally mustered up the courage to get close to Shi Yao, but she rejected him like a thief. He also heard his mother emphasize twice that he should not provoke Shi Yao. He was suddenly at a loss and didn't know what to do.

Rong raised her hand and carefully fastened the laces of her son's cloak, saying softly, "Shi Yao's attitude is very clear. She doesn't want to be involved with our third house. She is not close to your father, nor to you three brothers. What's the point of you trying to please someone who doesn't like her?

Your father treated her and her daughter so coldly, and the mansion treated them coldly for more than ten years. How could she not feel resentful? She tried to please the old man and the old lady just to have a foothold in this mansion.

Even her own father avoided her, let alone you half-brothers? If she treated you as her own family, if she wanted to mend the relationship with you, she would have come close to you long ago. Think about it carefully, isn't this the truth?"

Shi Mingchen thought about it, nodded slightly, and broke out in a cold sweat on his back.

If his mother hadn't told him the truth, he would never have realized that Shi Yao was such a cold-hearted person.

Rong stroked his collar and continued, "I failed to give birth to a daughter, only the three of you brothers, and I have always treated Zhuzhu as my own daughter.

She is ill, and your aunt is ill too. I am in charge of the household affairs and have no time to spare. During the New Year, you can take good care of Zhuzhu for me, okay?"

If he had heard this before, Shi Mingchen would have been willing to do it, but today, he felt a little sad. After struggling for a while, he nodded with difficulty in the expectant eyes of his mother:

"Okay, I'll look after her more."

It was rare for his mother to be so gentle, and it was hard for him to refuse her request.

But when he agreed to this, he felt something in his heart shatter with a snap.

It was so broken that he wanted to cry.

Rong smiled faintly: "Go quickly and comfort Zhuzhu more. If she is in a good mood, her illness will naturally get better.

You are getting married soon. In addition to taking care of Zhuzhu, you should also go out more often with your grandfather, uncle, and father and make more friends. After you get married and go to the capital camp, it will be good to have a few friends to support you.

Men should look outward more often. What can you achieve if you spend all day thinking about things in the inner chamber?"

Shi Mingchen was enlightened and said hurriedly, "It was my son who was confused. He will never do that again."

After the conversation, the mother and son parted ways.

Shi Mingchen felt as if he had seen the blue sky through the clouds, and there was no more hesitation in his heart.

Yes, how could Shi Yao be as important as his future?

After he went to the capital camp, he would no longer have to worry about these things in the mansion, and he would not have to worry about those illusory and unpredictable things.

Rong frowned and sighed softly.

Ever since she returned home that year and found that Shi Jian'an had married a new wife, her heart was devastated and she no longer cared about anything.

Shi Jianan tried like crazy to please her, but how could she be happy when she thought that Ji was pregnant with his child?

After Shi Jian'an had tormented her, he went on to torment Ji and begged her to leave the house.

Ji was pregnant and could not agree to it. If she left the house, what would happen to her child?

Shi Jianan went to ask the lady again.

After half a year of going through so much trouble, he was about to hang himself. The lady finally gave in and forced Ji to take Shi Yao, who was just one month old, to leave the capital and live in their hometown in Jinling.

Therefore, the lady owed Ji two favors.

It was she who asked someone to tell Ji's fortune and specially hired her to be Shi Jian'an's wife in order to bring him good luck.

The first favor is to demote your wife to a concubine.

The second favor was to be expelled from Beijing.

Rong had neither good nor bad feelings towards Shi Yao.

As soon as Shi Yao returned to Beijing, the Duke's Mansion was in chaos, which was really beyond her expectations.

In recent days, she gradually discovered that something was wrong with Shi Mingchen. He went from targeting Shi Yao to hanging around in front of Shi Yao whenever he had the chance.

This was not dislike, it was clearly an attempt to attract Shi Yao's attention.

She was shocked to realize that she had been completely hopeless over the years and had rarely smiled at Shi Jian'an's sons. The relationship between mother and son was distant and cold. Shi Mingchen grew up with his brothers, and if she didn't observe carefully, she wouldn't have noticed that he had a bad temper.

Shi Yao really didn't do anything wrong, and her personality wasn't unpleasant, but the Duke's Mansion already had Shi Mingzhu, so Shi Yao was redundant.

This is a battle between Changfang and Shiyao.

Shi Yao was very smart and saw things clearly. She had been fighting with them openly and secretly, and rarely involved the second and third wives.

But how could she, an orphan, fight against the powerful eldest son of the family?

What's more, the old Duke and the Lady Dowager had limited favor for her, and their hearts were ultimately biased towards Shi Mingzhu.

In this silent war, Shi Yao will definitely be the loser in the end.

Rong didn't want her son to be involved, and she didn't want him to stand on the wrong side and be disliked by the eldest son's family because of Shi Yao's involvement in the future, so she took action.

As a passerby, she also sympathized with Shi Yao, but what could she do?

The future of her sons was in the hands of the eldest son's family, so there was no reason for her to ruin her own future for a little girl like Shi Yao.

If you want to blame someone, blame Shi Yao for her bad luck.

If Shi Yao was a son and had no intention of competing with Shi Mingzhu, he would not have been subjected to the violent blow from the eldest son's family.

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At the entrance of Ganlu Hall, the maids wanted to say something to ease the situation, but were afraid that Shi Yao would become even more embarrassed.

Shi Yao stood there in a daze for three seconds, then shook her head and went back to Guanju Courtyard.

She treated everyone in the Duke's Mansion as unfamiliar relatives with whom she had not had any contact for many years, and these relatives might even take her life.

She was a person who cherished her life, but she didn't dare to open her heart to them and treat them as her relatives, for fear that she would die without a burial place and her true heart would be broken into eight hundred pieces.

Therefore, Rong's cold face, Rong's behavior of ignoring her, dragging Shi Mingchen away and not allowing Shi Mingchen to associate with her could not hurt her at all.

At most it's just a little bit of shame.

However, when she thought about her sisters-in-law being reborn in the future and wondering how the Third Master and the Third Mistress would end up with bald heads, she couldn't even complain.

Shi Yao was waiting for the merit value to reach a thousand.

It wasn’t until noon on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year that the deed was finally fulfilled!

【Merit value: 1005

Could you please tell me if the host is sure to exchange 1000 merit points for 1 rebirth point? 】

Shi Yao glanced at Ge Qiuheng beside her. Today, the Ningyuan Marquis Mansion came to visit the Zhenguo Duke Mansion.

She didn't talk while eating or sleeping. She only summoned the Book of Merits from time to time to check it out out of boredom and when she saw that the number was almost a thousand in the morning.

【confirm! 】

【Merit value: 5

Respawn Points: 1

Please choose the target of rebirth, it can be yourself or someone else. 】

Shi Yao had already chosen her target - Ge Qiuheng.

However, they are having dinner now, and if Ge Qiuheng suddenly receives the memory of rebirth and loses his composure in public, it may not be appropriate.

In the previous life, this year, Shi Mingzhu got engaged first, then Shi Mingchen got married, and only after that did Shi Minghui and Ge Qiuheng get engaged.

Although she hoped to reach a thousand merit points, she was not in a hurry at the moment. It was just a case of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

What Shi Yao had never expected was that at today's dinner table, the old fox, the Duke of Zhenguo, took advantage of the fact that the Marquis of Ningyuan was drunk and proposed marriage in public.