The daily life of a concubine's daughter

As famous as the eight brothers' reputation for being upright was Xie Jibai's reputation for being romantic, lustful and a frequent visitor to pleasure places.

From what I have heard, since Xie Jibai was twelve years old, he has bought more than ten prostitutes, and he spent a huge amount of money on each of them.

The two groups secretly criticized each other for being unworthy of the reputation/being truly philandering and lascivious.

Shi Mingwei exchanged glances with the girl named Zhao Yan. Seeing that she lowered her head and ignored him, he withdrew his hooked gaze in boredom, winked and asked:

"Xie Sandi, I heard that you went to Jiangnan some time ago and bought a top-notch beauty from the Qinhuai River and brought her back to the capital. Is that true?"

Xie Jibai answered honestly, "Her name is Luoyan, and she is the twin sister of Miss Chenyu in my mansion. Miss Chenyu asked me to save her sister so that the two sisters could be reunited, so I went to Jinling."

Unexpectedly, I met a girl who was like a mountain elf in Jinling.

He extorted ten taels of silver from him, returned to the city, and bought two bags of rice from his family's grain store, which he gave to the poor people entering the city.

This was the first time he had seen such an interesting woman, but unfortunately he had to leave Jinling and was afraid he would never see her again in his life.

But it didn't matter. He had already painted the girl, which made up for the regret a little.

The three Shi Mingwei brothers laughed and the atmosphere became ambiguous.

"Thank you, Third Brother, for your righteous act. You endured the cold and snow to travel from the capital to Nanjing, and then returned from Nanjing to the capital. I'm sure those two beauties, Chenyu and Luoyan, must be grateful to you and devoted to you. Third Brother Xie is really lucky!"

Although they said this, in reality the three brothers all disliked Xie Jibai for being obsessed with women.

If you judge a person by his age from childhood, he will definitely be a loser in the future.

Shi Mingchen was not very comfortable meeting his future brother-in-law here, fearing that he would be looked down upon by his future father-in-law's family. He became more and more dissatisfied with this marriage.

The Xie family is not of high status, but is more complicated than the Shi family. The eldest son of the family is born out of wedlock, and Xie Jibai is the eldest son of the second son of the family.

Xie Jibai's eldest and second brothers are from the eldest branch of the family. It is said that both of them are proficient in business economics and have been responsible for the family affairs. Only Xie Jibai is idle and spends all day wandering around red-light districts.

The Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion arranged a marriage for Shi Mingchen with the Xie family as a way of repaying the Xie family.

During the war, most of the food supplies of the Shi family's army were burned by the enemy. The old man of the Xie family took the risk and transported food from grain stores all over the country to fill the gap, which turned the battle situation around.

Besides this, he was attracted by the Xie family's wealth.

Shi Mingchen thought that Xie was all show and no substance, and that in the future all the property of the Xie family might end up in the pockets of his elder and second brothers.

He didn't expect his brother-in-law to support him, but he could see that Xie Jibai would hold him back in the future.

Therefore, the more he looked at Xie Jibai, the more upset he felt. Even the veiled girl outside the door looked ugly.

Xie Jibai lived up to his reputation as a businessman who spent money lavishly. He chatted with the three brothers for a few words and then said, "It is fate that we meet. I will pay for your spending last night and this morning. It is getting late, and I am afraid you still need to wash up. I will take my leave now."

After saying this, he bowed deeply and led the girl downstairs. He called his mother over and said, "Please put the expenses of Fenghua Pavilion on the second floor into my account. I will go to the accountant at Xie's house to settle the bill later."

The three brothers of the Shi family stretched out their hands dryly, as if they wanted to call him.

Did Xie Jibai misunderstand that they spent the night in a brothel last night?

The three of them looked at each other, wanting to find him and explain it to him, but they didn't know why they came here.

You can't say that they are plotting here to harm their own half-sister, right?

This is more offensive than their own slander of innocence.

Sleeping with a few prostitutes is just a romantic act.

Harming a concubine's sister is unfilial. If word gets out, the reputation will only be slightly better than that of being unfilial, but it is still a bad reputation.

Xie Jibai went downstairs, watched Miss Chao Yan get on the carriage, and then got into his own carriage.

Just as she was angrily thinking about her future brother-in-law visiting a prostitute, she saw a servant of the Shi family jump off his horse and rush upstairs in a hurry.

He wondered what happened in the Shi family and why they came to look for the three brothers of the Shi family who were just living off the fat of the land - it couldn't be their turn to deal with anything important, right?

As soon as the carriage started moving, the three brothers of the Shi family rushed out one after another as if their butts were on fire. They didn't even want the carriage anymore. They just cut the reins, mounted their horses and ran away.

The Shi family's guard asked, "Second Master, where are you going?"

"Jingzhao Prefecture!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of horse hooves thundered and disappeared at the end of the long street.

Xie Jibai thought for a moment and said, "Guiquan, send a few servants to Jingzhao Prefecture to find out what happened to the Shi family."

Something that could make the three brothers rush there together must be no small matter.

The next year, his sister will go to Beijing to get married, so he has to keep an eye on his future brother-in-law.

Guiquan immediately responded: "Yes, sir, I will send someone to do it right away!"

Xie Jibai lowered the curtain and his body swayed with the carriage.

He slowly closed his eyes.

*

Jingzhao Mansion.

Today, three women came to beat drums to appeal for justice.

Although there are few people on the streets in winter, there are still people coming and going.

When they saw that there was something lively going on in Jingzhao Prefecture, they called their friends and rushed here.

Nanny Tang took out the servant badge of the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion to prove that she was a servant of the Shi family and Shi Yao was the daughter of the Shi family. The prefect of Jingzhao hurriedly ran out of the hall to greet her, holding his official hat.

Just as Aunt Tang was about to speak, Shi Yao spoke first, "We encountered more than a dozen robbers who robbed us of our money, raped us, and killed us. Only three of us escaped on horseback. We don't know what happened to the rest. Please, sir, send someone to rescue our servants as soon as possible."

After stating the case clearly and logically, Shi Yao bowed and timidly leaned on Nanny Tang's arm, her eyes red from rubbing them.

The prefect of Jingzhao had no time to think about why Miss Shi escaped and did not return to the mansion immediately to ask for help. Instead, he came to Jingzhao Prefecture. When he heard that robbers appeared under the feet of the capital, he immediately jumped up and down, fearing that he would be impeached by the censor. He hurriedly selected his troops, grabbed his weapons, found out the location of the incident, and went to kidnap and rescue people. He also quickly sent someone to deliver a letter to the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion.

Shi Yao and the other two were invited to the inner room.

The detectives lit two braziers and served simple tea and snacks.

Shi Yao didn't move, but covered her lips and coughed softly.

Aunt Tang stood up and said distressedly, "I will stand in the way for the young lady. When I got off the carriage, I should have brought some good charcoal with me."

The masters of the Shi family burned the finest silver-frost charcoal, which was smokeless and non-choking.

For a favored person like Shi Mingzhu, the house was heated by floor heating, so the whole house was warm and there was no open flame in the room.

Shi Yao smiled and pulled her fox fur cloak tighter: "Don't worry, Ma'am. I'm not that delicate. I just came out of the cold wind and into the warm room. When we were in Jinling, my aunt and I had to burn ordinary charcoal in winter very sparingly."

Aunt Tang suddenly felt even more distressed.

In less than half an hour, the prefect of Jingzhao came back with the arrested man.

Only two rogues were caught.

The two men cried bitterly and shouted that they were blind, and begged the officials to treat their eyes first. After a few beatings with sticks, they were so scared that they pissed and shit themselves, and quickly gave up the other ruffians.