The daily life of a concubine's daughter

At this moment, she felt comfortable from head to toe, without any grievances. She wanted to run to her cheap brothers, hook her index finger at them, and shout:

"Come on, come here, come and wrong me!"

With her mind full of wild imaginations and excitement for half an hour, Shi Yao then sat down at the desk and began to copy the family rules.

Aunt Liu Hua appeared out of nowhere, holding a ruler and correcting her sitting posture.

Shi Yao thought that she would have to pretend to be a lady from a wealthy family for many days to come, so she had to at least put on some appearance of being a lady. So she put away her rebellious heart and learned whatever Aunt Liu Hua taught her.

Muxiang brushed off the dust with a feather duster and looked at Shi Yao several times, seeming to want to say something but stopping herself.

She wanted to go back to Ganlu Hall.

But Shi Yao didn't send her back, and the lady didn't send anyone to pick her up. If she ran back on her own out of the blue, she would inevitably be disliked by both sides.

But she was very worried.

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The Xie Mansion is located in Huaihua Lane in Dongcheng District.

As night fell, the entire Xie Mansion was already brightly lit.

Xie Jibai had dinner and walked through the snow to the study.

Gui Quan stirred the charcoal fire, closed the lid, fastened the knot, handed the hand warmer to his master, and told him the whole story in detail across the desk.

After he finished speaking, there was silence in the study for a long time, and Xie Jibai's brows became more and more furrowed.

After a while, he picked up the teacup and was about to take a sip of tea to moisten his throat when Gui Quan hurriedly said, "Master, the tea is cold. I will make you a new cup."

Xie Jibai put down the teacup and then realized that he had been silent for so long.

In fact, he was frightened by the beastly behavior of the three brothers of the Shi family.

The Shi brothers were ridiculous, but the attitude of the old master and the Duke of Zhenguo in the Duke's Mansion who raised things high and then put them down lightly was even more ridiculous.

This is what is meant by "the upper beam is crooked and the lower beams are crooked".

As a brother, he sent people to destroy the innocence of his own sister and forced her to death. How cruel must one be to do such a thing?

He even dared to set a trap to harm his own sister so blatantly, so how would he treat the wives of the Shi family?

In the past, when he saw the prosperity of the Shi family, he also admired the old Duke who repelled the Northern Rong and respected him as a great hero. He never thought that he would be so doting and confused when it came to his children and grandchildren.

The grandson’s innocence of betraying his granddaughter and killing someone in public was just forgotten!

Xie Jibai sighed: "Qi Da is not an idiot, the words of our ancestors make sense."

My sister married into such a family, a wealthy and powerful one, and was wronged. The Xie family cannot support her. Moreover, the Xie family is a merchant family, and I am afraid that the Shi family will look down on their status.

It would be fine if everything is peaceful, but if a conflict occurs, I'm afraid my sister's fate will not be much better than that of the second daughter of the Shi family.

After all, the second daughter of the Shi family is the granddaughter of the old duke. She narrowly escaped the plot and returned to the Shi family. The old duke was still able to protect her a little for the sake of their blood relationship and tried his best to save her life and reputation.

If it were the granddaughter-in-law, she is an outsider and of low birth, so who would protect her sister?

Xie Jibai was worried and asked, "What is the origin of the second daughter of the Shi family? I heard that the Shi family doted on their daughters. The enthusiasm with which they doted on the eldest daughter of the Shi family was known to everyone in the capital, but why have we never heard of this second daughter?"

Guiquan explained, "This involves an old story. Seventeen years ago, the Northern Rong invaded the country. The old Duke and the three masters of the Shi family went to the battlefield together. The women stayed in the capital, except for the third wife Rong, who followed the army to take care of the masters' daily lives.

Who could have expected that someone would betray the Shi family? Not only was the food and grass in the rear camp burned - later our master secretly transported food to replenish it, but Rong led people to fight back, but was kidnapped instead. The soldiers and guards of the Shi family chased them all the way, and the thief saw that he could not escape, so he simply threw Rong into the river.

The weather in the north turns cold early. The water was so cold that the third master fished for half a month but could not find anyone alive or dead. He also fell seriously ill.

After the war, the Shi family built a tomb for Rong. Because the third master was ill and confused and had forgotten his last name, the old lady took charge and asked an old Taoist priest to calculate his birth date and marry him a girl from a small family named Ji as his concubine.

Isn't that a coincidence? Just when Ji had persuaded the Third Master to change his mind and diagnosed the pregnancy, the dead Rong suddenly returned to the Shi family! They said that she was saved by an old hunter couple. Because she had been recovering from illness, the old hunter didn't know the way out of the mountains, so she delayed her return to Beijing for a year.

This is really a blessing for good fortune, it brought the dead daughter-in-law back to life! Everyone in the capital was amazed. I can guess what happened next.

Rong was the original wife, so naturally she was still the principal wife; Ji was married later, so she could only be a concubine. After she gave birth to a daughter, she and her daughter were sent back to their hometown in Jinling by the Shi family.

This matter was widely spread in the capital for a long time. Because the mother and daughter of the Ji family never appeared in recent years, people gradually forgot about it, but many people still remember it, and I found out the truth after asking around.

Xie Jibai sighed, "Fate is not in our control."

Guiquan held out his hand to signal his master to drink tea: "You are right, Master. The second daughter of the Shi family was originally born as a legitimate daughter, but unexpectedly she was born as a concubine's daughter. She was supposed to grow up in a wealthy and prosperous place, enjoying the same pampering as the eldest daughter of the Shi family, but unexpectedly she was sent back to Jinling.

It was said that she had only been in Beijing for ten days when she fell seriously ill. Strangely, the eldest daughter of the Shi family also fell seriously ill and has not been able to get out of bed. The second daughter went out for the first time, saying that she was going to burn incense and pray for her sister's health, but she asked the second master Shi to escort her.

This disaster cost not only a life, but also the innocence of more than a dozen maids and servants, and the three coachmen were beaten beyond recognition.

Now, outsiders are saying that the second daughter of the Shi family is a ruthless person who has hidden daggers and hidden weapons and injured the scoundrels, but they don't mention the second and eighth masters of Shi. This morning, the adults of the Censorate impeached the Duke of Zhenguo, accusing him of not educating his son well, allowing his son to murder his niece, and openly killing people in court to silence them. "

Xie Jibai drank the tea slowly, and the more he drank, the more unpleasant it became.

"No wonder Miss Shi Er would rather report to the authorities than go back home to seek protection from her grandparents and father. She doesn't dare to do so because she's afraid she'll die if she goes back."

Xie Jibai said this and put down the teacup.

The teacup knocked against the desk, making a dull sound.

The Shi family is truly a den of dragons and tigers.

"Guiquan, Yanmo, I want to write a letter back home."

He wanted to tell his father and sister exactly what had happened in the Shi family in the past two days.

Also, Shi Mingchen seemed dissatisfied when he met him yesterday, probably looking down on their family. This matter must be told to father, and he should make a decision as soon as possible.

Men are afraid to enter the wrong line, women are afraid to marry the wrong man.

When a woman gets married, it concerns her lifelong happiness and even more so her life.

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Shi Yao cares more about her reputation than her life.

While the men in charge of the Shi family were in a state of panic, she slept very soundly.

Because she knew that her life was safest at this moment.