The daily life of a concubine's daughter

Shi Yao hid her handkerchief and smiled: "So what if I am a concubine's daughter? The Shi family owes my biological mother two favors. The old lady will not treat me badly. No matter what, she will not marry me to a merchant family, which will bring disgrace to the Shi family and cause gossip."

Be angry, be angry enough to cancel the engagement.

In his previous life, Shi Mingchen felt that the merchant’s wife was shameful and despised her.

She had no idea how she got along with her seventh sister-in-law Xie Qingdai.

But later Shi Mingchen went to the border and married a noble lady from a local prominent family in the border town as his concubine.

When people go out, they call the concubine "Seventh Madam" and the one in the capital is also "Seventh Madam". This is called "two heads are bigger". The two "Seventh Madams" never meet each other.

Generals at the border were not allowed to return to the capital all year round, and their wives, children and parents were held hostage in the capital, but they could not be without women to keep them warm in bed, so this was often done.

The Shi family kept this matter a secret from Xie Qingdai. They felt that Xie Qingdai was of low status and Shi Mingchen was treating Shi Mingchen unfairly by marrying her, so marrying her as a second wife was their way of compensating him.

Later, Xie Qingdai learned the news and made a few fuss, but she didn't get any advantage. Instead, the Xie family's business was damaged. She apologized and confessed in a shameful manner, and paid a large sum of "mental damages" to the Shi family. Xie Qingdai swallowed the bitter fruit honestly, and the matter was finally resolved.

In the original novel, Shi Mingzhu was reborn and hoped to see her eight brothers all happy. However, Xie Qingdai was both lowly and noisy. She committed jealousy, one of the seven reasons for divorce, had no virtue as a woman, and accused her elders of pampering her. The execution of her entire family was her retribution. She was so unfilial that the master set a trap to ruin Xie Qingdai's reputation and force her to become a concubine.

Later, Shi Mingchen naturally married the concubine of his previous life as his principal wife, and threw Xie Qingdai, who had lost her innocence, into the backyard.

The Xie family was also grateful that he was willing to take in the disgraced Xie Qingdai, and praised him for being "loyal and righteous."

Shi Mingzhu was a lady from a wealthy family who strictly followed the rules of the boudoir. She felt that Xie Qingdai was willing to be a concubine and was living a shameless life, trying to curry favor with the powerful, and she should die for her chastity.

"Merchant girls are merchant girls. They value money more than integrity." Shi Mingzhu and Nanny Xin sighed.

Shi Yao thought that since there was no hope for this marriage, Xie Qingdai should not get involved in the Shi family's messy waters.

Shi Mingchen knew about what happened to Aunt Ji in the past. He was young at that time and had no impression of it. As he grew up, he felt that something was wrong between his parents. He also heard some fragments and inquired carefully before he knew the details of what happened.

Therefore, from the very beginning, the three brothers of the third house had a grudge against Shi Yao. Before Shi Yao came to Beijing, they were the three people in the Duke's Mansion who disliked Shi Yao the most.

"If you weren't the daughter of the Shi family, with your black hands and vicious mouth, even the peddlers wouldn't want you."

Shi Yao's eyes widened as she looked Shi Mingchen up and down, clapping her hands and saying, "Seventh Brother, what you said is very clever. If you were not a member of the Shi family, with your bad temper, you wouldn't even be able to be a peddler. If you were to be someone's lackey, people would despise you for being tactless."

Shi Mingchen became furious and felt that if he continued to endure it, he would be a coward, so he reached out to hit Shi Yao.

Shi Yao jumped away nimbly and ran to the door. She turned around and made a face at Shi Mingchen, then she laughed and shouted into the room:

"Seventh brother, take good care of your injuries. I'll come back to play with you in a few days!"

After saying this, he left refreshed.

The maids and servants were just about to rejoice over the deep affection between the brother and sister when they heard Shi Mingchen yelling in frustration in the room: "Shi Yao, Shi Yao! You stinky girl, come back here!"

Everyone looked surprised.

Shi Mingchen was so angry that he wanted to get out of bed, grab Shi Yao and beat her up. But when he moved, his butt started to hurt so badly that he could not do anything except swearing and scratching the bed.

Shi Yao walked out of the yard and stretched lazily. Before Aunt Liu Hua came to remind her, she put her hands in front of her stomach, turned around and walked into Shi Minghui's yard.

Shi Minghui's yard is very lively.

His voice and the woman's voice were heard in the room, as well as laughter and joyful chatter, which was in stark contrast to the screams and cries in Tangxi Courtyard and the cold and quiet atmosphere of Shi Mingchen next door.

Shi Yao curled her lips.

This is the difference between being favored and being unfavored.

Can’t Shi Mingchen hear the noise next door?

If he couldn't hear it, could his servants not hear it either?

He just keeps talking tough!

The maid reported that Shi Yao had entered the room, and the laughter in the room had already stopped.

In front of Shi Minghui's bed stood a screen with the Four Gentlemen of plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum. Behind the screen was Shi Minghui lying on his stomach, in the same posture as Shi Mingwei and Shi Mingchen whom he had just met.

Sitting in front of the screen were Shi Mingzhu, who was wrapped up like a ball, and a little girl in her teens.

The little girl had a plump face, beautiful hair, red lips and a fair face. She was dressed in gorgeous clothes and had her hair done in a fairy bun. Her hair was decorated with a string of more than twenty pink and purple pearls the size of rice grains. Under her ears, there were two fingernail-sized pearls of the same color decorated with gold thread.

When she turned around and saw Shi Yao, she quickly stood up, her earrings dangling, her cheeks flushed, and she looked quite lively and pretty.

Shi Yao smiled at her, knowing who it was. Then she bowed to Shi Minghui and stood behind the screen, far away, her body trembling slightly: "My dear, how are you."

Hearing Shi Minghui's response, he hurriedly turned around and greeted Shi Mingzhu, who had a cold expression, as if he was very afraid of Shi Minghui, this violent man.

Shi Yao asked softly, "Which relative is this sister from?"

Her eyes were full of doubts.

The little girl's rosy cheeks suddenly turned red. She glanced at Shi Minghui behind the screen, shy and timid, with her eyes flickering.

Shi Mingzhu sat back, holding a teacup in her hand, and introduced indifferently: "She is the youngest daughter of Ningyuan Marquis, the fourth among the sisters. You can call her Fourth Sister Ge. We grew up together, and our houses are only two streets apart. Today she came to visit me, and I happened to come to visit my eighth brother, so we came together."

It would be strange if Shi Yao believed it.

This fourth Miss Ge, named Qiu Heng, was Shi Minghui’s childhood sweetheart and also her future sister-in-law.

The three sisters-in-law of the eldest son all come from prominent families.

My eldest sister-in-law, Fu Nanjun, had a retired grandfather who was once the emperor's teacher. He was given the honorary title of Taifu and lived at home in his old age, but he would occasionally be summoned to the palace to answer the emperor's questions and give him advice.

The second sister-in-law, Le Anning, had a grandmother who was a princess and the emperor's aunt. In those days, Le Anning's grandfather was a famous handsome man, and his carriage was filled with fruits when he went out. Le Anning's beauty was the culmination of the family's beauty, and was chosen by the wife of the Duke of Guo, who married her to tame the wild heart of her second son. The Le family was only slightly inferior in family background, but Le Anning's background was not bad, and she was a royal relative.

The future eighth sister-in-law, Ge Qiuheng, is the youngest daughter of Ningyuan Hou and childhood sweetheart of Shi Minghui. Her father, Ningyuan Hou, holds real power and holds a position equivalent to that of Shi Yao's second uncle. He is also the commander-in-chief and has troops stationed in the southwest.

Therefore, Ge Qiuheng did not come to visit Shi Mingzhu, but clearly came to visit her future husband.

Shi Mingzhu has always been strict in observing etiquette and was worried about gossip from others, so she dragged her sick body to accompany Ge Qiuheng to the front yard to cover up their secret meeting.