The daily life of a concubine's daughter

Two days later, Shi Mingchen finally plucked up the courage to inquire about Xie Qingdai's news.

It turned out that before the Xie family became rich, the top scholar Bo Yinghao proposed marriage to the Xie family three times. When Xie Qingdai went out to sea, Bo Yinghao waited anxiously for her return.

Xie Qingdai didn't want to get married again in this life. She yearned for the vast world outside. No man would be willing to marry a woman who traveled all over the world.

However, Bo Yinghao not only did not doubt her, but praised her for her courage and wisdom, and for doing things that many men dared not do.

So Xie Qingdai married him.

Bo Yinghao was gentle and elegant, with the demeanor of a scholar, and was also favored by the emperor. The edict in which the old emperor passed the throne to Crown Prince Zhou Yi was drafted by him.

After getting married, Xie Qingdai went to sea for another half a year.

Bo Yinghao did not say anything. He just asked her with interest about her experiences along the way, helped her write them down, and said with a smile that they would be left for future generations to read.

However, Mrs. Bo was quite critical of Xie Qingdai and said to her son in private: "She hangs out on the boat all the time, and the boat is full of men. Aren't you afraid of something happening?"

Bo Yinghao was extremely angry and said, "If I had doubted her, I would not have asked for her hand in marriage. What I like most is her free and uninhibited personality. I have elderly parents and young children to take care of, and I have orders from the court, so I cannot go around to see the world. Qingdai went to see it for me, and I am very happy."

Mrs. Bo covered her face and cried, "Is it because of an old thing like me that I have hindered your 'free and unrestrained' life?"

Bo Yinghao had no choice but to patiently comfort his widowed mother.

After Xie Qingdai went out to sea again, Mrs. Bo decided to take a concubine for Bo Yinghao, saying, "As a wife, she cannot serve her husband, and you can't bear to leave her. Why don't you take a concubine to serve you and expand the Bo family?"

Bo Yinghao refused and wanted to return the concubine.

Mrs. Bo knelt down and begged him.

Bo Yinghao had no choice but to keep the woman but never slept with her.

When Xie Qingdai came back and found out, she was sad, but she could neither change herself nor Mrs. Bo, nor could she say that Bo Yinghao was wrong.

She advised him to divorce.

Bo Yinghao did not agree.

Therefore, life goes on in a dull and boring way.

After hearing this, Shi Mingchen felt mixed emotions. It turned out that Xie Qingdai was such a courageous, knowledgeable, smart and decisive woman.

The one who is not worthy of the other person is always himself.

Unfortunately, he understood it too late.

*

Shi Mingmo was like a lonely shadow, wandering in the capital, and no one cared about him.

He couldn't seek to be a minor official because he was afraid of being exposed and ridiculed.

He also could not carry on the family line, so Rong decided to finish Shi Mingchen's marriage before worrying about his own.

His relationship with Shi Yao was average, and they had never even had any quarrels like Shi Mingchen, so it was not convenient for him to visit the Xie family.

The sworn brothers who used to surround him now avoided him for fear of being implicated by him.

On the Mid-Autumn Festival, he met with Shi Mingkui.

Shi Mingkui was a rare eunuch who could read and write. After being tortured for three or four years, he now served in the imperial study.

The emperor went incognito to meet the beauty in private. Shi Mingkui met Shi Mingmo, who was drinking alone in a tavern next to the private residence.

The two brothers met again after six or seven years, but they did not hug each other and cry.

Seeing his brother so decadent, Shi Mingkui asked with a sigh: "How about you also come to the palace to serve the emperor?"

Shi Mingmo: “…”

"I'm serious. Among the eunuchs, we are the normal people."

"Fourth brother, stop making a fuss." Shi Mingmo didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and changed the subject by asking, "How did you get into the palace in the first place? The whole family was shocked and terrified, and mother almost cried her eyes out."

Shi Mingkui sighed, "At the beginning, I just thought that my uncle and my elder brother would never let me go, and they would definitely find a way to plot against me and kill me so as to avenge my second brother.

I simply hid in the East Palace and followed the prince. Who knew that my uncle and elder brother would be gone right after I escaped.

I thought about leaving the palace and returning to my hometown, but since I couldn't see the crown prince at the time, I had no choice but to continue working.

Now, I have made it through and entered the Imperial Household Department. The Emperor praised my good handwriting and appointed me as the eunuch who holds the pen. Come here, brothers, we can work together and definitely become the head of the East Factory.”

Shi Mingmo: “…”

So, you really killed my second brother?

He wanted to pretend to be drunk, but was afraid that his mad brother would ask someone to carry him away and castrate him, so he stood up and said, "It's getting late. Father is waiting for me at home. Fourth brother, do you have a message for father?"

Shi Mingkui drank his wine leisurely and sneered: "I have something to say to him, will he listen? Can he get things done? If you want to leave, leave quickly."

If he didn't leave, he would castrate him.

Shi Mingmo felt a chill in his crotch and ran away in a hurry.

He was walking through a world of colorful lanterns, and suddenly, as if sensing something, he looked across the street.

This glance froze him.

Wang Fan was wearing a red dress, with her black hair tied up and pinned with only a jade hairpin. She stood under the lamp, waving and smiling at him.

Looking at the beauty under the lamp, she is as hazy as the moon on the water, so beautiful that cannot be described in words.

"Sister Fan." Shi Mingmo couldn't help but move his feet, and saw a young man dressed as a scholar, holding two children on the left and right. The children each held a lantern with a small fish and a small rabbit in their hands, and walked towards Wang Fan.

The child called out in a baby voice: "Mother! Mother!"

The four of them got together, Wang Fan and the young man each picked up a child, and they smiled at each other, with affection flowing between their brows.

Wang Fan, who became a mother, became even more beautiful.

Shi Mingmo paused, as if someone had grabbed his neck and suffocated him so hard that his heart, liver, spleen and lungs felt like they were about to explode.

Instead of moving forward, he took one step, two steps, three steps back, until he retreated deep into the shadows and watched the family of four go away.

*

When Shi Yao heard news about the Shi family again, it was actually Ji Yun who told her.

Shi Mingmo disappeared after the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Some people said they saw him leaving Beijing.

Later, someone else said that he saw a beggar who looked like him.

Some people also said that they saw him go to the Southeast Navy, and that some people saw him fighting pirates at sea.

Le An Ning also wrote a letter to say that Rong was crying so much that she was almost blind and her eyesight was not working well.

The Shi family's news on the Mid-Autumn Festival was not limited to Shi Mingmo's.

The third master Shi Jianan thought his son was sick, so he took him to a brothel during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Shi Mingchen stayed in the brothel for seven days.

After leaving the brothel, Shi Mingchen lost a lot of weight. Later, for some reason, he became thinner and thinner until he was just skin and bones.

Shi Jian'an was terrified. He sent people to look for Shi Mingmo and at the same time rushed him back to Nanjing.

I saw more than a dozen doctors, and they all shook their heads and said, "It's useless."

Rong's collapse can be imagined, and he almost chopped Shi Jianan to death with a knife.

Shi Jianan went to the grave and cried, asking the old lady of the Duke's house to bless Shi Mingchen to get better.

Shi Mingchen did gradually get better, but he completely lost interest in women.

Rong did not dare to provoke him and stopped talking about marriage. She placed her hope of carrying on the family line on Fan Ge'er.

She was like a frightened bird, not daring to force Shi Yunfan at all, allowing him to develop freely.

Later, Fan Ge'er went to join the army in an extremely poor place, and she nodded without hesitation.

Later, when Fan Ge'er wanted to marry into the Mo family, Shi Jizheng and Shi Jian'an used the ancestral tablets to stop him, but Rong alone blocked all obstacles for him: "Go! Let him go! As long as the child is alive, that's all!"

Shi Jianan went to the old Duke's wife's grave and cried, "Father, mother, you are still partial even after you died. My eldest brother and second brother both have roots, but I am the only one without roots.

The fourth brother became a eunuch and was about to exert his power when the frail and sickly emperor passed away, leaving him to be buried alive!

I don’t know if Laoliu Laoliu has gone crazy, ran away, or been kidnapped. There has been no news from him since then!

Lao Qi Lao Qi is a coward. He is useless after going to a brothel!

Shi Yao Shi Yao is an ungrateful person. She is rich and powerful, but she doesn't even help her parents and brothers!

Shi Yunfan is even more of a bastard. He has all the necessary skills, but he actually becomes a son-in-law who marries into the wife's family!

Dad, mom, you are partial even after you became ghosts, you only bless my elder brother and second brother, but not me. I will never visit your graves again! If there is grass growing on your graves, I will not come to weed them for you! Woo woo woo..."