The daily life of a concubine's daughter

But... Shi Miao said carefully: "Sister Yao, why do your sisters-in-law look so uninterested and listless today?"

Shi Yao sighed and said, "Why else? My elder sister is ill. If it wasn't my birthday, I wouldn't be interested."

Shi Miao looked at Shi Yao with a hint of sympathy.

The apple of the Shi family's eye was sick, and her sisters-in-law actually looked unhappy at Shi Yao's birthday party, which showed that Shi Yao was not very favored.

She silently squeezed Shi Yao's hand and said, "We live in Yangliuqing Lane, not far away. People from our family who don't have houses in Beijing live there, so it's convenient for us to take care of each other. If you are bored in the Duke's Mansion, come and play with me. If you come to your house, you have to send a visiting card. If you are from a wealthy family, I dare not come to your house to play without a reason."

After hearing this, the three of them looked at each other and started laughing.

Shi Yao thought that she had tried every possible means to follow the old Duke's wishes and help the Duke's Mansion to cover up the problem. Whether it could be covered up depended on the abilities of the men in the Duke's Mansion.

After sitting for a while, Aunt Liu Hua came to call Shi Yao out to entertain the guests: "...It's your birthday party, how can you be lazy? Go meet people and make more friends and relatives, so as not to disappoint the old master."

Shi Miao and Cheng Lingyan hurriedly apologized: "We were so happy to meet an old friend in a foreign land that we dragged her along to reminisce about the past. We will return her to aunt now."

So the three of them went back to listen to the opera.

Cheng Lingyan's sister-in-law was familiar with the people in her family, so she introduced Shi Yao to them first. After talking for a while, Shi Yao gave tips to the actors, and the lady asked her to go over and order some performances.

Shi Yao had not listened to many operas, but Aunt Liu Hua had done homework for her in advance and knew which operas were suitable for today, so she ordered two and asked the lady to choose one.

After the show was over, Ge Qiuheng came over and took her to the circle of nobles to talk.

The little girls were chattering. Those who were tactful avoided the taboos of the host family, while those who were not would deliberately ask Shi Yao some sensitive questions.

For example, whether the sister-killing trio is right or wrong, why Shi Yao grew up in Jinling, whether Le An Ning smashed her sister-in-law's yard, whether Shi Mingzhu was pushed into the water by her...

Shi Yao answered them one by one in a soft voice to satisfy their gossipy hearts.

When the banquet was over, Ge Qiuheng was filled with guilt: "I'm sorry, Second Sister Shi. I wanted to help you make some new friends. I didn't know they would be so tactless. If I had known, it would have been better for you and me to talk."

Shi Yao looked tired and sad: "Gossip is human nature. We women are used to staying at home and not going out. How can we spend our days if we don't listen to and talk about other people's gossip?

It's better to ask, so that people won't speculate and spread rumors, which will become more and more outrageous. Today, I will find a suitable occasion to dispel the rumors."

Ge Qiuheng watched her expression, and after listening to her insightful words, her eyes became sore and wet.

Others could only get some rumors or spread false information, but the Ningyuan Marquis' Mansion and the Duke's Mansion had always been on good terms, so they could always find out the truth.

If she were Shi Yao, she would probably have been so frustrated that she would have hanged herself.

Everyone in the mansion is targeting her, and she is a concubine's daughter whose status cannot take any advantage. Even today's birthday party may not have good intentions.

Or maybe it was just to create a pretext and push Shi Yao out to personally "refute the rumors."

What's the fun of living like this?

However, Shi Yao has a stubbornness that many girls do not have, or courage, optimism, and rebelliousness.

Ge Qiuheng secretly fell in love with Shi Yao, this clever and lively girl. The more he got to know her, the more he couldn't understand why Zhuzhu didn't like this sister.

Shi Yao took a step closer and asked in a low voice, "Miss Lin, who just asked me a question, I vaguely heard someone talking about her family during the banquet. Did her brother go to some brothel and his wife found out and hired a dozen strong men to catch him? Sister Ge, do you know what happened? I'm extremely curious."

Ge Qiuheng: “…”

The soreness in my abdomen disappeared immediately.

She glared at Shi Yao and spat, "How can a girl like us get involved in such a dirty thing? You better not go around asking around, or people will laugh to death if they hear about it!"

"Okay." Shi Yao looked regretful that her desires could not be satisfied.

Seeing her expression, Ge Qiuheng felt itchy and took a step closer, leaning head to head with Shi Yao, and whispered:

"Lin Er's sister-in-law is very clean, and her brother is a jerk who often hangs out outside. Every time he comes home from hiding, it's fine if he hides it from her sister-in-law. But if her sister-in-law finds out, she will force her jerk brother to burn incense and bathe for ten consecutive days to clean himself from inside to outside before allowing him to step into the yard. Apart from other things, Lin Er's brother and your second brother are bad friends and often play tricks together."

Shi Yao curved her eyebrows and covered her mouth with her hands to smile.

This Ge Qiuheng is quite interesting.

Ge Qiuheng stepped back slightly and said with a sigh, "Isn't it fun? We outsiders are just having fun, but it's hard for her sister-in-law. Lin Er also said good things about her brother everywhere and said that her sister-in-law was mean.

The relationship between her and her sister-in-law is extremely bad. When others say something bad about her, she says that sisters-in-law should obey their husbands and their mothers-in-law. Therefore, when she heard about your second sister-in-law's fierceness and domineering behavior, she hurried to ask you about it, so as to make an ally and fight against the same enemy with you. "

Shi Yao was speechless.

Asking in public about her bad relationship with her sister-in-law is not making an ally at all; it is exposing someone's scars and making an enemy.

Unmarried girls are always naive and can see things from a bystander's perspective, so Ge ​​Qiuheng sympathizes with her situation and wants to make friends with her.

But once married, with a husband and children, a woman will have her own positions, and these positions will become more and more numerous and more and more complicated.

Therefore, a woman will become like a different person before and after she gets married.

The third sister-in-law Tao Ziyi also had a good chat with her and they also talked about visiting each other, but what was the result?

Since returning home that time, Tao Ziyi has had no contact with her.

At first, Tao Ziyi wanted to make friends with her, and every time she went to Ganlu Hall to pay her respects, she would look at her from afar, with a pair of smiling eyes that seemed to speak. But every time she finished paying her respects, Shi Mingzhen would immediately hold Tao Ziyi's hand and pull her away.

After doing this over and over again, Tao Ziyi felt embarrassed, and gradually became indifferent. Occasionally, when her eyes met Shi Yao's, she would either lower her head in shame, or turn to glare at Shi Mingzhen. In the end, she did not dare to disobey her husband.

Shi Yao accepted Ge Qiuheng's kindness at this moment and was willing to make friends with her.

The two of them gossiped all the way to Lanpei Courtyard.

When Shi Mingzhu saw the two of them coming together, her pretty pale face suddenly turned dark.

Shi Yao loved watching the people from the Duke's Mansion perform Sichuan Opera face-changing, which was extremely interesting and she secretly enjoyed it in her heart.

The three of them greeted each other. Shi Mingzhu couldn't get up, so she just bowed slightly on the bed.

She asked about the banquet, and then asked Shi Yao: "Did you make any friends? My second sister returned to Beijing, and I should have taken her to make friends with the other sisters, but my health was not good enough, and I was sick for more than a month.

If my sister can make three or four good friends, and have someone to talk to, and chat about the customs and people of the capital, I would feel a little relieved. "