The daily life of a concubine's daughter

Xie Qingdai felt disheartened and forced herself to swallow back the bitter tears.

No matter what, she is already married, and all her glory and happiness in this life depends on Shi Mingchen.

Her grandfather told her that the relationship between husband and wife needs to be managed and maintained, so she went to stop him.

She couldn't get out of the second gate, so she could only use money to bribe the gatekeepers at the second gate and go to Ganlu Hall and Lanpei Courtyard to block him.

Shi Mingchen gradually figured out her "improper" intentions, and got angry. He punished a maid she had bribed and severely reprimanded her for being unfaithful to her husband and spying on her husband's whereabouts. He suspected that she had some bad habits.

She had just gotten married and could not bear such harsh accusations. She almost cried to death.

Even though she felt so aggrieved, she did not dare to write a letter to tell her family. When her younger brother Xie Jibai came to visit her, she only reported good news and not bad news.

At this moment, she finally understood what it meant to marry into a wealthy family and what it meant to regard her husband as her heaven.

From then on, I no longer dared to hope for a loving relationship between husband and wife, and even threw away the fantasy of treating each other with respect and equality.

But she had to have a child, a son.

So, after a period of cold war, when she felt that he had calmed down, she dressed up carefully for several days, which aroused the fire in his eyes, and then she slipped into his bed in the middle of the night wearing thin clothes.

Shi Mingchen did not refuse. He picked her up and played with her like a delicate flower, being rude and violent, and humiliating her with words.

After that night, she didn't get out of bed for three days, and her sisters-in-law teased and ridiculed her for quite a while.

She no longer dared to seduce Shi Mingchen.

But Shi Mingchen seemed to have broken some taboos. Whenever he encountered something unpleasant, he would forcibly drag her to bed and torture her in the dark night.

For a long time, she shivered whenever she saw Shi Mingchen.

Shi Mingchen particularly liked her frightened look and sneered, "Seducing me again? You lustful woman!"

Xie Qingdai never expected that she strictly abided by the rules of a boudoir and never went out of the house, except for the first time she seduced him. He was still her legitimate husband, so how could she be labeled with the most humiliating word for a woman, "lewd"?

This was the first time that Shi Mingchen said this word to her outside the bed. The feelings that had been secretly nurtured in her before had long since disappeared. She could no longer bear it and slapped him hard.

He went crazy and tortured her, not only calling her a whore but also calling her the daughter of a lowly merchant.

She couldn't believe it at first, but slowly came to her senses.

Finally found the reason why Shi Mingchen disliked her, it turned out to be because she came from a merchant family!

She finally understood that he was unwilling to marry a merchant girl and was unwilling to be used as a human to repay favors by his family.

The sisters-in-law were not unaware that the Xie family had done a great favor to the Shi family, but they flattered each other and bullied her because she would not and dared not take advantage of the favor and would often secretly mock her for coming from a merchant family and smelling of money.

Among them, the one who hated her "smell of money" the most was Shi Mingzhu.

Because Shi Mingzhu was the apple of the Shi family's eye, she had gotten whatever she wanted since she was a child.

For example, she liked to eat salty rice dumplings, so the rules were changed in the mansion. No matter whether people liked sweet or salty food, the Duke's Mansion changed everything after she ate the first Dragon Boat Festival rice dumpling. Every year, they only made salty rice dumplings and no sweet ones.

Shi Mingzhu was polite to her on the surface, neither cold nor warm, but she never used, ate or wore the gifts she gave her.

Later she found out that Shi Mingzhu never touched anything she sent, but either gave it to her servants as a reward or had it locked in a box in the corner of the warehouse to collect dust so as to avoid being noticed by her eyes and ears.

She secretly shed tears for this, but she dared not complain at all and even greeted him with a smile.

After all, she is a girl and will get married sooner or later. She can endure this grievance.

But she couldn't tolerate the grievances Shi Mingchen had inflicted on her.

He is her husband and the father of her future children, how can he look down on her?

Even if he looked down on her background, he should have restrained himself for the sake of gratitude. He didn't have to ask for tears of gratitude from him, but at least he should have treated her with respect. This was the most basic morality of a human being.

She struggled and resisted hard, fighting with Shi Mingchen, who was furious because of his dissatisfaction.

As a result, she accidentally had a miscarriage. Shi Mingchen silently stayed with her for two days, saying that he was sorry for her and that it was impossible for a wife to fight with her husband. He also said that he could not face her resentful eyes, so he left and went to the border.

She had a miscarriage and couldn't get up, so she had to watch him leave her and run away.

From then on, she became a laughing stock in the Shi family.

The people she interacted with every day were the women in the backyard.

The lady felt sorry for her, saying that she had suffered a lot, and gave her a lot of imperial gifts as compensation.

Some of her sisters-in-law sympathized with her, while others mocked her.

Her mother-in-law blamed her for being sentimental and not protecting the child well. She advised her to be more open-minded and that she would have children in the future. She also gave her Buddhist scriptures and ordered her to copy them to cultivate her mind and character.

But how did she know that she was pregnant?

Shi Mingchen intended to torture her to death. Even if she had not fought with him, the child would probably not have been saved.

Copying the scriptures did help her cultivate her mind and character, but after she was done, she still had to face the women of the Shi family.

"Even if my husband is mad enough to leave and cannot stay in the capital, my sister-in-law is still the first person in the Shi family."

In this way, she was repeatedly torn between calmness and irritability.

It was not until the second master sent someone to deliver New Year gifts back to the capital that the servant let the cat out of the bag and she learned that Shi Mingchen had married a noble lady as his concubine at the border with the ceremony of marrying a wife. The people over there called the concubine "Seventh Grandma" and that she had given birth to children.

Shi Mingchen finally lived the ideal life with a noble wife and children.

Everyone in the Shi family knew about this except Xie Qingdai.

Xie Qingdai couldn't help it any longer and went to question her mother-in-law. This was the first time she mentioned the word "repay a favor" in front of the Shi family.

These two words were like stirring up a hornet's nest in the Shi family, tearing apart the Shi family's reputation.

The entire Shi family was united in their hatred of the enemy and accused the Xie family of taking advantage of the situation. They said that marrying her as the seventh grandmother was a great favor and that the Xie family would make a huge profit. They said that Shi Mingchen suffered a great injustice by marrying her, a merchant's daughter, and marrying her as a concubine was a way to compensate him.

Xie Qingdai collapsed and argued that it was the Shi family who had proposed a marriage to repay a favor, not the Xie family who had come to ask for a marriage.

The Shi family also said that the Xie family made a lot of money and snatched a lot of business by relying on their marriage relationship, and warned evildoers not to attack the Xie family, etc.

However, the Xie family was already extremely wealthy before helping the Shi family overcome difficulties.

Her sisters-in-law stepped on her, fearing that she would use her favor to overshadow them.

Her mother-in-law blamed her, worried that her words and actions would cause the third wife to dislike her.

The men not only looked down on her for questioning her mother-in-law and making a fuss about life and death for a concubine, but also believed that the Shi family not only repaid their kindness by marrying her, but the Xie family also owed the Shi family a favor.

"Which man in the world who has some extra money doesn't take a concubine? He is the son of the Shi family, but he just took a concubine and placed her at the border instead of bringing her back to the capital to bother you. What's there to make a fuss about?"

She went to question the Shi family, and they said she was making trouble.

She went to reason, but the Shi family accused her of making trouble.

She cried, and the Shi family said she was making a fuss.

She fainted and lay bedridden, and the Shi family said she was making trouble.

The Shi family man was so angry that he spread the rumor that he wanted to divorce his wife, and immediately the Xie family's business suffered a series of setbacks.