The daily life of a concubine's daughter

After instructing the maid to go out and invite people, the lady turned around and said to Shi Yao, "Your aunt Liu Hua must have told you about the Yusu and Xie families. The Xie family has done a great favor to our Shi family. That Xie Jibai will be your seventh brother's legitimate brother-in-law in the future. I must meet him. Yao girl, you should stay away for now."

Shi Yao had already memorized every member of the Xie family by heart, and had also heard of the name of Xie Jibai, who had a hobby of collecting beauties and loved to save prostitutes.

This character was only mentioned briefly in the original novel without much elaboration. Shi Yao did not want to meet such a playboy, so she got up and went to the warm room.

When she lifted the curtain, she suddenly remembered Xie Qingdai and reminded the lady: "Grandma, don't forget to ask my future seventh sister-in-law."

The lady laughed and said, "You don't seem to miss your seventh brother, but you miss your seventh sister-in-law. Go in quickly, I won't forget you."

Shi Yao entered the warm room, moved a round stool, sat behind the curtain, and pricked up her ears to listen to the noise outside.

No matter how Aunt Liu Hua looked at her, she refused to leave.

After a moment, a gentle and clear voice of a young man came from outside: "Junior Xie Jibai greets the old lady. Happy New Year to the old lady. I wish the old lady peace, health, good luck and happiness!"

The lady suddenly remembered what Shi Yao had said just now about her being a "mascot". She took his hand and looked him up and down. She saw that he was wearing a light fur coat, a precious belt, a beautiful dress and a gorgeous crown, and that he had red lips and white teeth and was handsome and extraordinary. She said happily:

"After a year, I see that you have become more stable. I think you have made a lot of progress this year. How is your grandfather? Are your parents well?"

Xie Jibai bowed to the unfamiliar Wang Fan again, and then replied respectfully: "Thank you for your concern, old lady. All the elders at home are fine."

"Have you seen the old man?"

"I went to pay my respects to the old master, the Duke, and the third master in the mansion first. The old master ordered me to come and see the old lady."

The lady pretended to be angry: "If he doesn't let you come, then you won't come?"

Xie Jibai smiled: "Of course I will come. My father has told me in his letter that I must come to see for myself whether the old lady is well and then send my regards to her on his behalf."

The lady smiled and said, "In previous years, it was your father who came to pay New Year's greetings. He was a very polite person and spoke humorously. I was quite familiar with him. In the past two years, it has been your turn to pay New Year's greetings. But apart from paying New Year's greetings, you never come to the mansion to see me again."

"Thank you for thinking of my father. He has also been thinking of you. Especially after my grandmother passed away, my father mentioned you many times in his letters. I would like to come and pay my respects, but I am afraid that I will disturb the old lady's meditation, which would be a pity."

Wang Fan covered her lips and smiled: "Madam, this child is shy."

The lady laughed loudly, then she grabbed a handful of melon seeds and handed them to Xie Jibai. She pulled him to sit across from the table on the kang and asked carefully, "How is your sister? Half a year ago, your father came to the capital and said that she missed her deceased grandmother and had lost some weight."

After talking for a while, Xie Jibai finally felt more relaxed. While peeling melon seeds, he said, "With my sisters at home accompanying me, I have been less sad in the past six months, and I have recovered a little."

The lady asked again, "What month will you go to Beijing?"

Xie Jibai didn't receive any reply from home, and he thought that his grandfather and father used his letter as waste paper, and he was very depressed.

Seeing that the lady was kind and amiable, and quite similar to her own grandmother, she felt that with such an old grandmother around, perhaps her sister would not suffer too much grievance as the daughter-in-law of the Shi family. After all, daughters-in-law only dealt with the women in the inner house.

With a lot of thoughts in his mind, he replied meticulously, "It will be in February next year."

When Shi Yao heard this, she thought, okay, the other foot has landed.

No matter whether this foot is inside the door or outside the door, I will feel at ease.

Let’s wait and see in April when Xie Qingdai marries in. Will Shi Mingchen die young, or will Xie Qingdai leave his father and keep his son?

No, there is also Shi Mingzhu who wants to make trouble and replace the seventh sister-in-law.

Xie Qingdai's marriage was not destined to be smooth sailing.

I'm afraid that the Shi family has already thought of pushing Shi Mingzhu to the throne. Even if the Xie family wants to cancel the engagement, the Shi family will not let go of this money bag easily.

Whether Zhou Shao or Zhou Xu, if they wanted to start a rebellion, they would need a large sum of money to pave the way.

In the previous life, the Shi family used Xie Qingdai's jealousy as an excuse to extort a large sum of money from the Xie family.

In the original novel, in this life, the Shi family not only "took in" Xie Qingdai as a concubine on the grounds that Xie Qingdai had lost her innocence, but also extorted a large sum of money from the Xie family on the grounds that Shi Mingchen was cuckolded and the victim needed compensation for mental damages.

Of course, these things are hidden between the lines. The original text is mainly from Shi Mingzhu's perspective. Shi Mingzhu regards money as dirt, and no one told her that the Xie family was blackmailed.

Even if I knew, I wouldn't take it to heart.

After all, how could a noble and elegant lady from a noble family allow herself to degenerate and put such things in her heart?

That would pollute their noble and pure souls and character.

Another maid came in from outside and reported: "The young master and young lady from Ningyuan Marquis's residence came to pay their respects to the old lady."

Xie Jibai stood up and said goodbye.

The lady invited him to have lunch, but he said there were guests at home, so the lady had no choice but to let him go.

The old woman opened the curtain, and a gust of wind blew in, blowing onto the curtain leading to the inner room. The curtain swayed slightly, revealing a peach-colored skirt hem underneath. Under the skirt hem was a pair of pink embroidered shoes, and the toe of each shoe was adorned with a white pearl as big as a fingernail.

Xie Jibai's heart skipped a beat.

There was a girl in the Duke's Mansion hiding behind the curtain and eavesdropping on the male guests' conversation.

This person could embellish such large pearls on her embroidered shoes, so she must be a proper mistress and an unmarried girl. If she were a daughter-in-law, she would be like Wang Fan, sitting in the hall and meeting this young man in a serious manner.

There are two young ladies in the Duke's Mansion. I heard that the eldest lady has been bedridden for a long time. I guess she is recuperating now.

Thus, the only one left is the second young lady who has recently made the Duke's Mansion "famous".

After finding the thread among the myriad of threads, Xie Jibai turned the diamond ring on his finger, but didn't take it seriously. He lowered his head and went out from behind the curtain.

When Shi Yao heard that another male guest had come, she yawned out of boredom, got up and went to the kang. Afraid of ruffling her hair, she planned to lie on the kang table and take a nap.

Just as she was about to meet Zhou Gong, she heard the curtain rustle. Ge Qiuheng came in and pushed her: "Why are you hiding here when you heard me coming? Don't you want to be with me anymore? It was only because I asked the old lady that I knew you were lazing around here."

Shi Yao perked up, took her hand and said with a smile: "Men and women should be separated. I heard that your brother is here too, so I decided not to go out. Look, you came to look for me, didn't you?"

The two chatted about their daily lives, and Ge Qiuheng wanted to take her to Lanpei Courtyard to visit Shi Mingzhu.

"I just met my elder sister this morning. You go. It would be noisy with too many people around, and it wouldn't be good for her to recover." Shi Yao didn't want to go.

There must be a brother who is accompanying Shi Mingzhu because he is afraid that she will be lonely. When she appears, everyone will be like a duck with a stranglehold on its neck.

She let them off this time and didn't ruin the atmosphere.