Madam Liu smiled and said, "Madam is naturally a very kind and tolerant mistress. In Meizhou, she is well-known for being kind to illegitimate children...Now in the capital, she is naturally a well-known kind mother."

Seeing that her wife was delighted by her few words, Ruan Yuluan pretended to lower her eyelashes shyly to hide the hint of sarcasm in her eyes.

The second wife's wedding was much more respectable than the first wife's. After all, at that time, Mr. Ruan was only a fifth-rank prefect of Meizhou.

In order to show off his wealth and status, he set up a buffet in the front yard for the whole day to entertain relatives and friends.

The second lady was sitting in front of the dressing table, wearing a bright red wedding dress. She turned her eyes and smiled gently at the remaining sisters.

Even if she has a cold temper, at this moment, she would be reluctant to leave her sisters at home.

The third lady cried so much that her eyes were red and swollen a few days ago. I heard that even though Aunt Su was sick, she managed to get up and embroidered a dowry for the second lady so that she could take it with her and have some psychological comfort when she went to her husband's house.

When Ruan Yuluan listened, she couldn't help feeling a little sad.

After all, they are mother and daughter, sisters from the same mother... they are different from others. With their support, the second lady feels better.

The bridesmaid outside the door called out loudly: "The auspicious time has arrived! Please invite the bride to come out!"

As they were talking, three or four maids helped the second lady out, put her in a sedan chair, and left the house amid the deafening sound of firecrackers.

After the marriage, the wife had a gloomy look on her face. Ruan Yuluan sent Qiu Xiu to the main courtyard to inquire about it. She said that the second lady's wedding cost a lot of money, but it was just for the sake of face, and the wife was not very happy.

Hongmei, the second-class maidservant who served her, recognized a woman named Liu from the back door as her godmother, and the two had a good relationship. Sometimes Hongmei followed the housekeeper sister to go shopping, but in fact she went out to play, and she turned a blind eye.

Ruan Yuluan called Hongmei and asked her to go to the side door of Earl Zhongqin's mansion to find a way to meet the maid who came with the second lady as a dowry.

Hongmei didn't say much, but she was smart. She took the five taels of silver from the girl and agreed to go.

She did not come back until the evening and said that she had been waiting for half a day before she saw a sister. She immediately told her what the Fifth Lady had said.

When the second lady returned home, she brought several more boxes of gifts than the first lady did that day, and each box was very heavy.

Although the wife said, "Why be so polite? Second Madam has moved her husband's family back home?" the smile in her eyes could not lie, and she was naturally very happy.

The second lady quietly glanced at Ruan Yuluan who was silent at the side, and said with a smile: "My mother-in-law asked me to bring them, saying that they are all relatives. Our family has just moved to the capital, so there must be a lot of things that cost money. These are nothing!"

Ji smiled and agreed: "Please tell the Countess that she is still thinking of us."

"Yes."

The gifts that the Second Lady gave to her younger sisters seemed exceptionally generous and magnanimous.

Each person had a small wooden box. Ruan Yuluan looked at the ones held by others and felt that the one she was holding seemed particularly heavy. She took it back and saw that it was a box of silver ingots.

It looked like there were probably around sixty or seventy taels, which was a generous gift to thank her.

After the second lady's marriage, Master Ruan took office and gained a reputation in the official circles of the capital.

His career was going smoothly. But within a month, it was said that his boss had given him two beautiful concubines.

One day when paying respects to the emperor, Ruan Yuluan saw these two concubines. One was called Xuerong and the other was called Xueying. Both of them had the surname Bai and it was said that they were both maids serving in the mansion.

With their backgrounds, they were treated as concubines as soon as they entered the Ruan Mansion. The mistress ordered them to live in the Fragrance Pavilion in the northeast corner of the garden.

Ruan Yuluan looked at the two people carefully. They were young and pretty, each more charming and attractive than the other. The smile on her wife's face was neither warm nor cold.

She lowered her eyelashes calmly, thinking to herself that being a mistress is such a sad thing.

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