The husband who forced her to marry her couldn't keep her warm, and she didn't want him to

"Isn't that reasonable?" Gu Jinchu sneered when he saw Qiu Wen's behavior: "Like the master, like the servant!"

Qiu Wen was the head maidservant of Aunt Lian. She was given face-splitting service by Aunt Lian when she was pregnant with Gu Yan.

Although she is called a concubine, she does the work of a maid in Tingyuxuan and her life is not as comfortable as those concubines in Zizhu Pavilion.

Aunt Lian pretended to be noncompetitive, but secretly she did all the dirty work for the concubines in the backyard.

Looking at Qiu Wen's indignant face, Bai Zhi on the side scolded her:

"You are just a concubine with no status and no position, yet you dare to talk etiquette with the daughter of the emperor. You don't know who you are at all!"

When Qiu Wen heard this, she looked up and saw Gu Jinchu sitting upright in an ebony seven-panel scroll armchair, wearing a comfortable and cool long jacket.

There were two big maids standing beside her, one was Bai Zhi who had just scolded her and was glaring at her, and the other was looking at her with a mocking and disdainful look.

In the past, Qiu Wen only thought that they were jealous, jealous that Ting Yuxuan's concubine was favored by the master and the mistress, and they were just lackeys around the third lady.

Now that I think about it, she, a disabled and broken woman, has really become a joke.

On a midsummer night, the sky is like an inky blue silk curtain, with a red crescent moon hanging high in the sky, mysterious in the quietness.

It seems to indicate that all good things will come as expected.

A breeze blew in from the open window, bringing a slight coolness. The study was so quiet that the only sound one could hear was the low chirping of summer insects against the wall outside the window.

The candlelight on the small table was dimmed very brightly, shining on Gu Jinchu's face, making people somewhat afraid to look directly at her gaze.

"Qiu Wen, don't tell me that everything that happened tonight was an accident. Didn't you lead those people over there? Are you pretending to be innocent here now, waiting for Aunt Lian to come and save you?" Gu Jinchu asked calmly.

Qiu Wen lowered her head, walked to Gu Jinchu's feet and knelt down.

She knelt there, lowered her body very low, and gently pressed her forehead to the ground, "Miss Third, I want to use a secret to exchange for a way out with you!"

Gu Jinchu picked up the teacup beside him, lowered his head and took a sip, his voice somewhat nonchalant: "Secret? Everyone has secrets that are unknown to others."

"You are the most favored maidservant beside Aunt Lian. In the future, she will be promoted to a co-wife. She can't let you live like this without a name or status. Giving you a concubine can be regarded as completing the relationship between you two as master and servant. Where is the dead end and the way to live?"

Qiu Wen knew that over the years, in order to win favor from Aunt Lian, she had secretly helped Aunt Lian to scheme against the Madam, so it was reasonable for the Third Miss to give her a warning.

The Third Miss said this because she saw through Aunt Lian's character.

She had served the master a lot in Tingyuxuan. If Aunt Lian was really as the Third Miss said, her current status would not be so embarrassing.

When Aunt Lian gets her wish and becomes a co-wife, I'm afraid that will be the day she is treated as an abandoned child.

It's a dead end, how can there be a way to survive!

"Miss Third, Madam Lian and Miss Fourth want Madam to die!" When saying this, Qiu Wen's eyes were somewhat crazy, and the words seemed to be roared out from between her teeth.

Bai Shao was so frightened when she heard this that she almost jumped up. She took a few steps to her side and said, "Qiu Wen, do you know what you are talking about?"

Qiu Wen sat up from her knees and stretched out her hands to half-hug herself. Bai Zhi came over and pulled her back, "Don't be so mysterious! What is Aunt Lian's purpose in sending you here?"

Bai Zhi's hands were very strong, and Qiu Wen had to support herself on the ground with one hand to steady herself under the push.

She was not annoyed, she lowered her eyes to look at the ground, "I used to be a maidservant beside the master like Bai Zhi. I dare not say that I can compare with the Third Miss's Sui'antang. I also had a glorious time in Tingyuxuan..."

As she spoke, she became more excited, crawled over to hug Gu Jinchu's legs, and said, "Miss San, do you not believe what this servant said?"

Seeing Gu Jinchu's emotionless face, his calm eyes suddenly changed, and he let go of her abruptly. He backed away using his hands and feet, shaking his head in disbelief:

"You are not the Third Miss. If you were the Third Miss and heard that someone wanted to harm the Madam, she would definitely lead people to fight and kill them... How could a person change so much? She must be wearing the Third Miss's cloak. Come... come..."

Gu Jinchu stood up, and under Qiu Wen's horrified gaze, he walked step by step to her, squatted down, raised his hand and slowly pulled out a piece of cloth from her arms.

He looked at her coldly and asked, "What's coming?"

"Do I have to continue to be deceived by Gu Yan, and use my stupidity to highlight her excellence? Ignore and indulge you like rats in the gutter, to plot against my mother, covet her position as the legal wife, and then hand over her huge dowry to you?"

Qiu Wen was stunned when she heard this, weren't these exactly what Aunt Lian and her daughter were planning, how come the third young lady of Sui'antang knew about it?

Frightened and terrified, Gu Jinchu was even more terrified than Aunt Lian at this moment. She knelt there and kowtowed, saying:

"Miss San, I have done many excessive things in the past, and those were all instigated by Aunt Lian!" Afraid that Gu Jinchu would not believe it, she nodded and said quickly:

"She is a vicious and cruel woman. She was afraid that I would give birth to a child to compete for her favor, so she drugged me over the years and made me lose my fertility..."

...

Qiu Wen spoke a lot at once, pouring out everything that Aunt Lian had done secretly over the years and her next plans.

Thinking of what Gu Jinchu had just said, and considering that the Madam has been in charge of the family for so many years, everything that happened in Tingyuxuan must be under the control of the Madam and the Third Miss, and she would not dare to hide anything.

"Miss Third, everything I said is true. I can accuse Aunt Lian in front of the master as long as you and Madam can give me a way to live." Qiu Wen said and begged.

Gu Jinchu took the hem of the dress out of her hands, smiled, and looked down at her:

"Qiu Wen, since you are thinking of the master, why don't you take the things and go to father in person to expose Aunt Lian?"

"Or you can go to Moxiangju and cry and tell her that your mother was kind enough to save you from the hands of the human traffickers. If it's really as you said, I'm sure she will give you justice."

Qiu Wen: "..."

"Miss Third, I am just an insignificant concubine in Tingyu Pavilion. If I betray my master rashly, not only will no one believe me, but I will also lose my life..."

Qiu Wen has a pair of phoenix eyes with upturned corners. Looking at her crying from this angle can arouse men's interest more than the bookish air of Aunt Lian, who looks like a beautiful girl from a small family.

It's just that after she became favored, she became too ostentatious and her personality displeased her father, so her popularity was short-lived.

Gu Jinchu said to Bai Zhi beside him: "Take Qiu Wen down to apply medicine. It would be a pity to ruin such a beautiful face, right?"

The few times he kowtowed just now were quite sincere, and Qiu Wen's forehead was visibly getting red and swollen.

Qiu Wen dodged Bai Zhi's hand and asked with red eyes: "Miss San, what do you mean by this?"

Gu Jinchu tossed the pomegranate in her hand. The orange-red fruit was bigger than her palm, and it looked particularly bright and eye-catching in her delicate and white palm.

Looking at Qiu Wen's face, a smile flashed across her face. "Since there are so many happy events in the mansion recently, it would be better to let a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend..."