No, I was just a concubine, how did I become the queen?

Chapter 220 Jia Shi, Dead

Li was demoted to a concubine, but Song was released from confinement and continued to live in Yime Garden.

The Fourth Master probably saw that she was calm and peaceful, so he thought she was truly repentant.

Considering what she had done in the past, there must be a reason for it.

After more than a year of labor reform, the results were seen and the mistakes were offset.

Lin Mingyan didn't care. The Song family didn't harm her. At most, they were a little disgusting. She just stopped associating with them.

It was Li who laughed at her. Now she was really regretting it.

Even if she was sent to the cold courtyard in the past, she was at least still the biological mother of the eldest princess.

When the eldest princess grows up and is ready to get married, her biological mother will be released to save her face.

Not to mention that when the Fourth Master moves into the Forbidden City, he will at least have a concubine position.

Now, she was beaten so badly that she was no longer a concubine, but a maid.

I gave birth to a child, but it was registered under someone else's name. It means nothing to me!

Cool!

Of course, it was good enough that Lin Mingyan did not take advantage of Li's misfortune, but she would not speak for the enemy who had harmed her.

I just feel sad. Can this "girl-protecting talisman" be taken back?

If she had known that the Fourth Master had decided not to let her give birth, she would not have wasted the baby like this!

The Fourth Master composed himself and put Li and the others out of his mind.

I took advantage of the last few days of my sick leave to have some fun with Honghui and the other two.

Being with the children is the happiest thing. Lin Mingyan also released two swans for everyone to play together.

I have children, pets, and I'm still jobless. Even the gods would envy me for my life.

However, happy days are always short-lived. Lin Mingyan has not yet figured out how to tell Honghui that he cannot twist Hei Dou's neck with his hands.

Bad news came from the palace - Zhang Jiashi died.

Lin Mingyan had long known that Zhang Jia might not survive this year, but she didn't expect that she would die on the hottest day.

Zhang Jia was a concubine without rank, and gave birth to one son and two daughters for Emperor Kangxi.

The Thirteenth Prince has barely grown up. He is fourteen years old this year and is old enough to get married.

But now that Zhang Jiashi is gone, he has to observe three years of mourning for his mother, so the marriage can only be postponed.

After receiving the news, the Fourth Master changed into mourning clothes and went to the palace early in the morning.

After Lin Mingyan sent him out, she told Du Juan, "Let's dress more plainly in the courtyard."

Zhang Jia was a concubine, so it was not her turn as the prince's wife or concubine to go to the palace to pay her respects, nor was it necessary for the entire palace to observe mourning.

However, for Thirteen's sake, Linfengju still changed into plain clothes.

Du Juan said, "Master, the summer clothes have been distributed, mainly in brown and green."

These two colors are not bright, but not plain either.

Moreover, the clothes distributed by the mansion were the same colors every year, and everyone had no clothes to change into.

"Why not ask everyone to tie a white belt around their waists? That would also express mourning."

Lin Mingyan thought about it and thought this was a good idea, so she said, "Please ask the needlework nanny in our courtyard to hurry up and make two new belts for everyone."

"Hey~" Dujuan took the order and went down to prepare.

The two seamstresses were arranged by the Fourth Master for Linfengju after the triplets were born. They were specifically responsible for making clothes for Lin Mingyan and the three children in all seasons.

Sometimes when Du Juan and others want to make some clothes, they can find them privately and pay them some money to help them make them.

The two maids are dedicated to serving Linfengju, so most people might think they have a lot of free time.

All the maids in the sewing room of the mansion envied their good fortune, and they all said that they did easy work.

The younger Nanny Lin was not very happy. Every time she heard these people's gossip, she wanted to have a fight with them.

Fortunately, her master, Aunt Zhang, was an experienced person and could easily bring back Xiaolin's firecrackers every time.

After breakfast today, they almost started arguing again. Aunt Zhang dragged her back and tapped her forehead:

"Why would you argue with them? It's just a small matter~"

"Master, didn't you hear everything?" Nanny Lin rolled her eyes in anger. "They said we were lucky and couldn't sew more than a few stitches a day."

"Isn't it a good fate? How could you serve in Linfengju without a good fate?" Nanny Zhang took a sip of hot tea and said while rubbing her belly.

Nanny Lin was furious: "It's true that they have a good life, but we do delicate work, how can it be easier than theirs?"

The work done in the sewing room is mostly to make clothes for the servants for all seasons. They are just casually sewn and look good.

The clothes for the remaining princesses were also made there, but there were too many people in the sewing room, and one person could only make two or three pieces for the princesses in a season.

Although they, the master and the disciple, seemed not to have to worry about the servants' clothes, they had to take care of the clothes for the four masters in all four seasons.

Moreover, these clothes are not in fixed quantity. If the Fourth Master is interested, he can order them to make more than ten or twenty sets in a day.

These clothes are all exquisite and beautiful from the style to the embroidery. If there is any dissatisfaction, they will be taken apart and remade.

Could it be an easy job?!

"Whether it's easy or not doesn't depend on how much work there is, but on how good the master is," Aunt Zhang said. "Here, we work neither too fast nor too slow, and the rewards are so generous that we can't even open our hands."

"There are no favors to deal with, and there are also those troublesome little devils."

"This day is simply filled with gods~"

Nanny Lin knew that her master was right and had no way to refute it. She could only humph to express her dissatisfaction.

After drinking a cup of hot tea, Nanny Zhang put the cup down and said, "You should be careful. If you quarrel with others, you will make the master unhappy."

"If you lose this job, the master won't protect you."

Nanny Lin was startled at this and lowered her head and said, "Yes, Master."

When Dujuan came in, Nanny Lin was refilling her master's tea.

White smoke rose from the fine white porcelain cup, and she could smell the elegant fragrance of tea as soon as she came in.

"Madam Zhang, are you busy?" Dujuan called out.

Nanny Zhang, who was watching, stood up and personally brought her a chair and asked her to sit down: "Miss Dujuan, does the master have any instructions?"

As soon as Dujuan sat down, Nanny Lin had already made a cup of tea and placed it on the table next to her.

She politely took a sip before telling him about the belt Lin Mingyan had asked her to bring.

Nanny Lin thought to herself what kind of job this was, but she responded quickly, holding the data she had compiled and saying that it could all be completed today.

Aunt Zhang said, "Why don't you make a small white gauze waistcoat? It won't keep you warm, but it will make you look more plain."

Du Juan said as soon as she heard it: "That's great, what does it look like? Let me see it too."

Nanny Lin quickly took out a roll of white gauze. It was a little yellowed, probably because it had been stored for a long time, but it was not a big deal.

"Madam Gao found this out while cleaning the storeroom the other day. It must have been sitting there for too long, so it's not suitable for making clothes for the master," explained Madam Zhang. "I'll leave it here with you and let you take care of it."

"If it's good yarn, then let's each make one~" Du Juan made the decision without even reporting to Lin Mingyan.

After she left, Nanny Lin grunted and moved out all the white gauze and started cutting it immediately.

Now, I don’t feel guilty about working so hard at all.

When the Fourth Master returned from the palace, most of the servants in Linfengju had already put on white gauze vests and tied white belts.