bookcurios Chapter 219 The Righteous Way (8)
Chapter 219 The Righteous Way (8)
He Guiyi was angry, so she went back to her room, closed the door and started to lose her temper. All the maids serving her in the room suffered.
When Bai Mingzhou heard the servant boy beside him talking about this, he quickly put down his book and came over to comfort her.
That night, he rarely looked for a concubine, but stayed in He Guiyi's room.
Lu Changqing was upset when she heard Yuan Liu gossiping about the news she heard from her other sisters.
This Yuan Liu is simply the intelligence chief of the Bai Mansion. It seems that this girl is doing well in the mansion and has acquaintances everywhere, otherwise how could she know everything that goes on in the couple's bedroom?
"I think the mistress handled this matter unfairly. It was clearly the Third Miss's behavior that was problematic, but in the end it was Madam He who was scolded. What do you think, Miss?"
"No matter whether what they did was right or not, we should not interfere in the affairs of the front yard. We are servants and they are the masters. Servants will be punished if they make up stories about their masters."
Yuan Liu said unconvincedly: "Miss, you are the daughter of the master, a lady of the mansion, not a servant."
According to the logic of this world, according to the logic of the protagonists, Lu Changqing's current status is indeed higher than that of the "legitimate" ones like them.
Because she was born to a concubine, and concubines are servants, so naturally a child born to a concubine cannot become a superior person.
Sometimes Lu Changqing really couldn't understand the logic of this world. It was clearly a typical male totalitarian society, but when it came to the origins of his daughters, they clearly took their father's surname, but their identities were based on their mother's.
Lu Changqing waved his hand, "Even if we are not servants, we should not care about what is happening over there. We should just watch the fun quietly."
Yuan Liu looked at Lu Changqing resentfully: "Girl, you have changed."
Lu Changqing touched his weak biceps and said, "Have you become stronger and more powerful?"
"No." Yuan Liu said, "You used to like listening to me talk about what happened before, but now it seems like you don't even like to listen."
Lu Changqing didn't want to dampen Yuan Liu's enthusiasm, and in order to keep abreast of the protagonists' information, he encouraged her, "No, I still love to hear it now. If you hear about what happened in the front yard from your sisters in the future, please tell me quietly as soon as possible."
Yuan Liu, who felt that she could shine in the intelligence career again, immediately became motivated and said with great pride: "Girl, don't worry, I will definitely fulfill my mission!"
Ever since Lu Changqing came here, the Bai Mansion has become much quieter without her as the supporting actress. The main fight now is between Lin Wenqing and Du Hezhi.
The cause of the fight was naturally Bai Shiyuan.
Du Hezhi has the status of mistress, and what she eats and uses are the best in the mansion, and the servants treat her respectfully. But Lin Wenqing is different, she is a concubine. In this world where concubines are slaves and can be sold at will by the master and mistress, if Lin Wenqing wants to live a good life, she can only hold on to Bai Shiyuan, a man.
So in order to attract Bai Shiyuan's attention, she could only be humble and serve the man tenderly. In order to keep Bai Shiyuan, Lin Wenqing would pretend to be faint, sick and weak from time to time, playing the role of a frail little white flower, showing her "concubine's style".
Lu Changqing looked at Lin Wenqing, who was leaning on the bed and eating melon seeds, and was speechless.
"Mother, do you know that the more you do this, the more the mistress will hate you."
Lin Wenqing nodded, "I know, she can hate me if she wants to. She has hated me for more than ten years anyway, so this time won't make a difference."
"That's not what I meant. I know you pretended to be sick to keep Daddy, so that our life in the mansion would be easier. But Daddy is also the mistress's husband. Put yourself in her shoes. If you were the mistress and had a concubine who played tricks on you all day, what would you do?"
Lin Wenqing brushed off the melon seed shells from her lips, looked at Lu Changqing and asked seriously, "Do you also look down on the methods used by mother?"
"Of course not. I know Mom did this for our own good."
Lin Wenqing looked at the window curtains, his thoughts drifting far away.
"Your father-in-law was a fourth-rank official, and when our family was prosperous, do you know how many servants your mother had around her? At that time, how could I have imagined that one day I would become someone's concubine?"
Thinking back to the past, Lin Wenqing couldn't help but sound a little lonely, "Later, the Lin family was raided, the men died, some were exiled, and the women in the family were almost deported. In order to earn money to support myself and your mother-in-law, I had no choice but to become a singer."
Lin Wenqing spread out his hands, revealing his clean palms. "In order to get more money, sometimes I had to play dozens of songs a night. I couldn't even hold my chopsticks steady when eating. Those days were so hard and sad. My hands hurt when I think about it now."
As Lin Wenqing spoke, her expression suddenly changed, and she said with disdain: "She, Du Hezhi, looked down on me and scolded me for being willing to be someone's concubine. She was just talking nonsense! If she was like me, and her family suddenly fell into poverty and she could only perform in a singing house, I wonder if she could still say such high-sounding words!"
Lu Changqing didn't know what to say. According to the real background in ancient times, if a woman with a background like Lin Wenqing really entered a wealthy family as a concubine, most of the mistresses would be sympathetic to her, and these poor concubines would not provoke Du Hezhi all day long like Lin Wenqing did.
If the man really loves her, he will not let her enter the house as a concubine, but will divorce his original wife and then marry her.
So why would they want to provoke the mistress? Are they bored?
Lu Changqing knew that she couldn't persuade Lin Wenqing at this time, so she stopped trying to persuade her to stop competing with Du Hezhi. If she wanted these two to live in peace, she would have to wait until the day Bai Shiyuan died.
On Bai Xingke's thirteenth birthday, a family banquet was held in the mansion. At the banquet, Bai Shiyuan delivered an important speech and asked Du Hezhi to start helping Bai Xingke find a boyfriend.
Du Hezhi was the first to ask Bai Shiyuan for his opinion, "Does the sir have a favorite family?"
Bai Shiyuan swallowed the food in his mouth, glanced at Bai Xingke who was sitting upright, and said, "Forget about those from small families. Lingyi can even marry into the Bo Mansion. It doesn't make sense for her to marry someone worse than her."
Lu Changqing rolled his eyes in his heart while chewing his rice. This old man who sold his daughter for fame and fortune was planning to use his daughter's marriage to get close to higher power and influence.
Du Hezhi frowned. There were not many unmarried young men with good character in the marquisates in Beijing. The best one was naturally the young master of the Duke of Wei. But what kind of status was he? How could he look down on the Bai family?
Bai Xing knew that after traveling back to ancient times, she could not escape the issue of marriage in this life. In her understanding, if a woman in ancient times did not want to get married, she could only go to a nunnery and become a nun.
She didn't want to be a nun, so she was not opposed to getting married, but thirteen years old was too young, and she didn't want to get married so early.
"Dad, I've only just turned thirteen. Isn't it too early to meet now?"
Bai Shiyuan picked up the food on the plate and said casually, "It's not too early. Thirteen is the age for marriage. Besides, it takes several months for both parties to prepare the dowry and betrothal gifts. It will take at least a year to go through the whole process. If you look at it now, you can get married when you are 15 years old."
Bai Xingke was very unhappy with Bai Shiyuan's careless attitude.
Even if he dislikes his first wife, she is still his biological daughter, and the legitimate daughter of the principal wife. What they are discussing now is a matter concerning her lifelong happiness. How could he be so nonchalant?