"Xiao Yuanbao, I will accompany you to call... call Qiuniang." Chen Xuan'er gritted her teeth and said.
She also didn't believe that her aunt's house even opened an embroidery workshop. She had to witness it with her own eyes before she would believe it.
After Chen Xuan'er followed Xiao Fuyuan and left Lao Bai's house to go to the embroidery workshop, Aunt Chen's mind went blank.
Grandma Du and Luo Shi only told her that the life of Lao Bai's family was getting better and better, their daughter was named the head of the village, and the fourth eldest daughter, Bai Panmei, ranked first in the scholar examination and was selected to attend Huaishui Academy.
But he didn't tell her the financial situation of Lao Bai's family.
Aunt Chen has never seen it before, and she knows how much money it costs to open a silk shop and an embroidery workshop.
The Lao Bai family is actually so rich?
The Chen family has only had one grocery store for so many years.
Her eldest daughter's husband's family has been running a medicine shop for many years, but they have not opened it to Huaicheng.
Aunt Chen's stomach was boiling with acid.
Although the child's words were untrustworthy, it was just because she didn't want to admit it.
She began to complain in her heart that Grandma Du and Luo Shi had concealed the situation of her sister's family from her.
Why is my sister's life so good?
There are not only sons of scholars who can do business, but also daughters of village owners.
Aunt Chen became more and more angry as she thought about it, and strolled to the upper room.
The upper room was very quiet, and the low voices of Mrs. Zhen and Grandma Du could be heard.
Aunt Chen was even more angry. She had been Grandma Du's adopted daughter for so many years, but Grandma Du still only liked to talk to her sister about herself.
She stood outside the curtain and listened quietly, her face changing from ugly to excited to overjoyed...
"...Fourth Aunt sent someone to find me, and I brought her a message. The capital is sadly missing people. I don't want to go to Beijing, and I can't bear to leave this big family..." Mrs. Zhen said, "My life is pretty good now. Okay, my mother-in-law loves me very much, the man treats me well, my son and daughter-in-law are filial, and I have a caring daughter, so there’s nothing more I could ask for.”
"Oh, I never thought that the fourth girl would become the Queen Mother." Grandma Du was shocked by the news at first, but when she realized it, she was filled with joy. Wouldn't the Zhen family be able to overturn the case in the future? The eldest lady has suffered so many years in vain. bitter.
The eldest lady said that she did not want to meet the Queen Mother and only wanted to live a peaceful life.
Outside the curtain, Aunt Chen gritted her teeth. Fourth aunt really loved her sister. Why didn't she send people to look for her, but she only looked for her sister.
My sister is also stupid. She is willing to be a country woman instead of going to Beijing to live her life as the eldest daughter of Zhen Mansion again.
She has always dreamed of returning to Beijing to live a life of fine clothing and fine food.
"But eldest lady, I understand your thoughts. It doesn't matter if you don't go back to Beijing. There's nothing good about that place. I'm just not willing to let your cruel cousin and eldest lady go just like this..." Grandma Du sighed.
If it weren't for Lao Bai's family, I don't know where the eldest lady would be wandering at this time.
The eldest lady was so cruel that she and her son sold the eldest lady to the fireworks field. It was in vain that the eldest lady was sincere to them.
A wolf-hearted person, seeking glory on the blood of his second wife.
"Mom, I hate it too. I wish they would die. Do you still remember Aunt Zhang who was next to my eldest aunt? I saw her and she thought of my mother's kindness. Now my eldest cousin is the new Duke of Zhenguo. My aunt sits in a high position and needs support from my parents... I have to think about her when I move my whole body..." Mrs. Zhen said.
Grandma Du sighed and said softly: "It's not easy for you, Miss..."
At this time, Aunt Chen opened the curtain and barged in. She excitedly went up to hold Madam Zhen's hand, and choked with sobs: "Sister, what you said is true? Fourth aunt. Fourth aunt became the Queen Mother?"
Mrs. Zhen calmly took her hand out of Aunt Chen's hand and said calmly: "You heard it all."
Aunt Chen's face turned red and she said excitedly: "Why don't you want to go to Beijing, sister? Have you forgotten the hard days in the past?"
Zhen said: "I just said why I don't want to go to Beijing. What's so good about Beijing? The former Zhen Mansion has disappeared. I live a good life in Shenshu Village. I advise my sister not to do anything. I have other thoughts.”
Aunt Chen wiped her eyes and said: "My sister doesn't care, but I can't care. My aunt is partial. She only sent people to find my sister but not me. This shows that I, a concubine, am inferior to my sister."
Mrs. Zhen sneered and shouted: "You always make excuses for concubines. In the past, girls in our family had the same upbringing, regardless of whether they were direct children or concubines. There were so many concubine girls in the house, but Aunt Liu always talked about being lowly. The same goes for our fourth aunt. Concubine, how could she dislike you? How come you didn’t know that she wasn’t looking for you, she just didn’t find you?”
"That's because my sister deliberately concealed the news about me. You don't want to reunite with my aunt, but you interfere with me and hide it from me. How can your sister be my master?" Aunt Chen said indiscriminately.
Zhen's heart heaved with anger.
"Second Miss, please be careful, is this how you talk to your sister?" Grandma Du said solemnly, "Your sister and you escaped from this room, and you went to the capital to meet the Queen Mother. Is the palace so easy to enter? It’s not that easy, why don’t you know what your cousin’s family will do?”
This is what Zhen is worried about, so she is unwilling to bring her whole family to Beijing to see her aunt.
"Isn't it good to live a stable life in the countryside? You are not short of food and drink, and you have two daughters. Why are you going to the capital?" Grandma Du asked.
"What kind of life am I living now, when I, the daughter of the Zhen family, marry a grocery store owner? It's not like my sister's family owns a satin shop and an embroidery workshop." Aunt Chen started to cry.
She didn't know whether her tears were jealous of her sister or unwilling to accept her fate.
Grandma Du sighed and said: "The Zhen Mansion in the past is long gone, why can't you figure it out? You only see that your sister's family is living a good life now, but you have forgotten the hard life your sister lived in the past. You I didn't treat you harshly when you were with me in Lijiazhuang. Didn't you choose your son-in-law yourself? You regret it now!"
Aunt Chen cried and said: "At that time, the rich man of the He family in the county fell in love with me, and you stopped me from marrying. I didn't have any choice, so I chose the Chen family. If I didn't choose the Chen family, you would marry me." Marry a villager and start farming like your sister."
Zhen sneered and was speechless.
She, a concubine, always couldn't figure it out. Why did a rich man like her fall in love with her?
He always disliked the farmers in the countryside. Now that the life of Lao Bai's family is getting better, he started to complain about Grandma Du's favoritism.
Grandma Du sneered and said: "You have the nerve to say that. You always want to marry into a wealthy family in the county, so if you marry into the He family, you can only be a concubine, but you said you would rather be a rich man's concubine than a poor man's wife. I'm not saying that, there is Some concubines enjoy happiness like Aunt Liu, and some ladies are as enthusiastic about Auntie as our wife."
Aunt Chen was poked into the center of things and just kept sobbing.
"Don't think about having nothing, don't think about going to Beijing to see the Queen Mother, just live your life in peace." Madam Zhen showed her eldest sister's style and made the final decision, no longer caring about the mournful and crying Aunt Chen.
