Mrs. Chen wanted to praise all the dogs in Prince Li's Mansion to Yuan Shichu. She looked so proud that those who didn't know thought that Prince Li's step-concubine was her, not her eldest cousin.
At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, my life was quite boring. I listened to her show off and brag with great interest. I was afraid that her voice would become hoarse, so I made her some good tea to soothe her throat.
"Brother and sister, what kind of tea is this? It tastes good." Mrs. Chen said in surprise after taking a few sips of the tea brought by Zhichun.
"It's just ordinary tea, not a famous tea." Yuan Shichu replied humbly. This tea is indeed ordinary tea, but it is ordinary in her companion space. It is full of spiritual energy. Even if it is ordinary, it is better than the tea in this turbulent world. drink.
"I think so, but speaking of good tea, I drank the royal tea given by the queen in Prince Li's Mansion. The taste was sweet and fragrant. Tsk tsk, I also got the honor of the princess...brother and sister, your tea Although it tastes good, it still lacks some charm compared to imperial tea..." Chen said solemnly, but after all, she was not polite at all when drinking the tea from the early Yuan Dynasty.
Yuan Shichu was dumbfounded when he heard this. He felt that this sister-in-law was working hard to show that everything in Prince Li's palace was extraordinary, and she was telling lies with her eyes open.
Mrs. Chen wanted to talk endlessly to Yuan Shichu about what she had experienced in Prince Li's Mansion, but soon a servant girl from her yard came to see her.
"Why are you so anxious to find me?" Mrs. Chen didn't show off enough and glared at the maid in displeasure.
The servant girl was so anxious that she glanced at Yuan Shichu, who was about to speak, but Mrs. Chen scolded: "What are you looking at, my brothers and sisters? What can't you say in front of my brothers and sisters?!"
Mrs. Chen didn't want to say goodbye to Yuan Shichu so soon, so she ordered her servants to speak up if they had anything to say, and not to hesitate.
When the servant woman saw this, she closed her eyes and said loudly: "Madam! Aunt An and Aunt Liu are both pregnant..."
"What?!" Mrs. Chen's face turned pale when she heard this, "What are you talking about? Haven't you been giving them Bizi Soup all the time?" At this time, she didn't care that Yuan Shichu was still here, so she talked about such private matters. out.
"This... this... the slaves don't know. Maybe they were so bold that they poured the soup in private?" the servant woman replied with a grimace.
At this time, Mrs. Chen had forgotten all the etiquette of the palace. The pregnancy of her husband's concubine was a major matter that related to her vital interests. Therefore, she hurriedly said goodbye to Yuan Shichu and hurriedly left. I returned to my yard, probably to settle accounts with the two pregnant concubines.
When Yuan Shichu looked at her figure, which was so thin that it was almost hunched over, he felt that she was pitiful and pathetic.
I don’t know what Mrs. Chen will do after she goes back, but at night, the servants in the courtyard at the beginning of Yuan Dynasty were overjoyed, because Mrs. Zhan was very happy to learn that her eldest son’s two concubines were pregnant. So he rewarded all the servants in the mansion and ordered Mrs. Chen to take good care of them so that they could give birth to their children safely.
Of course Ms. Chen was sad, angry and frightened. The concubine gave birth to a child earlier than her, the head wife. Can her position in this family be stable? But her pain and opposition were in vain, because the Zhan family had given her five or six years of buffering time, and she had not given birth to a son or a half. This time, the concubines accidentally got pregnant, and she had already I don't have the confidence to let people get rid of me.
"Ms. Chen, we, the Zhan family, have treated you with all our kindness and righteousness. It was you who couldn't give birth to a child because of your dissatisfaction with your stomach. This caused Yuan Ning to stand up quickly, and others were almost at the age of becoming a grandfather, but you didn't even have a child. How are you now? It's easy for two concubines to get pregnant, so they must give birth. If you are not lucky, you can't blame us." Mrs. Zhan solemnly warned Mrs. Chen not to attack the two concubines.
Mrs. Chen's face was extremely ugly. The energy and vigor with which she had been boasting about Prince Li's Mansion in the courtyard at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty was no longer visible at all, and was replaced by a deep sense of decadence.
After all, Mrs. Zhan is not a hard-hearted person. Seeing her dejected look, she couldn't help but soften her heart. Although this eldest daughter-in-law is strong-willed, short-sighted and easy to offend others, these are all It's a small problem, she is not a vicious person, and she has done her best in serving herself over the years.
Thinking of this, Mrs. Zhan comforted her and said: "Don't worry too much. Even if you don't have children, you are still the original wife of Yuanning. No matter how many children those concubines can have, they will not shake your status. If you are really worried , just put the child next to you to raise, won’t it be almost the same as his biological child? Even for their own status, they have to please you, their aunt..."
Hearing Mrs. Zhan's comforting words, Mrs. Chen's face indeed looked better. She was no longer so gloomy, but still pale. She lowered her head and said, "My daughter-in-law knows, my husband finally has a child. Even if my daughter-in-law doesn't like it anymore, It will allow them to be born safely, so the mother can rest assured."
"I feel sorry for you. I have a coral and ruby headband, so I'll give it to you." Mrs. Zhan said.
"Thank you, mother." Mrs. Chen then took a set of facial expressions and went back.
When Zhan Shulin returned home, he found that the atmosphere at home was different. Everyone was beaming with joy, so he curiously asked Yuan Shichu: "What's the big happy event at home? Why are everyone so happy?"
"Your eldest brother's two concubines are pregnant. The old lady rewarded all the servants. How can they be unhappy?" Yuan Shichu replied.
After hearing this, Zhan Shulin suddenly became happy: "Eldest brother finally has a child! It's great!"
Yuan Shichu glanced at him sideways but didn't say anything. Probably because of their different identities, the two of them had completely different reactions to the matter.
As Zhan Yuanning's brother, Zhan Shulin's first reaction was of course to be happy for his brother; and as the daughter-in-law of Chen in the Zhan family who had a similar status in Yuan Shichu, Zhan Shulin's first reaction was naturally to sympathize with Chen because it was her husband who was pregnant by another woman. , rather than her own pregnancy.
Although she was not the kind of weak woman who relied on her husband and children for survival at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, seeing Chen like this, she couldn't help but feel a sense of harm to others.
"No, I have to go and have a few drinks with my eldest brother to celebrate!" Zhan Shulin said to Yuan Shichu excitedly, "What were those bottles of wine you took out to drink last time? Do you still have them now?"
Yuan Shichu rolled his eyes at him: "No more, that's all it was."
Zhan Shulin was immediately disappointed and had to order his servants to get the wine he had collected to celebrate with his eldest brother.
At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, he brewed the wine himself. The last time he was hit by Zhan Shulin, he drank most of it. The beginning of the Yuan Dynasty was extremely distressed, so naturally it was impossible to give it to him this time.
