Zhu Yan was just thinking about going to Xiheju to pay her respects, when she suddenly thought about why she didn't send any "tonic" this time.
After waiting for another quarter of an hour, he still didn't come. To be on the safe side, Zhu Yan took a pill from the deep box, dissolved it in water and drank it before going to Xihe Residence.
On weekdays, it is stipulated that greetings should be paid at Chenshi. After all the trouble in the morning, Zhu Yan stepped on the tail of Maoshi and entered Xihe Residence.
The eldest lady and several concubines were already seated, and Yu Xiaoniang gave her a slap in the face as soon as she entered the door.
"My slave, please pay my respects to the eldest lady. May my eldest lady be blessed. This slave is late. Please punish me." Zhu Yan knelt down and saluted.
"It's not too late, sit down." Mrs. Cheng smiled kindly.
"It's understandable that Sister Zhu came late. After all, she spent the whole afternoon and night waiting for the Marquis." As soon as Mrs. Zhu sat down, she heard Yu Xiaoniang's cold arrow.
"My eldest lady, I'm sorry, it was my slave who accidentally spilled the tea on me this morning, so I'm late." Zhu Yan stood up and apologized to her eldest lady.
Before the eldest lady could say anything, Mrs. Yu spoke first, "But the slave I am using is useless. If not, I can use Sister Zhu to replace her with another one."
Zhu Yan took a breath and looked at Yu Xiaoniang with cold eyes, "Isn't it always the eldest lady who takes care of these things? How come Yu Xiaoniang can become the master of my concubine's Zhelan Pavilion?"
As soon as the words came out, Zhao Xiaoniang and Wei Xiaoniang were surprised, and Yu Xiaoniang looked panicked, stood up and knelt on the ground, "I made a mistake, please forgive me."
Cheng has some unfinished thoughts, is this the end? He glanced at Mrs. Zhu who stood aside obediently after saying harsh words, and then said to Mrs. Yu, "You are also an old man in the house. You will talk too much in the future. You will be grounded for three days to calm down. Please step back." .”
Her eldest wife's authority cannot be trampled on easily.
"You should also sit down. Yu Xiaoniang is more outspoken. We still need to get along well in the future." Mrs. Cheng said.
"Yes, I have remembered this." Zhu Yan said and sat on the chair.
Just as Mrs. Cheng asked someone to serve snacks and tea to Zhu Yan, Sister Wan, who was in the inner room of Mrs. Cheng, ran out rubbing her eyes and hugged Mrs. Cheng's legs.
"Auntie, Wan Wan is dreaming." Sister Wan Wan said softly.
Mrs. Cheng glanced at the concubines in the house and said, "If nothing happens, just go back. Mrs. Wei and Mrs. Zhu have been preparing in the past few days. Don't be in a hurry when the time comes."
Several people got up and left.
Zhu Yan and Wei lived close to each other, so they walked back together.
Mrs. Wei felt that she had underestimated Zhu Xiaoniang. She looked gentle and gentle, but she also used a knife at the critical moment.
"My sister is favored, and I will have someone to rely on when I give birth to a child in the future. It's a pity that I haven't been able to live up to my expectations for so many years." A trace of loneliness flashed in Wei's eyes.
"Sister Wei is still young." Zhu Yan didn't know what to say. She was only seventeen and she was already discussing having children.
The eldest lady in this mansion is twenty-six years old. Zhao Xiaoniang was given to the Marquis when the eldest lady was pregnant. She is also the daughter of an innocent family and a down-and-out scholar. She is also twenty-four.
Yu Xiaoniang is the daughter of Mr. Hou's nanny. The eldest Mr. Hou is one year old and is twenty-eight. She grew up with Mr. Hou since she was a child. It was Mr. Hou who took over the house himself. Xiaoniang Wei was given by the old lady in the house and she is only two years old. At the age of fifteen, I was sad that I couldn’t get pregnant...
When she was twenty-five years old, what was her wish in her previous life when she was twenty-five years old? Well, winning a lottery ticket was ideal but unrealistic.
Wei is twenty-five years old and desperately wants to have a child of her own. Being in Wei's position, she is both ideal and realistic.
"Sister Wei, please relax, what is supposed to come will always come." As a sad woman in this era, Zhu Yan still expressed her sincere relief.
Sometimes fate is quite magical. In her previous life, her cousin had been unable to conceive for many years. She took all kinds of medicine and had to go to the hospital countless times. In the end, her cousin also gave up. She had already given up on being a DINK. , and she became pregnant two years later.
Something will occur if it belongs to your life, if not, do not push it.
However, the Wei family would not think so. The Wei family was different from her. She had legal protection at least, but the Wei family did not. If she angered the lord, queen and mother, she could be sold.
Wei's only guarantee was to be pampered and have children.
A woman's sorrow.
When they arrived at the small garden on the west side, they parted ways, each taking a fork in the road back to their own residence.
In fact, Mrs. Cheng is a tolerant mistress. Just like Zhao Xiaoniang's sister Yun, when she was growing up, Mrs. Cheng would spare her from having to take care of her in the morning and just take a rest.
Not to mention Yu Xiaoniang’s baby, don’t see her anymore, let’s talk about it after she turns three.
Zhu Yan was also troubled about giving birth to a child. She was a concubine, so the child she gave birth to was a concubine. She could only be called Xiaoniang.
But contraceptive pills are not a long-term solution, and there are not many pills. Once used up, they will be gone.
You have to be secretive when using pills. If Xie An finds out about it, you secretly use contraception while someone is kind enough to sleep with you. Do you not want to give birth to a child? Do you look down on me? How shameless are you?
She could only say that there was nothing she could do about it. Fortunately, in the Changning Marquis Mansion, Xie An allowed the children to be raised in the name of their biological mother.
If she has a child, she can only teach the child how to better survive in this era. But if it is a boy, it will be fine, and he can make a world of his own with his own efforts. If it is a girl, she will just repeat her old path, although it will not give her Being a concubine is nothing more than a backyard, raising children and managing the back house.
If you meet a good mother-in-law, even if you have an ordinary husband, you can have an easy life, but if you meet a wife who loves to tease her, it will take ten years for a daughter-in-law to become a mother-in-law.
Her grandmother had gone early and she had never seen her. The old lady next door to her house was really awesome. Her daughter-in-law and her children were seven or eight years old, and she still had to give in to the rules every day. The men in that family thought that they were serving their mother-in-law. Well, you shouldn't do this, she is his mother, who do you always complain about? Peace of mind and filial outsourcing.
But this is all a matter for the future, so you can worry about it later.
After returning to Zhelanju, I thought of the recipe I had agreed to yesterday, and asked Suyue to write a recipe for making sour plum soup and send it to Zuishanju.
After thinking about it, he asked a second-class maid to give one to Mrs. Cheng.
She then directed Su Qin to pack things for the trip. She only brought two maids to the Hou Mansion, Su Yue and Su Qin. The remaining four were all brought by the Cheng family. There were no Su Yue and Su Qin. A tacit understanding.
So the four of them just did some chores like sewing.
Only Suyue Suqin was waiting in the room.
Originally, the Zhu family had prepared a very affordable dowry for her, but there were some problems at home and some of the dowry was used. She became a concubine again, so she only took 5,000 taels of silver notes and a bookstore. In addition, there is a small farm of 200 acres, and there are eighteen sets of clothes for all seasons.
Both the shop and Zhuangzi have income, which is settled every six months.
Zhu Yan felt frustrated that she had money and had nowhere to spend it. The house provided food and accommodation, and she couldn't leave the house at will. The house only rewarded the servants. If she wanted to add some dishes to the kitchen to make some money, she couldn't. Spend money.
Thinking about her past life, when she was a child, she could spend two yuan on Sundays and play happily all afternoon. As an adult, she earns money and goes shopping and spends money at will. It is miserable. I still want to ask, what sin did she do in her previous life?
