Donggong Zhangjiao

As expected by Mrs. Fan, Mrs. Du was not an economical person when she entered the house.

While drinking tea in the concubine's room, Mrs. Fan only spoke a few words according to the rules, but Mrs. Du's eyes were filled with tears and timidity, as if she had been greatly wronged.

The eldest prince's former magnanimity and honesty now seemed to be soft-hearted and confused.

When she saw Du Shi like this, she felt very distressed and rushed to protect her.

Although he didn't say anything bad to Mrs. Fan's direct wife, his protection successfully allowed the newly-entered Mrs. Du to gain a firm footing.

Everyone in the house knew for a moment that Concubine Du was the eldest prince's favorite person, and even the prince's concubine was somewhat disapproved of her.

Such words would naturally not reach the ears of the eldest prince, but Fan could hear them clearly.

But thinking that she was about to give birth, Fan would grit her teeth and bear it.

Just like that, more than two months after Du entered the palace, Fan gave birth to the eldest prince's eldest daughter.

This was the eldest prince's first child, so he was naturally happy.

Therefore, the balance soon tilted towards the main courtyard again. With the help of her daughter, Mrs. Fan once again became the most favored woman in the house.

But Du Shi naturally would not just watch her fall out of favor.

With frequent tricks, he created a weak and gentle image of himself. He coughed every three days and had a headache every five days, which made the soft-hearted eldest prince divert his attention again.

Although Fan was angry, she was a legitimate daughter of the Marquis and she really didn't understand Du's dirty tricks, so she gradually suffered a lot.

Du Shi said she was in poor health, but one year after entering the house, she became pregnant.

At that time, the eldest prince was obsessed with her, and she had already coaxed him into making a promise that as long as she gave birth to the child safely, both men and women would ask her to be his concubine.

After fighting against each other for so many years, Fan knew very well what kind of person Du was. If she really gained power and became a concubine, the concubine would be even more uneasy and her life would be even more uncomfortable.

So after much thought, Fan took the initiative and added two more concubines to the eldest prince's backyard.

One is a concubine from a small family with a very outstanding appearance, and the other is a legitimate daughter from a fifth-grade civil servant family with excellent talents.

In addition, two of the eldest prince's concubines were originally Fan's maids. In this way, everyone was united to take advantage of Du's pregnancy to completely separate the eldest prince's favor and make Du fall out of favor.

In fact, as Mrs. Fan expected, Mrs. Du was busy fighting with the two new concubines who had entered the house during her pregnancy, and she really had no time to trouble her.

And because there were so many people who were evenly matched in the backyard, all kinds of tactics came out, causing a big fuss between the eldest prince and the two.

But he is a soft-hearted person. He sheds a few tears and is reluctant to scold the other once he faints. This makes the women fight even more fiercely.

As time went by, Du's unborn child could not be saved.

It wasn't someone who caused it, it was her own uneasiness every day.

She had a miscarriage, but the two new concubines who entered the house became pregnant one after another. Naturally, Mrs. Du went crazy with jealousy.

The two people who were killed one after another all had miscarriages.

Fan naturally tried to check her head, but she dodged it both times.

It was also because of the eldest prince's soft ears that Fan was extremely disappointed with the eldest prince for a while.

But Mrs. Du still blamed all her misfortunes on Mrs. Fan. After all, if Fan had not given the eldest prince two concubines, she would not have been so exhausted that she had a miscarriage.

And the opportunity she wanted didn't take long to come.

Three years after giving birth to her eldest daughter, Fan became pregnant again.

In the past few years, except for one daughter, no other children have been born safely in the eldest prince's back house. Pei Yao has lectured the eldest prince, and Concubine Jin has repeatedly reprimanded Fan for being a bad daughter-in-law.

So when she got pregnant again, Fan was very cautious, hoping to give birth to a legitimate son. Firstly, it would stabilize her position, and secondly, she would be less blamed.

But everything seemed safe, but when it came time to give birth, Fan, who had always been pregnant, encountered dystocia.

If Concubine Jin in the palace hadn't been worried and asked Fang Yuan to send a capable doctor from the palace to the eldest prince's house to have a look, I'm afraid this birth would have resulted in two deaths.

In the end, Fan's life was saved, but her body was completely destroyed. She would never be able to have children again, and the child was born breathless and was a boy.

After waking up from her coma, Mrs. Fan was in despair. If her daughter hadn't been there, she might not have been able to survive.

Naturally she wanted to investigate this matter, so she became ruthless and hired people from her parents' family to help, and finally found out. Related to Du Shi.

The eldest prince was furious and wanted to kill Mrs. Du, but at this juncture, Mrs. Du was found to be two months pregnant.

As a result, the eldest prince naturally relented, so he just put Du under house arrest and waited until she gave birth to the child before making any plans.

Mrs. Du knew that the main courtyard would definitely not let her go, so when she found out that the main courtyard had indeed sent a problematic meal, she took the opportunity to reveal the matter and brought it to the attention of the eldest prince.

The eldest prince has experienced damage to his heirs many times, and now when he encounters this kind of problem, it is like stepping on dynamite.

Needless to say, after Du's crying and instigation, the eldest prince also became angry and tired of his legitimate wife, who was originally the victim.

On the pretext of letting Fan take good care of his body, he took away his stewardship and grounded him.

During this period, Mrs. Du was not idle. She tried her best to regain favor and successfully gave birth to a boy.

In addition to Fan's daughter, this is the second child in the eldest prince's house.

The eldest prince had a soft heart and an even softer ear. He was naturally happy to have a son, and then he actually entered the palace and asked for the position of concubine to Du.

Mrs. Fan is angry now, but in the past few years, because her body has suffered losses and she has not been able to take care of herself for many years, she has long been extremely sick. How can she still have the strength to fight against Mr. Du.

So he just closed the door and lived his life, just hoping to raise his daughter well.

However, Du Shi was so cruel that she even refused to leave her daughter to her.

At the palace banquet on New Year's Eve, the eldest prince brought Fan and Du's wives and concubines into the palace for the banquet. The little princess, who was left in the palace to be looked after by her servants, slipped and fell into the pool and drowned.

Fan almost went crazy.

I sat in the room all night holding my daughter's cold body, all my tears streaming down my face.

Thinking of the deep love between myself and the eldest prince when they first got married, I just thought it was all a joke.

The eldest prince was naturally sad and locked himself in the study room in the front yard, refusing to come out to see anyone.

In the end, it was Fan who cheered up first and managed her daughter's funeral.

I thought all this would be over, but I didn't expect that one day after the little princess's funeral was over, when the eldest prince went to court, Fan led people directly into Du's courtyard and ordered people to stop Du's family and others. He poured a bowl of poisoned milk into Du's son's belly.

When the eldest prince rushed back after hearing the news, the child had already lost his breath, and Du Shi was so angry and sad that she fainted.

The eldest prince rushed to the main courtyard and wanted to question him. When he opened the door, he saw Mrs. Fan wearing the wedding dress from her wedding day and sitting in front of the dressing table, drawing her eyebrows.

When she saw the eldest prince coming in, she raised her lips and smiled.

Let the eldest prince roar, question, and scold like crazy.

By the time the eldest prince noticed dark red blood spilling from the corner of Fan's mouth, it was already too late.

He was a little panicked and quickly stepped forward to support his shaky wife, but Fan pushed him away and took out a palm-sized brocade box from the drawer of the dressing table behind her.

"Your Highness, I regret that you and I became husband and wife. In the next life, we will not have any interactions with each other again."

After saying this, he took out the two bunches of black hair tied together with red thread from the brocade box and threw them into the incense burner. The flames rolled around and turned into ashes in a short time.

At this moment, Fan's body completely collapsed, and she closed her eyes tightly and fell down.

After this day, the eldest prince locked himself in his room for a full month.

Mrs. Du kept crying and asking for an explanation for her son, but in the end the eldest prince asked his servants to agree on the situation and claimed that both the eldest prince's concubine and the second son died of illness.

Immediately afterwards, a thick plate of incriminating evidence was thrown in front of Du Shi. Du Shi, who was still crying and asking for an explanation for her son, was also given a pot of poisonous wine.

Later, both Pei Yao and Concubine Jin asked the eldest prince to continue their marriage, but the eldest prince did not overdo it.

Many years later, the eldest prince died of illness.

Before he died, he had only two sons and one daughter at his knees. Several children were standing by his side, and they could only hear him mumbling indistinct words about atonement.

How could these children know the past events? They just thought their father was ill and confused.

Moreover, the sins in this world are not so easy to redeem. Some people are just too confused and have harmed others and themselves for the rest of their lives.