Zhutian: Since I was a child, I have been happy to be a father

On June 28th, Mrs. Liang led a team to the Sheng family to propose marriage.

As early as ten days ago, the news that the fourth and sixth daughters of the Sheng family were in love with each other and were going to marry the youngest son of the Liang family had spread throughout the upper class circles in the capital, sparking heated discussions.

To be honest, this kind of thing is not that uncommon, but Sheng Hong is a scholar who considers himself a noble man, so such a marriage would inevitably affect his image.

But there is nothing we can do.

Putting aside the fact that both he and his future son-in-law were causing trouble during a period of national mourning, Mrs. Liang had previously expressed her interest in Minglan, and Aunt Lin and mother and daughter Molan were deliberately scheming. How disrespectful was this to the Liang family?
It can't be said that it was the individual behavior of the mother and daughter, right? So it was reasonable for the Liang family to ask for the two daughters to marry.

Marrying Molan could give an explanation for the public hug that day; marrying Minglan was the compensation required by the Liang family and also satisfied Mrs. Liang's need for Minglan.

The Sheng family had no choice but to agree.

Although Sheng Minglan resisted, she had no right to speak.

In Lao Deng's words, you can't just rebel when feudal etiquette and traditions are not in your favor. You should continue to love and embrace them. After all, you can't rebel, right?
Mountain Moon Residence.

Sheng Molan held a letter, smiling like a fool, reading it over and over again, and was reluctant to put it down.

It is somewhat like some people in later generations who watch Tik Tok videos and play marketing content over and over again, never getting tired of it, while people around them hate it and want to hit them.

Sheng Minglan really wanted to beat her up.

The fifth daughter of the Sheng family, Sheng Rulan, was not so violent or sarcastic for the time being, but was more concerned about the content of the letter.

This letter was specially sent by Mrs. Liang to Sheng Molan, and the writer was Sheng Molan's future husband...

's maid.

Yuanyuan wrote four sentences for Chen Tao in the Liu style calligraphy that she had practiced since childhood:

There is a beautiful person, Qing Yang Wanxi.

Encounter meets my wishes.

For Sheng Molan, she just wanted to be the legitimate wife of the youngest son of the Marquis's mansion. As for who the youngest son was, it didn't matter at all.

Of course, it's not that she doesn't care, but she doesn't care because of her mother's education. She is still young and has some expectations for her husband's appearance and talent.

Liang Han was undoubtedly handsome, one could even say he was extremely heroic. In the book, on the day of the wedding on July 8, Mrs. Sheng Wang couldn't help feeling jealous when she saw him in a red robe riding a white horse.

He was jealous that the daughter of Aunt Lin, the vixen, was able to marry him, while his own daughter Rulan still had no one to marry.

Now Chen Tao asked his secretary Miss Yuanyuan to help him show his literary and artistic nature. Even though he only copied a few sentences from the Book of Songs, it was enough to make Sheng Molan realize that although he was being plotted against, he was also happy with this marriage, so he copied the poems to show his goodwill.

How could she not be happy?
What’s even more exciting is that Chen Tao did not give a poem to Minglan!
Hahaha!
So cool!
If she had to consider her image, Sheng Molan would even roll on the ground with joy.

It is obvious that she does not care about her husband being shared by other women, even if that woman is her own sister. Otherwise, she would not stick to another woman knowing that she already has a concubine Chun Ge; nor would she, after sticking to her, arrange beautiful maids and concubines for her husband.

As long as we let her be the first wife, everything can be discussed!

Netizens of later generations said that rather than saying that the male protagonists of these house fighting novels are fickle and always love to have affairs with other women, it is better to say that concubines are a necessity for the wives.

If there really were no concubines, who would the wives fight with? How would they show off their power and take care of the mistresses?
However, this is not realistic.

A concubine is not the same as a mistress.

Concubines are not naturally at a moral disadvantage. On the contrary, it is in line with ancient etiquette and morality. Wang Xifeng did not dare to kill You Erniang directly and had to use tricks. How could Molan dare to kill Chun Ge?
She didn't dare to do so, so she could only find a concubine for Liang Han to share his favor.

Those who think that they can beat the mistress at will after becoming the first wife should stay in the modern era and not travel through time to the ancient times.

After laughing for a long time, she handed the letter to Rulan who was eagerly waiting for it. Actually, she didn't want to give it to her, but in order to show off, she had to show it to her sister first.

Rulan read both sides and asked:

"What does he mean?"

Molan said proudly, "What he meant was that he didn't blame me for letting him hug him on purpose, and that he was willing to regard our last encounter as a marriage opportunity, and he was expressing his love for me, his wife-to-be."

Rulan has also been educated, but she cannot be compared with Molan, because Molan is set up as a little Lin Daiyu, a talented girl who has been influenced by Aunt Lin since childhood.

As for Minglan, the time-traveling girl...

Sorry, she thinks that music, chess, calligraphy and painting are useless and she doesn't care about them. She thinks that being able to give birth to a son and being able to manage the household are the most impressive things.

If Chen Tao really chatted with her in the ancient way, she would definitely stare blankly with a look of confusion and not understand the jokes in the conversation.

Molan can catch it.

Add to that the fact that she is the legal wife, and he must be killing people indiscriminately, right?

In fact, if you change your perspective, many villains in female-oriented movies can completely play the role of female protagonists in male-oriented movies.

Rulan curled her lips and said, "Then I would like to congratulate you on marrying a good husband. It's a pity that you and Aunt Lin used unscrupulous means to harm Sixth Sister!"

Minglan had a blank expression on her face, just like Lady Wang who was chanting Buddhist scriptures, as quiet as a dry pond, without a ripple in the grain.

Molan was disdainful in her heart and didn't think there was anything wrong with striving for happiness, but she acted like a lady and said hypocritically:
"I did cause trouble for Minglan, and I regret it, but the marriage has been decided and the wedding date has been chosen, there is no point in regretting it! Don't worry, Rulan, I will compensate Sixth Sister. I don't care about what happened in the past. We are sisters, and we are connected even if our bones are broken. After entering the Liang family, we must support each other."

Simple summary: Minglan, I have forgiven you.

After hearing this, Sheng Rulan just smiled and nodded in expression of approval.

In fact, she doesn't care how Sheng Minglan lives, as long as she can continue to fight with Molan. After all, she has always been proud of her legitimate birth and looks down on Minglan and Molan.

After hearing this, Sheng Minglan was naturally very angry, but since she had no one to rely on, she could only choose to endure it and did not dare to turn hostile.

After all, Molan is the eldest wife, so she can be severely punished.

In fact, Molan still regarded her as a threat.

Because theoretically, she still has the possibility of getting promoted.

For example, if Molan does not give birth to a son, or simply dies, then she will most likely become the principal wife.

After all, due to their different statuses, ordinary concubines could basically not become regular concubines, but she could naturally take over the baton.

In fact, she had thought about this recently after trying to figure out a way to get out of this situation to no avail.

After all, she felt that she was an extremely male-friendly breed and was destined to give birth to a son.

Cricket's Molan is just like her mother Aunt Lin, both are weak and fragile, and probably can't stand it.

I really can't stand it.

According to the setting in the book, if Molan hadn't had a lot of concubines, she would have died young.

On the contrary, she died after giving birth to four children, and she was very suitable for giving birth to boys. This can only mean that Gu Er was either useless or didn't love her anymore.

Besides, she had no right to have any objection to Liang Han getting Da Chun Ge pregnant, because Gu Er was more than ten times worse than Liang Han. He already had a pair of children with the opera singer Man Niang, and he himself had a bad character and low morals.

What about Sun Shaozu, who killed Jia Yingchun in Dream of the Red Chamber? Gu Tingye in the book is much worse than him and can be called the number one villain.

He rode his horse to hurt people, abused the common people, bullied his brothers, servants and the children of noble families, talked back to his father, and visited brothels to play with women...

Compared with him, Xue Pan, the dull bully who was seduced by the Jia family's children to become ten times worse, can be considered to have a good character. At least he would not bully his own brothers and sisters.

Perhaps only Mr. Sun, who is said to have done all kinds of bad things, can be compared with him.

But there is no way.

Since the heroine arranged it for him, he had to make military achievements and rise to higher positions. Then he and Minglan, who envied her best friend's husband for using power to please her, happily became the superior.

Maybe some people would say this is reality, but you can't be realistic and at the same time ignore it and act recklessly, right?

Apart from anything else, after Gu Tingye married Sheng Minglan, he even stopped riding a mare. Is this realistic? It really doesn't stand up to scrutiny.

***
Liang Mansion.

After taking a bath with Hongyu's help, Chen Tao returned to the main house and played games with Chun Ge, whose belly was bulging.

In this kind of weather at the end of June, it will be very hot when there are too many people.

But Chen Tao was not hot. His physique had passed the third level. Although he was not absolutely immune to cold or heat, he would not be affected by the heat.

Chun Ge was not too hot either. Although the strengthening was far from complete, she had her own maid Juan'er to fan her, and she could also use the ice stored in the cellar to cool down.

And the time-traveling girl Yuanyuan...

She really misses air conditioning, even an electric fan would be helpful, but she is really not that pampered now.

At least it's much better than working in a brothel.

I have to say that she has adapted very well now. Although she still dislikes being ordered around by Chen Tao, Chen Tao really doesn't treat her badly at all.

For example, he would often eat with her in the study at home, and occasionally take her to restaurants when going out to visit the scenic spots in the capital of this imaginary Great Zhou, without even bringing a servant.

Riding on the same horse in his arms, although Yuanyuan felt awkward, since she was not a real little girl after all, she still felt okay.

Because she originally wanted Chen Tao to teach her how to ride a horse!

It would be convenient if I need to run away someday.

Chen Tao readily agreed and taught her seriously.

Although it was unbelievable, she really felt that Chen Tao had modern thinking and was much better than Jia Baoyu.

Now, many maids envy her situation and the fact that she will surely become a concubine in the future.

The room for advancement is too narrow, so the time-traveling woman naturally disdains to be a concubine, but for the native maids, it is a huge improvement.

Some people in later generations said that if the husband gave her 100,000 yuan a month, she would be willing to take care of the mistress during her confinement!

Chen Tao gave more than 100,000?
She is really too favored, even though she is just an ordinary little round face...

Well, she's excellent.

Not only does he have beautiful handwriting that the Fourth Master loves, he also has a talent for reading.

Any other woman, including Chun Ge, would not be able to make the Fourth Master sit in the study for a whole day, but she can.

Therefore, after talking to her several times, Mrs. Liang raised her monthly allowance to the level of a concubine, which is two taels. Her intentions are obvious.

But her scalp was tingling.

She felt a headache when she thought about having to fight with Chun Ge and Ming Lan sisters in the harem.

But I can't refuse.

She had originally wanted to watch the fun before her coming of age, but Chen Tao doted on her so much and Madam Liang loved her, so even if she was still a maid, she had to get involved and fight with those people in the house!
This is so outrageous!
It is worthy of being a novel about domestic intrigues, there are domestic intrigues everywhere.

She didn't know yet that because of her existence and the Sheng family's troubles, Mrs. Liang no longer liked Sheng Minglan as much.

They are all time-traveling girls, but she appears to be more innocent, cute, and smart. Why didn't Mrs. Liang choose her? After all, she is nominally Mr. Liang's maid.

The same goes for Xiuzhu, the "Xiren".

This is double the joy!

Yes, Mrs. Liang is definitely a part of the house fight. She also has her preferences, and she will support whoever can please her.

Therefore, even Chun Ge has become much more obedient now. Of course, she doesn't follow the rules even though she is pregnant, but she often goes to chat with Madam Liang. Although Madam Liang is unhappy with her eldest son, who is also her cousin's husband, she does not treat her badly and gives her everything she deserves.

This was undoubtedly done for her son's sake, and it also showed that Mrs. Liang was indeed kind.

The country is easy to change and the nature is difficult to change.

If Madam Liang was very barbaric and would beat maids or servants to death or injure them at will like the women in the Sheng family, then how could she be so easy to talk to?

Of course, this is also relative.

There is no need to really treat her and Liang Han as modern people. They would not treat maids and servants equally.

“Three, three, three!”

Chun Ge shouted loudly, but when the dice stopped, he sighed and admitted defeat.

This Go game is actually similar to flying chess, and the final winner is the sweet girl Miss Xiuzhu.

And the prize is Chen Tao.

Chun Ge was not without jealousy.

However, she couldn't use such a good excuse as "I have a stomachache and need Chen Tao's help to rub it all night" casually. She had to save it for when Sheng's sister Dongyue came to marry, so that she could give her a warning.

Besides, Xiuzhu is the most beloved maid of her first love, so she shouldn't be jealous.

Furthermore, she was a little worried that Chen Tao would do something to her and hurt the child.

That's why she didn't cheat.

Chen Tao smiled and said, "Sister, it looks like I don't need to accompany you tonight."

Help! My girlfriend is pregnant and is openly with another woman!
What a scumbag's words!

Yuanyuan was eating snacks while complaining wildly in her heart.

Every time she thought that Chen Tao, this ancient scumbag brother (she found out that he was one month older than Liang Han), was teachable, she would always be slapped in the face quickly.

After all, in her opinion, this guy is a complete scumbag, yet he can still act with a clear conscience in this day and age.

Although people were jealous, no one thought it was wrong for him to take a concubine.

Chun Ge snorted, "I really have nothing to say to you, but I have endless things to say to the son in my belly."

How do you know it's a son? Humph, you really favor sons over daughters. From now on, I will... bah, I will run away from now on!

Yuanyuan secretly complained again.

Chen Tao seemed to have guessed what she was thinking and asked with a smile:
"Yuanyuan, do you think it's better to have a son or a daughter?"

Yuanyuan said decisively: "Anyway, I like my daughter more!"

Chun Ge snorted again: "Then you should only give birth to daughters in the future, not sons! Don't give birth to sons, let me give birth to all of you!"

Yuanyuan complained in her heart: I won’t give birth to a child for your first love!
Xiuzhu, Hongyu and Caijin also felt very uncomfortable after hearing this.

The rank of concubine is indeed the ceiling for them. But if they can have a promising son, they may be able to obtain imperial decree in the future. Why don't they have both sons and daughters? Chun Ge's words really hurt them a little.

Chen Tao had no choice but to comfort her at night. (End of this chapter)