Did the third place winner regret it today?

Chapter 60

Feng Luoyi greeted everyone at Jingrongyuan in the morning and walked back.
Zhao Xiang was delighted: "I said Hanlin has his concubine in his heart."
Although Shen Ti didn't come yesterday, she sent something. A jade bracelet that pure and clear is not cheap.
In Zhaoxiang's opinion, all the sweet words and vows are empty, only status and real gold, silver, pearls, jade and agate are real.
Both of these Hanlin titles were given to Feng Luoyi.

Feng Luoyi didn't smile. She smiled in front of Shen Ti just now because Zhaoxiang had woken her up last night. No one wants to see others with sad faces all day long.
Moreover, she could hear what Shen Ti said the night before when they consummated their marriage. He felt that he had done his best and gave her the best he could.
Although that was a million miles away from what she really wanted, he felt that he had given it, that it was enough, and that he had done it.
So if she keeps crying, she will really be annoying.
But when she left Yin Shi's Jingrongyuan, the smile disappeared from her face - when a person is unhappy and unhappy, how can there be so many smiles?

Zhaoxiang suddenly took a step forward and lowered her voice: "Auntie, you see the young mistress... is quite generous? As expected, she comes from a different background, and her waist..."
I can't get it hard.

Feng Luoyi paused.
Shen Ti said that she would not have to pay her respects. She was startled at that moment.
Because Lord Shen actually always wanted to send her away, although Mrs. Shen felt sorry for her, she had to listen to her husband.
She was trembling with fear.
Even though Shen Ti rebelled against her parents for her, she didn't dare to make a fuss.
Because they all knew that no matter whether it was her or him, if one of them made a scene, acted out of line, broke the rules and their reputation, he would definitely not do anything, but it was hard to say for her.

It might have disappeared overnight.
She was a government slave bought by the Shen family. No matter how she was treated, it was the Shen family's right.
If she disappeared, would Shen Ti chase her to the ends of the earth?
It would be cleaner if you died.
What if she fell into someone else's hands? What if she became someone else's concubine? What if she couldn't even be a concubine, but was just taken in?
What if it ends up in a dirty place?
If that were the case, when the day came that he found her, would he not mind taking her back?

The emperor was merciful. The women of these convicted officials were not beaten into official prostitutes and sent to the Jiaofangsi or military camps. Instead, they were sentenced to be sold as official slaves, leaving a glimmer of hope for the women.
The Shen family is her life.
In the past two years, she has been hiding in that remote little courtyard, not even daring to step out of the gate, for fear that the Shen family would cut off her chance of survival.

Suddenly Shen Ti said that she didn't need to pay her respects, and she immediately felt a chill in her heart.
He seemed to think that everything would be settled after she became a concubine. But how could that be possible? She became a concubine and had a meal in the Shen family, but it also meant that there was one more person who could end her life - his wife.
For her, he lowered his wife standards and married a country girl from a small place. She was certainly touched, but this did not mean that she was completely safe.
Shen Lang couldn't understand her fear at all.

She immediately refused.
As a result, Shen Ti hesitated for a moment and told her: "Don't worry, this was actually proposed by the young lady."
At that moment, she felt a chill down her spine.
My mother was right before, men really know nothing.

The men read books of sages and learned how to be an official and govern a country, which was completely different from what the women learned in the inner house. They had no idea what their mothers would teach their daughters, and they didn’t even need to be taught. The daughters watched their mothers do it every day and learned it by osmosis.

Feng Luoyi glanced at Zhaoxiang.
In the past, she had more outstanding maids around her, so she had not paid much attention to Zhaoxiang. Zhaoxiang's face was obviously happy, or even complacent.
No wonder she was just a third-class maid in the past, unable to make a name for herself, not even second-class.

"Well, the young lady is fine." She said, "Don't talk nonsense. The young lady is the lady's niece."
Teruka quickly shut up: "Yes, yes."

When the sun was high in the morning, the maids from Jingrongyuan carried a box over and said, "Hanlin asked us to put it here, Auntie."
Teruka asked, “What is it?”
The maid said, "These are clothes and shoes that we have put away. Come, let me check them out for you so that you can know how to serve the Hanlin."

Zhaoxiang was of course happy, and hurriedly took over and counted the items with the maids in Jingrongyuan.
The clothes are quite complete, inside and out, enough for Shen Ti to live here directly.
Before leaving, the maids said, "Hanlin asked us to tell him that he will rest here today."

Zhaoxiang was overjoyed and said to Feng Luoyi, "I told you yesterday not to worry, Auntie."
He added, "We are also preparing to give out rewards and titles in our courtyard. Otherwise, the maids in Jingrong Courtyard will say that the aunt is stingy."

Feng Luoyi said "Oh" and said, "Get ready."
As a concubine, she received a monthly salary of five taels of silver, the same as when she was a girl at home.
But when she was a girl, she didn't worry about these things, because she had a maid who was trained by her mother and took care of everything for her.
Now, I have to worry about these financial matters myself.
Unbearable.

Feng Luoyi was lost in thought for a while, then asked, "I have a zither, right? Where is it? Go find it for me."
Zhaoxiang clapped his hands and said, "Yes, wait until the Hanlin comes and play the piano for him!"
Feeling that Feng Luoyi had finally gotten the idea, Zhaoxiang turned around excitedly to look for him.
Feng Luoyi moved his lips but did not make any excuses.

The maids gave some of Shen Ti's clothes to Feng Luoyi. Yin Shi saw it, but she didn't worry about it.
Shen Ti said she didn't need to worry about it.
She took advantage of the cool morning weather and finally transferred the twenty or so pots of flowers and plants that she had brought from Huaixi with great effort from the pots to the soil.
Filled up the area that Mrs. Shen specially reserved for her.

Luyan accompanied him to the inner study and sent Pingmo out of the hanging flower gate. She had already returned. Seeing Yin Shi instructing Kui'er and Pu'er to loosen the soil and transplant the plants, she smiled and said, "Before, people always asked Madam why she didn't plant some flowers and plants. Madam said that the young lady likes flowers and plants, and when the young lady comes, she can do it herself, which will be more to her liking."
Yin Shi smiled and said, "Aunt loves me."

Lu Yan and others also thought so.
They all knew why the Shen family chose to marry a daughter-in-law from Huaixi. Before Yin Shi came, they were not sure what kind of person this future young lady was.
Is she seeking to marry a rich man, keeping her head down and swallowing her anger? Or is she relying on her mother-in-law being her aunt and acting arrogantly?
I am even more unsure of the Shen family and Shen Ti's attitude towards the second generation of Madam Yin.

Now, after a few days of getting along with Yin Shi, I feel relieved.
The attitudes of Madam, Mother Qin, and Mother Wang clearly showed that they regarded the Young Madam as "one of their own".
What is more important is Hanlin’s attitude towards her.

The maids were still young, and the old lady of the Shen family passed away early, so there had never been any mother-in-law and daughter-in-law fighting in the Shen family. In their hearts, the most important person to the young lady was of course her husband, Shen Ti.
Lu Yan and He Xin had secretly grumbled. If the master you follow treats you badly, you will also have to suffer in the mansion. Servants are the best at flattering the powerful and bullying the weak.

But what comforted them was that Hanlin obviously married Feng Yi Niang for her sake, and when he married her, the couple did not seem strange at all, but rather intimate and casual. The two of them often spent time together alone, with a sense of solidity that no one else could get in between. The young lady was very relaxed and comfortable in front of Hanlin, who did not take it as an offense, but showed respect for her everywhere. Although they were married, he still called the young lady "sister".
Before the young lady took charge of the household chores, he had already handed over the right to dispose of the maids in the yard to her, making it impossible for anyone to be disrespectful to her.
Following such a young lady, they feel at ease and just need to work hard.

Even today when Shen Ti announced that she was going to rest at Feng Luoyi's place, the maids were not panicked.
I have taken it all, and I fought so hard to keep it. It is impossible for me to take it in and get cold.
As long as he doesn't go there every day and neglect his wife, he is a good man.

As expected, Shen Ti didn't come at night. Yin Shi ate alone.
The living conditions of the young lady of the Shen family are several levels higher than those of the young concubine of the Yin family. The ingredients are fresh, the dishes are rich and well matched.
After eating two bites of each dish, everyone was full, and the rest was given to the maids.

No one dislikes the master's saliva.
If you don't reward them and ask them to send it back to the kitchen, they will still be unwilling to do so: "You can't let the kitchen staff get away with it for nothing."
This is how it is in the Yin family. The same is true for the Shen family.
Yin Shi followed the local customs.
Respect the times, or they will crush you into dust.

I have the big bed to myself at night.
I've been working on various aspects these days and haven't stretched my body for several days.
Shen Ti was not around, so Yin Shi was practicing yoga on the bed alone.
Then, at the end, you can relax through meditation and fall asleep directly.

After Shen Ti returned home in the evening, he greeted his parents and then went back to his own place.
He stopped at a fork in the road.
Feng Luoyi lived in the courtyard on the east road.
Shen Ti glanced in the direction of Jingrongyuan, but it was dark and he could not see anything.

Don't worry, whether he is here or not, I believe my cousin can arrange herself well.
She is full of vitality, completely different from Feng Luoyi.
The women in the world are all beautiful and unique, and very different.

He turned left and headed east.
When they arrived at the cross courtyard, Zhaoxiang greeted them warmly and led them to the main house.
The little girl opened the curtain, and Shen Ti stepped in and felt a different atmosphere.

In Jingrongyuan, he and Yin Shi shared the principal room.
It's just a space.
The space was filled with both his and Yin Shi's auras, which permeated each other yet had boundaries, each forming its own entity.

But here, he stepped into the main room. Although he had only stayed here for one night, the main room was filled with his scent, permeating the entire space.
Feng Luoyi came up and threw herself into his arms.
Shen Ti hugged her, thin and frail. She was completely wrapped in his breath.
Yes, this place belongs completely to him.
Feng Luoyi also belongs to him.
There is a greater sense of the reality of marriage here.

They went inside holding hands.
"Did you seem to hear the sound of a piano just now?" Shen Ti asked.
Feng Luoyi said with embarrassment: "I haven't played it for a long time, I am not good at it anymore."
Shen Ti glanced over and saw the displayed zither and a scroll next to it.
It felt like a woman's boudoir, and the atmosphere of life was much stronger than in the remote courtyard before. He had not been to that courtyard many times, let alone entered it many times, but every time he went there, he felt like he was in a prison.
Repressed.

"Where did you get the piano?" Shen Ti fiddled with it twice and frowned, "This piano is not good."
Feng Luoyi said: "It's just a casual play when I have nothing to do, it's nothing."
She also agreed that the piano was not very good.

Shen Ti asked: "Where did it come from?"
Feng Luoyi said, "It was bought together with other things when the master and the lady placed me in the mansion."
What good can come of that?
At that time, she was in trouble and was in prison waiting to be sold by the government. The Shen family paid money to buy her back.
At that time, she was thinking of temporarily settling in. Mrs. Shen told the steward to prepare all the things. She was not a distinguished guest, but a person in distress who was temporarily staying in the house.
There was nothing missing in the remote courtyard, including all the daily necessities, even a musical instrument. But everything was ordinary.

Soon after, Shen Ti, who was studying abroad, rushed back exhausted.
What Feng Luoyi has to face is whether to stay or go. Fighting against his parents and taking the imperial examinations are all big things.
As for Feng Luoyi's quality of life, although the courtyard is a bit simple, it does have everything.
At that time, Shen Ti was only sixteen years old. In fact, he had not yet celebrated his sixteenth birthday, but according to the saying "one year older every year", it can be said that he was already sixteen years old.

In short, the things that the 16-year-old boy had to consider at that time were all major events that he had not encountered in his previous 16 years of life. He also knew that his mother would not treat Feng Luoyi harshly, and every time he saw Feng Luoyi and asked her if she needed anything, Feng Luoyi would always say that she had everything. So Feng Luoyi's life at that time was like that.
For those in distress, having a place to stay and a roof over their heads is more than anything else they could ask for.

But now it’s different, everything is settled, Feng Luoyi has a status and a lifelong support.
She is already Shen Ti's concubine.
She was reassigned a courtyard. Of course, this courtyard could not compare with Yin Shi's courtyard, but it was much better than the original remote courtyard.
All monthly allowances are based on the aunt’s standards.
Basically, we have returned to the living standards of the past.
Just by taking out this ordinary piano brought from the courtyard, you can still see its shabby and disheveled appearance at that time.

After helping Shen Ti wash up, the two of them tuned the piano together.
Feng Luoyi played the piano for Shen Ti.
As expected, they felt a lot more unfamiliar with each other, but it didn’t matter. Shen Ti hugged her from behind and reached out to correct her mistakes.

Their hands went from playing the piano together to interlocking their fingers.
Shen Ti couldn't help but kiss the person in her arms on the cheek and then on the lips.
Feng Luoyi is as soft as water.
It had only been one night since the young man and woman had had sex, and just as Yin Shi thought, how could they not appreciate the sweetness of it.
The young man was full of vigor and vitality, and now that he finally had a place to relieve his stress, how could his body not be agitated?

When the curtains were cleared, the young bodies, wet with sweet sweat, embraced each other.
Shen Ti bit Feng Luoyi's thin shoulder: "I have a good piano named Chunsheng, I'll give it to you later."
Every famous musical instrument has a story behind it and a name. Once the name is mentioned, others will know it.
Feng Luoyi had heard of Chunsheng.
She murmured in response to him, mumbling in the tent.

(End of this chapter)