Rebirth of the Main Room Manual

Chapter 122 The Concubine
When Yiqing's original cold wild vegetables were being given away everywhere, arousing the appetite of many people, Mrs. Fang Zheng was sitting in the small flower hall of the king's house, accompanied by Wang Yaozhen attentively, enjoying a large table of delicacies. All kinds of signature dishes brought back from Jinfu Restaurant.

The delicacies of mountains and seas, chicken, duck, and fish on this table cost at least two or thirty taels of silver. Two people eat it, but it is only a slight movement, and it is all rewarded to the servants when it is lifted. Wang Yaozhen said that she has been training her body carefully these days. One day I want a table of noodles from Jinfu Restaurant... Fang Zheng heard mixed feelings in her heart, this girl will spend a lot of money, all the money is given to her by Yan'er, and not all of Yan'er's money is from the Hou Fu of!
Fang Zheng was very familiar with the cuisine of Jinfu Restaurant in the past. When he first opened, his nephew Zheng Jingyan said that it was opened by a friend of his. There are dozens of chefs from the North and the South who can cook all kinds of dishes. If the family wants to try something new, just call it back to eat, keep the bill, and he will deal with the bill at his leisure.

At that time, Baochan and Lanti were engaged and not yet married, and Wenyuan and Baozhang were still able to walk freely in the inner courtyard. Young people were always interested in new affairs, so during that time, the family often ate Jinfu The food in the big restaurant is too boring for the elderly, but the young people like it. The food in the restaurant is heavy, and everyone in the family has meat. The amount used by the Hou Mansion was astonishing in his account book, and the faces of the old lady and his wife were almost turning into round plates. He hurriedly shouted to stop, saying that he could not continue to eat like this, or he would get sick. So, the kitchen at home Only then did it start firing normally every day again.

Baochan and Lanti's children secretly complained that brother Yan was reluctant to spend money on small utensils, which was very beneficial to Mrs. Zheng. At that time, she was in charge of the kitchen and earned a lot of money from it.

Now, alas, there is no benefit!
Xia Yiqing, she is a natural housekeeper. She is petty, short-sighted, sees every needle in every corner, always compares pennies and pennies, and has no sympathy. Now that the entire Hou's Mansion is in her hands, relatives don't even think about trying to please her in the Hou's Mansion. !
After this, I'm afraid that no relatives will be willing to visit the Zheng family's door in the future!
Under Wang Yaozhen's persuasion, Fang Zheng ate some food and drank two cups of sweet mulberry wine for nourishing qi and nourishing blood. Her head was a little dizzy and her heart was depressed, so she babbled a lot to Wang Yaozhen.

"It's better to marry you back! No matter how you say it, she is also a dignified, wise, well-educated lady, a hundred times stronger than Xia Yiqing! What is she? She is small-minded, with shallow eyelids, and I don't see a few relatives in the Hou's house. Live again, she is a poor Xia family in the Marquis Mansion, her father can hardly support her family with a few taels of silver, so naturally she doesn't care about relatives. But I don't know that our Rongping Marquis Mansion has accumulated for generations, the family has a big business, and the property industry There are too many! What is it to raise a few relatives? She is greedy and just can't tolerate it! The wife here just speaks, and she can't wait to grasp all the housekeeping rights in her hands, and she will never let it out, lest I rob it She! Those boxes of ledgers and bunches of warehouse keys are all in her place! Now she is just guarding herself and stealing all the money from the Hou Mansion back to her Xia family, and no one knows! My mother, what? So old and foolish? Being coaxed by Xia Yiqing's little vixen with sweet words, I will leave everything to her! Too hasty! You will suffer! One day, my mother will regret it! Xia Yiqing is so shrewd? Look at her eyes You will know!"

Wang Yaozhen listened to Fang Zhengshi's words, her hands kept twisting a plain brocade handkerchief, her eyes darkened, her lips were tightly pressed, her breathing was rapid and unsteady, it was obvious that her heart was extremely restless.

Fang Zheng took Wang Yaozhen's hand and sighed with tears in her eyes: "It's still good for you, gentle and kind, beautiful and elegant, it's a pity... I took your little silver last time and went around for you to do some money, and then the old lady I said a few words before, she originally allowed you to be a noble concubine, and she would take you back as soon as you got out of the service, but at this moment, Feng Yuejiao came! You know Feng Yuejiao—the old lady’s natal nephew daughter, her father He is a concubine, useless, can't be an official by studying, and can't do things well. Feng Yuejiao lost her mother just after she was born, and his father married another, and ignored her. He couldn't speak when he was three or four years old. It happened that the old lady went back to her mother's house to visit relatives, and when she heard about such a girl, she brought her back to the Hou's mansion to raise her. Now that Yuejiao is so beautiful, Yan'er also likes it. Yesterday, she was with Yuejiao in Ann Chatting with the flowers in the hall, and not avoiding the servants... The old lady is very happy to see her, she wants to kiss her more, she wants to give Yuejiao to Yan'er!"

Wang Yaozhen was taken aback, her face became paler and paler: "Why is this? No! I don't believe Brother Jing would like Yuejiao!"

"Hey! What do men talk about whether they like it or not? The young girls are all charming and beautiful, each with its own advantages. When he wants it, he wants it! Yan'er married Xia Yiqing, it seems to be enlightened, I think He just likes women who are white and fat!"

"No! No! Brother Jing doesn't like Xia Yiqing either! He said it himself!"

"Tsk tsk! Girl, you are too young, people are forgetful! You, you are too weak, you have to hurry up, you can't always let Yan'er worry about Xia Yiqing and Yuejiao, and now you are married Wife, when Yiqing became pregnant, the old lady immediately gave Yuejiao to Yan'er as a concubine! Oh, yes, there is another Ruyi, because she was born with good fortune, the old lady thought about giving her to Yan'er, then Xia Yiqing It's also generous to let Ruyi wait in Yan'er's study. Yan'er often studies in the study until midnight, and sometimes simply lives there. Ruyi was trained by the old lady herself, she is considerate, considerate and gentle... Some time, Yan'er remembers who you are? Even if you enter the door, you can only be an ordinary concubine, I'm afraid it's not as good as Ruyi! As long as Ruyi gets pregnant before you, she will be more favored by Yan'er, Loved by the old lady! You should always be under Yan'er's nose, reminding him that you are the one who should love him! Didn't he swear to you?"

Wang Yaozhen lowered her head in tears: "I didn't make a vow, but he gave me a promise: marry me as his wife and spend this life with me!"

Mrs. Fang Zheng sighed, and said in a pitiful tone: "I think you are very pitiful, and I will show you a clear way: as soon as your filial piety period expires, immediately take off your filial piety clothes, dress yourself up, and live in the Hou's mansion." Yan'er promised you that you have waited for him for so many years, so he should be responsible! Otherwise, you have lost the position of young wife, so is it possible that you can't even get a concubine? Seeing him every day, he will take pity on you, love you and spoil you! While I am still living in the Hou Mansion, I can help you say something and do something, as long as you give birth to a son and a half daughter, your name, It will come naturally!"

Wang Yaozhen bit her lips: "Will the old lady say that I... have thick skin?"

Fang Zheng laughed: "People with a thicker skin than you have already lived in the Hou's mansion, what are you afraid of?"

(End of this chapter)