A tyrant develops a daily life

Chapter 2 Concubine Lin

The brown sugar and barley porridge was cooked quickly, and it was served in a clear green bowl of Longquan plums. The spoon was made of silver with a very thin handle, twisted with gold wire, and a lifelike little beauty was carved on the top.

When Yao shi was feeding Lin Miaomiao to eat porridge spoon by spoon, Lin Miaomiao just stared at the little beauty intently, thinking, "It's just a bowl of porridge, but with such exquisite tableware, her mother's quality of life is not ordinary. high.

How could such a person who loves life die in a muddleheaded way?
Judging by her mother's ruddy complexion, it doesn't look like she has some incurable disease; if it was an accident, but her mother's temperament is more cautious than the old man, what accident could happen?
She was not very enlightened when she was a child, she died when she died, and she could only cry.Later, when she grew up, she asked her father and Pei Lang the truth about her mother's death.They all said that they died of illness. She believed it at the time, but now that she had a new life, she vaguely felt that it was not the same thing.

"Ma'am, the first wife and the second wife are here!"

Suddenly there was the sound of Danju's report from outside, Lin Miaomiao followed the prestige, and saw the eldest wife Guo Shi in a dark purple long coat and the second wife Cui Shi in a royal blue short jacket and skirt, walking in arm in arm .

Mrs. Guo is the eldest daughter-in-law, and she seems to be honest.

Cui Shi is more prettier, and she speaks delicately: "Third siblings~"

That sound made Lin Miaomiao's hands tremble.

Yao Shi was used to it, so he went up to meet him and said, "It's so late, why are sisters-in-law here?" Looking at Cui Shi's three-month pregnant belly, "It's raining outside, Second Sister-in-law really doesn't feel sorry for me!"

Cui pursed her lips and smiled: "The rain stopped a long time ago, I'm paying attention! I just heard that Sister Miao woke up at the old lady's place, so I came over with my sister-in-law to have a look. The old lady was going to come, but everyone is already asleep. After getting off the bed, my sister-in-law and I had a lot of chatting, so that the old man can rest his mind, and let you take sister Miao to Zhihui courtyard early in the morning!" After finishing speaking, he sat down on the kang and patted Lin Miaomiao's head , "Are you all right?"

Lin Miaomiao knelt on the kang and bowed obediently: "Hello, uncle, and hello, second uncle."

"Yo!" Cui Shi was startled, and looked at Yao Shi in disbelief, "Have you recovered after being ill? You have learned to call people."

Lin Miaomiao was ashamed, was she really so rude before?

"Don't underestimate our sister Miao, is she worse than your sister Yuan?" Shi Yao gave Cui Shi a look, and Cui Shi laughed out loud.

Mrs. Guo didn't talk much, and when she saw the two quarreling with each other, she didn't say anything, she just watched with a smile.

Yao Shi poured Guo Shi a cup of tea and Cui Shi a cup of warm water.

Mrs. Guo took it in her hand, and looked at Lin Miaomiao worriedly: "Isn't this really neat? Do you want to ask some more doctors to take a look?"

Yao shi smiled: "No, she ate a big bowl of porridge at night, her appetite is very good, and her energy is also good. Tomorrow, she will be able to go to the house again."

Everyone in the room laughed.

Lin Miaomiao's ears were slightly red, while biting the mung bean cake, she looked at her mother sadly, when did she go to the house to expose the tiles?Is it really okay to hurt your daughter so much?
Adults will not pay attention to children's ears when they are talking. Lin Miaomiao took advantage of her young age, but she heard a lot of unheard of gossip, and only then did she know some dignified and reserved ladies in her opinion. Smoking opium in secret, keeping an actor, living a life of extravagance.

After that, they talked about the salt transportation of the Lin family.

Lin Miaomiao knew that the Lin family came from salt dealers, and their ancestors had been doing private salt business in Fuzhou for hundreds of years, earning more money than the national treasury.Later, he was recruited by the imperial court somehow, turned over most of his net worth, washed his hands in a golden basin, and moved to Kyoto.

Lin Miaomiao always thought that they were serious businessmen now, but she didn't expect that there were so many tricks hidden in the dark.

Afterwards, Mrs. Yao told the two sister-in-laws about the year-end dividends, the figure...it made Lin Miaomiao, who had lived for two lifetimes, dumbfounded, their family is actually so rich!
Cui could not close her mouth from ear to ear, and even the honest Guo could not help but raise the corners of her lips.

Yao Shi looked around, and suppressed his smile: "By the way, I still have something to say to my sisters-in-law."

Mrs. Guo and Mrs. Cui obviously haven't recovered from the surprise of the huge dividend, they looked at her with a smile, and asked in unison: "What's the matter?"

Yao looked at the door and said in a loud voice, "Mother Xu, have you taken all the things from my carriage?"

"It's taken down, Madam, do you want it? This servant will send it in!"

Xu's mother moved very quickly, and carried the two rectangular brocade boxes into the house in a short while, and then, without waiting for the master to speak, she tactfully retreated out.

Lin Miaomiao looked at her mother, then at the brocade box, and thought to herself what was in it that made her mother so mysterious?

"This is..." Cui's eyeballs rolled back and forth on the brocade box.

Yao did not answer Cui's words, but asked, "Guess who I met in the temple?"

Guo Shi and Cui Shi pricked up their ears.

Yao shi said, "Jingxiang."

"Her?" Cui yelled impatiently, and Yao quickly covered her mouth, "Second sister-in-law, keep your voice down, don't let others listen, not all the people in my yard have mouths Tight."

Cui nodded hurriedly, Yao let go, and both of them looked at Guo together.

Lin Miaomiao was confused, who is this Shizuka?Has something to do with my aunt?
Guo Shi smiled: "I'm fine, you continue to talk."

Cui Shicai held Yao Shi's hand again, and asked solemnly: "Isn't Jingxiang from my aunt? My aunt also went to the temple to offer incense?"

Lin Miaomiao blinked her eyes, it is true that the elder sister is the daughter of the elder aunt, but she is not married yet!Can't be called aunt, who is this aunt referring to?

Yao shook her head: "She didn't go, it was Jingxiang who went, I don't know if she found out about my whereabouts, she waited for me in the temple on purpose, and gave these things." Then, he opened the brocade box, revealing a pair of The thousand-year-old ginseng I was waiting for, "I don't want it for Sister Miao's body, but she just stuffed it into the carriage."

Cui smiled disdainfully: "You said she has nothing to do with our family anymore, why worry about our family's affairs?"

"That's the reason, but after all, she is from the palace, and we merchants can't afford to offend. Counting the miscellaneous "encounters" and "rewards" before, I don't know how many times this is. My small warehouse is almost full. " Shi Yao closed the brocade box, not at all intending to stew the ginseng for Lin Miaomiao.

Cui hurriedly reminded: "Don't let the old lady know."

Yao Shi nodded: "I don't mind, only the three of us know, I didn't even mention the third master and the two elder brothers."

Lin Miaomiao: "..."

She is not human.

Yao Shi sighed, and held Guo Shi's hand: "Sister-in-law, have you passed the hurdle in your heart?"

Mrs. Guo smiled gently: "What's not the past? You all don't want to see her. To be honest, I don't feel that way. I'm afraid you will make fun of me if I tell you. I'm actually... very grateful to her. If she didn't regret her marriage, How can I marry the uncle?"

Mrs. Cui rolled her eyes: "My sister-in-law has a bodhisattva heart, and she still speaks good words for that kind of white-eyed wolf! Thinking back to when her father and brother committed crimes and ransacked her family, the Lin family spent so much money and dredged up relationships to save her from the guillotine." Come out! Eat and drink, and be raised by a daughter of the first wife! Without the Lin family, would she be where she is today? Ah, what did she say back then? Even if you are a cow and a horse in this life, you have to repay the Lin family for their kindness! Ruined us This is how she repays her kindness for the marriage of the Lin family? If not for the fact that not many people know about it, I...I...I'll kill her and me!"

Guo's face was red from choking.

Yao Shi knew that Cui Shi had a fiery temper, but with a knife mouth and a bean curd heart, he was always fighting for his own people, so he patted Cui Shi's hand and said, "Okay, okay, don't be angry, there is still a small one in your belly." Oh! Isn't it a good thing for sister-in-law to think about it? Don't you have to make sister-in-law hate her for the rest of her life, which makes you feel uncomfortable?"

This is useful, Cui suppressed her anger, and sneered: "Oh, I know, she is from an official family, and she doesn't look down on those of us who smell like copper. But so what? Isn't it unclear? The prince In a few words, she was coaxed to the point where she didn't know where to go. I heard from those ladies that she fell out of favor not long after passing the door. There was a concubine appointed by the emperor to suppress her, and a young and beautiful aunt beside her. Concubine, like the meat in the meat bun, it is about to be crushed!"

When Lin Miaomiao heard this, she finally figured it out. The Lin family rescued the daughter of a criminal minister. Why the rescue was not clear, maybe the two families had some connections.The old lady and the old man had four sons, three concubines and one concubine, but they had no daughter, so they raised her as a concubine, and later, the uncle secretly fell in love with her and wanted to marry her, and she agreed.

However, at the time of Zhang Luo's marriage, she ran into a certain high-ranking prince. In fact, Lin Miaomiao didn't know if he had power or not, so let's make a guess first.Then she abandoned her fiancé and ran away with the prince.

Perhaps in order to save face, or perhaps to do the last bit of benevolence and righteousness, the Lin family let her get married as the daughter of the Lin family, and there was no further contact with her after that.

But she was not doing well, and she wanted to rebuild her relationship with the Lin family, probably because she understood that the old lady refused to see her, so she had to inquire about the whereabouts of her mother who often went out, and let her be her mouthpiece.

But mother is not a fool, the old lady hates her so much, if you help her yourself, isn't it just slapping the old lady in the face?

Lin Miaomiao also felt that this aunt was quite unkind, if she didn't want to agree with her body, she just instinctively refused, and since she agreed, don't be that fat villain who broke her promise.

It's no wonder that the whole family kept secrets about Concubine Lin, and if it was her, she wouldn't want to mention it either.

Several people talked for a while, Guo Shi and Cui Shi got up to leave, and Yao Shi took two portions of bird's nest from the cabinet and presented them to them.The two refused to accept it, saying that there were enough things delivered to the yard on weekdays, and they would not be able to finish them. Yao insisted several times, and the two accepted it.

Lin Miaomiao actually wanted to ask, which palace's side concubine is that aunt?But she held back and pretended that she didn't understand anything, so that she could hear more in the future.

Anyway, as long as she is not the side concubine of King Jing's mansion, it is enough. She was ravaged so badly by the man of King Jing's mansion in her previous life. She has thought about it in this life. She doesn't want to be rich or fulfilled, but please don't meet that person again.

Soon, Mother Xu came in with hot water: "Maidservant, please wash my sister?"

"Yeah." Sitting in front of the dressing table, Yao plucked the hairpin from his head.

Mother Xu brought the basin to the bed, soaked Lin Miaomiao's little feet in the small bucket, and then took a cup for Lin Miaomiao to rinse her mouth.

"Ma'am, are those two boxes of ginseng still locked in the warehouse?"

Yao took off the makeup on his face, looked in the mirror, and said, "What else? I can't eat it, and I can't throw it away! I'm the one caught in the meat bun with their mother and daughter. Meat!"

Mother Xu took the golden bowl and went to pick up Lin Miaomiao's mouthwash: "She has sent so many things, you can't help but hide it from the old lady, in case the old lady finds out..."

Yao turned her head, raised her eyebrows and smiled: "That's why I told my sister-in-law and second sister-in-law. It wasn't me who kept the old man from her, but the three of us, together."

Lin Miaomiao: Mother is so cunning~
(End of this chapter)