allonlinenovel Chapter 236 Concubinage
Chapter 236 Concubinage
Chapter 236 Taking a Concubine
Inside the Qi residence.
The atmosphere wasn't good.
Jiang Zijin noticed it as soon as she entered the door.
First, the housekeeper looked very surprised when he saw the mother and daughter.
Mother said she wanted to pay her respects to Father and Stepmother, but the steward hesitated and said they weren't home.
Then came the maids and old women, whispering behind their backs.
When I arrived at my maternal grandmother's courtyard, she told me that rumors of my maternal grandfather's favoritism and corruption in the imperial examinations had already reached the capital.
His Majesty was furious, and the censors impeached him.
Although there was no concrete evidence, public opinion was powerful, and my maternal grandfather was still reprimanded by His Majesty.
He was summoned to the palace again.
The Qi family is currently in the eye of the storm.
Whether master or servant, everyone was cautious and acted with great care.
Therefore, no one in the Qi family liked them very much.
The culprit behind all of this was her mother.
Mother still wants to see Madam Qi. When returning to her parents' home, the first thing to do is to pay respects to the matriarch of the household, which is the most basic courtesy.
However, the matriarch did not want to see them.
Jiang Zijin didn't want to see her either. Thinking of Granny Gong, who had just disappeared without a trace, she felt that something was wrong.
Perhaps she has already gone back to her master and tattled on him.
Jiang Zijin was very sensible and went directly to her maternal grandmother's courtyard.
After exchanging pleasantries with them for a while, the grandmother began to scold her mother behind closed doors.
She stood outside the door for a long time and listened for a long time.
The gist of the story is that the mother is dim-witted and always causes trouble for the grandfather, even implicating her.
Mother got scolded.
Jiang Zijin was actually somewhat relieved.
Even if her mother has done something wrong, as her daughter, she cannot say a single word against her.
Otherwise, people will say that he is unfilial and disrespectful to his elders.
She couldn't say it, but her grandmother could, and it wouldn't be wrong for her to scold her; she deserved a good reprimand.
I don't know how such a smart maternal grandmother could give birth to a mother like me?
However, the grandmother was just putting on an act and couldn't bring herself to be too harsh on her daughter.
“Wei’er, it’s perfectly normal for a man to have three wives and four concubines. The key is that you must firmly grasp his heart, go along with him, help him get what he wants, and then use him to get what you want, do you understand?” Madam Lan stroked her daughter’s cheek and touched her scar.
Her eyes and heart were filled with heartache.
This is her only daughter, the daughter she carried for ten months and gave birth to with great difficulty, the daughter she cherishes more than her own life.
How could she not feel sorry for her and make plans for her?
I underestimated Lu Qingyao.
If they had spent more money and sent more experts three years ago, they wouldn't have let the mother and her children escape.
In the end, only some servants were killed; the servants themselves were unharmed.
This time, we cannot let our guard down.
She even suspected that everything that happened to Wei'er in Jiangzhou was orchestrated by Lu Qingyao.
Wei'er wasn't the kind of person who didn't know her place before, so why did she act like she was under a spell after going to Jiangzhou?
Time and again, she didn't want to talk about it anymore.
But Qi Caiwei couldn't swallow this insult. She grabbed her mother's hand and said, "Mother, I'm not reconciled!"
“From the very beginning, I was unwilling to marry Jiang Yunze. Although he never frequented brothels after the marriage, I never had a place in his heart. Even though Lu Qingyao was in such a state, he still refused to divorce her.”
“If that incident hadn’t happened, with Father’s doting on you, I could have found a good family to marry into, so why would I have to compete with Lu Qingyao?”
Because she was born out of wedlock, even though her father loved her, she was always inferior to her legitimate sisters.
When she was taken out, people only paid attention to her sisters and never took her seriously.
“Mother, you have no idea about my husband’s relatives. They are all uncivilized, rude, and vulgar. Not one of them is presentable. And that old hag, she’s a complete country bumpkin, greedy and snobbish. She’s always trying to act like a mother-in-law in front of me and doesn’t respect my father at all…”
Madam Lan interrupted her, "Alright, you're already married, what else can you do? The most important thing right now is to use this mistress to make Jiang Yunze divorce his wife and make you his legal wife. In another three to five years, Jin'er and Pei'er should be getting engaged. We can't let them go out with the stigma of being illegitimate children."
Qi Caiwei nodded in agreement, "What you said makes sense, but what should we do with the mistress and the illegitimate child? Should we use them to blackmail our husband?"
Lan slapped her on the forehead. "Foolish! That woman has been married before and is a country girl. The fact that Jiang Yunze is still willing to take her means that he still has feelings for her and cares about her. If you use her to blackmail Jiang Yunze, aren't you going to distance yourself from him? Even if he reluctantly agrees, do you think he will still treat you with respect in the future?"
"Of course not..."
After hearing what her mother said, Qi Caiwei understood a bit more.
"Mother, what should I do?"
Her mother was able to maintain a loving relationship with her father for many years, and her stepmother couldn't touch her; that's quite an ability.
Then I heard my mother say, "Take a concubine, bring that mistress into the house."
"what?"
Qi Caiwei thought she had misheard.
"You mean you want me to help Jiang Yunze take a concubine and bring Tao Tao and the bastard back to the mansion?"
She's gone mad, her mother must be insane.
“That’s right, you go pick it up yourself.”
Looking at her clueless daughter, Madam Lan laughed and said, "She's just a concubine. Once we bring her home, you'll be in charge from now on. We can just find a fault and sell her off later. Why are you so panicked?"
"You should take her back to the manor and raise her gently. As for the rest, your father will deal with Jiang Yunze."
Jiang Zijin ate her candied fruit obediently to the side.
She dared not say anything, for fear that her grandmother would find out.
But she really identifies with her maternal grandmother.
This is a good idea.
The woman my father was seeing was a law-abiding citizen, so my mother couldn't really do anything to her.
But things are different once she enters the household as a concubine.
The woman's father had committed a crime and served time in prison. Even if she were to become a concubine, she could only be a lowly concubine, as concubines were considered lowly and were traded.
Once she entered the manor, she was no longer a free person.
Everything has to be done according to the rules.
Inside this grand mansion, there were all sorts of things: drowning, poisoning, framing, and being sold off...
These are all very ordinary things.
Moreover, she has an ex-husband and a child, so it's not impossible that there are still entanglements.
As for divorcing his wife.
It was obvious that her father had long since lost all affection for Lu Qingyao.
Faced with the choice between his future and his beloved, Jiang Zijin was somewhat impressed that her father still cared about his first wife.
Thinking this, she grasped her mother's hand and said, "Mother, I'll go with you to pick up Aunt Tao. I also want to see what my little sister looks like."
Little sister.
She doesn't like it.
Putting everything else aside, she really disliked Jiang Miaomiao.
What I dislike most are those eyes.
Over at the Jiang residence.
Jiang Yunze had just returned home from the government office when he heard that Qi Caiwei and her daughter hadn't gone home and had gone straight to the Qi residence.
My heart is pounding.
They then rushed to the Qi residence to pick up the person.
Although his father-in-law was his boss, he would criticize him whenever he was unhappy.
Qi Caiwei always blames him for not disciplining his wife and daughters when she gets into trouble.
It was as if the person who caused the trouble wasn't his daughter.
With no wife or children by his side, what's wrong with keeping a mistress? Why should he be scolded for it?
Even with all his grievances, he had to swallow them.
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