In the autumn of the tenth year of Taiping, in the back garden of the Qin Mansion in Changning Prefecture, a woman was sitting in the octagonal Linglong Pavilion reading a book.
Although the woman is reading a book quietly, her demure and beautiful face is like a painting that makes people linger and forget to leave. Even in a bright and delicate garden, people can still see her at a glance. She is more charming than a flower.
This woman is none other than Xie Linglong who married into the Qin family in the eighth year of Taiping. This is the Qin family.
Xie Linglong married into the Qin family for two years, and her life was fine, because she was the adopted sister of the emperor, the Qin family did not dare to offend her, and Qin Chaomu himself treated her very well, so she had a good life in the Qin family.
It's just that as two years passed, Mrs. Qin from the Qin family began to complain when she saw that she hadn't conceived or given birth for two years. In the past few months, she had explicitly and implicitly asked her to take a concubine for Qin Chaomu. Seeing that she ignored her, Mrs. Qin Her face was getting darker day by day, and she wanted to find work for her second and third sons, and Xie Linglong didn't help her either.
This made Mrs. Qin even more angry.
But Xie Linglong didn't care about it at all. As for her infertility, it wasn't because of her physical problems, but because she wanted to see if Qin Chaomu was worth it for her to bear him.
When a child is born, he has to be responsible for the child, just like her parents, who carefully educate them to become talents after they are born.
To be honest, Qin Chaomu has done very well in the past two years, and Xie Linglong has gradually grown to like him.
Not only is he good-looking and decent, but he also loves her very much, which makes Xie Linglong slowly accept him with openness.
But with Qin's mother's actions in the past few months, Xie Linglong has become a little dissatisfied with Qin Chaomu, because when Qin's mother confronts her, Qin Chaomu always tells her to bear it. less bitter.
It's fine once or twice, I kept telling Xie Linglong to endure, Xie Linglong was upset, she didn't thank her family daughter for the sake of endurance.
It's just that she hasn't had an attack yet, and she wants to see how far Qin's mother can do it.
For the sake of his old mother, how far can Qin Chaomu make his wife endure.
Just as Xie Linglong was thinking, Liu Fu walked in outside the Eight Treasures Pavilion: "Miss, Mrs. Qin sent her mother-in-law over to invite you over."
Xie Linglong put away the book and nodded, "OK."
A group of people went to the old lady's yard.
In the flower hall, apart from the old lady, there were other people. Xie Linglong knew her. The old lady's niece originally wanted to marry Qin Chaomu, but Qin Chaomu disagreed. Later, His Majesty bestowed a marriage on Xie Linglong. Finally, the niece married someone else.
As soon as Xie Linglong came in, the niece of her natal family looked over with deep meaning in her eyes.
Mrs. Qin's complexion turned a little better, and she beckoned Xie Linglong to sit down.
"Linglong, I asked you to come over because I have something to discuss with you."
"Mom, tell me."
Xie Linglong spoke softly. Mrs. Qin glanced at her, feeling unhappy. She originally thought that the Qin family married a daughter of the Xie family, and the Qin family made money. However, this daughter-in-law did not help the Qin family at all. Not only did she not help, she even had a child. She was not pregnant yet, thinking of this, Mrs. Qin involuntarily pursed her lips.
The niece Xia Shuang on the side couldn't help calling softly: "Auntie."
Mrs. Qin immediately thought of calling Xie Linglong over today, and her face softened a little.
She glanced at Xie Linglong, and beckoned Xia Shuang to come over: "Linglong, this is Shuang'er, do you know? Shuang'er's husband died of illness."
Xie Linglong nodded: "My cousin's condolences."
Xia Shuang choked, she wasn't sad, okay? She wished that the dead ghost would die early. At the beginning, she disagreed with one or the other, and finally agreed to marry a crooked man, just to wait for him to die. After he died, she could think of a way to marry her cousin, even if she couldn't be right. Madame, I want to be a noble concubine too. Sooner or later, she will take back her cousin.
While Xia Shuang was thinking, a sad look appeared on her face.
Seeing her like this, Mrs. Qin felt sad, reached out to hold her hand and said, "Shuang'er's life is too sad now, her husband's family can't tolerate her, and her mother's family can't go back. As an aunt, I feel sorry for her, so I want to let her go." Keeping her at home, but it's outrageous for her to live in the Qin family without a name or title, I thought that if Chao Mu accepted her as a concubine, it would actually be to give her a title."
After Madam Qin finished speaking, she looked at Xie Linglong. Xie Linglong understood what Madam Qin wanted to say as early as when Madam Qin had spoken for a long time.
She looked up at Mrs. Qin with a smile that was not a smile, did she still say it?
Today, I use this as an excuse to keep a concubine from my cousin. Will another concubine come in in the future?
This mother-in-law is really not likable.
Xie Linglong looked at Mrs. Qin with a smile, then looked at the cousin on the side, and finally said with a smile: "If Chao Mu agrees, I have no objection, isn't it just raising an idler? I can still afford it."
Xia Shuang's face froze for a moment, followed by annoyance, but she didn't say anything in the end.
After Xie Linglong finished speaking, she looked at Mrs. Qin: "If mother is okay, I'll go back."
"Go back."
Mrs. Qin waved her hand, and waited until Xie Linglong had left before she said to the woman beside her with tightness in her chest, "I'm really pissed off. He acts like a high-ranking person all day long. He looks down on our Qin family. How can he treat my Qin family as his own?" My husband’s family, if we really regard us as my husband’s family, then I should take care of my uncle and sister-in-law.”
"In the end, it's fine if you don't help me, and you can't even conceive a child. I said I didn't agree to take a concubine. God, when is this a head? It's a pity that my son married such a thing."
Xia Shuang on the one side listened to Mrs. Qin's words, smiled complacently, and then pretended to go up to comfort her: "Auntie, who said that he is from the capital? Both father and brother are powerful, and they are the adopted sister of the emperor."
Speaking of this, Mrs. Qin became even more angry: "What is the emperor's adoptive sister? I haven't seen how the emperor treats her very well. She didn't even give her a title, let alone a fief. She is clearly not favored. .”
In fact, Mrs. Qin was afraid of Xie Linglong at first, but because Xie Linglong hadn't had any seizures, Mrs. Qin became more and more superior, and now she almost doesn't take Xie Linglong seriously.
Xie Linglong brought a group of maidservants back to her yard at this time, Liu Fu said angrily on the way: "Miss, the old lady of the Qin family went too far to let my uncle take a widow cousin as a concubine, you should treat it as a seizure. "
Thinking about the young lady of their family, who was spoiled since she was a child, and got so angry when she married, Liu Fu became angry when she thought about it, and really wanted to go back to Beijing and tell the eldest son and others.
Xie Linglong smiled lightly, and said, "What do you care about an old lady?"
She never took Mrs. Qin seriously. What she looked at was Qin Chaomu. Is this man worthy of her sincerity? Is it worth her having a child for him? She has lived her whole life, but she has seen what happened in the past few months.
Although he has good abilities and loves her very much, he is a man in his heart, and when he meets his mother, he asks his wife to compromise. Such a person is not what she wants.
What she wants is someone who loves her wholeheartedly, not someone who tells her to endure.
Earlier Mrs. Qin wanted to take her cousin as a concubine, she didn't object, she wanted to see what Qin Chaomu planned.
This is the last chance she gave him. If he really agrees to accept Xia Shuang as his mother said, then this man doesn't matter.
(end of this chapter)