Du Jun, a rising star from a humble family who was always known for his love for his wife, unexpectedly took in two concubines at once. They were discovered by patrolling soldiers while catching thieves. It was said that the scene was quite explosive.

One is a maid. This is nothing strange. It is common for maids in wealthy families to climb into bed.

The other one was Du Jun's cousin, who had two children. I heard that Du Jun originally wanted to adopt the two children as his adopted sons, but he unexpectedly took the cousin into his room. The adopted son became the stepson of the concubine.

There are many versions of the touching and sad love story between Du Jun and his cousin, and everything is controlled by Shen Si from the outside, listening to Dan Ruo's opinions.

Everyone was watching the slightest movement in the Du Mansion, waiting to see some fun.

The people from Yueying Pavilion also came as scheduled. The clothes and jewelry that were customized for Su Yuniang a while ago were ready. Wang Sanniang, the manager of Yueying Pavilion, came to deliver the goods in person. The servants led Wang Sanniang to the courtyard of the old lady Wang.

Wang knew about Su Yuniang's clothing and jewelry making. After all, she was the one who suggested it to her daughter-in-law. But she hadn't expected Su Yuniang to make so many sets of clothes. As an old lady, she only made four or five new sets of clothes a quarter, but Su Yuniang had made over ten sets of clothes and also made over ten pieces of jewelry.

Looking at the bill for one thousand and thirty taels of silver brought by Madam Wang San, Wang's hands trembled. Her daughter-in-law had been making a fuss recently, and she had always paid the bill before. After thinking about it, she decided to send her confidant, Madam Li, to her daughter-in-law's yard to collect the money.

As a result, Nanny Li came back with two big slap marks on her face. Lily was still chasing after her, with her hands on her hips, cursing loudly:

"He made our wife spend thousands of taels of silver from her own dowry to buy clothes and jewelry for a lowly concubine who climbed into her bed, and he kept saying that this was what the wife should do. He is really an old bastard with a face bigger than his butt."

Wang was so angry that she was about to scold Lily, but Lily turned around and left.

Mrs. Wang San could hardly hold back her smile and looked at Wang Shi with feigned worry: "Madam Du, how do you think we should pay you this?"

Wang felt a pang of pain when she thought about having to pay this amount: "Can this be refunded? We don't need so much."

Madam Wang San's face changed. "We came to your house and took your measurements. We made these specifically for your concubine's waist. The jewelry is also custom-made according to your concubine's preferences. If you don't want them, I can't sell them. Lord Du is a fifth-rank doctor of the Ministry of Rites. How could he cheat us, a small business?"

When Wang heard about her son's official position, she was afraid that it would be disastrous if it got out, so she had to withdraw money from the public account.

Madam Wang San turned and went outside to vividly recount the latest happenings at the Du Mansion. Everyone suddenly felt that Wang Shi wasn't as kind to her daughter-in-law as she had boasted. Wealthy families considered it shameful to take a daughter-in-law's dowry, but Wang Shi, on the other hand, was asking for her daughter-in-law's dowry for a lowly concubine. She truly came from a humble background, completely unrefined. This made Chen Danruo feel even more wronged.

After Wang gave the money, she felt very distressed and wanted to scold Su Yuniang. However, seeing Su Yuniang standing by Danruo's side every day and having a haggard face, she couldn't bear it since she was her niece after all.

When Liu Xing heard about this, she thought, "They were all concubines, so why should Su Yuniang have nice clothes and jewelry?" She took her two maids and went to Su Yuniang to snatch half of the clothes back. When Su Yuniang refused to give them, she threatened to tell everyone that Su Yuniang's two children were the master's biological children. Su Yuniang had no choice but to give in.

Su Yunniang's two children lived in Wang's yard. Du Zhaodi was Yue'er. Seeing that her clothes were not as good as Baihe, the maidservant in front of Chen Danruo, she felt sad and cried to Wang for a long time. Wang bought Du Zhaodi some cheaper clothes and jewelry.

Du Pan'di is Shanlin's academician and Du Jun's biggest concern. Originally, the teacher hired for Du Pan'di was a very learned scholar. However, when he learned that Du Pan'di's biological mother was a concubine, he immediately became unwilling. People with real talent and knowledge cherish their reputation.

In the end, he had no choice but to find a scholar with a good reputation, whose annual salary was five hundred taels of silver.

Add to that the expenses for Wang's grandson Mo Ge'er's writing brushes, ink, paper, and inkstone, social interactions, and Du Jun's expenses, and the money in the public account was gone in less than a month.

The Du family was originally poor. Du Jun's father died early, and the family only had a few dozen acres of land. Even if they rented it all out, it would not be enough for Du Jun to study. So Wang shamelessly took Du Jun to live with her sister, a wealthy merchant, who was also Su Yuniang's family.

After Du Jun passed the imperial examination and became the top scorer, his salary was not much, so he bought some land over the years. In the first two years, he still lived in a small house allocated by the court.

He also married Shen Danruo three years ago and lived a good life. The house, farm and shop were all Danruo's dowry.

On a daily basis, Danruo uses her dowry money to maintain a wealthy life.

Wang went to Du Jun and cried about the financial situation of the mansion. With Shen Danruo around, Du Jun didn't have to worry about money in the past few years. Recently, he went to look for Shen Danruo himself, but couldn't even get in the door.

The past month was really terrible. Although my cousin was by my side, as a concubine, she was tortured by Chen Danruo every day. She cried almost every day and looked very haggard.

His own two children did not receive a good upbringing under Shen Danruo's care, but were raised by Wang Shi as petty children.

After resting for such a long time, the bruises on his face finally disappeared. Du Jun tidied himself up carefully, picked up the folding fan, and thought he was very elegant, but in fact, his face was covered with oil and his whole body was swollen.

This was because Danruo had someone specially replace the oil in the kitchen with lard so that Du Jun could eat various carefully prepared supplements every day. Danruo would take Baihe out from time to time to hang out in various restaurants and teahouses, and never treat herself badly in terms of food and drink.

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