Just as he was feeling a tingling pain in his palm, outside the door, Nanny Lin, the housekeeper of the Jinyang Marquis's mansion, walked in.
This is the housekeeper who was promoted from Qin's dowry maid, and she always follows Qin's lead.
When she came in, she was holding two thick stacks of account books in her arms. "Madam, look, it's almost time to pay the regular salary. The accounts in our house..."
Account, account, account!
Here to collect debt again!
Does it mean that Xue Linglong owes them something?
Xue Linglong became more and more irritable, and her lower abdomen began to feel slight pains. She couldn't help but hold her stomach and cursed with a sullen face: "You are a wealthy family in the Jinyang Marquisate, how come you have come to the point where you have to rely on a woman like me to make a living?"
"Go ask my good mother-in-law, will she be happy only if I die twice?"
Nanny Lin wanted to argue with her, but when she saw her holding her stomach with both hands, she didn't dare to say anything more. She put down the account book and carefully retreated.
The room fell silent again.
Xue Linglong dismissed the maid who was serving her and leaned against the cushion at the head of the bed.
Recall the dream scene.
In the dream, although she was not Chen Feng's legal wife, the treatment she received in Jinyang Marquis's Mansion was better than that of his original legal wife Wei Yunlan.
Whatever Wei Yunlan had in Zhufeng Courtyard, she also had in Qifeng Courtyard; whatever was not in Zhufeng Courtyard, she also had in Qifeng Courtyard.
And Chen Feng, ever since she got married, she has been staying in Qifeng Courtyard every day and has never set foot in Zhufeng Courtyard!
Wei Yunlan blocked Shen Feng's way back home several times, begging him to find out about her mother's family situation for her. Unfortunately, not only did she not get any sympathy from Shen Feng, but she was locked up in Zhufeng Courtyard by Shen Feng and Qin, and was ordered not to step out of the courtyard again.
By that time, several pieces of bad news had already been received about the Wei family.
Later, there was news of Princess Changning's death, and the news that the virtuous concubine in the palace had angered the emperor and completely fell out of favor.
There was no hope for the Wei family to recover, and without the support of Concubine Xian and Duke Xu's Mansion, Wei Yunlan was useless except for still occupying the position of Chen Feng's legal wife.
Compared to Wei Yunlan, she, the concubine who came into the mansion later, is more like the young lady of this mansion!
She and Shen Feng were in love, the servants all obeyed and respected her, and her mother-in-law Qin also doted on her.
What's more, after she told Shen Feng that she didn't want her child to be born inferior to others, Shen Feng thought of divorcing her for the first time. But how easy is it to divorce a wife?
Even if the Wei family was exiled, Concubine Xian fell out of favor, and Duke Xu's Mansion lost power, it still could not cover up the fact that the Wei family had once been indebted to the Marquis Jinyang Mansion. If Chen Feng dared to divorce his wife at this critical juncture, his spine would probably be pierced.
If Chen Feng and the Jinyang Marquisate don't want to be criticized behind their backs, they must never divorce this wife.
For the sake of the reputation of the Jinyang Marquisate, Qin even personally persuaded her, promising that when the child in her belly was born, she would be the most honorable little master in the mansion, and when Chen Feng became the Marquis, her child would definitely be asked to be named the Crown Prince.
But who knows how long this wait will take, and how many variables there will be in the meantime?
She came from an era that advocated monogamy, and she had long been fed up with the fact that there was still an original wife standing in the way.
In her dream, she bribed Chen Feng's servant and the maidservant beside Qin, and told them some plots of poisoning and murder intentionally or unintentionally. Sure enough, within a few months, Qin found a colorless and odorless poison that weakened the internal organs and made it impossible to find out the cause of death.
After nine months of pregnancy, she finally watched Wei Yunlan pass away in front of her.
She was legitimately made the legal wife by Chen Feng and took the position of the wife of the Crown Prince of Jinyang Marquis's Mansion.
Before the fruit ripened, she had become the only woman by Shen Feng's side. The couple loved each other, the parents-in-law were kind, the servants respected her... everything was going smoothly. But now, her mother-in-law targeted her everywhere, the servants in the Marquis' Mansion were only respectful to her on the surface, and even Shen Feng... was suspicious and resentful of her because of the disappeared family property.
Everything is completely different from what I dreamed of!
This dream was before she was diagnosed with pregnancy yesterday...
It was clear that everything in the dream was exactly the same until she married into the Marquis's Mansion.
All the differences seemed to have started from the day she married into the Marquis' Mansion and became Chen Feng's co-wife!
What is the difference between reality and dreams?
A gleam of light flashed in Xue Linglong's confused eyes.
It’s Wei Yunlan!
All the differences started with Wei Yunlan!
In the dream, Wei Yunlan did not leave the Jinyang Marquis Mansion. He was imprisoned in that small courtyard and never stepped out of the courtyard until his death. But in reality, on the day when Wei Yunlan married Chen Feng as his equal wife, she asked for a divorce and left the Marquis of Jinyang Mansion with a few maids who came with her as a dowry!
I heard that Wei Yunlan was exiled to the northwest along with her family.
Now that I think about it, it would be better to keep this person. At least if Wei Yunlan is left, the Qin family won't keep looking for trouble with me alone.
With Wei Yunlan, whose family was exiled to the border, as a comparison, it is possible that Qin would treat her more affectionately, just like in the dream.
But it was too late to regret now. Wei Yunlan might have died on the way to exile. Even if she was not dead, she had already arrived at the border with her family and lived a cold and miserable life.
And even if Wei Yunlan was not exiled, she really didn't want to see the "third party" in her relationship with Chen Feng appear in front of her!
Instead of thinking about this now, it is better to think about how to turn the current predicament back to the situation in the dream.
Xue Linglong is not a person who is not good at thinking.
On the contrary, she was able to help her brother gain the attention of a nobleman as a merchant's daughter, and was able to get to know Shen Feng, the son of a marquis's mansion, and win his heart, all of which showed her intelligence.
It was just that she had been obsessed with Chen Feng and trapped herself in love, so she neglected some things...
Xue Linglong sat at the head of the bed, silently thinking about how to change the real situation back to the one in her dream.
In the dream, the main reason why she could hold the supreme position in the Marquis of Jinyang Mansion, besides being loved by Shen Feng, was that she was working for the Second Prince and was deeply trusted by him and Concubine Ling.
Although the prince in the dream did not request to depose himself and go to a remote fiefdom, everyone with a discerning eye knew that the emperor's preferred candidate for the crown prince was the second prince. When she works for the second prince, it is equivalent to working for the next emperor. How dare the Jinyang Marquisate disrespect her?
Logically speaking, in her dream, she should have already made contact with the Second Prince and started to manage some of his private property in the capital...
But the reality was that after she married into the Jinyang Marquis's Mansion, many troubles arose one after another, and her mother-in-law directly handed the account books and household supplies to her.
Because she was busy with various affairs at the Marquis of Jinyang's Mansion, she seldom left the house and had no chance to meet the Second Prince!
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