Chapter 356 She is the One Who is Suppressed
"Miss, Madam asked you to go to Anhua Courtyard." A maid came over.
Li Jiaojiao quickly got up and left with the maid.
After a while, we arrived at Anhuayuan.
A woman in luxurious clothes was sitting on a couch, with a row of maids standing below her, holding various fabrics and jewelry in their hands. She was the wife of Duke Ping.
As soon as she saw Li Jiaojiao coming in, she smiled: "Jiaojiao is finally here."
"Mother." Li Jiaojiao sat down beside her affectionately.
The wife of the Duke of Pingguo held her hand and said, "In half a month, it will be the sixtieth birthday of the old wife of the Marquis of Dingguo. You will go with me then."
"Really?" Li Jiaojiao was overjoyed, and the unhappiness caused by Gu Han just now disappeared immediately. This was her first time to appear in front of all the nobles!
"Here are some fabrics. See which pattern you like. Pair them with some jewelry and headgear. Then, our Jiaojiao will be beautiful."
As she spoke, Lady Pingguo patted Li Jiaojiao's pretty face lovingly.
Nanny Yu, who was standing aside, was extremely speechless.
The lady never dealt with ordinary people and never took servants seriously.
Besides, the lady has two sons and two daughters, so she is not without a daughter.
At that time, the lady lost something and the whole mansion was looking for it. Li Jiaojiao found it, that was her duty.
No matter how happy I was, I would have just given her eight or ten taels as a reward. How come she suddenly won the lady's favor? Not only did she adopt her as her adopted daughter, but she also doted on her to the utmost.
She really couldn't see what was so charming about Li Jiaojiao.
Lady Pingguo took Li Jiaojiao to choose cloth, and finally picked a pink one, and then picked out the matching jewelry.
Li Jiaojiao stared blankly at Lady Ping who was busying herself for her: "Mother, why are you... so nice to me?"
Lady Pingguo was startled, and smiled gently and kindly: "I don't know either. Anyway, as soon as I saw you, I liked you very much. It must be because Jiaojiao is a special person!"
Li Jiaojiao was stunned. Someone special?
She had always thought so before, ever since she was reborn...
Thinking about this, Li Jiaojiao felt a little dazed. She had experienced too much in the past year. It seemed that she had been constantly being hit, tortured, and toyed with!
She almost forgot that she was reborn!
Yes, she is reborn! This is what makes her different from others, she is special!
I still remember when she was first reborn, she was fearless and killed people everywhere in the Sun family, but later...
Thinking of this, Li Jiaojiao shuddered: "I used to think I was a special person, I could be invincible, and my life was good, but later, we...we moved to another place, and then all kinds of disasters happened...my parents died...wuwu..."
The Duke's wife exclaimed, "Oh...you...how can you be so careless? All kinds of disasters happened after moving, it must be because of bad feng shui!"
Li Jiaojiao was shocked: "Is it because of bad feng shui?"
The Duke's wife pulled her to sit on the couch and said, "Of course! Otherwise, you were originally going smoothly, but suddenly it became unlucky. Isn't this a Feng Shui problem? Look, now that you have left that place and come to the capital, good luck has come immediately!"
After hearing this, Li Jiaojiao suddenly understood.
She had been feeling shrouded in dark clouds for some time, as if a huge net was covering her, making her feel suppressed and bound.
Now that she has left Lijia Village, her luck has returned!
It turns out that her feeling was correct, she was a person with great luck! Otherwise, how can I be reborn!
It’s all because Lijia Village is unlucky for her! Or maybe it could be said that Li Zhiyuan is her nemesis!
Thinking of this, her teeth were chattering. If she had known this, she would never let her mother marry Li Zhiyuan!
He ended up going to jail for nothing and left a stain on his reputation.
No, she would have to find a Taoist priest or a monk to tell her fortune!
The Duke's wife said, "Well, the bad days are over. From now on, my Jiaojiao will live a happy life."
Li Jiaojiao nodded with both emotion and joy: "It is my blessing to be my mother's daughter."
"Hurry up and pick out a nice headdress. My Jiaojiao is so adorable, she will definitely be favored by Old Madam Shen. Old Madam Shen's three grandsons are not married yet!"
Nanny Yu choked.
Li Jiaojiao's eyes lit up, but she still had some doubts in her mind.
She is now the daughter of the Duke's Mansion.
She has been concentrating on learning etiquette these days and knows that the mansion of a duke is higher than the mansion of a marquis.
My mother is the wife of a duke. Why should a young lady from a duke's mansion win the favor of an old lady from a marquis's mansion?
Isn't this putting the cart before the horse?
Shouldn't it be the old lady from the Marquis' Mansion who is trying to curry favor with them?
I guess, just because she is an adopted daughter, she will be looked down upon.
But after all, she is the daughter of the Duke. As long as the Duke's Mansion makes an effort, it should be possible to make her the wife of the Crown Prince of the Dingguo Marquis' Mansion, right?
At this time, a maid came in and said, "Madam, the head of the village has come to deliver the bill and is waiting for you in the outer hall."
"Okay, I'll be right there. Please help Miss Third take her measurements!"
After giving instructions to the maid, she patted Li Jiaojiao's hand and turned around to leave with Nanny Yu.
Li Jiaojiao opened her arms happily and let the maids serve her.
At this moment, she finally understood what it meant to have everything handed to her.
The life of a noble lady is so happy. She, Li Jiaojiao, deserves to live such a wealthy life surrounded by servants.
......
The Duke's wife took Nanny Yu out of the yard and headed towards the main hall.
Yu Ma frowned and said, "Madam... the Dingguo Marquis's Mansion is not easy to mess with... Miss San is only an adopted daughter, and she was born a maid. If we let her marry into the Shen family, we're afraid they will think we are disgracing them."
"What do you mean by 'disrespectful'?" The Duke's wife was unhappy. "Even if Jiaojiao's family background is not good...but she is different. I am not asking someone to come to my house to propose marriage, but to let her show her face. Maybe Madam Shen likes her! Anyway, it's not a loss to give it a try."
Nanny Yu was choked and couldn't make a sound.
Madam, just the idea of letting Li Jiaojiao marry the young master of the Shen family is slandering others!
What kind of family is the Shen family?
Although their Duke's Mansion is one level higher than the Marquis' Mansion in terms of title, it sounds very nice.
But since the old Duke passed away, the family has been struggling to make ends meet.
The current Duke was a playboy when he was young. Now that he is old, he no longer gets involved in external affairs. Instead, he immerses himself in women and does not care about external affairs.
The following young masters only know how to eat, drink and have fun, and they all spend money like water. He is neither good at literature nor at martial arts.
Even if there were mountains of gold and silver at home, it would not be enough for them to squander like this.
However, within just a few years, the family began to spend more than they earned.
Moreover, there is not even one person in their family who can serve as an official in the court.
The Dingguo Marquisate holds the real power.
Dingguo Hou Shen Zhiqiong has made great military achievements and now serves as the Minister of War.
Mr. Shen is also very talented and is a great scholar at a young age.
The most important point is that the current empress dowager is a member of the Shen family, and the emperor is the grandson of the Shen family.
That status is not comparable to that of their Duke's Mansion.
......
The Duke's wife brought Nanny Yu to the outer hall.
There were two middle-aged men waiting there. They were the head of the farm that managed all the farms in the Duke's Mansion, and the general manager of all the shops in the Duke's Mansion.
The income of the Duke's Mansion is paid every six months.
After the Duke's wife sat down, the head of the village handed over more than 21,000 taels of silver notes.
The shopkeeper handed over four thousand taels.
The Duke's wife got angry when she saw the account: "Forget about the manor, but what about the shops? A dozen shops made only 4,000 taels in half a year?"
The shopkeeper looked embarrassed: "We have tried our best. But this year is not good, and many shops are losing money. It's good enough that some shops can break even."
The Duchess's wife was very angry and kept cursing for fifteen minutes before the shopkeeper and the head of the village left.
At this time, another maid came in: "Madam, there are merchants outside coming to settle accounts."
The Duke's Mansion often keeps accounts of the money it spends outside. At the beginning of every month, merchants would come to my house to settle the previous month's bills. Most nobles are like this too.
"Come in!"
After a while, a row of merchants or shopkeepers came.
The pimp of Yichunyuan said: "The day before yesterday, the Duke redeemed our courtesan for a total of 8,889 taels."
The matchmaker said: "Half a month ago, the eldest son bought a prostitute from me for a total of 1,263 taels."
Jewelry shop: "A few days ago, Madam took Miss Three to a small shop to buy jewelry, spending a total of 1,100 taels. There were also jewelry for several young ladies, totaling 780 taels."
Dry Goods Shop: "Last month's shark fin, bird's nest, and ginseng... a total of 1,360 taels"
Cloth Shop: "Last month, the masters bought a total of one thousand..."
Then there are some miscellaneous accounts.
The Duke's wife's eyelids twitched when she saw this, and she ended up paying more than 15,000 taels.
Looking at the merchants' receding backs, the Duke's wife almost vomited blood and covered her chest:
"Damn it... You're already so old, why are you still buying an Oiran?"
Yu Ma was also furious: "And the eldest master, the backyard has so many concubines and maids that it can't accommodate them all, and he still spent more than a thousand taels to buy prostitutes."
"That's different." The Duke's wife was unhappy when she heard about her eldest son. "Although the eldest son has many wives and concubines, he only gave birth to one son. He bought a concubine just to have more favorite people. If he is favorite, he can naturally give birth to more sons."
Nanny Yu: “…”
The Duke's wife rubbed her temples and said, "For some reason, these past two years, the shops have been losing more than they've been earning. Also, the farms haven't produced much either."
Yu Ma sighed slightly: "It seems that the family spends more than it takes in. What should we do... Or, how about reducing expenses?"
"No!" The Duke's wife's face changed. "We are a dignified Duke's Mansion. How can we be so poor in food, clothing and daily expenses? If outsiders knew about this, they would laugh at us to death."
The Duchess's wife was so anxious that she was dying. Why was it so difficult to make money these days?
I wish I could have some good luck someday and make millions of dollars.
......
The next morning.
Li Jiaojiao changed into a set of coarse cloth and quietly came to the most famous Taoist temple in the capital to ask the abbot for fortune-telling.
After looking at her birth date and the fortune she drew, the master raised his eyebrows:
"The believer suffered a lot when he was young, but he encountered a very important turning point, and then his luck turned. The donor is a person with great luck, and he should have had great opportunities. Unfortunately... he was blocked by someone, and he has been unlucky ever since."
So accurate! Li Jiaojiao was surprised and gritted her teeth, she must have been defeated by Li Zhiyuan!
He asked anxiously, "What about now?"
The temple master smiled and said, "After leaving your hometown, did you have smooth sailing and meet noble people along the way?"
“Yes, yes!”
"Then congratulations to the donor. After you stayed away from that person, your luck returned."
Li Jiaojiao was full of excitement and continued, "Right now... there is someone coming to Beijing with me. Will he cause trouble for me or drag me down?"
The master of the temple said: "I calculated that the man has a deep connection with you, but if you want to be safe, you should not get entangled with him anymore. Just send him out of the capital."
Li Jiaojiao breathed a sigh of relief: "What about my future luck?"
The master narrowed his eyes and said, "The future is in the hands of the donor. As long as the donor is kind and generous, does not commit crimes, and does not offend the nobles, you can live a safe and smooth life relying on your current noble."
Li Jiaojiao frowned. Isn't this just nonsense? It's as if you said nothing.
Her mother is her benefactor, she would be a fool to blame her mother!
"Thank you, Master." Li Jiaojiao put fifty coins on the table.
The abbot looked at the fifty cents and his mouth twitched slightly. He is the abbot! It is usually not shown to others. If it weren't for the fact that she had some special luck, he wouldn't even bother to pay attention to her.
Who would have thought that she would only give fifty cents, while people here start with one or two taels!
Li Jiaojiao turned around and was about to leave.
"Wait." The temple master was kind and reminded her, "Good luck will eventually run out. You must remember the last few points and don't offend the nobles! Otherwise, your luck will also run out. Also... it's best not to be too stingy."
Li Jiaojiao felt that she was being ridiculed. What do you mean by stingy? Does that mean she gave too little money?
After thinking for a while, she took out another fifty cents, put it on the table, and then left.
Although Li Jiaojiao is a country girl, she is not a fool. Even if she offends anyone, she will never offend her mother!
But with the temple master's words, the haze weighing on her heart was finally swept away.
She felt her whole body lighten up.
The master's words gave her endless confidence and courage!
She, Li Jiaojiao, is a person with great luck! The reason why things weren't going well in the past was because Li Zhiyuan was her unlucky influence!
Now that she has left Lijia Village, everything has cleared up and everything is going smoothly for her.
She could finally enjoy the blessings, wealth and glory that lay before her with peace of mind.
As for Gu Han, she was no longer afraid of him.
The abbot just said that all we need to do is send him away.
Yes, now he is a servant and she is the master's lady. It is not easy to deal with a servant.
In fact...the mouth of the dead is the most reliable!
But...she just couldn't bring herself to do it.
Moreover, the temple master also said that one must be kind and charitable. If she harmed Gu Han's life, she would be punished and her wealth and glory would be over.
After returning home.
She called her personal maid and asked her to find something wrong with Gu Han.
The next morning, when Gu Han was pruning flowers and plants in the yard, the maid pointed at him and said that he had stepped on two pots of flowers.
This basin costs more than twenty taels of silver.
When Gu Han heard this, he almost collapsed!
Does he have a grudge against flowers?
The last time he went to jail, although he was convicted of stealing cassava, the charge was that he trampled on valuable flowers and plants!
Now, the flowers and plants are trampled again!
What the hell is going on! Gu Han felt that he was in conflict with these flowers and plants!
The housekeeper was very angry and wanted to sell him.
Li Jiaojiao hurried to plead, saying that he could just be sent back to the farm.
Selling it out is uncontrollable! But going to Zhuangzi was within her control.
She has just arrived and has not yet found her feet.
When she is stable, she will sell him to a place where he can't come back.
Before leaving, Li Jiaojiao whispered to him, "It's good for you to go to the manor and hide for a while. When I have the say, it won't be too late to help you."
Gu Han was deeply moved.
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