Chapter 125 Chapter 125 "Alright, give it to me with a gloomy face..."
"Enough, who are you showing your gloomy face to? You're just unlucky. No wonder the Marquis looks down on you!" Seeing Qiongzhu's tearful look, Bai became even more impatient.
"Go to the young master's yard and see if that little bitch is making trouble again?" Bai was unhappy and had no place to vent, so she wanted to find trouble with Shen Congshuang.
She had always disliked this little bitch from the Shen family. Now that she had become Xue Fengli's concubine, her reputation wasn't very good either, which had already affected Xue Fengli's true love.
Xue Fengli is already twenty years old this year. After Xue Fenglin left Beijing, Bai also introduced him to many families.
However, Bai hoped that Xue Fengli's wife would be a lady from a prominent family, and her family would also hold real power in the court, which would be helpful to Xue Fengli. How could a lady like this lack marriage proposals?
Although Xue Fengli is the legitimate son of the Marquis's family, he has an awkward status because he has a half brother who is the Crown Prince.
If he was as diligent and studious as Xue Fenglin, he would have passed the imperial examinations and achieved academic success. However, he was uneducated and unskilled, so he would probably only be able to become an official in the future.
In addition, he and Qian Jialiu Lang often frequented brothels, and he married a boy before getting married!
With all these things added up, those young ladies from aristocratic families who met the Bai family's requirements naturally looked down on Xue Fengli, and the Bai family also looked down on those who wanted to curry favor with the Marquis's Mansion.
As a result of all the back and forth, Xue Fengli's marriage was delayed until today.
Although Bai was troubled, she was unwilling to just settle for a lowly family, so she asked her own brother to help her find one. She was determined to marry someone who could help Xue Fengli the most!
After receiving Bai's order, Qiongzhu lowered her head and went to Xue Fengli's yard.
As soon as she reached the gate of the yard, she heard Shen Congshuang's screams coming from inside. It sounded like a fight between mandarin ducks and she was no longer surprised!
Xue Fengli used to be a little shy about it in the past few years, but in recent years he has gotten used to it and doesn't hide it too much at home. Now everyone in the Marquis' Mansion knows that the Second Young Master has some ulterior motives, but Bai blames all of this on Shen Congshuang, thinking that he has led her precious son astray.
After Qiongzhu finished listening to the conversation, she followed Bai's request as usual and asked the small kitchen to stew contraceptive medicine and send it to Shen Congshuang.
Half an hour later, Shen Congshuang walked out with trembling legs and a tired face. Looking at the bowl of contraceptive medicine placed in front of her, Qiongzhu sneered and said, "Sister, you are now the Marquis's bedmate, I wonder if this medicine tastes bitter to you?"
Bai was afraid that Qiongzhu would get pregnant, so she would not let her go. She had to take contraceptive medicine every day.
Shen Congshuang's words hurt Qiongzhu's heart, causing her expression to change instantly. Qiongzhu was stunned for a long time before she said, "As a concubine, I know my duty and I shouldn't think about things I shouldn't think about! I also ask Brother Chen to abide by his duty and not make any unnecessary noises that will delay the Second Young Master's marriage!"
Shen Congshuang clenched his fists, gritted his teeth, picked up the contraceptive medicine and drank it all in one gulp.
After Qiongzhu watched him swallow the medicine, she left with satisfaction. Shen Congshuang stared at her back fiercely, with a thousand thoughts in his mind.
He has been married into the Marquis's Mansion for three years now, and Xue Fengli has gradually grown tired of him. She used to wish she could go to his room every day, but now she spends more time in the brothel and only comes to him four or five times a month.
Xue Fengli tortured him less, and Shen Congshuang was physically relieved, but he knew in his heart that he had no children yet and could not stand firmly in the Marquis' Mansion.
Fortunately, I took advantage of my favor and got the land deed from Xue Fengli for safekeeping! Shen Congshuang thought secretly: But if I want to have someone to rely on in the future, I have to get pregnant before Xue Fengli gets completely tired of me!
Shen Congshuang returned to the room and glanced at Xue Fengli lying on the bed. After making love, Xue Fengli fell asleep with his arms and legs spread out, with dark circles under his eyes.
Since last spring, Xue Fengli secretly learned how to make elixirs from the sixth young master of the Qian family, and he came back less and less often. Later, every time he came to Shen Congshuang's room, he would take the pill first. After taking the pill, his temper became more explosive than before.
Xue Fengli had kept this a secret from Lord Xue and Bai, but Shen Congshuang knew about it but did not dare to tell anyone.
The only person he can rely on in the Marquis' Mansion is Xue Fengli. If he tells Bai and the Marquis about this, Xue Fengli will surely be angry, and his life will become even more difficult!
After lying on the bed with a lot on his mind, Chen Congshuang tossed and turned for a long time before falling into a deep sleep.
The next morning, just after noon, his personal attendant came to wake him and Xue Fengli up.
It turned out that Xue Fenglin and Shen Xuan had returned home early in the morning. Xue Fengli, as the younger brother, could not be absent, and Shen Congshuang, a concubine, also had to go and pay her respects.
Xue Fengli often felt sleepy after taking the elixir. He was woken up by servants in the morning before he woke up. As expected, he got furious.
However, no matter how unwilling he was, he had to get up and wash up.
Shen Congshuang waited on him while he had breakfast before following him.
When they arrived at the lobby of the Marquis' Mansion, Lord Xue and Lady Bai sat in the main seats, while Xue Fenglin and Shen Xuan sat at the front seats on the left and right sides of the lobby respectively.
When Xue Fengli came, he could only sit below Xue Fenglin.
Shen Congshuang was a concubine of low status. As soon as she walked in, she was stopped by her mother-in-law Bai, who disliked her. He actually asked him to come over and stand behind him and serve him in front of everyone.
Shen Congshuang's heart skipped a beat and he glanced at Xue Fengli.
Xue Fengli sat next to Xue Fenglin with a gloomy face, and did not take Shen Congshuang seriously at all.
Shen Congshuang gritted her teeth, suppressed her displeasure, and silently walked to stand behind Bai.
Bai raised her eyes and said to Qiongzhu who was serving beside her, "Give him the fire tongs and go down first."
Qiongzhu nodded and said yes, and handed the fire tongs to Shen Congshuang, saying, "Brother Shen, Madam is afraid of choking, so you watch the silver charcoal in the basin and make sure it doesn't overburn. If it overburns, there will be smoke, which will choke you."
Chen Congshuang took the tongs from Qiongzhu with a dark face and looked at the charcoal basin.
When he was in the Shen family, he only had Qingzhu to serve him, so he did all these things by himself. But now there are countless servants in the Marquis' Mansion, and anyone can do the same thing, but Bai Shi asked him to do it, which was clearly a deliberate humiliation for him!
However, Xue Fengli didn't take him seriously at all now, so he could only endure this loss silently!
As Shen Congshuang turned the charcoal basin, she looked up at Xue Fenglin and Shen Xuan, whom she hadn't seen for three years.
The last time I saw them was on the wedding day of Xue Fenglin and Shen Xuan.
That time, Xue Fenglin sent out loads of betrothal gifts, and Shen Xuan doubled the amount and brought back a huge dowry. Everyone in the capital was envious of them, and the two of them stole the limelight.
Seeing him again now, Xue Fenglin's peerless appearance has not changed, and he is much more calm and composed than before. On the other hand, Shen Xuan had a ruddy complexion and looked calm and composed, with a smile from the heart on his lips. It seemed that he had lived a good life outside in the past few years.
Seeing Shen Xuan like this, Shen Congshuang felt mixed emotions.
When he first met Shen Xuan, he just thought he was lucky, but actually looked down on his background.
However, later on he learned that the Xianwei and Xuanji theaters in Beijing were both his properties, and he felt that it was no wonder that Xue Fenglin insisted on marrying him, because it turned out that it was because he had some ability to make money!
Upon learning that Xue Fenglin was released to serve as an official outside the capital, Shen Congshuang felt a little gloating.
Although the rank of an official from a foreign country is high, the remote countryside is certainly not as good as the capital. If he can never return to the capital, the identity of the prince will be in name only. Xue Fengli stayed in the capital, so he had the advantage of being close to the water and getting the moon first, and he had more opportunities to succeed!
But in just three years, Xue Fenglin jumped from a fifth-rank prefect to a fourth-rank chancellor of Shuntian Prefecture, and his future was limitless. Xue Fengli not only did not make any progress, but also started taking pills...
Chen Congshuang suddenly felt very powerless. Was it really a wrong choice that she had made when she took the risk of choosing Xue Fengli as her backer?
"Father, these are Sarawak specialties. Fenglin prepared a lot of them in advance because of his return to Beijing. Shall we ask the servants to take them to the warehouse and put them away later?" Shen Xuan took the initiative to speak.
Xue Fenglin's relationship with Marquis Xue remains the same as before, so he will not prepare any special products for the Marquis' Mansion when he returns to Beijing this time.
But Shen Xuan had married into the Marquis's Mansion after all, and she couldn't really return empty-handed at this time, so she prepared a gift in advance, which was a little less than the Ye family's share, and sent it to the Marquis's Mansion.
After he finished speaking, Jinzhi, Jingui, Wuxin and Wuwang and four others carried in several boxes and cages. Some of them are Sarawak’s specialties such as seafood, dried fruits, coconut oil, etc. There is another box full of large and small sea pearls and ornaments made of sea pearls, which are specially given to the wives in the marquis's mansion.
Shen Xuan ordered his men to open the box of sea pearls and take out the largest box, which contained a whole set of golden headpieces made of sea pearls. Each pearl was the size of a pea and was very valuable.
Even though Bai hated Shen Xuan, she couldn't help but be moved when she saw the headdress. After taking it from Jin Gui, she had someone take it to her own courtyard.
Since Shen Xuan brought a gift to Bai, it was inevitable that others would also receive some. Madam Wen, Madam Kong, Madam Qin, Tian Jie'er and others all had a share.
Shen Xuan had already had the names marked and sent to each person's courtyard one by one.
As for Shen Congshuang, Shen Xuan also took it into consideration. Like the two concubines Qin Kong, he prepared a string of rice bead necklaces, two strings of rice bead bracelets, and a ring as big as a soybean!
Although it is a tray made of silver thread, but with so many sea pearls, the whole set would cost at least a hundred taels of silver!
As for Lord Xue, Shen Xuan also prepared a separate set of beads made of thousand-year-old giant clams, which were polished to a smooth and round shape. With an exquisitely carved coral red bead, it is very expensive!
"This thousand-year-old giant clam is extremely rare. It is a royal product of the Nanyang royal family. You have to go to Nanyang specifically to get it!" Shen Xuan introduced to Lord Xue.
Lord Xue was obviously very satisfied with this precious gift. He nodded repeatedly and pointed at the dried fruits on the table and said to Shen Xuan in a friendly manner, "These are dried persimmons that someone just sent from Liangzhou. They are a specialty of Liangzhou. You can try them."
Xue Fenglin frowned when he heard this, and immediately shook his head at Shen Xuan and said, “This persimmon is dry and cold in nature, so it can’t be eaten.”
Then he turned to Lord Xue and said, "Father, Xuan'er has been pregnant for more than four months. There are many things she shouldn't eat. I'm afraid she'd better not try this dried persimmon."
When Xue Fenglin said this, everyone present was stunned. Lord Xue asked in disbelief, "Are you serious?"
Bai and Xue Fengli's faces instantly showed mixed emotions!
Shen Congshuang's heart was empty, and he looked at Shen Xuan's belly, and the silver charcoal on the fire tongs fell to the ground.
Shen Xuan was thin, but she was only four months pregnant, and her clothes were loose in winter, so her belly was not visible at all.
But when he saw Xue Fenglin paying so much attention to Shen Xuan, and Shen Xuan looking very pleased, he felt envious and jealous!
The color of the pregnancy mole between Shen Xuan's eyebrows is light pink, which obviously indicates that she has a physique that makes it difficult for her to get pregnant!
Even with such a body, she was already pregnant. If Bai hadn't interfered, she would have been pregnant with Xue Fengli's child a long time ago and would have secured her place in the Marquis' Mansion!
Shen Congshuang resented Bai Shi, and Bai Shi was also filled with rage, but she couldn't vent it in front of the Marquis, so she could only take it out on Shen Congshuang.
"You are so clumsy that you can't even do such a small thing. What a shame!" Bai Shi started to criticize Shen Congshuang by taking the opportunity to talk about this. Shen Congshuang had no choice but to pretend to be weak and crying, which made Bai, the mother-in-law, seem very mean.
Xue Fengli is now accustomed to Shen Congshuang's appearance like a little white flower, and the other party's wonderful performance did not make him stand up and say a few words to Shen Congshuang.
However, Lord Xue couldn't stand it anymore, so he started to blame Bai and said, "It's just a small matter, why make a fuss about it? Just let another servant do it, and let him go down and rest first!"
Shen Congshuang was pardoned by Lord Xue and left. Before leaving, he took away the box given to him by Shen Xuan.
After returning to his own courtyard, Chen Congshuang placed the box on the table with a gloomy face, opened the lid and looked at it for a long time.
Qingzhu took a look at the box and knew that it was a greeting gift from Chen Xuan and the others. After thinking about it, he said to Shen Congshuang: "Brother Shuang, should we just deal with the things that Shen Xuan sent like last time?"
Shen Congshuang took out the rice bead necklace from the box, put it around her neck, and looked in the mirror.
The rice beads are strung very densely. Although the beads are not big, they are very unique when wrapped with silver threads. This is a style that has never been seen in Beijing! It matches her beautiful and charming temperament very well!
You put the necklace back into the box, thought for a while, and then said, "Please keep this box with my other jewelry."
"Ah?" Qingzhu was stunned for a moment, remembering the scene a few years ago when Chen Congshuang first received the meeting gift from Chen Xuan.
At that time, he smashed the gift and firmly stood with Xue Fengli. Now, as time has passed, he has changed his mind and accepted the gift from this "enemy"!
"Qingzhu! You go and wait outside for a while. If Chen Xuan comes out of the main room, come over quietly and tell me. I want to sit with him." Chen Congshuang suddenly said.
"Shuang'er, what are you doing? It will be terrible if the second young master finds out!" Qingzhu said in a low voice!
"Why don't you just not let him know? Only you and I know about this. If you don't tell me and I don't tell him, who else would know?" Shen Congshuang looked at Qingzhu carefully and said with some warning.
"Yes... I understand." Qingzhu swallowed and ran out feeling guilty.
Shen Congshuang was the only one left in the room. He smiled bitterly and said to himself, "I have no other choice. Who told you not to let me have Fengli's child and left me with nowhere to go? You forced me to do this!"
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