Madam Ji nodded quickly. She was now completely consumed by curiosity and would agree to whatever Zhu Jiayu said.
Zhu Jiayu whetted her appetite and said, "In Yujing, there is a third-rate family whose eldest son is proficient in the six arts and possesses nine talents, making him an excellent choice for a husband. The daughter of a minor official in the capital went to great lengths to marry him, but she never expected that the third young master would be such a womanizer. Not only did he have a large number of concubines at home, but he also kept a mistress outside. The mistress gradually became pregnant and grew increasingly ambitious, approaching the minor official's daughter through various means."
"And then?" Madam Ji frowned. What was this mistress planning to do?
Zhu Jiayu didn't keep her in suspense and continued, "The mistress's father used to be a chef in a restaurant. He knew a lot about the principles of food incompatibility. The mistress was exposed to this from a young age and not only developed excellent cooking skills, but also remembered the incompatible foods clearly. After she became familiar with the clerk's daughter, she often cooked for her, using ingredients that were all incompatible. Over time, the clerk's daughter's health deteriorated, and she became emaciated."
She sighed and said to Madam Ji, "Third Aunt, in my opinion, if you really want your two cousins to marry into a high-ranking family, you need to find them some useful servants. Those skilled in medicine, knowledgeable in poisons, and skilled in martial arts are all indispensable, right? Besides, what I'm talking about is just a small matter. The young master said there are even more unbelievable things—such things would be earth-shattering events in our Heling, but in Yujing, they are just ordinary and insignificant matters."
"So, Third Aunt, don't you think you should start teaching your two older cousins right now how to deal with such a situation? I'm afraid they don't have the ability to retaliate with an eye for an eye or a tooth for a tooth, but I'm afraid they can't let this heartless mistress live either, right?"
Ji's mouth dropped open.
She thought that once she married into the Jade Capital, her two daughters would live a life of luxury and ease, and even help their mother to enjoy wealth and honor in the Jade Capital. But according to Zhu Jiayu, the aristocratic families in the Jade Capital were like dragon's dens and tiger's lairs, full of dangers at every turn.
She forced a smile and said, "Ayu, isn't this a bit sensational? Even if such a thing really happened, it's just an isolated case, right? Surely not all the women in Yujing understand these principles of mutual generation and restraint?"
She felt that Zhu Jiayu simply didn't want to help her, which made her even angrier, and anger even surfaced in her eyes: "If you don't want to help, then fine, but why bother making up these lies to scare me!"
Zhu Jiayu leaned back in her chair and said lazily, "Third Aunt doesn't believe me?"
She was telling the truth, but the person in question wasn't some third-rate noble family's young master and lady, but rather Rong Heng and her from her previous life. Back then, Rong Heng didn't have a large number of wives and concubines, nor did he have a pregnant mistress, but he did have many confidantes, and many people coveted his position as his legal wife, even resorting to various means to harm her.
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