Chapter 60 An Lingrong 3
Since that day, everyone in the An family felt like they had seen a ghost.
An Bihuai, as if possessed by a ghost, suddenly began to clean up the harem. First, because Fang was disrespectful to Lin during breakfast, he flew into a rage and beat Fang half to death.
Later, he found an excuse to punish or drive away those concubines who had been disrespectful to Lin. In less than half a month, only those who had given birth to his children remained in the harem.
Over the years, he had five concubines who had given birth to his children. In addition to Fang's daughter, there were Rong's two daughters and one son, Liu's one son, Xiao's one daughter and one son, and Qi's the youngest, who had just given birth to a son two years ago.
An Bihuai made the decision to marry the sons of Xiao and Qi to Lin, making them the legitimate sons.
Aunt Xiao naturally had no objection. She was a submissive person, and her son was already over ten years old and no longer needed to be raised with his stepmother and separated from her. She was naturally willing to pick up a legitimate son for free.
As for Qi, she immediately started to make a scene when she knew her son was going to be taken away. An Lingrong came over and took the child away herself. Before leaving, she didn't forget to carefully examine her appearance:
"You are truly stunning. No wonder Fang, despite her age, is willing to introduce you to me and even call me your sister. We are both girls on the same boat, and we are truly sisters."
Upon hearing this, Qi's face changed drastically. She immediately changed her arrogant expression and shook her head meekly: "I don't know what you mean, young lady."
"It's okay. If you don't want to know, then don't." Ling Rong smiled kindly while holding the child who had been staring at her since she entered the door. "But Dad has always been rash in his actions. He even took you in and forgot to remove your citizenship."
"Taking a lowly woman as a concubine is against the law." An Lingrong smiled. "So yesterday, my father and I discussed it and decided to just let you be a servant serving tea and continue to be a lowly woman."
"As for this child, he was born to our concubine who moved in. From then on, he lived with my mother."
Qi felt dizzy. She had not expected that a young lady like An Lingrong could be so vicious and hit her right on the spot with one blow.
But she had no room to resist. Compared with going back there and continuing to be a girl, she would rather stay in this mansion as a maid. At least she had a life to live. Besides, this girl would leave sooner or later, and after she left, it would not be long before the world would be hers again.
When the time comes, I will trample her mother under my feet and avenge her for today's incident.
She thought so in her heart, but put on a fawning expression: "It is a blessing for Rong'er to be favored by the lady. I...will not be your maid to see the young lady off."
An Lingrong didn't care what she was thinking. After all, those people wouldn't live long. An Lingrong had already instructed her father to drug them. Within three to five years, they would all die suddenly.
As for those illegitimate sons and daughters, she treated them equally. According to her memories from her previous life, these people were no different from Father An. Keeping them would only bring trouble to herself.
However, their scripts for Lingrong were much more detailed. After being punished, Fang fell ill for a long time and her daughter died of excessive grief; Liu's son accidentally fell off a horse while out for a walk, and Liu died of shock on the spot; Rong's one daughter died of an acute illness and the other died of drowning, and her only son died on a maid, and she herself died as well.
Thinking of the group of people in her memory, An Lingrong had no intention of continuing to be kind like in the first world. She completely inherited An Lingrong's memory and was extremely calm when doing these murders.
She hated those illegitimate sisters who tortured her, humiliated her and were disrespectful to their mother, but she was even more disgusted by the illegitimate brothers who hid behind their sisters and allowed them to use tricks and schemes to benefit themselves.
The An family was rotten from the very beginning, including her. But there was nothing she could do. An Lingrong didn't want to continue living in such a miserable state. Since these dead branches and rotten leaves were blocking her sunlight, she would uproot the disobedient ones and cultivate the obedient ones.
An Lingrong immediately changed the name of this three-year-old brother to Bai, with the courtesy name Songzhu. She then used the loyalty talisman on him without hesitation, and even gave him half a bottle of SZ-type improved potion.
As for Concubine Xiao's son, An Ke, he was honest and dutiful, just like his mother. While she was still gaining a firm footing in the harem, An Bihuai couldn't afford to cause any trouble. Once she did, and An Bai still hadn't matured in the three or four years before she did, An Ke would be the perfect replacement, providing a few years of transition. Once An Bai did, the two brothers could still support each other.
An Lingrong didn't intend for both of her brothers to be exceptionally intelligent. The smarter the person, the more likely they were to be overthinking. And in the early stages, she needed none of her family members to be clever. She needed to be cautious to avoid falling into the traps of the Empress or Concubine Hua.
While continuing to check his plan for omissions, he put the child down and asked, "Can you walk by yourself?"
The boy rolled his eyes and smiled at her sweetly and obediently: "Yes!"
As she spoke, she raised her chubby little hand above her head, reaching for An Lingrong's hand: "Hold my hand, sister, hold my hand!"
An Lingrong did not refuse. Her slender fingers gently held the little chubby hand, and the two, one big and one small, slowly walked towards Shun'an Hall.
For the next six months, she was constantly making plans for her entry into the palace. First, she cut down on unimportant household expenses, then she dug out all the money An Bihuai had saved over the years, and even sold some of the calligraphy and paintings he had painstakingly acquired, scraping together a total of one thousand taels.
Although I still can't compare with others, it is much better than having nothing in my previous life.
Then she found a reliable matchmaker and bought four maids. She planned to take care of them all together. After all, even if the emperor fell in love with her at first sight, she could at best go to the palace as often as Zhen Huan, and she could only bring one or two people with her. But her mother was too weak, and although she had Aunt Xiao, people's hearts were hidden, so it was safer to have her own confidants.
Then slap all those SB transformation potions, natural charm, improved muscle-relaxing pills, and incomplete version of Son of the Forest on yourself.
After more than half a year, Lingrong can be said to have been reborn.
During the past six months, she had carefully trained the four maids and given them names:
Hibiscus, green tea, aster, turmeric.
Among them, Zhujin is lively and good at dancing with long sleeves, and is good at doing housework; Biqing is steady and practical, with a pair of skillful hands, she can learn anything very quickly, especially needlework, and the things she embroiders are already quite good; Ziyuan is lively and cute, and perhaps because of her aura, she is easily trusted by others, and is a good at getting information; Jianghuang is the youngest and the most greedy, and she has learned many stove skills from the master chef and herself, just like Rubing in her previous life.
Time flew by, and it was almost time for the audition. Ling Rong silently hugged her mother, who had been rather silent lately, knowing that she was feeling uneasy about her change.
"Mother, no matter what Lingrong becomes, I will always know that she is my child. This will never change." She pressed her forehead against her mother's and said, "From now on, Lingrong will protect me."
Lin Xiu trembled as she held her daughter in her arms, and then she breathed a sigh of relief.
No matter what, she is still his daughter, so this is fine, this is fine...
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