Chapter 626 The Meaning of Three Wives and Four Concubines
Su Nuan never thought of becoming the city lord herself. She didn't have the patience to deal with trivial family matters, nor did she have the ability to balance interpersonal relationships, so it was good to maintain the status quo.
She waved her hands repeatedly, her face full of resistance, "Becoming the city lord? I don't have the time for that!"
The fat lady sighed heavily, her wrinkles filled with indignation, "This world has never been fair to us women!"
Su Nuan was stunned. She didn't expect that her casual refusal would arouse such indignation from the aunt.
She glanced in the direction of the yamen. She didn't know what Ling Cang was planning. It would be better for her to pretend to be stupid for now so as not to ruin his plan.
She pulled out the sweet potatoes, which were as big as a fist, and roasted them easily.
You can smell the sweet fragrance when you tear open the sweet potato skin. Su Nuan took a bite and squinted her eyes in satisfaction.
What is happiness? It's being able to eat whatever you want. This feeling of physical and mental satisfaction is priceless.
The fat aunt looked at Su Nuan and sighed helplessly. Women who don't fight or compete will eventually be betrayed.
She couldn't help but persuade him: "If that woman really wants to marry you, let her be your concubine."
Su Nuan remembered Mu Fengjiao's words and imitated her tone, saying, "Being a concubine is like entering the family. Sooner or later, I will be able to squeeze out the mistress and take the position."
"Besides, aren't there many men who have three wives and four concubines? Men always want to be surrounded by many women."
The fat lady looked at Su Nuan with a strange expression, "How could you have such thoughts?"
"What is a concubine? I'm just a plaything. How could I possibly endanger the mistress's position?"
Something flashed through Su Nuan's mind, but she couldn't grasp it.
She asked doubtfully, "Isn't that what's written in the storybook?"
The fat lady laughed and said, "You said that's a storybook. A man can only have one wife. When the wife dies, the second wife is called a concubine or a equal wife, but her status is lower than that of the wife."
"If the second wife dies, the next wife is called the second wife, which is the so-called third wife."
Su Nuan had never learned anything about this, so she asked curiously, "What about the fourth concubine?"
The fat aunt laughed again. "A noble concubine is one who has children. A good concubine is a wife from a different clan. A lowly concubine is just a maidservant. A servant concubine actually includes many other things, such as a foot-washing maid."
The fat lady sighed again, "Those wealthy families may have many women, but they definitely wouldn't dare to have anything like concubines or mistresses."
"Only officials and those who are childless at the age of thirty can take concubines, and doesn't the wife have perfect control over the concubines?"
Su Nuan finally figured out one thing: her scumbag father had been keeping Su Zhen's mother away from home instead of taking her in as a concubine, just to give her a second wife status.
This means that the relationship between the scumbag father and Cao is quite deep, so Su Liren marrying his own mother is equivalent to marriage fraud.
Now Su Nuan doesn’t understand why her mother wanted to marry Su Liren. Was she deceived by his handsome appearance or his sweet words?
Or perhaps...my mother herself understood everything, and she had no choice but to marry...
Now Su Nuan couldn’t figure out the answers, so she could only let it go for now.
Seeing that Su Nuan was unhappy, the fat aunt persuaded her, "Don't think too much. Good girls don't think about being concubines. Don't be afraid. You won't control her, but I will."
"I'll help you deal with her when the time comes, but you have to remember, you can't kill her. A concubine is a man's property and cannot be disposed of at will."
Su Nuan nodded. Her focus was not on this right now.
She smiled slightly and said, "I suddenly want to eat fish. I'll go see if there is any fish for sale in the city."
The fat lady nodded and said, "Okay, there's a fish shop over there in the market. They usually send a batch back in the morning to sell."
Su Nuan nodded, "Okay, I'll go take a look."
She left the City Lord's Mansion, and the Space Spirit sat on her shoulder, looking at the passers-by with curiosity in its big eyes.
Su Nuan asked in her heart: "I noticed that every time you see someone, you look at them very seriously. Why?"
The space spirit replied, "I'm observing their happiness. If a city's happiness index is low, it means it's not being managed properly."
Su Nuan asked expectantly, "Does our happiness index meet the standards?"
The space spirit chuckled and said, "No."
Su Nuan, "..." Well, it turns out that lack of food will make people's happiness index drop drastically.
She arrived at the market. It was not lunch time yet, so there were not many people around.
There were two people standing outside the fish shop, they looked like a couple.
The man said helplessly: "Don't think too much, there is nothing between me and her."
The woman's eyes were full of doubt. "Really?"
Suddenly, a shrill voice came, "Don't think too much, it means your guess is too accurate, your suspicion is correct."
Su Nuan looked around but didn't see the fourth person. Fortunately, she was standing on the opposite side of the road and had not yet reached the fish shop.
The man also looked around and didn't see anyone else. He quickly comforted her, "Don't listen to what others say. You are the only one in my heart."
The woman bit her lip, not sure whether to believe it or not.
The man said aggrievedly: "You have changed. You are not the same as before."
The woman quickly denied it, "No, I haven't changed."
The shrill voice spoke again, "He said you've become hard to fool, idiot."
Su Nuan finally locked onto the source of the sound. A starling with reflective fur was standing on the eaves of the fish shop.
The man couldn't find the source of the voice and angrily asked, "Who? Who is talking nonsense?"
The woman shuddered and said timidly, "Could it be haunted?"
The man shook his head, "How can there be a ghost in broad daylight?"
He added impatiently, "If you really don't believe it, then there's nothing I can do."
The woman nodded repeatedly, as if she would say something that she believed it in the next second.
The mynah bird said sarcastically, "He's made up all the lies he could come up with. If you don't believe him, there's nothing he can do. He just ran out of lies and started to lose his temper."
There was a moment of silence in the air.
Su Nuan felt that what he said made a lot of sense. No wonder she felt uncomfortable when Ling Cang said something similar.
The Space Spirit praised: "Who raises this bird? It understands more than a human."
Su Nuan laughed. That’s right, the owner of this myna must be a smart person, otherwise how could he have figured out the man’s thoughts.
Looking at the woman again, she opened her eyes wide and stared at the man.
The man also looked embarrassed, like a bad guy who had been caught, and began to panic.
The woman said angrily, "Well, you beast, you actually dared to lie to me."
“Pah pah pah…”
Countless slaps landed on the man's face and head, forcing him to run away in panic.
The Space Spirit laughed and said, "Serves him right. People like him should be punished."
Su Nuan didn't know what the starling ate, so she grabbed a handful of grains from the space and asked, "Do you want to eat?"
The eight of them tilted their heads to look at Su Nuan, and after a while they asked, "What's that thing on your shoulder?"
The space spirit instantly exploded, "You are the thing, I am not the thing!"
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