Su Nuannuan's name in this fictional era is Su Mengnuan, but everyone is used to calling her by her nickname Nuannuan, so it can be barely regarded as the same name as her modern identity, and the sense of incongruity is immediately reduced a lot.
Su Mengnuan's maiden family was originally a prominent Duke's Mansion. She was the youngest daughter of Duke Ping. Her legitimate status was noble and cold, so she was able to marry into the Anping Marquis Mansion three years ago and become the first wife of the young Marquis Duan Tingxuan.
Anping Hou is the only brother of the current empress. Duan Tingxuan is his eldest son. He has been loved by the emperor and empress since he was a child, and has a good relationship with the crown prince and several princes. Under Duan Tingxuan, there are two younger brothers and a younger sister. One of his younger brothers, Duan Tingye, is the Marquis's concubine and is also born to his beloved cousin. Therefore, he is very much loved by the Marquis, but this man has a gloomy temperament and his wife does not seem to be a good person; the other younger brother, Duan Tingfang, is born to Aunt Lin. He is cowardly and withdrawn, and has not yet started a family. That sister is also the daughter of Aunt Lin. She has been in poor health since she was a child. Now she is thirteen years old. It is better to say that she is a human medicine jar than a young girl.
Duan Tingxuan and Su Mengnuan do not have a good relationship. Su Mengnuan is jealous and extravagant by nature. After she married into the Marquis's Mansion, even the bowls and chopsticks she used had to be made of gold and silver. Therefore, the Marquis and his wife did not like her very much. However, the old lady Fang did not dislike her very much because of her noble status.
According to Su Nuannuan's analysis, Duan Tingxuan is a man with a heart as hard as iron but as soft as a finger. You say he is amorous, he is indeed amorous, just like Duan Yu's father. In addition to learning literature and martial arts, he likes beauties the most. If his status is not limited, I am afraid he can collect all the beauties in the world. Even if he builds a mansion to accommodate them, it will not be enough. Even so, he still has a wife, two concubines, two concubines, and three or four male wives.
But if you say he is cold-hearted, he is indeed cold-hearted. He endured Su Mengnuan struggling in the backyard for three years. Once he became furious, he decisively imprisoned her in this dilapidated yard, and was no longer willing to show any mercy or tenderness in the short years after their marriage.
Of course, many people believe that the reason why Duan Tingxuan dared to "favor his concubine over his wife" so blatantly was closely related to the disaster that happened to the Duke of Ping's mansion three months ago. Because of a mistake in the escort of grain and grass, the battle between the border and the Northern Huns was almost a complete defeat. The emperor was furious and stripped the Duke of Ping's title. All his family, regardless of gender, age or status, were sent to Niutou Mountain as slaves. Only a few married girls, including Su Mengnuan, escaped this disaster.
However, Su Nuannuan analyzed Duan Tingxuan, the scumbag, based on Su Mengnuan's memory, and believed that his actions, which were worse than those of an animal, should have nothing to do with the misfortune of the Duke of Pingguo's Mansion. The scumbag was famous for his arrogance. He relied on the favor of the emperor and the queen, and when he got angry, he dared to slam the table and yell at the prince. He disdained to add icing on the cake, let alone add insult to injury. Therefore, Su Mengnuan's current situation was entirely her own fault.
Anyway, Su Nuannuan absolutely despised this arrogant, jealous, and mean woman. Looking back at her short life, what other advantages did she have besides a good figure, a good face, and good teeth? She was originally from a noble family, but now this advantage no longer exists. Fortunately, Honglian and Xiangyun were still loyal to her. She brought four maids as a dowry, but now only these two are willing to stay with her. This also shows that Su Mengnuan is a failure as a person.
Therefore, Su Nuannuan summarized this "golden marriage" as follows: a scumbag man and a vicious woman, no one should blame each other.
Of course, now that the vicious woman is dead, she has been replaced by the "eating woman". She only has one impression of the scumbag: What is that? Can it be eaten? If not, get out of here.
The road to survival, from now on, the scumbag will leave. Well, okay, actually that guy never came at all.
"I heard that woman attempted suicide today?"
"Yes, sir, but it is said that she was rescued later." Siping, Duan Tingxuan's trusted servant, took a sneak peek and saw that his master had no expression, so he smiled and continued, "I heard that Miss Honglian went through a lot of trouble to invite a doctor over, and it seems that there is nothing wrong after the doctor examined her."
"She still loves to make trouble."
Duan Tingxuan sneered, took a quick look at the memorial he was going to submit tomorrow, and then put it on the table: "Alright, let her do whatever she wants. The more she dies from the torture, the more we'll count. Haha, first she went on a hunger strike and then hanged herself, there are quite a few tricks. By the way, tell Ran Yun not to cut back on her monthly salary and food, clothing, and other expenses. I'm still waiting to see what tricks she can come up with. If she can come up with 108 ways to die, I'll respect her. Isn't the Second Prince compiling a book? It's just right to collect them in the "Record of Ancient and Modern Strange Stories"
"Yes, sir."
Siping didn't dare to say more, thinking that the one had completely pissed off the master. Yes, you are already like this, your mother's family is like that, why are you still making such a fuss? If you admit your mistakes and can correct them, maybe the master can still change his mind a little for the sake of the little affection we had in the past. With your making such a fuss, you have completely destroyed this hope.
I think so, but she is still a legitimate grandmother after all. Although she is now a phoenix in trouble and worse than a chicken, she is still a phoenix, right? So it is not his place to gossip about her affairs, even if he is the master's confidant.
"Is that what your grandfather said?" Xu Ranyun sat behind the table, smiling at Siping who was standing solemnly with his hands down in front of him: "Food and clothing will be distributed as usual, is that right?"
"Yes, Madam Yun, that's what Master said." Siping smiled. This Madam Yun was a girl from the Earl Chengming's Mansion. In terms of nobility, she was not much inferior to the eldest Madam. In terms of scheming and ability, she was hundreds of miles ahead of the other one. However, because she was only a co-wife after all, she could not be called the eldest Madam, but only Madam Yun.
Siping knew very well: Madam Yun was the most straightforward, eloquent, and cunning, and she had been jealous of the eldest madam's position as the legal wife for a long time. Now that the eldest madam had finally met such a miserable end, she certainly hoped that she would die quickly so that the master could make her the legal wife. Anyway, Madam Lan, the concubine of the Duke of Zheng's mansion, could not compete with her, and she would not be able to compete with her.
"Okay, I get it. Master, you're really concerned about your reputation now. That jealous woman has committed almost all of the seven grounds for divorce. You're still afraid that if you divorce her, people will say you're taking advantage of her misfortune." Xu Ranyun pretended to sigh and said to Siping, "Okay, go back and tell Master that I got it. I'll make his favorite duck soup tonight. If he's free, let him come over and have a sip."
"Yes, Madam Yun, I will tell Master right now that Master loves the duck soup you made the most. Make sure to come over tonight." Siping said with a smile, which really made Xu Ranyun smile a little more. He scolded with a smile, "You monkey can talk. All right, get off. Hey...wait, Fengxian, give this monkey a string of money. It's hard for him to make this trip."
Siping said "It's not difficult, it's not difficult..." while taking the money with a smile and then walked out.
As soon as his figure disappeared outside the door, Feng Xian bent down and asked, "Grandma, what should we do? Grandpa seems to still miss Grandma..." Before she could finish, she heard Xu Ranyun sneer and said, "What do you know? If he really missed her, he wouldn't have sent her to Meiyue Tower to wait for death. Food, clothing and expenses? Haha, it's not that I won't give her anything, just two strings of money every month. As a woman under house arrest, is she still qualified to get more?"
Fengxian knew her grandmother's temper. The two strings of money were probably a test for the master. If the master ignored that woman from now on, let alone two strings of money, even two cents would probably not fall into the hands of the grandmother.
And Su Nuannuan knew nothing about this.
However, she was mentally prepared for the harsh and cruel living environment. Modern women did not have the concept of relying on men for life, so she never thought that she should have monthly wages and regular food and clothing. She just thought: in this situation, everything depends on myself.
Whenever she thought about this, Su Nuannuan was very grateful that God had placed her in this big yard. From now on, this was her independent kingdom, and she was confident that she could have a better life in this independent kingdom and continue her foodie life that was completely different from the modern life.
"Grandma, you've been hanging around in the backyard for two days. The kitchen hasn't even delivered breakfast to you today. Why are you still hanging around here?"
Xiangyun followed behind Su Nuannuan, asking curiously, thinking that Sister Honglian was going to be so anxious, why did the usually bad-tempered grandma change her temper this time? If it were in the past, grandma might have been so angry that she would have hit her head against the wall and died.
"Why don't you have any thoughts?" Su Nuannuan chuckled and reached out to touch the seedling that had just emerged from the ground: "Do you know what this is?"
"Leek...seedlings?"
Xiangyun said uncertainly that she remembered seeing this thing at her second aunt's house in the countryside before she was sold to the Duke's Mansion. It seemed to be called leek.
"That's right, leeks. Do you know how delicious they are? Whether it's leek dumplings or fried eggplant dumplings, they are both rare delicacies. They can also be used to make dumplings with three fresh fillings, or they can be chopped up with meat and sandwiched between eggplant strips and steamed..."
Su Nuannuan's enthusiastic narration was suddenly interrupted when she saw Xiangyun Yazi Tinglei's expression. She shook her head and said, "Forget it. What's there to talk to a little girl like you? You won't understand anyway. Anyway, you just need to know that we will definitely not starve to death."
Su Nuannuan said this with full confidence. After two days of observation, she was finally able to confirm that this backyard of seven or eight acres was originally used as an experimental field by some senior. In addition to this bed of leeks, there are lettuce seedlings, spinach seedlings, and water radish seedlings scattered everywhere in the backyard. It is only early spring now, and as the weather gradually warms up, she is confident that she can find things like cabbage seedlings, radish seedlings, and eggplant seedlings in this backyard.
So there is always a way out, especially for a foodie like her, as long as she is not starving to death, everything can be negotiated.
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