Chapter 1082 The loyal maid promoted to concubine (2)
"But the prince will take a long time to come back. Now the princess has chased us out and is staying in the room alone. I'm afraid she is keeping things in her heart. What if she gets sick?" Rendong is also a maid who is very loyal to the princess Gui Yunlai. She truly cares about her master.
"Then let's go in and take a look first?" Shi Chu didn't want to go against his current character, so he agreed.
"Okay, I'll go get the master a bowl of lotus seed soup to help him calm down and relax. Don't let the old lady's words hurt you." After saying this, Honeysuckle rushed to the kitchen.
Shi Chu took this opportunity to sort out the original owner's memories.
The original owner was sold to the Gui family when she was young. Later, because of her calm personality, dexterity, and cute appearance, she was chosen by Gui Yunlai's mother to be her daughter's personal maid.
However, when Gui Yunlai was five years old, her beloved mother fell ill and died. Her father Gui Jue soon remarried Huang. Huang was a typical stepmother who was sweet on the outside but cruel on the inside. She treated Gui Yunlai very well in front of Gui Jue, but would turn around and insinuate the servants to mistreat her.
When Huang gave birth to a son, she became even more outrageous. She no longer concealed her dislike for Gui Yunlai even in front of Gui Jue. Gui Jue liked his step-wife and the children she gave birth to more, so he turned a blind eye to the harsh treatment of Gui Yunlai.
Gui Yunlai's life at home became more and more difficult, but she was young and had no way to resist, so she had to endure it. When she finally grew up to be twelve or thirteen years old and had accumulated some abilities, she secretly schemed against Huang and her children several times, provoking the relationship between them and making Gui Jue, the father, unable to live in peace.
Probably because she had grown up in the hardship of her stepmother, Gui Yunlai was very scheming and resourceful. In addition, she inherited the beauty of her biological mother, so she began to plan for her lifelong event early on. She did not expect her stepmother and father to choose a good husband for her, because she knew that was impossible, so she carefully selected young men of similar age in the capital, and finally chose the son of Marquis Anding - Zhang Qishan.
So she designed a play. When she went to attend a banquet in a certain mansion, she hid secretly in a rockery with her maid and cried, complaining about her miserable fate and not knowing what would happen to her in the future. She also said that the maid had suffered misfortune with her and she would find a good home for the maid first. The maid refused to abandon her master and vowed to share the joys and sorrows with her master. Gui Yunlai tried to persuade her in vain, and finally the master and servant hugged each other and cried bitterly...
Zhang Qishan, who "sneaked" at this play, was immediately attracted by Gui Yunlai, who was crying and extremely touching. He was shocked to find that there was such a beautiful, kind, pitiful woman in the world who urgently needed his rescue...
Zhang Qishan, whose desire to protect was successfully aroused, fell into the love net that Gui Yunlai had carefully created for him without any suspense. The two experienced many things afterwards, and Zhang Qishan's feelings for her grew deeper and deeper. In the end, despite the opposition of his family, he tried his best to marry her as his wife.
Originally, with Gui Yunlai's family background, she was not worthy of the son of Marquis Anding. After all, her father was only an assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites, and it was clear that he would not achieve much in the future. She was completely incomparable with the Marquis Anding Mansion that Jian had in the emperor's heart. However, Zhang Qishan was bewitched by Gui Yunlai and said that he would not marry anyone else but her. If he could not marry her in this life, he would rather become a monk.
Parents are always unable to prevail over their children. Gui Yunlai finally got married to Zhang Qishan as she wished and became the prince consort of Marquis Anding.
Although this marriage was planned by her, Zhang Qishan treated her very well before and after marriage. He doted on her and obeyed her in everything. Finally, her hard heart softened and she fell in love with Zhang Qishan.
If the story ended here, then this marriage would be a normal and perfect life for the hero and heroine, where they get married first and then fall in love.
However, the reality was not so perfect. Gui Yunlai was treated harshly by Huang when she was a child, and she caught a cold and had difficulty conceiving. She had been married to Zhang Qishan for three or four years and still hadn't gotten pregnant. This made Lady Anding Hou, who didn't like her in the first place, even more dissatisfied. She ordered her not to monopolize her son, and if she couldn't have a baby herself, she should let other women have one.
Zhang Qishan loved his wife deeply. At the beginning, he resisted the pressure from the Marquis's wife for Gui Yunlai, saying that he did not want to have other women. However, as time went by, Gui Yunlai still did not get pregnant after six years of marriage. Zhang Qishan could not resist it anymore, and Gui Yunlai faced the blame from the Marquis's wife again.
She was not willing to share her husband with another woman, but as the eldest son of a marquisate, her husband's status would be lost if he had no offspring, and she would not be able to maintain her own identity. Therefore, she had no choice but to compromise painfully.
But she had to decide on the choice of concubine herself, so she chose the original owner. The original owner's parents and relatives had long been missing, and she had grown up with her and was loyal to her and would never betray her. Even if she became her husband's concubine and gave birth to a child, her own position would not be unstable.
In fact, the original owner had never thought about becoming a concubine of her master's husband, but she had no choice. Rendong was already married at that time, so it was naturally impossible for her to be a concubine. Only she wanted to not get married and was determined to serve her master all her life, so she was still single. As for other younger and more beautiful maids, Gui Yunlai did not trust them at all. Therefore, Gui Yunlai felt that she, the maid who had followed her since childhood, was the most trustworthy.
The original owner could not refuse Gui Yunlai's arrangement, and eventually became Zhang Qiling's concubine. However, Zhang Qiling had no feelings for the original owner and was wholeheartedly in love with Gui Yunlai, so his relationship with the original owner was in name only. The original owner breathed a sigh of relief and obediently served as his concubine in name only.
However, after taking a concubine for several months, the original owner still did not get pregnant. Lady Marquis Anding became suspicious. After investigation, she found out that her son had never slept with the original owner at all. She was immediately furious and called both the original owner and Gui Yunlai to scold them.
Under the pressure of the Marquis's wife, Gui Yunlai had no choice but to persuade Zhang Qishan to sleep with the original owner. Zhang Qishan refused and had a big quarrel with Gui Yunlai. He ran to the study to drown his sorrows in wine and got drunk. The personal attendant who followed him was the Marquis's wife's man, so he helped the drunk Zhang Qishan to the original owner's yard and asked the original owner to take care of him.
So it was no surprise that Zhang Qishan had sex with the original owner after drinking.
After waking up the next day, Zhang Qishan was furious. He felt that it was the original owner who seduced him, so he severely punished the original owner and wanted to sell her out to erase this stain. However, he was stopped by Gui Yunlai who came after hearing the news, and the original owner was not sold.
After having a real relationship with Zhang Qishan, the original owner remained loyal to Gui Yunlai, but Gui Yunlai's feelings for the original owner were very complicated. On the one hand, she took the initiative to promote the original owner to her husband's concubine, but on the other hand, she couldn't get over the hurdle in her heart when she learned that her husband had an intimate relationship with another woman.
(End of this chapter)
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