Chapter 1197 The Meal Replacement Lady is Not Likeable (12)
Chen wanted to praise all the dogs in Prince Li's mansion to Yuan Shichu. She looked so proud that people who didn't know her would think that she was the Prince Li's successor, not her eldest cousin.
Yuan Shichu's life was quite boring, and he enjoyed listening to her bragging. Fearing that her voice would become hoarse, he specially made her some good tea to soothe her throat.
"Sister-in-law, what kind of tea is this? It tastes good." Chen took a few sips of the tea brought by Zhichun and said with some surprise.
"It's just ordinary tea, not a famous tea." Yuan Shichu answered modestly. This tea is indeed ordinary tea, but it's just the ordinary tea in her companion space, full of spiritual energy. Even if it is ordinary, it is better than the tea in this dirty world.
"I think so too. But speaking of good tea, I have drunk the imperial tea bestowed by the empress in the palace at Prince Li's Mansion. It was so sweet and fragrant. Tsk tsk, I also benefited from the princess's kindness... Although your tea tastes good, it still lacks some flavor compared to the imperial tea..." Chen said seriously, but no matter what she said, she was not polite at all when drinking Yuan Shichu's tea.
Yuan Shichu found this both amusing and annoying. He thought that his sister-in-law was trying very hard to show how extraordinary everything in Prince Li's mansion was, and was lying with her eyes open.
Chen was still talking to Yuan Shichu about her experiences in Prince Li's Mansion, but soon a maid from her yard came to find her.
"What's the matter that makes you so anxious to see me?" Chen was unable to show off enough and glared at the maid unhappily.
The maid was extremely anxious. She glanced at Yuan Shichu and hesitated to speak. Chen scolded her, "Why are you looking at your sister-in-law? Is there anything you can't say in front of your sister-in-law?!"
Chen didn't want to say goodbye to Yuan Shichu so soon, so she ordered the maid to say what she wanted to say and not to be hesitant.
Seeing this, the maid closed her eyes and said loudly: "Madam! Aunt An and Aunt Liu are both pregnant..."
"What?!" Chen's face turned pale when she heard this, "What nonsense are you talking about? Haven't you been giving them contraceptive soup?" She didn't care that Yuan Shichu was still here at this time, so she told him such private matters.
"This...this...I don't know either. Maybe they are so bold that they poured out the contraceptive soup in private?" The maid replied with a bitter face.
At this time, Chen had already forgotten about the Li Wang Mansion. The fact that her husband's concubine was pregnant was a serious matter that concerned her vital interests. Therefore, she said goodbye to Yuan Shichu in a hurry and rushed back to her own courtyard, probably to settle accounts with the two pregnant concubines.
Yuan Shichu looked at her thin and somewhat hunched figure and felt that she was pitiful and pathetic.
No one knew how Chen would deal with the situation after she returned, but by evening, the servants in Yuan Shichu's courtyard were in high spirits, because Old Madam Zhan was very happy when she learned that her eldest son's two concubines were pregnant. So she rewarded all the servants in the mansion and ordered Chen to take good care of them and let them give birth to the babies safely.
Chen was of course angry and terrified. The concubine gave birth to a child earlier than she, the wife. How could her position in the family be secure? However, her pain and opposition were useless, because the Zhan family had given her five or six years of buffer time, and she had not given birth to a child. This time, the concubine got pregnant by accident, and she no longer had the confidence to ask someone to abort the baby.
"Ms. Chen, we in the Zhan family have done our best for you. It was you who couldn't give birth to a child. As a result, Yuan Ning is almost thirty years old and others are almost grandfathers, but you still don't have a child. Now that the two concubines are pregnant, you must give birth to the children. You can't blame us for your own bad luck." Old Madam Zhan solemnly warned Chen not to harm the two concubines.
Chen's face looked extremely ugly. The spirit and energy that she had shown in the courtyard at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty when she boasted endlessly about the Prince Li's Mansion was no longer visible. Instead, she looked deeply depressed.
Mrs. Zhan was not a hard-hearted person after all. Seeing her disheartened look, she couldn't help but soften her heart. Although this eldest daughter-in-law was picky, short-sighted and easily offended, these were minor flaws. She was not a vicious person and had served her wholeheartedly over the years.
Thinking of this, Madam Zhan comforted her, "Don't worry too much. Even if you don't have children, you are still Yuan Ning's first wife. No matter how many children those concubines can give birth to, it can't shake your position. If you are really worried, just put the child by your side and raise it. Won't it be almost the same as your own child? Even for their own status, they have to please you as their stepmother..."
After hearing Madam Zhan's comforting words, Chen's face really looked better, no longer so gloomy, but still pale. She lowered her head and said, "I know, my husband finally has a child. Even if I don't like it, I will make sure they are born safely. Don't worry, mother."
"I'm sorry to have wronged you. I have a set of coral and ruby head ornaments and I'll give them to you." said Mrs. Zhan.
"Thank you, mother." Chen then took a set of headgear and went back.
When Zhan Shulin returned home, he found that the atmosphere at home was different. Everyone was in high spirits, so he curiously asked Yuan Shichu, "What big happy event happened at home? Why are everyone so happy?"
"Your eldest brother's two concubines are pregnant, and the old lady has rewarded all the servants in the mansion. How can they not be happy?" Yuan Shichu replied.
Zhan Shulin was immediately delighted when he heard this: "Brother finally has a child! That's great!"
Yuan Shichu glanced at him sideways and didn't say anything. Perhaps because of their different identities, their reactions to this matter were completely different.
As Zhan Yuanning's brother, Zhan Shulin's first reaction was of course to be happy for his brother; and as Yuan Shichu was a daughter-in-law with a similar status to Chen in the Zhan family, her first reaction was naturally to sympathize with Chen, because it was her husband's other woman who was pregnant, not herself.
Although Yuan Shichu was not the kind of weak woman who relied on her husband and children to survive, she couldn't help but feel sympathetic when she saw Chen like this.
"No, I have to go have a few drinks with my brother to celebrate!" Zhan Shulin said excitedly to Yuan Shichu, "What were those bottles of wine you took out to drink last time? Do you still have them now?"
Yuan Shichu rolled his eyes at him: "No more, that's all I had."
Zhan Shulin was immediately very disappointed, so he had to order his servants to get his treasured wine to go and celebrate with his elder brother.
Yuan Shichu brewed the wine himself. Last time, Zhan Shulin caught him and drank most of it. Yuan Shichu felt so distressed that he naturally would not give it to him this time.
(End of this chapter)
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