Chen Jie was a top scholar from a poor family, but his father was from a poor family and his mother was the legitimate daughter of Prime Minister Lin. She eloped with a scholar who went to Beijing to take the imperial examination. The two were born in a remote area and both died young.
He grew up eating at many people's homes and was appreciated by the dean of an academy. He worked and studied part-time in the academy. He was gifted and knowledgeable, and passed the provincial and metropolitan examinations, entered the Golden Palace and won the top prize.
Afterwards, she got to know Lin Xiang's family because of a jade pendant given by her biological mother. If Du Yaoyao had not interfered three years ago, Chen Jie would have been engaged and married to Mr. Lin's granddaughter.
Du Yaoyao behaved arrogantly and frivolously, and Mr. Lin advised Shen Jie to divorce her more than once.
Jinzhi didn't expect that the young lady, who was always a playboy, actually took Mr. Lin's words to heart. It seemed that the young lady sending herself to the master was also a helpless plan to prevent any trouble.
Jinzhi hesitated for a moment, then said slowly: "Then I...would rather obey your command than be respectful."
Du Yaoyao saw the unconcealed joy in Jinzhi's eyes and eyebrows, but pretended not to see it and handed the box on the small table to Jinzhi, "This is a little gift from me, please keep it."
Jinzhi took it and curiously opened it. She saw her indenture contract and a box of gold and silver. She was immediately surprised and delighted, "Miss, this..."
Du Yaoyao waved her hand, signaling her to calm down, "From now on, you will be a member of the Shen class, so serve him well. When you are favored, I will make you my concubine. If you have a child, I will tell my father to free your family from slavery."
The original owner's home was far away in Qingzhou, hundreds of miles away from the capital. Because her aunt married into the Yongning Marquis's Mansion, the original owner followed her aunt to the capital after she came of age.
It’s a pity that she didn’t get to marry her ideal brother, but instead got involved with the “charming” male protagonist, Shen Jie.
Jinzhi married with the young lady, and her parents and brother were still the guards and maids of the Du family.
In ancient times, after people sold themselves into slavery, if their masters did not return the indentures and they went to the government to remove their slave status, they would never be free and innocent for the rest of their lives. Even if they had children, they would still be slaves for generations.
Jinzhi was overjoyed when she heard this. Shen Jie allowed her benefits and supervised Du Yaoyao's behavior, but the Du family was the real master who controlled the fate of her and her family.
"Thank you... Miss. I will go through fire and water for you without any hesitation." Jinzhi said excitedly.
Du Yaoyao was almost amused by her. It was really funny to see a fence-sitter maid showing her loyalty.
"There's no need for you to go through fire and water for me. Just serve Chen Jie well and give him a child as soon as possible. That will be your way of repaying me." Du Yaoyao said with a smile.
Jinzhi's cheeks flushed with shame and she kept twisting the corner of her clothes with her hands.
Du Yaoyao saw this and felt inexplicably compassion and melancholy.
There were many women in the Shen family in the original book. After the original owner died, he started to build a harem in an open and aboveboard manner. Jinzhi was just one of the women in his backyard.
With such a low status, I'm afraid I won't be favored very often. But the male protagonist has his halo, so the women are like moths to a flame, not afraid of death.
Now she sent Jinzhi to Chen Jie in advance, firstly to show her virtue as the eldest wife, and secondly, if Jinzhi could really give him a child, maybe Chen Jie would be kind enough to spare her life in the future.
After all, in the original book, I don’t know if he had too many women, but in the end he ended up having no children.
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Jinzhi came to Chenjie Courtyard and didn't see anyone else until a few days later.
Chen Jie was usually busy with official duties, leaving home early and returning late. When he first heard that Du Yaoyao had given him the golden branch, he wondered what this girl was up to.
Jinzhi was ignored for a few days and saw that Du Yaoyao had not called her back. He patiently called him over to ask.
"Why did the lady send you here? Did she get suspicious?"
In the study, Chen Jie sat behind the desk, holding a scripture scroll and asked without raising his head.
"It doesn't look like that." Jinzhi replied, with a hint of shyness on her snow-white face, "Madam said that there is no one who is considerate around you, so she asked me to come and serve you."
The servant Liu'er beside her presented Jinzhi with a contract of sale at the right time.
Usually, when a mistress sends a maid to her husband, she often wants to hold the maid's indenture in her hand to prevent the maid from becoming spoiled and the husband from favoring his wife over his concubine. Du Yaoyao was good. She sent away both the person and the contract.
Chen Jie felt unhappy for no reason.
Her delicate moans were still ringing in his ears. He wiped the desk again and again, and there was always the sweet and fishy smell of her in his heart.
And her generous attitude of giving gifts is really frank.
"Sir..." Jinzhi called softly, with anticipation in her eyes.
Chen Jie ignored her and turned to instruct Liu Er, "Go find the steward and arrange for her to be a maid in the outer courtyard."
"Yes." Liu'er replied, made a gesture of invitation to Jinzhi and led her out the door.
Jinzhi knelt on the ground and couldn't get up, tears falling like pearls, so touching.
"Sir——" a voice full of affection.
Chen Jie rubbed his brows and said solemnly: "I don't need any women to serve me!"
Jinzhi stared blankly at the steps, her heart full of love and resentment, which finally turned into sobs that choked in her throat.
He is Hanshan jade. The lady doesn't want to be warm, but he doesn't give her, a maid, a chance to warm him up.
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As soon as Jinzhi left the house, the butler knocked on the door and came in in a panic, saying, "Sir, there are two young men outside, yelling for the lady to come out!"
When Shen Jie heard this, his expression changed immediately.
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