Chapter 236 Taking a Concubine
Inside the Qi Mansion.
The atmosphere is not very good.
Jiang Zijin discovered it as soon as he entered the door.
First, when the housekeeper saw the mother and daughter, he looked very surprised.
A'niang said she wanted to meet her father and stepmother, but the housekeeper hesitated and said they were not at home.
Then came the maids and old women, whispering behind their backs.
When I arrived at my grandmother's house, I heard from her that the rumor that my grandfather had cheated in the imperial examination had spread to the capital.
His Majesty was furious and the censors impeached him.
Although there was no concrete evidence, my grandfather was still reprimanded by His Majesty due to the widespread rumors.
He was summoned to the palace again.
The Qi family is now at the center of the storm.
Whether master or servant, they are all cautious and act very carefully.
So no one in the entire Qi Mansion liked them very much.
And the culprit behind all this is her mother.
A Niang also wants to meet Madam Qi. When returning to her parents' home, she must first pay her respects to the mistress of the house. This is the most basic etiquette.
However, the mistress did not want to see them.
Jiang Zijin didn't want to see her either. Thinking of Nanny Gong, who had disappeared inexplicably, he always felt that something was wrong.
Perhaps, she has already gone back to her master and told the tale.
Jiang Zijin was very tactful and went straight to his grandmother's courtyard.
After chatting with them for a while, my grandmother started to scold my mother behind closed doors.
She stood outside the door for a while and listened for a while.
The content is roughly that A Niang is stupid and always causes trouble for her grandfather, and also implicates her.
A'niang was scolded.
Jiang Zijin was actually somewhat relieved.
Even if her mother did something wrong, as her daughter, she could not say a single word against her.
Otherwise, people will accuse you of being unfilial and disrespectful.
She couldn't say it, but her grandmother could say it, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to even scold her. She deserved a good scolding.
I wonder how such a smart grandmother could give birth to a child like A Niang?
However, the grandmother was just pretending and was reluctant to criticize her daughter too harshly.
"Wei'er, it's normal for a man to have three wives and four concubines. The key is that you have to hold his heart firmly, follow him, help him get what he wants, and then use him to get what you want, do you understand?" Mrs. Hu stroked her daughter's cheek and touched her scar.
My eyes and heart are full of heartache.
This is her only daughter, the daughter she gave birth to after ten months of hard work, the daughter she values more than her own life.
How could she not feel distressed and make plans for her?
Or maybe I underestimated Lu Qingyao.
If they had spent more money and sent more experts three years ago, they would not have let the mother and son escape.
In the end, only some servants were killed, and they were unharmed.
This time, we can no longer take it lightly.
She even suspected that everything that Wei'er encountered in Jiangzhou was planned by Lu Qingyao.
Wei'er was not the kind of person who didn't know the seriousness of the matter before, so why did she act like someone had cast a spell on her after going to Jiangzhou?
Time and time again, she didn't want to talk about it anymore.
But Qi Caiwei couldn't bear it. She grabbed her mother's hand and said, "Mom, I won't accept this!"
"From the very beginning, I was unwilling to marry Jiang Yunze. Although he never lingered in brothels after marriage, there was never a place for me in his heart. Even after Lu Qingyao became like that, he still refused to divorce her."
"If it weren't for that incident, with my father's love and affection for you, I could have found a good family to be my first wife. Why would I have to compete with Lu Qingyao?"
Precisely because she was born a concubine's daughter, even though her father loved her, she was always inferior to her legitimate sisters.
When she was taken out, others only paid attention to her sisters and never took her seriously.
"Mother, you don't know that my husband's relatives are barbaric, unreasonable, and vulgar. None of them are presentable. And that old hag is a country woman, greedy and snobbish. She only wants to show off her mother-in-law's money in front of me every day and doesn't take my father seriously..."
Mrs. Hu interrupted her, "Alright, you're already married, what else can we do? The most important thing right now is to use this concubine to get Jiang Yunze to divorce his wife and make you his legal wife. In another three to five years, Jin'er and Pei'er should be ready for marriage. We can't let them go out with the names of bastards."
Qi Caiwei nodded in agreement and said, "What you said makes sense, but what about the concubine and the bastard? Are we going to use them to threaten my husband?"
Mrs. Hu slapped her on the forehead. "You're so confused! That woman has been married once, and she's from the countryside. Jiang Yunze still wants her, which means he still has feelings for her and is deeply in love with her. You're using her to threaten Jiang Yunze now. Aren't you trying to alienate him? Even if he reluctantly agrees to you, do you think he'll still treat you with respect in the future?"
"Of course not..."
After hearing what her mother said, Qi Caiwei began to understand a little bit.
"Mom, what should I do?"
Her mother has been able to love her father for many years and her stepmother cannot touch her. That is an extraordinary ability.
Then I heard my mother say, "Take in a concubine, and bring that concubine into the family."
"What?"
Qi Caiwei thought she had heard it wrong.
"You want me to help Jiang Yunze find a concubine and take Tao Tao and the little bastard back home?"
Crazy, her mother must be crazy.
"Yes, you go pick it up yourself."
Mrs. Hu looked at her clueless daughter and said with a smile, "She's just a concubine. Take her home. You'll have the final say in her future. You can find a fault with her and sell her off. Why are you so alarmed?"
"Just take her back home and raise her in a friendly manner. As for the rest, your father will go and punish Jiang Yunze."
Jiang Zijin was eating candied fruit obediently on the side.
She didn't dare say anything for fear that her grandmother would notice.
But she identified very much with her grandmother.
This is a good idea.
The woman my father had an affair with was a good citizen, so my mother couldn't do anything to her.
But once you become a concubine in the mansion, things will be different.
The woman's father had committed a crime and been in jail. Even if she became a concubine, she could only be a lowly concubine. Concubines were of low status and could engage in business.
Once she entered the mansion, she was no longer free.
Everything must be done according to the rules.
In this big house, there are things like drowning, poisoning, framing, and betrayal...
It's all commonplace.
Besides, she has an ex-husband and a child, so it is not impossible that she is involved.
As for divorce.
It was obvious that my father had already become ruthless towards Lu Qingyao.
Between his future and his beloved, Jiang Zijin felt a little impressed that his father still cared about his first wife.
Thinking of this, she held her mother's hand and said, "Mother, I'll go with you to pick up Aunt Tao. I also want to see what my little sister looks like."
Little sister.
She doesn't like it.
Apart from anything else, she just hated Jiang Miaomiao.
What I dislike most is those eyes.
At the Jiang Mansion.
Jiang Yunze had just returned home from the government office. When he heard that Qi Caiwei and her daughter had not returned home, he went straight to the Qi Mansion.
My heart was pounding.
He then rushed to Qi's house to pick someone up.
Although his father-in-law is his immediate superior, he will be the first to eat if he is unhappy.
Whenever Qi Caiwei got into trouble, she blamed him for not disciplining his wife and daughter well.
It was as if the person causing trouble was not his daughter.
There is no wife or children around him, so what's wrong with having a mistress? He actually scolded him.
But no matter how many complaints he had, he had to swallow them.
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