eurekapd Chapter 119 General's Concubine 3
Chapter 119 General's Concubine 3
"Okay, okay, I knew you were a good kid," the old lady said happily, "I'll have someone send a little maid to serve you later. When the young lady comes to pay her respects tomorrow, you can go with her and she'll arrange a courtyard for you to live in."
After all, she was to be the grandson's concubine, so the matter of arranging the concubine's accommodation should naturally be left to the grandson's wife. Otherwise, if she did it, it would be a slap in the face of the grandson's wife and make her hate her grandmother even more.
"Yes, I will follow the old lady's arrangements." Jiang Chunxi said obediently:
At the same time, Yue Zhen’s wife Liu Yaozhu was here.
"Young Madam, you have been crying non-stop since last night. If the general knew about this, he would be heartbroken. Even if you don't care about your own body, you should think about the general!" The one who spoke was Birou, the maid who served Liu Yaozhu.
"Oh!" Liu Yaozhu sneered, "How could the general feel sorry for me? He is already planning to take a concubine, so how could he feel sorry for me, his wife who has lived with him all his life."
When Yue Zhen proposed the idea of taking a concubine to Liu Yaozhu last night, Liu Yaozhu drove him away in a fit of anger.
The so-called vow of being together for life is a joke. They have only been married for six years, and Yue Zhen is going to break his vow and take a concubine.
If he couldn't stay with her alone for the rest of his life, he shouldn't have made promises to her and given her hope. If Yue Zhen hadn't made promises to her, it wouldn't be so difficult for her to accept the fact that Yue Zhen wanted to take a concubine.
"Madam, I know you feel bad," Birou sighed and advised, "but the general's taking a concubine is really no wonder that he broke his oath to Madam. The general is often on the march and fighting outside, which is like walking on the edge of a knife! To be presumptuous, if the general has an accident on the battlefield one day, what will you and Madam do?"
"So the reason why the general agreed to take a concubine was partly because the old lady forced him to do so, but more importantly, the general wanted to leave a guarantee for you and the old lady. In that case, even if the general gets hurt on the battlefield, you and the old lady can survive by taking care of the child, and won't be bullied by some clan members."
If the general really had an accident on the battlefield and had no sons to carry on his family line, then all the clan members would come rushing to him. After all, money is not the key to succession! With such a huge general's mansion and so much assets, but no male heir to carry on the family line, how could it not arouse others' greed?
Therefore, Birou wholeheartedly agreed with the general taking a concubine. Since the young lady was unable to give birth, then let someone else help her give birth. With a child by her side, even if something really happened to the general, the young lady wouldn't have to worry about anything.
"Madam, what Birou said makes sense," said Biyun, another senior maid. "After all, this woman still needs a child, so that she can have someone to rely on in the future. Love is ultimately unreliable. Isn't the general the best example? What did the general promise you before? It's only been a few years! He broke his promise just for the sake of having an heir."
"I think you shouldn't be so immersed in grief right now. You are destroying your body like this, which will only hurt yourself and not do any good at all."
Liu Yaozhu naturally understood that what the two maids said made sense, but understanding was one thing, and letting it go was another. She really couldn't accept that Yue Zhen took a concubine and shared her husband with someone else.
Liu Yaozhu is so hateful!
She hated her grandmother, that old woman, and she also hated Yue Zhen for breaking the oath they had made.
"I'm hungry. Go get me some food!" Liu Yaozhu wiped her tears and said:
That's right, she can't ruin her body like this. Yue Zhen was obviously the one who was wrong, so why should she punish herself because of Yue Zhen's mistake?
Birou and Biyun both breathed a sigh of relief and then became happy. They hurried to prepare food for their master.
After Jiang Chunxi left the old lady's room, she was taken to a side room.
As a second-class maid, Jiang Chunxi naturally did not have a separate room. After all, even first-class maids slept in pairs in a room, so the room where the second-class maids slept was a bunk bed for four people.
Now that Jiang Chunxi was going to be promoted by the old lady to be a concubine, it would naturally not be appropriate for her to live in the servants' room, so the old lady had someone clean up a side room for Jiang Chunxi to stay there for one night.
"Chunxi, you are so lucky," the maid who spoke was called Hongying. Like Jiang Chunxi, she was a second-class maid in the old lady's courtyard. She was arranged by the old lady to serve Jiang Chunxi and would be Jiang Chunxi's personal maid in the future. "Among the servants in our courtyard, you are the most fortunate to be chosen by the old lady. From now on, you will be the concubine of the mansion, and you can be regarded as half a master."
Hongying was not jealous of Jiang Chunxi at all.
She and Chunxi have always had a good relationship, and she is aware of her own appearance. How could she be chosen by the old lady with her ordinary appearance? After all, although being a concubine to the general means continuing the family line, at least her appearance should be acceptable!
So Hongying's words were purely out of happiness for Jiang Chunxi, and she didn't have any jealousy in her heart at all.
"What do you mean by half-master?" Jiang Chunxi's expression was not at all happy or pleased. "You are not unaware of the relationship between the general and the young lady. What's more, when I give birth to a child, I will definitely give it to the young lady to raise. By then, it may be difficult for me to see the child. So being the general's concubine is not a blessing at all!"
"Alas!" Jiang Chunxi sighed, "If it weren't for the old lady, I would never want to be the general's concubine. I'm called a concubine, but in fact I'm just a tool for the young lady to bear children."
"You shouldn't be so pessimistic," Hongying said, "The young lady is not a harsh master. I think she will not stop you from seeing the child. Besides, isn't there the old lady?"
"The old lady is very kindhearted. She will never bear to see you and your child separated. You can't even see your child once."
"I hope so!" Jiang Chunxi said lightly.
Jiang Chunxi was very suspicious about the death of the old lady in the original owner's previous life. After all, the old lady was still in good health, so how could she be killed by a cold?
In short, she had reason to suspect that the death of the old lady in the original owner's previous life was caused by that woman Liu Yaozhu.
That woman of hers even took revenge on Yue Zhen, so how could she let go of the old lady who forced Yue Zhen to take a concubine?
Jiang Chunxi's eyes flashed, and she immediately had an idea in her mind.
Even if her judgment was wrong, what did it matter? Since Jiang Chunxi was here, in order to complete the task, Liu Yaozhu had to take action against the old lady. If she, Liu Yaozhu, didn't do it, Jiang Chunxi would help her.
Of course, Jiang Chunxi couldn't really let the old lady die.