In order to make their presence felt, the fifth family brought a lot of people with them that day, so even if they wanted to keep it secret they couldn't. Soon everyone in the mansion knew about it.
The gossip reached Mingyu's Yiqingyuan. Mingyu was amazed at the toughness of the fifth brother's wife, who was a role model for contemporary women to learn from. She secretly regarded the fifth brother's wife as an idol and expressed her understanding of her father-in-law Sima Qing.
Of course, I don’t understand why the father-in-law kept the secret from Cuihua and kept the babysitter, but I do understand how Sima Qing, a high-ranking official who was said to not have promiscuous relationships with men and women, could give birth to a playboy like Bao Erye. It’s unscientific that a good bamboo produced a bad bamboo shoot! It turns out that Bao Erye’s playboyishness is a family tradition…
Actually, father-in-law is still a "good man", Mingyu thought. Compared with the youngest son who already has three concubines, and seeing Yingrong and others queuing up eagerly waiting for the quota, the number of concubines of Master Bao will surely continue to grow steadily and prosperously. This does not include the invisible and unseen ones such as Luo Lingxiu... Sima Qing is already a good man. He is in his forties and has only one wife, one old and ugly concubine, and a mistress outside the system.
Mingyu could understand her father-in-law, but Miao didn't. She was so angry that she had lost all her rationality. She heard that the woman had lived there for more than ten years, and Sima Qing had kept it a secret from her for so long. The most disgusting thing was that he always acted like a "rare good man in the world" in front of her.
Whenever they had a disagreement, Sima Qing would use this attitude to suppress her, saying that he had only had her and Wen Niang for so many years, and he rarely went to Wen Niang's place, so he had done nothing wrong to her. I haven't done anything wrong to your sister! Miao wanted to tear Sima Qing and his little whore apart. It was obvious that she was afraid that she would embarrass his little sweetheart, so she didn't even want to enter the mansion, and kept her outside to be free and easy.
Miao thought of those days when Sima Qing used the excuse of working to spend the night in the study. He must have secretly met this little whore and asked Sima Wu to follow him to cover for him and act as his bodyguard. It was simply a sin!
Anger was greater than shame. In fact, Miao didn't mind her husband taking a concubine. What she minded was that she was deceived and had been deceived for so many years. She thought her husband was a good person, but she didn't expect that his true sweetheart was kept outside and taken good care of. He was afraid that the mistress would bully her, so he kept it a secret. Miao was really angry and could not tolerate this.
After fainting from anger, Miao woke up and immediately wanted to learn from the "role model" of the fifth wife and chop the little whore to pieces. Sima Qing's mistress, the fifth wife, couldn't be chopped off, so how could she, the wife of the marquis's mansion, not be chopped off? In the end, Luo Lingxiu stopped her from doing so. The wife of the marquis's mansion took a knife to the door and chopped the mistress. When this matter spread out, the people of Da Chu laughed.
"Madam, I can't do this!" Luo Lingxiu was exhausted. She was already worried and anxious about the possibility that her private conversation with her cousin would be known to others, and now there was a problem with her parents-in-law. She was about to collapse first.
"Why not!" Miao was furious. He dared to deceive me like this. I will die with him! She was about to rush out to settle the score, but Luo Lingxiu and Wei Ma stopped Miao from leaving the yard.
"Madam, please sober up and don't be impulsive!" Madam Wei advised earnestly, "It's already like this, if you go out and make a scene again, won't you be laughed at by others?"
Sima Hong, who had sneaked out to play early in the morning, heard the news and quickly ran back. He stopped Miao from going out and said, "Mom, calm down."
"Why should I vent my anger? I'm so angry that I'm dying!" Miao wiped away her tears of grievance, "We can't just let this go!"
Sima Hong thought it was no big deal. "Mom, what are you doing? Dad just has a mistress. Why don't you invite her in and ask her to pour you tea and pay you respects? Just call her a concubine and that's it."
Miao was so angry that she slapped her son in the face, "You are such a heartless person! You are just like your father. I gave birth to you and raised you, but you turned out to be an ungrateful person!"
Sima Hong and Luo Lingxiu looked at each other, and Luo Lingxiu motioned Sima Hong to go out first. Miao was already angry at the moment, and Sima Hong's words would simply add fuel to the fire.
Sima Hong failed to mediate the fight and was scolded by his mother instead. He left in shame.
Lixiang went to get dinner for Mingyu. When she passed Miao's yard, she could hear the sound of things being smashed in the room from a distance, mixed with Miao's angry shouting. Frightened, Lixiang was afraid of being implicated, so she quickly slipped back to Yiqing Courtyard, sticking to the wall.
"I was scared to death!" Lixiang was still frightened after she came back and said while patting her chest. Miao left a very scary impression on her and she was afraid that Miao would suddenly come out of the yard and take her out on her after seeing her, thus implicating Mingyu.
Mingyu actually understood Miao's feelings. If she had been deceived by the person closest to her, who shared the same bed with her for so many years, she would be very angry and wronged. Listening to Lixiang's slightly excited gossip she heard along the way, Mingyu picked up the dishes and ate silently. Maybe something happened to the masters today, and the kitchen was a mess. However, the meals these days were still good, much better than what Lixiang brought back before. Oh, the amount of meat was also very generous.
Men are always fickle. Once they transfer their affection to someone else, how can we expect them to remember the love between husband and wife and the sake of their children? When Mingyu was interning in the kindergarten, she saw many single mothers rushing to pick up their children after a day's work. If the father of the child is good, he will take the child out to play every once in a while, buy the child a toy, and pay some child support, which is considered to be the father's love. If the father is not good, and the child has a new family, the child will not even remember what the father looks like.
Since there are few examples of divorces among noble families, if Miao does not intend to set a precedent for the Sima family, she might as well take Sima Qing's concubine into the house and maintain her reputation as a virtuous woman. Anyway, that woman has no children, so there is no need to worry that the illegitimate son will divide up the property of her two sons. Taking her into the marquis's mansion will make it Miao's territory, and she can keep a close eye on her and she won't cause any trouble, so she can rest assured. If the mistress wants to discipline the concubine, there are many ways to do it.
But Mingyu would not go to give advice to Miao. She has always disliked her and is now angry. Cuihua has her caring and good wife Luo Lingxiu, so Mingyu will not hang around her.
Finally, the old lady could no longer sit still. Since her son and daughter-in-law had a disagreement, she naturally would not look at the matter from Miao's perspective. She walked into Miao's yard with the help of Mother Zhao. When she heard the sound of things being smashed in the room, she could not help but get angry. She pointed at Miao's room with her cane and said, "Look at what the virtuous wife that the Marquis married has become!"
When the old lady entered the room, Miao had stopped smashing things. It wasn't because she had come to her senses, but because she was tired. She sat on the chair and caught her breath. Luo Lingxiu, Nanny Wei and Nanny Tan were beside her, helping her to calm down and comforting her.
The house was in a mess, with no place to step. The old lady did not go in, but stood at the door, leaning on her cane, and said majestically: "You have such a bad temper!"
Miao was furious today. The servants in the courtyard were afraid of being affected by the master's anger, so they all hid far away. When the old lady came, no one informed her. When they saw the old lady, Luo Lingxiu and the two maids hurriedly saluted. The old lady didn't even look at the three people. She raised her chin and said to Miao, who was sitting on the chair with her head down: "You have scolded and smashed things, and you have vented your anger."
Miao took a deep breath, probably not wanting to lose her composure in front of the old lady, so she stood up and bowed to the old lady without saying anything.
"Why are you so confused?" The old lady frowned, looking at the smashed things in the room, and scolded the other three people in the room: "Don't you know how to stop them? You just let the servants laugh at our Anxi Marquis Mansion!"
Miao was not convinced and snorted. It has been a joke for a long time, ever since your son took a mistress behind my back. It has been a joke. What is there to be afraid of
The old lady was furious. "When you proposed a concubine to your son, you were so quick to act and said such nice things, saying that you were sympathetic to your son's lack of a servant. But how can you be so cruel to your own man? You become like this just because he has a mistress outside. Do you still have the dignity of a lady in a marquisate?"
"That's different!" Miao finally couldn't help it and screamed in a shrill voice. Mingyu was just a little girl of humble origin. She, as the mother-in-law, gave her to the aunt out of consideration. They were all girls from clean families, but Sima Qing kept the girl outside without telling her. Who knew whether she was sweet or smelly.
"What's the difference?" The old lady snorted, "You gave Bao Ge'er three concubines, and Mingyu is only twelve years old, but she has never complained. You, as a mother-in-law, are not as good as the younger generation!"
Luo Lingxiu, who was standing behind Miao, couldn't bear to see her aunt being scolded by the old lady so shamelessly, so she forced a smile and interrupted, "Old lady, this is different. Mingyu is young and not old enough to understand..."
"Shut up!" the old lady shouted, "Do you, a junior, have the right to interrupt when the elders are talking? Is this how the Luo family in the capital teaches their daughters?"
Luo Lingxiu's cheeks turned red after being scolded, and she lowered her head in embarrassment.
The old lady continued, "You have worked a lot for this family over the years. I won't say anything unpleasant. You are angry now. You have an idea of what to do, right?"
Just as Miao was about to speak, she saw Lao Wu's family leading Sima Wu looking out the gate of the courtyard. Nanny Tan immediately invited the two of them in.
Sima Wu looked very embarrassed when he saw the mess in the room. He smiled apologetically and said, "The master said he has something to do tonight and won't be back."
Miao's face looked ugly again, and she seemed to be about to explode.
Sima Wu added with a bitter face, "The master also told you to prepare at home and bring Concubine Yu home in two days."
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