Tang Cheng deliberately mentioned the privilege of not having to kneel.
Even before the tea was served, she knew that she had to kneel down to serve the tea. Her nanny had reminded her of this many times.
Tang Cheng simply ignored it.
She didn't even kneel before the Duke of Zhenguo, let alone the Duke's wife who had a grudge against her.
The wife of the Duke of Zhenguo was stunned and her face changed. She didn't expect Tang Si to bring up the emperor. She couldn't help but look at her son, hoping that her son would stand on her side and help her speak for Tang Si.
Wen Huaian lowered his eyes, pretending not to see his mother's gaze.
His mother wanted to reprimand Tang Cheng, but as a son he could not interfere, but he would not help his mother to embarrass Tang Cheng, so he made Tang Cheng kneel down and listen to the reprimand.
The wife of the Duke of Zhenguo was so angry that she fell backwards. She stared at Tang Cheng and didn't say a word for a long time.
The four concubines were secretly happy when they saw Tang Si confronting the lady, who was speechless.
Tang Cheng held the teacup and waited for a long time. Seeing that the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo just stared at her and did not take the tea, she could not help but ask seriously.
"Mother-in-law, the rule for serving tea is to kneel down. I have the privilege of not kneeling. I don't have to kneel. Mother-in-law, do you still want to drink this cup of tea?"
The wife of the Duke of Zhenguo glared at Tang Cheng and gritted her teeth and said, "Drink later."
Tang Cheng said "oh" and stood there obediently holding the tea, looking like he was waiting to be reprimanded.
The wife of the Duke of Zhenguo got angry when she saw her like this. Since she couldn't let Tang Si kneel down to serve tea, she let her stand longer.
So the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo continued to lecture him, talking about a lot of etiquette and rules, but she just refused to accept the tea.
Tang Cheng was lost in thought while holding his cup of tea.
Four concubines watched the fun.
Wen Huaian frowned and couldn't help but glance at his calm father.
At this time, Tang Cheng suddenly drank the tea in his hand... drank...
The wife of the Duke of Zhenguo stopped talking abruptly. She was so angry that she was grunting and pointing at Tang Cheng, almost unable to speak.
"You... you actually drank the tea?"
Tang Cheng tilted his head, thinking that what the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo said was really incomprehensible.
"Yeah, I drank it, didn't you see it?"
Tang Cheng nodded quite honestly.
"I saw that my mother-in-law was talking so much that she didn't take the tea. I guess she didn't want to drink this cup of tea, so I was going to change it. In order to avoid wasting it, I decided to drink it!"
Tang Cheng explained with an innocent look on his face.
God, avoid waste!
Tang Cheng drank the tea offered to the elders. This action was simply suffocating, but she looked so righteous.
Everyone present was stunned.
The Duke of Zhenguo and Wen Huaian, father and son, were all shocked. They obviously did not expect Tang Cheng to come up with such a sudden inspiration.
Seeing that Tang Cheng seemed to have something else to say, Wen Huaian's eyelids twitched suddenly, and a bad premonition arose in his heart.
Sure enough, Tang Cheng took another sip of tea in front of everyone and grinned at the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo.
"Mother-in-law, this tea-serving maid is really prophetic. She has prepared six cups of tea in advance. Mother-in-law, please tell me which cup of tea you want to drink, in case you don't like the tea I serve."
Look how considerate she is.
Tang Cheng thought to himself with great pride.
The corners of Zhenguogong's mouth twitched, and Wen Huaian held his forehead with his hand. He was now completely speechless.
Tang Cheng's train of thought is truly unique.
He couldn't help but secretly sympathize with his mother.
The wife of the Duke of Zhenguo was so angry that her heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys all ached. She suddenly regretted reprimanding Tang Si. This Tang Si was simply her nemesis.
"Mother-in-law, which cup of tea would you like to drink?" Tang Cheng asked seriously.
The wife of the Duke of Zhenguo covered her heart with one hand, pointed to a cup casually, and said angrily: "This is it."
Tang Cheng immediately and excitedly placed the teacup in his hand on the tea tray, and picked up the cup of tea that the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo pointed to and handed it over.
"Grandma, please have some tea!"
Now the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo stopped reprimanding him and immediately took the tea and drank it.
The servants in the room were already stunned.
Unexpectedly, in the tea-toasting contest between the Madam and the Young Madam, the Young Madam won.
At this time, the nanny trusted by the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo handed the lady's gift to the young lady.
Everyone present saw the greeting gift from the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo.
One is "Rules for Women" and the other is "Precepts for Women".
When the four aunts saw this, they couldn't help shaking their shoulders and wanted to laugh but didn't dare.
These two books are perfect as gifts.
Wen Huaian: “…”
He couldn't help but look at Tang Cheng. He remembered that the gift Tang Cheng wanted most was a red envelope.
Tang Cheng looked at the gift from her mother-in-law, her beautiful almond eyes filled with disappointment.
"Mother-in-law, this female ring is of no use to me. I am the only woman in Wen Huaian's backyard. There is no need to use the female ring to stand on the commanding heights to deal with the women in the backyard."
"It's better to give me a red envelope. You should give me a red envelope like my father-in-law did."
"But this is my mother-in-law's kindness, so I accepted it."
Tang Cheng unconsciously pulled a lot of hatred.
The wife of the Duke of Zhenguo was so angry that her face turned purple.
The breath was stuck in my chest, I couldn't breathe it out or swallow it.
This Tang Si is simply a devil!
She took a deep breath, covered her aching heart, and squeezed out a few words from between her teeth.
"Tang Si, these two books are my gifts to you. I hope you will abide by the duties of a woman in the future, be polite and know what you can and cannot do, and never do anything out of line to damage the reputation of the Zhenguogong Mansion."
She originally wanted to make things difficult for Tang Si when serving tea and act like a mother-in-law, but she ended up getting herself hurt by the anger.
Tang Cheng said "oh".
The tea service ended here. Tang Cheng recognized his father-in-law's four concubines, and watched the Duke of Zhenguo order people to beat the tea-serving maid who made the mistake with ten boards. Then he and Wen Huaian left the main hall.
The Duke of Zhenguo dismissed all the maids and servants, and upon seeing this, the four concubines tactfully said goodbye.
Speaking of which, when the Madam went to the temple to pray for the prince to have an heir, why did her temper become worse and worse
Aunt Chen felt a little suspicious.
But although she had suspicions, Aunt Chen did not dare to act rashly.
At this time, the Duke of Zhenguo and his wife were the only ones left in the huge main hall.
The Duke of Zhenguo looked at Min expressionlessly, his voice low and cold.
"Min, on the day Tang Si returns home, I will send someone to take you back to the nunnery."
Upon hearing this, the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo almost fainted. Her long nails dug into her flesh, but she didn't feel any pain.
She didn't know why the Duke was so cruel to her.
She is a victim too!
It's all Xie Xue Ning and her damn mother's fault!
Besides, didn’t Tang Si have an abortion
Tears welled up in the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo, but she bit her lower lip hard, forcing the tears back.
"My Lord, what did I do wrong? Why, why do you treat me like this?"
The Duke of Zhenguo looked cold.
"Min, you and Tang Si are destined not to coexist peacefully, and I can no longer trust you. For the sake of the inheritance of the Wen family, you should stay in the nunnery and continue to pray!"
Pray for...
Who are you praying for? It's for the descendants of the Wen family...
That is to pray for Tang Si!
The Lady of Zhenguo was so angry that she was shaking all over.
With a bang!
The string called reason in my brain is broken!
"Tang Si, it's Tang Si again. Is there no other woman besides her who can give birth to a child for Huai'an? Why should I, the wife of the Duke, make way for her? Tang Si doesn't deserve it!"
The Duke of Zhenguo just looked at her coldly and left.
The wife of the Duke of Zhenguo went limp all over and collapsed into the chair, tears streaming down her face. She grasped the hand of her trusted nanny tightly, exerting so much force that her nails dug into the flesh of the nanny's palm.
At this moment, her hatred for Tang Cheng reached its peak.
"Mammy, Tang Si, Tang Si can't stay. With her around, I will never be able to turn things around!"
The confidant nanny was horrified and endured the pain in her palms to persuade: "Madam, please don't do anything stupid!"
"I'm not that stupid. Let's take a long-term view on this matter." Lady Zhenguo took a deep breath and calmed down.
Her husband and son are unreliable, and she no longer has the honor and dignity of a duke's wife. What's the point of being a duke's wife
What does this bullshit inheritance of offspring have to do with her
Can't it be adopted
Rather than letting Tang Sisheng live, it would be better to adopt him.
The wife of the Duke of Zhenguo has completely turned evil.
"Mammy, please spread the news about what happened today when Tang Si served tea."
The confidant was shocked: "Madam, this is not appropriate. What if the Duke finds out..."
The wife of the Duke of Zhenguo had a gloomy expression on her face. She glared at her trusted nanny and said angrily.
"When serving tea, there are so many maids and old women in the room, why don't you find a gossipy old woman to tell others? In short, I just want to make Tang Si infamous and make Nanyang Marquis lose face!"
The confidant nanny was terrified.
In order to deal with the young mistress, the lady became so crazy that she didn't even care about the reputation of the Zhenguo Mansion.
Another concubine who shared the same idea as the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo was Concubine Chen. Among the four concubines, she was the most restless.
Aunt Chen, who was born in a marquis's mansion, had a younger sister who married the second master of the Wen family's illegitimate wife and gave birth to a legitimate son, who then gave birth to her eldest grandson.
Aunt Chen wanted Wen Huaian to adopt her sister's grandson.
Otherwise, when the Duke of Zhenguo is gone, there will be no place for her to stay in the huge Duke of Zhenguo Mansion.
Tang Cheng and the baby in her belly are obstacles.
Tang Cheng didn't know that the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo had been provoked into turning evil by the Duke of Zhenguo. As soon as she returned to Wutong Courtyard, she casually threw the two women's rings to Zhenzhu, and excitedly opened the red envelope given by the Duke of Zhenguo.
"One silver note, two silver notes..."
Wen Huaian drank tea and watched Tang Cheng counting the silver bills, with a smile on his face.
"A total of five thousand taels. I have more private money." Tang Cheng smiled so much that his eyes narrowed.
"so much?"
Wen Huaian was surprised.
He really didn't expect that the gift his father gave him would be so generous.
"Yes, my father-in-law is really generous."
Tang Cheng happily handed the banknote to Zhenzhu and asked her to go to the bank to exchange it for silver.
Silver notes are not as safe as silver.
Wen Huaian laughed.
Tang Cheng looked at the opened red envelope, his eyes rolled, and he remembered that the daughter-in-law of a certain super wealthy family in the empire would receive a generous reward for giving birth to a child.
My father-in-law is so generous, it would be nice if there was a reward.
Unfortunately, in ancient times, women were required to have children for their husband's family, but there seemed to be no reward for this.
but…
Everything depends on human effort.
Tang Cheng felt that he should mention it to Wen Huaian.
"Wen Huaian, do you think my father-in-law will give me a reward every time I give birth to a child?"
After Tang Cheng finished speaking, he looked at Wen Huaian eagerly.
Wen Huaian was speechless. He could see through Tang Cheng's thoughts at a glance. Thinking of her plan to have a baby and get rich, the corners of Wen Huaian's mouth twitched.
Tang Cheng not only wanted to take other people's money, he even didn't let go of his own money.
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