Chapter 16 Meeting the Family
Ji Yunqing didn't want to see it, but everyone else in the mansion was quite proactive.
The next day, Concubine Zhao called her stepmother over.
Her father is a local governor and is still in office. Only her stepmother stays in the capital, taking care of her elders, taking care of household affairs, and finding marriages for her children.
When Zhao's mother came this time, she also brought her biological mother with her.
Concubine Zhao was extremely surprised. She hurriedly thanked her stepmother and exchanged some pleasantries before pulling her aunt into the room.
As soon as the two entered the room, Concubine Zhao hugged her aunt and cried loudly.
"Auntie, Auntie"
Aunt Zhao's crying made her heart break. She quickly waved away the servants and said, "My dear child, Aunt Zhao is here. What's wrong with you? Speak!"
She held her poor daughter in her arms and looked at the maid Bishui: "Bishui, you tell me."
Bishui was very nervous and a little confused: "I don't know either. Miss is fine."
"Everything is fine? That's everything?"
Aunt Zhao was furious, thinking that her daughter must have suffered a great injustice.
Now Bishui didn't know what to say: "The princess is kind, and although the rules in the palace are strict, the young lady didn't do anything wrong, so she won't be wronged."
Seeing that Bishui really didn't know, Aunt Zhao was dissatisfied, but she could only coax her daughter, "My dear child, what happened? Tell me! Tell me, your stepmother will make the decision."
"Auntie," Concubine Zhao sobbed and buried her head in Auntie's arms, unable to get up: "I just, I just miss Auntie. I haven't seen Auntie for a long, long time."
"So this is ah!"
Aunt Zhao breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that her daughter had been spoiled by her.
The mistress stayed in the capital all year round, and Aunt Zhao followed Lord Zhao and served him, and her daughter also benefited from it and did not suffer.
"Okay, kid, you really know how to scare your aunt."
Aunt Zhao patted her daughter on the back and said, "Child, be good and listen to the prince here. If you can fight for your father, you should do your best.
If you can't, just take care of yourself. If you have a child in the future, you will have someone to rely on. As long as you are well, I will feel at ease. "
"Hmm" When she said this, Concubine Zhao's tears fell again.
"But, but the prince doesn't come to my yard often, when will I be able to have a child?"
Aunt Zhao comforted her, "Then you should behave well and let the prince remember you. In time, you will definitely be able to have a child."
"All right"
Concubine Zhao agreed reluctantly.
The prince is so annoying, why can’t he come to her yard every day?
On the other side, Aunt Jane
Aunt Jian was the daughter of a scholar, and her mother was the scholar's wife. She chose a good day and entered the palace carrying a basket in her hands.
"You Ran, you don't have any children yet?"
This was Mrs. Jane’s first sentence.
Knowing that her mother was coming today, Concubine Jian stood at the gate of the yard waiting for her mother.
Hearing her mother's words, the smile on her face gradually faded, and she whispered, "Mom, not yet!"
Madam Jian walked into the yard while scolding: "Why don't you take it seriously, kid?
Your brother was born in the first year after I married your father. Couldn't you have fought for it?"
Concubine Jian pursed her lips and followed her mother into the main hall. After they both sat down, she softly explained, "Mother, this is not something that can be accomplished just because I care about it."
My mother is my father's legal wife. Since she was newly married, of course my father would go to her room every day. There is nothing wrong with having a child.
But in her courtyard, it is considered a blessing for the prince to come for one or two days every month.
In this situation, how can she have a child?
"You!"
Madam Jian pointed at Concubine Jian's head with her finger, expressing her disappointment in her.
"Don't forget that you came here in the name of being good at giving birth. It's been three years now. If you continue like this, where will there be a place for you in the mansion?"
There is no such thing as three years. It’s clearly only two years, and the third year has passed in just a few days.
But Concubine Jian did not say it out loud, because she knew that this was not what her mother wanted to hear.
"I'll try"
“It’s better to really try your best.”
Madam Jian took the basket and opened the contents, revealing a basket of warm multi-grain steamed buns.
"Here, mother remembers that you loved eating multi-grain steamed buns the most when you were a child. I got up early today to steam them specially. They are still hot. Come and have one!"
As she spoke, she stuffed a steamed bun into Concubine Jian's hand.
Concubine Jian looked at the black multi-grain steamed bun in her hand and felt mixed emotions.
In fact, she didn't like eating multi-grain steamed buns at all, but her family was poor at that time and they had nothing to eat, so any slightly better food had to be given to her father and brothers and sisters.
This throat-sucking multi-grain steamed bun is the only thing her family can "generously" give her to fill her stomach.
"Mother, I just finished breakfast and I'm not hungry yet." Concubine Jian put down the multi-grain steamed bun.
After hearing this, Madam Jian sighed again: "This mansion is really luxurious. You don't have to work, and they even give you breakfast."
Concubine Jian said calmly: "The mansion is quite nice"
"Then you must have saved a lot of money now, right?"
Madam Jian sighed, a worried look on her face: "Your elder brother just got married, and your younger brother is about to get married too..."
Finally, after much hesitation, Concubine Jian reluctantly took out her own money and said, "Mother, this is eighty taels of silver. Take it and use it."
Madam Jian waved her hands, "How can I use your money?"
"Take it. My family is in urgent need of money. I have food and drink in the mansion. I am fine!"
"Is that so?" Madam Jian took the silver and said, "I'll just lend it to you. I'll ask your elder brother and younger brother to pay it back in the future."
"By the way, do you pay the palace back every month?"
"Well, ten taels of silver a month!"
"Ten taels? Oh dear."
Madam Jian smacked her lips and said, "This is too generous. Ten taels of silver a month, with food and drink, then how come you only get eighty taels of silver in these three years?
You don’t need to spend money in the mansion, so I’ll keep the rest for you. I’ll give it to you when you have an emergency.”
Concubine Jian didn't want to give it: "Mother, these eighty taels are already a lot, I also need to spend money in the mansion!"
"You have food and drink, why do you need to spend money?" Madam Jian frowned: "Now you don't even have a child, you have to save this money well and let me save it for you."
Concubine Jian had no choice but to give her mother another twenty taels of silver: "Mom, I really don't have any more."
She also needs to be taken care of in the mansion!
Madam Jian received the silver and smiled happily. She took out the darkest steamed bun from the basket.
She said mysteriously, "Mom came here this time and brought you a good thing!"
"what?"
Madam Jian broke open the steamed bun and asked her to look at it: "Look, because I thought you didn't have a child, I asked a fortune teller for help. This is the medicine I bought at a high price. If you take it, you will give birth to a son!"
Concubine Jian was completely confused. Her mother had just said that the family didn't have much money, but she could still spend a huge amount of money to buy this kind of medicine for fertility.
So, wouldn't the money she saved bit by bit be used for this purpose?