Chapter 68 The elder sister who loves to take credit
Zhang Shu is reborn!
In her previous life, Zhang Shu married the prince of a marquisate. Her mother-in-law was unkind, her husband did not love her, her children were unfilial, and her concubine rode on her neck and acted arrogantly.
On the other hand, because the concubine sister saved the life of the fourth prince, the fourth prince begged the emperor to marry the concubine sister as his princess. Later, when the fourth prince ascended the throne, the concubine sister became the queen despite being a concubine's daughter. Her child was made the crown prince as soon as he was born, and she was honored and favored throughout her life.
Zhang Shu was reborn with tears of unwillingness.
She swore that she would live a better life than her half-sister in this life.
But she was reborn a day late, and her concubine sister had already saved the Fourth Prince. Fortunately, the Fourth Prince did not know who saved him. The only thing that could prove that the person who saved his life was a dragon-shaped jade pendant.
So, Zhang Shu stole her concubine's jade pendant and pretended to be the Fourth Prince's savior. She was worried that the Fourth Prince would discover the truth, so she decided to go all out and pushed the original owner into the pond to drown.
Zhang Shan's identity this time is the concubine sister Zhang Shan who was robbed of her life-saving grace. The original owner's aunt died in childbirth due to a conspiracy. The original owner was sent to the farm when she was born. When she was fifteen years old and needed to marry, she was taken back. Less than a month after she was taken back, she drowned.
Zhang Shan: “…”
It’s a bit miserable!
But it doesn’t matter, she can swim!
You will definitely not drown.
When Zhang Shan arrived, they were already on their way back home. Due to heavy rain, they could not continue their journey and had to hide in a mountain temple. At this time, the Fourth Prince was lying in a haystack behind the temple.
Zhang Shan stood up and stood under the eaves, watching the heavy rain pouring down. She felt a little hungry.
"Miss Third, please don't run around. If something happens, don't blame me for not reminding you."
The person who came to pick up the original owner was a forty-year-old old nanny, the lady's confidant's confidant. She never looked anyone in the eye and looked down on the original owner, the third lady.
Zhang Shan expressed her understanding. With the support of a big tree, she could eat delicious food and drink spicy drinks, unlike the original owner. Although she was a lady from a mansion, she ate simple meals, wore coarse linen clothes, was skinny, and her skin was not as good as the rough maid who cleaned the house.
The young lady is not as good as the maid.
Zhang Shan moved to the back of the temple and faced the haystack, and saw a man lying in the haystack with multiple wounds on his body, bleeding profusely. The man frowned.
How did the original owner do it?
Oh.
The original owner dragged the man from the rain to under the eaves, helped him bandage his wounds, went to find herbs in the rain, ground them into juice and fed them to the man.
Miraculously, the man survived.
Zhang Shan touched her chin, it was indeed a miracle.
In this case……
Zhang Shan pulled the man out of the haystack and let him continue to get wet in the rain. Then she twisted her hands and broke both of the man's feet. Even if they healed, they would still be uneven.
The fourth prince is named Li Jinghang, the fourth son of the current emperor. His biological mother is Concubine Shu, the eldest daughter of the Duke of Zhenguo. He is twenty years old this year.
In this era, men would get engaged at the age of seventeen, but the Fourth Prince had been dragging his feet, not because he was not favored by the Emperor, but because he already had someone he liked.
The Fourth Prince's sweetheart was his wet nurse Qin Shuangshuang, who was nineteen years older than him, so he always refused to marry her and protected Qin Shuangshuang.
During an anti-bandit campaign, he was betrayed by someone close to him and was seriously injured. He hid in a haystack in a ruined temple and was rescued by the original owner.
Thinking that the original owner was easy to control, he married her home and used her as a shield for Qin Shuangshuang.
After ascending the throne, although the original owner was the queen, Qin Shuangshuang was a noble concubine and held the phoenix seal. Knowing that she was not qualified to be the queen, she registered the child under the original owner's name.
In order to give the child a good identity, Li Jinghang made him the crown prince.
The original owner seemed to be doing well on the surface, but he was restricted in every way and lived like a puppet.
Zhang Shan clapped her hands and returned to her original seat as if nothing had happened.
The rain gradually stopped, and the nanny asked the coachman to pull the carriage over. Zhang Shan sat in the carriage, looking at the mountain temple getting farther and farther away, the corners of her mouth curled up slightly.
Li Jinghang, I hope you don’t die so early.
Sister Di, you must accept this kindness with both hands.
Zhang Shan stroked the jade pendant in her hand.
The carriage entered the city gate and was replaced by another smaller carriage. It took about an incense stick of time to arrive at the Duke of England's Mansion. The nanny took Zhang Shan in through the corner gate. Those who didn't know would have thought that Zhang Shan was the nanny's newly bought maid.
Zhang Shan was taken to a small courtyard, washed and changed into clean clothes before being taken to see the lady.
"Madam Xing, Madam is taking a nap. Please wait outside."
Zhang Shan waited outside with the nanny surnamed Xing for another half an hour before she was called in by a maid. Inside was a middle-aged woman wearing a dark purple dress with a gold and jade hairpin in her hair. Two hairpins swayed with her movements.
"Zhang Shan has met the Madam."
The woman put the tea in the tea bowl, glanced at Zhang Shan, and said in a light tone: "You have been reflecting on your aunt's mistakes at the farm. Now that you are back, you should behave yourself. This lady cannot tolerate dirty things, nor can she tolerate seductive tricks...Okay, Aunt Xing, clean up the Spring Garden in the west courtyard and let the third young lady live in it."
"Yes." Nanny Xing said respectfully.
"Thank you, Madam." Zhang Shan stood up and bowed again.
When they left the main courtyard, it was already getting dark. Nanny Xing sent Zhang Shan to Chunyuan and left. Zhang Shan looked at the deserted courtyard. Only the room was habitable, and it had been cleaned casually.
Zhang Shan did not enter the room, but took advantage of darkness to go to the kitchen and steal a lot of food. After eating and drinking, she found the Duke's treasure house, lay on the bed made of golden nanmu, covered with the finest ice satin silk quilt, and slept until dawn.
After waking up, he returned to the yard and waited for his elder sister Zhang Shu to arrive.
"Are you the third sister Zhang Shan?"
A beautiful girl with a noble temperament, dignified and calm demeanor approached.
"Yes, I'm Zhang Shan, ranked third. I wonder if this sister..." Zhang Shan spoke timidly, not daring to glance at the girl.
The girl sneered with disdain. How could such an ordinary woman who was even worse than her maid have such a good life in her previous life to marry the Fourth Prince and become the Queen in the end? Was God blind?
"I am your eldest sister Zhang Shu. Third sister, welcome home."
"Thank you, big sister."
"Third sister just came back. If you have any difficulty adapting, you can tell me and I will definitely help you."
"Really? Big sister, my room is a little dirty. Can you send someone to clean it? Thank you so much, big sister!"
Zhang Shu didn't expect that. She was just being polite, but she didn't expect Zhang Shan to be so rude. She was indeed a concubine's daughter, raised on a farm, and had no education at all.
The big talk had already been said, and in order to show that she was friendly, Zhang Shu had the yard cleaned again and sent someone to deliver clean bedding and clothes.
That night, Zhang Shan slept in the yard. The soothing fragrance on the bedding was nice, and she slept very soundly.
After waking up, she seemed not to notice that a dragon-shaped jade pendant was missing from her makeup box.
From that night on, Zhang Shu resumed her arrogant attitude, as if the person who had been kind enough to "take care" of her before was a different person. Looking at Zhang Shan who was hesitant to speak, Zhang Shu was very disdainful.
A concubine's daughter is a concubine's daughter and cannot be seen in public.
But Zhang Shu was still worried that the Fourth Prince would know the truth in the future, so she set up an ambush on Zhang Shan's way back from the family dinner, and pushed Zhang Shan into the pond when it was dark.
The next morning, when the lady learned that "Zhang Shan" had fallen into the water and drowned, she felt it was bad luck.
After Zhang Shan came out of the water, he went straight to the storehouse of the Duke's Mansion and looted both the public and private storehouses.
Then he rented a house near the Duke's Mansion, intending to observe the reaction of the Duke's Mansion.
But the madam managed the situation very strictly and no news leaked out. However, Zhang Shan knew that the madam had a headache and even used her own dowry to make up for the loss. She was very busy.
Naturally, I have no time to care about Zhang Shu.
Zhang Shu looked for an opportunity to meet the Fourth Prince. Although she knew that the Fourth Prince was seriously injured, she knew from her memories of her previous life that the Fourth Prince's injuries were not serious and that she did this to confuse the other princes.
She firmly believed that the Fourth Prince would ascend to that position in the future. Zhang Shu paraded around with the Fourth Prince's jade pendant, and under the pretext of looking for medicine for the Fourth Prince, she tried to gauge his reaction.
At this moment, the Fourth Prince's face darkened, and the teacup in his hand shattered.
"Is it really impossible to recover?"
The doctor shook his head.
"Deal with him!"
"Fourth Prince, please spare me..." Before he could finish his words, someone covered his mouth and dragged him out.
"Have you found that person?"
The guard nodded and said, "Master, your jade pendant is in the hands of the eldest daughter of the Duke of England. Five days ago, Miss Zhang went to the Pudu Temple to burn incense."
Pu Du Temple is very close to that dilapidated temple, so it is indeed possible.
"Just finish what you have to say, don't hesitate."
"Miss Zhang took your jade pendant to Beijing to look for medicine, saying it was for you..."
Snapped! ! !
"So now everyone in the capital knows that I'm injured?"
The guard didn't dare to answer.
No answer is the answer.
Snapped! ! !
The fourth prince pushed over the table, and the teacups and teapots broke to the ground.
"Ah Hang, who made you angry again?" A curvy and graceful woman came in with chicken soup, and when she saw the porcelain pieces on the ground, she said angrily.
The woman's every smile and frown was full of charm. The Fourth Prince's anger subsided a little, and he took the woman's hand, "Shuangshuang, I scared you. It's my fault."
Zhang Shu finally waited until the Fourth Prince arrived. The Fourth Prince felt somewhat displeased as he looked at the woman whose eyes were full of his feelings. This was another woman who tried to curry favor with the rich and powerful. In that case, he would grant her wish.
The Fourth Prince asked to marry the eldest daughter of the Duke of England as his consort, and at the same time, to take Qin Shuangshuang, the wet nurse who had served him since childhood, as his concubine. The Emperor knew that the Fourth Prince was injured, and no longer tried to stop him from making trouble. He waved his hand and agreed.
Zhang Shu thought that after marrying the Fourth Prince, she would be as loving and harmonious as she had imagined. However, she did not expect that the Fourth Prince loved someone else and slapped her in the face again and again for Qin Shuangshuang.
"Your Highness, you can't do this to me. I am your savior. How can you do this to me..."
"Benefactor? You're the one who destroyed my legs, and you still think you're my benefactor. I really want to kill you!"
The fourth prince, now the Prince of Idleness, kicked Zhang Shu to the ground. If it weren't for this bitch, he wouldn't have been limited to being the Prince of Idleness.
Idle King, useless king!
Zhang Shu's eyes widened. "No, it shouldn't be like this. It was Zhang Shan, Zhang Shan who harmed me..."
The Prince doesn't care who Zhang Shan is. He wants to kill the Duke of Ying first and then kill Zhang Shu to vent his anger!
Zhang Shan hid in the dark and watched Prince Xian bring down Duke Yingguo. Duke Yingguo's nine clans were exiled three thousand miles away. When Zhang Shu heard the news, she was so angry that she died.
Then, Prince Xian made Qin Shuangshuang his principal wife.
Then, when the emperor passed away and the new emperor ascended the throne, the first thing he did was to sacrifice Prince Xian and his wife.