Shi Chu got up from the bed, covering her forehead. When she opened her eyes, she saw a honey-colored curtain hanging down. She was covered with a festive quilt with flowers and a full moon and a house full of children and grandchildren. There were two exquisite dragon and phoenix curtain hooks hanging on the head of the bed. As soon as she saw these things, she
knew that she had returned to ancient times. Before the servants noticed that she was awake, Shi Chu lay down again and began to integrate the memories of the owner of this body.
The original body was called Xu Shi Chu. She was only twenty years old. She had just been married to the powerful Prime Minister Luo Changqing for three months. Her husband was of noble birth and had a high position. Logically, the original owner should have lived a good life. Unfortunately, she was just a step-wife who was married back to be a tool-man.
Luo Changqing and his original wife Liu Huaiqing grew up together and were engaged since childhood. After marriage, they naturally loved each other very much. They soon gave birth to a pair of twins, and their life was enviable.
At that time, Luo Changqing had a gentle wife, a lovely young son, a smooth career, a happy life, and high spirits.
Unfortunately, perhaps too much will overflow, and such a life that even God envied did not last forever. Liu Huaiqing passed away due to illness when the twins were eight years old. Luo Changqing was once depressed because of this, and finally cheered up for the twins.
Perhaps because of his good relationship with his first wife, Luo Changqing refused to remarry for several years no matter how his relatives and friends persuaded him.
So how did the original owner get lucky enough to become his second wife?
This is because several princes have grown up in the past few years, and the struggle for the throne has become more and more intense, and Luo Changqing, a prime minister with a high position and no wife, has been targeted. Every prince wants to win him over to his side, so they set their sights on his wife and plan to let Luo Changqing marry a woman from their power all day long.
Luo Changqing wanted to avoid this calculation and also to consider his daughter's marriage. After all, there was a saying in this era that the eldest daughter who lost her mother could not be married. Therefore, he specially selected the original owner, who was born in a declining baron's mansion and wasted her time until she was 20 years old and was not married because of the death of her elders.
The original owner was just the niece of Xu Wenbo of Ningyuan Baron's mansion. She lost her biological mother early and grew up under the torture of her stepmother. She developed a timid and docile character. She couldn't get a fart even if she was beaten with three sticks. With such a character, she would not bully others and put on the airs of a stepmother to torture her stepchildren even if she married into the prime minister's mansion.
Luo Changqing took a fancy to her and married her back as a shield. Naturally, he had no feelings for her. On the night of the wedding, he told the original owner directly that she should put herself in her position, not care about the affairs of the young masters and young ladies in the mansion, and not expect to become a loving couple with him, but as long as she was honest, he would naturally give her the honor of the prime minister's wife.
The original owner was full of joy and thought that happiness was just around the corner. Who knew that Luo Changqing's ruthless words were like a basin of cold water poured on her head, which immediately woke her up from her beautiful dream, leaving her at a loss, painful and embarrassed.
But she didn't dare and had no confidence to resist, so she could only swallow her grievances and be an invisible person in the Xiangfu silently.
If it continues like this, even if she has no feelings for her husband and stepchildren, it will not prevent her from living freely, but her
natal family will not let go of such a prominent in-laws and not use them. So her aunt asked her to marry her niece to Luo Changqing's eldest son Luo Rui, saying that it was a close relationship. If her niece became a daughter-in-law, she could also gain a foothold in the Xiangfu and be the mistress of the Xiangfu with confidence.
The original owner had no sense of security because of Luo Changqing's words, so she was easily bewitched by her aunt. Under the instigation of her aunt, she did a lot of wrong things. She even drugged Luo Rui and put her niece on the stepson's bed, successfully "closed the relationship".
Such excessive behavior completely annoyed Luo Changqing and Luo Rui. The disobedient tool would naturally be dealt with. The original owner soon became "weak and sickly" and died quietly within two years. Shi Chu learned about the original owner's previous life and soon knew what time period she was in. She has been married to Luo Changqing for three months and has lived in this courtyard in obscurity. The last time Luo Changqing came to see her was on their wedding night, and he has never set foot here since then.
The twins Luo Rui and Luo Yaqing certainly don't take her seriously. It is impossible for them to pay their respects to her in the morning and evening. They just treat her as an invisible person.
In her courtyard, in addition to the servants and maids sent by the prime minister's mansion, there are also maids brought from the Ningyuan Bo's mansion as dowry. Shi Chu recalled and found that the indentures of these servants who came with her dowry were not in her hands, but were actually in the hands of her aunt in the Bo's mansion!
This is a bit outrageous. Only the original owner, who is ignorant of the world and was raised to be cowardly, does not know the importance of indentures. Without the indentures of the servants, are these servants still her servants? This is obviously impossible.
It seems that her aunt is very shrewd and has long planned to marry her granddaughter into the Xiangfu by stepping on the original owner. After all, she has the original servants in her hands. Is she afraid that the original owner can escape from her palm and not work hard for her?
"Come here!" Shi Chu shouted, and no one came in after a long time. It turned out that they didn't treat her as a proper master, otherwise how could there be no maid guarding when the original owner slept?
Shi Chu raised the volume and shouted several times, and then a beautiful maid walked in leisurely.
"Oh, Madam, why are you shouting so loudly? It's so bad if the servants of the Xiangfu hear it. They will think that people from our Bofu are uneducated. What if the Xiangye finds out?" The maid Tao Ye frowned and said with dissatisfaction.
Look, this maid dares to control the master. It is so bold. It can be imagined how much she doesn't take the original owner seriously.
Shi Chu stared at Tao Ye for a while, until Tao Ye felt uncomfortable, then he said expressionlessly: "Help me dress up, and then tell someone to bring me something to fill my stomach."
Tao Ye curled her lips slightly and said: "It's not too early or too late at this time. I've had lunch and it's not time for dinner yet. Where can I eat? Madam, aren't you making things difficult for me?"
"Why? Don't I, the wife of the prime minister, have anything to eat? The kitchen of the prime minister's mansion only prepares breakfast and dinner, so other foods don't need to be prepared?" Shi Chu said coldly,
"Are you unwilling to go because it's too troublesome, or are you not satisfied with me, your master, ordering you around?"
Tao Ye didn't take Shi Chu's expression, which was completely different from before, to heart. The cowardly and timid character of the original owner had long been deeply rooted in people's hearts. Tao Ye didn't expect that she had a different soul inside and was really angry, so she rolled her eyes implicitly and said dissatisfiedly:
"It's not that I find it troublesome, but you also know that the people in the Prime Minister's Mansion have never taken the Madam seriously. If you go there at this time, you won't be able to bring back anything delicious. Those snacks, soups and so on are prepared for the young ladies and young masters. They won't be willing to give them to the Madam, right?"
Tao Ye said, and then glanced at Shi Chu, thinking that she could see Shi Chu's face of unwillingness to shame. The original owner knew that she had no status in the Prime Minister's Mansion, and she hated being mentioned about this the most. Usually, Tao Ye and the others often made sarcastic remarks about the original owner being looked down upon by the people in the Prime Minister's Mansion. Every time she was mentioned, the original owner looked embarrassed and painful, and they often treated it as a show.
Who would have thought that this time, Shi Chu did not feel any pain after hearing her words. Instead, he looked at her frankly and said, "If the servants of the Prime Minister's Mansion dare to fool me with food, and you come back to me again, I will see whether I, a lady in name only, am more important, or the servants. Even if I am ignored, I am still the Prime Minister's Lady. If I go to the Prime Minister to complain, Tao Ye, do you think the Prime Minister will punish the servants or blame me?"
(End of this chapter)