The cannon fodder original wife's bad story

Chapter 9

Perhaps because he slept more, Song Guanzhou felt better.

After chatting with Lotus for a while, she heard the night watchman's call at five o'clock in the morning. Lotus also got up, washed up, and came in to visit. Seeing the master and servant talking by candlelight at night, she knew that Song Guanzhou had survived.

She is a little older than Hehua and has just turned sixteen. Like Hehua, she is a maid with ordinary looks.

It was unknown why, but when the Fourth Young Master's wife got into trouble, the arrogant Panlan and Panxi around her, as well as the five or six maids under her, were all driven out by the Fourth Young Master, and the two maids were the only ones who served them closely.

How could the two maids know what their masters were thinking?

They could only follow in trembling with fear. They had never served a master before and were afraid of being punished if they were not careful.

Fortunately, the Miss Sun who was leading them to do the work was not from the mansion and was gentle by nature. If they made any mistakes, Miss Sun would teach them in a kind way.

Life is much better than outside the second gate.

Now that the Fourth Young Master's wife has woken up, it has been heard that she listens to Panlan and Panxi the most. I'm afraid the two of them will have to be driven out again.

Thinking of this, Lianhua felt sad, but she immediately thought of a good thing. At least she had become familiar to the Fourth Young Master's wife. As for the future... she would talk about it later.

"Madam, are you feeling better? I'll go to the kitchen and bring you some hot soup and porridge to moisten your stomach."

Lotus Flower is half a head taller than the other, but her skin is darker. However, she seems to be very smart in what she says and does.

Song Guanzhou shook his head slightly, motioning her to come over, "Don't worry, it's still dark, and I can't eat." She thought for a moment and told the two, "Help me up, I'll walk for a while."

The two maids didn't know how to refuse their master, so they just obeyed and held her arm. After she stood up, her body was as heavy as if hanging from lead, so she had to hold on to the bed. She could feel the piercing pain under her feet, and she smiled miserably, "Fortunately, you didn't break my leg."

"That fairy lady is so bold. She doesn't even consider where we are. She tortured you like this. The Fourth Young Master will definitely not let her go--" Lotus was indignant. Just as she was about to say something to vent her anger, Lianhua pulled her sleeve.

Song Guanzhou was sharp-eyed. He moved carefully and asked, "Lotus, why don't you let her continue?"

Lotus looked around and whispered, "I don't know. Originally, the Fourth Young Master asked Manager Liu Er and his men to lock up Madam Xian and her gang, but for some reason, someone let Madam Xian out of the mansion in the middle of the night."

I dare not say more about what happened next.

Song Guanzhou no longer had any good feelings towards this feudal society, so Lianhua's words did not surprise her.

If you can't die, then just live on.

How to survive would be discussed after she recovered. Now she was thinking about healing her wounds and finding an excuse to leave the house.

"…Who has come to my room these days?"

She rarely woke up and was haunted by nightmares. She vaguely knew that there were men and women coming and going, but she didn't know who they were.

Lianhua supported her and reported in a low voice, "Besides the Fourth Young Master who came to visit you every morning and evening, the Duke also sent Aunt Fang to visit you once, and Aunt Chu, who served as the wife of the Crown Prince, came twice. The others were Doctor Zhang and Doctor Sun."

After thinking for a while, He Hua added, "Since the second house was not disturbed, no one from the second master and second mistress came to visit."

Song Guanzhou remembered the second house of the Duke's Mansion. From the original owner's memory, she knew that the second house lived a luxurious life. With the Duke's support, they had no worries about food and drink. The second master had no other ability, but just liked to have children. Except for the legitimate son of his wife Qian, the rest were all illegitimate children.

He had countless concubines and a large number of children.

During the holidays, there were a lot of people, big and small, who came to the Duke's Mansion to pay their respects. Song Guanzhou, who had been married to the Duke's Mansion for two years, didn't recognize all of them.

Even so, the second master was still worried and said that he had a little daughter in the twelfth month.

"Where are Panxi and Panlan?"

It seemed that I woke up several times, but I didn't see the girl I was familiar with in the past few days.

"The Fourth Young Master punished them and was about to chase them away, but then he thought that they were people you were used to ordering around, Madam, so he decided to wait until you woke up before making any plans."

After several rounds of communication, Song Guanzhou finally understood the current situation.

"What are your backgrounds? Are you from the family or were you bought in from outside?"

Lotus supported Song Guanzhou as they staggered in the inner room. When she heard the young lady's question, she quickly replied, "Both of us sold ourselves into slavery because our families were in trouble and we had no way to make a living. We entered the Duke's Mansion together four years ago and have been working in the outer courtyard with Madam Xu."

Sometimes I cook in the kitchen and wash vegetables, and sometimes I do laundry and clean.

Song Guanzhou knew what was going on and was tired, so he took a rest. Lianhua asked Song Guanzhou what he wanted to eat and went to the kitchen with the food box.

He Hua also brought hot water and helped Song Guanzhou wash up. His hair was long and thick, and He Hua didn't know how to comb it, so she said nervously, "Madam, I'll ask Sister Pan Xi to comb your hair. I've never learned it..."

Nowadays, combing hair is a skill. Without a master to teach, most maids can only comb their hair into double buns. He Hua has no idea how to make a complicated bun like her master's.

"it is good."

After a moment, Pan Xi could not hide the joy in her heart, and she lifted the cotton curtain and walked in with Hehua. Only when she saw the young lady sitting on the bed in her middle dress did she force herself to squeeze out a few tears, and then she threw herself in front of Song Guanzhou and kowtowed three times to him.

If he had not read the original text, Song Guanzhou would have been deceived by this "loyal" maid.

"Madam, I was so worried about you. You finally woke up. I prayed every day these days, hoping that you would get better soon."

Song Guanzhou watched her excellent performance without interrupting her.

After Ren Panxi kowtowed three times, he slowly said, "Get up. Hehua doesn't know how to comb her hair. You take her with you."

"This..." Pan Xi was stunned. She immediately reacted, "Sister Hehua is used to doing rough work. I'm afraid she's unfamiliar with it and might hurt the young lady."

Song Guanzhou knew that she didn't want to give her job to others, but so what?

"No problem, practice makes perfect. Don't be shy and take good care of her, so I won't suffer as much."

How could Pan Xi be willing to do that?

She forced a smile and said, "Young Madam, you are joking. I am not very capable and I am afraid I will teach the wrong person. If Sister Hehua wants to become a disciple, she can go to the wife of the Crown Prince and ask Aunt Chu to teach her for a year or so."

As soon as he finished speaking, Song Guanzhou's face darkened and he looked straight at the girl.

To be fair, Panxi and Panlan are also quite pretty.

If she were placed in the second room, she would have been adopted by the second master long ago, and would have given birth to a boy or girl, and her life would have been stable.

But she chose to stay with Pei An, the eldest son of the family. In the original novel, Pei An was not interested in women, and besides his first wife, there were Zhu Baoyue, with whom he had no physical contact, and Jin Fuyun, with whom he would be together for the rest of his life.

The two maids in front of him were later assigned to be managers by Jin Fuyun, and they were quite harmonious.

But now in front of him, she felt disgusted.

The original book did not write much about the commotion during the Lantern Festival, but her memory revealed the truth.

Originally, Song Guanzhou didn't have the courage to do this. At most, he would have asked the servants to go to the door and loudly spread a few embarrassing words as he did in the past. But this time, the two maids instigated her to shout and curse all the way. What was even more inappropriate was that... she even rode in a sedan chair with lanterns from the Duke's Mansion to parade through the streets.

She was afraid that others didn't know that she was Pei An's wife, and she was also afraid that others didn't understand that the Manyue Tower she was going to was actually a place of romance.

How can a decent woman set foot in that place?

The two girls had ulterior motives. Now that she had looked at it carefully, she felt that the result was consistent with the original book, but the cause and process were completely concrete.

Who was behind this, instigating the two maids serving her and causing trouble?

Jin Fuyun?

If we follow the original story, Jin Fuyun is still at the frontier. Is she the wife of the Duke? The wife of the Crown Prince?

These two are background characters in the original novel, especially the wife of the Duke's Mansion. She is in poor health, but is kind and charitable, and is a well-known compassionate lady. Her most important appearances are when she meets Jin Fuyun.

When the two met, they hugged each other and called each other "mother and child", and were very close.

As for the Crown Prince's wife, in the original novel she is the niece of the Duke's wife. She is dignified and well-mannered. In addition, Jin Fuyun is very good at dealing with people, and she is able to win over Xiao Shi as if she were her own sister.

Pei An passed the imperial examination and entered politics, moving up the ranks step by step. He and the Duke's family complemented each other without any conflicts of interest. In the original novel, the Duke had three legitimate sons and one illegitimate son. Except for the eldest son who died of an acute illness and the illegitimate third son who had an accident and had to return to his hometown to make a living, the remaining two brothers lived in harmony and were extremely wealthy and prosperous.

But Song Guanzhou, who came from the book and experienced it from the perspective of the cannon fodder's original wife, felt that the father-in-law and mother-in-law in the Duke's Mansion were cold and heartless, and the Crown Prince's wife was on the same side as her mother-in-law.

She racked her brains and barely remembered that the author had said that Duke Pei Jian and her father Song Wenqi were once good friends.

So, looking around, there are enemies everywhere.

Including the girl who was absent-mindedly combing her hair.

"Don't tie your hair into a bun yet. Let me wash it first."

Pan Xi was stunned. "The young lady has a lot of wounds all over her body, and her head was also affected. I'm afraid she can't get close to the water."

Song Guanzhou stared at Pan Xi in the mirror, silent and with a cold look.

Pan Xi quickly lowered her head and said, "Young Madam, I will go and get some water." She did not dare to order He Hua to do anything and went out on her own.

"Is the old lady the housekeeper?"

Suddenly, she looked at He Hua, who leaned close to Song Guanzhou's ear and said, "Young Madam, I heard from the outer gate that the old lady had been harshly accused of harming the Third Young Master, and was deprived of her power as housekeeper by the Duke. Now the Crown Prince's wife has the final say in the mansion, but I also heard that the Crown Prince's wife is the old lady's niece, so everything must be reported to the old lady before she dares to make a decision."

Everyone in the mansion knows that the Crown Prince's wife, Xiao Xiao, is not the Crown Prince's biggest reliance, but her aunt and two legitimate sons.

"Third Young Master?"