I just want to live a happy life

Chapter 271: Startling Steps - 4 Fu Jin 17

The next day, when Ruoxi woke up, Yinsi, who had stayed here all night, had already left.

Qiaohui walked to the bedside and said, "The concubine is awake. I will help you wash up. We also need to serve tea to the concubine."

Ruoxi was stunned: "Serve tea?"

Qiao Hui nodded: "Yes, this is the rule. The second day after the concubine marries into the mansion, she needs to offer tea to the concubine. This is to fulfill her status."

Ruoxi looked unhappy. It was a rule that asked her to serve tea to that vicious woman, Fu Jin. She was full of resistance.

"Can you not go?"

Qiao Hui shook her head: "Concubine, we have to go. If others knew about this, you would definitely be talked about."

Ruoxi exhaled, remained silent for a while, and prepared herself mentally.

"Help me wash up."

Ruoxi wore a red Manchu dress and went to the main courtyard where the concubine lived, accompanied by Qiaohui.

On this day, many people came to Fu Jin's courtyard, which was rare.

Before, because Fu Jin loved Yinsi, she was annoyed by the women in the backyard, so she would avoid seeing them if possible. But now her love for Yinsi is almost gone, and she doesn't have any special emotions when she sees these people in the backyard. She can now treat them normally.

When Ruoxi walked in, the first thing she saw was Ruolan sitting in the first seat on the left. Ruolan smiled at the sight of Ruoxi, and Ruoxi also smiled slightly.

Then, Ruoxi saw several women sitting in other seats. She had never seen these people before she became a concubine. This was the first time she met them today. She thought they were also Yinsi’s women.

Thinking of the gentle and caring words Yinsi said to her last night, her attitude should not be soft. She didn't know how many women Yinsi had talked to.

In modern times, if her boyfriend had a mistress, she would make a big fuss, but in this era, she became one of the women, and not even the legal wife. How unpredictable things are.

But it doesn’t matter, she doesn’t love Yinsi, she doesn’t care about him, and she persuades herself in this way that he won’t care that Yinsi has so many women.

After waiting for a while, Fu Jin came out. Her belly was very big now, so she walked slowly. Wait for her to sit at the seat at the top.

The concubines and princesses bowed to the wife.

Ruoxi felt quite humiliated and squatted down to pay respect to Fu Jin like the other women. After a while, Fu Jin's voice sounded calmly: "Get up."

Afterwards, a man came out from behind the concubine and said, "Please serve tea, concubine."

At this time, a maid came in, holding a cup of tea in front of Ruoxi. Ruoxi took it, and then according to what Qiaohui told her when she came, she held it in both hands and raised it in front of Fu Jin.

Fu Jin took it, touched her lips lightly, and put it down.

Ruoxi felt very unhappy when she saw this scene. She had been so respectful in offering her tea, why was she so disrespectful?

And why did so many people come to serve tea to her? Did they want to embarrass her? She knew that Fu Jin had always looked down on her, both before and now.

Before, it was because Fu Jin hated her sister Ruolan, so she also hated her.

Now it's not only because of her sister, but also because she has become Yinsi's woman, she will only hate her even more.

But she couldn't express this anger, so she could only swallow it silently.

Fu Jin glanced at Ruoxi and didn't say anything to her. She was about to give birth and there couldn't be any mistakes. It was obvious that Ruoxi was not a contented person, and she always had an impulse to do things without considering the consequences.

Even if she is the concubine, when Ruoxi goes crazy, she thinks, Ruoxi won't care about the concubine or the concubine.

Besides, she doesn’t care now. As long as it doesn’t happen in front of her, she will pretend not to see it.

"Okay, sit down."

Ruoxi stood up and sat in the first seat on the right.

Fu Jin introduced the other princesses to Ruoxi, and then said a few polite words, and that was the end of it.

Ruoxi followed Ruolan out of the main courtyard and then went to the courtyard where Ruolan lived.

Ruolan treats Ruoxi as usual.

But Ruoxi was thinking about one thing, so she was a beat slow in responding to what Ruolan said.

"Ruoxi, Ruoxi, what are you thinking about?"

Ruoxi came back to her senses and did not hide it: "I was thinking, Fu Jin is not a good person at first glance. When I offered her tea just now, she only touched her lips with it and did not drink it at all. There were so many people around, and she just didn't give me face. Who knows how others would laugh at me."

"When you went to serve tea, she must have given you a hard time."

Ruolan patted Ruoxi's hand and said, "Ruoxi, don't think too much. Fu Jin definitely didn't mean that."

Ruoxi was dissatisfied: "Sister, why are you speaking for Fu Jin? I am your biological sister."

But Ruolan really couldn't say anything bad about Fu Jin. She had been in the mansion for so many years, and Fu Jin had never made things difficult for her. She just ignored her.

After leaving Ruolan's courtyard, Ruoxi asked casually, "Qiaohui, when sister entered the mansion and served tea to Fu Jin, were there as many people as today?"

Qiaohui thought about it and shook her head: "No, there is only one concubine."

As expected, Fu Jin was deliberately making things difficult for her and didn't want her to have an easy life.

When Ruoxi complained about Fu Jin's harsh treatment of her, Yu Ludai also received the news.

Yinzhen was conferred the title of Prince Yong by the Emperor.

Because of this selection, the emperor appointed Nian Gengyao's sister Nian to enter the palace as a concubine. Of course, before Nian entered the palace, there were two other princesses.

These two princesses were Su and Geng.

The original owner didn't have much impression of Su in her memory, except that she seemed to have given birth to a little princess.

As for Geng, her memory is relatively fresh. Not long after Geng entered the palace, she gave birth to a prince, Hongzhou, for Yinzhen.

But this development is already very different from the original plot.

Her son Honghui was the eldest prince in the mansion. Hongshi, born to Li, who became the mansion's concubine, was the second prince in the mansion. Lu, who entered the mansion before, first gave birth to the second princess and then gave birth to another prince, Hongli, the third prince in the mansion.

So far, there are only these few children in the mansion.

Yu Ludai didn't have any extra thoughts. The children in the mansion were all being well taken care of. Not only did the mansion doctors check the pulses of the princes and princesses regularly, but they also had plenty of food and clothing. Of course, this was done with the mansion's money. She wasn't so generous as to use her own money to raise other people's children.

After Lu gave birth to two children, Yu Ludai promoted her to be a concubine, and the children were raised by her side just like Li's children.

Yu Ludai did not intervene either.

If something happened to the child, she would not be involved.

The backyard was strictly managed by Yu Ludai, and there had never been any miscarriages or poison flying around.

Yu Ludai did not ignore those princesses who had fallen out of favor, and their shares were not taken away by the servants.