The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

"How is this possible?!" Zeng Fu couldn't believe it.

He tried desperately to recall the contents of the novel he had read before. It was clear that the heroine in the novel had only one brother!

Moreover, in the memories that he inherited from the original owner, the original owner was raised by a stepmother since childhood. The child’s memory was not very clear, but in the scenes that Zeng Fu could clearly recall, there was no trace of another "biological mother" at all!

Ever since he traveled through time, Doctor Zeng's wife had never mentioned related matters to him. It's just that her attitude was not as casual and gentle as that of mothers and children in modern society. But this is also normal. Nowadays, few noble ladies raise their children by themselves. Most of them are left to wet nurses and maids. If it is a girl, she has to be taught by the housemaids, and they spend more time together. But the education of boys is mostly left to their fathers and teachers.

Therefore, even though he realized that Mrs. Zeng's attitude towards him was not close enough, Zeng Fu, who was the richest in the family in terms of food, clothing and other expenses, never doubted that his biological mother was someone else.

"You don't believe it?" Fu Qingsu discovered not long ago that although she seemed to have entered the wrong body, she still seemed to have a golden finger. That is, although she was using the same body, Zeng Suqiu's negative states would not affect her.

Zeng Suqiu grew up in captivity, never leaving the house. She would be out of breath after walking a few steps, and had no strength in her hands and feet. She was also pregnant. But when it switched to Fu Qingsu, her well-trained physique before the time travel seemed to have been transformed. Even though Zeng Suqiu had just experienced a miscarriage and her body was getting weaker, as long as Fu Qingsu came to the rescue, she would immediately become full of energy and beat up Zeng Fu, who wanted to take advantage of her miscarriage to do something.

"It doesn't matter if you don't believe me. When you return to the capital, you can ask your dear mother in person to see if she will still recognize you, the child she adopted from her concubine, after she has her own child!" Fu Qingsu said with certainty.

In Zeng Suqiu's memory, when she was very young, Doctor Zeng had already taken in two concubines, and these two concubines are still alive today. They are just controlled by their stepmother, who never allows them to go out, and even not show up in front of people during festivals. Zeng Fu is the child of one of these two concubines. He was taken away to be raised by the stepmother as soon as he was born. The stepmother never allows anyone who knows the truth to mention this to Zeng Fu. Therefore, neither the original owner nor the one who traveled through time later knew that they were not born to the current Madam Zeng.

Seeing that Zeng Fu didn't believe what he said, Fu Qingsu just sneered and ignored him.

She had changed so much that the servants who had only watched the siblings' quarrels realized that something was wrong. The two confidants specially sent by Doctor Zeng still had the same impression of Zeng Suqiu/Fu Qingsu as before, and thought that she was just an ordinary, timid young lady. Even if she was unwilling, how could she have the courage to go against her father's instructions and give birth to that illegitimate child?

Therefore, they gradually became less concerned about guarding Zeng Suqiu, and by the time they realized something had changed, Zeng Suqiu had already successfully aborted the child.

The mission had failed, and Doctor Zeng's plan to use his grandson to take control of the Marquis of Anguo's Mansion had also completely failed. At the joint request of the "sister and brother", Doctor Zeng's two trusted servants had no choice but to have one of them ride back to the capital on horseback to report the situation to his master in advance, while the other one followed the sister and brother back to the capital.

On the third day after Lin Qiao was summoned by Xie Yuzhen, Fu Qingsu finally set foot in the capital of this familiar yet unfamiliar dynasty.

On the way to Beijing, Fu Qingsu had been controlling the body the whole time - so that Zeng Suqiu could rest and recuperate, and also to prevent their scumbag father and stupid brother from attacking them on the road.

After returning to Zeng's house, Zeng Fu went back to his yard alone as if he was familiar with the place, and he didn't even bother to complain about Fu Qingsu beating him several times.

Fu Qingsu, who was pretending to be Zeng Suqiu, was summoned to the backyard by Madam Zeng. The first thing she was asked to do was to kneel in front of the family hall, facing the tablet representing her biological mother and the ancestors of the Zeng family, and repent for her mistake of aborting the illegitimate child that she was forced to conceive.

Mrs. Zeng was only in her thirties this year. She wore a loose lilac-colored dress and sat on a chair on the left side of the hall. She glanced at Fu Qingsu with her narrow eyes and said, "Young Miss, why don't you kneel down? Do you have to wait for others to invite you?"

She deliberately sighed heavily and said, "You have really been spoiled by your aunt, Miss. This is the Zeng family, not the Anguo Marquis's Mansion. Our Zeng family is small and insignificant. You must not bring back that spoiled lady's temper."

"Oh, I was wrong. She's not a young lady. She's a child bride, not a concubine!" Madam Zeng's face became more and more sarcastic. "It's really worthy of being a marquis' mansion. The way people behave is different. The man was just born, but they already knew to prepare some cousins ​​to wait on him in the future!"

Fu Qingsu couldn't help but clench his fists.

In Zeng Suqiu's memory, there has never been a lack of such sarcasm.

She lost her mother at a young age, her father treated her like nothing, and her stepmother was hostile to her for some unknown reason, bullying her in every way. If it weren't for the fact that the wife of the Marquis of Anguo cared about her niece and came in person despite her illness to take Zeng Suqiu to raise her, she would have died long ago.

Zeng Suqiu felt both resentful and grateful for the years she had lived in the Marquis's mansion. She felt resentful about the atmosphere of flattering the powerful and ostracizing the weak, and perhaps later on because of what Ruan He did to her. But Zeng Suqiu was also very grateful to her aunt for being willing to lend a helping hand to her when she was unable to survive at that time. No matter what she had been through, that kindness was not false.

It's just that the wife of Marquis Anguo was too sick to take charge of the affairs, Zeng Suqiu herself was too cowardly and timid, and there were people with evil intentions at work, which led her step by step to the abyss.

"Oh, Madam, so that's how you hooked up with my father. How come, is it because my father lost control and slept with you when he was young, and had to abort the child, that's why you haven't been able to get pregnant after all these years of marriage?" Fu Qingsu knew that Zeng Suqiu was grateful to the wife of Marquis Anguo, but this little girl was thin-skinned and timid, and had been taught and disciplined for many years, so she developed a docile personality. She would habitually obey anyone who said a few words to her and became mute. But she was different!

Fu Qingsu glanced at the thin mat on the ground with contempt. Today, she was unwilling to kneel down and admit her mistake no matter what!

Besides, this matter was not his or Zeng Suqiu’s fault at all!

She rolled up her sleeves wildly and took a fighting stance: "Why, I said something wrong, Madam, aren't you my father's cousin? Didn't you have an affair with my father when my mother was seriously ill? Madam, you came in in a hurry before the mourning period was over. What's wrong? Do you like my father's old baba so much that you are so eager to eat it?"

"Before you say this or that about others, at least take a look at whether you are a clean person first, right?"