The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

After the family of three, each with their own thoughts, returned to Zeng's mansion, Doctor Zeng washed his hands many times, waiting to take over this windfall. However, they waited until sunset, dark, and dawn, but there was no sign of servants from the Anguo Marquis's mansion coming to deliver apology.

Seeing Doctor Zeng's face getting darker and darker, Madam Zeng also became uneasy. Facing the murderous look of her husband who had treated her so gently before, Madam Zeng said palely: "It was Madam Dong's close servant who told me this in person. I... I don't know what's going on!"

As cousins ​​who grew up together, Mrs. Zeng couldn't understand Doctor Zeng's mind better - on the surface, he was a normal scholar and official, but in fact, he was very arrogant and greedy. In the past, he did not hesitate to abandon their friendship in order to marry the daughter of his master's family; when he became an official and his master's family fell, he hooked up with his old lover again, and even watched his wife die in pain...

Mrs. Zeng couldn't help but think of the child she was forced to have an abortion for, which caused her physical injury and which she had only slowly recovered after so many years.

Although I was a widow at that time, given the difference in status between the families, if Doctor Zeng was willing to take responsibility and marry me, the child could be kept.

However, Doctor Zeng chose to abandon his lover and children as soon as the matter was exposed.

Mrs. Zeng's heart sank - she had been abandoned twice by the man in front of her, and she would never allow herself to be abandoned for the third time!

"Cousin, go and have a rest first. I'll ask someone to find out what happened. In our family, except for the eldest daughter, no one has ever offended Madam Dong Er. Even when Fu Er met Miss Ruan several times, it was Madam Dong Er's help that allowed Fu Er to leave a good impression on Miss Ruan." Madam Zeng calmed down and said with a forced smile, "Maybe something went wrong on the way. I'll ask the servants to find out. You still have to be on duty today, so go and have a rest first."

Doctor Zeng left with a cold face.

Madam Zeng smashed a cup hysterically, and then asked the servants to go to the Anguo Marquis Mansion to inquire for news.

Like the couple, Zeng Fu, who had not slept all night, heard the noise ahead, so he hurriedly put on his clothes and followed them out.

When the people sent by Madam Zeng arrived at the Marquis of Anguo's Mansion, they found out that the Marquis of Anguo had already sent the apology gift to Zeng Suqiu, but the place where it was sent was not the Zeng Mansion, but the Marquis of Yongjia's Mansion.

"Why should the gift for Miss Zeng be sent to the Yongjia Marquis' Mansion?" Madam Zeng's trusted servant quickly took out some silver from his bosom and quietly stuffed it into the servant of the Anguo Marquis' Mansion.

The servant put away the silver and said with a chuckle, "Didn't Miss Zeng leave with the Miss Jun...Jun's family yesterday? Our Marquis said that this apology is for Miss Zeng and must be delivered to her."

"But didn't Miss Zeng go to the Jun family? Why did she send the things to the Yongjia Marquis' Mansion?"

"You don't know this, do you? The former general and the county lord of the Jun family are both honest people, unlike other officials and families in the capital. Their house is in a commoner's alley, and it's crowded with their whole family. Our Marquis is so generous. If we really move it over, I'm afraid the Jun family's yard won't be able to accommodate it!"

"And the young lady of the Jun family is a close friend of Concubine Zhao! If these two families were not that, ahem, Lord Xie and General Jun, you know, anyway, they would be no different from one family!"

The servant who came to inquire about the news left with a frustrated look on his face.

Zeng Fu, who arrived shortly after, helped the servants of the Marquis of Anguo's Mansion earn their second extra money, and then added another step, asking them to help pass a message to Ruan Xiang'e, saying that he had been there and had something to talk to her about.

The servant readily agreed, but turned around and weighed the silver, telling the other servants about this as a joke: "All kinds of cats and dogs want to come and see our young lady, but they don't think that his surname is Zeng. If his father wasn't the brother-in-law of our Marquis, people from this family wouldn't even be able to touch the door of our Marquis's mansion!"

"What kind of relatives are you talking about? Pah, if we really want to talk about it, only my cousin is a legitimate relative of our mansion. What's the point of him being born by a second mother?"

After everyone in the Zeng family learned the truth, the couple naturally got angry again.

Doctor Zeng cursed his daughter the whole day long. When he was at the yamen, he kept the curses to himself. But when he got home, he started cursing while hitting his pillow. Seeing him so angry, Mrs. Zeng didn't dare to come near him. She closed the door and lay on the bed. She only told others that she was so angry that she had a miscarriage and needed to rest.

Doctor Zeng, who had been cursing until his voice was a little hoarse, turned around and saw his only son standing beside him with a cup of tea in his hand: "Father, please calm down. My sister followed me to the Jun family, but as far as I know, the young lady of the Jun family will leave with the army tomorrow. After all, my sister is an outsider and a woman. How can she continue to stay outside?"

After handing the tea to Doctor Zeng and watching him drink it, Zeng Fu finally felt relieved: "She has to come back home after all."

Doctor Zeng didn't notice anything wrong with the tea today, he just thought it was over-brewed and a little more bitter than usual: "If it weren't for her mother, that evil girl would have died out there!"

"Calm down, wait until your sister comes back, then you can punish her. Don't make yourself sick with anger." Zeng Fu said in a gentle voice, and began to think in his heart how to make Fu Qingsu, who had a bad temper, confront Madam Zeng again, so that he could use her to get rid of the child that should not exist.

It would be even better if Mrs. Zeng could be saved from death. Anyway, Zeng Fu could see in the past few days that the biological father of this body was a heartless man who only cared about profit. As long as he was still his only son in this life, it would not matter if he knew about what he had done later. After all, a man is not a hero unless he is ruthless.

Zeng Fu comforted Doctor Zeng with a few words and acted like a filial son. On his way back to the courtyard, he was still wondering when Ruan Xiang'e would reply to him. Although she was a little mentally ill, she was the most noble lady he could meet, and was very suitable to marry home.

As he walked, Zeng Fu could not help but look in the direction of the residences of the two concubines that he had found out earlier.

That was the most remote and cramped small courtyard in the entire Zengfu. Not only was it next to the place where Yexiang was burned, but the house was also dilapidated and had not been repaired for many years. It was said that the two concubines inside had been locked up and never allowed to step out. Not only were they fed and used worse than the servants in the mansion, but even their monthly allowances were often not paid. The two concubines could only embroider every day and ask servants they were familiar with to buy them for money to make a living.

Zeng Fu had secretly been to that place, and whenever he thought of the cold and depressing atmosphere of that place, he could not help but shiver. This method of torturing people was so vicious, and she was worthy of being called the most vicious woman!