The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

"That's true..." Chen Peiluan took off her cloak, handed it to the maid behind her, and sat down opposite Madam He, "Sister Sang Rou, has Chu Liupo angered her again?"

Madam He, also known as He Sangrou, still had a frustrated and angry look on her face: "When Dalang was choosing a wife, I said that this girl from the Chu family was not worth it. Her father was a barbaric peasant from the north, and her mother was a foreign woman of unknown status. If Chu Liupo could be as well-educated as those ladies from the scholarly families in Qingzhou, then I wouldn't say anything. But look, is she?"

"A girl who doesn't stay home to serve her parents and elders all day long, but wears Hu clothing and plays polo or wields swords, and goes wherever there is fun!" He Sangrou said angrily, "But my father and elder brother call her a daughter of a general. Aren't they still not satisfied that I chose my husband to marry her?"

"A daughter of a general... a daughter of a general! Her father's family background is not as good as my husband's. He is just a small county magistrate who has been rich for a generation. How can he be called a general! I can even wash my hands and cook for my husband, but she is so different. She doesn't know how to control her bad temper even after getting married. She makes those big families laugh at our He family's daughter-in-law for not having a good upbringing!"

He Sangrou now gets angry whenever she thinks of the words "a general's daughter". Before, when she was in the southwest, when she bullied Yan Yunyi and other mountain people, what she loved most was to say these four words "a general's daughter" to suppress the other party. Although the people who actually went to the battlefield were Yan Yunyi and other mountain girls instead of her, He Sangrou, she believed that the education she received since childhood and her personal abilities were far superior to Yan Yunyi's.

Even though she had never been on a battlefield.

Even though she never defended her country for a moment.

Even when others were traveling through the wild forests filled with thick fog and poisonous insects, fighting and bleeding for their clan, their people and themselves, she just stayed comfortably and safely in her husband's backyard, enjoying the honor and convenience brought to her by her family background, and ordering her servants to stew a bowl of dispensable rich soup.

But it seemed that as long as she kept the words "daughter of a general" on her lips, the responsibilities that she had never shouldered would naturally make her become noble and glorious.

It was not until Jun Yuexin's sarcastic and light question that pulled He Sangrou out of the empty sense of glory of being a "general's daughter", and Yan Yunyi used the real scars on her body to tear apart He Sangrou's words that had deceived herself and tried to deceive others.

From then on, she hated the words "a daughter of a general" as if she were an enemy: "I don't think she cares much about Dalang. Although she gave birth to two children, which is indeed a contribution to our family, I can still tell whether she is sincere or not as a woman."

She seemed not to notice Chen Peiluan's slightly pale face, just like the thick cloak she had just taken off. She kept complaining and said that she was angry and depressed, and asked the maid to open the window to let in some fresh air.

The nanny following behind Chen Peiluan looked at her master hesitantly, and Chen Peiluan shook her head slightly at her, then looked at He Sangrou and asked, "How did she provoke you this time?"

He Sangrou's expression was obviously paused, and she spoke reluctantly, "It's not a big deal, but I saw that she... wanted to test her sincerity for Dalang, so I told her that it was too much energy for her to take care of two children, so it would be better to give Dalang two concubines to share some of the burden."

"Ah?" Chen Peiluan raised her hand and covered her lips with a handkerchief to suppress the itch in her throat.

The reason why she and He Sangrou became good friends in the beginning was because among the families they knew, only these two had made a big fuss at their current husbands' families in exchange for their marriages, and after marriage, their husbands were only allowed to stay with them, eliminating the possibility of having concubines, mistresses, or mistresses.

It's just that Chen Peiluan's marriage to Tao Er of the Shenguo Mansion was a slightly higher marriage, but she was capable and Tao Er was not a tough person, so Chen Peiluan had the final say between the couple; but He Sangrou's marriage to General Yao was a complete downfall, but General Yao was not a man who was content with the status quo.

Before General He retired to enjoy his retirement, he was well behaved. But as soon as General He entered office, he started to have some evil thoughts.

He Sangrou, who couldn't tolerate any injustice, naturally wouldn't tolerate it. For this man, she would rather marry him even if it meant quarreling with her parents and brothers. She would rather keep all her knowledge from her mother's family and cook for him, support his parents, take care of his siblings, bear children for him, be a good wife and mother, and use her dowry to fill the hole in his family...

He Sangrou has already spent too much on General Yao, and she is absolutely unwilling to allow General Yao to love someone else.

But she believed that she could not stop a man from being unfaithful, and often said that it was inevitable for a man to cheat, so she had to be more careful about the women who approached her man - Chen Peiluan actually did not quite agree with this, but it was rare to have a friend who shared the same ideals as her, so she chose to respect He Sangrou's ideas.

But this time...

"Come to think of it, it was also inspired by your previous plan to give Tao Er a concubine." He Sangrou smiled, "I have to thank you. As soon as I opened my mouth, Chu Liupo's face changed on the spot. Ever since she married into our He family, she has always had a playful and smiling face. I have never seen her with such an ugly expression. It really relieves my anger!"

Chen Peiluan only felt like a slap in the face after several months. She couldn't help coughing and coughed twice. She said unhappily, "I have lost my feelings for Tao Er, and... that's why I had this idea."

"We don't want concubines ourselves, so how can we put this nasty thing in someone else's room?"

She lowered her eyes and did not say that the matter of taking a concubine was also mixed with her personal grudge with Lin Qiao.

At that time, Chen Peiluan had just been reborn. In her previous life, she died with a heart full of resentment and resentment. So when she first woke up, she felt unsatisfactory everywhere. She wanted to pounce on anyone and bite them to death, not to mention Lin Qiao, who had been bothering her since her previous life.

When she found out that Lin Qiao had rescued the two women easily but was still unwilling to come to see her, she vomited out the blood that had accumulated in her heart, recuperated for several months, and finally calmed down again.

At this moment, Chen Peiluan looked at the smug look on He Sangrou's face, as if she saw herself who was full of extreme thoughts a few months ago, and couldn't help but persuade her: "If you are like me, disappointed with your husband and don't want to get along with him anymore, it's fine to take care of the things in your room, but how can you..."

Seeing that she was unhappy, He Sangrou finally restrained her pride and held up her handkerchief: "Alas, I have already said that I am just testing her. If she is like me and is sincere to her husband, how could she tolerate a concubine?"

As she spoke, she became excited again: "Guess what her reaction was later?"