Forcing me to raise a concubine? The mistress of the Marquisate has gone mad

"Sixth Aunt, you watch over the fire. Mother Yu and I will go outside to fetch water. I'll leave this to you."

The two women in the kitchen agreed to go out together. The weather was getting hotter and hotter, and no one wanted to be involved in the job of making fire.

Sitting in front of the stove for a while, it won't be long before you are sweating all over. Your clothes are wet and dry, dry and wet, and never get clean all day long.

In the past, everyone took turns to be responsible, but now that Liu Po ​​came, she said she was good at making fire, so naturally everything was left to her.

The Sixth Granny smiled, without any dissatisfaction, "Okay, you guys go ahead, I'll be here for you."

The kitchen is busiest when preparing food, but it is quite idle at other times.

How could Sixth Grandma not see that the two old women were trying to be lazy? They were both hardworking people, so they knew what was going on!

But she didn't care, not because she had a good temper, but because she just needed to get that person away - wasn't this a coincidence?

Grandma Liu sat in front of the stove, slowly stirring the firewood inside. Because it was too hot, sweat flowed down her face like rain, and there was black soot on her face, making her look much sloppier.

She casually stretched out her hand and wiped the sweat off her face, then leaned out to look outside. After seeing that the two old women had indeed gone far away, she crouched down and came out from behind the stove.

The weather is getting hotter, so I prepare some mung bean soup every night. After it cools down, I add some sugar, and both adults and children love to drink it.

At this time, the pot was full of mung bean soup, and the fire was burning brightly. Liu Po ​​stirred it for a while and felt that it was almost done, so she took the mung bean soup pot down and put the empty pot next to it on top.

She added some water from the side, took out a medicine bag from her arms, and quickly put it in.

I saw the water in the pot began to boil, and black bubbles gurgled out. Although it was medicine, it smelled almost nothing. But the color looked a bit scary, as if it was dug out of mud.

The two old women went far away and would not come back for an hour.

They were used to being lazy, and taking advantage of themselves as the elders in the mansion, they would say they had a headache or a fever when doing heavy work, and leave it all to the people around them.

It did make it easier for Grandma Liu to operate.

"Girl, hurry up, drink the medicine in one gulp while it's still hot!"

After Sixth Granny prepared the medicine, the maid beside Zhuhong quickly took it and, following Sixth Granny's instructions, watched the two masters to make sure they finished the medicine in one gulp!

"Oh my god, this medicine is too bad to drink!" Liu Lu pinched her nose. She felt that the medicine smelled tasteless, but when she drank it, it was like eating a smelly sock that had been rotten for several days. As soon as she closed her mouth, the taste went straight to her head.

vomit!

"Shut up! Don't vomit it out!" Zhuhong covered her mouth. Even though she felt very nauseous and felt that the contents of her stomach were rising to her throat, she still held it back.

We can’t fail here again!

The taste of this medicine is really overbearing. Even if I endure it, the taste seems to linger in my mouth, and even my breath smells like rotten food.

Liu Lu had tears in her eyes, and she used up almost all her strength to prevent the urge to feel nauseous from coming up again.

She and Zhuhong covered their mouths and looked at each other slowly - after suffering so much, this move could only succeed, not fail!

"Ma'am, this is medicine residue."

The people sent by Chunxi kept an eye on Liu Po. When she was dealing with the medicine residue, they followed behind her and took it away.

Shen Ruoyan only took a look and said, "Send it to Doctor Xu and let him take a look at what it is."

Liu Po ​​handled it very cleanly, even washing the pot for boiling medicine three times and drying it. If you don't look carefully, you can't see any signs of use.

But what she didn't know was that someone was secretly watching her every move.

Just waiting for her to show her true colors!

The women in this yard can't look up to the sky, only the high walls and their husbands' faces. Every day, they either compete for favor or try to compete for favor, placing all their wealth and hopes on the same man.

Chun Xi packed up the medicine residue and ordered someone to send it out. She couldn't help but sigh, "I'm afraid this mansion will be in chaos again..."

The relationship between the concubines would be peaceful for a while at best, but before long, they would start competing with each other again.

Shen Ruoyan couldn't help laughing when she heard her sigh: "Young girls, why are you frowning all day? If they don't want to be quiet, then they won't be quiet. We will just deal with it as soon as possible."

When they were in the harem, the women fought even more fiercely.

But they are much smarter.

Any woman with a bit of brains in the harem will not indulge in love. Competing for favor is just a means for them to seize power. No one will bet her entire fortune on the emperor's favor.

A man's preferences change faster than the weather.

If I remain deeply in love with you today, I will be deeply in love with someone else tomorrow.

Especially the late emperor, he was simply a romantic. Lu Jing was very similar to him in some aspects, but the late emperor was more manly and smarter than him.

The favorite concubine in the palace is proud in the harem, so her mother's family must have been prosperous in the previous dynasty.

In the court, if a family has a capable son or a brave general, the women sent to the harem by their family will be favored.

The harem is indeed not allowed to interfere in politics, but the changes in the harem are closely related to the previous dynasty.

The emperor's heart was like a needle in the sea, and he couldn't control it at all. In her previous life, she didn't realize until the emperor was dying that none of the three thousand emperors in the harem were in love with her!

All he loves is the country!

The new emperor was weak and the empress dowager was powerful. In order to prevent himself from seizing power in the future, he issued an edict before his death, personally elevating the position of Empress Dowager Zhuang to share the harem with him.

After all, the emperor is Empress Dowager Zhuang’s biological son, and she will not watch her son being suppressed by her.

Although she had a close relationship with the emperor and Empress Dowager Zhuang at that time, she had experienced so many things that she had to be cautious and think twice even about her parents and relatives.

What's more, he is an outsider with no blood relationship?

She burned the imperial edict in front of Empress Dowager Zhuang. She lied to her - it was the imperial edict from the late emperor, which prevented her mother from interfering in government affairs and required her to be buried alive with him.

She believed it.

Who knew that the devil would always be one step ahead of the good? In the end, I was not vigilant enough and fell victim to the mother and son.

Now, she never will again!

"When the Marquis comes back in the evening, please help the two concubines. Concubine Fang's place is too far away. The Marquis is working hard outside, so there is no need for him to walk so far." Shen Ruoyan spoke softly, her eyes filled with coldness.

"Tell the servant who leads the way to be careful not to accidentally pass by other concubines' courtyards, so that the Marquis doesn't have to run back and forth."