Professional Ethics of a Concubine

Fang Yunyan's eyes were dark. He looked at the delicate face so close to him, restrained himself, and asked her calmly,

"Is the princess satisfied with this? Is your wish fulfilled?"

"It is my wish to take advantage of you like this." Princess Ling Yue said as she pecked him lightly on the mouth again, leaning against him and whispering to him like a lover.

"But of course I'm not satisfied with just this. People's hearts are always insatiable. Before, I could be happy for several days just by seeing you occasionally. Later, I thought of ways to see you every day, but it still felt not enough.

Now that I have kissed you like this, it has satisfied my desire for the moment, and I will only want more in the future.

However, if people only care about their own desires and do not know how to restrain themselves, they are no different from animals.

You are an important official trusted by my father. It is impossible for you to be my consort, and I have never thought of marrying you.

I just wanted to see you before, and I came here today to see you choose your future wife, and also to put my mind at ease.

Why did you have to provoke me? Tell me, did you do it on purpose? "

"I just want the princess to appreciate the plum blossoms."

If you ignore the strong emotions in Fang Yunyan's eyes, he is still elegant and calm, with a calm voice.

"Since Princess knows that she cannot do such beastly things, can you let me go?"

"Don't you know that knowing is one thing, and being able to do it is another?" Princess Ling Yue acted justified and said as if she was coaxing him.

"I'll let you go after I kiss you once more, okay? In the future, when you remarry and I marry someone else, I won't bother you anymore."

As she said that, Princess Ling Yue kissed him again, not knowing how to do it. After kissing him twice, she felt something was wrong, but she didn't know what to do.

Princess Ling Yue looked at his unmoved and indifferent appearance, but was not discouraged at all. She called his name coquettishly and asked him confidently,

"Shi Jin, I don't know how to be kind to others, can you teach me..."

Fang Yunyan was so tortured by her that he closed his eyes, sighed, and let the string of rationality in his heart completely break.

He reached out and held her, opened his lips, and turned the passive position into active one, just as she wished.

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Here, Ye Qingzhi sat in the warm pavilion. There was a charcoal basin so she wasn't cold. She also had tea and snacks. Looking at the winter scenery, she didn't feel bored.

She would enjoy it more if someone could play the piano or dance for her or show her some talent.

Isn't there a blind date banquet at the Fang Mansion today? Don't these noble ladies want to show off a little?

It really comes to whatever you want.

Soon, four noble ladies came over from not far away, talking and laughing. They seemed to be familiar with each other. Upon closer inspection, they all seemed to be girls of marriageable age.

Ye Qingzhi just watched them stop on the wooden bridge not far from the warm pavilion, leaning on the railing and looking at the carp in the water, as if they didn't notice her.

OK, I get it. I'm not here to perform my talent for her. I'm here to pull her hair.

The next moment, Ye Qingzhi heard the noble lady in yellow clothes say,

"Nowadays, the world is really going downhill. Even middle-aged women can be arrogant and favored, forcing the legal wife to leave the house. No matter how noble our family background is, what's the point of being the legal wife? We will still be bullied and controlled by the concubines!"

"Yes! Especially those merchant daughters, who don't know etiquette, smell like money, and are complacent, thinking that they can do whatever they want with money and can sit in a high position. It's really the end of human nature, and the breakdown of etiquette and music."

……

Ye Qingzhi's mouth twitched when she heard these indirect remarks.

There is no doubt that the middle-aged woman refers to a beautiful mother, a merchant girl with a smell of money, and it is referring to her.

There is nothing wrong with what you said!

If you can speak, speak more.

Listen to the tone of concern for the country and the people, and there is nothing wrong with being worried about the status of the noble lady and the mistress of the aristocratic family.

She was also worried about the status of the mistress of their family, and worried that the concubine who would enter the mansion in the future would want to take her place.

So, we can talk about it together and then write a research report and an executable report or something.

Try to improve the behavior of favoring concubines and neglecting wives in this world. It would be best if the practice of taking concubines was abolished thousands of years in advance?

She would gladly be unemployed!

Ruyi was very angry when she heard this. She felt that her master was being insulted, so she angrily said to Ye Qingzhi,

"Concubine, with your current status, you can definitely teach them a lesson!"

"Who is the master between the two of us? Do I need you to teach me how to do things?"

Ye Qingzhi frowned, and her tone was not harsh, but it frightened Ruyi so much that she immediately knelt down and admitted her mistake.

"In your own house, you can act freely and I will let you do whatever you want. If you are confused when you go out, you don't have to follow me anymore."

Ye Qingzhi continued to speak calmly.

"Master, I was wrong! I will never dare to do it again." Ruyi's eyes immediately turned red.

Chunyu, who came with them, also knelt down quickly without begging for mercy.

There were two maids from the Fang family nearby. They were a little confused when they saw that Ye Qingzhi didn't get angry at those sarcastic noble ladies, but instead taught her own personal maid a lesson.

For a moment, it seemed wrong to kneel, but it also seemed wrong not to kneel.

Why does Concubine Ye act differently from others?

"Get up." Ye Qingzhi said indifferently to Ruyi.

Ruyi quickly got up and wiped her tears. Although she felt a little aggrieved, she became cautious and the arrogance she had just had was gone.

Ye Qingzhi was deliberately warning her. Ever since she was promoted to concubine, she hadn't become arrogant yet, but the maidservant around her had already become arrogant.

She is a small clerk in the workplace. When she is outside, she must always be vigilant and do her duty. You are just a maid. If you are so arrogant, you will not only harm yourself, but also implicate her as your master.

If after this warning, Ruyi still felt unqualified and incompetent to be her personal maid, she would not care about their past relationship between master and servant.

She should be removed if she needs to be transferred to another position, and be asked to do other work, instead of giving her the dignity of a maid.

The noise of Ye Qingzhi teaching the maid a lesson made those noble ladies who were capable of outputting yin and yang unable to make up their minds.

Is this a sign of losing patience?

But why didn't you take it out on them?

Since they came here to cause trouble, they were just waiting for her to get angry.

As long as she gets angry and teaches them a lesson, she will be unable to escape the bad reputation of being an overbearing concubine. She can also say that Prince Jing deliberately condoned them, causing Prince Jing's reputation to suffer some damage.

"Please ask those ladies to come over. I think what they said was very good. I want to listen carefully and have a chat with them."

Ye Qingzhi said to the two maids from the Fang family.

The two maids felt that Concubine Ye was unfathomable and a master of weirdness, so they immediately followed her instructions, walked out of the warm pavilion, and invited the noble ladies over.

"Greetings, Concubine Ye." The four of them came into the warm pavilion and saluted to Ye Qingzhi together. There was nothing wrong with their attitude.

"Please sit down, everyone." Ye Qingzhi said with a smile, "Whose families are you all from? Introduce yourselves so that I can get to know you all."

The four of them looked at each other and introduced themselves one by one. The first one was the fifth girl of the Chen family, Chen Youxuan, the Crown Princess's biological sister, who had the most noble status.

The other three were daughters of officials affiliated with the Chen family. Ye Qingzhi didn’t specifically remember them. She only needed to know Chen Youxuan, who was the protagonist.

Without her instruction, the other three would not attack her because they did not have the courage.

"It's Miss Chen." Ye Qingzhi smiled, gentle and kind, and spoke softly,

“Just now I heard you say that we merchant girls are all full of money. I think you may have misunderstood.

We merchant ladies also bathe and use perfume. No matter how many copper coins or silver notes we have, we will never carry them with us. It is impossible for us to be stained with the smell of copper.

Why don't you smell this concubine to see if I have the smell of money?"

After saying that, Ye Qingzhi stretched out her hand and handed it to Chen Youxuan for her to smell.

Chen Youxuan,……

His face suddenly turned red.

"That's not what we meant..." Chen Youxuan said angrily, holding her breath.

"Oh? What does that mean? Please explain it in detail, and give two specific examples. Did you meet a merchant girl who doesn't care about her clothes and doesn't bathe or use perfume?"

Ye Qingzhi continued to ask with a smile.

Chen Youxuan stared, unable to say anything. She wanted to scold her for being unreasonable.

She was using a metaphor, a metaphor!

"It seems you can't say it? Miss Chen, do you feel you are wrong? Don't feel wronged. I like to deal with things rather than people. We merchant girls don't have the smell of money. This is a fact. You are wrong. Right?"

Ye Qingzhi was possessed by Tang Monk and started chanting scriptures, smiling and asking Chen Youxuan over and over again whether she was wrong.

"…I'm wrong, okay?"

How could Chen Youxuan bear this? Her eyes turned red and she was almost crying with anger.

"It is a great virtue to correct one's mistakes. Then please don't speak of us merchant girls like this in the future, Miss Chen. It makes us sad to hear it, and it also makes Miss Chen look uneducated. However, I am a magnanimous concubine and I forgive you."

Ye Qingzhi said with a smile.

Chen Youxuan stared with her eyes wide open, feeling suffocated.

"By the way, next time Miss Chen hears someone mocking a merchant girl for her money-grubbing habits, you must remember to correct them. This is both a way to help others and to atone for past mistakes. Do you understand?"

Ye Qingzhi continued to speak in a soft voice.

Chen Youxuan's face has become distorted!

She stood up and was about to say goodbye and leave.

"Why are you in such a hurry? We haven't even talked about your concern about the mistress being tortured by the concubine."

Ye Qingzhi smiled and pushed Chen Youxuan back down, asking her to sit properly.

The expressions of the other three noble ladies have changed several times, and now they are all silent and dare not say a word.

They have fully realized how difficult Concubine Ye is.

It's not someone they can mess with.

"The middle-aged lady you are talking about must be my mother.

This concubine does not like to cover up, especially when it comes to people. The matter and the person must be matched, don't be vague and increase misunderstandings, don't you think?"

Ye Qingzhi smiled and began to recite scriptures and preach again.

"..." Chen Youxuan also lost her temper and spoke angrily,

"Yes! I'm talking about your mother, Concubine Mu. The prince of Su favored his concubine and killed his wife for her. Everyone knows it. What do you have to say in your defense?"

"My mother is favored, but Princess Su was placed under house arrest because she harmed the prince's offspring. It has nothing to do with my mother. Miss Chen, don't get the cause and effect of this matter wrong!"

Ye Qingzhi's expression turned serious.

"Princess Su was the first to kill his offspring, and my mother entered the palace later. If you insist on saying that it was because of my mother that Prince Su held Princess Su responsible for killing his offspring, then this concubine really has nothing to say.

But when is it wrong to harm one's offspring? Isn't the main responsibility of a mistress to have children and raise them?

The mistress has done her job well, just like Madam Lin of the Marquis of Pingnan. She never harmed her offspring, but was tortured to death by her concubine. We should speak up for her and seek justice for her!

You insist on saying that Princess Su is right to harm the offspring and you want to redress her injustice. Aren't you afraid that the baby who died in her hands will turn into a demon and haunt you? !

I heard that they have a lot of resentment, are particularly vicious, and are young, so they don’t understand that every wrong has its perpetrator, and when they hear that you are protecting the bad guys, they get angry and lie on your shoulders, sticking out their tongues, sucking your yang energy, and asking you to pay for their lives…”

Ye Qingzhi's words were so vivid, coupled with her pretending to be eerie tone, that Chen Youxuan's defense was broken. She slapped her shoulders in fear, and cried out in fear,

“…Ahhh! I, I didn’t! I wasn’t! Don’t scare me! Oh, oh, oh, I didn’t! I’m not speaking up for Princess Su again! I was wrong, don’t bother me…”

The other three ladies were also trembling and pale, and they were about to hug each other and cry.

"Miss Chen, don't be afraid, don't be afraid. Go back to Xiangguo Temple to burn some incense, donate some money, and set up more porridge stalls to help the victims and accumulate merit. Anyway, if you do more good deeds, those demons won't bother you anymore."

Ye Qingzhi spoke gently, powerfully, and seriously.

"You, don't lie to me! I, I don't believe there is such a thing in this world..." After Chen Youxuan calmed down a little, she wanted to get back at him.

"Oh, Miss Chen, there's something on your shoulder..." Ye Qingzhi immediately pretended to be frightened and shouted.

"Ahhhhhh!" Chen Youxuan jumped up in fright, shouting for the maid to protect her.

"Miss Chen, calm down. I was just joking with you." Ye Qingzhi immediately said with a smile, "If you don't do anything wrong, you don't have to worry about ghosts knocking on your door. What are you afraid of?"

If Ruyi and Chunyu had not just been beaten, they would have laughed out loud. Now, looking at Chen Youxuan being teased by their master, they dared not laugh out loud even though their stomachs ached from holding back their laughter.

The same thing happened to the two maids of the Fang family. They lowered their heads, bit their lips, and their shoulders kept shaking.

After being teased again and again, Chen Youxuan burst into tears.

She cried and asked Ye Qingzhi, "Wuwuwu... Concubine Ye, I know I was wrong. I shouldn't have said that. Can I leave now?"

"Now that you're here, why are you in such a hurry to leave? I just explained my mother's matter. We haven't even talked about the world's decline, the unstable status of the mistress, and many other issues..."

Ye Qingzhi said with a smile.

Chen Youxuan ignored her and just cried by herself.

At this time, many people came over from not far away.

They saw Chen Youxuan crying, and the other three noble ladies all looked terrified, so they thought Ye Qingzhi had bullied someone.

One of them is Chen Youxuan's mother, the mother of the Crown Princess, the Queen's sister-in-law, and the mistress of the Chen family, Shen Yan.

Seeing her precious daughter crying so miserably, Shen Yan was immediately furious and questioned Ye Qingzhi with a sullen face.

"I don't know what Youxuan and the others did wrong to make Concubine Ye so angry and punish them..."

"Wuuuu...Mother! Concubine Ye did not bully her daughter!" Chen Youxuan wiped her tears and shook her head.

She really didn't want to listen to Ye Qingzhi's chanting and preaching anymore, and she didn't want to listen to her telling ghost stories even more!

Please let go.

Shen Yan, "???"

Girl, are you threatened?

With my status, are you still afraid of a concubine named Ye? !