Professional Ethics of a Concubine

When Gu Man heard about this, she was angry and frightened. She seemed to have seen the tragic ending of her loss of power in the Ye Mansion.

Seeing that Ye Yongyuan puts profit above all else, he would definitely sacrifice her and her two children.

Unless he could see greater value in them.

"Mother, don't panic too much. There are crises everywhere in the Marquis' Mansion. Even if Ye Qingzhi is favored today, she may fall out of favor tomorrow."

Ye Yingxue comforted Gu Man and said confidently,

"The Autumn Examination will be held in a month and a half. When Yuankai passes the imperial examination, the situation will be different immediately. Father will definitely pay more attention to Yuankai's future and his attitude towards us will also improve."

"So what should we do now? Should we just bear with it and do nothing?"

When Gu Man thought that her future son-in-law would soon pass the imperial examination, she felt much more relieved, but she was unwilling to be bullied like this.

"Mother, a little impatience can ruin a big plan. It's just over a month, so why not be patient? Just wait and see, there are many evil spirits in the Marquis' Mansion, and Ye Qingzhi will soon fall out of favor. Maybe we don't even have to be patient for a month."

Ye Yingxue said this with great confidence.

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In the next half month, Xie Jin became busy again and came to the back house twice in total.

Once I went to my wife's place, and once I came to Ye Qingzhi's place.

This time when Xie Jin came to Yanliuyuan, he arrived in the late night, when Ye Qingzhi was already asleep.

I was called up to work overtime in the middle of the night!

Moreover, Xie Jin tortured her quite harshly.

She suspected that Xie Jin had been drugged.

He is usually quite gentle, but today he is really inhumane.

When she woke up in the morning, if it weren't for the pain in her body reminding her of her ridiculous overtime work last night, Ye Qingzhi would have felt like she had been having a ridiculous dream all night.

"Aunt, when the Marquis left, he told you to rest in your room and not go to pay respects to the Madam. The palace doctor will come to see you soon. Don't get sick again."

After Ruyi finished speaking, she couldn't help but smile and said,

"Aunt, the Marquis really cares about you now. He has given you so many instructions and even called a palace doctor for you."

"Yes, the Marquis is so good to me." Ye Qingzhi said with a smile, but she was rolling her eyes in her heart.

If her current treatment doesn't change at all, then she has been working in vain for more than a month! !

After a while, the court doctor came and examined Ye Qingzhi. He left some medicine for her wounds and was about to leave. Ye Qingzhi asked him to make a bowl of contraceptive soup and send it over.

"Aunt, the Madam didn't ask you to drink, and the Marquis didn't stop you from having a baby, so why did you take the initiative to drink? Don't you want to have a baby now?" Ruyi couldn't help asking.

Chunyu and Xiachan also looked at Ye Qingzhi nervously, somewhat afraid that her answer would offend the Marquis.

"It's not appropriate to have a baby now." Ye Qingzhi shook her head.

"If I have a child, I won't be able to serve you anymore. I want to serve you wholeheartedly while I am young and beautiful and you like me.

If you give birth to a child and become a mother, half of your love for your husband will definitely be divided among the child.

After another three or four years, when I am no longer so young and beautiful, I will ask the Marquis for a son or a daughter so that I can take care of myself in my old age."

Bah, bah, bah, whoever gives birth to a child is an idiot!

But she didn't dare to tell the truth, so she could only mix half of it with half of it, which made it sound more real.

In addition to exempting the emperor from paying respects and hiring a palace physician, Xie Jin also had people send many other rewards, all of which were rare and valuable things.

Ye Qingzhi could tell from these things that Xie Jin was a man with some conscience.

Not much, just a little.

If he had a little more conscience and hadn't lost his mind yesterday, he should have played with himself instead of torturing her to death.

Ah.

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Xie Jin, who had a little conscience, had no time to return home after the morning court because he was busy with other things. However, he was still worried about Ye Qingzhi, so he asked Jin Bao to return home to see if Ye Qingzhi was sick.

In Xie Jin's mind, Ye Qingzhi was indeed delicate and frail, and if she was tortured too hard, she would be almost dead.

Jinbao knew that his master had been tricked last night, but it wasn't really a trick, because that kind of wine that was meant to liven up the atmosphere was always placed out in the open during banquets.

There was a woman prepared to serve him yesterday, but the master disliked her stench and wanted to go back home to find Aunt Ye.

From this incident, Jinbao became even more certain that their master really treated Aunt Ye a little differently.

The master's attitude is your attitude towards work.

Jin Bao naturally cared more about Aunt Ye. After returning to the mansion, he personally went to Yanliuyuan to meet Ye Qingzhi and convey Xie Jin's concern.

Afterwards, he asked the secret guard to see if Aunt Ye had anything new.

When Jin Bao heard that Aunt Ye took the initiative to ask for contraceptive soup and said that she didn't want to have children, he was stunned.

He really wanted to praise Aunt Ye for being the most clear-headed person in the world.

After listening to Jin Bao's statement, Xie Jin also fell silent.

It was the first time he had met a woman who was not in a hurry to have a baby.

Ye Qingzhi is always different from others.

However, she always managed to touch his heart. Even though he knew there were many unreasonable things about her and that she had many little thoughts, he couldn't help but be attracted to her.

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Because Ye Qingzhi did not go to pay her respects, and because she was almost the only one favored recently, and the Marquis rewarded her with many good things today, the other concubines were so jealous of her that they began to frantically apply eye drops to her in front of the Madam.

They said that she was spoiled and arrogant, that she had no respect for her wife, and that she should be disciplined.

Zhang Jingyi ignored them all. She was not angry about Ye Qingzhi's favor. Instead, she criticized these concubines.

The general idea is that if you have no ability, just stay calm and don't come up with any vicious schemes. Aunt Sun has been recuperating for a month and is only just able to get out of bed, and the whip marks on her back are still fresh.

If anyone wants to become the second Aunt Sun, I will definitely help her.

The other concubines didn't dare to say anything anymore. No matter how shameless they were in their hearts, they were very respectful in front of him.

"Madam, are you deliberately indulging Aunt Ye? Do you want to see her climb higher and fall harder?" After the other concubines had left, Aunt Zhou couldn't help but ask.

Zhang Jingyi was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and couldn't help but laugh, "I guess so."

Actually not.

She really wasn't angry about the Marquis's favoritism towards Ye Qingzhi.

Anyway, if it’s not her, I will favor someone else.

It was Ye Qingzhi, she felt a little better.

Because Ye Qingzhi would use money to attack her and her two children.

She had been rewarding her concubines with things for so many years, but this was the first time she received something good from a concubine.

She was born a concubine's daughter and was short-sighted. Moreover, since she was in charge of the household expenses, she knew the benefits of money. She was not at all noble and enjoyed Ye Qingzhi's filial piety.

Since she was lenient with others, she would naturally protect Ye Qingzhi.

However, Ye Qingzhi's popularity was overshadowed by another incident the next day.

Aunt Qin is pregnant.

Here's the thing.

When Aunt Qin was paying her respects to the mistress in the morning, she suddenly retched twice. The mistress quickly called the court doctor to see her.

After this examination, the court doctor said that Concubine Qin was pregnant and was only one month pregnant.

All of a sudden, the concubines in the mansion looked at Concubine Qin with such vicious eyes that they wished they could snatch the baby in her belly and put it in their own belly.

"Congratulations, Aunt Qin, you are able to give birth to many children for me."

"Mrs. Qin is so lucky. She got pregnant recently after being favored by my master. Unlike other women who monopolize my master every day, their bellies don't show any signs of pregnancy."

Yao Yinyin was so jealous that she started to talk badly about Aunt Qin and Ye Qingzhi as soon as she opened her mouth.

Ye Qingzhi rolled her eyes and said to Yao Yinyin,

"Aunt Yao, there's no movement in my stomach. That's because I drink contraceptive soup every time and don't want to have a baby now, not that I can't.

If I wanted to have a baby, with your ability, I would have made my belly swell up long ago."

Yao Yinyin and others,...

How could a concubine not want to get pregnant and have children?

"It's obviously you who have uterine cold and can't have children, yet you still talk so arrogantly!"

Yao Yinyin was so angry that she exposed her shortcomings. She had spent a lot of effort and money to bribe a maid in Yanliuyuan to get this information.

Ye Qingzhi narrowed her eyes when she heard that. Although she didn't deliberately hide the news of her uterine cold, only a limited number of people knew about it.

A traitor appeared in her Yanliuyuan.

"Alright. Although I don't have many offspring, I don't have too few either. It's your duty to help me have more children, but it's your responsibility to serve me well.

There is nothing wrong with Aunt Ye's idea. It is difficult for a woman to give birth to a child when she is too young. It is okay to have another child in two years."

Zhang Jingyi stopped their quarrel and spoke tolerantly and kindly.

After hearing these words, Ye Qingzhi couldn't help but show respect to her mistress.

Look, this is the demeanor of the mistress of a wealthy family.

Instead of thinking about how to torture concubines and poison illegitimate sons and daughters every day.

Only a mistress like this can make the Marquis willing to give her face and respect.

Ye Qingzhi was very fortunate to have a good female leader. She would give more gifts to the female leader and her children to improve their favorability.

Zhang Jingyi asked Aunt Qin to go back and have a good rest, and gave her a bunch of rewards before leaving for a while.

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After returning to her own courtyard, Ye Qingzhi instructed Ruyi,

"From now on, we will hang a sign at the gate of our yard, saying Aunt Qin and dogs are not allowed to enter."

Ruyi and others,...

Auntie, are you serious?