I was a queen in ancient times, no, a maid!

Cheng Yu told her grandmother that she didn’t want to get married yet. Wasn’t life good enough now?

But her grandmother always believed that women should get married, and said that she was too young to understand, and would understand when she grew up and got married.

The corner of Cheng Yu's mouth twitched. Her grandmother was no different from the parents in the modern army of people urging marriage.

Fortunately, Zhao Rulan's pastry shop started business.

Cheng Yu was given full responsibility and started to get busy.

She goes out in the morning and comes back at night, so it is difficult for the grandparents and grandchildren to see each other, let alone talk to Cheng Yu about finding a man.

Her relationship with Zhao Shiyan was closer when it was just the two of them, but once outsiders appeared, they would automatically separate. Of course, Cheng Yu would be the first to avoid them.

After returning from the pastry shop that day, Taozi drove the carriage to the backyard. Before Cheng Yu returned to the house, he heard the sound of partridges calling outside.

She quietly opened the door.

"My Lord, why are you here at this hour?"

"I have to say, I'm going to the border in a few days, so I'm afraid I won't have time to come and see you again. Yu'er, this time, you have to give me a definite answer, when will you agree to marry me?"

Zhao Shiyan seemed to be in a bad mood.

"My Lord, has something happened?"

Zhao Shiyan suddenly said, "I'm glad I didn't touch you. If I really wanted you, and I died on the battlefield, wouldn't you really be a widow?"

"Forget it. It was indeed rash of me to come to you today. I know you don't have me in your heart. If that's the case, I won't force you."

What a strange Zhao Shiyan.

"My Lord, what happened to you?"

Zhao Shiyan said nothing, but just gave a box to Cheng Yu, then turned around and left.

baffling.

The next morning, Cheng Yu heard the neighbors talking about it.

The wife of Marquis Zhenyuan has died.

She was stunned for a moment.

She had seen the wife of Marquis Zhenyuan. Although she was ill, she didn't look like she would die so soon. It was less than two months before the Lantern Festival.

"Miss Yu, is this the Yang family?"

"Well, I think so. I'll go to the pastry shop half a day later today."

She had little contact with the Marquis of Zhenyuan and his wife, but she had some contacts with Yang Jinxi, the eldest daughter of the Marquis of Zhenyuan's mansion. Ever since she started making cakes in the pastry shop, Yang Jinxi became a regular customer, often sending people to buy cakes, and would also come in person to choose a few freshly made cakes.

Don't go to a wedding without an invitation, and come to a funeral without an invitation.

Cheng Yu still went to the Yang family and found out that it was indeed the wife of Marquis Zhenyuan who had passed away.

He left in the early hours of last night.

When I went to see it again today, the entire mansion was covered with white cloth.

Cheng Yu went back to prepare some things and money for the gift, and went to the Yang family again. He was invited in, burned incense, and paid his respects.

She was just a nobody with no status, and she just wanted to pay her respects and leave.

Unexpectedly, he met Fang Mingqiao, a girl from the Fang family, who was wearing mourning clothes.

"I didn't expect you to come. Would you mind walking with me?"

Cheng Yu nodded and said, "My condolences."

"My sister didn't love Lord Yang Huaiyuan the most in her life. She loved being the Marquis's wife the most. After she got sick and learned that she couldn't recover, she took me in. She didn't care whether I had someone I liked or not. She just took me in."

"She asked me to go and sleep with my brother-in-law."

Speaking of this, Fang Mingqiao's eyes were filled with tears, and she just looked straight at Cheng Yu.

"You know what? She doesn't really care about me. She has never really cared about me. If she really loved me, wouldn't she be more considerate of me?"

She held Cheng Yu's hand with great force.

Cheng Yu felt pain, but did not stop her.

Fang Mingqiao looks about the same age as her. She is not young in modern times, and the environment she lives in now makes her particularly mature, but Fang Mingqiao is different.

In her world there is only the Fang family and the Yang family that her sister married into. She has never had to worry about food and drink since she was a child and grew up in a wealthy family, but she does not have a single bit of freedom of her own.

I just happened to see Cheng Yu today, and I grabbed this outsider and started complaining to her as if to vent my anger.

"I don't like it here, not at all, wuwuwu."

Without giving Cheng Yu a chance to react, Fang Mingqiao hugged her.

"Miss Fang, now that things have come to this, what you should do is to take responsibility and then find opportunities to strive for the greatest benefit for yourself. You are already in the Yang family, and your family will not take you back..."

"You're right. My family only advised me to catch that man and take control of the Yang family. They didn't care about my life or death at all."

Today, Fang Mingqiao's mother really came. She said something that made Fang Mingqiao completely unable to control himself, so he ran out, wanting to find a place to vent.

I happened to meet Cheng Yu.

She and Cheng Yu had only met two or three times, but for some reason, she liked the way Cheng Yu looked at her.

It’s not that the Yang family looks down on her.

It’s not that the Fang family is dissatisfied with her.

What was the purpose of her sister bringing her to the Yang family? How could the Yang family not know?

The Yang family was also unwilling to have another member of the Fang family. Her Fang family had become rich in recent years thanks to the Yang family, but their appetite had become increasingly unbridled. In recent years, the boy born to her sister accidentally drowned and died. She felt that her brother-in-law owed her and had been helping her natal family, the Fang family, without any bottom line. Although her brother-in-law didn't say anything, the Yang family was very unhappy.

How could I want another daughter of the Fang family and help the Fang family again in the bottomless pit?

However, the Fang family always felt that she was not as capable as her sister, not as sensible as her sister, and not as able to move her brother-in-law's heart as her sister.

She is not as good as her sister in any way, so why should she come?

Fang Mingqiao couldn't stop crying.

Cheng Yu was afraid that she would cry too much and pass out again, so he had to call Fang Mingqiao's maid, who happened to meet Yang Huaiyuan.

Cheng Yu nodded and greeted him.

Fang Mingqiao cried so much that she fainted.

Cheng Yu found an excuse to tell Yang Huaiyuan, "My sister passed away, and I am too sad as a younger sister. Please ask the Marquis to send someone to take Miss Fang to the house to rest first."

Yang Huaiyuan said, "I'm sorry to have made you laugh, Madam Cheng."

Yang Huaiyuan stretched out his hand and held Fang Mingqiao horizontally in his arms.

The two of them had already had physical contact, and before his wife died, he promised to marry Fang Mingqiao as his second wife. A promise was a promise, but as for the marriage, he would not go ahead and simply gave her the title of second wife.

The other person's wife had died, so she didn't dare to laugh in this situation.

After nodding, Cheng Yu left first.

Yang Huaiyuan carried Fang Mingqiao back to the room. After Fang Mingqiao lay down, she was fed some sugar water. Then she slowly woke up. When she opened her eyes, she was startled to see Yang Huaiyuan sitting beside the bed.

"Sister, brother-in-law..."

"From now on, you must call me by a different name, and stop calling me brother-in-law."

"I asked the doctor to check you out, and he said you are pregnant for more than a month. You should take good care of the baby."

Fang Mingqiao's eyes were filled with tears. "How is it possible? Just once. It's impossible..."

She was pregnant with his child, how could she leave?

Yang Huaiyuan frowned and looked at Fang Mingqiao, "Isn't this the result you wanted? When she was here, you begged me to give you a child. You'd better give birth to him safely."

After Yang Huaiyuan finished speaking, he waved his sleeves and left.

Fang Mingqiao cried again.

This time I cried more desperately.