I'm a humble concubine. My acting skills are off the charts. You can check my performance.

"We are sisters, our closest relatives, and yet you are plotting against us like this." Zhao Minshan looked at Zhao Fanglan and sighed.

The two emotions of disappointment and frustration were intertwined in him.

Disharmony in the harem is also an easy target for criticism in the court. After serving as an official for many years, Zhao Minshan didn't know how to face the hardships he had gone through if he ended up being blamed on his daughter.

Zhao Fanglan was different from Zhao Fangyu. Zhao Fanglan was once one of his proudest and favorite daughters. Her knowledge, her appearance, and her good reputation were all living signs of Zhao Minshan's integrity and teaching by example, and were also the result of his hard work.

Aunt Zhang was Zhao Minshan’s first concubine and also a maid who served him for many years.

Among the concubines, Zhao Minshan inevitably loves Aunt Zhang more. If Aunt Zhang had not done stupid things for Zhao Fanglan and ruined her own future, she would still be living a glorious life today.

Stupidity is probably contagious. A girl who seemed so smart in the past could actually make such a stupid mistake out of jealousy.

This living signboard that he had once built with his own hands was rotten from the inside, and all the hard work Zhao Minshan had put in it was gone overnight.

Everything is like flowing water and there is no turning back.

This daughter who once made him proud could only be a time bomb for the rest of her life, and could fall into the abyss at any time along with his accumulated reputation.

"The third young lady is seriously ill and her face is damaged. She should live in Yuelan Pavilion from now on and recuperate."

In one word, Zhao Fanglan felt disheartened, and all the life seemed to be drained out of her.

She ignored the silver needles still piercing her face and slid down from the carved chair to her knees, trembling. The new court doctor hurriedly tried to stop her and knelt beside her, trying to stop Zhao Fanglan with all his might, but he did not dare to touch her.

Zhao Fanglan's tears fell down quickly and sharply, like a sudden rainstorm.

She cried hoarsely, her fingers tightly grasping Zhao Minshan's robe, with such force that she wished she could dig a few holes in Zhao Minshan's clothes. Every word she said sounded like a cuckoo crying blood: "Daddy, Daddy, I was wrong! I shouldn't be jealous of my fourth sister for being favored by you, and I shouldn't do wrong things out of jealousy!"

"Dad! My daughter is still your daughter! Dad loved her the most in the past! Could it be that because my daughter is not as knowledgeable as my fourth sister, Dad doesn't want her anymore?"

"Daddy imprisoned my aunt for my fourth sister, and now he wants to imprison me because of my fourth sister, Daddy!"

"I am your daughter too. I just made a mistake. I can change, Daddy! Daddy!"

Xiao Cui's mother stepped forward, and her outstretched arms were like iron clamps, locking Zhao Fanglan tightly. The new doctor bowed gratefully, and then quickly removed the silver needles from Zhao Fanglan's face.

The fever is gone, but the person is dead.

But this does not mean death, but the complete loss of one's sense of existence.

Zhao Minshan did not compromise. He looked at Zhao Fanglan with regret, with a hint of disgust in his eyes.

If you love him, you want him to live; if you hate him, you want him to die.

How could a daughter like this leave the Zhao family?

Zhao Minshan's eyes swept between his two daughters, one calm and the other ferocious, and he couldn't help feeling regretful. If he had put the energy he had invested in Fang Lan on Fang Yu, Fang Yu would be as good as Fang Jin now.

"Take the third young lady back. This maid will be caned thirty times and sent to the farthest farm."

The person who came in to drag the girl away was Zhao Minshan's servant. The girl didn't cry out or yell when she was dragged out, as if she had already accepted her fate.

Zhao Fanglan cried and screamed all the way. Mother Xiao Cui searched the handkerchiefs of several maids, rolled them into a ball, and stuffed them into Zhao Fanglan's mouth, as if she wanted to stuff the handkerchief into Zhao Fanglan's stomach!

Zhao Fanglan was choked by the handkerchief and was dragged out with her face red and ears flushed, with the court doctor running after her.

At this time, Zhao Fangyu was helped up by the eldest lady. He staggered a little and was then steady again.

"Good boy, I've wronged you."

The eldest lady wiped Zhao Fangyu's tears. Zhao Fangyu shook his head and said in a firm and powerful voice: "I am not wronged, because it is not my fault."

"Although I don't understand the original intention of the third sister to do this, but I know that it is not my fault. I just knelt for a while. Compared with the third sister, I am not wronged."

"Sisters are from the same family, so we should tolerate each other. This is just a serious quarrel, not a big deal."

Zhao Fangyu was very small, and his whole body looked like a little dumpling. His eyes and nose were red from crying, making him look like a little rabbit. He also couldn't stop sobbing, and every time he sobbed, the flesh on his face trembled. He was so adorable.

Zhao Minshan sighed, walked out of the hall and went straight to the old lady's bedroom.

The eldest lady took a group of children back to Qingpingyuan to hold a meeting.

Zhao Fangyu cried for a while and knelt for a long time. He was so tired that he fell asleep in Mother Cui's arms.

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"The fourth girl has suffered a lot. There are two egg-sized bruises on her knees! The medicine she drank had sleeping pills added to it, and I rubbed her with safflower oil when she fell asleep. She cried until her pillow was wet, but she didn't wake up."

Mother Cui used a cow horn to comb the eldest lady's hair. Upon hearing this, the eldest lady put down the ruby hairpin in her hand, held Mother Cui's hand and said, "What a pity that she had such an ignorant mother. Such a child was almost ruined."

When Aunt Qian was mentioned, the First Lady and Mother Cui both sighed.

Aunt Qian was actually very beautiful, otherwise she would not have been bought by the first lady to be Zhao Minshan's concubine to compete with Aunt Zhang.

Mother Cui combed the eldest lady's hair one by one: "But then again, the fourth young lady is living in our Qingping Courtyard now, and she calls you by your name, and treats you with the same warmth as if you were her own mother."

Thinking of Zhao Fangyu's red nose from crying today, the eldest lady laughed and said, "She is not a mother at all. She is just a parasite who wants to suck her blood dry to subsidize her mother's family."

Just after combing the hair a hundred times, Zhao Minshan stepped into the eldest lady's bedroom.

Mother Cui placed two cups of tea for the two of them and then left.

The eldest lady came forward to help Zhao Minshan undress.

"As for Fanglan, I have found her mother. From now on, Fanglan will follow her mother in worshipping Buddha."

The eldest lady had no objection. After all, it was not a good thing to fall into the hands of the old lady.

"I didn't know this child's personality was so crooked. Although she was also raised by an aunt, Fang Wei is not as bad as her."

The eldest lady said nothing, cursing in her heart: Now that everything has been exposed, she comes to scold Yue Lanxuan. What were you doing earlier? Aunt Zhang's bad temper didn't just start this year, and Zhao Fanglan's temper didn't develop overnight. She just saw that it didn't get out of hand and wouldn't embarrass him.

To be honest, it means that you don't feel the pain unless you are hit. But when it really hurts, you will be more anxious than anyone else.

The next moment, Zhao Minshan took the eldest lady's hand and rubbed it carefully: "Train Fangyu well in the future. If you want to send someone to the palace in the future, our family will be Fangyu."

The eldest lady was shocked: "When is the plan? Are we going to send someone to the palace too?"

Zhao Minshan did not deny it: "It is still unknown, but it is just a plan in advance."

"My brother-in-law's family had no choice but to send Yan. Our family would not send Yan. When the princes come of age, His Majesty will arrange marriages for them. We can't count on Fang Yun's temper. It's better to take good care of Fang Yu than to let Fang Lan and Fang Yun go in."

"Fang Wei is too weak. Fang Lan seemed okay at first, but who would have thought that she would be like this..."

"Sending these two in may bring more trouble than blessing."

The eldest lady frowned, her clear and beautiful eyes could not resist the aging of time, and now there were a few fine lines at the corners of her eyes.

After understanding the key point, the eldest lady couldn't help but sigh that Zhao Fangyu's life was a mixture of blessing and curse.

"Then wait until her birthday this year and add her to the family tree, and put her under my name."

The eldest lady took the initiative to propose, and said exactly what Zhao Minshan had in mind, but Zhao Minshan did not agree immediately. Instead, he held the eldest lady's hand, pulled her into his arms, kissed the top of her head and said, "But you will have to work harder in the future."

The eldest lady pulled out her hand that was held by Zhao Minshan, raised her head and looked deeply into Zhao Minshan's face.

The once handsome man now only has 50% of his appearance, but he is still one of the few handsome men among the many officials.

It's a pity that she has a human face but does little human work. She had countless complaints in her heart. The eldest lady turned around and gently smoothed Zhao Minshan's frowning brows: "It's good to be able to share your husband's worries."