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

"My daughter failed to stop her sister, and Yan Zhen, that girl, still entered the palace."

When mentioning Meng Yanzhen, the eldest lady couldn't help but feel regretful.

Such a good girl, outstanding in every way, but unfortunately she is dragged down by the two big mountains of Liguo Mansion and Li Shumin, and has to spend her whole life in the palace.

If he was raised in Longxi, I wonder how free and easy Meng Yanzhen would be.

The old master sighed. He had expected this. He also knew that the eldest lady had been spending a lot of time with the Meng family and was more reluctant to let Meng Yan go than they were. He said with a sigh and a consolation, "Your eldest sister has gone crazy now. She is willing to sacrifice her daughter just to get the title of Duke of Li."

"If she is willing to let Xun Ge'er go back to his hometown, will she still worry about not being able to raise a child?"

The old lady held the eldest lady's hand and rubbed it over and over again, caressing the eldest lady's eyebrows. What she was thinking about was her eldest daughter whom she had not seen for many years: "Your sister is very sad. I am really filial, but it's a pity that I didn't wake her up."

"It is true that the Duke of Li's Mansion is glorious, but how can it compare to what will happen in the future? If Brother Xun had been sent here earlier, he would not have been neither a scholar nor a warrior."

To a noble family like the Li family, the Mansion of Duke Li is nothing more than a more gorgeous box. The box looks shiny on the surface, but it can pierce people and make them bleed inside. It will drain the person's soul bit by bit until the whole person is eaten by the beautiful box and becomes the nutrient that maintains the box's gorgeous appearance.

"If it weren't for the lady from the Guzangfang who snatched your sister's marriage, she wouldn't have been so desperate to marry that bastard."

The Longxi Li family is divided into five major branches. The eldest lady's branch is the Danyang branch. The aunt who snatched Li Shumin's marriage was the elder of the Guzang branch, with a high generational status. Her father died in the battle of Jiayuguan. The entire Guzang branch was reluctant to see that aunt sad, so even though this matter was against etiquette, the Guzang branch still did it for that aunt.

Although she sent an apology afterwards, how proud was Li Shumin, the eldest daughter of Danyang? She didn't want to stay in Longxi and be laughed at, but she didn't know that marrying to the capital was another road of no return.

When talking about their eldest daughter, the old man and the old lady sighed, and more of them were distressed. However, Li Shumin would not come back. They were too old to go to the capital to force Li Shumin to divorce and return home. This matter was originally the fault of the family.

The eldest lady snuggled quietly in her mother's arms, talking about the things in the capital city bit by bit, talking about how Zhao Fangyu came to the inner courtyard, how Zhao Fanglan tried to ruin the eldest son's marriage, and how Zhao Fangyu was framed twice, but was loyal to the principal wife.

Especially when they heard that Zhao Fangyu rescued Zhao Fangjin in the teahouse and poisoned Zhao Fangwei in front of her so that she had to marry far away, the old lady and the old man began to look serious.

"It's rare to raise a child you picked up halfway through life to this extent. You should marry him off with a good dowry and let him visit more often in the future. He will be no different from a biological child."

"Your sister's marriage was a long process, and it's a pity that you've exhausted yourself. You're smarter than your sister and know that children are more important than your husband."

The old lady and the old man have been married for many years, how could they not see that their youngest daughter had given up hope on her son-in-law? They were just living together in a muddle.

The younger daughter has always been more insightful about things since she was young, but unfortunately her elder sister did not learn this. Both of them married in the capital, but one is now flourishing and bearing fruit, while the other is withered and decayed, unable to bear the burden.

The old lady squeezed the eldest lady's hand again and again: "Did he ever make you angry?"

The eldest lady smiled and shook her head, with clear disdain flashing in her eyes: "He was trying his best to become the Minister of Revenue, and even wanted to send a concubine's daughter to the palace. It just so happened that the fourth girl had an accident and moved to the main courtyard under my name. She was also very smart, so he set his sights on the fourth girl."

"He told me nicely that he thought the fourth girl had a good personality and was just right for entering the palace. The family always had to send someone to the palace. He was not at ease with the other girls in the family, but only thought that the fourth girl I raised was good." The eldest lady sneered, and her actions were exactly the same as the old man's: "How dare he think that the illegitimate babies he raised were nothing. He thought I was some kind of vicious woman who wanted to touch me but didn't let me. All of them were raised by the concubine. Could I do anything that would bring disgrace to the family?"

"He can't send his favorite concubine to the palace, so he wants to take the one I raised away from him. How can that make sense?"

"He is a frog in a well. He thinks that everyone else is like him, with a narrow mind. I have tried my best to persuade him over the years, and he has finally become better."

"If Fang Jin hadn't been secretly determined, he would have had other ideas! A few years ago, the eldest prince secretly took a fancy to Fang Jin, and rejected Zhen Jie'er for Fang Jin. Zhen Jie'er was stubborn, and when she couldn't marry the eldest prince, she entered the harem as a concubine. Even my Jin'er's marriage was almost ruined by him. He even did the reckless thing of arresting someone in the street. I really don't know what to say."

It's a pity that the royal family has the Embroidered Uniform Guards, otherwise the eldest lady would have caused the eldest prince's ancestral tomb to burst into pieces.

The eldest lady swallowed down her numerous complaints and continued, "I brought the fourth girl back this time to ask father for help in finding a good marriage for her. Don't let Minshan really send this child to the palace."

The old lady nodded, which was considered as her agreement. It was not a big deal for the girl from the Li family to find a marriage in Longxi. However, she was afraid that with the taste of this fourth girl, she would not look down on the boy from Longxi.

"I will ask your sister-in-law tomorrow. She has a daughter at home. She has all these things."

The eldest lady and the old lady were discussing the marriage, while the old man sat on the side and slowly amused the cat slave lying beside him.

You can persuade someone in a moment of impatience, but it is difficult to change someone's mind once he has made up his mind.

I'm afraid that after this marriage is settled, Zhao Minshan will make a fuss.

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As expected, the customs in Longxi were much more rough than those in the capital, and all the young ladies in the Li family knew how to ride horses.

The names in Longxi and Beijing are also different. Instead of calling her "girl", unmarried women are generally called "little girls". If you don't want to tell the other person's name, you can just say who's daughter you are, for example, Zhao Fangyu is the fourth daughter of the Zhao family.

There were many people on the Li family's side, and after calling them in a circle, they could call out Shiqi Niang. There were also those younger than Shiqi Niang, and even the younger ones were not easy to go out, so they were all kept at home to play.

The young ladies of the Li family and others had never seen such an exquisite noble lady from the capital, and Zhao Fangjin and others had never seen such a free and easy girl.

Zhao Fangmo was taken to a nearby shed by a few young ladies who loved her to play nine-ring games, while Zhao Fangyu and Zhao Fangjin were chased by a group of people and asked about their daily lives in Beijing.

The two families learned similar things. After all, the eldest lady was from the Li family. She had never taught students but had been a student. She copied everything. Although the teacher she hired was not as good as the one from the Li family, he was still considered top-notch in the capital.

There was nothing wrong with the courses, but when they heard that Zhao Fangyu and Zhao Fangjin had opened a incense-making shop, they all became interested.

Just then, Zhao Fangjin took out a thumb-sized crystal bottle with a fat belly from her small purse. As soon as the lid was opened, the rich scent of jasmine quickly spread!

Such a rare thing instantly caused a sensation among the young ladies of the Li family, and they all asked who made it and how it was made.