Dressed as a middle-aged mistress, I want to lie down every day

Wang Jingye now goes in and out of the capital too frequently, so it is not convenient for him to enter the palace again. Even if he wears a mask, he will be easily recognized by others.

He had no choice but to ask Eunuch Liang to give his cousin a message, asking her to go to Shuangfeng Temple to meet him when she had time.

His cousin asked Eunuch Liang to pass on a message to him, saying that it was okay to stir up trouble and wait and see what would happen.

Then Wang Jingye would not try to restrict his brother-in-law from going out.

Mo Chenxi entertained Mrs. Wang and the others happily at her parents' home that day. Wang Huilan was very humble, and Wang Yuzhen had the same personality as her father, but her mother was also a cheerful person, so she was very lively and talkative.

He Jingyi was originally reserved, but gradually she became natural.

Old Mrs. Mo held Wang Yuxiang tightly and kept calling her "our Xiangxiang". Zhou listened to her mother-in-law and paid attention to Nie Lingxuan.

Nie Lingxuan was full and was too impatient to listen to them talking, so Zhou played with her in the yard.

Zhou knew Kung Fu, so he taught her a set of boxing techniques. Nie Lingxuan clapped her hands and laughed, and also started boxing, just a few moves back and forth.

Zhou could see that she only knew a few moves, perhaps taught by her sister. Ordinary men would not be able to withstand those moves, such as throat locks and crotch kicks, and each move hits a man's vital points.

Mrs. Wang was worried that her younger sister might not be watched carefully and might run into bad guys when she went out. She probably taught this to her because she wouldn't be able to remember too many things.

Unexpectedly, Nie Lingxuan could throw Zhou over her shoulder. When Zhou wasn't paying attention, she knocked her down and clapped her hands and laughed.

After all, Zhou had practiced it before, and she stood up with a somersault. Nie Lingxuan was even happier and jumped up and down to cheer.

Zhou asked the maid to go to her room, bring over a wooden box and take out a soft whip.

The Zhou family was a bodyguard family. Sometimes when the couple went out together, the woman would have this soft whip wrapped around her waist.

This whip is very thin and soft, but if it is wrapped around the enemy's neck, it will strangle the enemy and directly seal the throat. It will not be used unless it is a critical moment.

When Nie Lingxuan saw Zhou waving the whip like a snake, she clamored to play with it. Zhou asked the maid to bring a whip with a rope, but Nie Lingxuan insisted on having the one in her hand and cried if she didn't give it to her.

Mrs. Wang hurried out when she heard her sister crying. Mrs. Mo glared at her daughter-in-law and secretly scolded her for not being able to even coax a child.

Zhou explained, "My younger sister wanted the snake whip I had, but I was afraid of hurting her, so I gave her a braided rope, but she didn't want it."

Mrs. Wang went to coax her sister. Wang Huilan was curious and looked at the whip in Zhou's hand. It was very thin and made of metal.

She stepped forward and said, "Can you show it to me?"

Zhou regretted taking out the snake whip. It was a family heirloom. The ones used by men were thicker than this one. There was an iron ball at one end that could blind people.

If you don't look carefully, you can't tell that the one used by women has a blade on one side of each section.

This pair of whips was only passed down to the eldest son and daughter-in-law of the Zhou family. Zhou secretly borrowed them from her eldest sister-in-law because she wanted to show them off in front of Mrs. Wang.

Today, she took it out while playing with Nie Lingxuan.

I regret it now. What if I don’t give it to someone if they ask for it? Wouldn’t I offend them?

She quickly explained, "This is an heirloom from my Zhou family. I secretly asked my eldest sister-in-law to borrow it. My grandfather said he wanted to find someone to make a few more. He traveled all over the country, but couldn't find any place that could make them."

Wang Yuzhen coaxed her aunt to go to her room to play. Mrs. Wang came over, picked up the whip, and took a closer look. It was indeed rare. It was so narrow and thin, yet hard and sharp. It was not something that ordinary weapons could make.

Mrs. Wang and her senior sister Wang Huilan were not good at wielding a whip, so they just watched. If they didn't wield the whip properly, they would hurt themselves.

Mo Chenxi doesn't know anything about weapons. If it were in modern times, he could make anything he wanted.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the weather gradually became colder, and there were more wedding banquets and flower banquets. Mo Chenxi found that the families who sent her invitations were no longer the highest fifth-rank as before. Now, even fourth-rank officials would send her invitations when they went to appreciate the flowers after the autumn. They were all people with connections.

For example, Mrs. Liu, a doctor in the Ministry of Revenue, with whom He Wenyan had worked once or twice, sent her an invitation, inviting Mrs. He and Miss He.

Mrs. Liu praised He Jingyi and asked if she was engaged. Mo Chenxi said she was engaged, but the doctor's wife still asked which family she was engaged to.

Mo Chenxi said that he was the second son of Zhao Langzhong from the Ministry of Personnel.

She felt that this was all because she knew Wang Huilan, the fourth wife of Xue.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Wang Huilan returned to General Xue's residence and was scolded by her mother-in-law. She was also asked to go to the temple to chant sutras for Mr. Xue Si.

It was Mrs. Liao who changed the subject and asked her to leave.

Mrs. Xue was so angry that she scolded Mrs. Liao again.

This time Wang Huilan came back not only to dissolve her marriage with the Xue family, but also to take away her dowry. When she married into the general's mansion, she brought a lot of things with her.

The house and the money were in her hands, but there was a room full of weapons for practicing martial arts at the Xue family's. She could only move out after General Xue came back.

Madam Xue was so angry that she sent another invitation to Madam Zhong. Although they were from two different mansions, one civil and one military, and had played together when they were young, in the following years, there were not many people who were seventy years old or above who had received the first-rank imperial edict, so the two of them would chat together when they had nothing to do.

Mrs. Zhong was in a bad mood recently and didn't want to hear Mrs. Xue complain about her daughter-in-law. She said, "You are so old, and you have a daughter. If your daughter marries a husband like that, becomes a widow, and is bullied by her mother-in-law, would you be willing?"

Madam Xue was choked by her words. "Why are you still the same as before? Let me tell you something. You feel uncomfortable if you don't argue with me, right? What about you? Everyone says your daughter-in-law is gentle and virtuous, so why have you been nagging her for decades? Do you really need to take out your anger with your mother-in-law on her?"

Mrs. Zhong never told anyone why she treated her daughter-in-law so badly, she just snorted coldly.

Seeing that she was silent, Madam Xue tried to persuade her again, "Don't always remember the past. I was just venting my anger. I know Wang came back to wait for my eldest son to make the decision for her. Now that my eldest son has spoken, can I still embarrass her? But I get angry when I think about it. When she came back from Pingyang Prefecture, she didn't come to pay her respects to me, her mother-in-law, and brought her senior sister and her family to her dowry house. She never took me, her mother-in-law, seriously. That's why I was angry. So when she came, I asked her to chant sutras for Xiao Si. She is so enthusiastic about others. Xiao Si is her man, shouldn't she be more responsible?"

When Mrs. Zhong heard her mention Wang Shangjia, she listened carefully, but Mrs. Xue just kept complaining about Wang's shortcomings.

She interrupted and asked, "Is that businessman Wang Dongjia Wang's brother?"

Madam Xue said, "I didn't ask, so I guess not. If that were the case, as Wang's elder brother, he would have to come to visit the Xue family. I completely forgot about it. I should have asked her about the etiquette of your Wang family. She doesn't take our general's mansion seriously! I said I would find a girl in Beijing for my little fourth son. How can someone from a remote place have any tutoring?"

Mrs. Zhong couldn't help but scold her. The Xue family lived in the capital, and the Xue family had good family education. They spoiled their son into eating, drinking, whoring and gambling, and then blamed their daughter-in-law for being bad.

She wanted to get some information from Madam Xue, so she endured it, otherwise the two of them would part ways on bad terms again.