Chapter 275: It’s different after having a son!
The sun is at noon.
Sun Shaozong walked into the main room yawning, and without saying a word he fell onto the bed, his face full of despair.
Ruan Rong was originally sitting in front of the dressing table. Seeing his behavior, she felt both distressed and amused. She stepped forward and poked him on the forehead, saying coquettishly, "You've only recovered a few days ago, and you're already drinking with others!"
As she spoke, she began to carefully pinch and rub his forehead, and asked with concern, "How about asking the kitchen to make a bowl of sobering soup?"
In fact, Sun Shaozong's tired look was not caused by the drinking contest yesterday, but Ruan Rong was not in a position to tell him the real reason, so she had to follow her lead and said, "Aren't you happy? Your son has been appointed as an Enqiwei, aren't you happy?"
Unexpectedly, Ruan Rong shook her head without hesitation and said, "Rather than letting the master risk his life like this, I would rather he earn his own fame with his real ability in the future!"
Hearing her sincere words, Sun Shaozong felt comforted. He held her soft hands with his backhand and was about to say a few words in private when he suddenly smelled the scent of powder and became curious.
Because her baby son doesn't like the smell, she hasn't used makeup for a while, so why...
Just as she was wondering, she heard the beaded curtain outside being raised, followed by Xiangling's clear voice: "Sister, I've packed everything. When are we going over?"
From the sound of it, it seemed like the two of them were about to go out.
I raised my head and looked towards the door, and saw Xiangling who came in. She had put on some light makeup and wore a loose skirt to slightly cover her bulging belly.
“What are you doing…”
"Of course, I'm going to pay my respects to the mistress of the house."
Ruan Rong stood up and adjusted the hem of her skirt, smiling, "Now that the first wife has married, let alone the status of concubines, even if we are the second wives, we should go over and say hello."
Seeing the nanny carrying the child in, also wrapped in a small cloak, revealing only half of the pink little face and a pair of big black eyes, Sun Shaozong felt speechless.
He knew what his stepbrother had said to Jia Yingchun yesterday. Now, one of them was holding a child and the other was pregnant, saying that they were going to pay a visit to the mistress of the house, but why did he always feel like they were going to demonstrate?
What's more, they all dressed up specially...
"Dress up, of course."
Ruan Rong said as a matter of course: "The bride is a noble lady from the Duke's Mansion, and it is also a good time for her to be radiant and beautiful. If the two of us go there with dishevelled hair and dirty faces, wouldn't it be a loss of face for the master?"
Fresh rain? Radiant?
Hehe~
In order to prove that he had no interest in the bride, the cheap elder brother slept in the study with Sun Shaozong last night. His snoring was so loud that Sun Shaozong barely fell asleep until the late night.
Since the groom was in the study, where could Jia Yingchun go to be so radiant and radiant?
Thinking of the "plan" made by his cheap elder brother, Sun Shaozong felt extremely uncomfortable when he saw the two of them chatting and laughing as they were about to meet Jia Yingchun.
But he didn't dare to tell Ruan Rong and Xiang Ling directly, and in the end he could only watch them leave the door with an awkward smile.
Let me explain this on two sides.
But in the main hall of the courtyard, Jia Yingchun was sitting in the middle, watching the beautiful girls coming in one by one from outside and kneeling neatly in front of her. In the blink of an eye, there was a large crowd of them. She felt mixed emotions in her heart.
Although she had heard that Sun Shaozu had many concubines before she got married, she didn't expect there would be so many - if she counted them casually, there would probably be no less than twenty!
In fact, this does not include the ones Sun Shaozu kept outside, otherwise the number would exceed thirty in a minute!
But the twenty or so women in front of her were enough to make Jia Yingchun dumbfounded. You know, even Jia She, who was known for his debauchery, only married five or six concubines - of course, this was mainly because of the restrictions of Grandmother Jia, who did not allow those who came from brothels to be brought home, otherwise the number of concubines might not be less than that of Sun Shaozu.
When she thought about how so many women had failed to give birth to Sun Shaozu, she was now the only hope...
"What's the ink?"
Jia Yingchun was feeling uneasy when she heard Sun Shaozu yawning and urging her impatiently, "Hurry up and serve the tea!"
Xiu Ju hurriedly took the teapot and cups. The concubine in charge did not dare to stand up. She knelt over to take them in her hands, carefully poured half a cup, raised her hands above her head, and said respectfully: "I am Ni, the servant, respectfully invite Madam to have tea."
Jia Yingchun stared at the teacup in a daze for a long while, until Siqi quietly pushed her. Then she woke up as if from a dream and hurriedly imitated Mrs. Xing's usual behavior.
He took the tea bowl slowly , opened the lid and fiddled with the tea leaves for a few times, then put it to his lips and blew gently, then placed it on the tea table beside him.
This was considered to have been 'used', so when Ni returned to her original position on her knees, the second person quickly took her place, followed by the third concubine...
But when it was the fourth person's turn, Sun Shaozu impatiently scolded: "Alright, a few people are just pretending, what do you want to do to tire the wife?"
The fourth concubine had already crawled on her knees to the front, but when she heard this, she quickly crawled back to her original position.
This made Jia Yingchun dumbfounded again.
In the Rongguo Mansion, although concubines were far less formal, they were not completely without dignity.
"Okay."
At this time, Sun Shaozu said nonchalantly: "These bitches will be under your charge from now on. They are useless anyway. If you don't like any of them, come back and tell me, and I will have someone send them to the brothel to sell them."
Jia Yingchun's heart trembled when she heard this. Just because she couldn't give birth to a child, she was treated like a livestock and sold at will. This is really... really...
But while she was terrified, the twenty or so concubines below were enjoying it and had no reaction at all to these words.
This made Jia Yingchun even more heartbroken. If these concubines were not used to it, how could they have no reaction at all?
At this moment, a maid hurried to the door and said with a smile, "Second Master's concubines Ruan and Zhen are here to greet the first wife. Is it convenient to let them in now?"
Before he finished speaking, Sun Shaozu jumped up from his chair and asked in high spirits, "Did our 'Enqiwei' come with us?"
As soon as the old woman nodded and said " yes", Sun Shaozu strode out to greet her. Not long after, he carefully brought back a child, making faces as he walked, without any of the impatient arrogance he had just shown.
When they reached the door, he didn't even bother to go in. He just tilted his neck and ordered, "Come out and greet them. I'll take this monkey kid to the study for a look."
Looking at Ruan Rong and Xiangling who were walking into the yard surrounded by several maids and servants, and then looking at the women kneeling on the ground, Jia Yingchun felt more and more the importance of "offspring".
Since Sun Shaozu had given the order, she naturally had to hurry to meet them. Fortunately, she was a submissive person. If she had a personality like Wang Xifeng, she would be asked to welcome two concubines as soon as she became the mistress of the house. I'm afraid she would be furious.
Seeing her coming out to greet her, Ruan Rong hurried a few steps forward, bowed, and said with a smile: "This is unacceptable! How dare you trouble the Madam to come to greet us?"
After all, Xiangling was pregnant, so she fell behind slowly. When she was about to salute with her bulging belly, Jia Yingchun reached out and helped her up.
Jia Yingchun looked at her bulging belly and said enviously, "I heard that you were pregnant, but I didn't expect you to look like this already."
Looking at Xiangling's bulging belly, and thinking about the child who was taken to the study by Sun Shaozu, Jia Yingchun sighed in her heart. They were brothers from the same mother, so why was the younger brother so unlucky?
If my husband could be like my brother-in-law, why would I be so worried?
After all, Xiangling has lived in Rongguo Mansion for several years, and she is very familiar with Sanchun.
Seeing that she was staring at her belly in a trance, he held her wrist with his backhand and whispered, "Second... Madam, don't be anxious. Since the 'immortal' has determined that you are destined to have both a son and a daughter, you will be able to get pregnant sooner or later."
Seeing that Xiangling had seen through her worries, Jia Yingchun smiled timidly and said shyly, "I'm really going to have to rely on your good words - let's..."
She originally wanted to invite the two of them in to talk, but when she saw the room full of young girls, she hesitated.
Seeing this, Ruan Rong asked, "Madam, do you have anything else to say to them?"
As soon as Jia Yingchun shook her head, Ruan Rong immediately raised her voice and ordered, "The eldest lady doesn't need you to serve her here, go back and rest first!"
With just this one word, the concubines came out one after another, and none of them dared to hesitate for the moment.
Sure enough~
It's different for those who have given birth to sons...
