In the soul that Ling Long ate, the memories of her parents were always beautiful. Before the original owner died, she still missed the times when she was in her own boudoir, and was full of admiration for her parents. The Prime Minister and his wife also loved their daughter very much. This could be seen by how they treated Chu Zhi like a daughter when the Marquis married her after the death of their daughter.
It’s just this logic… Ling Long was a little confused. If you missed your wife you’d marry a maid who was like a sister to your wife? The Prime Minister couple didn’t think that they should separate, and instead found it beautiful? Look, this was one aspect where she found human beings odd, especially humans who lived during a relatively older era. Sometimes the Dragon Girl couldn’t understand what they were thinking in their heads.
On the Prime Minister’s birthday, she and Yong An Marquis came to congratulate him together. Seeing their daughter and son-in-law coming together, and even deeply affectionate, the Prime Minister and his wife were very pleased. The Prime Minister’s wife took her daughter to the side and took a look. It was indeed slightly rounder, not as thin as before. The complexion was also very good, she was living a good life at a glance. If it was so, then she was relieved, there was just such a precious daughter, marrying her to Yong An Marquis was through a very careful selection process, no matter what, she could not let her daughter feel even a little wronged. Now seeing her son-in-law had treated her well, the Prime Minister’s wife was very relieved.
It was only after she watched for a while that she found something wrong. Taking the chance that her husband and son-in-law were talking in the study, the Prime Minister’s wife took Ling Long’s hand and looked at Chu Shuang and the unfamiliar Chu Xia beside her: “My child, where is Chu Zhi? Why isn’t she with you? Is she unwell and sick? Do you want to ask the doctor to take a look?”
It could be seen that the Prime Minister couple were both kind people. When facing a maid, just because their daughter liked her a little more, they also treated her kindly. It was just a pity that Chu Zhi was not one who knew how to be grateful and repay gratitude in kind, it was already pretty good if she didn’t harm others. As a maid with the protection of the original owner, but tried every means to take what was the original owner’s – her greed like a snake trying to swallow an elephant. Ling Long looked at the Prime Minister’s wife, and smiled lightly. She waved to let Chu Shuang and Chu Xia wait outside, and said lightly: “I dismissed her.”
What kind of temperament the daughter had, the mother knew best. Her daughter couldn’t even bear to step on an ant, let alone Chu Zhi who grew up with her day and night? There must have been something that Chu Zhi did that she could not forgive. The Prime Minister’s wife frowned: “My child, what happened?”
Ling Long asked: “Mother, many people had asked my Daddy for my hand in marriage, why did father and mother choose Marquis in the end?”
Although the Prime Minister’s wife did not know why she asked, she still replied: “Among the young talents, only the Marquis, not only had a noble birth, but also had ability. His title is not like other hereditary titles, ostentatious yet hollow, but his own that he earned on the battlefield. He and your father also have always had a good relationship. He is affectionate and righteous, and is also good looking enough to be a match with my child.”
“Yes, he is very good, a one-in-ten-thousand son-in-law.” Ling Long laughed mockingly. “Since he’s so good, then naturally I’m not the only one who likes him.”
The Prime Minister’s wife was taken aback: “What does this mean…”
“Mother didn’t know, right? Before I married into the Marquis mansion, Chu Zhi and Marquis were already in love.” Ling Long laughed sarcastically. “The maid made contact with Marquis under my name. Gradually over time, the two hooked up and became adulterers. That would still be nothing, if Marquis came to break off the engagement and ask for Chu Zhi’s hand, and openly told matters as they were, I would also think highly of him. But he didn’t want to, he wanted to marry me, not wanting to fall out with father, he also wanted Chu Zhi, wanting to hug both left and right, he didn’t sicken me just a little.”
“What?!” The Prime Minister’s wife was angry. “Chu Zhi, Chu Zhi, how dare she! Who in my Prime Minister’s residence maltreated her?! My child regards her like a sister, and your dad and I practically treat her as an adopted daughter. She actually did such a shameless thing!”
As Chu Zhi grew older, the Prime Minister’s wife was also a little worried. The more this child grew, the more enchanting she looked, a coquettish enchantress. But she was always meticulous in doing things, and her daughter also trusted Chu Zhi so much, so she turned a blind eye. She thought that when her daughter got pregnant, she would find a good marriage for Chu Zhi, so that she wouldn’t have to worry about food and clothing for the rest of her life. It was just that she never thought that wouldn’t even need to find someone, Chu Zhi had already set her eyes on her son-in-law!
Thinking of this, the Prime Minister’s wife was overcome with nausea!
“Mother.” Ling Long glanced at her indifferently, not understanding why she was so animated. “Why are you only scolding Chu Zhi?”
“How could I not scold her? She can also do such treacherous and scandalous things!” The Prime Minister’s wife was furious. If it wasn’t for the fact that Chu Zhi was not present, she would have had her beaten and killed! What’s the use of keeping such slaves! Who could guarantee that they wouldn’t be stabbed again in the future?
“Marquis isn’t anything good either.” Ling Long snorted. “The two people are just like each other, that’s why they hit it off. The flies don’t bite the seamless egg1It takes two to tango.. He and Chu Zhi were in love, but he still had to come and cheat me into marriage. This shows that his character is despicable and selfish, fickle and disloyal. After I dealt with Chu Zhi, he didn’t say a word, and he acted as if nothing had ever happened before. If I hadn’t seen them both tumbling in bed, I would really have believed his nonsense! Mother, you don’t know, but when I slept at night, Chu Zhi would add hypnotic things to my soothing fragrance, and then lead Marquis to her bed, just a wall apart from me!”
The Prime Minister’s wife heard this and almost fainted. The daughter she cupped in the palm of her hands was just ruined like this by someone else! “My child! My poor, unfortunate child!” She couldn’t help crying. “I’m going to tell your Daddy and ask him to bring you justice!”
If she knew this earlier, she might as well not have married her daughter out! Now that she was married to such a Zhongshan wolf,2子系中山狼 is a reference from one of the four classic literatures, 《红楼梦》, and describes an ungrateful person with ambitions. Here, 中山狼(Zhong Shan Wolf) is used, but the meaning remains the same it wasn’t what she originally planned, to find someone to support her daughter, at all!
Ling Long smiled slightly: “I’m afraid that Mother doesn’t have to tell Daddy, he already knows.”
The Prime Minister’s wife looked up towards the door, and saw the Prime Minister furiously pushing the door open and walking in, followed by the pale-faced Yong An Marquis. Before this, they were closely intimate, deeply loving each other, but he had just finished talking with his father-in-law, and came over to find their wives when he heard such words at the door. He then knew that his wife really knew everything, but ridiculously, he had still thought that she knew nothing, thinking that he would just bury it in his heart from now on, never do her wrong, live well with her, love her and pamper her. But he never thought that she had seen through everything long ago, even thinking that he was despicable and selfish, fickle and disloyal.
What, how could this be?
This was the worst birthday that the Prime Minister had in so many years. A moment before, he had admired this son-in-law very much, but now he hated him to the bone. He didn’t even want to talk to Yong An Marquis anymore, he strode through the door in large strides and commanded his wife: “Bring our daughter in! From now on, I won’t meet people who are so ruthless and full of lies! My daughter was not born to be trampled on by others!” He was already very angry, and turned to push Yong An Marquis who wanted to go in to find Ling Long. “Get out of my sight! I will write the divorce letter later, my daughter is not worthy of such a Yong An Marquis with a promising future! Go away! Go away! You are not welcome here, you don’t have to come again in the future either!”
Whose daughter was not raised like a jewel, like a treasure. His little daughter had been a jewel in the palm3treasured since young. For fear that she would be hurt or mistreated, when she grew of age, he picked and chose before betrothing her to Yong An Marquis. He originally thought that she would be supported for the rest of her life, how could he know that this son-in-law was a Zhongshan wolf! And that Chu Zhi! She really had the heart of a wolf and the lungs of a dog!4A Chinese idiom that means cruel and unscrupulous. How could there be people like this in the world who did such things?
“Father in law–“
“Don’t call me father-in-law, I dare not accept your ‘father-in-law’.” As long as he thought about his daughter once saw this excellent, ideal son-in-law and the personal maid having an illicit affair with her own eyes, the anger in the Prime Minister’s heart could not be described in words. “Since you love that Chu Zhi, you should marry her. You may as well help her find her biological father who sold her back then. That’s your father-in-law!”
Yong An Marquis was already incoherent at this point. He had never been so flustered in his life. When his wife was just taken away by his mother-in-law, she didn’t even look back at him. Now he just wanted to see her first. He had so, so many things to ask her!
But the Prime Minister’s emotions were really too agitated. The elderly man was getting on in age and his body was not very good. Yong An Marquis didn’t dare anger him. The Prime Minister brandished a broom from goodness knows where, and chased him out. The stately Yong An Marquis was chased out just like that, battered and exhausted.
Today he came to celebrate the Prime Minister’s birthday, but this was what it came to. The guests of the Prime Minister’s residence had not yet dispersed, many people saw this scene. The son-in-law Yong An Marquis, who the Prime Minister had always been satisfied with, was beaten and chased out. What on earth happened? They really wanted to know, but didn’t dare to ask. The Prime Minister had a dark face and sent someone to inform them that today’s birthday banquet ended. No matter how curious the guests were, they had to leave. When they left, they saw Yong An Marquis kneeling at the door of the Prime Minister’s residence. No one dared to ask what happened, and could only guess secretly. Soon, the news that the Prime Minister drove Yong An Marquis out of the residence spread all over the capital, and became the talk of the town.
Sorry for the long absence, Merry Christmas guys!