Salted Fish Lady Loves to Eat Melons

Chapter 14 They are all poor people
"My wife, shouldn't you help me change my clothes first?" The voice behind him sounded doubtful but soft, with a charming hoarseness.

Wen Qingwan was really dazed for a moment, and it seemed that when the voice sounded, she almost nodded in agreement instinctively.

"Hmph! You, a defeated general, still want me to serve you? Get as far away from you as possible." Wen Qingwan turned her head and said with some anger.

Xiao Jin saw her nostrils flaring slightly, revealing her inner dissatisfaction and irritability.

Her cold eyes symbolized that her anger was almost uncontrollable.

Xiao Jin didn't know where the little girl's anger came from.

When he was in the military camp, he heard the generals say that their wives had to wake up at five o'clock in the morning to help them change their clothes.

At that time, he was thinking that if he married the little girl, he decided not to let her wake up at five in the morning.

It was already daybreak when he was joking with her, but she suddenly got angry. She must be disgusted by his lame leg!

Thinking of this, his deep eyes revealed an unspeakable sadness, and that lost expression seemed to suffocate people.

Jinlan and Jinque in the room felt sorry for her, but they naturally stood on the young lady's side.

So Jinque pretended not to see it and turned around to serve breakfast. Leng Feng told her that the prince had instructed the young lady to finish breakfast before serving tea.

Jinlan lowered her head and pretended not to see it.

After Wen Qingwan finished yelling, she walked towards the dressing table without noticing Xiao Jin's expression.

In her previous life, she had been married to the prince for ten years. Although she had never slept with him, in the first three years, the prince would often call her to serve him when he favored beauties.

She was asked to serve tea and water. As a concubine, she not only had to help the prince change his clothes, but also had to help the beauties who served him in the bedroom change their clothes.

So when she heard the man calling her to change clothes, she instinctively became angry. Wen Qingwan admitted that she was taking her anger out on him.

But she didn't want to compromise in her life, so she agreed to marry into the impoverished marquis's mansion as Wen Mingzhu wished.

Since she is a down-and-out prince, she is naturally very confident.

Seeing that her young lady didn't care about the prince, Jinlan brought a few maids to bring clothes and helped her clean her face, wash, change clothes and put on makeup.

Xiao Jin had no maidservant around him, and his little maid looked down on him, so he changed his clothes and washed himself.

After packing up, he wanted to leave first with his cane, but he was worried about her, so he walked towards Wen Qingwan in silence and reached out to hold her hand.

Wen Qingwan raised her eyes and glanced at Xiao Jin's body, frowned slightly, shook off his hand, and walked away.

Xiao Jin gritted his teeth and followed her closely, thinking to himself that he had to pamper his wife.

The two of them didn't talk while they ate breakfast, and after breakfast they went to the front hall together to offer tea.

When Wen Qingwan walked to the door, "Madam, please walk slowly and be careful with your step." Xiao Jin's voice was so soft that it could drip water.

Everyone in the hall was so shocked that they looked up at the door, only to see a beautiful woman walking in.

Her skin is as white as jade, her eyebrows are as thin as silk, and the red dot on her lips is as crystal clear as a gem.

Everyone who had been waiting for a long time, all their previous complaints disappeared instantly after seeing Wen Qingwan.

The prince, who had always been averse to women and full of hostility, looked at his wife with eyes so gentle that they could be stretched. No wonder they got up so late.

The old lady of the Xiao family was originally sitting on the armchair. When she saw her eldest grandson had changed from his previous decadent appearance, she was so surprised that she suddenly stood up.

"Jin'er, get up. It's still early and you can sleep a little longer." Old Madam Xiao said excitedly.

"Greetings to grandma." Xiao Jin and Wen Qingwan greeted the old lady in unison.

Wen Qingwan saw that the old lady was particularly enthusiastic and smiled so much that all the wrinkles on her face were smoothed out. Based on her experience, she knew that the old lady must have some ulterior motive.

Just now, she felt that the Cheng'en Marquis Mansion was very large and very suitable for her to live in. If nothing unexpected happened, this would be where she would stay for the rest of her life, so she bought a mind-reading talisman.

Let's test the old lady's character first. Only by knowing yourself and your enemy can you win every battle!

While Wen Qingwan was serving tea, she understood Madam Xiao's inner thoughts. Her husband had been unwilling to accept his demotion.

He died of depression when he was less than 40 years old. He held her hand with his eyes open and said that he was ashamed to face his ancestors and hoped that she would raise his descendants well.

The old marquis left her with two sons and two daughters. Her two sons were incompetent and squandered the family's already meager assets.

Her daughter had not married well and was unable to help the Marquis's family, which had long been in financial difficulty and unable to make ends meet.

Fortunately, the two sons are good-looking, and with the support of the Marquis's Mansion, it is not difficult for them to find wives.

She used the excuse of becoming a vegetarian and chanting Buddhist scriptures to immediately hand over the management of the household to her newly married eldest daughter-in-law.

Poor girl, only fifteen years old, she was worried about all the big and small things in the mansion all day long.

While pregnant, she had to take care of the food, clothing and other expenses for everyone in the house. In the end, she passed away not long after giving birth.

Marquis Cheng'en was also sad, but he was cold-hearted and fickle by nature, and soon he found a new love, so it was said in Kyoto that Marquis Cheng'en favored his concubine and ignored his wife.

In the past twenty years, everyone knew that Marquis Cheng'en had married six wives, and each of them was very rich.

Everyone knows that Marquis Cheng'en will only marry if the woman is rich.

But outsiders don’t know that the Marquis’ Mansion needs the mistress to use her dowry to support the many servants in the Mansion.

Those women gave birth to children for their beloved men, and eventually died of exhaustion after eating up all their dowries, leaving their children to live a hard life in the marquis's mansion.

As the saying goes, if the upper beam is crooked, the lower beams will be crooked. Over the past twenty years, the Cheng'en Marquis Mansion has not only not improved but has become increasingly poorer.

Because there is a prodigal son in the mansion, and prodigal sons can be divided into men and women.

Rumor has it that he is as ferocious as a tiger, and even the present emperor believes that Marquis Cheng'en deliberately killed his wife to seize the dowry.

Outsiders don’t know that the old lady’s two sons are both supported by women.

Their wives’ dowries were used to support the servants in the mansion, and even the concubines had to eat their own food!

Just when the emperor wanted to demote her title again, her eldest grandson performed great deeds on the frontier and saved the crumbling marquisate.

With the support of his eldest grandson's military achievements, his eldest son married a beautiful wife three years ago. Unfortunately, her dowry was almost used up!

Ever since Jin'er was injured and became lame a year ago, he has been staying in his yard all day, ignoring everything in the world.

The prince has been decadent, like a heavy iron lock that tightly locks the old lady's heart.

She couldn't breathe freely and felt extremely depressed. She thought about dying several times.

But she was even more ashamed to see her husband, as she had only one grandchild and he was disabled!

After listening to the old lady's inner thoughts, Wen Qingwan knew that she was only fifty-eight years old this year.

But she looked older than her grandmother who was over sixty years old. The old lady's hair had turned gray and the wrinkles on her face were now deeper.

The more people lack something, the more they care about it. In order to show her majesty, the old lady usually likes to lean on a gorgeous cane.

Wen Qingwan looked at the current Marquis's wife again. She was said to be only twenty-one years old, but she did not look younger sitting next to the Marquis.

He is also a poor man!

Her smile as she offered tea also became more sincere, "Mother, please have some tea."

(End of this chapter)