Rebirth of the Phoenix

Chapter 6

There is an old saying that goes well: where there are people, there are rivers and lakes.There is another saying that goes where there are many women, there are many right and wrong.

These two sentences couldn't be more appropriate to be placed in the backyard of Duke Dingguo's mansion.

Lin Chengmao thinks he is not the kind of bastard who spoils his concubine and kills his wife. Although he dotes on Yang a little bit on weekdays, in some things, he is either looking at Lin Yuhui's face, or he values ​​Yang himself, so he praises her. one two.But these are not out of line in his opinion, and Lin Chengmao can still give Lu's full dignity to his wife.

But I can’t help but others don’t think so——

There are a total of eight women in Dingguo's mansion, just like fingers stretched out, they will be long or short. Naturally, the status of these eight women in Lin Chengmao's heart is also high and low.

Some people are proud, and some are bound to be frustrated; some are favored, and of course some are out of favor.

Putting it in Dingguo's mansion, Yang's being favored and proud, isn't it that the others are about to fall out of favor and become frustrated?
Lin Chengmao went to Yang's for dinner again, and of course he stayed there afterwards.This news spread to other people's ears, and everyone's reaction was also different——

Mrs. Hu fell out of favor in the early years, and forged such a big enmity with Mrs. Lu, these years in the backyard are just to survive.At that time, the relationship between Lin Chengmao and Lu Shi was still very affectionate, and coupled with the power behind Lu Shi, as long as Lin Chengmao still had a little brain, it was impossible for Lin Chengmao to let Hu Shi come out to play again.When the incident broke out, Lin Chengmao originally wanted Hu's life, but in the end it was Lu who opened his mouth, and Hu was lucky to save his life.

But I also know that even though Mrs. Lu was in various considerations, Mrs. Hu was given a way out.But counting on her to treat Mrs. Hu kindly, unless Mrs. Lu is the Holy Mother, Mrs. Lu obviously has not "cultivated" to that level, so one can imagine what kind of life Mrs. Hu has lived in the past ten years.

In the first one or two years, not only were all the statutes that should have been deducted, the maids around her were sold, and she had to do everything by herself, and she had to deal with Lu Shi's difficulties from time to time, and if she was careless, she would be tortured.Thinking about it now, Mrs. Hu feels shuddering, and she doesn't know how she survived in the first place.

That is, when Li Shi, Chen Shi, and Yang Shi came in one after another, and gave birth to sons one after another, Lu Shi felt the pressure, and Hu Shi's life became a little easier.But even so, I still have to do the work by myself, there is not even a maid or mother-in-law around, and what I eat is leftovers, sometimes mixed with sand.

Several years of hardships have cleared Hu's mind a lot, coupled with the fact that the authorities are confused by the onlookers, Hu can see the signs, maybe there is hope for the future, no matter how tortured by Lu, Hu will be one by one After enduring it, a few years later, the situation in the backyard really changed, and the Hu family simply took refuge in the Yang family, willing to be Yang's pawn.

Yang's return was reciprocal. After gaining a firm foothold in the backyard, she also secretly gave Hu a lot of care - after all, although Yang was favored, she was only a concubine in the end, and it was impossible to blatantly confront Lu. But even so, it is enough for Mrs. Hu to be grateful.

In this life, Hu has no other hope at all. The child is gone, his body is broken, and his appearance can't be seen now. Only by hugging the uncle Yang tightly can he have the hope of living.If Mrs. Yang falls, then her little pawn will only be even more unlucky.

So when he heard the news that Lin Chengmao was staying in the bamboo courtyard, Mrs. Hu was really happy.She no longer has the capital and strength to fight for favor. Under such circumstances, the better Yang's is, the better she is.On the other hand, if Yang's family is well, Lu's will naturally be bad, even if it's just for this, she would like Yang's to get better and better.

Others are not as lenient as Mrs. Hu——

At the beginning, Wu, like Hu, took refuge in Yang, but he was a little slower in action, and his attitude was not as firm as Hu's. After she became pregnant, she was even more cautious.

If it was a few months ago, seeing Yang being favored, then Wu must be happy. Who made Yang be her only backer at that time?But now, Wu's mood is a little complicated.

Although she hasn't made up her mind to set up her own family yet, but seeing that she is pregnant, the master only comes to see her two or three times a month. Think about Yang's time, the master would visit every three days.I don't know if the piece of meat in my belly is male or female. Mrs. Yang already has one son and two daughters, including the only son of the master.I have been a little transparent for ten years, and Yang has been favored from the moment he entered the door.

Thinking this way, how can we not make Wu Shi feel sad?
Even though I understand rationally that my thinking is wrong, that Yang shi is kind to me, and that I can conceive thanks to Yang shi's support, but emotionally, I feel a little sad.

It should be said that Mrs. Wu didn't have much ambition in the first place, otherwise she would not have been silent for so many years, but no matter how self-aware she is, seeing how successful Mrs. Yang is before her eyes, she will inevitably be shaken for a while!
They are all women, and they are all concubines, both of which are Lin Chengmao's concubines. Mrs. Wu feels that she is not as hopeless as Mrs. Hu, so why doesn't she want to live a better life for herself?However, many years of caution told Wu that if he took a step forward, it is possible that the sea and the sky may be brighter, but it is even more likely that there will be a catastrophe!

For so many years, Yang's method, Wu's method, and Wu's knowledge, he is definitely not a good person!

In the past few months, Wu Shi has to experience such a confrontation between reason and emotion in a few days. Even with his originally healthy body, he doesn't know if it is because of this reason that he has become a lot weaker, and even the pain in his stomach has become weaker. Fetuses have been greatly affected.

Lu's dowry Liu, Li's dowry Jiang, and Chen's dowry Zhang, the three of them were in similar situations in the Dingguo Mansion. There is no freedom in the hand, it is just a pawn.

The difference is that Lin Yuyan, born to Liu, died young, but there was a healthy Lin Yuting beside Lu, while Lin Yujuan, born to Jiang, and Lin Yumao, born to Zhang, were still alive. There is a sick seedling, and one is empty below the knees.

There is also a difference between the latter two. Li's biological daughter is still alive and in poor health, so Li naturally has to take care of her own flesh and blood first, so of course Lin Yujuan is not that important in her eyes.Therefore, Lin Yujuan was able to get along with her biological mother often. Correspondingly, Li's promotion and praise of Lin Yujuan was less than that of Chen's treatment of Lin Yumao.

However, Chen's knees are desolate and have been out of favor for a long time, so even if it is impossible to treat Lin Yumao as her own daughter, she is still much closer than the former two. Forget to let Lin Yuxiu come over and show her face.Although Lin Yu'ao doesn't remember much now, judging by her daily performance, she gets along very well with Mrs. Chen.

In this way, although Mrs. Liu is freer and less bound, but at the same time, the value of use is also smaller, and life can only be said to be neither salty nor dull.As for Jiang and Zhang, the former knew that Li was not interested in his daughter, so he allowed Lin Yujuan to get close to Li, and was even willing to play in person to create opportunities.The latter is more contradictory. Although he understands that for the future of his daughter, he should get closer to Mrs. Chen, but he is emotionally reluctant to part with his child born in October.

When these three people got the news, Mrs. Liu didn't care. From her point of view, no matter how favored Mrs. Yang was, she was just a concubine. Naturally, she, Lu Shi's "attendant", doesn't need to have a headache.Lin Yuhui said that he was the future master of Dingguo Mansion, but Lin Chengmao was only in his thirties. When this "future master" could be the master of the family, God knows when?Isn't it unfounded to think so much now? !

Jiang Shi and Liu Shi are also in the same mood. Small people also have the advantages of small people, that is, as long as you are honest, those big people will not go to trouble you when they have nothing to do.

In Duke Dingguo's mansion, it is obvious that there are four forces, Lu as the first wife, Li and Chen as noble concubines, and Yang who gave birth to Lin Yuhui, and the rest are not on the stage.So even if the Yang family is favored, it will only be the Lu family, the Li family and the Chen family that will be dealt with.And these people, although they also belong to Yang's hostile forces, as long as they don't kill themselves, then even if the master is down, they can do it for the sake of giving birth to a daughter who can marry. Mix up a good death.So it's good if your master is favored, but the two of them don't worry too much about others being favored.

So after these three people found out, they didn't even froze for a moment, they just did what they were doing before, and what are they doing now.

Li's and Chen's reactions were similar, they were both calm.

The weather has turned cold, and Lin Yuxian has been feeling unwell for the past two days. Mrs. Li is worried about her daughter's health, and even wants to save time for eating and sleeping. How can she have time to fight and be jealous? !

As for Mrs. Chen, Lin Yuzhao's death was a great blow to her. She was only in her early thirties, but she looked like she was in her 50s or [-]s, with wrinkles around her eyes, and even her hair was a little gray.Not to mention those originally agile eyes, at best it sounds Gujingbubo, at worst it's——ah!

Chen Shi is now alone, as long as others don't come to provoke her, Chen Shi doesn't care who gets favor and who loses favor.Even hearing that Yang's being favored over Lu's and Li's, he felt a little gloating in his heart.

Don't think that she didn't know how her son died back then. Both Lu Shi and Li Shi were involved in it. It's only because she was just blindly sad at the beginning and didn't think about this level. When she came back to her senses, the evidence It has been cleaned up by the two of them.Mrs. Chen herself was disfigured because of being too sad, and she fell out of favor completely, so she failed to avenge her son.

So when she heard the maid came to report, Mrs. Chen sent her off with a "huh".But what was Chen's heart thinking, and whether her heart was really ashamed, no one knew.

These people, no matter what they think in their hearts, they can at least maintain a superficial calm, but when the news reached Lanyuan, Lu Shi didn't have such a good self-cultivation——

"Young bastard——"

After the servant girl reported the news, she immediately shrank her shoulders reflexively, and then heard the sound of porcelain being smashed to the ground without any surprise.no way!Every time after hearing the news about the bamboo courtyard, Mrs. Lu would come here once, either smashing porcelain or slapping tables, everyone is already used to it.

In the early years when the Lu family held the power in the backyard, when the key to the warehouse was in hand, his temper became even more violent. Later, when Mrs. Xin and Lin Chengmao checked the accounts, they found something wrong and took away part of Lu's power. When he made it up by himself, Lu Shi restrained himself a bit.Of course, this "one or two" is just Lu Shi's own feeling, and other people don't feel any obvious difference!Thanks to Lu's rich dowry, he was able to withstand her tossing!

When Mrs. Lu lost her temper, no one around her dared to persuade her, but Lin Yuting dared, but she was also angry, so there was a lot of "ping-ping-pong-pong-pong" in the orchid courtyard before she stopped, and Mrs. Lu patted her chest , calmed some of his anger, adjusted his breathing, and then looked at the messy outer hall in disgust, and waved, "Clean it up quickly!"

After speaking, he turned around and walked inside.Lin Yuting followed from behind, not forgetting to give the servants behind her a hard look, "Hurry up! Mei Xiang, go and bring over two plates of dim sum first. Gui Xiang, you brought the others to clean up this place. In the future, I will be eaten by the same table again!"

Mei Xiang and Gui Xiang, the maidservants beside Lu Shi, responded quickly.

Seeing the figures of Lu Shi and Lin Yuting's mother and daughter disappear into the veil, everyone including Mei Xiang and Gui Xiang breathed a sigh of relief.Xindao, today's test is finally over!

no way!Both Lu Shi and Lin Yuting are not very good-tempered people, and they must be careful all the time when they serve in the Orchid Courtyard!The Lu family was fine in the early years, but he had the self-restraint and style of Miss Hou Fu, and his methods were not bad, but I don’t know if it’s because of other people’s pressing every step of the way these years, and his temper is getting worse and worse. up!

(End of this chapter)