readsfreenovel Chapter 50 Do You Know? 4
Chapter 50 Do You Know? 4
Lin Xiaoniang's life began with becoming Sheng Hong's concubine because she wanted to escape a life of hardship. Later, she engaged in various jealousies and rivalries with the main wife, all for the sake of their two children.
But today, when this happened, her son didn't even look at her. Lin Qinshuang felt that her heart was aching more than the beatings her mother-in-law had given her.
But Zhou Xueniang said, "What are you saying, young lady? Do you think the old lady would suddenly send word to confine you and the eldest daughter-in-law to your quarters, and only punish you with twenty strokes of the cane? It was all because Feng-ge pleaded for you."
Lin Xiaoniang suddenly looked up, her eyes filled with hope: "What did you say?"
Zhou Xueniang naturally wouldn't hide anything from her and told her everything Sheng Changfeng had done.
"You know how dangerous the situation was at the time. The eldest lady was determined to punish you, and the people in Linxi Pavilion were also put under surveillance."
Feng Ge'er first snatched Master Xu from Madam's hands, and then led his men directly to the old lady's courtyard, asking her for help.
The old lady was initially unwilling, feigning illness and refusing to even show her face. Feng-ge knelt in the courtyard to plead his case, saying that if the Sheng family insisted on selling his concubine, he would beat the petition drum to appeal for justice. Finally, the old lady had no choice but to send the sixth young lady to Wei Rui Xuan to deliver a message.
Zhou Xueniang paused for a moment, then said, "Although Feng-ge'er seems unreliable on the surface, he's actually more anxious than anyone else if something happens to you. He's capable of doing anything."
Lin Qinshuang was stunned, then tears rolled down her cheeks: "I knew my children were wonderful, it's all my fault that they've been dragged down."
Lin Xiaoniang had never hated being a concubine so much.
Because she was a concubine, her children were born out of wedlock and were inferior to legitimate children in every way. As a result, the old lady of Shou'an Hall also disliked Changfeng and Molan because of her. Changfeng knew that the old lady disliked him, so he rarely went to Shou'an Hall.
Unexpectedly, Changfeng dared to break into Shou'an Hall for her sake!
Who is the old lady?
She was the legal mother of Sheng Hong of the Sheng family and the most senior member of the family.
With the pressure of filial piety, even if Sheng Hong liked Chang Feng, as long as the old lady ordered him to be punished, he had to comply with her wishes, no matter how unwilling he was in his heart.
"How is Changfeng now? Has the old lady done anything to him?"
"Changfeng is currently kneeling in the ancestral hall as punishment, saying that he will wait for the master to return before asking for punishment in front of the master so as to apologize to the old lady."
Upon hearing this, Lin Xiaoniang was both pleased that her son was filial and willing to offend the old lady for her sake, and heartbroken that her son still had to kneel in the ancestral hall.
However, she couldn't let him come back. Changfeng had offended the old lady this time, and she had to make a statement no matter what. Let him kneel in the ancestral hall if he wanted to. When the lord returned, he probably wouldn't be willing to punish him severely.
“Xue Niang, the ancestral hall is cold and damp. We don’t know when Hong Lang will return, and we don’t know how much longer he will have to kneel. It’s getting late now. Go and take some clothes and bedding to Chang Feng, and bring him some food. Tell him not to be too honest and to rest when no one is around.”
Poor parents in the world!
Lin Xiaoniang, still injured herself, immediately forgot about her wounds upon hearing that Changfeng had knelt in the ancestral hall. She gave Zhou Xueniang a series of instructions to send things to Changfeng, fearing that her son would be cold or hungry, and even wanted to pack them herself.
Zhou Xueniang helplessly pulled Lin Xiaoniang aside and reminded her, "Xiaoniang, you are also injured. You should apply medicine quickly. I'll take care of Feng-ge'er!"
"Then hurry up and go!"
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The ancestral hall was silent, except for Changfeng kneeling there, carefully sorting through the original owner's memories and brainstorming, trying to find the original owner's wish.
Don't look at it, look at it!
The original owner's memories extended all the way to after he turned eighty. It turned out that the original owner had been reborn. After he died at the age of eighty, his soul was reborn back into his eighteen-year-old body. Naturally, the eighteen-year-old soul was unwilling, and the two souls fought each other, vying for the body, and finally both perished.
"He's lived to eighty and still doesn't learn his lesson. He's fighting with himself for his health and died. What a joke," Changfeng thought with disdain.
If the original owner hadn't acted this way, how would she have ended up here?
Despite his dislike, Changfeng still had to fulfill the original body's wish.
The original owner of this body lived to be eighty years old, so naturally there were grievances in her heart; otherwise, she wouldn't have fought so fiercely with her younger self for control of the body.
The original owner's greatest wish was first to save Lin Xiaoniang and his younger sister Sheng Molan, second to not wanting to live in the shadow of his eldest brother Sheng Changbai, and finally to expose his sixth sister's true colors.
His concubine, Lin Qinshuang, plotted to have his younger sister, Sheng Molan, meet with Liang Han in secret so that she could marry into the Yongchang Earl's family.
Although his father, Sheng Hong, loved his concubine, he valued the Sheng family's reputation and his own career even more. With such a scandal in the family, he wished he could beat his daughter to death. However, the rumors about the two of them were spreading throughout the capital, so he could only swallow his anger and reluctantly agree to the marriage.
In the end, Mo Lan successfully married into the Yongchang Earl's Mansion, but on the night of Mo Lan's wedding, her stepmother was severely beaten and sent to the estate, and a few days later, news of her death came.
Sheng Molan's married life was also unhappy. She gave birth to five daughters in a row. Her husband, Liang Han, was a playboy who favored his concubines over his wife after marriage, which made her position as the legal wife precarious. With no other choice, she had to lose face and fight with the concubines in the courtyard, suffering all kinds of scorn from her husband's family.
The original owner of this body was ashamed of his mother and sister's disgraceful deeds and had no face to plead for them. In fact, he thought that Lin Xiaoniang and Sheng Molan deserved their fate for such immoral acts.
From then on, he changed his previous dissolute nature, focused on his studies, treated his wife well, and was filial to his father and stepmother. He became a gentle, kind, frugal, upright, and dutiful son in the eyes of the world.
It wasn't until his father passed away that he overheard a conversation between his father and his sixth sister, Sheng Minglan, and he learned that his mother and sister's affair had been a setup.
At that time, Sheng Minglan was no longer the little lady who was not valued in the Sheng family. Instead, she had transformed into the eldest daughter-in-law of a marquis's mansion and a first-rank imperial lady, with her husband and son being the emperor's confidants and highly valued by the court.
She had completely changed from her timid and submissive self in her youth, and her demeanor was dignified and elegant, displaying the bearing of a great lady. She spoke calmly about the past: "Lady Lin was afraid that my mother would give birth to a boy and affect her status as a favored concubine, so she sent a constant stream of tonics into my mother's courtyard, which eventually led to my mother's death in childbirth. She deserved her fate. I did nothing wrong, I just slightly provoked them and made them mistakenly believe that I was going to marry into the Yongchang Earl's Mansion. They couldn't wait to do such a shameful thing."