Xue Baochai worked hard all his life, but he didn't get anything in his life.

She was born in the Xue family, one of the four major families in Jinling, and is the only daughter in the family.

Although the Xue family is rich but not expensive, his father hopes that he can become a palace concubine and improve the status of the family. So the family raised themselves according to the standards of the palace concubines, and they also yearned for the splendid palace.

The Xue family is also a wealthy family in Jinling, and when his father was there, there was no one in Jinling who could compare to his own. It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, and his father died suddenly of illness, and the Xue family's situation plummeted. The clansmen coveted the position of the patriarch and the name of the imperial merchants, competing openly and stealing secretly; In addition, his brother killed someone, and his family had to leave Jinling, where he had lived for generations, and went to Beijing to join his uncle Wang Ziteng.

Now that I think about it, everything has changed since then.

The uncle's family is not close to his own family, and the aunt is not a nose and eyes are not eyes for himself and his mother, and the aunt who happened to marry into the Rongguo Mansion was warmly invited, and his family lived in the aunt's house in the name of going to relatives.

My aunt is married to the second son, but the Rong Mansion is in charge of the big house, and the second room family is overwhelmed, so the aunt often comes to complain to her mother, and she falls into the eyes of her aunt when she comes and goes.

The aunt hopes to match her with Baoyu so that she can have enough help to compete for the title of Rongguo Mansion, including the title of Dafang. At that time, I was also willing. First, Baoyu is handsome, gentle and considerate, and there is no one he has seen in his life; Second, as my aunt said, the old lady loves Baoyu the most, and she will definitely arrange a qiē for Baoyu properly in the future; Thirdly, he couldn't enter the palace to show his talent because of his brother's affairs, but Baoyu was very smart, and he was born with a jade, and he will have a great creation in the future, and he will be a wife and a son, and he will earn a life for her, and he no longer has to secretly feel inferior to himself for the identity of a merchant girl.

For the sake of this marriage, even if the family lives in a refractory way, they admit it. But whoever wants to marry badly is bad for the old lady. The old lady didn't like herself, and successively wanted Lin Daiyu and Shi Xiangyun to become Baoyu's help to get rid of the big house control, but after being rejected by the Lin Shi family, the old lady still refused to let go and let herself marry into Jiafu. Although the matter of marriage is the order of the parents and the words of the matchmaker, the old lady can't clearly oppose her aunt's favorite, but she can keep dragging it out on the grounds that Baoyu can't get married early. This delay dragged on until he was sixteen years old, until he overheard a big secret - because of Jia Zheng's surname Jia Mingzheng, Baoyu had to avoid his father, and he couldn't talk about politics or politics, so he couldn't go out of office in the future!

If Baoyu can't go out to earn a life for her, and she is a flowery character, her mind has been on her sisters and sisters, and if she can't go out, then in the future, he will be at most a gentleman, not an official family, and he still can't get rid of his low status, so what should she do if she marries him Baochai decisively persuaded her mother to dispel the idea of kissing and kissing, and the family moved out and chose a husband for herself again.

But he was sixteen years old at the time, and it was too late for ordinary people's daughters to marry him before he came to choose a husband. Mother's vision is high, and she also thinks that she can marry into a high-ranking family to be the grandmother in charge, but a high-ranking family, which family is willing to marry a businesswoman to pick and choose to pick and choose, he will be seventeen or eighteen years old, and he is either a house-filling or a concubine, and then he doesn't even have a choice to fill the house, so he has no choice but to marry into a four-grade official family to do a second room, which sounds better than a concubine, but in the end it is not a concubine

But Baochai has always been confident in her talent, she believes that with her talent, as long as she gives birth to a son, she will definitely be able to survive. She was born beautiful and glamorous like a peony, a few days after entering the Chen Mansion, Mr. Chen was fascinated by Baochai, and praised her virtuous atmosphere with his mouth closed, and even more so in her deliberately mentioned the custom of "two big ends" of merchants, that is, in addition to marrying a wife to serve her in-laws in his hometown, he also married a flat wife and had children in the place of business. Seeing that the master valued her so much, the servants came to flatter the "second wife", and for a while, the scenery of Baochai actually suppressed the lady of the main room. In the face of this situation, Baochai is really complacent, and only feels that the position of Mrs. Zhengsi is within reach.

Within a few days, Mr. Chen's political enemies seized the opportunity, and the crime of taking a concubine as his wife and messing with his wife and concubine was detained, and the rules of the merchant's house were vulnerable in the face of etiquette, and Mr. Chen lost his official position on the spot and was ordered to go home for self-examination.

The title of "Second Lady" has since disappeared, and she has been replaced by "Aunt Xue", who has made her deeply ashamed. But if he is really depressed and overly moody, why don't he attack his wife and son-in-law, but only beat her and scold her to find out the reason, but he thinks that she is just a concubine, and he can do whatever he wants.

Baochai didn't want to think about it anymore. At that time, she realized that no matter whether it was Mrs. Ru or the second wife, no matter how nice it sounded, as long as she was not the wife of the main house, any woman was just a plaything in the eyes of men. No matter how beautiful and outstanding she is, no matter how much a man spoils her, it is just a liking for playthings; And no matter how ordinary and talented his wife is, she is also a woman who really spends her life with him. The wife is also together, standing side by side with her husband, but what qualifications does she have as a concubine, but she is just a thing that can be beaten, sold, killed, and given away.

In order to get rid of this kind of day, Baochai didn't care about the shame, abandoned the virtuous and virtuous virtue that he was most proud of, calculated Master Chen, and conceived the baby by unsightly means.

Master Chen only has one sister-in-law, and for the sake of the child in her belly, he no longer beats and scolds her casually. Baochai made a lot of efforts to slowly win back her husband's heart.

Maybe God really helped her, not long after she gave birth to Master Chen's eldest son, Mrs. Chen fell ill. Hearing the news, the muro hairpin can wake up with a smile in her dreams, among the concubines in the backyard, there is no one who is taller, more empathetic, and more agreeable to the old man, and she should be the next Mrs. Chen

Master Chen was very sad about the death of his wife, and Baochai seized the opportunity to speak softly, which attracted the master's heart to gradually all to her. After a year of filial piety, Master Chen really planned to straighten out Baochai.

This can provoke the resentment of the elders in the clan, and they came to the door one after another, persuading Master Chen not to do this kind of thing that humiliates the family, and persuading him: "No woman can become a family, no matter how much you like that concubine, you can't really straighten her up, so that outsiders will see us Chen."

Master Chen likes Bao, but not to the point of ignoring the family's reputation for her. The clan elders are all in the background, and he can't go his own way and lose the support of the family. Moreover, he also thought that taking a concubine as a wife was not a serious practice, so he quickly married Xu Xian.

This is simply a bolt from the blue for Baochai - he gave birth to a son for the master, but in the eyes of those people, he is not qualified to be the wife of the master, and the old man would rather marry a daughter from a small family for the lord to continue the string, rather than the lord to straighten himself, then he will never come out

I thought it was the worst, but worse was yet to come. Mrs. Xu's background is not very good, but she has a good upbringing, and she is unruly but flexible in her work, and her means are not inferior to the previous Baochai. With the assistance and persuasion of the new lady, the lord gradually stopped indulging in women, and Baochai fell out of favor and lived a bad day. Master Chen felt sorry for his ex-wife, and actually put all the blame on Baochai, thinking that if she wasn't charming, he wouldn't have snubbed his wife and visited his wife less when his wife was sick, and thought that Baochai was just a concubine and was not worthy of teaching his son, so he gave his eldest son to his stepwife to raise. Master Chen is also old, I don't know if there will be a third son, the step-wife got that two-year-old child is like a precious treasure, carefully raised, the food and clothing is only slightly inferior to the eldest young master, but the child only recognizes her as his own mother.

The husband cannot be relied on, and he does not put himself in his heart at all; His own son couldn't be raised, and when he saw himself, he only politely called his aunt; Her mother's family is defeated and has no position to help her, she is alone, helpless, helpless, and has no one to confide in. At this point, Baochai really understood the lowliness of being a concubine and understood why some people would rather die than be a concubine. It's a pity that today, it's too late!