Chapter 018: Concubine
"Miss, Jiang Gongzi is still waiting outside, and it seems that he won't leave for a while. Yan Yu covered her mouth and happily leaned into Zeng Yurou's ear and whispered.
Zeng Yurou, who had just fainted because of excessive sadness, sat on the edge of the bed and drank tea intact.
In the past few days, the sad woman who has been weak in the eyes of everyone has listened to the slave's reply expressionlessly.
"Hmm. Everything is in her calculations, and Jiang Yifan's performance at the moment is a matter of course.
"Miss, the country is beautiful, Tianxiang, which man is not obsessed when he sees it. Yan Yu spared no effort to praise his master.
Oh, what a country.
When she knew that her father was going to use her marriage in exchange for Nanping's business, she was calm, and her father's smiling little eyes had no father-daughter affection except for interests and beauty. All the family education etiquette shown by Zeng Mansion to the outside world is deceptive, and under the cover of his father's hand, Zeng Mansion has changed from a copper-smelling merchant to the most bookish family in Furong Town.
It's ridiculous.
How many aunts and wives the Zeng family has received over the years, it is estimated that even my father himself does not remember. My mother was neglected by her father for many years, and she was depressed, and she died after a few years, when she had just turned six.
The eldest sister who loved her the most married Xixia when she was eight years old, and the Xixia was far away, and the sisters never met again after the eldest sister got married. Although the eldest sister often writes back, it can be seen from the words in the letter that the eldest sister is not doing well.
Although the elder brothers are men, they are all concubines, and only she and the eldest sister are the daughters of Zengfu's concubines.
The biological mother is different, she is not close to several brothers, and after the eldest sister got married, she grew up lonely and stubborn in Zengfu.
Many years ago, his father was able to marry his eldest daughter to the barbaric Western Xia for the sake of profit, and now he can marry the second daughter to a lustful and incompetent man for the sake of profit.
When her father first mentioned Jiang Yifan, the son of Nanping, to her, she knew her father's intentions.
She sent someone to investigate Jiang Yifan's background thoroughly, Jiang Fu, the richest man in Nanping, has strong financial resources and extraordinary strength, and his business is all over the Central Plains. The only fly in the ointment is that the three generations of the Jiang family have a single lineage, and the heirs are thin.
Jiang Yifan grew up in the palm of his hand since he was a child, and he raised a bad problem of a petite son.
Although Jiang Yifan successfully condensed his qi at the age of thirteen and cultivated his aura, after a few years of his cultivation, his anxious nature drove away more than a dozen cultivation masters, and then his cultivation was wasted.
Since then, he has been lingering in the Red Chamber all day long, raising dramas, gambling tables ups and downs, and drinking like his life. The old man of the Jiang family sent someone to invite him home, but he threatened him with death, and Mrs. Jiang cried and made trouble and hung herself to protect her precious grandson, and finally the old man Jiang had to let him fall willingly.
When she knew these news, Zeng Yurou's heart didn't have much turmoil, her father didn't care who the person she was going to marry was, he only cared about the benefits that this person could bring him.
It's just that Jiangfu is really a little high, in order to increase his bargaining chips, his father took the family treasure five-eyed peacock feather as his dowry.
Everyone said that there was a phoenix in Furong Town, but unfortunately no one had ever seen it.
I don't know when my father announced that the remnants of the ancient mythical beast Phoenix, the five-eyed peacock feather, were in his hands.
Hearing this, Zeng Yurou scoffed, how could he, an ordinary person, have something left over from ancient times. With so many cultivators in the world, I have never heard of anyone who has any ancient divine beast leftovers, how did it end up in the hands of his father?
If she can be born as a man, if she can become a cultivator, she will be able to break through these worldly shackles and will not become a tool for profit.
Why did she have to be born as an ordinary daughter?
The eldest brother has a generous personality and is not clever, not a good businessman, the second brother is introverted, and he can't run a business if he is silent, the third brother died young, and the fourth brother can't sit still, just like a young child.
She has been smart since she was a child, proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and is better at business. This business mind, to be strictly speaking, only she inherited her father.
It's just that she is a daughter, and the family business can't be touched at all, so she can only rely on marriage as the only value. Everyone in Furong Town knows that Zeng Zhenxin loves his youngest daughter Zeng Yurou the most, who can know these dirty things inside.
Although she can't change her father's decision, she is very interested in the five-eyed peacock feather. She made a request, if she wanted her to seduce Jiang Yifan obediently, she would hand over the five-eyed peacock feather to her. My father weighed it for a long time, but after all, the interests were greater than everything.
And she got the legendary treasure.
Then she listened to her father's words and went out of the limelight on his fiftieth birthday to tempt Jiang Yifan.
Jiang Yifan himself was a little different from the situation she had found, and the subordinates of Zengfu that day were all talking about Nanping Jiang's son, Yushu Linfeng, as beautiful as a crown of jade.
A playboy with a poor character also deserves such praise, Yan Yu scolded the subordinate who chewed the root of her tongue for her, and no one dared to mention Jiang Yifan next to her since then.
She casually played the piano and danced to catch Luo Xifeng firmly, and his greedy eyes looked at Zeng Yurou who wanted to vomit.
Yesterday was the day he proposed, how could he have thought that the second brother would hang himself, thinking of the incompetent second brother, she didn't have much sadness, and it was not a good thing for the incompetent person to die as soon as possible.
She raised her hand and carefully stroked her hair, and commanded in a cold voice:
"Help me out. ”
"Miss, do you want to wait a while?" Yan Yu asked in a low voice, now is the time to test Jiang Gongzi, the longer he waits outside, the deeper his heart for Miss will be.
"There is a funeral at home, and it is not good for him to stay here in case he is seen by others. Zeng Yurou picked up a cup of warm ginger juice and smoked it in front of her for a while, her eyes that had returned to normal were immediately filled with red threads and filled with tears.
Yan Yu held her hand and walked out of the inner bedroom step by step.
Luo Xifeng drank tea leisurely, Zeng Yurou's means of welcoming and refusing got Zeng Zhenxin's true biography, if it was true, Jiang Yifan would have jumped into the pit she designed.
She deliberately fainted just to see her attitude, and since she wanted to see it, she naturally had to show her.
Seeing her come out, he put down the cup in his hand and immediately got up, with urgency and worry in his voice:
"How can you be so careless, but don't cry and break your eyes. If Cha Ming hears this, it is estimated that he will be able to laugh at him for more than half a year, and he will have a picture in his mind of Cha Ming pinching his throat and learning him to speak.
"Brother Jiang, I've kept you waiting. Yurou invited Brother Jiang to come this time because she wanted Brother Jiang to help her father find out the murderer of the second brother. ”
Zeng Yurou sobbed and choked out of the words Luo Xifeng was a little surprised, Zeng Fu already knew that Zeng Yutong died from him?
"How do you say this? Didn't Brother Zeng hang himself?"
She secretly laughed in her heart, of course she hanged herself, and everyone could see that the second brother committed suicide in shame. The second brother is really stupid, but if he loses a fake, he can also make him pay for his life, which is really stupid.
She said this just to let Jiang Yifan have a reason and excuse to come to Zeng's Mansion a few more times.
But today, he came alone, which disappointed her a little.