Chapter 9 A lifetime of control

Last time Sister Yueyuan spoke, after Qu Fulan prepared the medicine for the old lady, she stopped doing other odd jobs and stayed at home to learn needlework from Hai Xia.

Qu Fulan didn't want to learn, she wasn't interested in needlework, but Sister Yueyuan asked her to learn more needlework when she had free time last time, instead of going out to do odd jobs. She also said that the old lady valued a maid who was a good needleworker more.

Of course, Mrs. Pei has plenty of clothes to wear, but some things like wiping her forehead, shoes and socks, etc., still have to be tailor-made by the maid and mended by herself to make them more comfortable.

The old lady asked Yue Yuan to help Qu Fulan, and Yue Yuan took her into consideration and gave her all the advice that needed to be given.

Qu Fulan also lived up to Yue Yuan's respect. Anyway, he had many skills and was not overwhelmed, so he learned from Hai Xia.

Although Haixia has an out-of-touch character, her needlework is not bad. It is common for women in this era to know needlework. After all, many people sew their wedding dresses by themselves.

I was learning needlework here, but there was a sound coming from the tea room next door.

It was Haixing's voice: "The old lady wants to drink tea. Send it there quickly. Remember to say something nice to the old lady to make her happy."

Then there was Haichun's excited voice: "I'm going right now!"

Then there was a burst of movement, the sound of Haichun's footsteps leaving the tea room.

Haixing now spares no effort to support her sister.

Hai Xia could see it.

"If she works down-to-earth and uses her true skills to gain respect in front of her master, I won't say anything. Look at what she has done. Thanks to her sister, she can do all the work in the tea room all day long.

Besides, she didn’t do any other work, even the work of chopping wood and lighting the fire in the tea room was done by another maid. When the tea was boiled, she took it and sold it to the master, which was really shameless.”

"But for a job of delivering tea, it's not certain whether you can get close to the master. Unlike Sister Haitang, you deliver medicine to the old lady every day, and you can get close to the old lady every day. Let me see, who can take the place of that lady in the end?

The location is not yet certain.”

It is true that the person delivering tea may not be able to get close to the master, otherwise what would the first-class maids around the old lady do?

The most a third-class maid can do is carry the teapot and put it away before coming out. Bringing tea and pouring water is something that a first-class maid can only do.

Hai Xia didn't know that the old lady asked Yue Yuan to take Qu Fulan with her. She only made a guess based on what she saw.

Qu Fulan didn't intend to go around talking nonsense. After all, the matter had not been settled yet. He only said: "Let's just do our part. Whether it's good or bad, the masters will have their own considerations."

Hai Xia nodded, fully agreeing with Hai Tang's point of view.

After two days of embroidery, Qu Fulan finally embroidered a purse. Although the needle and thread looked awkward and the shape was strange, it was her first work at least, and it was very memorable.

Hai Xia didn't hit her and praised her for being able to embroider like this for the first time.

"The first time I embroidered, my family couldn't figure out what it was."

Qu Fulan said modestly: "You taught me well."

Hai Xia smiled sheepishly.

Then we talked about the latest developments in the house.

"Today some maids were let out of the second room of the main house. They were all crying and were very reluctant to leave."

Qu Fulan was puzzled: "Why are they crying, what are they reluctant to part with?"

Hai Xia said: "I can't bear the treatment in the house." After saying that, she looked around and saw no one before whispering, "Just look at that starfish, she will go out to get married when the time comes.

And I couldn’t bear to have a good job in the house, so I asked my sister to come as a substitute, so that life at home would still be easy, which shows how many people don’t want to go out when their time is up.”

After Hai Xia said so much, Qu Fulan only heard one sentence - how many people didn't want to go out after the expiration date.

She was stabbed in the heart and wanted to vomit blood.

As the saying goes, what you desperately want can be easily obtained by others without even caring.

But maybe everyone has to look forward to Shu.

Those maids who don't want to go out may not be happy if they have to sign a death contract.

Who doesn't know that a maid under a death contract will not be free for the rest of her life, and that her master will decide whether to marry a chicken or a chicken, and a dog will follow a dog.

There are only two final endings for a maid with a death contract. One is to be favored by her master and become a concubine, and the other is to be assigned to the family as a servant.

I can't think about it anymore, I will suffocate if I think about it again.

Qu Fulan became more and more determined to be promoted quickly and accumulate merit, so as to achieve the goal of obtaining the deed of betrayal as soon as possible.

However, it was said that the second daughter of the Pei family's third bedroom had come back to stay for several days. Apart from greeting the old lady, she rarely left the third bedroom on weekdays.

It's not that the second lady is introverted and doesn't like to go out. This was not the case before the second lady got married. At that time, she had some ideas and was able to assist the second wife in housekeeping. She was very prestigious at home for a while.

Now that I have been married for only half a year, my whole spirit is different from before. I look very haggard and unwilling to go out.

The third wife held it in for several days, and now she couldn't help but ask: "Lan'er, have you been wronged at your husband's house?"

Otherwise, why would he look so haggard?

Pei Lan originally came home to complain, but she didn't hold back. That was not her character, so she said, "My daughter has no choice. She came back this time to find a helper."

The third wife knew the situation was serious as soon as she heard it, and immediately said: "What is so serious?"

Only after Pei Lan told her story did the third wife know the whole story.

It turns out that Pei Lan's husband seemed to be a good man at first. He was said to have a strict family tradition, and there was a saying that he would not take concubines within three years of marrying a wife.

As a result, not long after they got married, the husband began to have an affair with the maid.

What could Pei Lan do? It was perfectly normal for this man to have three wives and four concubines. How could he stop his husband from taking concubines? In order to show his generosity, he offered to take concubines for his husband.

I thought that by doing this, my husband would be grateful for my generosity and treat her well, but in the end I turned around and brought back a woman from outside.

"That's just a foxy girl who spends all day trying to sow discord between me and my husband. If I don't think of a way, I'm afraid there won't be any place for me in the house in the future."

When the third wife heard this, she felt sorry for her daughter, but she blamed her husband for not keeping their word and agreeing not to take concubines for three years. But the wife took two concubines not long after she entered the house. Isn't this a slap in the face of the first wife?

"Although the Liu family is unkind, now that the die is cast, what else can be done?" said the third wife.

She herself came here like this. Before her husband married her, she had an affair with several maids. However, after the incident, the old lady dealt with it harshly. She directly sold those maids to Ren Yazi, which was regarded as a gift to the new entrants.

My daughter-in-law is now decent.

The Pei family had a rule that a concubine could not be born before a legitimate son, so concubines were not allowed until the first wife gave birth to a legitimate son.

Later she got pregnant and the doctor diagnosed her as a son. Her husband immediately found someone else. The third wife was pregnant and could not take care of her husband, so she turned a blind eye.

The second young lady is not like her mother who just sits there and waits for death. She is used to taking the initiative in her own hands.

"It's just some unworthy concubine intercourse. I won't object to him having a concubine, but I don't want to see that bitch being so rampant. If she gives birth to a child before me, it will be extremely detrimental to me."

"But if you come back now, aren't you giving her a chance?" The third wife was puzzled.

The second young lady said: "I'm not afraid of that. Our father was injured before and has been taking a certain medicine. That medicine is not conducive to having children. Now that the medicine is stopped, it will take half a year to return to normal. That's enough for me to plan."

The third wife said: "What do you want to do?"

The second young lady said: "When I come back this time, I want to choose a maid from home to be our master's concubine. She has to have a more outstanding appearance, and she has to be a maid with a death contract, so that I can control her for the rest of my life."
Chapter completed!