Transmigration: From Farmer To Empress-Chapter 1990 - 1998: Meeting in the Dead of Night (Part 1)

Princess Zhao Qing stood up heartbrokenly and hurriedly walked to Third Miss, ignoring the dirt all over her, and clutched her in her embrace, calling out in distress: "What happened? Wasn’t my child in the courtyard mourning for your concubine? How did she end up in such a sorry state? Has someone bullied or insulted my child?"

Third Miss choked up, saying: "The child along with Younger Brother and Nanny Zhang, haven’t eaten for two whole days. Just now, Younger Brother fainted from hunger, and the child couldn’t bear the hunger any longer, so sneaked into the kitchen to look for food. But Housekeeper’s wife Nursemaid Niu saw it and accused me of stealing food. She took a rolling pin as thick as an arm to beat me, even claiming she was going to beat me to death... Mother, please save me..."

As soon as the words fell, cracks appeared in Princess Zhao Qing’s expression!

This little b*tch was obviously deliberately causing trouble, accusing her of mistreating the concubine’s children in front of the seated noblewomen and misses.

If this had been in the past, she could have ignored it, but now she cannot; although her two sons are already married, her two daughters are still unmarried.

Her daughters are beautiful, with high status, but because of her notorious reputation for jealousy, they remain without suitors while others at their age already have children running around. Her eldest daughter is already nineteen, and the younger one is seventeen. Other women at this age have children running all over the place, but her daughters don’t even have someone to propose to them. She had even sought matchmakers, but from their unwilling smiles and subtle rejections, it’s clear no one wishes to marry her daughters.

Which man doesn’t hope to marry a gentle and virtuous wife? Who wishes to marry a shrew?

Finally, she realized the harm her reputation for jealousy was causing her daughters, and began working hard to repair her image, even proactively giving her two personal maids to her son-in-law as concubines, though just in name with no reality, but every time she goes out to meet guests, she dresses those "concubines" in brilliant pearls and brings them along, to show her gentleness and graciousness.

She has been putting on this charade for two or three years now, and people also thought she had changed temperament. Now, someone has begun proposing for her daughters, yet at this juncture, such an incident occurred, and this painstakingly cultivated good reputation was utterly ruined, truly inciting Princess Zhao Qing to thoughts of murder! 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

"Damn it!"

Princess Zhao Qing cursed through gritted teeth, unsure whether she was cursing Third Miss or Nursemaid Niu.

At this time, her eldest daughter Dong Wan’er, who was standing behind her all along, stepped forward, soothing Princess Zhao Qing’s chest and softly said: "Mother need not be angry. In daughter’s opinion, it must be Nursemaid Niu abusing her power while Mother was busy with the birthday celebration, bullying Third Younger Sister. Mother might as well have someone tie up Nursemaid Niu now, wait for the banquet to be over and then interrogate thoroughly. If she really dared to bully the master, Mother must not show leniency to her."

Dong Wan’er’s appearance is delicate, her manners dignified, and her voice as melodious as an oriole. Her advice to her mother seemed reasonable and sensible, but the ladies and misses present were not fools.

The issue of servants abusing masters has always existed, but if someone hadn’t backed the servant, the servant wouldn’t have dared to abuse the master even if they had the courage of a bear and a cougar, right? Looking at the concubine daughter’s attire, even worse than the household’s lowest maids, it’s clear what sort of days this poor girl has at home.

All those attending today’s Eldest Princess’s longevity banquet are official wives; they also have concubine daughters at home. Concubine daughters are not favored at home and punished by the legitimate mother; they, sharing the same position, actually wouldn’t feel unjust about it. But Princess Zhao Qing’s treatment of concubine sons and daughters was too excessive, completely lacking the virtues of an official wife, making even her daughters learn to be as sly and harsh as her—truly contemptible!