Chapter 61 The Concubine's Room
After a while, the maid announced outside, "The concubine, Mrs. Pu, Aunt Zhou, and Aunt Chen are waiting outside the door."
"Let them come in." The concubine said loudly.
Three women dressed as women followed the maid in.
The leading woman, in her 20s, was wearing an apricot red embroidered jacket. She had a plump figure, a demure appearance, and was dressed more luxuriously than the other two.
Her identity is about to be revealed.
Concubine Pu's concubine, Mrs. Pu, the sixth-rank wife of the Jin Dynasty.
The two at the back are concubines, without rank, wearing ginger-yellow jackets. The taller one is Zhou, and the one wearing peach-red jacket and baby-faced is Liu.
These three concubines of King Jin were of three different types, fat and thin, petite and lovely.
"I have met the concubine, and I would like to pay my respects to the concubine." The three of them bowed to the concubine.
"No gifts, go and serve tea to your mistress." The concubine said.
As soon as the three of them came in, they saw the beautiful young woman sitting on the right hand side of the concubine, and knew that she was their new mistress, Mrs. Jiang.
In the past two days, they had learned from their maid that Mrs. Jiang was as beautiful as a fairy. When they saw her today, she was indeed a rare beauty.
Their skin was as radiant as snow, and their eyebrows were so beautiful that they were dwarfed by them.
The maid came over with tea. Mrs. Pu picked up the teacup and knelt down respectfully, "My concubine, Mrs. Pu, I would like to say hello to the princess. May the princess be blessed. Please drink tea, princess."
Jiang Changning glanced at Mrs. Qiao who was waiting to watch the show, and the corners of her lips curved. She would not embarrass these concubines.
He reached out to take the tea cup, took a sip, and put it aside. He smiled and took off a gold hairpin with a sapphire embedded in it from his head, and inserted it into Pu's bun. "Serve the prince well from now on."
Seeing Jiang Changning treating his concubine with a calm expression, the concubine nodded slightly with satisfaction.
As a royal wife, you should have such magnanimity.
Recalling the expressions on Mrs. Qiao's face when she was offered tea by her concubine, and Mr. Pu's face when he was offered tea by his concubine, the concubine felt more and more that a daughter from an aristocratic family was better than a daughter from a noble family.
"Thank you, Princess, for the reward." Mrs. Pu smiled.
When they met for the first time, the new princess seemed to be much kinder than her sister. Of course, whether she would be easy to get along with would depend on her future.
After Zhou and Liu served tea to Jiang Changning, Jiang Changning rewarded each of them with a gold bracelet.
Fortunately, Jiang Changning had already expected that Mr. Qiao would become a demon, so he wore several extra pieces of jewelry, which were of moderate value and novel in style, just to reward others.
According to the preliminary investigation, King Jin should have two girls who were married to him, but they did not come to serve tea to her, presumably because they were not of sufficient status.
The concubine wants to be honorable and very polite.
It's true that the girl in the first house can't get on the stage.
"Wait outside." said the concubine.
The three concubines bowed and left.
Jiang Changning didn't wait for the concubine to speak, and took the initiative: "Mother-in-law, my daughter-in-law is a new wife. I don't know very well how to arrange things in the house. I would like to ask my mother-in-law to help my daughter-in-law make an idea."
When the concubine heard this, she smiled a little deeper and said, "It is your wife who should have made the final decision regarding matters in the prince's room, but you have just entered the house and are young, so I will not embarrass you and make arrangements for you.
, what do you think?"
"Mother, please speak." Jiang Changning leaned forward and said.
"Pu is the wife. She has four days a month, two days each for Zhou and Liu, and two common rooms, one day for each person." said the concubine.
"The daughter-in-law will ask the maid to ask about their little life, and then arrange the specific date, and then report it to the mother and concubine later." Jiang Changning said.
Jiang Changning was so kind, and the concubine became more and more satisfied with her daughter-in-law. She couldn't help but say: "The house will not be vacant for the first month of the wedding. Starting from next month, we will stagger your little life arrangements. You are the mistress, and you will give birth to Lin'er as soon as possible.
That’s the most important thing.”
Mrs. Qiao suddenly turned her head to look at the concubine, her eyes full of disbelief.
That's not what the concubine said to her back then. The concubine told her to be generous, saying that she should share the rain and dew, that as a mistress, she should not be jealous of her concubines, that children born from a concubine were also her children, and that...
"Mother, if nothing happens, my daughter-in-law will go back to the courtyard first." Jiang Changning stood up and left.
"Go." The concubine did not leave her alone.
After leaving the door, he saw three concubines standing in the corridor. Before Jiang Changning could say anything, Mrs. Qiao came out and said, "County Master, we all serve the prince. You should get along well and don't embarrass others."
"Concubine Mourning supports you so much. I'm afraid that I, the mistress, will bully you, so why don't you thank Concubine Mourning quickly?" Jiang Changning said with a smile.
The three concubines did not expect that this pair of sisters-in-law would meet each other. Concubine Mourning was the person in charge and Jiang Changning was the mistress. No one could be offended.
After hesitating for a moment, Mrs. Pu made up her mind and saluted, "Thank you, Concubine Mourning."
Now it seems that the east wind is strong, but this is the palace of Prince Jin, and Jiang Changning is the princess of Jin. The west wind will eventually overwhelm the east wind.
Mrs. Zhou and Ms. Liu followed Mrs. Pu and saluted, "Thank you, Concubine Mourning."
"Sister-in-law, do you know that there is an animal called a gibbon?" Jiang Changning paused, and continued as he walked out: "It looks like a human but is not human, and it is not like a human being."
Mrs. Qiao's face was as dark as the bottom of a pot, and her three concubines hurriedly bowed to her and said, "I take my leave." They hurriedly chased after Jiang Changning.
Back at Rujingyuan, Jiang Changning asked Jin Ya to ask about the three people's letters.
The three concubines' monthly letters are all in the late month of each month, and Jiang Changning's monthly letters are also in the late month.
On the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month, the prince must stay in the main room.
Jiang Changning thought for a moment and made the arrangements, "From next month, Mrs. Park will be the one from the seventh to the tenth day, Aunt Zhou will be the eleventh and twelfth lunar month, Aunt Liu will be the 134th lunar month, and Liang will be the 15th and 16th lunar month."
We have a common room, so let’s leave it like this for the time being, and then make arrangements after Mrs. Chen comes in.”
Jin Ya wrote down the date and went out to tell the three concubines.
The three concubines all looked happy, they could finally serve the prince!
"Don't know how to call me sister?" Park asked politely.
Jiang Changning had only been here three days, so Jin Ya couldn't be the girl from the same house, she could only be the daughter-in-law who was serving Jiang Changning.
"My slave Jin Ya is the princess's companion. Madam can also ask her to come to Wang's house." Jin Ya said with a smile.
"Hello, sister Jin Ya. I have something to ask my sister." Mrs. Pu took Jin Ya's hand and stuffed a purse into her.
Jin Ya did not refuse, pinched her purse and said with a smile: "I can't bear to ask Madam for advice. What do you want Madam to do?"
"When will it be better for us to come over tomorrow to serve the princess?" asked Park.
"Princess will be here from the third quarter of the lunar month, and Madam will be here at the first quarter of the lunar month." Jin Ya told the truth.
"Thank you, Sister Jinya." Mrs. Park smiled.
"There's nothing to do now. Madam and the two aunts should go back to the courtyard to rest." Jin Ya sent them away.
After the Pu family and the others left, Jin Ya entered the Nuan Pavilion and presented the purse given to her by the Pu family, "Princess, this is what Mrs. Pu gave her as a reward for her slaves."
There was a silver coin in the purse. It was small and weighed several coins.
As a sixth-grade lady, Mrs. Pu is a bit stingy in her actions, but she is a concubine and a concubine, so the Pu family cannot give her much love, so a reward of silver is already good.
Jiang Changning took out a silver peanut from his purse and threw it to her, "The silver peanut is for the little girls to buy candies. This is your reward."
Chapter completed!