IBTSOME Chapter 35 Part 1: Old Slave

I BECAME THE STEPMOTHER OF MY EX-HUSBAND

 

Chapter 35 Part 1: Old Slave

 

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Lin Wei Xi sent someone to the study to invite Gu Hui Yan, in the meantime she had not been idle.

 

In Jingcheng courtyard, several respectable old servant women in the mansion were talking with Lin Wei Xi.

 

"... Wangfei, all the people in the mansion want to come over to pay respect to you. It's just that you only got married yesterday, afraid there are still many things to be settled, so the people don't dare to rashly come over to disturb you."

 

A moment before, Lin Wei Xi finished checking the servants in Jingcheng courtyard. If she was only Shizi Consort then that was enough, but Lin Wei Xi now was the Wangfei. In addition to the courtyard where she lives, she also had to accept the visit of the entire mansion. Lin Wei Xi swept a glance at the woman who was talking and calmly asked: "Then in mama’s opinion, when is the right time to call the people over? As the Wangfei, if the servants of the mansion don't even recognize me as the mistress, that is too absurd."

 

Granny Zhao glanced at the people beside her and said with a virtuous smile: "It depends on what time the Wangfei likes, how dare we call the shots for the Wangfei."

 

Lin Wei Xi snorted inwardly, it’s good if you aware not to dare. Lin Wei Xi flipped through the thick roster of the Yan Wang Mansion and said, "Choosing a day is worse than hitting the sun¹, just do it this afternoon at weishi (1-3pm), let everyone in the mansion set aside their works on hands first, and come to Jingcheng Courtyard for me to recognize the face."

 

Although the old servant woman next to Granny Zhao didn't move, the corners of her mouth curled downwards, and her face looks displeased. This servant looks like she was about fifty years old, with a long face and a square chin, there were deep lines on the corners of her mouth, and her eyes hanging sharply, her face looked unfriendly. She wore a crisp dark blue silk jacket with a black and blue skirt underneath. Her shoes were spotlessly clean. She had a heavy gold hairpin on her head, bracelets on both wrists, and on her right hand there was also a plain weave gold bracelet that as wide as a thumb. It could be seen that this woman was not only strict in temperament, but also had a lofty status in Yan Wang Mansion. She obviously used to giving orders.

 

Just now when Lin Wei Xi was asking questions, Granny Zhao glanced to the side before speaking, she was looking at this old woman. Lin Wei Xi was no stranger to this extremely pompous woman. Who doesn't recognize Shen Wangfei’s dowry mama, Bu shi?

 

Old Yan Wang and old Yan Wangfei both left early, and the people who served old Yan Wangfei had also died or moved away. Even if they were still alive, many of these old servants asked to return to their hometowns and had their grandsons supported their lives, very few still continued to work outside. The servants of the old Wangfei generation had retired, and the important departments of the mansion were taken over by Shen Wangfei’s people. Bu mama was the wet nurse that Shen Wangfei brought from her maiden family. She was the person that Shen Wangfei trusted and relied the most. She was always in charge of the mansion, how could she gave up what was hers?

 

Less than two years after the death of old Yan Wangfei, Shen Wangfei also died. At that time, Shizi was only eight years old, and Yan Wang was twenty-four. Although he was in his prime, the war in the North was endless. Gu Hui Yan went to various places to calm the chaos. At that time he fought many famous battles. Gu Hui Yan was busy with the war and didn't have time to worry about the affairs of the mansion, and Gu Cheng Yao was only at the age to begin schooling. Bu mama was trusted by Gu Cheng Yao and had the honor of serving Shen Wangfei. At that time, it was natural that she had an important position in the mansion. Gradually, every important things in the mansion need Bu mama’s approval.

 

Yan Wang was away all year round, Shizi was young and ignorant of outside affairs. The mansion relied on these old mama to take care of the affairs. One could imagined the domestic affairs of the mansion during that time. When Lin Wei Xi first got married, she was shocked to see the bills of the previous years. Yan Wang was very famous, but Lin Wei Xi didn't expect that there would be such a mess in Yan Wang mansion. There were so many territory under Yan Wang's name, silver really like running water. With the rich silver, on the outside Yan Wang Mansion still looked like flourishing flower, impressive and brilliant, but the account inside was really rotten.

 

After getting married Lin Wei Xi was in awkward position for a period of time. In this situation, no matter what it would be her negligence, if she took care of it then she would definitely offend these respectful old servants, when the time come it all would be her fault. It was also Lin Wei Xi's bad luck, at that time she and Gu Cheng Yao had a harmonious relationship, and Gao Ran still had not tell Gu Cheng Yao the truth. Lin Wei Xi was muddleheaded because her farce husband and wife’s relationship, when she was cleaning up the mess somewhat didn’t have any worry. Lin Wei Xi firmly believe that she was doing the right thing, even if they were respectable old servants, they should be punished if they made a mistake. She didn’t care when the people below said that she was not good. The long-term plan of the mansion was the most important.

 

However, Yan Wang Mansion was not the princess mansion after all, and Gu Cheng Yao was not the Grand Princess Shou kang either. Afterwards thing happened one after another, the relationship between husband and wife was broken, the wicked slave that she punished took this opportunity to rebound. Lin Wei Xi was not a soft person, and naturally cleaning up the rules more strictly and tried to prove herself to everyone. As a result, the relationship between husband and wife was getting worse. Like a vicious cycle, the snowball rolled bigger and bigger, until it finally overwhelmed her.

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1 Choosing a day is worse than hitting the sun, it means to just let it happens naturally or everything is fine. In the olden days every major activities such as wedding, funerals, rituals, etc. need to choose a special date, I guess it got too complicated that they eventually said choosing a day is worse than hitting the sun.^↩

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