IBTSOME Chapter 57 Part 2

I BECAME THE STEPMOTHER OF MY EX-HUSBAND

 

Chapter 57 Part 2: Red Sleeves

 

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Bu Mama lightly wiped her eyes. In fact, she didn't have tears, but she always have to behave like this. She said: "If our young lady is still here, and look at Shizi during the New Year still go to the study in the evening to work hard, she certainly will feel sorry for Shizi's body."

 

Gao Ran suddenly had a bad feeling. She was wary in her heart and casually echoing the other: "Of course, Shizi’s body is the most important."

 

"Yes, we women cannot shared Shizi’s burden with the court’s affairs, and can only be more concerned about his daily necessities. These few days, Shizi Consort must be busy with the New Year's matters, afraid too busy to spare time for other things, and Shizi all day long working hard to study and without people. This old slave come here to tell Shizi Consort that Yun Hui has already follow over to serve and will not return to the backyard tonight. Shizi Consort does not need to worry about the well-being of the study. Yun Hui is in charge of it, so you just need to concentrate on recuperating."

 

Gao Ran’s anger suddenly went to the top of her head as she listened. What kind of thing is Yun Hui, dared to give order in Gao Ran’s place to take care of Gu Cheng Yao's daily necessities? Moreover, Gu Cheng Yao went to the study at this time, in the evening unlikely to return to sleep, and Yun Hui also stayed in the study...

 

Gao Ran could hardly sit still, presumably no woman could sit and watch another young woman spend the night alone with her husband. Bu Mama also saw Gao Ran's dissatisfaction, and she immediately pulled her face down and said: "Shizi Consort, this old slave is the people left behind by Wangfei Shen, who has been entrusted by Wangfei on her deathbed to look after Shizi. And Yun Hui She is another caring person who has follow Shizi for ten years. She come to take care Shizi and this old body feel relieved. Moreover, Shizi Consort has not given birth to a son and a half daughter for Shizi, and a few days ago has been staying in the Buddhist hall for a long time. Pregnancy becomes more and more unfavorable. Shizi Conort should take care of your body and as soon as possible extend her offspring instead of being jealous."

 

Jealousy was not a good name for a woman. Bu Mama even moved out Wangfei Shen and jealousy, one of Seven Outs¹. Gao Ran could only take a deep breath and said: "I am not such an unreasonable person, mama doing this for my own good, I understand."

 

Bu Mama smiled and said with satisfaction: "It’s good that Shizi Consort understands the painstaking efforts of this old slave. This old slave doing this to allow Shizi Consort to have time to take care of her health, not delay the offspring. This old slave’s good intention, Shizi Consort should not misunderstand."

 

Good intention? If you have good intention, would you guard the door, and when found out Shizi went out hurriedly catch up, and sent another person inside to stop her? Gao Ran was very disdainful and almost letting out a curse, but when she thought of Gao Xi's fate, she finally held back, and squeezed a gentle smile at the evil slave who right before her eyes had placed a third party in her marriage.

 

Bu Mama was very satisfied with Gao Ran's performance. She stayed for a while, and saw that Gao Ran did not show any signs of flaring up or even chasing her out, she left with satisfaction. After Bu Mama left, Tao Mama and Ning Fu hurriedly gathered around and jabberingly asked, "Shizi Consort, in the past few days Yun Hui just only serve in the study room during the day. But now she is so shameless, and intends to serve the midnight study. Bu Mama is still staring at the inner courtyard, what should be done?"

 

Bu Mama's hand was very obvious and known to everyone, she took a deep breath and thought for a long time before saying: "Bu Mama is so anxious that it seems Yun Hui has not been received by Shizi. Since Shizi hasn’t use her, there must be a hidden agenda in their hearts. We don’t need to be anxious, let’s bide our time, and see the follow-up."

 

Ning Fu and the others agreed. Gao Ran experienced many things today, and her spirit was extremely tired. This fatigue was not due to the body, but spreads from the bottom of her heart, and gradually drowned the whole person. She was hopeful that by calling her family to come they could control Lin Wei Xi, but in the end she lost a dowry family and when returned to the house exhaustedly at night, she was told that Gu Cheng Yao would not be back at night, and Yun Hui followed in the study.

 

Seeing that Gao Ran's expression was not good, Ning Fu and the others tactfully retreated. When they were about to leave the room, Gao Ran's voice suddenly came from behind: "Tao Mama, inform the small kitchen to make a bowl of zitang soup² at night."

 

Tao Mama’s footsteps stopped. It was quiet improper thing for a shu eldest son to be born before the legal wife gave birth to a son. She also could not stop her husband from favoring the concubine, so she could only get the concubine to a room to pour her zitang soup. Properly safeguarding the interests of the legal wife and di son. Gao Ran's previous analysis was clear and orderly, but in fact, she also panicked too.

 

Inside the study room outside Qingsong Garden, the candle flame jumped. Gu Cheng Yao was about to move the lampshade, which had already been taken up first. Yun Hui held the scissors to cut the burnt wick, and the room regained its brightness. After all this was done, she fasten the lampshade properly and smiled at Gu Cheng Yao, "Shizi."

 

Gu Cheng Yao was a little surprised: "Why is it you?"

 

Yun Hui said: "Daimao is careless and likes to doze off. If he goes to sleep at night, he won’t be able to take care if Shizi want to drinks hot water. I think he is crude, so I sent him back."

 

Yun Hui replaced the poor Daimao, worrying that Daimao could not serve well was one thing, but the bigger reason was still due to selfish motives. Yan Wang managed Gu Cheng Yao's study very strictly. The servants in the study were always young manservants, but these few days Gao Ran was absent. Yun Hui’s guts became bigger and ran to the study during the day. Gu Cheng Yao also did not drive her away. She saw Gu Cheng Yao walking to the outer courtyard today, and it seemed that he would not come back at night. Yun Hui felt that this was a godsend opportunity, and quickly asked Bu Mama to watch Shizi Consort, and she stuffed Daimao a piece of silver and sent him out to drink. She then came over to serve Gu Cheng Yao to study and grind the ink. Although it was called a study room, the bed and other things were all available here, and Yun Hui's thoughts were not only red-sleeves add fragrance³.

 

Gu Cheng Yao actually felt that something was wrong when he heard this. After all, he had been married twice and was no longer an inexperienced young man. Of course he knew the hidden meaning of serving the young master at night. Although his father controlled his education strictly, as Gu Cheng Yao got older in recent years, his father's control gradually eased, especially in matters of men and women.

 

If Gu Cheng Yao was still fifteen years old, Yun Hui followed him to the study to serve, no matter if Gu Cheng Yao allowed it or not, she would not be able to passed Yan Wang. But now that his son was older, some things Gu Hui Yan couldn’t keep taking care of. Seeing that Gu Cheng Yao didn't say anything, he thought it was Gu Cheng Yao's instruction. Gu Hui Yan also turned a blind eye, pretending not to know.

 

Gu Cheng Yao looked at the woman in front of him, her hair curled up deliberately, revealing a white and soft neck, with pearl earrings hanging on her ears. The woman’s skin under the lamp was much more delicate, seemingly like a porcelain glaze. Yun Hui couldn’t be regard as stunning, but she had served Gu Cheng Yao for more than ten years and has been like an older sister since he was a child. Now she was dressed up like this, became more and more feminine.

 

Red sleeves add fragrance, the beautiful lady was interested, and she was the big sister who got along since childhood, afraid only a few men in the world would refuse. But at this moment Gu Cheng Yao looked at Yun Hui, suddenly remembered a past event.

 

That's when Gao Xi was still alive.

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1 Seven outs (七出), I think there’s supposed to be nicer term for it, it’s seven reasons for a husband to legitimately divorced his wife in ancient times, namely: disobey the parents, childless, licentious, jealousy, sickness (what a bastard!), talkative (huh?!) and theft.^↩
2 Zitang soup (避子汤), it translated as avoid child soup but that’s too literal so I keep it in pinyin.^↩
3 Red sleeves add fragrance, is a Chinese idiom that means to have a beautiful woman accompanying on the side to study.^↩

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