Husband, please lend me your virtues

Chapter 145: The Sister in the Control Group of the Rebirth Article (End)

Zhao Xinyou got married from Prince Kang's mansion. Sun Ying, who was appointed as the crown prince, came to marry her with a happy face. On the second day, when the bride served tea to her husband's family, Lady Jingguo, who had always been kind to Zhao Xinyou, stared at Zhao Xinyou harshly for a long time and refused to take the cup of tea that Zhao Xinyou, who was kneeling on the ground, was holding in both hands.

After all, this niece in front of her not only broke off her son's engagement in public, but also disregarded her own face and threatened the Duke with marriage, and replaced him with that lowly concubine's son as the Crown Prince.

Lady of the Duke Jingguo wished she could go back to the moment when the Zhao sisters entered the mansion. She would drive the two sisters out of the Duke Jingguo's mansion even at the cost of her dignity.

In the end, it was the old lady who stepped out to ease the atmosphere, and the wife of Duke Jingguo then took the tea from Zhao Xinyuo.

Just two months after Zhao Xinyu's marriage, rumors began to circulate in the capital that the wife of Duke Jingguo had harshly treated her pregnant illegitimate daughter-in-law. At that time, Zhao Zijin had already followed Gao Su back to his fiefdom.

We stopped along the way, enjoyed the lake and mountain scenery, and tried the local special snacks. The journey that would normally take three months to reach Wuzhou took six or seven months to reach the Prince Kang's Palace in Wuzhou.

They spent their first New Year's Eve together on the way, stopped by the Wenxin Lake, set up a tent, and ate the game Gao Su had hunted from the mountains behind the lake and the food he had brought from the imperial kitchen in the palace...

Just as Zhao Zijin and Gao Su were admiring the moon hand in hand in the tent by the lake, Zhao Xinyu, who was far away in the capital, had a premature birth due to a fight with the wife of Duke Jingguo, and was experiencing the pain of childbirth.

The Kang Wang Mansion had already been managed by a housekeeper, and the servants inside were also from the palace and had been well trained, so there was not much need to worry about it.

Zhao Zijin arrived at the prince's palace in his fiefdom and rested in Prince Kang's palace for half a month. Then he followed Gao Su to wander around the fiefdom. Wuzhou was far away from the capital, and the people there were simple and honest. They lived off the mountains and enjoyed the local delicacies, which could not be tasted in the capital.

Zhao Zijin followed Gao Su out for three years and only returned to Prince Kang's Mansion when she became pregnant. During these four years, there was no news of Zhao Zijin's pregnancy. The Queen Mother was somewhat dissatisfied, thinking that Zhao Zijin was not pregnant and was controlling her husband, not wanting other women to get involved.

He even sent his palace maids thousands of miles away to Prince Kang's mansion, but Gao Su solved all this himself before Zhao Zijin knew about it.

He married those palace maids who were willing to marry to local gentry or scholars from farming and reading families, and sent those who were unwilling to marry back to their hometowns.

The Queen Mother sent down a total of five palace maids. These five maids were pretty and could read and write. When Gao Su gave them a choice, they all happily chose to get married.

The husbands chosen by King Kang for them were all good candidates in the local area. They either came from families with some assets or were scholars. It was better for them to marry into an ordinary family and become a principal wife than to be a concubine and live under the rule of the mistress.

After all, they said nicely that they were rewarded by the Queen Mother, but if they really lived in Prince Kang's mansion, they might not even have the status of a concubine and could only be a maid to warm the bed.

When the Queen Mother saw her unruly little son sending a message, she said frankly that she had found a good family for her palace maid. If she had trouble finding a husband for her palace maid next time, she could send her to his fiefdom, as there was no shortage of suitable men in his fiefdom.

After all, palace maids are insignificant to some aristocratic families, but in Wuzhou, they are more sought-after than the daughters of some seventh or eighth rank officials.

The palace maid had been in the palace for many years and was familiar with etiquette. She had also served the empress dowager and had experienced big scenes. She would be more beneficial to the family than the daughters of minor officials trapped in Wuzhou.

Now that Zhao Zijin is pregnant and has given birth to twins, a boy and a girl, the empress dowager is so happy that she doesn't even bother to care about the young couple anymore and only wants to see her twin grandchildren.

A newborn baby could not bear the hardship of a long journey, and even though the empress dowager was eager to see her grandchildren, Gao Su and his wife waited until the twins were five years old before leaving for Beijing.

After Zhao Zijin returned to Beijing with her husband and children, Zhao Xinyu, who was pregnant, took her six children and Sun Ying to submit a letter to Prince Kang's Mansion and waited at the gate of Prince Kang's Mansion for the moment to be announced.

Zhao Xinyuo thought that her life was still better than that of her sister who was a princess.

After her aunt became her stepmother, she treated her badly and tried to harm her many times. But when her aunt caused her first child to be born prematurely, she turned the tables and took away her aunt's power as housekeeper.

In the subsequent fight between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law, she successfully made her aunt sneak into the small Buddhist temple and never come out to manage things again.

Her husband Sun Ying was better than her cousin Sun Jue, whose name made her sick at the thought of him, even though he was not as famous as Sun Jue was during that expedition in the capital.

Although he was a bit dull in his studies, he passed the imperial examinations with his own efforts and got a position in the court.

But for so many years, she was the only one in the room, and he couldn't even take care of her and the children, let alone taking a concubine and having another child.

Sun Jue, who had a homosexual relationship with Zhang Xinghuai, lost his ambition to make progress after his father petitioned the emperor to change the title of Crown Prince. He even refused to go to the military camp and devoted himself to hanging out with Zhang Xinghuai in the villa of the Duke of Jingguo's mansion.

Unfortunately, Zhang Xinghuai was not a good person. Seeing Sun Jue lose power, he became so decadent that he refused to join the army. The emperor took away his general position. The wife of Duke Jingguo was defeated by the wife of the prince of Jingguo, and she could not even subsidize her son.

Zhang Xinghuai withdrew indifferently, left Sun Jue, and looked for the next man who could support him.

When Zhao Xinyu followed the housekeeper into the main hall, she saw that Zhao Zijin was no different from before she got married, and even better than before. However, due to her frequent childbirths, she did not dare to put on makeup, and her face became pale.

She was originally proud of her children who had grown up in the capital and were more aristocratic than the prince and princess born to her younger sister. She did not expect that after her children entered Prince Kang's palace, they would be like country children who had never seen the world.

Zhao Zijin's son and daughter sat on Zhao Zijin's left and right. Even though they were raised in Wuzhou, far away from the capital, one could tell at a glance that they were royal nobles.

Prince Kang Gao Su treated his sister as the apple of his eye. When the sisters were reminiscing about the past, he not only did not leave the main hall with his brother-in-law Sun Ying, but observed Zhao Zijin's every move from the side. When her sister was thirsty, he would bring her a cup of hot tea, and when her sister was hot, he would fan her.

During the meal, she was taking care of Zhao Zijin while picking up food for the twins. Zhao Xinyu asked herself if Sun Ying could do this for her and the children.

Zhao Xinyu was a little depressed. Perhaps this was the reason why Zhao Zijin disliked the idea of ​​"more children, more blessings". Giving birth to children in succession not only damaged her body, making her catch colds easily, but also limited her energy, making it impossible for her to pay enough attention to her children.

Soon, Zhao Xinyu put all these worries behind her. Her life in the Duke Jingguo's Mansion was indeed not as good as her sister's.

But now, as the Crown Prince's wife, she lives a life of luxury and treats the Crown Prince with respect. Compared with the misery of her previous life, she is very satisfied.

Zhao Zijin and her family did not stay in the capital for long. After the empress dowager's birthday banquet was over, they left the capital and chose to take a long detour, traveling while heading towards their fiefdom.