Reborn: Revenge of the Concubine's Daughter

Chapter 246 Colorful dress pleased her stepfather

She was molested by a plate! He Danggui squeezed the corner of her clothes and stared blankly. Could this plate really help her determine her marriage? Should she take the divorce letter from the Lord?

There was no response. The plate rolled around two times before it stopped. It said in a low voice, “I know it’s a bit unreasonable to let you kiss a cold plate. Besides, I haven’t taken a shower for a long time. But you can kiss my master’s face. He washes his face every day.”

He Danggui glanced at Bai Yangbai, who made fun of her, and asked angrily, “It costs ten liang each time, right? I can afford it. Will you predict it once for me? Are you really good at it?”

“Huh, OK, ten liang,” said the plate disappointingly, “It’s okay to take a gamble. If I earn twenty liang, I can buy a thousand roasted chicken wings. If I earn a hundred liang, I can buy many beautiful ladies! So, beautiful lady, what is your date of birth and eight characters of a horoscope?”

After He Danggui carefully said that, the plate lay on the table without saying a word. Then its owner, Bai Yangbai, took out a string of copper cash to divine and placed it on the table pretentiously.

He Danggui couldn’t help wondering, “Didn’t you say that the ‘Marriage Plate for 3 lives’ would divine the marriage for me? Why do you divine?”

Bai Yangbai explained, “It just revealed the answer to me with its own words, but I’m afraid that you cannot understand it, so I divine it for you. Anyway, it and me belong to the same family. You can treat me as its spokesperson! Ha-ha.” He pushed the copper cash on the table and put out a few trigrams. Then he muttered, “Quan’s eight characters of a horoscope…” “That guy’s eight characters of a horoscope...” “Huh? My eight characters of a horoscope can also be checked, ha-ha”. Finally, he raised his head and announced the answer, “You are still Quan’s concubine in this life.”

He Danggui felt relieved. This was the best. She actually didn’t intend to take the divorce letter. This result was just what she wanted. After she saw her mother marrying a second time and being ridiculed by someone, the “divorce letter” and the “letter of divorce with agreement” had become taboo words in her mind.

Although she had not spoken to Lord Ning so far, she was actually his concubine in name. Once she was abandoned, the whole Luo’s Mansion would flare up first, and various new gossip would be created by the servants. She and her mother would be slandered. And the people of Third Branch headed by Madam Luo would treat them badly. Although she, the Third Miss, had not brought them any benefits since she was married into the Lord Ning’s Mansion, they had shown it off in front of outsiders, “The niece was married into Lord Ning’s Mansion!” They also got words of congratulation from outsiders. How could they allow her to lose the identity of Lord Ning’s concubine?

Therefore, from the very beginning, after knowing that she had been poisoned by Jinfeng Yulu Powder, she immediately wanted to die. Since she thought of the faces of the Luo Family’s uncles and aunts, and her mother’s helpless and resentful face, she wanted to die to protect her reputation and avoid causing trouble to her mother.

A year ago, before she got married, Madam Luo called her into the room for a long talk. It was the longest talk that Madam Luo had ever said to her in her life.

Madam Luo said, “Yi, I know that you blame the Luo’s Family for treating you badly, but you have grown up to fourteen years old safely. Is that true? The nasty guy He Jingxian is the culprit! He is so ruthless. He is under a whore’s spell and marries her as his wife. He has never come to see you and your mother in these years. He Fu is worse. He occupies your mother’s dowry, farmland, house, gold, silver and jewelry. He is such an ungrateful person...”

At that time, He Danggui frowned. Every time she heard these things, she was anxious. She was just a child and never made any mistakes. Why did everyone mention this to her repeatedly? It seemed that the person who cheated her mother’s dowry was her! Obviously, it was her mother who didn’t meet reliable people, and it was her grandmother who forced her mother to remarry. She was also a victim of these old things! She never complained about anything. Why did Madam Luo and others always complain to her!

When Madam Luo saw He Danggui’s expression of grievance, she shook her head and sighed, “Oh, I also know that you are a miserable child and can’t bear to ask you more. But the people of Luo’s Family are all your close relatives, and you are tied by blood. You have to keep in mind that you are highly interdependent. If Luo’s Family is glorified, you will have a say in Lord Ning’s Mansion, right? How do you know that you will not rely on the Luo’s Family in the future?”

He Danggui gritted her teeth secretly. Close relatives? Close relatives! During these years she had lived in the Luo’s Mansion, who did regard her as a close relative? Just a few days ago, before the people of Lord Ning’s Mansion came to propose marriage to her, the First Aunt said that the whole family should not let “strangers” serve the table during the reunion dinner, and none of the “close relatives” opened their mouths to say a word for her. Finally, at the “Reunion Dinner of Luo’s Family” that everyone in the three branches rarely attended, the whole family ate lively, but she squatted on the small bench next to them and held a wooden bowl in her hand, eating a bowl of rice under their supercilious looks. Now that she finally atoned for her sin and could escape from the sea of suffering, why should she still rely on Luo’s Family? She would never return to this home again! She wanted to go far, get rid of this impersonal ice cellar-like home, cut off all relations with this home, and live her own beautiful new life!

Madam Luo took off the prayer beads on her wrist and turned it. She said, “Yi, a woman at home obeys her father’s order. After she is married, she obeys her husband’s order. After her husband dies, she obeys her son’s order. This is the iron rule that has never changed. You did suffer for two years when you were a child, but that can only be blamed on you for not having a ‘father’ when you should ‘follow your father at home’. You shouldn’t blame the Luo’s Family. Although the Luo’s Family has treated you harshly, you have been supported for more than ten years.”

He Danggui gritted her teeth tightly and stopped the trembling of her jaw. She had never blamed anyone. On the contrary, everyone “thought” that she was blaming them and resenting them. She didn’t want to argue with them. She just wanted to escape from this place and stay away from these relatives.

Madam Luo kindly took her hand and put the prayer beads that she had worn for many years on her snow wrist. She finally persuaded, “Don’t leave your close relatives because of little disputes. And don’t forget great flavors of others because of insignificant grudges. In any case, you still have a mother who lives in Luo’s Family. Yi, you are a filial child. Think about your mother before doing anything. You should be grateful. Even if you can’t bring benefits to your close relatives when you are honorable, don’t involve your maternal relatives when you are unfortunately convicted one day.”

Her mother? Her mother... These two words were like the tip of a small needle. After it poked lightly, the anger she had accumulated for several years was disappear. Well, she had a weak and uninspiring biological mother. Her mother was relying on the Luo’s Family to make decisions about everything.

But she had a grievance with her mother and hoped to cut off the relationship with her mother. Before the people of Lord Ning’s Mansion came to propose marriage, everyone all said that she could not get married or could only marry into a poor family. She was just the shame and air in the eyes of her mother, and the love her mother gave her was not comparable to that of Luo Baiqiong and others. After the people of Lord Ning’s Mansion came to propose marriage, everyone praised that she was blessed and had a promising future. Her mother could not lift her head in Luo’s Family for more than ten years. Because of her, her mother suddenly raised her head and chest. Then her mother looked at her with expectation and sky-high hope.

He Danggui saw that kind of look a few years ago. At that time, her mother put a colorful dress on her and asked her to learn singing and dancing to please the family of He Fu. Her mother let her “please her relatives in colorful clothes”. Her mother wanted to make full use of a beautiful and well-behaved daughter to win her stepfather’s heart back. It was an eager, anticipated, and exploiting look.

That kind of look made He Danggui feel wronged, uncomfortable, and sad, but that was the look of her own mother. That beautiful woman with a round face who always looked sad was her mother. She had a mother who lived in Luo’s Mansion. With such an unforgettable sentence, she moved from the misty and rainy Jiangnan to the cold suburb of the border, where the northwest wind blew all the year round, and became a nominal concubine of Lord Ning.

The Luo’s Family would not allow her to lose the identity of Lord Ning’s concubine, which was her mother’s amulet and pass in Luo’s Mansion.

Therefore, when the immortal plate announced that she was still Quan’s concubine in this life, she immediately breathed a sigh of relief. And at the same time, she laughed to herself. How could she even consider the issue that whether she could ask for the divorce letter of Lord Ning? No woman went to ask her husband for a divorce letter. Besides, her husband was such a perfect man. Even if he was just a mediocre person, she couldn’t think anything else. She learned from the situation of her mother. He Fu was so ruthless to her mother, but her mother still be loyal to the nominal husband.

A woman at home obeyed her father’s order. After she was married, she obeyed her husband’s order. After her husband died, she obeyed her son’s order. That was the iron rule that had never changed through the ages! He Danggui used these words to hypnotize herself. As long as she followed this rule, sooner or later, she would have her own good life, and live the life of a normal woman with a husband and sons. Immortal was watching from above. Her perseverance and loyalty could be seen by immortal. Even if she was temporarily unlucky and ill-fated, immortal would not disappoint a good person ultimately.

Bai Yangbai divined by the copper cash and then said, “Your previous life...well, you died at the age of ten. It’s so short-lived. It seems that you have died quite unjustly. It is an abnormal death, so there is no marriage relationship. In this life, you have only one marriage relationship. It’s with Quan. As for the next life... Atishoo!” A cool breeze poured into the room from outside the window, and the last bean-like oil lamp was also extinguished. Darkness and silence were shrouded the room.

He Danggui stared at those eyes that were still clear in the darkness, and asked in a low voice, “I... those things happened in the jade building... Is it really just a dream?”

Those eyes smiled, and he said, “Relax, little sister, you will understand it when you and your husband make out. I can’t explain it to you now.”

Sneaking back to Lord Ning’s Mansion at night, He Danggui fell asleep until dawn. After opening her eyes in the morning, she felt like she had a weird dream that was awake from beginning to end. Every detail was vivid in her eyes, but the process was more bizarre than her total experience of the past fifteen years. She and her long-awaited husband made a little progress in the dream. And a strange man “detoxified” with insensible her in the fantasy dream. Then, she met the noble and elegant husband’s vulgar teacher Bai Yangbai, who was a swordsman. In the end, she finally didn’t have to live under the extortion and coercion of Tai Shan. She could walk out of the room freely and walk in the warm sun.

So, she wandered out of her yard and walked into the garden of the mansion. Then she heard the latest news that Concubine Gu was named by the Lord to sleep with him last night, and she had not come out of the Lord’s room until now. He Danggui was upset and crushed two begonias. Then she tried to find Bai Yangbai by using the contact method that he left to her. When he parted last night, he said that he was willing to help her get her husband’s love. She didn’t know if she could believe him, but she wanted to try and seize this opportunity to give it a go.

As a woman, she could lose everything except the love of her husband, otherwise she would be a rootless begonia, which was beautiful and fragile. And the life was so short that she could only go through a flowering period under the sun.