The daily life of a concubine's daughter

Chapter 409 Shi Yao's Brilliant Resume

He said, "Everything is fine. Your former sixth sister-in-law has remarried and is pregnant. Tao and Qi are taking care of the child at their parents' home, while Fu and Le are in mourning in Nanjing."

"Where is Ge Qiuheng? Where is the fourth young lady Ge from the Ningyuan Marquis's residence?"

"She has just been engaged, and the man is the eldest son of Lord Ningyuan's subordinate."

"Where's Xie Qingdai? Xie Jibai's sister!"

"This girl is amazing. She went on a sea voyage to the West and said she wanted to promote black tea in the West."

Shi Mingzhu was so jealous that she almost bit her teeth off. Why was she the one who was doing the worst after being reborn as well?

It must be her sisters-in-law who took away her luck!

“What is black tea?”

"It has something to do with the young lady. It is a new type of tea that has just emerged this year. The first person to promote it was the young lady's second sister, who married the third son of the Xie family. She said that black tea can be stored longer than green tea and can be sold to the West.

The emperor has praised this arranged marriage and praised Madam Xie as a heroine.

Nowadays, tea merchants in Jiangnan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Dali and other places have learned to make black tea. If black tea can be promoted overseas, it will earn countless wealth for Daxing. By then, Madam Xie will be famous in history!"

Shi Mingzhu scratched her palm hard and her nail broke with a snap.

Shi Yao is a time-travelling woman. Marrying her to the businessman Xie Jibai actually gives her space to make use of her advantages as a time-traveler, making her like a fish in water and a tiger with wings.

What the time-traveling girl is best at is making money.

"Eunuch, can you let the Fourth Prince come to see me? I have something to say to him."

I hate it!

I really want to drag everyone to hell!

Why should everyone else be happy while she is the only one imprisoned in this dark and desolate place?

She wants to tell Zhou Shao the secret of time travel and rebirth!

If we have to suffer, let’s suffer together!

However, Shi Mingzhu's wish was not fulfilled. After this conversation, she got nothing except a fight with Zhou Xu and jealousy and resentment.

Zhou Shao did not come to see her.

In the next few years, Xiao Fengzi told her: Shi Mingkui cleaned the toilet in the East Palace for two whole years... Wang Fan gave birth to a son and a daughter... The chastity arch of the Shi family was demolished by the court because of Shi Mingzhu's infidelity... Xie Jibai turned over a new leaf and only had Shi Yao as his wife... Shi Yao returned to Beijing... Shi Yao and Xie Jibai signed a military order in the court to transport food and grass for the court, and only asked for one-third of the silver budget of the court... Daxing defeated the northern Rong and expanded the territory. The Tang family became the new dignitaries in the capital. Xie Jibai was made a marquis, and Shi Yao was made a marquis' wife and a first-class lady... The emperor passed away...

In the small palace where Zhou Xu was imprisoned, the walls of the bedroom were covered with scratches from fingernails.

At noon that day, Zhou Xu was drawing water when from the ancestral temple outside the imperial mausoleum, the sound of bells and drums suddenly rang out, representing the ascension of the new emperor to the throne. The sound was solemn and majestic, echoing throughout heaven and earth, and serving as a sacrifice to the ancestors.

The bucket tumbled back into the well.

Crown Prince Zhou Yi ascended the throne!

Zhou Xu's back was a little hunched, and wrinkles had quietly appeared on his handsome face. His bright starry eyes were filled with a gloomy mood.

He sat by the well, listening quietly, intending to listen to the grand performance and then continue to draw water.

However, Shi Mingzhu, who had heard the sound of bells and drums before, ran out barefoot, with hair as dry as straw and wearing a coarse cloth with three or four patches on it. She grabbed him and cried,

"Zhou Xu! The prince has ascended the throne! He has taken your throne! He has taken your throne! I can no longer be the queen! Zhou Xu, why? Why do you think this is happening? Why are all the people and things I care about taken away from me cruelly by God?"

When Zhou Yi ascended the throne, Shi Mingzhu was devastated and collapsed.

"When will these hopeless days end?"

"Zhou Xu, can we die together? If I die, maybe I can live again. This time, we will definitely not lose!"

"Zhou Xu, say something, I'm almost dying, Zhou Xu!"

Zhou Xu remained silent, allowing Shi Mingzhu to shake him, push him, and cry loudly in his ears.

During the days of imprisonment, Shi Mingzhu told him intermittently about her first life and second life.

The more beautiful the second life is, the more cruel the reality is.

But he had no choice.

Before he grew up, he was suppressed by the Shi family and the Tang family, so naturally he could not give Shi Mingzhu the supreme position of queen.

When the sound of bells and drums disappeared, Shi Mingzhu went back to scratching the wall in the bedroom.

Zhou Xu sat there quietly, as quiet as a statue.

The guards outside brought food, but he didn't go to get it, and Shi Mingzhu didn't go either.

As night falls, the sky fills with stars.

Zhou Xu finally raised his head and looked up at the starry sky.

Countless stars began to rotate, forming a huge vortex, like a giant beast opening its bloody mouth, trying to swallow him.

Zhou Xu looked for a while, stood up and walked into the bedroom.

He walked to the bedside, put his hands around Shi Mingzhu's neck, and was about to use force when a picture suddenly popped up in his mind.

At that time, he had not yet been enfeoffed.

Even though he was not favored, he was still a prince and he had a share of mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

But the eunuchs bullied him, snatched his mooncakes, crushed them on the ground, and made him lie on the ground and lick them like a dog.

He refused, so the eunuchs pressed his neck and forced him to kneel down and squeeze their crotch.

At this time, Shi Mingzhu appeared.

She was the jewel in the crown of the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion. She shouted at the eunuchs loudly, and those young eunuchs, who bullied the weak and feared the strong, fled in panic.

Then she helped him up, broke her mooncake into two halves, and handed him half.

Under the full moon, the little girl smiled innocently and beautifully: "This way, we can all eat mooncakes! Don't cry, okay?"

Thinking of this, Zhou Xu slowly withdrew his hand.

He smiled self-deprecatingly.

He still couldn't bear to hurt his Mooncake Girl.

The next day, Shi Mingzhu woke up crying from her dream about being the queen, and ran out to find Zhou Xu to make a scene.

But I couldn't find it anywhere.

She thought Zhou Xu had secretly run away and abandoned her. When she was about to collapse, she looked down and saw a familiar figure floating in the well.

"Zhou Xu——"

She completely broke down!

She regretted that she shouldn't have vented all her hatred on Zhou Xu alone.

"Zhou Xu——"

She almost jumped into the well to accompany Zhou Xu, but at the last moment, she stepped back a few steps, fell to the ground, and burst into tears.

She didn't dare.

She is afraid of death.

"Zhou Xu, how could you leave me alone in this damn place!"

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The news that Zhou Xu committed suicide by jumping into a well spread in a small circle.

In the past few years, major events have occurred one after another in the capital, and no one is paying attention to Zhou Xu and Shi Mingzhu anymore.

The old emperor passed away and the new emperor ascended the throne.

The new emperor's reckoning came quickly, with impeachment letters from court officials piling up on the emperor's desk.

All the Ning family members who committed crimes were arrested, and according to the severity of their crimes, some deserved to be beheaded, some deserved to be exiled, and some deserved to be stripped of their titles.

Concubine Ning knew how much she was hated, so she committed suicide by taking poison on the day the old emperor passed away.

The fourth prince Zhou Shao was implicated by his mother's family and demoted from prince to duke. He went to his fiefdom in disgrace with his princess Lin Zhiwu.

Before leaving, he tried every possible means and finally met Shi Yao.